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[[letterhead]]  AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM
[[letterhead]]  AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM   National Office:  104 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE:  DONALD HENDRSON, AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR.
ANNA E. GRAY, WOMENS' PEACE SOCIETY.
J. B. MATTHEWS, FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION.
ROGER BALDWIN, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
LOUIS WEINSTOCK, A.F.OF L., RANK AND FILE COMMITTEE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND RELIEF.
J. W. FORD, TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE.
MARY FOX, LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA
AND OTHERS.
 
KENOSHA, WIS. 6111 - 24th Ave.,
Jan. 1st, 34.
 
Jack Conroy,
Rr. #4,
Moberly, Missouri.
 
Dear Comrade:
        I enclose 18₵ in stamps for a current issue of [[underlined:  The Anvil.]]  Send it to D. G. Johnson, 6111 - 24th Ave., Kenosha, Wisconsin.
        I am the section organizer of the Communist Party and as such my duties keep me busy with organizational work, mass meetings, etc.  However, at one time I intended to become a writer, and I still have vain dreams of a future date wen I will be able to spare a few hours for creative work.  But I guess that if I ever do intend to do so I'd better find the time somehow, now.
      Incidentally, it is amusing to know that my mother was raised in or near Moberly, and that her father was a blacksmith.  We are today attempting something more difficult than hammering iron to shape, but a sure as we keep our fires hot and our hammers swinging we, like our fathers, will succeed in forging he forms from old.
      One thing puzzles me.  How in the devil do you succeed in getting o ut a magazine in a small place like Moberly?  You must have to do most of it yourself.  (That is the editing, etc.)  I remember once seeing a copy of a left wing magazine published in Davenport or some place like that.  Is this group still in existence?
      Drop me a line if you have time.
Comradely yours,
[[signature]] Dalton Johnson
Dalton Johnson
P.S.  I presume from your address that you live on a farm.  If correct, what is being done around there to organize the hard-up farmers?  We have been quite successful in the building of a [sic] the United Farmers League.  We've even got a JP, justice of the peace as a township chairman.
[[handwritten note following typed letter]]  Up here in Wisconsin they make a practice of turning embryo revolutionary writers into party functionaries.  Several of the fellows who were with me at Madison - the University of Wisconsin, who came into the

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letterhead AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM National Office: 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City. NATIONAL COMMITTEE: DONALD HENDRSON, AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR. ANNA E. GRAY, WOMENS' PEACE SOCIETY. J. B. MATTHEWS, FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION. ROGER BALDWIN, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION LOUIS WEINSTOCK, A.F.OF L., RANK AND FILE COMMITTEE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND RELIEF. J. W. FORD, TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE. MARY FOX, LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA AND OTHERS.

KENOSHA, WIS. 6111 - 24th Ave., Jan. 1st, 34.

Jack Conroy, Rr. #4, Moberly, Missouri.

Dear Comrade:

       I enclose 18₵ in stamps for a current issue of underlined:  The Anvil.  Send it to D. G. Johnson, 6111 - 24th Ave., Kenosha, Wisconsin.
       I am the section organizer of the Communist Party and as such my duties keep me busy with organizational work, mass meetings, etc.  However, at one time I intended to become a writer, and I still have vain dreams of a future date wen I will be able to spare a few hours for creative work.  But I guess that if I ever do intend to do so I'd better find the time somehow, now.
      Incidentally, it is amusing to know that my mother was raised in or near Moberly, and that her father was a blacksmith.  We are today attempting something more difficult than hammering iron to shape, but a sure as we keep our fires hot and our hammers swinging we, like our fathers, will succeed in forging he forms from old.
     One thing puzzles me.  How in the devil do you succeed in getting o ut a magazine in a small place like Moberly?  You must have to do most of it yourself.  (That is the editing, etc.)  I remember once seeing a copy of a left wing magazine published in Davenport or some place like that.  Is this group still in existence?
     Drop me a line if you have time.

Comradely yours, signature Dalton Johnson Dalton Johnson P.S. I presume from your address that you live on a farm. If correct, what is being done around there to organize the hard-up farmers? We have been quite successful in the building of a [sic] the United Farmers League. We've even got a JP, justice of the peace as a township chairman. handwritten note following typed letter Up here in Wisconsin they make a practice of turning embryo revolutionary writers into party functionaries. Several of the fellows who were with me at Madison - the University of Wisconsin, who came into the