The Anvil: A Conservative Labor Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, August, 1965

New York: Labor Educational Association, 1965. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. Toning to newsprint, a few nicks and small closed tears, but VG overall. One issue (not this one) found in OCLC at Kansas, although we note one other issue in the Billy James Hargis papers in the Univ. of Arkansas Special Collections. Scarce. A single issue of the right wing labor paper, previously unknown to us, published in New York City by the generically named Labor Educational Association. We could uncover nothing substantive about the organization or their paper, but neither appear to have existed for too long. Incidentally, the paper's entire staff appears to be Irish-American. Content for this issue includes gruesome photographs of victims of Communist violence during the Spanish Civil War with the headline, THIS IS COMMUNISM!; a rather violent editorial titled "The Avenger" and presumably written by the editor, John Sullivan, in which he maintains: "subversion can best be defeated by drowning it in a sea of blood," the Communist is "a bacillus, a plague carrier, a loathsome disease, a problem of public hygiene, and as such should be literally exterminated," and "America should set an example to the world by killing every one of its Reds and fellow travelers." In a longer article titled "Pimples and Politics," Sullivan reports on a 1960 Adlai Stevenson rally that he attended and describes the audience comprised of "shy bookish types," "a squalling retinue of bearded youths and stringy-haired females," "well dressed middle and upper class do-gooders, angry looking, hot eyed, middle-aged failures - shabby despite their attempted grooming - and prissy pedagogues." Other content includes reprinted articles from regional newspapers on Communist or racial issues, and an article titled "Bio-Nationalism" by Henry Von Potworowski.