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To return to the morning of Wednesday, July 24, 2019, I will report more of Edward Dodson’s in absentia presentation on “The Birth of American Labor.”
The Haymarket Square bomb throwing proved to be a disaster for the Knights of Labor. Whoever, if anyone, shared the blame, hostility against supposed radicals waxed.
Henry George made a tour of Great Britain and Ireland, and returned to acclaim. There was a mass meeting at Cooper Union, and he was nominated to run for mayor of New York City (as the United Labor candidate, if I recall correctly). He lost to the Democratic candidate, Abram Hewitt, but came ahead of the Republican candidate, Theodore Roosevelt (and might well have won if the ballots had been counted honestly).
Terence Powderly and Samuel Gompers removed themselves from Labor Party politics.
Henry George and his friends started a newspaper, The Standard. Father McGlynn and others purged socialists from the United Labor Party. Henry George ran for Secretary of State of New York, and lost.
Henry George supported Grover Cleveland for president, and the United Labor Party expelled him (they were against Tammany Hall Democrats). In 1897, George again ran for mayor of New York City, and died during the campaign. The day before he died, praised as a friend of labor, he said that he had never been a special friend of labor, but was for the equal rights of all men. He was true to his principles to the end.
That was the end of Dodson’s presentation. Dan Sullivan spoke up to say that Powderly’s Knight of Labor accepted cigar workers, whom Samuel Gompers said were strikebreakers. This was similar to twentieth century conflicts between the United Farmworkers and the Teamsters.
The Haymarket Square bomb throwing proved to be a disaster for the Knights of Labor. Whoever, if anyone, shared the blame, hostility against supposed radicals waxed.
Henry George made a tour of Great Britain and Ireland, and returned to acclaim. There was a mass meeting at Cooper Union, and he was nominated to run for mayor of New York City (as the United Labor candidate, if I recall correctly). He lost to the Democratic candidate, Abram Hewitt, but came ahead of the Republican candidate, Theodore Roosevelt (and might well have won if the ballots had been counted honestly).
Terence Powderly and Samuel Gompers removed themselves from Labor Party politics.
Henry George and his friends started a newspaper, The Standard. Father McGlynn and others purged socialists from the United Labor Party. Henry George ran for Secretary of State of New York, and lost.
Henry George supported Grover Cleveland for president, and the United Labor Party expelled him (they were against Tammany Hall Democrats). In 1897, George again ran for mayor of New York City, and died during the campaign. The day before he died, praised as a friend of labor, he said that he had never been a special friend of labor, but was for the equal rights of all men. He was true to his principles to the end.
That was the end of Dodson’s presentation. Dan Sullivan spoke up to say that Powderly’s Knight of Labor accepted cigar workers, whom Samuel Gompers said were strikebreakers. This was similar to twentieth century conflicts between the United Farmworkers and the Teamsters.
