JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Katherine Pollack’s 1932 Why Bother About the Government, the third installment of the Leftist Brookwood1 Labor College pamphlet series, is a bit of a Socratic polemic about the problems and advantages of government, owners of the means of production, workers, and labor organizers…coming down firmly in the square of very-pro forces of organized labor.
Offhand I am not finding anything about Katherine (Heilprin) Pollack2, though there is quite a bit about Brookwood (see below for an intro) and its captain, A.J. Muste.
Also I can’t find much about the cartoonist whose work attracted me to this pamphlet to begin with, Herbert Heasley, though his work has a certain 1930’s feel to it. I’ve included his three drawings, below.
