Joseph A. Weil
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Joseph Aaron Weil was a Hungarian-born Jewish-American newspaperman and politician. He designed the "arm and torch" emblem of the Social Democratic Party of America, which would later be used by the S
Weil c. 1942
Weil (seated, far right) erroneously included amongst Socialists elected in New York City, 1917. Standing (L-R): Abraham Beckerman, Barnet Wolff, Alexander Braunstein, Algernon Lee, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Adolph Held, and Maurice Calman. Seated: August Claessens, William Feigenbaum, Elmer Rosenberg, Louis Waldman, Joseph Whitehorn, Jacob Panken, Abraham Shiplacoff, William Karlin, Samuel Orr, Charles B. Garfinkel, Benjamin Gitlow, and Joseph Weil.
Algernon Lee
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Algernon H. Lee was an American socialist politician and educator. In addition to serving as a member of the New York City Council during World War I, Lee was one of three co-authors of the controvers
Lee c. 1920
Lee at the first Socialist Party of America convention in Chicago, 1904
Cover of Algernon Lee's 1901 pamphlet, Labor Politics and Socialist Politics, published just prior to the formation of the Socialist Party of America.