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  1. There Is Power in a Union: Chronicling the Second American Revolution

    Thanks for the interest y'all. I would've had the update a little sooner, but moving and lack of wifi access took its toll. I figured the original Joe Hill song would be fitting for an IWW focused TL. Also I just think the Utah Phillips rendition of Joe Hill's version is catchy. :) There'll...

  2. There Is Power in a Union: Chronicling the Second American Revolution

    Book I - Kindling the Fire Chapter I: Trouble in the Tonopah Basin Goldfield, Nevada in 1906 stood as the model boomtown, upon its establishment in 1902 the town was only home to some thirty-six residents, but in just four years the town grew to boast a population of somewhere between twenty...

  3. There Is Power in a Union: Chronicling the Second American Revolution

    There Is Power in a Union Written by Joe Hill Would you have freedom from wage slavery? Then join in the grand Industrial band Would you from mis’ry and hunger be free Then come, do your share, like a man (Chorus) There is power, there is power In a band of workingmen, When they stand hand in...

  4. Hold the Fort: Rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth

    Lol, I guess I just needed a title and the term 'Cooperative Commonwealth' was used by many American Socialists at the time. I figure I'll get a post up soon, was busy with Church stuff the past few weeks.

  5. Hold the Fort: Rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth

    Finally got around to working on the timeline again, finals really screwed me up, and the election results took a while to hammer out.

  6. Hold the Fort: Rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth

    Elections of 1902 The debacle caused by President Hay’s bungling of the General Coal Strike of 1902 lead to a noticeable slip in the polls for the Republican Party as the 1902 midterms loomed. In many races Democratic candidates, challengers and threatened incumbents alike, hammered on the...

  7. President Forever and other 270soft games Megathread

    I absolutely destroyed Trump playing as a Webb. I came very close to winning in WV, MT, MS, AL, AK, ND, SD, and NE.

  8. Hold the Fort: Rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth

    Chapter I: Biting Cold Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 Coal Miners in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in 1900. The winter of 1902 was quickly approaching. The United Mine Workers’ strike in the anthracite coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania dragged on into its fourth month, with no end in sight...

  9. Hold the Fort: Rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth

    Introduction The Death of President Theodore Roosevelt The damaged presidential carriage in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3rd, 1902. On September 3rd, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was visiting Pittsfield, Massachusetts, while on a tour of New England. When traveling through...

  10. AHC: Make Debs' Socialists Roughly Equivalent to UK Labour

    In 1902, in the wake of the Anthracite coal strike, the American Federation of Labor had a proposal that would see the AFL Platform officially endorse socialism. IIRC it was only defeated by a margin of a few hundred votes. That, I think, is at least a start towards getting an American Labor...

  11. WI: Bill Haywood is convicted of murder in 1907?

    On December 30th, 1905 Frank Steunenberg, former governor of Idaho, was killed by a bomb that detonated when he opened a gate to his Caldwell, Idaho home. Almost immediately afterwards it was speculated that the Western Federation of Miners had plotted Steunenberg's death, as a result of his...

  12. AHC: More Influential CPUSA.

    How can you get the Communist Party USA or it's equivalent (some Communist/Revolutionary Socialist Party) at least 5% in national elections during the Great Depression? Additionally increasing it's influence within the labor movement and popular culture during the time period. My thought was...

  13. The Bending Cross: Birth of the Fifth Party System

    At the moment I'm reworking the posts I've already made, putting in wikiboxes for the elections for example. And I will probably rewrite some of it to create better flow. I might have a new post up sometime tomorrow or the day after that.

  14. WI: Albert Ottinger elected Governor of New York in 1928?

    Yeah that was one of my thoughts as well. Though I guess the counterpoint would be that FDR was reluctant to run in 1928 unsure if he would win, preferring to continue therapy for his polio. A close loss in 1928 could go one of two ways, either FDR is convinced, by a combination of the close...

  15. WI: Albert Ottinger elected Governor of New York in 1928?

    The 1928 New York State Election heralded the return of FDR to politics after he had contracted polio. Incumbent Democratic Governor Al Smith, who would run for President on the Democratic ticket in 1928, requested that Franklin D. Roosevelt run in his place on the Democratic ticket. Now in OTL...

  16. WI: No Socialist Party split in 1919.

    Really I think the most important thing is that the party somehow survive intact (i.e. not being ravaged by state repression or internal splits) to the Great Depression (assuming there is a Depression of course). Now of course there would be the anti-incumbent sweep. If you had the Socialist...

  17. WI: No Socialist Party split in 1919.

    The Socialist Party did have a strong rural vote in the west (though in some states the vote was dominated by miners), especially in a few states like Oklahoma where in both 1912 and 1916 the party got about 16% of the vote. Black and White tenant farmers had been the base there. Certainly the...

  18. WI: No Socialist Party split in 1919.

    Now there might be one way for the Socialist Party to begin to make inroads into the West again after WWI and that's political union with the Farmer-Labor Party. During the 1920 Farmer-Labor National Convention following the success of the Radical platform over the 'La Follette' platform, the...

  19. WI: No Socialist Party split in 1919.

    Of course it wasn't just Wilson alone as there were several lynchings of IWW members during WWI as well as other murders. However the Espionage Act allowed the Postmaster General to ban publications from the mail that were perceived as a threat to the war effort. During this time Socialist...

  20. WI: No Socialist Party split in 1919.

    The fact that the Right wing would then break away from the party is something that I had considered as well. Especially considering the later formation of the Social Democratic League during the 1930s when the Militants alongside Norman Thomas finally managed to seize control of the party...
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