The Socialist Labor Party is on the…
October 1880 CE
The Socialist Labor Party is on the ropes, and allies itself temporarily to the Greenback party in 1880.
The party had suffered its first split in 1878.
Members who were displeased with the exclusively political actionist turn of the party who wanted the group to focus more on organizing workers had formed the International Labor Union.
Members are not barred from belonging to both, but there is still some animosity between the two organizations.
Amid economic crisis and factional squabbling, membership in the SLP had plummeted.
As the 1870s drew to a close, the Socialistic Labor Party could count about twenty-six hundred members—with at least one estimate substantially lower.
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