Vol. 04 (July 1917-March 1918)

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Issues from the fourth volume of the Workers' Dreadnought.

Submitted by adri on May 30, 2025

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adri

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by adri on June 24, 2025

I'm not sure if we want to use this issue for Vol. 4 No. 28. It's the only scan that seems to be available, but it has a different newspaper title.

Fozzie

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by Fozzie on June 24, 2025

Good work on all this adri.

I'd assume that is another publication that has been misattributed by whoever uploaded it to archive.org? So probably not - or at least not in this archive.

adri

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by adri on June 24, 2025

Reading the the 29th issue, it seems like their printing shop got raided by the police:

Pankhurst wrote: Our issue of October 6th was stopped by the police, who visited the printer and caused the paper to be destroyed and the type to be melted down. So far as we know, the authorities had not seen, and the police did not read the issue in question, and the authorities have failed to communicate with us in any way. This extraordinary action has delayed the paper, forced us to change our printer, and put us to extra expense amounting to £35. Believe that our readers will not desire the paper to be handicapped by the above we trust unusual procedure, we appeal to our readers to send along donations to cover this sum. Our readers will join us in thanks to Mr. Francis of The Athenæum Press, who has consented to print for us at this juncture.

I'm not sure if they just sent out the above paper and considered it the 28th issue or if they actually did a proper Dreadnought issue. Seeing as how the "Workers' Suffrage Federation" was not an actual newspaper (it was the name of the group Pankhurst created, and which was later renamed to the Workers' Socialist Federation), I'm guessing this issue might actually be what they sent out or considered their 28th issue. Similarly, the "Workers' Suffrage Federation" issue doesn't have any issue or volume information, so it definitely doesn't seem like a separate paper.

Fozzie

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by Fozzie on June 24, 2025

Ohhhh. Well maybe add the WSF paper with an explanatory note?

adri

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by adri on June 24, 2025

Yeah, that will work I guess. We can always update it if it turns out that there is a proper Dreadnought issue somewhere, but I believe the "Workers' Suffrage Federation" issue is what they considered the 28th issue.