Lectures, open-air meetings, commemorations, and more. Here are a series of announcements for Connolly’s speaking engagements, both as an I.W.W. and S.L.P. activist, from the Socialist Labor Party’s ‘Daily People’ of 1907; mostly from the Fall of that year and in his area of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Connolly’s relationship with the S.L.P.’s De Leon leadership was near breaking by the end of the year, to break the following.

‘James Connolly Speaks’ Announcements from The Daily People, 1907.

BLOOMFIELD, N.J., I.W.W. MASS MEETING.

A mass meeting will be held under the auspices of Local Union No. 24, Industrial Workers of the World ́at Raab’s Hall, Bloomfield Ave., and Orange Street, Bloomfield, N.J., on WEDNESDAY, January 30, at 8 p. m. The Editor of “Arbetaren” will begin with a short address in Swedish. James Connolly will follow speaking on the following subject: “The necessity of the Industrial Workers of the World and its principles.” Every workingman should attend without fail!

MASS MEETING OF LONGSHOREMEN.

A mass meeting to organize an Industrial Union of Ship, Dock and Transportation Workers will be held at 407 Canal St. (cor. of Sullivan St.), WEDNESDAY evening, at 8 o’clock. James Connolly, Eugene Fischer, Frank Campbell and others will address the meeting. All I.W.W. sympathizers are earnestly requested to swell the crowd. Organizer.

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORKING CLASS.

A lecture on the above subject will be delivered by James Connolly under the auspices of Branch III, Kings County Socialist Labor Party, SUNDAY, March 31, 3 P. M. Members of Branch III are especially requested to do their share in making this and other lectures of the series a success, by attending in person and bringing friends and acquaintances along.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, OPEN AIR MEETINGS.

SATURDAY, August 24, 8 P.M. Speaker: Comrade James Connolly. Chairman, A. Bechnor.

OPEN AIR MEETINGS IN NEWARK, N.J.

SATURDAY, September 7, 7:30 P.M. Centre Market. Speaker, James Connolly. Chairman, A. Buechner.

NEWARK OPEN AIR MEETINGS.

SATURDAY, September 14, 8 p.m. Center Market. Speaker, James Connolly.

N.Y. OPEN AIR MEETINGS.

Wednesday, September 25, 8 p.m. 30th Assembly. District. South side of 125th street, between 3rd and Lexington avenues. Speakers: James Connolly and W. Woodhouse.

N.Y. OPEN AIR MEETINGS.

Wednesday, October 2, 8 P.M. Fourteenth Assembly District-Northwest corner of Thirty-second street and Third avenue. Speakers: James Connolly and W. Woodhouse.

NEWARK, N.J., OPEN AIR MEETINGS.

Saturday, October 5, 8 P.M., Center Market. Speaker, James Connolly.

OPEN AIR MEETING IN NEWARK.

SATURDAY, Oct. 12, 8 p. m. Center Market. Speaker, James Connolly.

NEWARK, ATTENTION!

A street meeting will be held on SATURDAY. October 19, at 8 p.m., on Broad Street and Centre Market. Speakers: James Connolly and James T. Hunter. Chairman, Herman Hartung.

ATTENTION PATERSON!

An open-air meeting will be held corner of Main and Smith Sts. SATURDAY, October 26, 8 p.m. Speaker, James Connolly.

INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Or THE WORLD LECTURES.

Arranged by the N.Y. Industrial Council, to be held at its headquarters, 60 Cooper Square, opposite 7th St., every Saturday night at 8 p.m. November 16. Subject, Industrial Development and Industrial Unionism. Lecturer, James Connolly. Discussion after lectures. Admission Free. Everybody Welcome.

New York Labor News Company was the publishing house of the Socialist Labor Party and their paper The People. The People was the official paper of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP), established in New York City in 1891 as a weekly. The New York SLP, and The People, were dominated Daniel De Leon and his supporters, the dominant ideological leader of the SLP from the 1890s until the time of his death. The People became a daily in 1900. It’s first editor was the French socialist Lucien Sanial who was quickly replaced by De Leon who held the position until his death in 1914. Morris Hillquit and Henry Slobodin, future leaders of the Socialist Party of America were writers before their split from the SLP in 1899. For a while there were two SLPs and two Peoples, requiring a legal case to determine ownership. Eventual the anti-De Leonist produced what would become the New York Call and became the Social Democratic, later Socialist, Party. The De Leonist The People continued publishing until 2008.