Chapter III

The Exodus to Chicago—Waiting for an Opportunity—A
Political Party Formed—A Question of $600,000—The First
Socialist Platform—Details of the Organization—Work at
the Ballot-Box—Statistics of Socialist Progress—The
“International Workingmen’s Party” and The “Workingmen’s Party
of the United States”—The Eleven Commandments of Labor—How
the Work was to be Done—A Curious Constitution—Beginnings
of the Labor Press—The Union Congress—Criticising the
Ballot-Box—The Executive Committee and its Powers—Annals
of 1876—A Period of Preparation—The Great Railroad
Strikes of 1877—The First Attack on Society—A Decisive
Defeat—Trying Politics Again—The “Socialistic Party”—Its
Leaders and its Aims—August Spies as an Editor—Buying the
_Arbeiter-Zeitung_—How the Money was Raised—Anarchist
Campaign Songs—The Group Organization—Plan of the
Propaganda—Dynamite First Taught—“The Bureau of
Information”—An Attack on Arbitration—No Compromise with
Capital—Unity of the Internationalists and the Socialists, 44