3 May 1921
My dear Miss Addams:
Thank you for your check of $2.50 for one bound and one paper-covered edition of the evidence. I have been delayed by printers' vicissitudes, but shall get the volumes to you as soon as possible.
I wonder if you knew that William H. Johnston, President of the International Association of Machinists, leaves for Europe [tomorrow] to get the concurrence of the International Metal Trades Congress at Berne in the resolution adopted by the Machinists recently at their Rochester Convention, pledging the organized machinists of the world to refuse to make war materials in the event of the next war? It is a splendid step forward. Only I fear that there will be enough war materials manufactured before the next war starts to begin the wholesale slaughter; and then press-made patriotism may stampede the workers to forget their resolutions.
Mr. Johnston is also going to Russia to learn the truth about that much-misrepresented land. It is only a little over a year since I returned from Soviet Russia. Of course I did not have the position or influence to gain credibility for what I saw there. But Mr. Johnston has, and I have great faith in his courage to tell the unvarnished facts when he returns.
Faithfully yours,
Albert Coyle [signed]
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