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The Greenback Labor Party was an American political party that developed from the Greenback party. It was formed in Ohio in 1875. In 1878 a union of the Labor Reform and the remnants of the old Greenback party was effected and was made national by the Convention of February 22 of that year, at Toledo, 0hio. The platform adopted was similar to that of the Greenback party. It advocated the withdrawal of currency from all national and State banks and corporations, a paper currency issued by the Government, and that coin should only be paid for interest on the national debt when so specified. They also demanded an eight-hour law, the prohibition of Chinese immigration, of land grants to railways and of special grants to corporations and bondholders. In 1878 they elected fourteen Congressmen. Their national convention was held at Chicago, on June the 9th, 1880.
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The Knights of Labor was an early American trade union-like order founded in Philadelphia in 1869 by Uriah S Stevens and formally organized in 1871 for the protection of working people and the development of educated labour. It was secret until the name was made public in 1881. By that time nearly all trades were represented. It was governed by a national executive board and local assemblies which had power to order strikes and boycotts. The chief strike ordered was that on the Missouri Pacific system in 1886. It failed.
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The Progressive Labor Party was an American political party formed from the radical, or socialistic element that withdrew from the United Labor Party at Syracuse, New York on August the 19th, 1886. They advocated a common inheritance of land and wealth and industries, and upheld all the tenets of extreme socialism.
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The United Labor Party was an american political party organized in New York City in 1886. They ran Henry George as candidate for mayor that year. They proposed the formation of a national organization, and declared that values arising from the growth of society belonged to the community as a whole.
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Charles O'Conor was an American jurist. He was born in 1804 at New York and died in 1884. He was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty. He sympathized with the Confederates during the American Civil War. He was nominated for President of the United States by the Labor Reform branch of the Democratic party in 1872. He was counsel for Jefferson Davis when he was indicted for treason. He was largely the means of destroying the 'Tweed Ring', and was noted as a lawyer.
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David Davis was an American jurist. He was born in 1815 and died in 1886. Educated at Kenyon College in Ohio, he settled to the practice of law at Bloomington, Illinois. He was a member of the Illinois Legislature, a State judge, and an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860. President Lincoln appointed him an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, where he remained from 1862 to 1877, being in the latter year a member of the Electoral Commission. His reform tendencies had, meanwhile, made him the candidate for President, in 1872, of the Labor Reform party, and brought him some votes at the Liberal Republican Convention in the same year. From 1877 until 1883 he was US Senator from Illinois, and at one time president of the Senate. While in that body he was classed as an Independent, though he acted frequently with the Democrats.
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Elmer A Benson was an American politician. He was a Farmer-Labor governor of Minnesota from 1937 until 1939.
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Floyd B Olson was an American politician. He was a Farmer-Labor governor of Minnesota from 1931 until 1936.
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Hjalmar Petersen was an American politician. He was a Farmer-Labor governor of Minnesota from 1936 until 1937.
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Joel Parker was an American politician and jurist. He was born in 1816 and died in 1888. He was a member of the New Jersey Assembly from 1847 to 1850, and prosecuting attorney from 1853 to 1857. He was Governor of New Jersey from 1863 to 1866 and in 1870. The National Labor Convention in 1872 nominated him for Vice-President of the United States. He was a Judge of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1880 to 1888.
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