The American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941.

Monthly Labor Review | March 1, 1997| | Copyright

By Gloria Garrett Sampson. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1996, 263 pp., bibliography. $59.95.

Following the Russian Revolution, in 1918, capitalists, politicians, and even middle-class reformers worried about the influences of "bolshevism" on the rank-and file workers in factories, mills, and mines of the new industrial system. Even before this period, marked by World War I, Federal and State authorities passed laws limiting "free speech" in the context of political discourse. Members of the radical Industrial Workers of the World, so called Wobblies, faced ...

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