American Workers League
The American Workers League (Template:Lang-de) was an American nineteenth century workers political organization.
The league was founded in 1853 by 800 German American delegates who attended the inaugural meeting in the Mechanics Hall in Philadelphia.[1] Among their leaders was Joseph Weydemeyer, a longtime friend of Karl Marx.[2][3] The organization adopted an egalitarian membership policy holding that all workers who live in the United States without distinction of occupation, language, color, or sex can become members.[2] They opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act because it had the effect of allowing slavery in the lands opening up in the American West.[3]
References
- ^ "Notes on the Early History of American Communism". Worker Communist. Communist League. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Blackburn, Robin (2011). An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. London: Verso. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-84467-722-1.
- ^ a b Alison Clark Efford (20 May 2013). German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-107-03193-7.
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