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American Labor party

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
American Labor party organized in New York by labor leaders and liberals in 1936, primarily to support Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and the men favoring it in national and local elections. It gathered strength in New York state and particularly in New York City and had considerable weight there in tipping the scales toward chosen Democratic or Republican candidates. After 1939 it was much torn by strife between left-wing and right-wing factions, chiefly concerning policy toward the USSR. In 1944 an anti-Communist group led by David Dubinsky , defeated in the primaries, dropped out... Read more
American Labor Party
...liberal social legislation. Though influential in New York City elections, after 1940 it was plagued by divisions between pro- and anti-communist factions. It was dissolved in 1956. American Labor Party American Labor Party American Labor Party Read more
Greenback Labor Party
...both black and white miners. The party's 1880 platform included farmer‐labor planks that foreshadowed the Populist party 's 1892 Omaha Platform, calling for...restrictions on suffrage . Despite the party's impressive start, however, its...standard ) in 1879 had sapped the party's ... Read more

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