1930's Business and the Economy | "Armed Rebellion on the Right"

Editorial

By: Paul Y. Anderson

Date: August 7, 1937

Source: Anderson, Paul Y. "Armed Rebellion on the Right." The Nation 145, no. 6, August 7, 1937, 146–147. Available at the New Deal Network online at http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na37145p146.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Author: Paul Y. Anderson (1893–1938) was a highly respected investigative journalist, described upon his death (by suicide) as the "last muckraker." Anderson spent most of his career with the St. Louis Dispatch and covered many of the great events of his era. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the Teapot Dome Scandal in 1923–1924.

Introduction

Violence was an integral part of the labor movement. Management,...