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Labor Party of the United States
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Labor Party of the United States | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Max S. Hayes |
| Secretary | Frank J. Esper |
| Editor | Robert M. Buck |
| Founded | August 18, 1919 |
| Dissolved | July 13, 1920 |
| Succeeded by | Farmer-Labor Party of the United States |
| Headquarters | Chicago |
| Newspaper | The New Majority |
| Youth wing | Young People's Labor Club |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing |
The Labor Party of the United States was a short-lived political party formed by several state-level labor parties upon the encouragement of Chicago Federation of Labor leader John Fitzpatrick.[1] It was formed in the immediate aftermath of World War I, due in large part to deterioration in the condition of the country's workers due to the imbalance between static workers' wages and rapidly escalating prices for necessities and consumer goods.[2]
The party quickly sought to unify the forces of the country's industrial workers with the farmers' movement and cooperative movement, as the nation's farmers had also been hit hard by declining agricultural prices during the war years and the economic interests of urban workers and rural farmers fell into alignment. On July 13, 1920, the Labor Party merged with the Committee of 48 to form the Farmer-Labor Party.
- ^ Foner, Philip S. (1988). History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Postwar Struggles 1918-1920. New York, New York: International Publishers Co., Inc. ISBN 978-0-717-80652-2.
- ^ "Labor Party/Farmer-Labor Party (1918-1925) Organizational History". Early American Marxism: A Repository of Source Material, 1864-1946. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
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