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The Story of the Commonweal by Henry Vincent

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TitleThe Story of the Commonweal
CreatorHenry Vincent
Year1894
PPI600
LanguageEnglish
Mediatypetexts
SubjectCommonweal movement; Socialism; radicalism; labor movement; Socialist Labor Party of America; Coxey's Army; Fry's Army; Louis C. Fry; Lewis C. Fry; Jacob Coxey; direct action; unemployed movement; protest marches
Collectionfolkscanomy_politics, folkscanomy, additional_collections
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"The Story of the Commonweal: Complete and Graphic Narrative of the Origin and Growth of the Movement: Similar Movements in History -- The March -- Portraits of the Leaders -- Other Pictures -- The Objects Sought." Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1894. Story of the Commonweal movement, a 1894 effort to organized unemployed workers for a May 1 march on Washington, DC. About 40 local movements were organized, the best remembered of which being "Coxey's Army" (launched in Ohio) and Fry's Army (launched in Los Angeles, CA). This richly illustrated book was sold by participants as a means to help finance their efforts. Published in the USA prior to 1923, public domain. Digitized by the Google Books project. Uploaded to Archive.org by Tim Davenport ("Carrite") in Dec. 2014.