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“...
enter the S. P. a conquering hero; if he failed he could point
out that he had made an effort and get credit for that. But
his inborn ineptitude cropped out again when he tried to
make Reinstein a partner in his scheme. He never made a
bigger mistake in his life when he permitted himself to as-...”
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“... caught giving out Socialist liter-
ature by the German police had to leave the country. The
Social Democratic Party in Germany helped those who were
without means to pay their way to America. Some who want-
ed to go to the United States and have a free passage distribut-
ed Socialist circulars in order to be arrested and shipped there
at the expense of the party, pose as martyrs ever after, and
finally become rabid anti-De Leonites.
At the time that Gompers with his lieutenants organized
the various existing national trade unions into the American
Federation of Labor (this was in 1881) the cigar makers re-
ferred to formed the Progressive Cigar Makers union, which
had locals in several large cities. Some of these locals were
affiliated also with the Knights of Labor. In 1884 this Progres-
sive Cigar Makers Union was whipped into line by Adolph
Strasser, the chief mogul of the International Cigar Makers
Union and Gomperss side-partner. The Progressives claimed
a membership...”
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