J.S. Woodsworth
On the Waterfront
Ottawa: Mutual Press Ltd., nd (1925). Paper bound in stapled dull green wrappers, 31pp. Front cover slightly spotted and moderate foxing throughout, else a very good, unmarked copy. Inside rear cover is printed with the Manifesto of the Independent Labor Party of Manitoba (Federal Elections, 1925). From the publisher's foreword: Prairie-bred, reared in a sheltered and cultured home; for years a Minister of the Gospel and close student of social problems, never having done for pay a day's manual work, the writer of these articles found himself, in 1918, attempting to earn a living as a longshoreman at Vancouver. His past unknown to his fellow-workers, he was able to learn conditions from the inside. In time he became a member of the International Lonshoreman's Association, Local 38-52. 50 grams. Scarce.
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