Papers, 1852-1922.

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Papers, 1852-1922.

Papers of a Wisconsin Greenback and Populist leader, newspaperman, and one-time president of the Coopers' International Union of the Knights of Labor. Included is a diary, 1863-1865, correspondence, articles and speeches, an autograph book from a Greenback meeting held in 1881, and two volumes containing names of workers for the Populist Party in Wisconsin, 1892, and other states, 1896. Prominent political correspondents include Victor L. Berger, J. H. Davis, Burton French, John W. Hayes, J. A. H. Hopkins, Henry Smith, and Edward Voigt.

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Berger, Victor L. (Victor Luitpold), 1860-1929

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Victor Luitpold Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was an Austrian American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America. Born in the Austrian Empire, Berger immigrated to the United States as a young man and became an important and influential socialist journalist in Wisconsin. He helped establish the so-called Sewer Socialist movement. Also a politician, in 1910, he was elected...

National Greenback Labor Party.

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Schilling, Robert, 1843-1922.

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Hopkins, J. A. H. (John Appleton Haven), 1872-1960

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Hayes, John W., 1938-

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Populist Party (U.S.)

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Coopers' International Union of North America

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French, Burton, 1875-1954.

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Smith, Henry, 1838-1916

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Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...

Davis, James, 1853-1940.

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Voigt, Edward, 1873-1934

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Peoples Party (Wis.)

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