Update 13-02: Sunday, June 2, 2013.
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 1 [April 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 1st issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: R.A. Maynard: "The Sunshine of Socialism." Emanuel Julius: "A Piece of Paper." Chester M. Wright: "Battling at the Bread LIne." Carl Sandburg: "What Happened March Fourth" (on Victor Berger). Sidney Hillyard: "King Rent." Columns by Mila Tupper Maynard (Drama), Emanuel Julius (Books), Eleanor Wentworth (Women's).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 2 [May 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 2nd issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: Stanley B. Wilson: "Economics in the Quee-Macks." Emanuel Julius: "The Conquest of Prudery." Chester M. Wright: "The Case of the Girl." Rob Wagner: "The Painted Pigeon." Job Harriman: "Making Dreams Come True." R.A. Maynard: "Heroes of the Social Revolution." Harold Story: "Message of the New Revolution." Columns by Mila Tupper Maynard (Drama), Emanuel Julius (Books), Eleanor Wentworth (Women's).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 3 [June 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 3rd issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: R.A. Maynard: "California of Today and Tomorrow." Cameron H. King: "The Vindication of Woman Suffrage." Anna A. Maley: "A Woman in the Race." Stanley B. Wilson: "Padre Blanco and the Outlaw." Emanuel Julius: "The Pessimism of Jack London." Chester M. Wright: "The Socialist Spirit in the City." Columns by Mila Tupper Maynard (Drama), Emanuel Julius (Books), Eleanor Wentworth (Women's).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 4 [July 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 4th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: Walter Lanfersiek: "A Word to the West from the New National Executive Secretary." Emanuel Julius: "Rob Wagner, the Artistic Red." Carl D. Thompson: "Fighting for Labor in State Legislatures." R.A. Maynard: "The General Strike for a Better Life." Winfield R. Gaylord: "Organizing the 'Capacity of Self Control.'" Frank E. Wolfe, "The Movie Revolution." Stanley B. Wilson: "Padre Blanco and the Preacher." Chester M. Wright: "Disarming the Pessimist." Willis Church LaMont: "Socialilsm, Moral Substitute for War." Columns by Mila Tupper Maynard (Drama), Eleanor Wentworth (Women's).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 5 [Aug. 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 5th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: Mila Tupper Maynard: "Garrison, Judged by Gettysburg." Gordon Nye: "Frank F. Stone: A Sculptor with a Message." Chester M. Wright: "The Toiler and His Hire." Frank E. Wolfe: "Making a Socialist Film." N.A. Richardson: "The Awakening of Georgia." Icie Bowdry: "The Truth About the Canal." Emanuel Julius: "Four Bits." Marion Louise Israel: "Woman, A Social Creator." Fred C. Wheeler: "Labor Conditions, Past and Present." E.E. Kirk: "From Behind Jail Bars" (interview with Harry M. McKee). Columns by Mila Tupper Maynard (Drama), Eleanor Wentworth (Women's).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 6 [Sept. 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 6th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M Wright. Key Contents: Emanuel Julius: "The Prophet." Chester M. Wright: "The Gun is Not Our Weapon." J. Stitt Wilson: "The Story of a Socialist Mayor." John R. Haynes: "The Terrible Mining Game: A Plea for Federal Control." George W. Carey: "A Vision of the New Time." Lillian Pelee: "The Flare of the New." Thomas W. Williams: "The World's Back Yard." Stanley B. Wilson: "A Try-out in the Woods." Chester M. Wright: "What's Wrong with the Newspaper Game." E.E. Hitchcock: "The Intercollegiate Socialist Society." Sydney Hillyard: "The Socialist." Columns by Mila Tupper Maynard (Drama), Eleanor Wentworth (Women's).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 7 [Oct. 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 7th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: John M. Work: "My Confession." Chester M. Wright: "Harry McKee is Out of Jail." William Morris Feigenbaum: "The Impeachment of Sulzer." Stanley B. Wilson: "The Socialist Movement in California (Part 1)." J. Louis Engdahl: "The Underground War." Emanuel Julius: "Circumstantial Evidence." Rob Wagner: "A Unique Melange of Red and Black." E.E. Hitchcock: "The Intercollegiate Socialist Society." Leo W. Wax: "Public Education and Social Progress (Part 1)." Columns by M. Louise Grant (Drama), Emanuel Julius (Books).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 8 [Nov. 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 8th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: Elsa Unterman: "When Girls Go On Strike" (on SF cloakmakers). Emanuel Julius: "A Matter of Clothes." Stanley B. Wilson: "The Socialist Movement in California (Part 2)." Chester M. Wright: "We Call It War." Adriana Spadoni: "The Seamstress" (reprint from The Masses). J. Louis Engdahl: "The Federation Idea." Georgia Kotsch: "The Lilies of the Field." O.L. Anderson: "The Ignominy of a Hobby Rider." Stanley B. Wilson: "The World Drama." Agnes H. Downing: "Amusements for the Young." Sydney Hillyard: "Capital." Leo W. Wax: "Public Education and Social Progress (Part 2)." Columns by Eleanor Wentworth (Women's), Emanuel Julius (Books).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 9 [Dec. 1913] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 9th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: "What Are We Going to Do About It?" (on machine guns). Walter Lanfersiek: "The Fall Elections." N.A. Richardson: "The Murderers at Wheatland." Emanuel Julius: "The Rise of Frank Dunne: A Newspaper Story." Chester M. Wright: "Putting the 'NOW' into Socialism: An Interview with a Woman Wizard." William Morris Feigenbaum: "On the Passing of Tammany." Stanley B. Wilson, "The Socialist Movement in California (Part 3)." Brame Hillyard: "The Case Against Man." J.E. Pottenger: "Socialism and the Single Tax." Chester M. Wright: "It's Just Got to Come." David Fulton Karsner: "Unheralded Heroes." Eleanor Wentworth: "The Awakening (Part 1)" (fiction). Stanley B. Wilson: "The Simple Story of Karl Marx, the Man." Harold Everhart: "The Situation in Mexico." Columns by M. Louise Grant (Drama), Emanuel Julius (Books).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 10 [Feb. 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 10th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Stanley B. Wilson and Chester M. Wright. Key Contents: "The New Owners of the Western Comrade and What Their Plans Are" (new owners were Emanuel Julius and Chester M. Wright). J. Louis Engdahl: "Winning Labor for Socialism." Eleanor Wentworth: "Feminism and the Trend Towards Democracy (Part 1)." Chester M. Wright: "We're Going to Congress Again." Emanuel Julius: "Immigration in America." Frank E. Wolfe: "Getting Olga's Eyes" (fiction). Eleanor Wentworth: "The Awakening (Part 2)" (fiction). Columns by Emanuel Julius (Books), J.E. Snyder ("Thoughts While On the Road").
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 11 [March 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 11th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Chester M. Wright and Emanuel Julius. Key Contents: David Fulton Karsner: "Horace Traubel." Chester M. Wright: "President Wilson's Trust Bluffing." William C. Owen: "Mexico's Fight for Bread." Sidney Hillyard: "We Have Traveled." Eleanor Wentworth: "Feminism and the Trend Towards Democracy (Part 2)." Emanuel Julius: "Wanted: A Short Story." "When Revolutionists Meet" (interview between Helen Keller and Maria Montessori). Allan L. Benson: "Why Mary Left Home." Column by Emanuel Julius (Books).
The Western Comrade, v. 1, no. 12 [April 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 12th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Chester M. Wright and Emanuel Julius. Key Contents: Sydney Hillyard: "Unemployed!" Luella Twining: "An Interview with August Bebel." Edgcumb Pinchon: "The New Factor in the Class Struggle." Chester M. Wright: "Meunier, the Sculptor of the Revolution." Lucien Saint: "Looting the Nation's Copper Chest." Elsa Unterman: "The Action That Wins." Eleanor Wentworth: "Feminism and the Trend Towards Democracy (Part 3)." Emanuel Julius: "The Secret" (fiction). "The Most Conspicuous Socialist" (on Jean Jaures). Column by Emanuel Julius (Books).
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 1 [May 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 13th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Emanuel Julius. Key Contents: Thomas W. Williams: "Next -- An Eight-Hour Law!" Sydney Hillyard: "Brains!" Edgcumb Pinchon: "The New Factor in the Class Struggle: Organic Cooperation." Chester M. Wright: "One Year of Wilson." Emanuel Julius: "The Psychology of the Mob." J.E. Pottenger: "Socialism and the Land Question." Chester M. Wright: "A Great Octopus Dies" (on United States Express Co.). Column by Emanuel Julius (Books).
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 2 [June 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 14th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Emanuel Julius. Key Contents: "Publisher's Notice" (sale of publication by Emanuel Julius to Job Harriman). Job Harriman: "The Gateway to Freedom" (on Mescal Water and Land Co.). H.J. Barrett: "War: A Solution of the Evil." Emanuel Julius: "'Young Man, You're Raving.'" W.A. Engle: "Cooperative Colony Plan in Action: Answering Question of How to Get Membership in the Llano Colony and Get on the Land." Sidney Hillyard; "The Fully Paid Worker." Frank E. Wolfe: "Daniel DeLeon" (obituary). Frank E. Wolfe: "Llano del Rio, Land of Achievement." Edgcumb Pinchon: "Finance Cooperative Industries: Labor's Bank a New Factor in the Class Struggle." Frank E. Wolfe: "Spifflicating a Theory." Emanuel Julius: "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" (on James Cronin).
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 3 [July 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 15th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Job Harriman and Frank E. Wolfe. Key Contents: Job Harriman: "Cooperation vs. Theory." Edgcumb Pinchon: "From Labor Bank to Cooperative Commonwealth." Franklin Davenport Howell: "Water and the Plains." J.E. Pottenger: "Georgian Philosophy and Economics." William C. Owen: "Dayal and Bryan -- Agitators." Walter Burnett: "A Product" (fiction). G.E.B.: "The Milwaukee Cooperativists." Frank E. Wolfe: "Colonists Demonstrate Cooperation." Georgia Kotsch: "Review of Tragic History" (Mexico). "Revolt Develops Poet" (on Carl Sandburg).
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 4 [Aug. 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 16th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Job Harriman and Frank E. Wolfe. Key Contents: Job Harriman: "Cooperation a Necessity." A.F. Gannon: "The Lynching." "California Dry? California Wet? Resolved: That the Enactment of the Proposed Initiative Amendment will be of Benefit to the Working Class. Affirmative: Herbert S. Calvert. Negative: Arthur C. Fisher." Frank F. Stone: "Sculpture in the Twentieth Century." Thomas W. Williams: "The Eight-Hour Law." Ernest O.F. Ames: "Cooperation and Socialism." Homer Constantine: "Hist! Here's Verbal Treason" (Los Angeles Free Speech fight). Carl I. Wheat: "The Thinker." Mellie Miller: "Hopfield Horrors and Hypocrisy."
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 5 [Sept. 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 17th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Job Harriman and Frank E. Wolfe. Key Contents: Frank E. Wolfe: "The Doom of Capitalism." Frank E. Wolfe: "Jean Juares, Martyr." Frank E. Wolfe: "Make War on War!" Frank E. Wolfe: "War to Prevent Socialism." Job Harriman: "Slaughter." Willoughby Smart: "Sentenced for Death!" Walter Thomas Mills: "Cooperation and the Labor Movement." W. Scott Lewis: "Nature Leads Man in Vast Cooperation" (Llano del Rio). Ernest O.F. Ames: "Pacific Cooperative League." Frederick O'Brien: "Syphilization of the Marquesans." J.E. Pottenger: "Single Tax and Socialism." A.F. Gannon: "Fable of the Invinciple One" (fiction). "War Destroys Social Ownership."
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 6/7 [Nov. 1, 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 18th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Job Harriman and Frank E. Wolfe. Key Contents: Frank E. Wolfe: "War and Empire." Edgcumb Pinchon: "What Did You -- In The Great War?" "After the War, What?" A.F. Gannon: "Hypnosis." Frank H. Ware: "Dealing a Hand for Death." Ernest O.F. Ames: "Cooperation in Europe and the War." J.H. Ryckman: "Why the War?" James R. Nickum: "Impressions of Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony." Emanuel Julius: "Major Jarero, Who Went for Zapata." Frederick O'Brien: "Tahiti's Crabs and Cats." Sydney HIlliard: "The Glory That Was Rome." John M. Work: "Throw Off Your Dunce Cap." Harry Payne Burton: "The Field of Glory." Basil Howard: "United States of Europe."
The Western Comrade, v. 2, no. 8 [Dec. 1, 1914] Large file. Graphic pdf of the 19th issue of The Western Comrade, edited by Job Harriman and Frank E. Wolfe. Key Contents: Frank E. Wolfe: "Trend of Events" (California affairs). Georgia Kotsch: "Abolishing the Blanket Stiff." A.F. Gannon: "Lunacy." Albert A. James: "Who are the Socialists?" "Cooperative Colony Shows Rapid Growth: Socialists Making History in California Community Enterprise." S.H.: "Might is Right." James C. Crawford: "Social Evolution and Social Economy." Mary Field: "Babes Bred for War." Eleanor Wentworth: "Woman."
"The Socialist Party of America," by R.W. Housley [June 1919] Lengthy analysis of the turbulent situation in the American socialist movement written by a well-informed member of the impossibilist Socialist Party of Great Britain for members of that organization through its party press. Housley notes that pro-war elements had split away from the Socialist Party of America during the war and anti-war members had split into liberal pacifist and revolutionary camps. The growth of the Left Wing movement is seen as a promising development, although its eclecticism is dismissed as no great improvement over the eclecticism of the SPA itself. Unsurprisingly, Housley is hotly critical of Louis C. Fraina and his conception of "Mass Action," declaring as "absurd" his assertion that the working class is "instinctively revolutionary" and dismissing the Mass Action idea as an amorphous "shibboleth" useful as a means of postponing more serious debate among different sections of the Left Wing Section. The impossibilist Socialist Party of Michigan headed by John Keracher is singled out for praise and its entire February 1919 platform is reprinted in full in this article as is the passage of its constitution calling for the expulsion of "any member, Local, or Branch of a Local, advocating legislative reforms or supporting organizations formed for the purpose of advocating such reforms." In the best impossibilist tradition, even this SPGB-inspired program is singled out for two paragraphs of nit-picking criticism, however.
"The Struggle in the USA" by “A.K.” [Sept. 1919] Detailed dissection of Socialist Party of America written by a committed partisan of the impossibilist Socialist Party of Great Britain for its party press. The commentator notes that the SPA's Right Wing supporters of the war had left the party or been expelled and were now writing for their own set of journals. Gene Debs is dismissed as an unprincipled wobbler and Morris Hillquit and his associates a pro-war worshiper of democracy in the abstract. The Left Wing Section is judged little better, declared to incorporate "every variety of fool and freak, just like the Right Wing." The June National Conference of the Left Wing section is dismissed as a "miserable farce" owing to its nature as a "sordid struggle for control." Louis Fraina is depicted as an opportunistic advocate of ill-defined non-Marxist concepts like Mass Action and Industrial Unionism and editor of a "parrot-like" paper which blindly reprinted Lenin and Trotsky. The Left Wing language federations are characterized as theoretically ignorant and similarly infatuated with the Russian model. Only the (impossibilist) Socialist Party of Michigan merits praise for its general ideology and willingness to immediately break with the "rotten" Socialist Party. This is offset by the Michiganders' alliance with the numerically-larger language federations and their subsequent adoption of a program emphasizing industrial unionism and mass action rather than patient Marxian education.
