Title | Socialism summed up |
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Publisher | The H. K. Fly Co. |
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Date | 1913 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 110 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX86.H77 1914 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304545~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 106 |
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File Name | uhlib_2100825_105.jpg |
Transcript | 104 SOCIALISM SUMMED UP under the name of Chicago Daily Socialist, and it was followed by the establishment of the New York Daily Call in New York, in May, 1908. The Appeal to Reason, a weekly paper, has a circulation of about half a million copies, while the Jewish Daily Forward sells more than 150,000 copies per day. This press labors under great material difficulties, but is making steady progress. Besides the Socialist Party there is in the United States another Socialist political organization—the Socialist Labor Party. This party represents the remainder of the irreconcilable faction of the former party of the same name. Its membership is small, and its influence is slight. Still it publishes a few weekly papers in English and other languages. In the last general election it united about 29,000 votes on its candidate for President. The Socialist movement in the United States has also of late made substantial progress among the organized workers of the country. Within the last few years many American trade-unions have demonstrated a lively interest in the subject of Socialism, and have on numerous occasions declared themselves unreservedly as favoring the Socialist program, or at least its most substantial points and planks. In 1907, sixteen national organizations of workingmen, representing a total membership of 330,800, had thus endorsed the Socialist program, and in 1909 the United Mine Workers of America, one of the strongest organizations within the American Federation of |