Solicitation Letter from the Editor of "The Masses"

In this letter, writer and activist Max Eastman seeks financial support for The Masses, a socialist magazine that criticized the war. Eastman promised to “fight conscription” and “fight the censorship” to resist the war effort. Under the Espionage Act, the government condemned the anti-war publication, causing it to fall out of print.

LI-2017-26.01