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Previously available only in an out-of-print Swedish edition published in 1955, Henry Bengstons firsthand account deals with what historian Dag Blanck calls the other Swedish America. Swedish immigrants in general were conservative, but Bengston and othersmost notably Joe Hilljoined the working-class labor movement on the left, primarily as Debsian socialists, although their ranks included other socialists, communists, and anarchists. Involved in the radical labor movement on many fronts, Bengston was the editor of Svenska Socialisten from 1912 until he dropped out of the Scandinavian Socialist Federation in 1920. Even after 1920, however, his sympathies remained with the movement he had once strongly espoused.

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title On the Left in America Memoirs of the Scandinavian-American Labor - photo 1
title:On the Left in America : Memoirs of the Scandinavian-American Labor Movement
author:Bengston, Henry.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:0809321041
print isbn13:9780809321049
ebook isbn13:9780585333267
language:English
subjectSocialism--United States--History--20th century, Labor movement--United States--History--20th century, Swedish Americans--United States--History--20th century, Journalism, Socialist--United States--History--20th century, Bengston, Henry.
publication date:1999
lcc:HX83.B42813 1999eb
ddc:331.6/248073
subject:Socialism--United States--History--20th century, Labor movement--United States--History--20th century, Swedish Americans--United States--History--20th century, Journalism, Socialist--United States--History--20th century, Bengston, Henry.
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On the Left in America
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On the Left in America
Memoirs of the Scandinavian-American Labor Movement
By Henry Bengston
Translated by Kermit B. Westerberg
Edited and with an Introduction
by Michael Brook
Page iv Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees Southern Illinois - photo 3
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Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
02 01 00 99 4 3 2 1
Frontispiece: Henry Bengston, ca. 1912. Courtesy Margit Fredrickson.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bengston, Henry.
[Skandinaver p vnsterflygeln i USA. English]
On the left in America: memoirs of the Scandinavian-American labor
movement / by Henry Bengston ; translated by Kermit B. Westerberg;
edited and with an introduction by Michael Brook.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. SocialismUnited StatesHistory20th century. 2. Labor
movementUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Swedish
AmericansUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. Journalism,
SocialistUnited StatesHistory20th century. 5. Bengston, Henry. I.
Title.
HX83.B42813 1998
331.6'248073dc20
ISBN 0-8093-2079-7 (alk. paper) 96-20709
ISBN 0-8093-2104-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.Picture 4
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Contents
Author's Preface
vii
Editor's Acknowledgments
viii
Editor's Introduction
ix
1. Landing in Canada
1
2. A Look at the American Socialist Movement
5
3. An Idealist's Uphill Struggle
9
4. The Feelings of an Immigrant
11
5. In the Land of Uncle Sam
15
6. The Socialist Party: A New Party and New Leaders
21
7. The Industrial Workers of the World
27
8. The Swedes and the Socialist Labor Party
31
9. The Socialist Labor Party's Swedish Mouthpiece
39
10. Scandinavians in the Socialist Party of America
42
11. The Scandinavian Socialist Federation
47
12. A Brush with King Alcohol
49
13. Svenska Socialisten Moves to Chicago
51
14. Svenska Socialisten Grows in Size and Influence
58
15. Skirmishes to the Left and Right
61
16. A New Newspaper and New Difficulties
65
17. In the Company of Labor Agitators and Itinerant Speakers
68
18. Joe Hill
77
19. On the Eve of World War I
81
20. The Scandinavian Socialist Federation and World War I
83
21. Peace Work under Ban
85
22. A Fateful Peace Demonstration
89
23. The Storm Clouds Gather
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