Members of ILGWU Local 62 read together in the union’s comfortable reading room. A Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company advertisement that appeared in the Labor Herald, a magazine associated with the communist movement, early 1920s. Pocket-sized Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Books sold for 5-10 cents each and popular among working-class readers. Chicago’s bohemian Dill Pickle Club welcomed mixed crowds of radicals, artists, and the curious.
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