Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers

male, deceased (1924)
opposed to the war, American labor history, Opposition to World War I, World War I, labor history of the United States, Left-wing politics…socialist party, SocialistPartyofAmerica, american federation of labor, United States Democratic Party, democratic party
Samuel Gompers (January 26, 1850-December 13, 1924) was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded...
Norman Thomas

Norman Thomas

male, deceased (1968)
tax resister, socialism, Princeton University alumni, socialist, Pacifist, Presbyterian…SocialistPartyofAmerica, Member of the Socialist Party of America, American Christian socialist
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for...
Morris Hillquit

Morris Hillquit

male, deceased (1933)
World War I, New York University, lower east side, riga, New York lawyer, SocialistPartyofAmerica…Socialist Labor Party of America, Socialist Labor Party, Member of the Socialist Party of America, american federation of labor, socialist
Morris Hillquit (1869-1933) was a prominent Socialist and labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. Born...
William Z. Foster

William Z. Foster

male, deceased (1961) (Phoenix, Arizona, United States)
From Taunton, Massachusetts, Syndicalist, communist, United States presidential candidate, communist party usa, industrial worker of the world…steel strike of 1919, SocialistPartyofAmerica, democratic party
William Zebulon Foster (February 25, 1881 - September 1, 1961), born in Taunton, Massachusetts, was the long-time General Secretary of the...
Bill Haywood

Bill Haywood

male, deceased (1928)
afl, craft union, Colorado Labor Wars, Labor leader, industrial unionism, direct action…american federation of labor, SocialistPartyofAmerica, industrial worker of the world, Industrial Workers of the World leader, Western Federation of Miner
William Dudley Haywood (February 4, 1869-May 18, 1928), better known as Big Bill Haywood, was a prominent figure in the American labor movement....
Daniel de Leon

Daniel de Leon

male, deceased (1914)
Subsistence theory of wages, industrial worker of the world, communist, knight of labor, Marxist, new york state…american federation of labor, socialist, SocialistPartyofAmerica, State of New York, Social Democratic Party
Daniel De Leon was a Curaçao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Jewish origin. He was educated in Germany and t...
James P. Cannon

James P. Cannon

male, deceased (1974)
russian revolution of 1917, World War I, Trotskyist, American anti-war activist, communist, atheist…communist party usa, industrial worker of the world, SocialistPartyofAmerica, Socialist Workers Party, Communist League of America
James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. Cannon was the founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party....
Max Shachtman

Max Shachtman

male, deceased (1972)
anti-Sovietism, Polish-American, Jewish American, Marxist, Trotskyist, polish…Member of the Socialist Party of America, Independent Socialist League, Socialist International, SocialistPartyofAmerica
Max Shachtman (September 10 1904 - November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. During his lifetime, he evolved from being a Leninist...
Victor L. Berger

Victor L. Berger

male, deceased (1929)
Sewer Socialist, Sewer Socialism, elected, Foreign-born American politician, Austrian-American, espionage act…Member of the Socialist Party of America, House of Representatives, SocialistPartyofAmerica
Victor Louis (Luitpold) Berger (February 28, 1860 - August 7, 1929) was an American politician, a major part of the Sewer Socialist movement, and a...