(DRIESER, Theodore) By the Members of the National Committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners (The Dreiser Committee)
HARLAN MINERS SPEAK. Report On Terrorism In Kentucky Coal Fields.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1932. FIRST EDITION
8vo tan, black title, 348 pp.
Members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners-Theodore Dreiser, Lester Cohen,
Melvin P. Levy, Charles R. Walker, Adelaide Walker, Jessie Wakefield , Anna Rochester, Arnold Johnson,
John Dos Passos, Bruce Crawford, Boris Israel and Sherwood Anderson.
“This book about the terrorism in the Kentucky coal fields is one of the most astonishing testimonials ever
presented to the American people. This is the real story of Harlan, Kentucky. The sworn testimony of the
miners, the findings of the committee headed by Theodore Dreiser, are facts that speak for themselves.”