The National Party was an early-20th-century national political organization in the United States founded by pro-war defectors from the Socialist Party of America in 1917. These adherents of the SPA R
Pictured is one of the few documents left to posterity by the National Party was the group's platform, produced as a pamphlet.
Basic dues in the National Party were $2 per year. The organization also sought additional "pledges" on the part of its members.
The Social Democratic League of America was a short-lived social-democratic political party established in 1917 by electorally-oriented socialists who favored the participation of the United States in
National Party (United States)
…of America (SPA) in 1917. These adherents of the SPA Right first formed a non-partisan national society to propagandize the socialist idea called the Social Democratic League of America. Many of these individuals were eager for the formation of an alternative political organization to both the old parties and the anti-war SPA and eagerly…
The Social Democratic League of America was the brainchild of John Spargo, a pro-war member of the Socialist Party of America who quit the organization in May 1918.
Founders of the Social Democratic League of America c. 1918. (L-R): T. J. Mead, Nicholas Klein, W. J. Ghent, Lucien Sanial, Judge Levy, Nachman Syrkin, Maurice Kass, Henry Slobodin, William Edlin, W. F. Cochran, John Spargo.