The official Socialist Party leadership position on the labor movement is enunciated in this number of the Appeal Socialist Classics. With contributions from Robert Hunter, Karl Legien, Edward R. Pease, N.I. Stone, Max Hayes, Morris Hillquit and Adolph Germer. Most interestingly, it contains various Party reports and resolutions on the question as well as the documents from the 1900 the Socialist Labor Party split, where the trade union question was central, that created the Socialist Party in 1901.

Socialism and Organized Labor. Appeal Socialist Classics No. 7. Edited by William J. Ghent. Published by the Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kansas. 1916.

Contents: Preface, I) In Europe, Development of the Trade-Unions, Karl Marx and the Unions by Robert Hunter, Attitude of the Organized Movement, London 1896, Practical Co-operation with Organized Labor, Stuttgart 1907, Unions and the Party in Germany by Karl Legien, The British Labor Party by Edward R. Pease, II) In the United States, Varied Forms of Organization, The Break with the Federation by N.I. Stone, The Anti-Sanial Resolution, Socialist Movement Divides, Rochester Resolution 1900, Attitude of the Socialist Party, 1904 Resolution, 1908 Address, 1910 Resolution, 1912 Resolution, Socialists in the Unions by Max Hayes, III) The Policy of the Federation, Introductory Note, The Federation and the Party by Morris Hillguit, An Example from Colorado by Robert Hunter, Growing Reaction of the Leaders, A Leadership False to Its Trust by Adolph Germer, IV) The Future of Labor Unionism, The Drift Toward Unity by Robert Hunter. 64 pages.

The Appeal to Reason was among the most important and widely read left papers in the United States. With a weekly run of over 550,000 copies by 1910, it remains the largest socialist paper in US history. Founded by utopian socialist and Ruskin Colony leader Julius Wayland it was published privately in Girard, Kansas from 1895 until 1922. The paper came from the Midwestern populist tradition to become the leading national voice in support of the Socialist Party of America in 1901. A ‘popular’ paper, the Appeal was Eugene Debs main literary outlet and saw writings by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Mary “Mother” Jones, Helen Keller and many others.

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