Socialist Labor Party

Examples of Socialist Labor Party in the following topics:

• The Socialist Presence

  • The Socialist Labor Party was officially founded in 1876 at a convention in Newark, New Jersey.
  • In its nascent years, the Socialist Labor Party encompassed a broad range of various philosophies, with differing concepts of how to achieve their goals.
  • The Socialist Party formed strong alliances with a number of labor organizations that shared similar goals--such as collectivism.
  • Hence the Socialists and Labor parties, with their public talk of draft dodging and war-opposition, found themselves the target of persecution.
  • The expelled members formed the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America and the Socialist party was reduced to one third of its original size.

• Industrial Freedom

  • The Socialist Party of America ran several candidates for president, and many Americans formed communes and other collaborative collectives as experiments in socialist living.
  • Ault participated in the Socialist Labor Party from 1892 to 1898.
  • In 1898, he transferred his allegiance to the new Social Democratic Party of America, headed by labor leader Eugene V.
  • This organization was the forerunner of the Socialist Party of America (SPA), a group which Ault joined at its formation.
  • Ault's career demonstrates how widespread various socialist and labor party factions were in the United States during the early 20th century.

• The Knights of Labor and the "Conditions Essential to Liberty"

  • The Knights of Labor transitioned from a fraternal organization to a labor union that promoted the uplift of the workingman.
  • The Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.
  • They also called for legislation to end child and convict labor .
  • At the same time, the organization gave political support to the People's Party .
  • Two years later, members of the Socialist Labor Party left the Knights to found the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance as a Marxist rival.

• Progress and Poverty

  • Laurence Gronlund was an American lawyer and socialist.
  • He was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party from 1874 to 1884, after which he devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing.
  • This ended with his appointment to a post in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Gronlund considered the United States more advanced, and therefore better fitted for a socialistic régime, than any other country.
  • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.

• Gronlund and Bellamy

  • Laurence Gronlund was an American lawyer and socialist.
  • He was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party from 1874 to 1884, after which he devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing.
  • This ended with his appointment to a post in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Gronlund considered the United States more advanced, and therefore better fitted for a socialistic régime, than any other country.
  • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.

• Socialism and the Unions

  • For instance, the Industrial Workers of the World was a labor union that was founded by many notable socialists including Eugene Debs, "Mother" Mary Harris Jones, and Daniel De Leon.
  • Labor unions were concerned with equal rights for workers, while socialists wanted to ensure more equality for all groups in society.
  • The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
  • Laurence Gronlund was an American lawyer and socialist.
  • He was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party from 1874 to 1884, after which he devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing.

• The Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912

  • Debs also ran again as the nominee of the Socialist Party of America.
  • By 1912, the Socialist Party of America claimed more than a thousand locally elected officials in over thiry states and 160 cities, especially the Midwest.
  • The conservative socialists, led by Victor L.
  • With few exceptions, the Socialist party had weak or nonexistent links to local labor unions.
  • Many of these issues had been debated at the First National Congress of the Socialist Party in 1910, and they were debated again at the national convention in Indianapolis in 1912.

• AFL and WWI

  • Over the course of World War I, the AFL had worked out an informal agreement with the United States government, in which the AFL would coordinate with the government both to support the war effort and to join "into an alliance to crush radical labor groups" such as the IWW and the Socialist Party of America.
  • Gompers, notably, opened the AFL to radical and socialist workers and to some semiskilled and unskilled workers.
  • While the organization was founded by socialists such as Gompers and Peter J.
  • Furthermore, the AFL leadership took a pragmatic view toward politicians, following Gompers' slogan to "reward your friends and punish your enemies" without regard to party affiliation.
  • American Federation of Labor head Samuel Gompers (right) endorsed the pro-labor independent Presidential candidate Robert M.

• The Election of 1920

  • Wilson chose not to run for a third term and both major parties turned to dark horse candidates from Ohio, which was rich in electoral votes, while the third-party Socialists stuck with their chosen candidate of the previous four presidential elections.
  • Socialist Party candidate Eugene V.
  • This was the highest number of popular votes received by a Socialist Party candidate in the United States, though not the largest percentage of the popular vote, as Debs had received double the vote percentage in the 1912 election.
  • Christensen of the Farmer-Labor Party received 1% of the vote total, while Prohibition Party candidate Aaron S.
  • This cartoon depicts Socialist Party candidate, Eugene Debs, campaigning for president from prison in 1920.

• German Immigration

  • Milwaukee was once known as "the German Athens," and radical Germans trained in politics in the old country dominated the city's Socialists.
  • In general during the Third Party System (1850s–1890s), the Protestants and Jews leaned toward the new Republican Party and the Catholics were strongly Democratic.
  • In the late nineteenth century, many Germans in cities were socialists, and Germans played a significant role in the labor-union movement.