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Meyer London (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • bior said:
    According to Wikipedia, "Meyer London (December 29, 1871 — June 6, 1926) was an American politician from New York City. He is best remembered as one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress."
  • swanq said:
    bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000408

Michael Mallin : (Commandant Irish Republican Army) Executed May 8th, 1916

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

10/16/08, Socialist Frost Speaks in Union Sq. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    I've found a possibility:
    In "Socialists in the Streets: The New York City Socialist Party in Working Class Neighborhoods, 1908-1918."
    By Charles Leinenweber
    Science & Society, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 152-171 (20 pages)

    From page 167
    "Many of the best Socialist street corner speakers also developed a strong sense of irony and humor in their speeches. Working class humor also found popular expression in plays and on the vaudeville stage, appealing to a variety of ethnic groups, especially the Jewish, German and Irish. As a movement of the working class, socialism shared the same culture of humor as vaudeville. But the connection was even more direct: many actors, writers and vaudeville performers were themselves Socialists. In 1908 vaudeville performers organized the White Rats, a militant, left-wing union which staged many strike benefits for garment workers. Future impresario Sol Hurok organized extravagant Socialist parades and pageantry in Brooklyn; J.C. Frost, who wrote such working class Irish plays as "The Walking Delegate," was a regular street corner speaker; August Claessens, teacher of street corner oratory and a popular speaker, was a former actor."
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.
  • Richard Norton said:
    According to the 1916 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party for Manhattan, New York City
    books.google.com/books?
    id=g6QJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA454
    I have not found him in the 1900 or 1910 Manhattan census yet.