Revolution in Seattle: A Memoir, by Harvey O'Connor (HB, 1964, $3)
O'Connor was an American radical journalist, newspaper editor and political activist. In 1914 he went to work in the logging camps, and became active in the Industrial Workers of the World, a union that believed in the overthrow of capitalism, to be replaced with a government led by industrial workers. He wrote,"The experience I gained in the logging camps and on the skid roads burned into my mind the abysmal cruelties and inanities of capitalism. Not all the subsequent public relations hog-wash and security sops have altered my opposition to a system based on exploiting man and profiting from his massacre in war."
He helped organize the 1919 General Strike in Seattle, for which he was arrested for criminal anarchy, but never tried. Needless to say in 1954 Senator McCarthy considered him a threat. O'Connor was indicted and convicted of contempt by the House Un-American Activities Committee, but the US Court of Appeals would overturn his conviction. (He would later become the chairman of the Committee to Abolish the HUAC!) In 1964 he wrote this memoir. He would die in 1987.
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