Definition of American Labor Party

1. Noun. A former political party in the United States; formed in 1936 in New York when labor and liberals bolted the Democratic Party.

Generic synonyms: Party, Political Party

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Labor Party

American Cancer Society
American Civil War
American Curl
American Curls
American Dream
American English
American Falls
American Federalist Party
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indus
American Indian
American Indian Day
American Indians
American Keuda
American Keudas
American Labor Party (current term)
American Law Institute formulation
American Law Institute rule
American League
American Legion
American Party
American Red Cross
American Revised Version
American Revolution
American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary leader
American Saddlebred
American Saddlebreds
American Samoa
American Samoan

Literary usage of American Labor Party

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Interpretation of History: A Refutation of the Marxian Economic by Maurice William (1921)
"Why isn't the American Labor Party based upon the same principles as the trade union movement, that is, on the welfare of the producer, on exploitation at ..."

2. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States by Selig Perlman (1922)
"CHAPTER 14 WHY THERE IS NOT AN American Labor Party The question of a political labor party hinges, in the last analysis, on the benefits which labor ..."

3. A Short History of the American Labor Movement by Mary Ritter Beard (1920)
"... national American Labor Party. The convention was composed of representatives from all parts of the country, delegates attending from thirty-five states ..."

4. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"The political organization nominated in 1872 the first candidate of an American Labor Party for president of the United States, only to find that it had ..."

5. Third Party Movements Since the Civil War, with a Special Reference to Iowa by Frederick Emory Haynes, State Historical Society of Iowa (1916)
"The political organization nominated in 1872 the first candidate of an American Labor Party for president of the United States, only to find that it had ..."

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