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Working Men's Party (New York)
Working Men's Party | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Thomas Skidmore |
| Secretary | Robert Dale Owen |
| Founded | 1829 |
| Dissolved | 1831 |
| Succeeded by | Locofoco faction of the Democratic Party[1] |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Newspaper | Working Man's Advocate |
| Ideology | Communalism Labor rights Utopian socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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- For other organizations with a similar name, see Workingmen's Party (disambiguation).
The Working Men's Party in New York was a political party founded in April 1829 in New York City. After a promising debut in the fall election of 1829, in which one of the party's candidates was elected to the New York State Assembly, the party rapidly disintegrated into factionalism and discord, vanishing from the scene in 1831.
The New York Working Men's Party was one of a number of short-lived independent workingmen's parties which simultaneously emerged in Philadelphia, Boston, and many other urban centers of the United States during the period 1828 to 1832.
- ^ Byrdsall, Fitzwilliam (1842). The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party. New York: Clement & Packard. pp. 13–14.
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