Progressive Era Repression and persecution Anti-war and civil rights movements Contemporary The American Workers League (German: Amerikanische Arbeiterbund) was an American nineteenth century workers political organization.
In 1852, Joseph Weydemeyer, a longtime friend of Karl Marx, created the Proletarierbund (Proletarian League).
[1] The organization adopted an egalitarian membership policy holding that all workers who live in the United States without distinction of occupation, language, color, or sex can become members.
[2] They opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act because it had the effect of allowing slavery in the lands opening up in the American West.
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