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The Last Time Socialists Won a NYC Election [1]
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Date: 2025-06-23
from the NY Daily Call, the Socialist newspaper of the time:
The USA declared war on Germany and her Allies on April 2, 1917
Sunday, September 23 - rally of 20,000 Socialists at Madison Square Garden
Bread riots in NYC the winter of 1917
November 4, 1917 "tens of thousands" in torch light parade around East Side from Rutgers Square and back again
November 8, 1917 Socialists win 18 state and City posts - 10 assemblymen, 7 aldermen, and one municipal court judge
November 24, 1917 protest against food and fuel shortage at Madison Square Garden
November 25, 1917 NY port under martial law
January 1918 Coal shortage closes factories across Northeast; NYC newsboys strike
March 7, 1918 First woman to vote in NY, Mrs CW Rogers
March 30, 1918 Saturday - Socialists want living wage for city labor - Socialist aldermen call for minimum wage for city workers
My reading of history marks the 1917 election as the highwater mark of USAmerican Socialism but I haven’t read all of history and there were long-serving Socialist mayors in Milwaukee, WI and Bridgeport, CT for many years after that.
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