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socialist Rose
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Karsner's journalistic career began about 1907 when he went to work for a newspaper in the city of
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Illustrated by Esther
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Illustrations by Esther M. Mattsson. New York: Lewis Copeland Co., 1928.
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Debs: His Authorized Life and Letters from Woodstock Prison to Atlanta.
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in New York City as collection TAM 430. Additional material is held by
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written by Francis McCullaugh, a member of the British secret service.
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in protest over the paper's decision to publish a critique of
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as Karsner, Editor, Resigns; More Light on Anti-Soviet Plot,"
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Talks with Debs in Terre Haute (and Letters from Lindlahr).
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