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“...arranging agitation meetings on
the occasion of his visit to Troy when he ran for governor in
1891, and how we in Troy mended our ways. On his way back
to New York in 1896 De Leon was booked to speak in Troy
again. This time a meeting was arranged that gave no room
for criticism; in fact, De Leon was pleasantly surprised to find
that Troy had made such progress. Instead of holding the
meeting at Apollo Hall, the headquarters of the German Turn-
Verein, as was previously done, with a keg of beer on tap ad-
joining the meeting hall, the auditorium of the City Hall, hav-
ing a seating capacity of about one thousand persons, was
hired. Keir Hardie, M. P., the leader of the Independent La-
bor Party of Great Britain, had also spoken in this hall the
year before.
Keir Hardie, shortly after his election to Parliament, was
engaged by Chicago labor unions to deliver a series of lectures.
The Socialist Labor Party invited Hardie to speak under its
auspices on his way back from Chicago. Keir Hardie was...”
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