Contents

• General $ in Command - David Leigh
• The trial of David Caplan - Alexander Berkman
• In the eyes of the future - Charles Erskine Scott Wood
• Past and present - A Mack
• Labour and song - Leah Lowensohn
• Prohibition: a crime and a menace
• Will organized labor help? - Tom Mooney
• A group that does things - Reb Raney
• Pierre Ramus Free!
• David Caplan mass meeting advert

Contents

• The Bloodhounds - Alexander Berkman
• To the enemies of free speech - Wm Francis Barnard
• The crimes of governments - Josiah Warren
• The modern wage slave - Hugh McGee
• The state superstition - Herbert Spencer
• The thieves' convention - Ellis O. Jones
• Reflections
• Who is manufacturing "news"?
• The power of the plutocrat - Leo Tolstoy
• A word to the fearful - David Leigh
• "Our business is to keep killing Germans" - Horace Traubel

Contents

• To hell with the government - Alexander Berkman
• The first of May and the General Strike -
• The song of the wage slave - Ernest Jones
• Letter of support from IWW in California
• Reflections (Ireland, religion & war, anrchist women on trial, David Caplan)
• All armor plate: no brains - B C Federationist
• A case in point - Alden Ward
• Incontestable rights
• A timely thought
• Soldiers of war - Rene Benjamin

Contents

• The only hope of Ireland - Alexander Berkman
• Revolution - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Pro-government anarchists - Errico Malatesta
• Reflections
• Should Labor be patriotic? - Lyov Tolstoy
• Science: Gods mortal terror - Friedrich Nietzsche
• The great adventure - Herman Kuehn
• Letters

Contents

• Think of the Magons - Edgcumb Pinchon
• Preparedness
• Shadows on mist - Robert Morlett
• Reflections (abolishing war, the Magon borthers, San Francisco longshoremen strike)
• To the Pope of San Francisco
• Why women will get the vote - B. C. Federationist
• Hoist the flag of betterment - Rebekah E Raney

Contents

• Freedom only to be conquered
• More suppression: Postmaster General vs Alexander Berkman
• A plea for preparedness - Pacific Coast Business Men's Preparedness League
• Reflections
• Anent the Cloakmakers' Strike - Alexander Berkman
• In the words of Shaw
• Indecent exposure - R.S.

Contents

• Come workers, let us take counsel together - Alexander Berkman
• For the people - James Jeffrey Roche
• Preparedness - for what? - Ed Gammons
• The creed of the caveman - J.W.W.
• Stupidity + Profit = Preparedness
• Reflections
• A word to "blame" fools - The Blasters
• The strange Mr X - Emanuel Julius

This is a special issue of The Blast in the interest of the Labor men that Big Business wants to hang in San Francisco. The case is of the utmost importance. A repetition of the judicial murders of 1887 must be prevented at all cost. Labor and radical papers are welcome to reprint the material published in The Blast.

Contents

• Worshipping the god of dynamite
• Planning another 11th of November
• Violence and anarchism - Alexander Berkman
• Valuation of life - R.M.
• Down with the Anarchists! - The Blasg Group et al
• A raid and a visit
• On the firing line
• Some direct questions for the District Attorney
• Justice - David Leigh

Contents

• Nine and five make fourteen - Robert Minor
• The San Francisco Conspiracy
• Vindicating justice - A.B.
• Reflections
• The real railroad power
• On the iron range
• Undertones - The Ear

Contents

• The Billings Trial
• Gov. Altgeld's reasons for pardonning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab
• Reflections (Billings trial, Haymarket tragedy, New York car men strike, etc)
• Remember the iron range strikers! - Iva Shuster
• A last call to radicals - International Workers' Defense League
• The open shop
• History repeats itself - John P. Frey

Contents

• The Billings verdict
• How and why Billings was convicted
• Chronological sidelights on the bomb cases
• Dave Caplan
• United Labour of Chicago pledges aid
• A prediction and observations with some facts - The Ear
• The need of the hour
• Much ado about nothing - B. C. Federationist
• What do Wilson and Hugues crowds mean when they talk about Liberty? - Horace Traubel

Contents

• 1907 - "Law and order" in San Francisco - 1916
• In Bayonne - Mary Heaton Vorse
• The everlasting District Attorney - R.M.
• Is Wilson Different? - A.B.
• Reflections
• After the war - what? - W.T Shore
• Militarism at home
• Revolt - Alden Ward
• David Caplan in supreme need
• Sketches from life
• International mass meeting: 29th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Chicago anarchists

Contents

• Rusty Justice
• Professional Jurors
• Art and revolt - Sadakichi Hartmann
• Reflections
• Carranza's Doom - Enrique Flores Magon
• War: the triump of barbarism - Guy de Maupassant

Contents

• The great hope - Robert Minor
• Fighting to a finish - Horace Traubel
• Popular movements; rent strikes and boycotts vs H. C. of L. - Elias Sang
• To our friends - Alexander Berkman
• Reflections
• The voice of labour (correspondence from New York) - Robert G Ingersoll
• The full story of the battle of Everett - Charles Ashleigh
• Wilson's victory and labor's lesson - Harry Kelly
• A birth control meditation - Sara Bard Field

Contents

• Social Revolution
• The Daily Burglary
• Comments
• The Offer of Peace - Robert Minor
• The passing of the "Tin Soldier" - Robert Minor
• The destroyer of idols - Elias Sang
• Our insane system - Charles Fourier
• Football reasoning - David Leigh

Contents

• "Thou shalt kill," says Cunha - Robert Minor
• Hymn of courage - James Waldo Fawcett
• Importance of agitation - Garrison
• Preparedness - Fred Watson
• Reflections
• Wanted: A Blast - Arch Perrin
• Letters
• Extract from a letter by Anton Johnannsen to a friend
• A story labour won't forget
• The four - James L. Ford

Contents

• In the shadow of the gallows - Robert Minor
• Will you be man enough to come forward?
• How a fake witness was unmasked
• Why I don't come to America - Bernard Shaw
• Comments
• Society's wives go to church - Pauline Smith
• The straight road - Paul Hanna

Contents

• Why not burn the Declaration of Independence? - Robert Minor
• The Lynching - Alexander Berkman
• Reflections
• A huge corporation and what it stands for
• Full story of Mooney conviction
• Through the baptism of blood - Romain Rolland
• Is the horror of bloodshed a neurosis? - Wm Robinson
• What! Honest Senators! - Robert Minor

Content

• March and May - Alexander Berkman
• Repudiate the war debts! - Robert Minor
• The Russian Revolution - Alexander Berkman
• Reflections
• The hangmen of the law - Fremont Older
• The District Attorney - Robert Minor

Contents

• To the youth of America
• Registration - Alexander Berkman
• War as a test of anti-militarist sincerity - Leonard D. Abbott
• Die Mutter: true story - From "Short Rations" by Madeline Z. Doty
• War Dictionary - Alexander Berkman
• Reflections
• The shame of California - Robert Minor
• The breaking of the ice
• The cry of nations - Edward Carpenter
• Army recruiting methods - Maxwell Bodenheim