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THE WHIPPO-WIL

by Labadie, Laurence

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Book Description

Published by "editer"[sic], 74 Buchanan Street, Detroit: 1912 Volume I, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, written and published by thirteen-year-old Laurence Labadie in March, April, May, and August of 1912 respectively "when the mood moves by the Editer" [sic]. A very rare surviving initial run of a child anarchist's newspaper, written by the son of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), one of the most prominent early labor organizers, who was a "crusader for the Socialist Labor party, the Knights of Labor, the Greenback party, the American Federation of Labor, the single tax movement," quoting his granddaughter, Carlotta Anderson, Laurence Labadie's niece. A compilation of entries by Laurence and some of his friends as well as poems by his father and a fascinating compendium of the neighborhood in which the Labadies lived, judging from the advertisements bought. One of three children born to Joseph and Charlotte Labadie, Laurence Labadie went with his father on his speaking tours as a child, became a machinist at seventeen, attending high school in Detroit at night. At nineteen, Laurence Labadie entered the University of Michigan in 1918. After one semester of failing grades, he dropped out. Carlotta Anderson tells us, "His ability to conform to requirements of the classroom, not his intellect, was deficient." In the words of Benjamin Tucker, praising the younger Labadie for reprinting a speech Tucker had given in 1899, in a photo inscription as being "the only young person that I recall who, being the offspring of an avowed Anarchist, finds his greatest satisfaction in continuing the battle, even though the cause be lost." (See: Anderson, ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST, p. 250) These are single sheet newspapers, folded once, unfolded measuring 10 3/4 in. X 7 in. The condition of numbers 3 and 4 is fine. Numbers 1 and 2 have had the edges re-enforced. Number 2 has had a crease separation repaired without loss of text. Number 1 has similar internal re-enforcement but no separation repair. Number 2 has a poignant entry about the TITANIC: "If the Titanic officers had any humanity they would have had enuf boats to save the people." Only one other recorded copy of Vol. I: Nos. 1,2,3, and 4 has been located.

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