The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

CHAPTER XI XI. The Workingmen's League T HE decade preceding the panic of 1857, which acted as a sharp, although temporary, setb ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE and the New York Tribune published contributions by Brisbane on this and similar themes, beginning in 18 ...

190 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen," in 1833, and four years earlier Thomas Skidmore in his "The Right ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 191 the police had to be called to stop the rioting which resulted. In May, 1850, the Laborers' Union of ...

192 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST of these unions maintained separate offices for their German- and English-speaking members. The city f ...

THE WORKING MEN'S LEAGUE 193 formal appeal of the German strikers, entitled "The Rights of Labor versus the Rights of Thieves an ...

194 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST to prevent plans for a co-operative clothing store, for which Greeley consented to act as treasurer. W ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 195 prison. They were tried finally on December 3, and the contro­ versy was ended when they accepted pl ...

196 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST influence after a long hard journey which had started with his indenture as a boy apprentice to a mast ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 197 tial to "emancipate the workers from the wage system and the employer" altogether and to relate all ...

198 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Philadelphia, and for a time, it was vigorously supported by the Philadelphia Freie Presse. The Arbeit ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 199 The chief opposition to Weitling's program came from such papers as the Washington Zuschauer, which ...

200 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST opposed the movement because it objected to any "centraliza­ tion" of the labor movement under Weitlin ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 201 of arduous committee work and lively plenary sessions, the con­ gress hammered out a set of resoluti ...

202 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST for teachers, who were to be elected by the people; the complete divorce of church and school; public ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE organized solely in the interest of those who toil for their living. His ultimate goal was one great lea ...

204 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST principle and procedure settled by an appeal to these basic sources. The founder and chief promoter of ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 205 Arbeiterverein in that city. Twenty members of a newly organ­ ized group in Nashville hailed the "da ...

206 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST calfskins from his tannery in Kalamazoo, one half to be sold to the associated shoemakers of New York, ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 207 objectives. Dues were fixed at $1.00 a month. An initial contribu­ tion of $10, payable also in good ...