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The English Nobel Peace Prize winner Sir Ralph Norman Angell (1872-1967) was a lecturer, journalist and author. Angell served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. One of the founders of the Union of Democratic Control, Angell served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He served as an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism and as a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations, and president of the Abyssinia Association. Angell was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. Good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerA critique of American society, examining campus unrest and student activism, by the Dean of the Yale School of Drama. Very good .
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Richard Carlile [1790-1843] was a famed political activist, radical publisher and a fearless campaigner for freedom of the press. He published works by Thomas Paine and radical pamphlets and journals, including Sherwin's Political Register, which was closed down by the government after he published in it the first full eyewitness report of the Peterloo massacre. He changed the name of the journal to The Republican and continued to press for the punishment of those responsible for the massacre. In the course of his career, he was prosecuted for blasphemy, libel and sedition and was imprisoned several times. His wife Jane was also imprisoned when she took over publication of The Republican while he was in jail. By 1821, Carlile was a declared atheist and the present pamphlet is a gleefully eloquent attack on the priesthood and "the multitude of assassinations, of massacres and of wars--the avarice, the villainy, the bigotry and bloody-mindedness of Priests have occasioned.." The pamphlet opens with a declaration of the equality of man, a cause dear to his heart: "A Priest has the same essence, is composed of the same elements, endowed with the same organization as other men; he has no more natural command, no greater power, no greater right; Priests do not come into the world with crosiers or with mitres, or with rosaries; the revolutions of matter create and destroy them; they are decomposed as a cow or a cabbage.." He concludes: "..Whoever attempts to analyze the farce, to unveil the imposition of revealed religion, is sure to be attacked by Bishops, by Imans, by Bonzes, and by Muftis; truth acts upon these animals as light does upon the organization of bats and owls, and other reptiles, at mid-day".
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerA history of democratic movements in Mannheim, Germany, from the revolution of 1848-49 through the aftermath of World War II, told through documents from the city archives. Text in German. Fine .
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The newspaper portrait is a striking head-and-shoulders shot of Hamilton with closely cropped hair, large dark eyes and well-defined cheekbones, wearing a black dress or jacket. The full inscription reads: "To Seymour Halpern / with every good wish from / Mary Agnes Hamilton / July 1930".
Mary Agnes Hamilton, known as Molly, (1884-1966) was a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1929 to 1931. In 1916 she caused controversy by writing an anti-war novel "Dead Yesterday". In the early 1920s she was the deputy editor of The New Leader. She also held a position on the Balfour Committee on Industry and Trade.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Very good .
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The Trade Unionist and Kansas district organizer for the Communist Party USA in the early days, Hugo Oehler (1903-1983) organized workers in Southern textile mills and miners in Colorado. In 1930, Oehler demanded that the Trotskyists be permitted to rejoin the party, a move which ended his career with the Communist Party USA. He went on to join James P. Cannon and others who formed the nation's first Trotskyist group, the Communist League of America. The League merged with the American Worker's Party in 1934, becoming known as the American Worker's Party of the United States. Oehler moved on to form the Revolutionary Workers League with Tom Stamm and Sidney Lens. He eventually broke with Trotsky and disavowed him, criticizing Trostky's call for an independent Ukraine.
The radical left Revolutionary Worker's League lasted from 1935 through 1946. Led by Hugo Oehler, the league published The Fighting Worker newspaper. The RWL sent Russell Blackwell to Spain in the early days of the Spanish Civil War and later sent Oehler who witnessed the May 1937 suppression of the Anti-Stalinist Left. Both Oehler and Blackwell were captured and imprisoned by the Franco regime, and only returned to the USA after the US embassy intervened. Fair .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerDuring the summer and fall of 1867, a 16 mile long railroad was being built in Clearfield and Center counties in Pennsylvania. Only a few feet of the road was to be built in Center county. The work was being done by about 400 Irish laborers who lived in shanties along the railroad bed. An election of a state Senator was to be held in the Center district. In order to elect a Copperhead in this Republican district, the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee connived with a Roman Catholic priest to transfer the laborers from their shanties in Clearfield to shanties in Center county a few days before the election. Fraudulent naturalization papers were procured and the Republican, John K. Robinson, was defeated by the Copperhead, Samuel T. Shugart. In the April 19, 1868 issue of the New York Times the reversal of the election was reported: "A contested election case has occupied much of the time of the Senate at the present term of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and has concluded with the ousting of the Democratic incumbent, SAMUEL T. SHUGART, and the swearing in of the Republican contestant, JOHN K. ROBINSON, as the representative of the Senatorial district composed of Blair, Huntingdon, Centre, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry Counties. Very good .
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Known as "Iron Puddler" and "Puddler Jim", the Wales-born American businessman James J. Davis (1873-1947) was one of only 3 cabinet officers to serve under 3 consecutive Presidents. Davis served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Davis supported the eugenics movement though he also supported the rights of workers to strike to a certain extent. He established the U.S. Border Patrol and proposed restrictions on immigration quotas. Elected as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania in 1930, he served until 1945 after which he resumed his work with the Loyal Order of Moose which he had first joined in 1906. Fine .
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The Ex-libris of Edna and William Epstein wiith artwork in the style of Rockwell Kent is mounted on the inside front wrap. Good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller"Nothing less than direct representation to the coming Water Board will satisfy the ratepayers of the Metropolis..It would be a wholesome check on the members of that board if they were elected--as I trust the new water authority will be--by the suffrages of the ratepayers, and the votes of the water consumers.." [From a Thomas Wiseman letter quoted in the press and reprinted in this pamphlet].
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