I discovered the newsletter, digitized through a joint preservation project by the ILWU and University of Washington, while researching Emeryville Cool Fun Facts. From its largely text-based issues, I selected and organized the recurring illustrations by topic; the 2025 second edition was redesigned with Paul Morgan. The drawings are often humorous, sometimes bizarre, and always deliver a biting critique of capitalism and the bosses who inflict suffering on everyday workers.

Slingshot reviewed the booklet in 2025:

The drawings are of police harassment, bosses, jail cells and cops shooting down strikers, just as [R. Crumb] said, They are crude and amateurish; fine artists generally didn’t work the docks. So these drawings came from calloused working hands, and they look like it. But they thereby convey an authenticity you can’t get from Edward Hooper. Even if he were to be counted among your allies.

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I discovered the newsletter, digitized through a joint preservation project by the ILWU and University of Washington, while researching Emeryville Cool Fun Facts. From its largely text-based issues, I selected and organized the recurring illustrations by topic; the 2025 second edition was redesigned with Paul Morgan. The drawings are often humorous, sometimes bizarre, and always deliver a biting critique of capitalism and the bosses who inflict suffering on everyday workers.

Slingshot reviewed the booklet in 2025:

The drawings are of police harassment, bosses, jail cells and cops shooting down strikers, just as [R. Crumb] said, They are crude and amateurish; fine artists generally didn’t work the docks. So these drawings came from calloused working hands, and they look like it. But they thereby convey an authenticity you can’t get from Edward Hooper. Even if he were to be counted among your allies.

Published by Current Editions -> Available