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3 In the Kempton-Wace Letters, Jack London argued against romantic love, saying mates should be selected for good breeding potential.
CHAPTER XXXVII
1 House of the Dead: Published in 1862 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In his work, Dostoyevsky drew upon his own experiences of imprisonment in czarist Russia (1850-54) for his liberal sympathies.
2 Gilbert Roe (1865-1929): lawyer and author; adviser to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after its founding in 1920.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
1 William “Big Bill” Haywood (1869-1928): American radical labor organizer, founding member of the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the “Wobblies”). Convicted of violating Espionage and Sedition Acts, he fled to the Soviet Union in 1921.
2 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964): American socialist, feminist, and Communist; a lecturer and labor organizer for the IWW. Imprisoned after conviction of conspiracy under the Smith Act in 1952, she immigrated to and died in the Soviet Union.
3 In An Enemy of the People (1882), a doctor who warns towns-people that local water is contaminated is ostracized for threatening their economic interests.
CHAPTER XXXIX
1 Saul Josef Yanofsky (1864-1939): Polish-born Jewish anarchist. He criticized Emma Goldman’s essay “The Tragedy of Buffalo” as contradictory and dangerous to anarchism.
2 Chief Wilson : Jefferson Ken Wilson (1862-1934) was chief of police in San Diego from 1909 to 1917. Earlier known for ending prostitution in San Diego’s notorious “Singaree,” Wilson steered the police department through the violent clashes between the “vigilance” committees and the IWW.
3 Eleanor Fitzgerald (1877-1955): American anarchist, lecturer, theater manager, and editor.
CHAPTER XL
1 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: Published in 1913, Lawrence’s partly autobiographical novel describes an enduring and emotionally wrought bond between the central character, Paul Morel, and his devoted and protective mother.
2 Mother Jones: Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930): Irish American labor organizer, orator, and labor advocate known as Mother Jones.
3 Leonard D. Abbott (1878-1953): American anarchist. Goldman had met Abbott earlier when she solicited help from prominent liberals who might help reduce Berkman’s prison sentence (see LML, 1970, 233).
4 Mary G. Shaw (1854-1919): actress and feminist.
5 Fola La Follette (1882-1970) was a teacher and actress, daughter of Progressive senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin. She was married to George Middleton (1880-1967), a playwright and copyright specialist.
6 The Social Significance of the Modern Drama was published in April 1914.
CHAPTER XLI
1 the Ludlow massacres: one of America’s bloodiest assaults on organized labor. On April 20, 1914, the National Guard opened fire on a tent city of coal-mine strikers in Ludlow, Colorado. The resulting deaths, including women and children, precipitated widespread sympathy for the miners and armed resistance. Federal troops, dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson, intervened and disarmed the strikers. John D. Rockefeller Jr. owned the Colorado company operating the mines at Ludlow.
2 the Tarrytown campaign: In response to the Ludlow massacres, Alexander Berkman had organized demonstrations of protest at the Rockefeller home in Tarrytown, New York (see LML, 1970, 535).
3 Bresci’s, Angiolillo’s: the Italian anarchists Michele Angiolillo and Gaetano Bresci were the assassins of the prime minister of Spain (August 1897) and King Umberto of Italy (July 1900), respectively.
4 my dear nephew Saxe and my old friend Max: Saxe Commins, son of EG’s sister Lena, and Max Baginski.
5 the Kaiser: Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany, forced to abdicate as part of the armistice ending World War I.
CHAPTER XLII
1 Margaret Sanger (1879-1966): American nurse and pioneer of birth control movement; she founded Planned Parenthood in 1942.
2 the fight for Caplan and Schmidt: David Caplan and Matthew Schmidt were