Workingmen's Party of California

Examples of Workingmen's Party of California in the following topics:

• The Sand-Lot Incident

  • The Workingmen's Party of California was an American labor organization led by Denis Kearney in the 1870s.
  • The party took particular aim against Chinese immigrant labor and the Central Pacific Railroad , which employed them.
  • In July 1877, when anti-Chinese violence occurred in San Francisco, Kearney joined William Tell Coleman 's vigilante Public Safety Committee as a member of Coleman's "pick handle brigade. " By August 1877, however, Kearney had been elected Secretary of the newly formed Workingmen's Party of California , and often directed violent attacks on Chinese, including denunciations of the powerful Central Pacific Railroad , which had employed them in large numbers.
  • Kearney traveled east to popularize his opinions and campaigned with the Massachusetts politician Benjamin Butler , the Greenback Party 's candidate for President .
  • Kearney faded from the public's eye by the early 1880s, leaving as his legacy only the anti-Chinese laws that the Workingmen's Party had passed at the 1879 California Constitutional Convention.

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • The first significant Chinese immigration to America began with the California Gold Rush of 1848 to 1855, and continued with subsequent large labor projects, such as the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • With the post Civil War economy in decline by the 1870s, anti-Chinese animosity became politicized by labor leader Denis Kearney and his Workingmen's Party as well as by California Governor John Bigler, both of whom blamed Chinese "coolies" for depressed wage levels.
  • The riot was inspired by Denis Kearney, who founded the Workingmen's Party of California.
  • A meeting was called for the evening of July 23, 1877, by the Workingmen's Party of the United States to agitate on behalf of the needs of the labor movement and those of unemployed workers in particular.
  • Several representatives of the Workingmen's Party addressed the throng on the labor question, but none of them so much as mentioned the city's Chinese population, let alone attempted to lay blame upon them as the cause of the unemployment problem.

• Anarchism

  • The International Workingmen's Association, often called the "First International," was an international organization that aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist, and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
  • The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, who sought to, "replace the privilege and authority of the State," with the, "free and spontaneous organization of labor."
  • A bomb was thrown by an unknown party near the conclusion of the rally, killing an officer.
  • Eight anarchists, directly and indirectly related to the organizers of the rally, were arrested and charged with the murder of the deceased officer.
  • The event also had the secondary purpose of memorializing workers killed as a result of the Haymarket Affair.

• The Railroad Strikes

  • In Chicago, the Workingmen's Party organized demonstrations that drew crowds of 20,000 people.
  • The headline of the Chicago Times read, "Terrors Reign, The Streets of Chicago Given Over to Howling Mobs of Thieves and Cutthroats."
  • Order was finally restored, however, with the deaths of nearly 20 men and boys, the wounding of scores more, and the loss of property valued in the millions of dollars.
  • Louis Workingmen's Party led a group of approximately 500 people across the Missouri River in an act of solidarity with the nearly 1,000 workers on strike.
  • The arrival of the military and subsequent deaths of workers led to further outbreaks of violence.

• The Federalists

  • For example, Democratic-Republican Party, the opposition to the Federalist Party, echoed the concerns of Anti-Federalists that a strong national government was a threat to individual liberties.
  • They stressed that the national debt created by the new government would bankrupt the country and that federal bondholders were paid from taxes paid by honest farmers and workingmen.
  • As Norman Risjord has documented for Virginia, of the supporters of the Constitution in 1788, 69% joined the Federalist party while nearly all (94%) of the opponents joined the Democratic-Republicans.
  • In short, nearly all of the opponents of the Federalist movement became opponents of the Federalist Party.
  • However, with the defeat of Adams in the election of 1800 and the death of Hamilton in a duel with Aaron Burr, the Federalist Party began a long decline from which it never recovered.

• Newspapers

  • During the middle of the nineteenth century, newspapers went from serving as mouthpieces of political parties to addressing broader public interests.
  • During the middle of the nineteenth century, newspapers changed from being mouthpieces of political parties to serving a broader public appeal.
  • Many newspapers in the early part of the nineteenth century were published by political parties and served as political mouthpieces for the beliefs and candidates of those parties.
  • Politics were of major interest, with the editor-owner typically deeply involved in local party organizations.
  • Journalists reported the party line and editorialized in favor of party positions.

• The National Convention

  • The selection of individual delegates and their alternates, too, is governed by the bylaws of each state party, or in some cases by state law.
  • From the point of view of the parties, the convention cycle begins with the Call to Convention.
  • Each party sets its own rules for the participation and format of the convention.
  • The selection of individual delegates and their alternates, too, is governed by the bylaws of each state party, or in some cases by state law.
  • Relatively little of a party platform is even proposed as public policy.

• National Convention

  • The selection of individual delegates and their alternates is also governed by the bylaws of each state party, or in some cases by state law.
  • From the point of view of the parties, the convention cycle begins with the Call to Convention.
  • Each party sets its own rules for the participation and format of the convention.
  • Relatively little of a party platform is even proposed as public policy.
  • The speakers at the 2004 Democratic convention included Ted Kennedy, a forty-year veteran of the United States Senate, and Jimmy Carter, a former Democratic President, while at the Republican convention speakers included Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Governor George Pataki of New York, two of the largest states in the nation.

• Components

  • A weak component is a set of nodes that are connected, regardless of the direction of ties.
  • Let's look instead at the network of large donors to California political campaigns, where the strength of the relation between two actors is defined by the number of times that they contributed on the same side of an issue.
  • In addition to identifying the members of the components, it calculates a number of statistical measures of graph fragmentation.
  • Figure 11.10 shows partial results for the California political donations data.
  • If we set a very high cut-off value of 13 issues in common, then our graph has only non-isolate component (made up of the Democratic Party and the School Employees union).

• The Compromise of 1850

  • In the immediate aftermath of the Mexican War and in the midst of the California Gold Rush, a major political confrontation occurred in Congress that required many compromises in order to prevent Southern secession.
  • As part of their application for annexation, California settlers proposed that their state would ban slavery.
  • However, the admission of California as a free state would tip the balance of power in the Senate.
  • Henry Clay, the leader of the Whig Party (nicknamed the "Great Pacificator”) drafted the following five compromise measures in 1850:
  • California becomes a free state, and Texas's boundary would remain at its present-day limits.