Olivin "Olive" Malmberg Johnson was an American socialist, newspaper editor and political activist. She is best remembered as a long-time editor of the weekly English-language newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party of America.
Olive M. Johnson, editor of The Weekly People from 1918 to 1938.
The People was an official organ of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP), a weekly newspaper established in New York City in 1891. The paper is best remembered as a vehicle for the ideas of Daniel DeLeon (1852–1914), the dominant ideological leader of the SLP from the 1890s until the time of his death. The paper became a daily in 1900, reverting to weekly publication in 1914 for budgetary reasons. Publication of the paper was moved to Palo Alto, California, during its later years, finally terminating publication in 2008. Its 117 years of continuous publication make The People the longest running socialist newspaper in the history of American political radicalism.
The privately owned Workmen's Advocate of the Socialist Labor Party was the direct antecedent of the party-owned broadsheet, The People.
Editor Daniel DeLeon as he appeared around the turn of the 20th century