Socialist Party of New York
The SPNY is currently the state chapter of the Socialist Party USA (SPUSA), an organization which emerged from the ashes of the old SPA in 1973.
A bitter dispute over trade union policy led to a split of the SLP in July 1899, with a dissident faction (disparagingly known as the “Kangaroos”) headed by lawyers Henry L. Slobodin and Morris Hillquit.
On Saturday, June 16, 1900, a joint convention was held in New York City bringing together delegates from the dissident SLP and the Chicago SDP.
A nine-member State Committee was elected that included, among others, German editor Herman Schlueter, Leonard D. Abbott, and future National Secretary of the Springfield SDP William Butscher.
[3] During its height in the 1910s, the party fielded candidates for the office of Mayor,[4] seats in the New York State Assembly and the House of Representatives.
[14] Many former members of the Debs caucus joined David McReynolds in founding the Socialist Party of the United States of America in 1973.
[citation needed] After failing to renew their charter, the Socialist Party of New York City was revived in February 2017.
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.