The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

208 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST operatives should fall below ten per cent. The fantastic suggestion was made that profits might reach ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 200 ministered the pension fund, directed the propaganda, levied assessments, conducted elections, and k ...

210 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST entertainments to raise money for the pension fund. New locals of the Arbeiterbund appeared in various ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 211 craftsmen. In October, 1852, the New York Gemeinde dedicated its Arbeiter Halle at 73 Beekman Street ...

212 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST it lacked in quantity. In his "New Year's Reflections," an editorial of January, 1853, he compared him ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 213 expected the movement to produce jobs and financial prosperity for them and were bitterly disappoint ...

214 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Solomon arrayed in all his glory," and the New Yorker Allgemeine Zeitung, always critical of the found ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 215 form, child-labor laws, quicker naturalization, cheaper judicial remedies, mechanics lien, and simil ...

216 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST were organized among the Germans, but the socialist movement as such virtually had to make a fresh sta ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 217 nationwide controversy over the feasibility of calling another labor congress. There were many origi ...

218 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST lead pencil. It revealed the cost of operating Die Republik der Arbeiter, the New York Arbeiter Halle, ...

THE WORKINGMEN'S LEAGUE 219 to sell out to the Bund at the very begining of his contacts with the colony. He admitted sorrowfull ...

CHAPTER XII BANKS, CO-OPERATIVES, AND RAILROADS O N MANY occasions, Weitling emphasized that the heart of all his reforms was th ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 221 avoid violent fluctuations in employment, and bring supply and demand into perfect balance. A centrali ...

222 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Thus personal liberty would be assured or, better still, redistrib­ uted to ensure all men an equal am ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 223 from des ésprits d'élite and preferably from a dictator, not from the masses. There were significant d ...

224 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST meet a fixed schedule? His answer, no doubt, would have been that his central regulatory body would wr ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 225 for a new system of exchange, primarily because it would serve as a "protective measure" against exist ...

226 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST With his usual enthusiasm, he had listed promises from several hundred sympathizers who he believed we ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 227 the outset that a number of radical leaders who were sympathetic with the Arbeiterbund rejected Weitli ...