Finnish Socialist Federation

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The Finnish Socialist Federation was a language federation of the Socialist Party of America which united Finnish language-speaking immigrants in the United States in a national organization designed to conduct propaganda and education for socialism among their community.

Delegates to the 1904 Convention of the independent branches of the SPA.

Socialist Party of America

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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.

Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for President, 1904

Debs was the founding member of the Socialist Party of America.

Executive Secretary Adolph Germer was one of top five Socialist of America leaders prosecuted by the Department of Justice in 1919.

Alfred Wagenknecht, top leader of the 1919 Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party