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On a warm spring day in 1900, everyone on the NYU Campus was frantically moving about. The speech was going to start in only 5 minutes and the campus had been swarmed with people from all over the city. The editor in chief of The Weekly People and recent NYU graduate, Vlad Ulyanov, was coming to campus and it was said he was looking for a few staff writers. Ulyanov was a bright star in the Socialist Labor Party of America, a powerful speaker who had stunned observers with an upset election as the youngest editor of The Weekly People in the publications History. In 2 short years Ulyanov had harnessed that appointment quadrupling The Weekly People’s readership and building up a strong resume as an investigative journalist. Via sharp prose and in the trenches reporting the The Weekly People (People Magazine after 1930) lampooned the Republicans and the industrial magnate. Vlad himself was a strong writer and his 1992 Essay “New Economic Developments for the American Worker” had been a landmark success. It was even said William Jennings Bryant had read a copy.
When Ulyanov took the stage he was greeted by cheers and a few boos from aging members of various nativist groups. Despite being called 'a petty fool' by Eugene Debs, Ulynov was very popular with Socialists who saw him as a fighter and advocate for the working man. Some even whispered that he may be the one to unite the disparate factions of American Socialism. Still the Socialist Movement was almost comically weak, surrounded on all sides by enemies and actively sabotaged by Tammny Hall. Because of that those agents of industry in the crowd that day had already dismissed Ulynov and the SLP (Labor Party after 1905) as transitory and harmless. It would be a fateful mistake.