Fight for Your Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fight for Your Life of the Marshalltown (Iowa) "Republican," Hanford went in 1879 to Chicago, and on February 26 of the year became a member of Chicago Typographical Union No.16. Since then he has never been a day without his card of membership in the International Typographical Union. For many years he has been a member of New York Typographical Union No.6 - "Big Six" - and for thirty years he has been a militant and active worker in the trade-union movement. Sixteen years ago he became a student of Socialist economics and philosophy under that gifted and wonderful teacher, Fred Long, of Philadelphia, also a printer. Since then the Socialist movement has had no more indefatigable and persistent champion than Ben Hanford. He has been three times nominated as Socialist candidate for Governor of the State of New York - in 1898 being the nominee of the Socialist Labor Party, and in 1900 and 1902 he headed the New York State ticket for the Socialist Party. In 1901 he was chosen as Socialist Party candidate for Mayor of New York City. In 1904 and again in 1908 he was nominated by the Socialist Party for Vice-President of the United States, in both campaigns the national ticket of the Party having been Debs and Hanford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.