Committee for Non-Violent Revolution Bulletin [six issues]

New York; San Francisco; Newark: Committee for Non-Violent Revolution, 1947. Newsletter. Six mimeographed 8.5x11 inch bulletins, one to four pages each, numbers present being 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, and 10. Number 2 has an 8.5x14 inch leaflet stapled to the front, examples of which had been passed out at a protest against the establishment of the UN in New York. Production of the bulletin moved between cities before settling in Newark. Some uneven toning, otherwise very good. The CNVR was founded in early 1946, many of its members having been conscientious objectors during the war including Dave Dellinger, George Houser, and Igal Roodenko. These issues include updates on activities in CPS Camps, particularly the one in Big Flats, NY, where a major protest of working conditions was underway. (Bulletin no. 7 describes a 40-foot-long float that was driven around Jamestown, NY, depicting Big Flats as a concentration camp surrounded by barbed wire; the float had a sign reading "Slave Labor CPS Camps Must Go.") The leaflet opposing the United Nations argues that "There can be no peace in a world in which imperialist nations such as the United States, Britain, and Russia hold huge sections of the earth in subjection, either as outright colonies or as economic and political dependencies. The Factories, Mines, Railroads, Shops, and Land are in the hands of profit-seeking private owners or State bureaucrats, while the majority of the people are dispossessed wage-workers who suffer regimentation, insecurity, slums, and depressions. People rely on physical power to impose their wills on others. The machines of war are kept in readiness (and used for bargaining purposes) through armament factories, atom bombs, armed forces, and conscription. These are the causes of war. The UNO cannot prevent war because it protects these causes of war...".