The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
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1899: Actions
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In the wake of the Spanish-American War, the US Senate signed the Treaty of Paris. But with opposition from interest groups across the country, massive protests, the strike, the electorate, and some senators themselves (socialists, Populists, and anti-imperialist Democrats), in order to get the 2/3 votes needed they added an amendment promising to let the annexed territories vote in a referendum to be independent in two years once America had established stable democracy there. As the primary opposition from all groups was the annexation, they believed this promise would be enough. As long as they kept it, that is.
As for other legislature, the house was slow with no one party having a majority. The Republicans had to concede more to the Democrats to have some defectors on each vote, a necessity even with both parties beginning to turn against the new parties more than each other. Electing a speaker took three votes, with ten Democrats defecting on the third vote, more than enough to elect a Republican speaker. Still, it meant that aside from war related bills and general upkeep like the budget, no major legislation was passed this year.
The Great Blizzard of 1899 tore through the country this year and people, livestock, and wildlife succumbed to the cold. Bird populations were brought to near extinction and almost a hundred people died. The US army, meant to be suppressing the strike, was forced inside as the cruel conditions prevented any sort of rail travel, and the government's continued insistence that they cannot return home bread resentment.
The Nationalist Citizens' Alliance began to arm up this year, with meetings without armed men being a rare sight.
Meanwhile their enemy and ally the White Union Army established itself on the national field as a union of all white supremacist groups. Claude Kitchin emerged as the leader of the group, one of the men leading the successful Battle of Wilmington. As the President of the WUA he began to give impassioned speeches in public and give interviews, portraying it as a respectable organization which simply wished to protect the Anglo-protestant way of life. A married man and well educated, he would reassure established interests that the WUA was their friend.
The United States also took possession of Wake Island, an uninhabited Pacific island.
In foreign news, the SPD acted. The rising star of German politics, even efforts to stop their votes or ban the party weren't enough to drive them out of politics. They had a few hundred thousand members, making them the second largest socialist party globally. They were revolutionary Marxists and had strong ties to the General Commission of German Trade Unions (Free Trade Unions for short), an umbrella body for trade unions which also promoted standardization and mergers.
Under the general agreement of the Second International, the Social Democratic party was to oppose imperialism in anyway. Moreover they saw the example the American SLP made of a general strike protesting imperial acquisitions that same year.
This year Germany bought the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, and Palau from Spain, the last of their Pacific colonies after their loss to America. They also annexed the western part of the Samoan Islands in the Tripartite Convention, America annexing the other half.
SPD Anti-Imperial Protests: 53
In response, the SPD requested that the Free Trade Unions perform a strike while they made trouble in parliament and organized protests. While they did consider it, the Free Trade Unions ultimately decided not to do a general strike, but instead a two week demonstration with their dockyard workers, railroad workers, and mineworkers, showing that they could shut down Germany's ability to perform naval projection.
With the short nature of the strike and the lack of pressing need, the Emperor decided to ignore the demonstration, letting it go on and end with minimal repression. While unsuccessful, it did establish for the workers a precedent of political strikes.
All-Continental Union Association:
The ACUA began the year riding high, justified in their strike last year in the eyes of much of the public.
Merge Unions: 47 + 7 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) + 3 (Inter-Union Mutual Aid) = 60
This year, the ACUA called for all their various associated unions to unify based on industry. Prior, they had expanded in large part by contacting existing unions and affiliating with them, resulting in a hodgepodge of tens of dozens of unions with overlapping areas and designs.
In an effort to integrate them all, as well as fully commit to the idea of industrial unionism, they would establish several departments inside of which each industrial union would be a part of. Agriculture and Fisheries, Mining and Energy, General Construction, Manufacture and General Production, Transportation and Communication, and Public Service. Integration into these would be required for all associated unions.
In particular, the United Mine Workers and Western Federation of Miners merged into the Mine Workers Union under the Mining and Energy section. As two of the largest unions this was the toughest, but the UMW having more members (and so would naturally be dominant in the combined union) and the WFM being more radical (and so was more in favor of industrial unionism) proved a natural compromise.
The American Railway Union also benefited, seamlessly merging the other railroad workers into them. They also changed their name to the Railway Workers Union in the process to standardize names.
Continue and expand the strike: 54 + 5 (striking think group) + 5 (teachers) = 64
With the continued war and support riding high, they decided to continue the strike and expand it. For this the ACUA established more strike funds, helped paid for by that the rest of the union last year. But with the unions combined into an industrial union, it was the perfect time to commit to a general strike across the country among all industries they had a secure enough hold in. More mines, construction, agriculture, and the vast factories of the steel belt shut down. The American government had betrayed its peoples trust, and they weren't about to let that go.
Army Agitators: 43 + 7 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 53
But for this to work, they'd need the army to stop their suppression. The army had already heard of their concepts through the newspapers, but were isolated now. So through sending covert agitators, they were able to talk to them face to face, to convince them to end the strike.
While they started, the great winter also begun, paralyzing traffic across the country and making the strikebreaking efforts temporarily useless as no rail nor barge could be operated in the whether. It was in this lull that organizers bundled up and went to talk to the army.
Combined with anarchist agitators, the pressure of the futurist protests against them, and Minutemen leaders talking to groups in the east, they listened. Against the orders of the federal government they began requesting resignations and backing away from armed unions during confrontations, refusing to actually enforce the injunction. As such the rail strike began up again, albeit still somewhat reduced, and the railroads slowed. And none of the other strikes could be put down as the militant unions armed themselves and were guarded by local militia across the country, especially due to relatively high public opinion of the strike due to the efforts of many groups in and out of the United Front.
As a compromise, the Senate passed the Treaty of Paris with a bipartisan amendment that two years from now Guam and Puerto Rico would hold referendums to either stay as part of the US or become independent. They were vague on if American Samoa was included in this deal.
With strike funds running low, the ACUA decided to end the strike.
Dues Committee: 33
(One time 9% decrease in supporters but mechanically all supporters pay dues, this is equivalent income to before now, but more in the future even before the recruitment bonus. Supporters now represents number of members paying dues.)
The ACUA also established a Dues Encouragement Committee. With the established dues allowing for delinquency for those who could not afford to pay them, the ACUA was still very much in need of more funding. Thus this committee's job was to advertise to associated unions recommending that members also pay dues to the ACUA.
National campaign for industrial unionism: 43 + 5 (omake) + 7 (funds) + 5 (inter-union mutual aid) + 7 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 70
The ACUA engaged on a national campaign advocating for industrial unionism and the One Big Union of the ACUA over the AFL craft unions or AAWA's small-but-allied associated unions. They sent people out to each and every union they could find, talking to them personally about the benefits of industrial unionism.
While they didn't achieve work concessions, just this year they were able to force the federal government government to bow down to their demands in a general strike.
Meanwhile they emphasized the AFL's scabrous treason at the height of the Great Anti-Imperialist Strike, to the point of helping the army break pickets without even a pottage-mess of heightened wages as a reward.
They also emphasized the efficacy of their political action, such as the labor rights bills in Illinois, New York, and New Orleans and direct action of the rail and mine workers in '94 and the eastern miners in '97 over the AFL's class collaboration and the All-American Workers' Alliance company unionism that made the union a tool of management and jingoism which would have workers murder each other in the name of empire.
As a result of the campaign, the AFL was diminished. Their remaining unions were mostly conservative Catholics following the lead of anti-socialist clerics (Catholics being around half of the AFL in the first place), who hated the ACUA's racial integration and progressive values enough to stick together against them. But at this point they were all but doomed to die out, especially with the APFA and socialists being more popular among new immigrant Catholics. The liberal protestant activists who had previously dominated the AFL with reformist craft unionism were largely discredited as workers turned to socialism or the more immediate reformism of the futurists. Whatever came of the ACUA, whether they continue or die out, the AFL would not be their successor.
In particular the railway unions were back strong, helped by the RFAA's strong campaign this year. They also did well in New York, with this and the new labor laws there convincing many of the older unions to jump ship. They also managed to get many deserters from the International Seaman's Union, whose leadership stayed in the AFL but much diminished. These seamen wished for national political reforms that the ACUA were in a better position to grant them such as abolishing the practice of imprisonment for seamen who deserted their ship, regulated working hours, minimum food quality, safety regulations such as lifeboats, and more.
Book Clubs: 45
With the influx of new members, they started a series of book clubs across the country. These would serve to teach Marxist theories, with some anarchists texts as well portrayed as the (implicitly only other) alternative. These would prove to be somewhat popular, with workers across the country discussing the works of Marx, Engels, Bakunin, as well as more local theorists such as Goldman, Voight, DeLeon, and some new agrarian socialist writings.
Helping Cuba: 63 + 10 (extra funds) = 73
Gonzales Lozana, the leader of the anarcho-syndicalist Cuban Workers' Federation, has requested covert resources and collaboration to help unionize Cuba. The ACUA and RFAA both responded.
With the end of the war, Cuban railroads, cigarette factories, mines, and land were quickly being bought up by American business due to the advantages of cheap labor and free trade with America.
The ACUA sent organizers from their own agricultural unions and covert strike funds to help the nascent union federation. They worked mainly with the sugar and tobacco workers to unionize (the RFAA organizers mainly worked with the dock workers, railway workers, and factory workers), and then declared a general strike for better pay and less hours.
When the police were sent in to put down the strike, parts of the army moved in. The victorious Liberation Army never disbanded, with those it demobilized becoming reservists, and its left wing was Afro-Cuban, rural, poor, and extremely sympathetic to the workers movement. That part of it rose to confront the police, preventing violence. The unions managed to achieve wage increases as businesses buckled, and though they fell short of equality to American workers they did manage to stay together.
In the wake of the incident, there were more calls to disband the Liberation Army and form a new standing army. Estrada Palma, presidential candidate of the Republican Party of Havana and favorite to win the election, supported this, while Enrique Messonier's Socialist Party of Cuba explicitly was against it.
In the elections this year the Cuban Workers' Federation would support the Socialist Party of Cuba in accordance with their United Front strategy.
Illinois Labor Laws: 50
The ACUA worked with the SLP to establish a set of labor laws in Illinois. These would establish the 8 hour workday and 40 hour workweek, mandatory pay in wages instead of scrip, a minimum wage, public assistance in meals, books, clothes, etc. for schoolchildren, and state and municipal employment programs for the unemployed. The latter would begin as a series of infrastructure maintenance and building projects, the result being owned and operated by the state.
With their majority control of the state and an enthusiastic rolling out the reforms was steady across the year. They were popular among the working people of the state, including many of the labor rights demanded for so many years. It was also national proof that they would act on their platform, making Illinois the most labor-friendly state in the country, and ensuring voters wouldn't start to distrust them.
California Militia: 65
They also began reshuffling the California state militia. Most of the current members were conservative or liberal, and very racist. Out of all the SLP held states they were the most important to switch out and Governor Harriman decided to begin now. Over the course of the year he would get rid of the old members, especially in leadership positions, and selectively hire union men and members of the Friends. While there was some backlash to Asian men in the militia, there was little they could do about it.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
This year, the party focused on legislation.
Party-outreach committee: 45
To help with this, they established a party-outreach committee. This committee would consist of legislators and other members of the party involved in negotiation with other parties over bills. By strategizing and providing training, they would be able to better get other parties to work with them.
Women's Suffrage Michigan: 51 + 5 (Party Outreach Committee) = 56
Michigan had already given women the right to vote in school meetings over a decade ago. Since then the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association had campaigned for municipal suffrage, and almost won it with the state senate barely voting it down multiple times. When they finally passed it (limited to literate women), the judiciary ruled it unconstitutional.
Now with the Land and Labor Reform Party with a majority, they took up the cause. Governor Johnson requested that the legislature listen to the impassioned speeches of the suffragists, and they did. With a few defectors in both the house and senate from other parties, they just barely passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in the entire state.
North Dakota Suffrage: 25 + 123?! (funds) + 5 (POC) = Overflow?
North Dakota Taxes: 36 + 100?! (funds) + 5 (POC) = Overflow?
Meanwhile in North Dakota, the legislature was not as cooperative. The LLRP had only a minority in the Senate, and this years senators were much more conservative. In the past they had repeatedly voted down women's suffrage, and this year looked to be much the same.
Used to the politics of Michigan, with more representatives and used to much more money flowing around, the party tried their normal lobbying. But North Dakota was a small state with fewer and poorer moneyed interests, part of what made it possible for the Populists to win it just a few years ago. With the amount of money earmarked for lobbying, many politicians took it as an outright bribe. On its own that would have been fine, but one decided to leak it. Progressive politicians, the same ones they sought to ally with for passing women's suffrage, were commonly anti-corruption, and they happened to attempt to bribe one with principles.
In the aftermath of attempting to save their progressive reputation and prevent a bigger disaster, neither bill was passed in North Dakota this year. But they did manage to keep the public relations disaster from spilling over to the public too much, and so hoped to still win next year's election.
They did have a small win in North Dakota, and that was in the cities. While they were being wracked by scandal on the state level, in most cities they had a sizable majority, and so were able to pass municipal tax changes. While less than a tenth of the population lived in cities, this was also where the policy was most popular, and urban workers applauded the effort.
Root Amendment: 52 - 15 (funds) = 37
The Root Amendment, proposed by Secretary Elihu Root in collaboration with Republican Representatives, would demand the Philippines include in their constitution certain rights tying them to the USA. They would acknowledge the permanent naval base in Manilla, they would not be able to enter a treaty with a foreign power that may affect their independence, and the US had the right to intervene to protect their independence.
On a national scale, the LLRP took the lead in campaigning against the Root Amendment. This came as a surprise to many, with the amendment being quite similar to the Hanna Amendment the LLRP championed but with even less strong ties. But during the war the LLRP took a sharply anti-imperialist turn, disappointed with how it went. With the long debates about ratifying the Treaty of Paris and possible amendments to it, by the time they started discussing the Root Amendment the new Congress had been sworn in.
With their 9 representatives allied with the SLP's 25 representatives, the Populist's 10 representatives, 6 pacifist Republicans who worked closely with The Orange Disciples, and 7 futurist politicians. The latter only reluctantly joined the block upon pressure from their base, voting with them but not loudly advocating as they were pro-war normally.
These 56 representatives were opposed by 161 Republicans, with both sides needing 179 for a majority. While the LLRP lobbied and tried to ally with as many anti-imperialist Democrats as they could, their alliance with the black socialists meant that many felt they couldn't join with them. Additionally, the Republicans and Democrats had been becoming closer together lately, fearful of the growing radicalism of the American left. And unlike Cuba, this bill did not mean free trade with the Philippines, and so the Bourbon Democrats' interests were not threatened. It primarily concerned allowing for US power projection in the Pacific and Asia, as well as denying other European powers (many believed that without US protection, Germany would annex the Philippines). As such it was possible for McKinley to get the 18 Democrats he needed, and when the vote came the bill passed with a small majority.
The American Reform Movement: 19
After a ticket to a train station was lost in the mail, five people were forced to stay in a Chicago train station. Hailing from the LLRP, the APFA TOD, the NAP, and the Minutemen, it initially looked like they would not get along. But soon the conversation shifted towards what they saw as the American experiment buckling, and the people's feelings of hopelessness and discontent creating apathy and extremism. But all of them believed nothing couldn't be fixed, reformed. All they needed was to give a little hope and that would be enough.
In the month after, all those groups' leadership corresponded, and at a five-year celebration of the Sons of the Frontier, delegates came together to set up The American Reform Movement.
And that was where they went into trouble. The futurists and Minutemen called TOD cowards, the Orange Disciples fired back that the APFA were warmongers that got them into this mess of the war, along with the LLRP who came up with the Hanna Amendment and the NAP who sold weapons for the war. The Minutemen were attacked as radicals and insurrectionists themselves for their support of the FAM and SPA.
Soon the meeting with split in two, not even among party lines but among delegates. The Pacifists including TOD, most of the LLRP, and one futurist representative thought entering the war at all was a mistake. Meanwhile the militarists, including the Minutemen, NAP, APFA, and some of the LLRP thought entering the war wasn't inherently bad, just made so by the Treaty of Paris' terms afterwards.
The only thing they could agree on was to meet again next year, each half of the convention planning on a new one the next year. If that wasn't bad enough, the news then got ahold of it, branding them as radicals themselves hoping to destroy America's core. As much as they were reformists, it was true most of the organizations wished for changes to American society, whether it be tax reform, industrial reform, progressive ideals, or general militancy. As America radicalized, those on both the radical left and establishment right would grow to increasingly be against the relative center-left that ARM represented.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
The anarchist movement continued expanding this year as people across the country were disillusioned with their elected representatives and turned towards libertarianism.
Agitators to Army Camps: 49 + 2 (extra funds) + 7 (The International Traveler) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 61
The anarchists also sent agitators to the army. They sought to convince them to organize, establishing soldier's councils and refusing to put down the strike. While they didn't quite succeed in the former, they did manage to convince most groups of soldiers they talked to refuse to actively put down the strike.
After demobilization, a few of the veterans even joined the RFAA, having few options for a job and their main support network being run by the RFAA. Many joined their militia, wanting to do something good with their training.
North-East Railway Unions: 71d20 = 851 - 71 (business fears) - 142 (NCA) = 638/500
They worked with the Railway Workers Union to get the rest of the Northeastern rail workers to join it. They had to fight the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance and the railroads themselves, outnumbering the NCA in protest actions and demanding union shops from the businesses through the threat of and follow through on small scale strikes and picket lines.
By the end of the year the North-East had joined the Midwest in having the vast majority of railroad workers as part of the Railway Workers Union, ensuring that of need be they could shut down transportation once more.
Pro-Labor Laws: 81
Surprisingly, the RFAA worked with Mayor Hillquit on establishing new labor laws in NYC. Of course, the anarchists had a different focus than a more statist group would have in drafting these laws. Their priority here was protecting the union's ability to act, and therefore stopping the capitalists from interfering with organizing labor.
While the True-Anarchists opposed even this, that mostly meant that they didn't get involved in the community discussions as to what the laws should contain, focusing their efforts elsewhere. Much of the effort was done by a short term commission appointed by the New York Collective Council consisting solely of Solidarity anarchists working with the SLP.
They established firm laws protecting unions, the right to bargain and strike, and having either a union shop or closed shop. It explicitly protected sympathy strikes and made it illegal for hired security to interfere with a strike, effectively barring the Pinkertons and other strike-breaking groups from working within the city.
At the insistence of their more feminist members they also modified Teddy Roosevelt's old laws to be the same for both men and women, and only 40 hours.
They also consolidated the city, reducing the powers of the Boroughs in favor of a more unified policy. This ensured that instead of having SLP majority and Republican majority sections of the city, it would be all SLP—assuming they kept winning elections. They also made sure to having polling booths in the poorer (and redder) parts of the city, ensuring voting access. Finally they restructured the city legislature to be unicameral, making it easier to pass decisions with a majority hold.
They also passed a universal suffrage bill, but it was quickly declared unconstitutional by the state legislature.
The old newspapers of the city harshly criticized all these measures, declaring them to be undemocratic and doomed to drive away business by giving all power to the unions. While no such vast fleeing of capitalists materialized, nationally it was becoming a trend for them to invest more in areas with little labor agitation.
Transfer to councils: 44 + 5 (mutual aid) + 5 (Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare) = 54
They also had Hillquit transfer some powers of the city to the councils. He was reluctant, convinced it would backfire and ruin his election changes next time, but with their assistance finally agreed. The next step of dual power, they hoped it would discredit the need for liberal democratic institutions. The most important of which was the newly formed Department of Sanitation, in charge of street cleaning.
They used The Worker's Post and the mutual aid networks to connect with the people about it, encouraging direct communication with the councils and even participate themselves. They managed to take a smooth changeover, encouraging many of the former workers to join them and keep their jobs, which helped the transition. Now it would be the RFAA who the people of NYC saw cleaning their streets and making it a more bearable place to live.
NYC Schools: 26 + 5 (mutual aid) + 5 (omake) = 36
The New York anarchists also began trying to set up schools run by anarchists, inspired by the Cuban anarchists. These would be run nontraditionally, with more focus on democracy in the classroom, and would allow for running schools that accepted adults who wished to get more of a basic education.
For this first year, they had some trouble actually getting enough people to participate in the schools. But with any luck that was a problem that would be solved next year, with extra time being all that was needed.
RFAA Cuban Unions: 60 + 10 (funds) = 70
With Gonzales Lozana requesting for aid on behalf of the anarcho-syndicalist Cuban Workers' Federation, the American anarchists answered. Sending people and discrete funds for a strike fund, they helped them unionize the dock workers, railway workers, and cigarette factory workers of Cuba. During the strike they would see the union gain in size and strength, shutting down much of the country's economy until they won their rights.
While there they made sure to make connections with the rest of the Cuban anarchist movement, ensuring that the union kept its anarchist ties.
Link SFAF Philadelphia mutual aid network: 66
Famed anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre has been pushing to link the Society of Friends of All Faith's mutual aid network in Philadelphia to the RFAA's. She's been active in the poor Jewish community there, and has been involved in their mutual aid efforts even as she was part of the RFAA.
With this link, both groups would benefit, as the unified group was much larger, and though the SFAF gained a greater benefit, the RFAA hoped that this would align them more with their cause. This initial link would be a good start to formally merging all the mutual aid networks in the event that the SFAF joined the UF.
Set up councils: 35 + 7 (The International Traveler) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 45
With the RFAA going national, they also had to set up more councils. Throughout America, from the West Coast to the Great Lakes to the South, local anarchists started setting up councils fully integrated with the RFAA's structure. With these they began to start organizing more mutual aid efforts across the country.
West Virginia Mutual Aid: 63 + 5 (welfare) = 68
Massachusetts Mutual Aid: 65 + 5 (welfare) = 70
St. Louis Mutual Aid: 51 + 5 (welfare) = 56
Local councils across Massachusetts finally began setting up mutual aid networks. As the second urban core of the RFAA, it was a long time coming, with the area also being subject to the harshest police response. But as they finished organizing, they did it well, and Massachusetts was continuing on its way to being a red state.
With the integration of the Appalachian Brotherhood, the new councils of West Virginia began setting up mutual aid efforts. Unlike most of the country these did better with both mining towns and cuties working together, allowing for a more expansive program than their urban population would suggest.
Finally, they put effort into expanding their reach beyond the current core of the United Front by putting resources into St. Louis' few councils to help them establish mutual aid there. While it would doubtlessly be difficult, they hoped to expand the movement to Missouri through this.
Send militia south: 67
1600 men and women of the CDC went south to help the SPA. With tensions flaring up with Wilmington once more they went to help their comrades and came home satisfied that they scared off the reactionaries.
The Forty Acres Movement:
The FAM continued to build up in the lull of fighting this year as the White Union Army reorganized itself. There was still continued low level fighting, much like when The Defense Group was first formed, but to a manageable level.
Train militia: 64 + 10 (training procedures) + 5 (Minutemen Trainers) = 79 * 6 (funds) = 474
They continued by training nine more cadres, further increasing the size of the increasingly professional militia. They were in part helped by this by white northerners, several Minutemen who came by to provide training techniques using scientific methods.
Louisiana Equal Rights Bill: 41 + 2 (funds) = 43
In Louisiana, the party attempted to pass an equal rights bill. They lobbied Republicans in the senate to achieve a majority, knowing that said Republicans also depended on it for Louisiana to not be permanently Democratic like most of the rest of the south, but they had certain stipulations.
Most of the bill was thrown out, including public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, and right to serve on a jury, for all, and making election day a holiday (as this would help poorer voters, more democrat and SLP than Republican here). Instead it was watered down to just a suffrage bill, giving suffrage rights for all adults 21 years or older regardless of race, color, or creed and prevented any sort of poll tax or literacy test. Even women's suffrage wasn't achievable here, with the courts ready to declare any bill unconstitutional and they didn't have the votes for an amendment. Despite the watering down of the bill to the point it was mostly symbolic, the governor vetoed the bill and the state congress didn't have the votes to override it.
Special Election: 42 + 5 (campaigners) + 4 (effort) = 51
Louisiana's 5th Congressional District had a special election this March, and the SLP ran for it. While they did not earmark any funds, they did run a ground campaign to reach out for the voters, and of course encouraged FAM members to vote SLP. This was also the first election women could vote in, and they turned out in moderate numbers to mostly vote for the SLP.
With a small majority they won the election, beating out both the Democrats and Populists who contested it, and sending a fifth Representative to Congress.
Factory Agitators: 12d20 = 147 + 12 (CSJ) = 159
Mining Agitators: 12d20 = 138 + 12 (CSJ) = 150
Farmworker Agitators: 8d20 = 62 + 8 (CSJ) = 70
College/University Agitators: 6d20 = 76 + 6 (CSJ) = 82
(46.1% increase in recruitment for next turn)
This year the FAM focused on diversifying their movement. They did still continue reaching out to the farmworkers as their primary base, but it was a smaller effort this year. For their other efforts they had journalists recently graduated from the Chicago School of Journalism with all the best tricks and rhetoric for reaching out to people and convincing them of your cause.
They reached out to the factory workers in conjunction with unionization campaigns, further strengthening their position in the city. From the gold mines in Georgia, coal mines in Alabama and Mississippi, or Louisiana's salt and sulphur mines, agitators came to convince them to join the Forty Acres Movement. And in both cases they joined in the hundreds and thousands, as the FAM quickly became the foremost civil rights organization for African Americans everywhere, not just for farmers.
They also reached out to the colleges and universities. This represented a sort of attempt at reconciliation with the Bookerites who were more popular among middle class African Americans and sympathetic rich white allies. While the rift wouldn't be fully mended, as Booker T Washington's Atlanta Compromise promised not to focus efforts on equality or integration, many of his supporters began to radicalize into believing more immediate change was possible.
With these richer allies joining the Forty Acres Movement came their money and the opportunity to use these highly educated people.
Buying out farms: 20d20 = 176 + 40 (trained barterers) + 40 (Boll Weevil Infestation) + 5 (credit union) = 261, 848/27755
They also continued buying out more farms, giving their own farms to thousands of new farmers. This was helped by the Boll Weevil infestation's continued spread across the south, destroying many farms as they ate away the cotton, and bankrupting the landlords.
Industrial Planning Commission: 61
The Council Congress established an Industrial Planning Commission, with the members consisting in it elected from the worker councils. This commission would be in charge of continuously developing the south, enriching them and establishing economic independence.
Armaments and Munitions Manufacturing: 45 + 5 (Industrial Planning Commission) = 50
Its first task was to manage setting up various armaments and munitions manufacturing. Due to the organization's rural nature, and indeed the rural nature of the south as a whole, as well as the hope to keep it semi-hidden, they split it up within many towns across the whole south rather than have one big efficient factory like SUS built in the north.
Luckily with the dedicated effort for this the commission managed to prevent any extreme inefficiencies from the distributed manner. Trying to produce more advanced weaponry such as machine guns may result in more difficulties, but for now, the Spartacists would see a steady influx of guns and ammo.
Unionize: 62d20 = 669 - 62 (business fears) - 124 (NCA) = 483, 606/1200
They also embarked on a massive unionization campaign across the south. Against the efforts of racist employers seeking to exploit them, the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance's effort to protest labor organizing, and the WUA's partisan efforts, they connected to the black workers of the cities and funded their strikes and their rights. Efforts to fire them and hire new workers were useless, for those were workers too who could be brought into the union.
By the end of the year half the black belt was unionized, and standing in solidarity with their rural comrades.
Petty Fines Budget: 69
They also vastly increased the budget set aside for paying off the petty fines put upon black men just to arrest them and force them to labor once more. This saved countless men from prison and slavery once more, with many of them joining the FAM in gratitude. For those already within the movement, it simply solidified their thankfulness to it.
Dual Power: 40
In majority black and FAM supported towns, they began establishing dual power. The councils would establish a town government, which would collect taxes and do normal town functions. These would conflict with the current town governments, usually dominated by white people.
In some cases the police of sheriffs tried to arrest the new governments, but the Spartacists were prepared and stood in confrontations. No fights happened, but they suspected they'd begin to be targets for the WUA. Not that many considered that a bad tradeoff, with the WUA having shown to be willing to attack towns for any reason at all.
Near the end of the year, southern circuit court justices finished filing an injunction against the Forty Acres Movement under the Anti-Trust Act. It used the argument that they were preventing free trade through having a variety of industry all integrated together, as well as having their members directly buy and sell from each other rather than going through the free market. While it was quite a stretch, the vague wording of the act was enough that several biased judges allowed it to go through.
Attorney General John Griggs was reluctant to prosecute the case, being an outstanding defender of rights for both workers and African Americans. But following a meeting with several Republican Party leaders, Griggs decided to go through with it, something described as "Republicans cynically hoping African Americans will crawl back to them after they destroy their independence" by leftist newspapers. President McKinley has been kept aloof of the whole affair, not commenting one way or another.
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices had been nominated by Republicans, but only one voted against Plessy V Ferguson. Still, this was a case on very shaky grounds, with the FAM having only a small fraction of each of their industries compared to many businesses. It was blatantly a political attack against the militant organization.
In the end the ruled that The Forty Acres Movement was breaking the law, but simply gave them a large fine. They did not rule that they couldn't be broken up in the future, but for now they would not force things to come to a head. While it wasn't as far as many Democrats hoped, it opened it up for future legal action, and would hamper the organization this next year.
It also began splitting the Republican Party over those in favor of and against the measure, with those against it calling back to their abolitionist heritage and those for it hoping it would quell the southern violence and bring African Americans back into the party.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
The Society continued having internal arguments this year, with once again the leftist faction winning an implementing their agenda.
Mutual aid networking: 56
The RFAA, particularly through local anarchists on the ground, has asked to link their Philadelphia mutual aid networks. This allowed their much smaller network to get the resources of the larger one, and has tied the organizations closer together. With this further cooperation with the United Front seemed more internally politically viable as those who wished to stay uninvolved lost influence, especially with the other events of the year.
City soup kitchens: 65 + 5 (extra funds) = 70
They also worked with churches and synagogues in the smaller cities of New Jersey, Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania to establish charitable aid. With these they had established them across much of the Mid-Atlantic, servicing the poor in dozens of cities of tens of millions of people.
NYC Schooling: 33 + 3 (extra funds) + 1 (mutual aid) = 37
They also established a charity low cost schooling program in New York for adults, especially African Americans, Italian-Americans, women, and other minorities. However, they had to make it smaller than they initially planned to, as less people showed interest than expected. Still it earned gratitude from those who went and many of them joined.
Rural adult-literacy: 48 + 4 (extra funds) + 5 (mutual aid) = 57
They established a similar program in the rural areas of New York through associated churches and synagogues. This program went just as well, with many churches participating with the idea that the ability to read the Bible was quite important.
Train Militia: 65 * 15 (funds) = 975
They also trained almost a thousand more militia, vastly expanding their forces to almost three thousand. This was in expectation of further conflict with the White Union Army as the latter began recruiting north.
Confrontation: 69 + 5 (omake) = 74
DC to fight: 60 + 18 (hundreds of militia) = 78
They caught the White Union Army during a march, all 300 of their Maryland militia (many of which were actually from Virginia) together trying to intimidate the people of Baltimore. They yelled anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic slurs as they marched around the city. 1800 SFAF militiamen showed up, armed and ready, blocking their way.
Having decided they couldn't attack first, needing to be the sympathetic party here, the Society forces went close but did not shoot. Intimidated by the much larger size of their enemies, the White Union Army eventually fled. They would continue trying to do marches in Maryland, but the Society of Friends of All Faiths would always be there to head them off and protect the people. Eventually their marches began to shrink as more of their members got intimidated, never having the advantage as they did in the deep south.
While they weren't decisively defeated, the spread of their influence was definitely limited as they were continuously humiliated.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The futurists had a tense year, with a leadership shift and harsh backlash. This would be a tumultuous year, and likely would continue being so for the next few. They actually decreased their membership for the first time this year, internal opposition and outside bad optics resulting in fewer recruits and more people leaving.
Anti-Strike Breaking Protests: 54 + 5 (Forwards Together!) - 7 (War Hawks) = 52
With the brutish hawks in Congress annexing foreign territory and using violence to break strikes, the APFA organized protests. They were against the territorial annexations and use of violence to break the strikes, pushed solely by the brutish hawks in Congress.
This came as a surprise to many, as the futurists were some of the biggest supporters of the war. Additionally the right wing of the organization had always supported the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures"–something which always implied a colonial relationship.
But their left wing had begun backing socially progressive causes on more of an ideological rather than just practical basis, and additionally viewed it as smarter to give the unions what they want rather than shutting down the country as the army fights them. This anti-imperialist faction had members in several key positions this year, despite being the smaller faction, and so was able to influence the organization's decisions. Also, the circumvention of the Hanna Amendment and the violence against striking unions had cooled their opinion of violence for violence sake, though the War Hawk faction still believed in that. They instead believed in focused, directed, and efficient violence.
So it was this faction that set up large scale protests across the steel belt, especially in front of the army and railway stations they would attack, protesting the annexations and strike breaking. The shame, as well as overt hostility from one of many Congressmen's backers, rapidly began to convince both the soldiers to stop fighting the unions and the Congressmen to make a compromise.
In two years time there would be a referendum in the annexed territories, each choosing to go free or to stay annexed to the US.
Steel Belt Campaign: 54 + 5 (Forwards Together) + 20 (extra funds) - 7 (War Hawks) = 72
With the All-American Workers' Alliance and industrialists, the APFA sought to challenge ACUA and AFL dominance within the steel belt.
However, the AAWA began to split here. With the futurist opposition to violence against the unions, an anti-imperialist block had formed within the organization. Here that block split into the left-leaning Anti-Imperialists, who were the most strongly against said violence and even supported working with the ACUA on a provisional basis, and the centrist Technocrats, who were strongly in favor of small unions connected by their association with the AAWA. The Hawks weren't in favor of any union not controlled by management, though they were a more minor player in this campaign as they were entirely against its anti-violence message.
The funds served to help fund the All-American Workers' Alliance's operations which included helping associated unions go on small scale strikes. But primarily they hired negotiators to talk to the companies, wanting to avoid any violence. They negotiated for increased pay, reduced hours, and workplace racial integration. They also began lobbying for increased labor legislation, a point that wasn't on the table for Republicans or Democrats this year but hopefully would be in the future.
They also specifically denounced and argued against the AFL's stance on race and sex positions. For this they began running into the problem that almost all of the remaining AFL membership were conservative Catholics, who genuinely pushed that policy from the bottom up. The change in attitudes would be a much greater effort than simply denouncing the AFL's official stance, though they did get their start.
For the ACUA, they tried to discredit the more ideological parts of their program, specifically the commitment to revolutionary Marxism and Anarchism, and the violence implied therein. And here was the conflict. The Hawks, despite being the most right-wing faction, were also primarily pro-violence for violence's sake. They fought against this rhetoric focusing on how the violence of a revolution was inherently bad, and wanted the organizers to instead focus on the evils of socialism.
But the Hawks weren't in charge of this endeavor, so they mainly managed to simply interfering with them. Many unions, indeed, were wary of a violent revolution or another civil war less than fifty years after the last one. But most considered violence to be something the state had more of a hand in starting than anything they did, seeing as the ACUA hadn't even officially organized giving out weapons to their unions.
By the end of the year the AFL was barely hanging on, with only the most conservative unions left. They made less progress against the ACUA, with quite a few workplaces leaving them but more joining from the AFL. Many in the AAWA were beginning to consider the ACUA less of an enemy, with their alliance against imperialism and similar goals, though many more considered the ACUA's Marxism to be degenerate and anti-American.
Additionally the technocrats and anti-imperialists were getting disillusioned with private business' ability to run factories and supported the idea of a government run planned economy which could ensure everything ran perfectly, ideally with small unions that couldn't disrupt things nationally but could negotiate on a local basic. Where they differed here is the anti-imperialists supported dissolving businesses while the technocrats supported the continued existence of businesses integrated with government.
Root Amendment: 80 - 7 (Hawks) = 73
(Longer part in LLRP section)
The APFA pressured their affiliated representatives to vote against the Root Amendment. This came as a surprise to many of said representatives, who explicitly were elected on a pro-war platform. In fact this came to great debate, with many within the APFA itself agreeing with said representatives.
But in the end, the threat of no longer supporting them in future elections was enough to make those representatives to vote their way.
Military Strategy Committee: 40
Having taken note of the Minutemen programs in universities and the volume of war veterans, the APFA set up a committee to study military strategy to form the backbone of a potential future militia or serve as an advisory group to other military bodies.
In other news Nikola Tesla promised he had s project finishing next year, and would show it off at a futurist convention.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Friends continued their course even as they expanded massively into Hawaii, the mostly Asian island's resentment against America being fertile ground for agitation.
Sabotage NCA: 34 + 3 ( YS infiltrations) = 37
The Yellow Scarves attempted to send saboteurs to Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflicts and break them up. Specifically, to tie in with their other focus on Hawaii this year, they tried to stop them from getting the white people there to form a new branch. And for this they were somewhat successful, with the white population still vaguely hostile to the Asian and native populations but also not connecting with the mainland's reactionary groups.
For breaking up existing branches they were much less successful, but not to the point where they couldn't try again next year.
Hawaii Unions: 10d20 = 148 - 10 (business fears) = 138, 138/60
This helped tie into their unionization campaign. Hawaii's sugar industry was booming, with American investment more than doubling it every 10 years for the past several decades, and set to continue. This was sustained by extreme immigration policies, mostly from Japan and China, though post-annexation they planned to replace Chinese immigrants with many more places of origin such as Korea, the Philippines, and Europe.
They also had other industries, such as pineapple fruits and canned goods, and of course the longshoremen and other port workers.
The collapse of the bound labor contracts (a form of indentured servitude) with their annexation provided for an opportunity. With secret strike funds gathered from the FHM, 1,500 Japanese sugar farm workers walked off the plantations. With effort they were joined by other sugar farm workers, and soon they were joined by the other industries, the promise of strike funds from the mainland and the mythical Yellow Scarves' protection. Even a few white workers joined them, though only that few.
With what was almost a general strike on the island, and the mainland having more important issues than to help them in any way, the plantation owners soon gave in and recognized the unions as well as wage increases to match the white workers. The unions soon after voted to join the ACUA in recognition of the contribution the Friends made, and many workers joined the Friends.
Hawaiian Birth Certificates: 45 + 10 (governor + plurality in government) = 55
(10% increase in recruitment for next turn)
Using previous skills in forging, plus the opportunities that having strong allies in the state government gave them, they started forging documents on a massive scale. Chinese immigration this year would look just like it did before the restrictive immigration acts took effect, with thousands moving in. Many would join the Friends in gratitude, as well as simply because it meant having a connected community of their culture.
Something at this massive scale was hard to hide, but with the local administration on their side they would manage it. The federal government would be far too busy with the strike and managing the end of the war to notice Hawaii's stated number of citizens was far higher than the census, especially since the last one was almost a decade ago and the population was fast growing anyway.
With the ability to hide people as Hawaiian as well as the cooperation of SLP officials their efforts to forge documents would be greatly strengthened into the future.
Head Tax Fund: 67
While Canada was also hostile to Chinese immigration, they were less so, with the main requirement being a head tax on immigrants. This meant in order to come they would either have to be in debt, or have a company pay it for them and have to work for that company.
By establishing a fund for paying this head tax, and then helping them integrate into local communities, the new immigrants would be ingratiated to them and the FHM would continue to serve as an important part of their community.
Rails: 40d20 = 280 + 50 (Rigging Railcars) = 330, 1414/2000
How bad is it? Low=bad: 71
They continued trying to prepare the rails to be able to shut them down. But they made less progress this year for one reason: they were caught.
Federal troops, ordered to stop the railway strike but having mostly petered out efforts to actually do so, had found stashes of explosives and modifications to the rails which had been made to be able to quickly shut them down. Reporting it up the chain federal investigators tried to come in, but Governor Harriman got wind of it first and sent his own team in. Cleaning up the evidence and declaring it to be nothing but natural wear and tear, they avoided giving an excuse to crack down on their activities. But it did give suspicion, and the Yellow Scarves would have to be more careful and better hide their efforts going into the future. Privately Harriman would express frustration at the risk they were taking, considering it useless with the goal of revolution on both sides of the mountain.
Manilla Base Spies: 54
The Yellow Scarves sent spies to work in the American military base at Manilla. By working at the port and in civilian jobs in the base itself they would be in a position to overhear things as well as potentially act in the future, whether that be sabotage for a Philippine takeover or assassinations, or anything else.
The spies also got in contact with Sun Yat-Sen, whose been living in the Philippines since their revolution, who mentioned he was planning on another attempt at revolution in China. To aid in this TFHM began stockpiling more funds and weapons.
Buy out farms: 51 + 5 (FMC) = 56
They also began buying out farms which Chinese workers labor on. Unlike their African American comrades over in the east, they did not break up the farm but rather ran it industrially with workplace democracy, integrated into the Factory Management Council. This gave the profits to the Friends and improved both the work conditions and pay of the workers there, who were glad of the change.
Importantly, it gave the council experience in managing a farm on a small scale, something that would be important if they ever were to take over all the farms.
California Eminent Domain: 53 + 3 (funds) = 56
In California, the SLP drafted a bill with the help of the Friends which would require the state government to continuously use eminent domain to buy up probate land used for public transport and communication such as railroads and the telegraph industry. Meanwhile the municipalities began drafting a bill to own public utilities, something that passed easily enough in SLP controlled cities.
For the state bill, it was enough to get many of the Democratic-Populist coalition representatives to vote for the bill. While it wasn't full nationalization of the railroads as the Populists preferred in their platform, it was the closest thing to a step towards that which they could take. Just as importantly, it would help their goal of being able to sabotage the railroads in a time of need.
The courts would challenge the law, but ultimately decided that eminent domain was well established as legal across the country, and thus failed to destroy the bill.
It would also involve fully imbursing the owners of said transport and communication infrastructure, in many cases more than it was actually worth, meaning that until the state could bring in more taxes it would be slow process. Additionally, only intrastate railroads could be nationalized in this way, with interstate railroads falling under federal authority.
The Orange Disciples:
This year the Orange Disciples stayed the course, continuing their progressive message.
Anti-Root Amendment: 56
(Main section in LLRP)
The Orange Disciples pressured their previously supported representatives to vote against the Root Amendment. Having run on pacifist platforms they were eager to do so, becoming some of the greatest advocates against the bill alongside the LLRP and SLP. Still, it wasn't enough, with most Republicans alongside many Democrats teaming up in favor if it, and McKinley signed the bill.
Connect with the Rich: 140d20 = 1456
(+43.7 funds per turn)
This year Orange Disciples came to the parties of the rich, mingling with both new industrialists and the old rich of the north. Southern aristocracy wouldn't even entertain them, doubtlessly funding the WUA on their own.
With the vast amount of funds they dedicated to this, their representatives could dress and dine with the best of them, truly showing that the disciple were one of them. They tried to push the message that racism and the violence it breeds was bad for business. They also brought up the recently revealed fact that the White Union Army was getting armaments stolen from the army, something that should make any patriotic American furious.
Captains of Industry such as Rockefeller and Carnegie had a long history of donating to progressive causes, and many new ones did as well, joining or simply becoming a donor for the Orange Disciples.
They also managed to get the support to pressure the Republican Party to allow Teddy Roosevelt (who recently got a personal grudge) to lead an initiative to see if they could crack down on the WUA in some way. While it would be some time before this came to fruition, it was a start.
Rural Ohio: 46
They also continued their adult-literacy program in rural churches, now spreading it to Ohio. This would help the poor be better connected to the world outside their little villages through books and news.
Connect with south: 67 + 5 (The Orange Post) = 72
With TOD being now the premier successor to the abolitionist legacy of their forefathers, it was time to take that to the south. Through letters and personal meetings they met with southern black and anti-racist white intellectuals, hoping to be able to use their funds to support them.
Now, while they wouldn't have any concentrated mass base, they would have the connections to act to help the impoverished black population.
Christian Socialists of America: 70
They also accepted affiliation by the Christian Socialists of America. With over 10,000 card carrying members and leftist politics on the rise, they hoped to become a rising movement in Ohio. While they were largely concentrated in Cleveland for now, they hoped that with TOD's aid they would be able to expand their base.
They would maintain their own funds and actions, but with this their leadership would work closely with the Disciples, ensuring they would never work at cross purposes.
The New American Patriots:
This year, the NAP focused on expanding their reach and forming a private security company.
Expanding: 52
NAP tried to open up new branches in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Michigan, relying on their new connections with the LLRP. But with the disastrous results in trying to form the American Reform Movement, portions of the LLRP became actively hostile to them.
Pivoting away from that for this year, instead they focused on sending money to the small New York branch to reactivate it. Sending messages along with a few people, they met up through the use of secret hand gestures and code phrases to recognize each other. This went well enough, with several dozen more people joining that branch, just enough to do stuff assuming it still gets funding from the western branches.
Militia: 56 + 5 (self defense trained members) = 61 * 7 (funds) = 427
Form Winter Security Group: 45
Next, they formed the Winter Security Group, starting with over 400 armed guards. They established it with specific rules and regulations, though they wouldn't start hiring them out until next year.
Lower officers such as corporals and sergeants were elected from among the squad and platoon while higher ranks were appointed from among their peers by the Offices of Membership Representative and Director, and then confirmed by majority vote of all members of the command they expect to lead. Officers could be removed from command by a majority vote of their command at any time for any reason except during battle (battle is no time for democracy). Corporate earnings after upkeep, procurement, maintenance, taxes, etc were to be split evenly into shares. Each soldier gets 1 share. Each sergeant and specialist gets 1.5 shares. Each appointed officer gets 2 shares.
Beyond corporate earnings, all employees were to be paid a living wage, an accumulated retirement fund on top of their normal wage, and 8 hour work shifts per day except during combat. Combat is no time to punch clocks. 14 days paid leave per year with two weeks advance notice on top of normal paid holidays. Also 7 days of authorized unpaid awol per year before disciplinary action because life happens and it's only fair to account for that. Work on holidays was voluntary and paid double. Also all unused paid leave rolls over.
Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave was 6 months, at the end of which the recipient can after a quick refresher course, return to their unit at their previous rank assuming confirmation.
There should be a standard contract stipulating restrictions on what the company will do. The NAP San Francisco office got an auditing committee which will go over any custom contracts or additions to the standard contract.
Maimed employees may receive one year advanced pay and their retirement fund, or elect to remain employed in logistical or administrative line duties. Bereavement benefits for those killed was one year advanced pay on top of the forwarded retirement fund and a one time cash payout. Additionally, children of the surviving family gained endorsement to attend any college where the NAP has a chapter.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
This year SUS continued on, battered from their involvement in the repression last year but continuing forward nonetheless. They would also send huge amounts of funds to both TFAM the ACUA, seeing the success of their southern comrades and the industrial union as both paramount to the socialist movement.
Protests: 26 + 7 (The Valkyrie) = 33
SUS spent the money to send protesters to Washington DC, thousands of people filling the streets. They were joined by few locals, with the city not very large at this time anyway. They protested American imperialism, both at home and abroad, with its ongoing and new subjugation and extermination of entire peoples, its turning of American soldiers against their fellows in an effort to force them to labor in service of Empire, all to the benefit of a handful of of American-style aristocrats who buy and sell legislation and elections to keep their grip on power.
Mostly women, they stood outside the doors of Washington, brandishing signs and openly carrying guns. The police stood opposite of them, resolutely containing the protest and guarding Congress while they discussed the Treaty of Paris. Showing up everyday for a week eventually the protest fizzled out as they had to return to their homes in the Midwest and seemingly nothing was happening in the capital itself.
Inside Congress, the SLP Senators saw the true effects. Republicans and Democrats were talking to each other more, clearly scared of the protesters outside. With the LLRP, Populists, and SLP all representing the new radical left fringe of politics and all against the annexations, the moderate parties sought to work together to contain them. With the protesters gone they worked together on making an amendment to the treaty, allowing for the annexed territories to make referendums for independence in two years. This was the farthest they would go to sate the left.
Public Campaign: 20d20 = 182 + 20 = 202
They also made a public campaign defaming the American Aristocracy and their errand boys in the Republican and Democratic parties. They focused on the war being at the expense of the American people and for the benefit of said aristocracy, heralding imagery back to the era of cruel kings.
They did manage to make a sizable dent in public opinion, which had already begun turning away from the war. The public pressured their representatives to end it with independence for Spain's colonies, and looking forward to the election next year made many support the proposal for a referendum in two years, safely afterwards. It also helped radicalize the general population particularly against the Republicans as they demanded focus on domestic reform rather than the conquest of foreign land. This would have significant effect on McKinley's prospects next year for his hoped reelection.
Define ideology: 37 + 7 (The Valkyrie) + 5 (omake) = 49
Much of the upper ranks of SUS had been clamoring for an official ideology for SUS for some time now, and finally they had it. Primarily developed by Walpurga Voight but reviewed by dozens of people within SUS and presented to the organization as a whole before adoption, Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) would serve as that guiding ideology. It used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.
By setting up this ideology as the explicit guide of SUS, they would avoid another Christian Socialist type debacle as everyone who joined would have to be dedicated to the cause. It would also help in unity of action, providing a clear goal for the organization.
Chicago Military Training Facility: 35 + 3 (ethnic clubs) + 5 (mutual aid) = 43
Trains 40 + 5 (self defense program) + 8 (FAM trainers) = 53 * 20 (funds per turn) = 1060 regular militia per turn
As part of preparing for revolution, SUS needed a more elite army than militia. They set up a military training facility, just outside of Chicago, the obvious place given their popularity there. Classrooms, an armory, PT field, wax bullets, and protective gear for force and force training with both military theory professors and practical professors. They would recruit from sympathetic veterans, politically reliable Illinois militia, TFAM trainers (especially those who were injured in battle and no longer able to fight but were able to teach), and their own self defense program. Over the course of the year they would have hundreds of students graduate, establishing a base which they could form a professional army out of.
Militia security: 73
For now, the current batch of militia would go towards providing security for at-risk groups. In particular, they served as armed guards outside of gay bars which had been increasingly targets of attack by reactionaries. Simply standing while armed served to intimidate those people, keeping themselves safe.
Construction Company: 42
With their increasing focus on SUS owned industry, they decided to found a construction company. Universal Development, technically a private company owned by Voight, would employ over a thousand people. Its first construction project was finishing building the military training facility, additionally allowing for more discretion in that case.
Tools for Farmers: 45
While SUS did have a small rural base among farmworkers and farmwives, it was only a fraction of their base. One reason was that the Great Lakes region was mostly small farmers who owned their own land and tools, as opposed to large farms with farmworkers or peasants. As such, the basic tenants of collective workplaces had little appeal to them. But as both the primary area of SUS supporters and as the supplier of most of America's food, they felt it was imperative to get them on side.
So, they reached out to farm workers, starting in Illinois, offering cheap farm tools to any SUS member. They would also propagandize SUS' own ideology, focusing on women's rights and their commonality with the Populist program, to make clear it wasn't just a bribe but a measure of solidarity with their rural comrades.
It would come to a slow start, but more farmers joined SUS and started rural branches of the organization, they would be the primary points of contact with new farmers, helping expand more.
Illinois Equal Rights: 76
With their continuous wins the previous year, the SLP would ensure to consolidate those gains by passing an equal rights amendment. It would guarantee public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, right to serve on a jury, and suffrage rights for adults 21 years or more regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, as well as designating election day as a state holiday. Universal suffrage was finally achieved in the birthplace of their movement, and it was a day for celebration.
With this and the labor bill, the primary goals of their voters had been achieved in Illinois. But SUS made sure to emphasize that their work was not yet done, that they needed to continue their momentum to stop their work from being undone while working towards the national level. And of course, that was only electorally–their movement was not finished until they could abolish capitalism. Anything before that was a mere step on that path.
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies:
The UGPQOA continued trying to spread the word of their group and of queer people. But increasing amounts of them were dismayed at the violence towards them, and the ignorance of all other major groups in America–except for the Society for Universal Suffrage.
Within the organization, many supporters found it was easier to find relationships with the vast support network of primarily other queer people. Many who had initially joined the group as allies came out as queer themselves, and considered themselves much happier that way.
Find new and old gay bars: 33
They attempted to find gay bars in other cities to associate with them, but found themselves rebuffed more than not. The smaller bars feared the attention it would bring as Uranus' bars were getting targeted.
Informational Packets: 17d20 = 167
(16.7% increase in recruitment for next turn)
In the cultural battle, they continued making informational packets to spread around to people to inform them about queer people. Most people were too unaware about them to have one opinion or another, and even those who did hate them didn't understand them. By spreading information they could get to people first, help them understand that they weren't dangerous or satanic but just people like them.
Committee: 77
To aid in this going into the future, they established a committee for designing and spreading these informational packets.
Join SUS: 69
Finally, with the increasing violence and only one major group actively wanting to help them, they formally joined the Society for Universal Suffrage. The group already contained the Salon der Geschlechter, another queer rights group, and by gaining the resources of the much larger and more established organization they would be able to do much more. The doctors they had contacted would profess their willingness to work at SUS' proposed Institute for Sexual Research, something Uranus wouldn't have the funds to do on their own.
With their joining, SUS militia would come out to protect their bars, intimidating those who would do violence away.
The Minutemen:
This year the Minutemen focused on building up connections with others. With their relatively smaller membership and funds (the latter due to running on donations), helping other groups was an efficient use of their time.
Connections with the army: 38
The Minutemen sent men to the army, trying to make connections there. They emphasized the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, the guiding ideal of the nation. That the constitution was a document made of desperation and compromise, but it worked. And that they all knew of the great war which divided the nation in two, the previous compromises threatening to ruin the nation. Now the ideal was under threat, with violence across the nation and those confederate elements which threatened to destroy the dream were gathering. That the monopolies were running campaigns to fight the workers who just sought rights for their allies. So they needed to stand together against that darkness to preserve the dream.
Despite the impassioned message, they only reached portions of the army. Still, with the combined effort of other organizations who were against the government putting down the strike they managed to get the soldiers to refuse to continue, not quite a full mutiny but enough that the strike began again.
When the soldiers demobilized, many joined the Minutemen as experienced soldiers, albeit ones that never entered real combat. They entered the militia, quadrupling it to 400 men, more than before they went south to fight the Red Shirts.
TFAM and SPA Trainers: 54
With their experience in more scientific and established methods of training, the Minutemen decided to send trainers to TFAM and SPA. They would work together, now and continuing into the future, allowing those larger groups take advantage of their expertise. Coming back, any trainers they sent in turn got a taste of the southern organizer's experiences, helping the Minutemen in the future.
LA Connections: 59
They also sent people over to the newly independent Cuba. With their few volunteers last year they were friendly with the Cuban Liberation Army, which although some went home was still going on as the army of the Cuban republic. The Minutemen helped train and teach their men, in turn learning from their practical experiences in guerrilla warfare.
Southern People's Alliance:
This was the last year the SPA would benefit from the Farmer's Alliance Contact Committee. Even as the SPA began setting up chapters from across the south, the Populists lost members in droves, retreating to their Great Plains strongholds. Benjamin Tillman, a Democratic senator from South Carolina, had been going on tours across the countryside advocating for populist measures even as he spouted racist rhetoric. He bragged of his victory in the Battle of Wilmington and demanded measures to help farmers, both small farmers and the aristocratic "farmers", equating them as the same.
They also saw North Carolina adopt a new constitution heavily disenfranchising African Americans, with poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses abound. With that, it became heavily unlikely the SLP would ever win the state so long as the laws remained.
Mills and Shops fund: 70
With coop mills and shops for members helping to reduce costs, the SPA decided on creating a fund for establishing more of them. This fund saw a great amount of use to the point where they had to increase it, with thousands of farmers wanting to participate. Still, even with the increased cost of establishing more of them, in turn the reduced costs allowed for their members to have a much greater income. Many began suggesting to start instituting dues, as the organization was handling enough tasks to make it more necessary and the participating members were getting less poor.
Tactics training: 51
Strategy committee: 79
Working with TFAM, the SPA was able to establish tactics training and a strategy committee, similar to what they already had. These would allow for greater training for part time militia as well as betting planning.
Train militia: 37 + 8 (TFAM trainers) + 5 (Minutemen trainers) = 50 * 5 (funds) = 250
They also trained 5 more cadres of militia, replenishing their strength after that mess of a last year. They were helped in this by some Minutemen who came down to teach their scientific methods the army uses, something the poor farmers of the SPA were not well acquainted with.
Connect in Wilmington: 54 + 5 (funds) + 7 (newspaper) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 69
Last year, the White Laborer's Union was instrumental as support for the Red Shirts and for the coup. After it disbanded, the workers found that their lives weren't any better than before, with the new jobs opening up being non-respectable, bad conditions, and low pay.
The SPA tried to connect with them, emphasizing how business leaders mislead them and that their lives weren't any better than before, so black people were never the problem, but rather it was those who would employee them with low pay.
This came to moderate success, with many of the townspeople wishing for black people to come back, but primarily so they don't have to do those jobs. They agitated for the city to allow black people back in, but the Democrats had a strong hold and refused to change.
And that was when the WUA realized the influence of the SPA. They began sending people over to Wilmington, armed and ready to fight any of the SPA. The Southern People's Alliance responded by sending in their own militia to guard themselves and their speakers, and before long there were full armed confrontations. The SPA got backup from the northern anarchists who sent 1600 militia in anticipation of a battle, more than doubling their forces there and dwarfing the city itself. Once more Wilmington was the site of armies greater than itself facing down.
Force WUA to back down: 64 + 5 (outnumber them) = 69
Faced with a force bigger than themselves the White Union Army fled, instead focusing on a propaganda campaign against lawless anarchist foreigners coming down to steal their democracy away. The confrontation at Wilmington would be a national spectacle, but ultimately come to nothing, with no fighting actually happening and no political changes made. The people of Wilmington would begin to resent their place in battles between armies that came from across the country as the once prosperous city continued to be devastated.
Instead numerous low level fights would break out across the state as battle lines were drawn and people chose their side.
Farmworker agitators: 10d10 = 141 + 10 (journalism) = 151
Streets agitators: 6d20 = 77 + 6 (journalism) = 83
(23.4% increase in recruitment for next turn)
The city of Wilmington itself would generally land in the side of the SPA, albeit less progressive than most of their members. It would remain politically controlled by the Democrats, but a great deal of the people would align with the socialists against the false promises of the bosses.
Meanwhile the countryside was increasingly red. Tens of thousands more farmers would join the SPA, both in North Carolina and across the South. They began being known as rednecks due to the sun burn of the long hours working in the field, and they took it as a matter of pride. Their railroad and city members began taking to wearing red scarves as a symbol of solidarity, being red in the ideological sense if not the farmer sense.
Appalachian Brotherhood:
The AB continued full forward with their goal of Appalachian independence and cultural resurgence, however they may do so.
Power to the Councils: 30
With more and more people wanting to be directly involved and as the AB has grown closer to the RFAA, they decided to put full control of the project to the councils. This would formally merge them with the RFAA, rendering them subject to the overall organizational rules but with autonomy due to the nature of anarchism. This would include rules like dues and membership in the RFAA, but also the benefits of their mutual aid efforts.
But with the addition of mandatory dues as well as the entrance into a purely anarchist organization, many of the brotherhood's more liberal members left. They would refuse to join the councils or advocate for the chance of armed revolution.
While there would still be RFAA councils in Appalachia which did not join the Appalachian Brotherhood interest group due to not caring about Appalachian freedom so much as anarchism in general, the AB would have a dominating influence there.
Farmworkers Agitators: 11d20 = 105 + 11 (school of journalism) = 116
(11.6% increase in recruitment for next turn)
This year they focused their recruitment campaign south, specifically the farmers of middle Appalachia. Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, all began forming rural councils for the purpose of an independent Appalachia no longer bound to the rules of distant city folk on the coasts or elsewhere. For now their presence in those parts would remain extremely sparse, but existent.
Pittsburgh local government contacts: 55 + 7 (Yinz Voice) + 3 (The Valkyrie) + 5 (cultural committee) + 5 (mutual aid networks) = 75
They also tried forming contacts in local government for both Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside. For the city itself, they found it dominated by the Republican Party and the mayor himself corrupt. While they found some contacts in government employees who were sympathetic to their cause, the elected representatives were pro-business, and that meant pro-America, not Appalachia.
The surroundings were residential communities, mill towns, satellite cities, and hundreds of mining towns. Each had their own municipal government to contact, and it went similar to Pittsburgh, with the occasional better success of a small town mayor being in favor and the residential communities being strongly against it with their more middle class character.
The one exception was the town Vandergrift built with the principle of welfare capitalism and private homeownership. It was extremely loyal to capitalist George McMurtry, and their residents have rebuffed all attempts at contact.
Mountain Bases: 57 + 5 (omake) = 62
With open warfare across the south, the brotherhood began preparing for when they would be targeted for their aims of a free Appalachia. They began building up bases and supply caches in the mountains of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, each only accessible with a local guide navigating. These would serve as safe places for any army or refugee.
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People):
The AdP began fully complying with the RFAA's rules this year, having a long time to integrate due to distance, and but have finally instituted mandatory dues by income.
Merge with PR: 42 + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 45
They reached out to the Puerto Rican anarchist organization Federación Regional de Travajadores, the largest leftist group on the island. They have had a strong pro-American stance, seeing connections with American leftist groups as advantageous to the movement. When discussing the idea of a merger they were immediately in favor, eager for access to resources the pan-American organization had.
This year would also see Santiago Iglesias form the Socialist Labor Party of Puerto Rico, inspired by the SLP in America, while the nascent Free Federation of Workers would apply to join the All-Continental Union Association.
Puerto Rico Mutual Aid: 54
With resources from the mainland, they would establish mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Puerto Rico. This would be especially important this year with two hurricanes hitting Puerto Rico, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands without food, shelter, or work. Most sugar and coffee plantations were destroyed, and they knew it would be the work of years to rebuild them.
In the absence of welfare, the Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists came in. Mostly hailing from the southwest, they set up soup kitchens for the many poor and helped them help each other through networking.
(+10% recruitment for next turn, slightly reduced income)
Immigrant aid committee: 52
But they didn't just focus on the Caribbean. They established an Immigrant Aid Committee, which would help Mexicans who wished to move to the United States, whether they be refugees or just wanting a job.
With expanding industry and lots of farmland in the Southwest there were plenty of jobs, especially for immigrants who were willing to work for less. By helping them establish themselves here, many more would be able to safely come, and in turn view the AdP positively.
Anarchist Aid: 42
Finally, they set up a supply line to the Cuban anarchists. This would help them buy American supplies and arouse less suspicion, for whatever they needed.
The current anarchist movement was scattered, with a strong collectivist presence, a smaller anarchist communist movement, and anarchist-feminists, the main feminist group on the island. With encouragement and help from the AdP they would form a Cuban region of the RFAA, mostly autonomous aside from the name and occasionally sending delegates to national RFAA meetings. It would be an alliance of their various anarchist groups and part of the Cuban United Front, albeit still refusing to actively participate in their election this year.
Committee For Indigenous Advocacy:
A new explosive movement emerged this year. With the killings of the Indian Pillagers in Minnesota; the Curtis Act soon dissolving the Five Tribes, taking their land, and establishing residential schools; the Newlands Resolution taking away the independence of Hawaii; and the countless other crimes against indigenous peoples everywhere that the US had committed.
It would begin in Hawaii, as a group of Hawaiians decided to reach out to the American Indians, seeking solidarity in their shared experiences. Soon the movement spread across Minnesota, South Dakota, and the Indian Territory as indigenous peoples across the country wanted to reassert their sovereignty. Many socialists and radical progressives across the country joined the movement, having sympathy for their plight. They would headquarter the national organization in Washington D.C., the heart of their oppressors, and ironically another place under rule by the federal government with no local representation. Still, by nature it would be a fairly federally structured organization with each branch having a wide degree of latitude but sharing resources.
United Front:
This year started out controversial, as Daniel De Leon stepped into the rented out Los Angeles meeting hall.
He suggested that now was the time to centralize the United Front under the Socialist Labor Party and his theories of Marxism. The ACUA would remain as the associated labor union, focusing on labor matters while the SLP put their full effort into winning the 1900 election. After winning they would transfer full political and economic control to the ACUA. While not a popular proposal, his unique status and incessant demanding forced the delegates to hear him out.
Few wanted to dissolve their organizations, and most doubted their ability to win the next election, and so they resoundingly defeated the proposal. The only exception were the ACUA delegates, who stood to gain a great deal from it were it to pass, but ultimately made little fuss.
As a counter proposal, there has also been a push (supported by De Leon now that his other idea did not pass) to create a formal Executive Committee of the United Front. They would be a smaller body selected by the UF delegates. This would be another step in centralizing the UF and would be in charge of running the various active parts of the United Front that aren't tied so specifically to one organization.
With the exception of all but two RFAA delegates (the Mexican ones) they voted to implement the Executive Committee.
Vote against the Treaty of Paris: 52 - 23 (low funds) = 29
Before the new Congress was inaugurated, the old Senate would vote on the Treaty of Paris. The SLP senators would stand in Congress against the bill, their allies of convenience being the anti-imperialist Democrats. They pointed out the massive strike, the mutinous soldiers, and the massive protests from all segments of society, including those just outside Congress. They also lobbied the Democrats with the money they had, though with their competition being the vast moneyed interests who wanted to invest in the new lands it was not enough.
They did manage to secure an amendment that would have the new lands vote on a referendum in two years time in regards to independence, allowing the treaty to go through but keep the potential of independence for America's new acquisitions, an important victory.
Anti-Root: 48 - 50 (no funds) = -2
After they passed the Treaty of Paris, the last session of the 55th Congress finished. The 56th Congress would pick up where they left off and look at the Root Amendment.
With lobbying funds exhausted, the SLP representatives had much less influence on this bill, and despite their loud protests it passed.
Socialist Party of Cuba: 61 + 2 (UF funds, Union campaigning, SPC campaigning) = 63
In Cuba, the Revolutionary Assembly was dissolving to hold elections across all of Cuba for the first time. As these representatives would create Cuba's constitution and either accept or reject America's Hanna Amendment, it was an important one. All adult Cuban males would be allowed to vote, notably not denying the more radical illiterate and poor.
Four parties formed to contest it. The Republican Party lead by Tomas Estrada Palma had the most funds, with their presidential candidate staying in America during the campaign and getting donations. The Democratic Union Party was the major opposition and the most conservative party. Both supported close ties and possible annexation with the US.
The National Party was initially the only independent party, but following a short spat near when it formed the leftists and their community council based organizing left to form the Socialist Party of Cuba. With former anarchist Enrique Messonier as their candidate they went the furthest of all parties and denounced the Hanna Amendment as full imperialism, and that the revolution was not yet done.
With that, Martin Veloz began a Cuban United Front of anarchists and Marxists. It would united the SP, the ascendant anarcho-syndicalist Cuban Workers' Federation, and the Cuban Region of the RFAA, all with their revolutionary goal. They condemned Cuban railroads, cigarette factories, mining, and land all under immediate investment (and therefore ownership) by American businessmen. Additionally with the enforced free trade, Cuba lost important tariff income and the ability to develop their own industries with it being cheaper to buy from America anyway. Not to mention that Cuba was given the colonial government's debt, something they had no ability to pay.
The Socialist Party of Cuba proposed to deny the Hanna Amendment, enact protectionist tariffs and an income tax, and full nationalization of industries. Only with these policies could they truly chart an independent path.
With this they were helped by America's United Front, who donated funds to help them campaign. Additionally the massive protests in America regarding the resulting state of Cuba and its imperialism spoke for themselves that America did consider Cuba their colony, a fact the socialists repeatedly pointed out in debates.
The Socialist Party ran a massive campaign, mobilizing and encouraging workers councils in cities and farms across the nation even as the union directed their people to vote and have their friends do too. They and the Republican Party traded barbs about the other being American stooges, both receiving American funding, and the latter's candidate wasn't even in Cuba.
With election day over, the Socialist Party managed to achieve a plurality of the Cuban Constituent Assembly, with the Republican Party second. Combined with the National Party they voted against accepting the Treaty of Perpetual Friendship and Amity. They ensured the constitution included universal male suffrage and the continuation of a single General Assembly rather than adopting America's bicameral system.
President Messonier wasn't able to get most of his plans done this year, with most of the assembly against him and American ambassadors meeting with him in private. Still, with no new invasion of Cuba was forthcoming and they were now politically independent (if not economically with most of their economy owned by Americans), so he hoped to achieve more on his agenda by the next general election in 1903.
As for other legislature, the house was slow with no one party having a majority. The Republicans had to concede more to the Democrats to have some defectors on each vote, a necessity even with both parties beginning to turn against the new parties more than each other. Electing a speaker took three votes, with ten Democrats defecting on the third vote, more than enough to elect a Republican speaker. Still, it meant that aside from war related bills and general upkeep like the budget, no major legislation was passed this year.
The Great Blizzard of 1899 tore through the country this year and people, livestock, and wildlife succumbed to the cold. Bird populations were brought to near extinction and almost a hundred people died. The US army, meant to be suppressing the strike, was forced inside as the cruel conditions prevented any sort of rail travel, and the government's continued insistence that they cannot return home bread resentment.
The Nationalist Citizens' Alliance began to arm up this year, with meetings without armed men being a rare sight.
Meanwhile their enemy and ally the White Union Army established itself on the national field as a union of all white supremacist groups. Claude Kitchin emerged as the leader of the group, one of the men leading the successful Battle of Wilmington. As the President of the WUA he began to give impassioned speeches in public and give interviews, portraying it as a respectable organization which simply wished to protect the Anglo-protestant way of life. A married man and well educated, he would reassure established interests that the WUA was their friend.
The United States also took possession of Wake Island, an uninhabited Pacific island.
In foreign news, the SPD acted. The rising star of German politics, even efforts to stop their votes or ban the party weren't enough to drive them out of politics. They had a few hundred thousand members, making them the second largest socialist party globally. They were revolutionary Marxists and had strong ties to the General Commission of German Trade Unions (Free Trade Unions for short), an umbrella body for trade unions which also promoted standardization and mergers.
Under the general agreement of the Second International, the Social Democratic party was to oppose imperialism in anyway. Moreover they saw the example the American SLP made of a general strike protesting imperial acquisitions that same year.
This year Germany bought the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, and Palau from Spain, the last of their Pacific colonies after their loss to America. They also annexed the western part of the Samoan Islands in the Tripartite Convention, America annexing the other half.
SPD Anti-Imperial Protests: 53
In response, the SPD requested that the Free Trade Unions perform a strike while they made trouble in parliament and organized protests. While they did consider it, the Free Trade Unions ultimately decided not to do a general strike, but instead a two week demonstration with their dockyard workers, railroad workers, and mineworkers, showing that they could shut down Germany's ability to perform naval projection.
With the short nature of the strike and the lack of pressing need, the Emperor decided to ignore the demonstration, letting it go on and end with minimal repression. While unsuccessful, it did establish for the workers a precedent of political strikes.
All-Continental Union Association:
The ACUA began the year riding high, justified in their strike last year in the eyes of much of the public.
Merge Unions: 47 + 7 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) + 3 (Inter-Union Mutual Aid) = 60
This year, the ACUA called for all their various associated unions to unify based on industry. Prior, they had expanded in large part by contacting existing unions and affiliating with them, resulting in a hodgepodge of tens of dozens of unions with overlapping areas and designs.
In an effort to integrate them all, as well as fully commit to the idea of industrial unionism, they would establish several departments inside of which each industrial union would be a part of. Agriculture and Fisheries, Mining and Energy, General Construction, Manufacture and General Production, Transportation and Communication, and Public Service. Integration into these would be required for all associated unions.
In particular, the United Mine Workers and Western Federation of Miners merged into the Mine Workers Union under the Mining and Energy section. As two of the largest unions this was the toughest, but the UMW having more members (and so would naturally be dominant in the combined union) and the WFM being more radical (and so was more in favor of industrial unionism) proved a natural compromise.
The American Railway Union also benefited, seamlessly merging the other railroad workers into them. They also changed their name to the Railway Workers Union in the process to standardize names.
Continue and expand the strike: 54 + 5 (striking think group) + 5 (teachers) = 64
With the continued war and support riding high, they decided to continue the strike and expand it. For this the ACUA established more strike funds, helped paid for by that the rest of the union last year. But with the unions combined into an industrial union, it was the perfect time to commit to a general strike across the country among all industries they had a secure enough hold in. More mines, construction, agriculture, and the vast factories of the steel belt shut down. The American government had betrayed its peoples trust, and they weren't about to let that go.
Army Agitators: 43 + 7 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 53
But for this to work, they'd need the army to stop their suppression. The army had already heard of their concepts through the newspapers, but were isolated now. So through sending covert agitators, they were able to talk to them face to face, to convince them to end the strike.
While they started, the great winter also begun, paralyzing traffic across the country and making the strikebreaking efforts temporarily useless as no rail nor barge could be operated in the whether. It was in this lull that organizers bundled up and went to talk to the army.
Combined with anarchist agitators, the pressure of the futurist protests against them, and Minutemen leaders talking to groups in the east, they listened. Against the orders of the federal government they began requesting resignations and backing away from armed unions during confrontations, refusing to actually enforce the injunction. As such the rail strike began up again, albeit still somewhat reduced, and the railroads slowed. And none of the other strikes could be put down as the militant unions armed themselves and were guarded by local militia across the country, especially due to relatively high public opinion of the strike due to the efforts of many groups in and out of the United Front.
As a compromise, the Senate passed the Treaty of Paris with a bipartisan amendment that two years from now Guam and Puerto Rico would hold referendums to either stay as part of the US or become independent. They were vague on if American Samoa was included in this deal.
With strike funds running low, the ACUA decided to end the strike.
Dues Committee: 33
(One time 9% decrease in supporters but mechanically all supporters pay dues, this is equivalent income to before now, but more in the future even before the recruitment bonus. Supporters now represents number of members paying dues.)
The ACUA also established a Dues Encouragement Committee. With the established dues allowing for delinquency for those who could not afford to pay them, the ACUA was still very much in need of more funding. Thus this committee's job was to advertise to associated unions recommending that members also pay dues to the ACUA.
National campaign for industrial unionism: 43 + 5 (omake) + 7 (funds) + 5 (inter-union mutual aid) + 7 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 70
The ACUA engaged on a national campaign advocating for industrial unionism and the One Big Union of the ACUA over the AFL craft unions or AAWA's small-but-allied associated unions. They sent people out to each and every union they could find, talking to them personally about the benefits of industrial unionism.
While they didn't achieve work concessions, just this year they were able to force the federal government government to bow down to their demands in a general strike.
Meanwhile they emphasized the AFL's scabrous treason at the height of the Great Anti-Imperialist Strike, to the point of helping the army break pickets without even a pottage-mess of heightened wages as a reward.
They also emphasized the efficacy of their political action, such as the labor rights bills in Illinois, New York, and New Orleans and direct action of the rail and mine workers in '94 and the eastern miners in '97 over the AFL's class collaboration and the All-American Workers' Alliance company unionism that made the union a tool of management and jingoism which would have workers murder each other in the name of empire.
As a result of the campaign, the AFL was diminished. Their remaining unions were mostly conservative Catholics following the lead of anti-socialist clerics (Catholics being around half of the AFL in the first place), who hated the ACUA's racial integration and progressive values enough to stick together against them. But at this point they were all but doomed to die out, especially with the APFA and socialists being more popular among new immigrant Catholics. The liberal protestant activists who had previously dominated the AFL with reformist craft unionism were largely discredited as workers turned to socialism or the more immediate reformism of the futurists. Whatever came of the ACUA, whether they continue or die out, the AFL would not be their successor.
In particular the railway unions were back strong, helped by the RFAA's strong campaign this year. They also did well in New York, with this and the new labor laws there convincing many of the older unions to jump ship. They also managed to get many deserters from the International Seaman's Union, whose leadership stayed in the AFL but much diminished. These seamen wished for national political reforms that the ACUA were in a better position to grant them such as abolishing the practice of imprisonment for seamen who deserted their ship, regulated working hours, minimum food quality, safety regulations such as lifeboats, and more.
Book Clubs: 45
With the influx of new members, they started a series of book clubs across the country. These would serve to teach Marxist theories, with some anarchists texts as well portrayed as the (implicitly only other) alternative. These would prove to be somewhat popular, with workers across the country discussing the works of Marx, Engels, Bakunin, as well as more local theorists such as Goldman, Voight, DeLeon, and some new agrarian socialist writings.
Helping Cuba: 63 + 10 (extra funds) = 73
Gonzales Lozana, the leader of the anarcho-syndicalist Cuban Workers' Federation, has requested covert resources and collaboration to help unionize Cuba. The ACUA and RFAA both responded.
With the end of the war, Cuban railroads, cigarette factories, mines, and land were quickly being bought up by American business due to the advantages of cheap labor and free trade with America.
The ACUA sent organizers from their own agricultural unions and covert strike funds to help the nascent union federation. They worked mainly with the sugar and tobacco workers to unionize (the RFAA organizers mainly worked with the dock workers, railway workers, and factory workers), and then declared a general strike for better pay and less hours.
When the police were sent in to put down the strike, parts of the army moved in. The victorious Liberation Army never disbanded, with those it demobilized becoming reservists, and its left wing was Afro-Cuban, rural, poor, and extremely sympathetic to the workers movement. That part of it rose to confront the police, preventing violence. The unions managed to achieve wage increases as businesses buckled, and though they fell short of equality to American workers they did manage to stay together.
In the wake of the incident, there were more calls to disband the Liberation Army and form a new standing army. Estrada Palma, presidential candidate of the Republican Party of Havana and favorite to win the election, supported this, while Enrique Messonier's Socialist Party of Cuba explicitly was against it.
In the elections this year the Cuban Workers' Federation would support the Socialist Party of Cuba in accordance with their United Front strategy.
Illinois Labor Laws: 50
The ACUA worked with the SLP to establish a set of labor laws in Illinois. These would establish the 8 hour workday and 40 hour workweek, mandatory pay in wages instead of scrip, a minimum wage, public assistance in meals, books, clothes, etc. for schoolchildren, and state and municipal employment programs for the unemployed. The latter would begin as a series of infrastructure maintenance and building projects, the result being owned and operated by the state.
With their majority control of the state and an enthusiastic rolling out the reforms was steady across the year. They were popular among the working people of the state, including many of the labor rights demanded for so many years. It was also national proof that they would act on their platform, making Illinois the most labor-friendly state in the country, and ensuring voters wouldn't start to distrust them.
California Militia: 65
They also began reshuffling the California state militia. Most of the current members were conservative or liberal, and very racist. Out of all the SLP held states they were the most important to switch out and Governor Harriman decided to begin now. Over the course of the year he would get rid of the old members, especially in leadership positions, and selectively hire union men and members of the Friends. While there was some backlash to Asian men in the militia, there was little they could do about it.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
This year, the party focused on legislation.
Party-outreach committee: 45
To help with this, they established a party-outreach committee. This committee would consist of legislators and other members of the party involved in negotiation with other parties over bills. By strategizing and providing training, they would be able to better get other parties to work with them.
Women's Suffrage Michigan: 51 + 5 (Party Outreach Committee) = 56
Michigan had already given women the right to vote in school meetings over a decade ago. Since then the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association had campaigned for municipal suffrage, and almost won it with the state senate barely voting it down multiple times. When they finally passed it (limited to literate women), the judiciary ruled it unconstitutional.
Now with the Land and Labor Reform Party with a majority, they took up the cause. Governor Johnson requested that the legislature listen to the impassioned speeches of the suffragists, and they did. With a few defectors in both the house and senate from other parties, they just barely passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in the entire state.
North Dakota Suffrage: 25 + 123?! (funds) + 5 (POC) = Overflow?
North Dakota Taxes: 36 + 100?! (funds) + 5 (POC) = Overflow?
Meanwhile in North Dakota, the legislature was not as cooperative. The LLRP had only a minority in the Senate, and this years senators were much more conservative. In the past they had repeatedly voted down women's suffrage, and this year looked to be much the same.
Used to the politics of Michigan, with more representatives and used to much more money flowing around, the party tried their normal lobbying. But North Dakota was a small state with fewer and poorer moneyed interests, part of what made it possible for the Populists to win it just a few years ago. With the amount of money earmarked for lobbying, many politicians took it as an outright bribe. On its own that would have been fine, but one decided to leak it. Progressive politicians, the same ones they sought to ally with for passing women's suffrage, were commonly anti-corruption, and they happened to attempt to bribe one with principles.
In the aftermath of attempting to save their progressive reputation and prevent a bigger disaster, neither bill was passed in North Dakota this year. But they did manage to keep the public relations disaster from spilling over to the public too much, and so hoped to still win next year's election.
They did have a small win in North Dakota, and that was in the cities. While they were being wracked by scandal on the state level, in most cities they had a sizable majority, and so were able to pass municipal tax changes. While less than a tenth of the population lived in cities, this was also where the policy was most popular, and urban workers applauded the effort.
Root Amendment: 52 - 15 (funds) = 37
The Root Amendment, proposed by Secretary Elihu Root in collaboration with Republican Representatives, would demand the Philippines include in their constitution certain rights tying them to the USA. They would acknowledge the permanent naval base in Manilla, they would not be able to enter a treaty with a foreign power that may affect their independence, and the US had the right to intervene to protect their independence.
On a national scale, the LLRP took the lead in campaigning against the Root Amendment. This came as a surprise to many, with the amendment being quite similar to the Hanna Amendment the LLRP championed but with even less strong ties. But during the war the LLRP took a sharply anti-imperialist turn, disappointed with how it went. With the long debates about ratifying the Treaty of Paris and possible amendments to it, by the time they started discussing the Root Amendment the new Congress had been sworn in.
With their 9 representatives allied with the SLP's 25 representatives, the Populist's 10 representatives, 6 pacifist Republicans who worked closely with The Orange Disciples, and 7 futurist politicians. The latter only reluctantly joined the block upon pressure from their base, voting with them but not loudly advocating as they were pro-war normally.
These 56 representatives were opposed by 161 Republicans, with both sides needing 179 for a majority. While the LLRP lobbied and tried to ally with as many anti-imperialist Democrats as they could, their alliance with the black socialists meant that many felt they couldn't join with them. Additionally, the Republicans and Democrats had been becoming closer together lately, fearful of the growing radicalism of the American left. And unlike Cuba, this bill did not mean free trade with the Philippines, and so the Bourbon Democrats' interests were not threatened. It primarily concerned allowing for US power projection in the Pacific and Asia, as well as denying other European powers (many believed that without US protection, Germany would annex the Philippines). As such it was possible for McKinley to get the 18 Democrats he needed, and when the vote came the bill passed with a small majority.
The American Reform Movement: 19
After a ticket to a train station was lost in the mail, five people were forced to stay in a Chicago train station. Hailing from the LLRP, the APFA TOD, the NAP, and the Minutemen, it initially looked like they would not get along. But soon the conversation shifted towards what they saw as the American experiment buckling, and the people's feelings of hopelessness and discontent creating apathy and extremism. But all of them believed nothing couldn't be fixed, reformed. All they needed was to give a little hope and that would be enough.
In the month after, all those groups' leadership corresponded, and at a five-year celebration of the Sons of the Frontier, delegates came together to set up The American Reform Movement.
And that was where they went into trouble. The futurists and Minutemen called TOD cowards, the Orange Disciples fired back that the APFA were warmongers that got them into this mess of the war, along with the LLRP who came up with the Hanna Amendment and the NAP who sold weapons for the war. The Minutemen were attacked as radicals and insurrectionists themselves for their support of the FAM and SPA.
Soon the meeting with split in two, not even among party lines but among delegates. The Pacifists including TOD, most of the LLRP, and one futurist representative thought entering the war at all was a mistake. Meanwhile the militarists, including the Minutemen, NAP, APFA, and some of the LLRP thought entering the war wasn't inherently bad, just made so by the Treaty of Paris' terms afterwards.
The only thing they could agree on was to meet again next year, each half of the convention planning on a new one the next year. If that wasn't bad enough, the news then got ahold of it, branding them as radicals themselves hoping to destroy America's core. As much as they were reformists, it was true most of the organizations wished for changes to American society, whether it be tax reform, industrial reform, progressive ideals, or general militancy. As America radicalized, those on both the radical left and establishment right would grow to increasingly be against the relative center-left that ARM represented.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
The anarchist movement continued expanding this year as people across the country were disillusioned with their elected representatives and turned towards libertarianism.
Agitators to Army Camps: 49 + 2 (extra funds) + 7 (The International Traveler) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 61
The anarchists also sent agitators to the army. They sought to convince them to organize, establishing soldier's councils and refusing to put down the strike. While they didn't quite succeed in the former, they did manage to convince most groups of soldiers they talked to refuse to actively put down the strike.
After demobilization, a few of the veterans even joined the RFAA, having few options for a job and their main support network being run by the RFAA. Many joined their militia, wanting to do something good with their training.
North-East Railway Unions: 71d20 = 851 - 71 (business fears) - 142 (NCA) = 638/500
They worked with the Railway Workers Union to get the rest of the Northeastern rail workers to join it. They had to fight the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance and the railroads themselves, outnumbering the NCA in protest actions and demanding union shops from the businesses through the threat of and follow through on small scale strikes and picket lines.
By the end of the year the North-East had joined the Midwest in having the vast majority of railroad workers as part of the Railway Workers Union, ensuring that of need be they could shut down transportation once more.
Pro-Labor Laws: 81
Surprisingly, the RFAA worked with Mayor Hillquit on establishing new labor laws in NYC. Of course, the anarchists had a different focus than a more statist group would have in drafting these laws. Their priority here was protecting the union's ability to act, and therefore stopping the capitalists from interfering with organizing labor.
While the True-Anarchists opposed even this, that mostly meant that they didn't get involved in the community discussions as to what the laws should contain, focusing their efforts elsewhere. Much of the effort was done by a short term commission appointed by the New York Collective Council consisting solely of Solidarity anarchists working with the SLP.
They established firm laws protecting unions, the right to bargain and strike, and having either a union shop or closed shop. It explicitly protected sympathy strikes and made it illegal for hired security to interfere with a strike, effectively barring the Pinkertons and other strike-breaking groups from working within the city.
At the insistence of their more feminist members they also modified Teddy Roosevelt's old laws to be the same for both men and women, and only 40 hours.
They also consolidated the city, reducing the powers of the Boroughs in favor of a more unified policy. This ensured that instead of having SLP majority and Republican majority sections of the city, it would be all SLP—assuming they kept winning elections. They also made sure to having polling booths in the poorer (and redder) parts of the city, ensuring voting access. Finally they restructured the city legislature to be unicameral, making it easier to pass decisions with a majority hold.
They also passed a universal suffrage bill, but it was quickly declared unconstitutional by the state legislature.
The old newspapers of the city harshly criticized all these measures, declaring them to be undemocratic and doomed to drive away business by giving all power to the unions. While no such vast fleeing of capitalists materialized, nationally it was becoming a trend for them to invest more in areas with little labor agitation.
Transfer to councils: 44 + 5 (mutual aid) + 5 (Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare) = 54
They also had Hillquit transfer some powers of the city to the councils. He was reluctant, convinced it would backfire and ruin his election changes next time, but with their assistance finally agreed. The next step of dual power, they hoped it would discredit the need for liberal democratic institutions. The most important of which was the newly formed Department of Sanitation, in charge of street cleaning.
They used The Worker's Post and the mutual aid networks to connect with the people about it, encouraging direct communication with the councils and even participate themselves. They managed to take a smooth changeover, encouraging many of the former workers to join them and keep their jobs, which helped the transition. Now it would be the RFAA who the people of NYC saw cleaning their streets and making it a more bearable place to live.
NYC Schools: 26 + 5 (mutual aid) + 5 (omake) = 36
The New York anarchists also began trying to set up schools run by anarchists, inspired by the Cuban anarchists. These would be run nontraditionally, with more focus on democracy in the classroom, and would allow for running schools that accepted adults who wished to get more of a basic education.
For this first year, they had some trouble actually getting enough people to participate in the schools. But with any luck that was a problem that would be solved next year, with extra time being all that was needed.
RFAA Cuban Unions: 60 + 10 (funds) = 70
With Gonzales Lozana requesting for aid on behalf of the anarcho-syndicalist Cuban Workers' Federation, the American anarchists answered. Sending people and discrete funds for a strike fund, they helped them unionize the dock workers, railway workers, and cigarette factory workers of Cuba. During the strike they would see the union gain in size and strength, shutting down much of the country's economy until they won their rights.
While there they made sure to make connections with the rest of the Cuban anarchist movement, ensuring that the union kept its anarchist ties.
Link SFAF Philadelphia mutual aid network: 66
Famed anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre has been pushing to link the Society of Friends of All Faith's mutual aid network in Philadelphia to the RFAA's. She's been active in the poor Jewish community there, and has been involved in their mutual aid efforts even as she was part of the RFAA.
With this link, both groups would benefit, as the unified group was much larger, and though the SFAF gained a greater benefit, the RFAA hoped that this would align them more with their cause. This initial link would be a good start to formally merging all the mutual aid networks in the event that the SFAF joined the UF.
Set up councils: 35 + 7 (The International Traveler) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 45
With the RFAA going national, they also had to set up more councils. Throughout America, from the West Coast to the Great Lakes to the South, local anarchists started setting up councils fully integrated with the RFAA's structure. With these they began to start organizing more mutual aid efforts across the country.
West Virginia Mutual Aid: 63 + 5 (welfare) = 68
Massachusetts Mutual Aid: 65 + 5 (welfare) = 70
St. Louis Mutual Aid: 51 + 5 (welfare) = 56
Local councils across Massachusetts finally began setting up mutual aid networks. As the second urban core of the RFAA, it was a long time coming, with the area also being subject to the harshest police response. But as they finished organizing, they did it well, and Massachusetts was continuing on its way to being a red state.
With the integration of the Appalachian Brotherhood, the new councils of West Virginia began setting up mutual aid efforts. Unlike most of the country these did better with both mining towns and cuties working together, allowing for a more expansive program than their urban population would suggest.
Finally, they put effort into expanding their reach beyond the current core of the United Front by putting resources into St. Louis' few councils to help them establish mutual aid there. While it would doubtlessly be difficult, they hoped to expand the movement to Missouri through this.
Send militia south: 67
1600 men and women of the CDC went south to help the SPA. With tensions flaring up with Wilmington once more they went to help their comrades and came home satisfied that they scared off the reactionaries.
The Forty Acres Movement:
The FAM continued to build up in the lull of fighting this year as the White Union Army reorganized itself. There was still continued low level fighting, much like when The Defense Group was first formed, but to a manageable level.
Train militia: 64 + 10 (training procedures) + 5 (Minutemen Trainers) = 79 * 6 (funds) = 474
They continued by training nine more cadres, further increasing the size of the increasingly professional militia. They were in part helped by this by white northerners, several Minutemen who came by to provide training techniques using scientific methods.
Louisiana Equal Rights Bill: 41 + 2 (funds) = 43
In Louisiana, the party attempted to pass an equal rights bill. They lobbied Republicans in the senate to achieve a majority, knowing that said Republicans also depended on it for Louisiana to not be permanently Democratic like most of the rest of the south, but they had certain stipulations.
Most of the bill was thrown out, including public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, and right to serve on a jury, for all, and making election day a holiday (as this would help poorer voters, more democrat and SLP than Republican here). Instead it was watered down to just a suffrage bill, giving suffrage rights for all adults 21 years or older regardless of race, color, or creed and prevented any sort of poll tax or literacy test. Even women's suffrage wasn't achievable here, with the courts ready to declare any bill unconstitutional and they didn't have the votes for an amendment. Despite the watering down of the bill to the point it was mostly symbolic, the governor vetoed the bill and the state congress didn't have the votes to override it.
Special Election: 42 + 5 (campaigners) + 4 (effort) = 51
Louisiana's 5th Congressional District had a special election this March, and the SLP ran for it. While they did not earmark any funds, they did run a ground campaign to reach out for the voters, and of course encouraged FAM members to vote SLP. This was also the first election women could vote in, and they turned out in moderate numbers to mostly vote for the SLP.
With a small majority they won the election, beating out both the Democrats and Populists who contested it, and sending a fifth Representative to Congress.
Factory Agitators: 12d20 = 147 + 12 (CSJ) = 159
Mining Agitators: 12d20 = 138 + 12 (CSJ) = 150
Farmworker Agitators: 8d20 = 62 + 8 (CSJ) = 70
College/University Agitators: 6d20 = 76 + 6 (CSJ) = 82
(46.1% increase in recruitment for next turn)
This year the FAM focused on diversifying their movement. They did still continue reaching out to the farmworkers as their primary base, but it was a smaller effort this year. For their other efforts they had journalists recently graduated from the Chicago School of Journalism with all the best tricks and rhetoric for reaching out to people and convincing them of your cause.
They reached out to the factory workers in conjunction with unionization campaigns, further strengthening their position in the city. From the gold mines in Georgia, coal mines in Alabama and Mississippi, or Louisiana's salt and sulphur mines, agitators came to convince them to join the Forty Acres Movement. And in both cases they joined in the hundreds and thousands, as the FAM quickly became the foremost civil rights organization for African Americans everywhere, not just for farmers.
They also reached out to the colleges and universities. This represented a sort of attempt at reconciliation with the Bookerites who were more popular among middle class African Americans and sympathetic rich white allies. While the rift wouldn't be fully mended, as Booker T Washington's Atlanta Compromise promised not to focus efforts on equality or integration, many of his supporters began to radicalize into believing more immediate change was possible.
With these richer allies joining the Forty Acres Movement came their money and the opportunity to use these highly educated people.
Buying out farms: 20d20 = 176 + 40 (trained barterers) + 40 (Boll Weevil Infestation) + 5 (credit union) = 261, 848/27755
They also continued buying out more farms, giving their own farms to thousands of new farmers. This was helped by the Boll Weevil infestation's continued spread across the south, destroying many farms as they ate away the cotton, and bankrupting the landlords.
Industrial Planning Commission: 61
The Council Congress established an Industrial Planning Commission, with the members consisting in it elected from the worker councils. This commission would be in charge of continuously developing the south, enriching them and establishing economic independence.
Armaments and Munitions Manufacturing: 45 + 5 (Industrial Planning Commission) = 50
Its first task was to manage setting up various armaments and munitions manufacturing. Due to the organization's rural nature, and indeed the rural nature of the south as a whole, as well as the hope to keep it semi-hidden, they split it up within many towns across the whole south rather than have one big efficient factory like SUS built in the north.
Luckily with the dedicated effort for this the commission managed to prevent any extreme inefficiencies from the distributed manner. Trying to produce more advanced weaponry such as machine guns may result in more difficulties, but for now, the Spartacists would see a steady influx of guns and ammo.
Unionize: 62d20 = 669 - 62 (business fears) - 124 (NCA) = 483, 606/1200
They also embarked on a massive unionization campaign across the south. Against the efforts of racist employers seeking to exploit them, the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance's effort to protest labor organizing, and the WUA's partisan efforts, they connected to the black workers of the cities and funded their strikes and their rights. Efforts to fire them and hire new workers were useless, for those were workers too who could be brought into the union.
By the end of the year half the black belt was unionized, and standing in solidarity with their rural comrades.
Petty Fines Budget: 69
They also vastly increased the budget set aside for paying off the petty fines put upon black men just to arrest them and force them to labor once more. This saved countless men from prison and slavery once more, with many of them joining the FAM in gratitude. For those already within the movement, it simply solidified their thankfulness to it.
Dual Power: 40
In majority black and FAM supported towns, they began establishing dual power. The councils would establish a town government, which would collect taxes and do normal town functions. These would conflict with the current town governments, usually dominated by white people.
In some cases the police of sheriffs tried to arrest the new governments, but the Spartacists were prepared and stood in confrontations. No fights happened, but they suspected they'd begin to be targets for the WUA. Not that many considered that a bad tradeoff, with the WUA having shown to be willing to attack towns for any reason at all.
Near the end of the year, southern circuit court justices finished filing an injunction against the Forty Acres Movement under the Anti-Trust Act. It used the argument that they were preventing free trade through having a variety of industry all integrated together, as well as having their members directly buy and sell from each other rather than going through the free market. While it was quite a stretch, the vague wording of the act was enough that several biased judges allowed it to go through.
Attorney General John Griggs was reluctant to prosecute the case, being an outstanding defender of rights for both workers and African Americans. But following a meeting with several Republican Party leaders, Griggs decided to go through with it, something described as "Republicans cynically hoping African Americans will crawl back to them after they destroy their independence" by leftist newspapers. President McKinley has been kept aloof of the whole affair, not commenting one way or another.
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices had been nominated by Republicans, but only one voted against Plessy V Ferguson. Still, this was a case on very shaky grounds, with the FAM having only a small fraction of each of their industries compared to many businesses. It was blatantly a political attack against the militant organization.
In the end the ruled that The Forty Acres Movement was breaking the law, but simply gave them a large fine. They did not rule that they couldn't be broken up in the future, but for now they would not force things to come to a head. While it wasn't as far as many Democrats hoped, it opened it up for future legal action, and would hamper the organization this next year.
It also began splitting the Republican Party over those in favor of and against the measure, with those against it calling back to their abolitionist heritage and those for it hoping it would quell the southern violence and bring African Americans back into the party.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
The Society continued having internal arguments this year, with once again the leftist faction winning an implementing their agenda.
Mutual aid networking: 56
The RFAA, particularly through local anarchists on the ground, has asked to link their Philadelphia mutual aid networks. This allowed their much smaller network to get the resources of the larger one, and has tied the organizations closer together. With this further cooperation with the United Front seemed more internally politically viable as those who wished to stay uninvolved lost influence, especially with the other events of the year.
City soup kitchens: 65 + 5 (extra funds) = 70
They also worked with churches and synagogues in the smaller cities of New Jersey, Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania to establish charitable aid. With these they had established them across much of the Mid-Atlantic, servicing the poor in dozens of cities of tens of millions of people.
NYC Schooling: 33 + 3 (extra funds) + 1 (mutual aid) = 37
They also established a charity low cost schooling program in New York for adults, especially African Americans, Italian-Americans, women, and other minorities. However, they had to make it smaller than they initially planned to, as less people showed interest than expected. Still it earned gratitude from those who went and many of them joined.
Rural adult-literacy: 48 + 4 (extra funds) + 5 (mutual aid) = 57
They established a similar program in the rural areas of New York through associated churches and synagogues. This program went just as well, with many churches participating with the idea that the ability to read the Bible was quite important.
Train Militia: 65 * 15 (funds) = 975
They also trained almost a thousand more militia, vastly expanding their forces to almost three thousand. This was in expectation of further conflict with the White Union Army as the latter began recruiting north.
Confrontation: 69 + 5 (omake) = 74
DC to fight: 60 + 18 (hundreds of militia) = 78
They caught the White Union Army during a march, all 300 of their Maryland militia (many of which were actually from Virginia) together trying to intimidate the people of Baltimore. They yelled anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic slurs as they marched around the city. 1800 SFAF militiamen showed up, armed and ready, blocking their way.
Having decided they couldn't attack first, needing to be the sympathetic party here, the Society forces went close but did not shoot. Intimidated by the much larger size of their enemies, the White Union Army eventually fled. They would continue trying to do marches in Maryland, but the Society of Friends of All Faiths would always be there to head them off and protect the people. Eventually their marches began to shrink as more of their members got intimidated, never having the advantage as they did in the deep south.
While they weren't decisively defeated, the spread of their influence was definitely limited as they were continuously humiliated.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The futurists had a tense year, with a leadership shift and harsh backlash. This would be a tumultuous year, and likely would continue being so for the next few. They actually decreased their membership for the first time this year, internal opposition and outside bad optics resulting in fewer recruits and more people leaving.
Anti-Strike Breaking Protests: 54 + 5 (Forwards Together!) - 7 (War Hawks) = 52
With the brutish hawks in Congress annexing foreign territory and using violence to break strikes, the APFA organized protests. They were against the territorial annexations and use of violence to break the strikes, pushed solely by the brutish hawks in Congress.
This came as a surprise to many, as the futurists were some of the biggest supporters of the war. Additionally the right wing of the organization had always supported the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures"–something which always implied a colonial relationship.
But their left wing had begun backing socially progressive causes on more of an ideological rather than just practical basis, and additionally viewed it as smarter to give the unions what they want rather than shutting down the country as the army fights them. This anti-imperialist faction had members in several key positions this year, despite being the smaller faction, and so was able to influence the organization's decisions. Also, the circumvention of the Hanna Amendment and the violence against striking unions had cooled their opinion of violence for violence sake, though the War Hawk faction still believed in that. They instead believed in focused, directed, and efficient violence.
So it was this faction that set up large scale protests across the steel belt, especially in front of the army and railway stations they would attack, protesting the annexations and strike breaking. The shame, as well as overt hostility from one of many Congressmen's backers, rapidly began to convince both the soldiers to stop fighting the unions and the Congressmen to make a compromise.
In two years time there would be a referendum in the annexed territories, each choosing to go free or to stay annexed to the US.
Steel Belt Campaign: 54 + 5 (Forwards Together) + 20 (extra funds) - 7 (War Hawks) = 72
With the All-American Workers' Alliance and industrialists, the APFA sought to challenge ACUA and AFL dominance within the steel belt.
However, the AAWA began to split here. With the futurist opposition to violence against the unions, an anti-imperialist block had formed within the organization. Here that block split into the left-leaning Anti-Imperialists, who were the most strongly against said violence and even supported working with the ACUA on a provisional basis, and the centrist Technocrats, who were strongly in favor of small unions connected by their association with the AAWA. The Hawks weren't in favor of any union not controlled by management, though they were a more minor player in this campaign as they were entirely against its anti-violence message.
The funds served to help fund the All-American Workers' Alliance's operations which included helping associated unions go on small scale strikes. But primarily they hired negotiators to talk to the companies, wanting to avoid any violence. They negotiated for increased pay, reduced hours, and workplace racial integration. They also began lobbying for increased labor legislation, a point that wasn't on the table for Republicans or Democrats this year but hopefully would be in the future.
They also specifically denounced and argued against the AFL's stance on race and sex positions. For this they began running into the problem that almost all of the remaining AFL membership were conservative Catholics, who genuinely pushed that policy from the bottom up. The change in attitudes would be a much greater effort than simply denouncing the AFL's official stance, though they did get their start.
For the ACUA, they tried to discredit the more ideological parts of their program, specifically the commitment to revolutionary Marxism and Anarchism, and the violence implied therein. And here was the conflict. The Hawks, despite being the most right-wing faction, were also primarily pro-violence for violence's sake. They fought against this rhetoric focusing on how the violence of a revolution was inherently bad, and wanted the organizers to instead focus on the evils of socialism.
But the Hawks weren't in charge of this endeavor, so they mainly managed to simply interfering with them. Many unions, indeed, were wary of a violent revolution or another civil war less than fifty years after the last one. But most considered violence to be something the state had more of a hand in starting than anything they did, seeing as the ACUA hadn't even officially organized giving out weapons to their unions.
By the end of the year the AFL was barely hanging on, with only the most conservative unions left. They made less progress against the ACUA, with quite a few workplaces leaving them but more joining from the AFL. Many in the AAWA were beginning to consider the ACUA less of an enemy, with their alliance against imperialism and similar goals, though many more considered the ACUA's Marxism to be degenerate and anti-American.
Additionally the technocrats and anti-imperialists were getting disillusioned with private business' ability to run factories and supported the idea of a government run planned economy which could ensure everything ran perfectly, ideally with small unions that couldn't disrupt things nationally but could negotiate on a local basic. Where they differed here is the anti-imperialists supported dissolving businesses while the technocrats supported the continued existence of businesses integrated with government.
Root Amendment: 80 - 7 (Hawks) = 73
(Longer part in LLRP section)
The APFA pressured their affiliated representatives to vote against the Root Amendment. This came as a surprise to many of said representatives, who explicitly were elected on a pro-war platform. In fact this came to great debate, with many within the APFA itself agreeing with said representatives.
But in the end, the threat of no longer supporting them in future elections was enough to make those representatives to vote their way.
Military Strategy Committee: 40
Having taken note of the Minutemen programs in universities and the volume of war veterans, the APFA set up a committee to study military strategy to form the backbone of a potential future militia or serve as an advisory group to other military bodies.
In other news Nikola Tesla promised he had s project finishing next year, and would show it off at a futurist convention.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Friends continued their course even as they expanded massively into Hawaii, the mostly Asian island's resentment against America being fertile ground for agitation.
Sabotage NCA: 34 + 3 ( YS infiltrations) = 37
The Yellow Scarves attempted to send saboteurs to Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflicts and break them up. Specifically, to tie in with their other focus on Hawaii this year, they tried to stop them from getting the white people there to form a new branch. And for this they were somewhat successful, with the white population still vaguely hostile to the Asian and native populations but also not connecting with the mainland's reactionary groups.
For breaking up existing branches they were much less successful, but not to the point where they couldn't try again next year.
Hawaii Unions: 10d20 = 148 - 10 (business fears) = 138, 138/60
This helped tie into their unionization campaign. Hawaii's sugar industry was booming, with American investment more than doubling it every 10 years for the past several decades, and set to continue. This was sustained by extreme immigration policies, mostly from Japan and China, though post-annexation they planned to replace Chinese immigrants with many more places of origin such as Korea, the Philippines, and Europe.
They also had other industries, such as pineapple fruits and canned goods, and of course the longshoremen and other port workers.
The collapse of the bound labor contracts (a form of indentured servitude) with their annexation provided for an opportunity. With secret strike funds gathered from the FHM, 1,500 Japanese sugar farm workers walked off the plantations. With effort they were joined by other sugar farm workers, and soon they were joined by the other industries, the promise of strike funds from the mainland and the mythical Yellow Scarves' protection. Even a few white workers joined them, though only that few.
With what was almost a general strike on the island, and the mainland having more important issues than to help them in any way, the plantation owners soon gave in and recognized the unions as well as wage increases to match the white workers. The unions soon after voted to join the ACUA in recognition of the contribution the Friends made, and many workers joined the Friends.
Hawaiian Birth Certificates: 45 + 10 (governor + plurality in government) = 55
(10% increase in recruitment for next turn)
Using previous skills in forging, plus the opportunities that having strong allies in the state government gave them, they started forging documents on a massive scale. Chinese immigration this year would look just like it did before the restrictive immigration acts took effect, with thousands moving in. Many would join the Friends in gratitude, as well as simply because it meant having a connected community of their culture.
Something at this massive scale was hard to hide, but with the local administration on their side they would manage it. The federal government would be far too busy with the strike and managing the end of the war to notice Hawaii's stated number of citizens was far higher than the census, especially since the last one was almost a decade ago and the population was fast growing anyway.
With the ability to hide people as Hawaiian as well as the cooperation of SLP officials their efforts to forge documents would be greatly strengthened into the future.
Head Tax Fund: 67
While Canada was also hostile to Chinese immigration, they were less so, with the main requirement being a head tax on immigrants. This meant in order to come they would either have to be in debt, or have a company pay it for them and have to work for that company.
By establishing a fund for paying this head tax, and then helping them integrate into local communities, the new immigrants would be ingratiated to them and the FHM would continue to serve as an important part of their community.
Rails: 40d20 = 280 + 50 (Rigging Railcars) = 330, 1414/2000
How bad is it? Low=bad: 71
They continued trying to prepare the rails to be able to shut them down. But they made less progress this year for one reason: they were caught.
Federal troops, ordered to stop the railway strike but having mostly petered out efforts to actually do so, had found stashes of explosives and modifications to the rails which had been made to be able to quickly shut them down. Reporting it up the chain federal investigators tried to come in, but Governor Harriman got wind of it first and sent his own team in. Cleaning up the evidence and declaring it to be nothing but natural wear and tear, they avoided giving an excuse to crack down on their activities. But it did give suspicion, and the Yellow Scarves would have to be more careful and better hide their efforts going into the future. Privately Harriman would express frustration at the risk they were taking, considering it useless with the goal of revolution on both sides of the mountain.
Manilla Base Spies: 54
The Yellow Scarves sent spies to work in the American military base at Manilla. By working at the port and in civilian jobs in the base itself they would be in a position to overhear things as well as potentially act in the future, whether that be sabotage for a Philippine takeover or assassinations, or anything else.
The spies also got in contact with Sun Yat-Sen, whose been living in the Philippines since their revolution, who mentioned he was planning on another attempt at revolution in China. To aid in this TFHM began stockpiling more funds and weapons.
Buy out farms: 51 + 5 (FMC) = 56
They also began buying out farms which Chinese workers labor on. Unlike their African American comrades over in the east, they did not break up the farm but rather ran it industrially with workplace democracy, integrated into the Factory Management Council. This gave the profits to the Friends and improved both the work conditions and pay of the workers there, who were glad of the change.
Importantly, it gave the council experience in managing a farm on a small scale, something that would be important if they ever were to take over all the farms.
California Eminent Domain: 53 + 3 (funds) = 56
In California, the SLP drafted a bill with the help of the Friends which would require the state government to continuously use eminent domain to buy up probate land used for public transport and communication such as railroads and the telegraph industry. Meanwhile the municipalities began drafting a bill to own public utilities, something that passed easily enough in SLP controlled cities.
For the state bill, it was enough to get many of the Democratic-Populist coalition representatives to vote for the bill. While it wasn't full nationalization of the railroads as the Populists preferred in their platform, it was the closest thing to a step towards that which they could take. Just as importantly, it would help their goal of being able to sabotage the railroads in a time of need.
The courts would challenge the law, but ultimately decided that eminent domain was well established as legal across the country, and thus failed to destroy the bill.
It would also involve fully imbursing the owners of said transport and communication infrastructure, in many cases more than it was actually worth, meaning that until the state could bring in more taxes it would be slow process. Additionally, only intrastate railroads could be nationalized in this way, with interstate railroads falling under federal authority.
The Orange Disciples:
This year the Orange Disciples stayed the course, continuing their progressive message.
Anti-Root Amendment: 56
(Main section in LLRP)
The Orange Disciples pressured their previously supported representatives to vote against the Root Amendment. Having run on pacifist platforms they were eager to do so, becoming some of the greatest advocates against the bill alongside the LLRP and SLP. Still, it wasn't enough, with most Republicans alongside many Democrats teaming up in favor if it, and McKinley signed the bill.
Connect with the Rich: 140d20 = 1456
(+43.7 funds per turn)
This year Orange Disciples came to the parties of the rich, mingling with both new industrialists and the old rich of the north. Southern aristocracy wouldn't even entertain them, doubtlessly funding the WUA on their own.
With the vast amount of funds they dedicated to this, their representatives could dress and dine with the best of them, truly showing that the disciple were one of them. They tried to push the message that racism and the violence it breeds was bad for business. They also brought up the recently revealed fact that the White Union Army was getting armaments stolen from the army, something that should make any patriotic American furious.
Captains of Industry such as Rockefeller and Carnegie had a long history of donating to progressive causes, and many new ones did as well, joining or simply becoming a donor for the Orange Disciples.
They also managed to get the support to pressure the Republican Party to allow Teddy Roosevelt (who recently got a personal grudge) to lead an initiative to see if they could crack down on the WUA in some way. While it would be some time before this came to fruition, it was a start.
Rural Ohio: 46
They also continued their adult-literacy program in rural churches, now spreading it to Ohio. This would help the poor be better connected to the world outside their little villages through books and news.
Connect with south: 67 + 5 (The Orange Post) = 72
With TOD being now the premier successor to the abolitionist legacy of their forefathers, it was time to take that to the south. Through letters and personal meetings they met with southern black and anti-racist white intellectuals, hoping to be able to use their funds to support them.
Now, while they wouldn't have any concentrated mass base, they would have the connections to act to help the impoverished black population.
Christian Socialists of America: 70
They also accepted affiliation by the Christian Socialists of America. With over 10,000 card carrying members and leftist politics on the rise, they hoped to become a rising movement in Ohio. While they were largely concentrated in Cleveland for now, they hoped that with TOD's aid they would be able to expand their base.
They would maintain their own funds and actions, but with this their leadership would work closely with the Disciples, ensuring they would never work at cross purposes.
The New American Patriots:
This year, the NAP focused on expanding their reach and forming a private security company.
Expanding: 52
NAP tried to open up new branches in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Michigan, relying on their new connections with the LLRP. But with the disastrous results in trying to form the American Reform Movement, portions of the LLRP became actively hostile to them.
Pivoting away from that for this year, instead they focused on sending money to the small New York branch to reactivate it. Sending messages along with a few people, they met up through the use of secret hand gestures and code phrases to recognize each other. This went well enough, with several dozen more people joining that branch, just enough to do stuff assuming it still gets funding from the western branches.
Militia: 56 + 5 (self defense trained members) = 61 * 7 (funds) = 427
Form Winter Security Group: 45
Next, they formed the Winter Security Group, starting with over 400 armed guards. They established it with specific rules and regulations, though they wouldn't start hiring them out until next year.
Lower officers such as corporals and sergeants were elected from among the squad and platoon while higher ranks were appointed from among their peers by the Offices of Membership Representative and Director, and then confirmed by majority vote of all members of the command they expect to lead. Officers could be removed from command by a majority vote of their command at any time for any reason except during battle (battle is no time for democracy). Corporate earnings after upkeep, procurement, maintenance, taxes, etc were to be split evenly into shares. Each soldier gets 1 share. Each sergeant and specialist gets 1.5 shares. Each appointed officer gets 2 shares.
Beyond corporate earnings, all employees were to be paid a living wage, an accumulated retirement fund on top of their normal wage, and 8 hour work shifts per day except during combat. Combat is no time to punch clocks. 14 days paid leave per year with two weeks advance notice on top of normal paid holidays. Also 7 days of authorized unpaid awol per year before disciplinary action because life happens and it's only fair to account for that. Work on holidays was voluntary and paid double. Also all unused paid leave rolls over.
Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave was 6 months, at the end of which the recipient can after a quick refresher course, return to their unit at their previous rank assuming confirmation.
There should be a standard contract stipulating restrictions on what the company will do. The NAP San Francisco office got an auditing committee which will go over any custom contracts or additions to the standard contract.
Maimed employees may receive one year advanced pay and their retirement fund, or elect to remain employed in logistical or administrative line duties. Bereavement benefits for those killed was one year advanced pay on top of the forwarded retirement fund and a one time cash payout. Additionally, children of the surviving family gained endorsement to attend any college where the NAP has a chapter.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
This year SUS continued on, battered from their involvement in the repression last year but continuing forward nonetheless. They would also send huge amounts of funds to both TFAM the ACUA, seeing the success of their southern comrades and the industrial union as both paramount to the socialist movement.
Protests: 26 + 7 (The Valkyrie) = 33
SUS spent the money to send protesters to Washington DC, thousands of people filling the streets. They were joined by few locals, with the city not very large at this time anyway. They protested American imperialism, both at home and abroad, with its ongoing and new subjugation and extermination of entire peoples, its turning of American soldiers against their fellows in an effort to force them to labor in service of Empire, all to the benefit of a handful of of American-style aristocrats who buy and sell legislation and elections to keep their grip on power.
Mostly women, they stood outside the doors of Washington, brandishing signs and openly carrying guns. The police stood opposite of them, resolutely containing the protest and guarding Congress while they discussed the Treaty of Paris. Showing up everyday for a week eventually the protest fizzled out as they had to return to their homes in the Midwest and seemingly nothing was happening in the capital itself.
Inside Congress, the SLP Senators saw the true effects. Republicans and Democrats were talking to each other more, clearly scared of the protesters outside. With the LLRP, Populists, and SLP all representing the new radical left fringe of politics and all against the annexations, the moderate parties sought to work together to contain them. With the protesters gone they worked together on making an amendment to the treaty, allowing for the annexed territories to make referendums for independence in two years. This was the farthest they would go to sate the left.
Public Campaign: 20d20 = 182 + 20 = 202
They also made a public campaign defaming the American Aristocracy and their errand boys in the Republican and Democratic parties. They focused on the war being at the expense of the American people and for the benefit of said aristocracy, heralding imagery back to the era of cruel kings.
They did manage to make a sizable dent in public opinion, which had already begun turning away from the war. The public pressured their representatives to end it with independence for Spain's colonies, and looking forward to the election next year made many support the proposal for a referendum in two years, safely afterwards. It also helped radicalize the general population particularly against the Republicans as they demanded focus on domestic reform rather than the conquest of foreign land. This would have significant effect on McKinley's prospects next year for his hoped reelection.
Define ideology: 37 + 7 (The Valkyrie) + 5 (omake) = 49
Much of the upper ranks of SUS had been clamoring for an official ideology for SUS for some time now, and finally they had it. Primarily developed by Walpurga Voight but reviewed by dozens of people within SUS and presented to the organization as a whole before adoption, Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) would serve as that guiding ideology. It used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.
By setting up this ideology as the explicit guide of SUS, they would avoid another Christian Socialist type debacle as everyone who joined would have to be dedicated to the cause. It would also help in unity of action, providing a clear goal for the organization.
Chicago Military Training Facility: 35 + 3 (ethnic clubs) + 5 (mutual aid) = 43
Trains 40 + 5 (self defense program) + 8 (FAM trainers) = 53 * 20 (funds per turn) = 1060 regular militia per turn
As part of preparing for revolution, SUS needed a more elite army than militia. They set up a military training facility, just outside of Chicago, the obvious place given their popularity there. Classrooms, an armory, PT field, wax bullets, and protective gear for force and force training with both military theory professors and practical professors. They would recruit from sympathetic veterans, politically reliable Illinois militia, TFAM trainers (especially those who were injured in battle and no longer able to fight but were able to teach), and their own self defense program. Over the course of the year they would have hundreds of students graduate, establishing a base which they could form a professional army out of.
Militia security: 73
For now, the current batch of militia would go towards providing security for at-risk groups. In particular, they served as armed guards outside of gay bars which had been increasingly targets of attack by reactionaries. Simply standing while armed served to intimidate those people, keeping themselves safe.
Construction Company: 42
With their increasing focus on SUS owned industry, they decided to found a construction company. Universal Development, technically a private company owned by Voight, would employ over a thousand people. Its first construction project was finishing building the military training facility, additionally allowing for more discretion in that case.
Tools for Farmers: 45
While SUS did have a small rural base among farmworkers and farmwives, it was only a fraction of their base. One reason was that the Great Lakes region was mostly small farmers who owned their own land and tools, as opposed to large farms with farmworkers or peasants. As such, the basic tenants of collective workplaces had little appeal to them. But as both the primary area of SUS supporters and as the supplier of most of America's food, they felt it was imperative to get them on side.
So, they reached out to farm workers, starting in Illinois, offering cheap farm tools to any SUS member. They would also propagandize SUS' own ideology, focusing on women's rights and their commonality with the Populist program, to make clear it wasn't just a bribe but a measure of solidarity with their rural comrades.
It would come to a slow start, but more farmers joined SUS and started rural branches of the organization, they would be the primary points of contact with new farmers, helping expand more.
Illinois Equal Rights: 76
With their continuous wins the previous year, the SLP would ensure to consolidate those gains by passing an equal rights amendment. It would guarantee public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, right to serve on a jury, and suffrage rights for adults 21 years or more regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, as well as designating election day as a state holiday. Universal suffrage was finally achieved in the birthplace of their movement, and it was a day for celebration.
With this and the labor bill, the primary goals of their voters had been achieved in Illinois. But SUS made sure to emphasize that their work was not yet done, that they needed to continue their momentum to stop their work from being undone while working towards the national level. And of course, that was only electorally–their movement was not finished until they could abolish capitalism. Anything before that was a mere step on that path.
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies:
The UGPQOA continued trying to spread the word of their group and of queer people. But increasing amounts of them were dismayed at the violence towards them, and the ignorance of all other major groups in America–except for the Society for Universal Suffrage.
Within the organization, many supporters found it was easier to find relationships with the vast support network of primarily other queer people. Many who had initially joined the group as allies came out as queer themselves, and considered themselves much happier that way.
Find new and old gay bars: 33
They attempted to find gay bars in other cities to associate with them, but found themselves rebuffed more than not. The smaller bars feared the attention it would bring as Uranus' bars were getting targeted.
Informational Packets: 17d20 = 167
(16.7% increase in recruitment for next turn)
In the cultural battle, they continued making informational packets to spread around to people to inform them about queer people. Most people were too unaware about them to have one opinion or another, and even those who did hate them didn't understand them. By spreading information they could get to people first, help them understand that they weren't dangerous or satanic but just people like them.
Committee: 77
To aid in this going into the future, they established a committee for designing and spreading these informational packets.
Join SUS: 69
Finally, with the increasing violence and only one major group actively wanting to help them, they formally joined the Society for Universal Suffrage. The group already contained the Salon der Geschlechter, another queer rights group, and by gaining the resources of the much larger and more established organization they would be able to do much more. The doctors they had contacted would profess their willingness to work at SUS' proposed Institute for Sexual Research, something Uranus wouldn't have the funds to do on their own.
With their joining, SUS militia would come out to protect their bars, intimidating those who would do violence away.
The Minutemen:
This year the Minutemen focused on building up connections with others. With their relatively smaller membership and funds (the latter due to running on donations), helping other groups was an efficient use of their time.
Connections with the army: 38
The Minutemen sent men to the army, trying to make connections there. They emphasized the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, the guiding ideal of the nation. That the constitution was a document made of desperation and compromise, but it worked. And that they all knew of the great war which divided the nation in two, the previous compromises threatening to ruin the nation. Now the ideal was under threat, with violence across the nation and those confederate elements which threatened to destroy the dream were gathering. That the monopolies were running campaigns to fight the workers who just sought rights for their allies. So they needed to stand together against that darkness to preserve the dream.
Despite the impassioned message, they only reached portions of the army. Still, with the combined effort of other organizations who were against the government putting down the strike they managed to get the soldiers to refuse to continue, not quite a full mutiny but enough that the strike began again.
When the soldiers demobilized, many joined the Minutemen as experienced soldiers, albeit ones that never entered real combat. They entered the militia, quadrupling it to 400 men, more than before they went south to fight the Red Shirts.
TFAM and SPA Trainers: 54
With their experience in more scientific and established methods of training, the Minutemen decided to send trainers to TFAM and SPA. They would work together, now and continuing into the future, allowing those larger groups take advantage of their expertise. Coming back, any trainers they sent in turn got a taste of the southern organizer's experiences, helping the Minutemen in the future.
LA Connections: 59
They also sent people over to the newly independent Cuba. With their few volunteers last year they were friendly with the Cuban Liberation Army, which although some went home was still going on as the army of the Cuban republic. The Minutemen helped train and teach their men, in turn learning from their practical experiences in guerrilla warfare.
Southern People's Alliance:
This was the last year the SPA would benefit from the Farmer's Alliance Contact Committee. Even as the SPA began setting up chapters from across the south, the Populists lost members in droves, retreating to their Great Plains strongholds. Benjamin Tillman, a Democratic senator from South Carolina, had been going on tours across the countryside advocating for populist measures even as he spouted racist rhetoric. He bragged of his victory in the Battle of Wilmington and demanded measures to help farmers, both small farmers and the aristocratic "farmers", equating them as the same.
They also saw North Carolina adopt a new constitution heavily disenfranchising African Americans, with poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses abound. With that, it became heavily unlikely the SLP would ever win the state so long as the laws remained.
Mills and Shops fund: 70
With coop mills and shops for members helping to reduce costs, the SPA decided on creating a fund for establishing more of them. This fund saw a great amount of use to the point where they had to increase it, with thousands of farmers wanting to participate. Still, even with the increased cost of establishing more of them, in turn the reduced costs allowed for their members to have a much greater income. Many began suggesting to start instituting dues, as the organization was handling enough tasks to make it more necessary and the participating members were getting less poor.
Tactics training: 51
Strategy committee: 79
Working with TFAM, the SPA was able to establish tactics training and a strategy committee, similar to what they already had. These would allow for greater training for part time militia as well as betting planning.
Train militia: 37 + 8 (TFAM trainers) + 5 (Minutemen trainers) = 50 * 5 (funds) = 250
They also trained 5 more cadres of militia, replenishing their strength after that mess of a last year. They were helped in this by some Minutemen who came down to teach their scientific methods the army uses, something the poor farmers of the SPA were not well acquainted with.
Connect in Wilmington: 54 + 5 (funds) + 7 (newspaper) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 69
Last year, the White Laborer's Union was instrumental as support for the Red Shirts and for the coup. After it disbanded, the workers found that their lives weren't any better than before, with the new jobs opening up being non-respectable, bad conditions, and low pay.
The SPA tried to connect with them, emphasizing how business leaders mislead them and that their lives weren't any better than before, so black people were never the problem, but rather it was those who would employee them with low pay.
This came to moderate success, with many of the townspeople wishing for black people to come back, but primarily so they don't have to do those jobs. They agitated for the city to allow black people back in, but the Democrats had a strong hold and refused to change.
And that was when the WUA realized the influence of the SPA. They began sending people over to Wilmington, armed and ready to fight any of the SPA. The Southern People's Alliance responded by sending in their own militia to guard themselves and their speakers, and before long there were full armed confrontations. The SPA got backup from the northern anarchists who sent 1600 militia in anticipation of a battle, more than doubling their forces there and dwarfing the city itself. Once more Wilmington was the site of armies greater than itself facing down.
Force WUA to back down: 64 + 5 (outnumber them) = 69
Faced with a force bigger than themselves the White Union Army fled, instead focusing on a propaganda campaign against lawless anarchist foreigners coming down to steal their democracy away. The confrontation at Wilmington would be a national spectacle, but ultimately come to nothing, with no fighting actually happening and no political changes made. The people of Wilmington would begin to resent their place in battles between armies that came from across the country as the once prosperous city continued to be devastated.
Instead numerous low level fights would break out across the state as battle lines were drawn and people chose their side.
Farmworker agitators: 10d10 = 141 + 10 (journalism) = 151
Streets agitators: 6d20 = 77 + 6 (journalism) = 83
(23.4% increase in recruitment for next turn)
The city of Wilmington itself would generally land in the side of the SPA, albeit less progressive than most of their members. It would remain politically controlled by the Democrats, but a great deal of the people would align with the socialists against the false promises of the bosses.
Meanwhile the countryside was increasingly red. Tens of thousands more farmers would join the SPA, both in North Carolina and across the South. They began being known as rednecks due to the sun burn of the long hours working in the field, and they took it as a matter of pride. Their railroad and city members began taking to wearing red scarves as a symbol of solidarity, being red in the ideological sense if not the farmer sense.
Appalachian Brotherhood:
The AB continued full forward with their goal of Appalachian independence and cultural resurgence, however they may do so.
Power to the Councils: 30
With more and more people wanting to be directly involved and as the AB has grown closer to the RFAA, they decided to put full control of the project to the councils. This would formally merge them with the RFAA, rendering them subject to the overall organizational rules but with autonomy due to the nature of anarchism. This would include rules like dues and membership in the RFAA, but also the benefits of their mutual aid efforts.
But with the addition of mandatory dues as well as the entrance into a purely anarchist organization, many of the brotherhood's more liberal members left. They would refuse to join the councils or advocate for the chance of armed revolution.
While there would still be RFAA councils in Appalachia which did not join the Appalachian Brotherhood interest group due to not caring about Appalachian freedom so much as anarchism in general, the AB would have a dominating influence there.
Farmworkers Agitators: 11d20 = 105 + 11 (school of journalism) = 116
(11.6% increase in recruitment for next turn)
This year they focused their recruitment campaign south, specifically the farmers of middle Appalachia. Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, all began forming rural councils for the purpose of an independent Appalachia no longer bound to the rules of distant city folk on the coasts or elsewhere. For now their presence in those parts would remain extremely sparse, but existent.
Pittsburgh local government contacts: 55 + 7 (Yinz Voice) + 3 (The Valkyrie) + 5 (cultural committee) + 5 (mutual aid networks) = 75
They also tried forming contacts in local government for both Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside. For the city itself, they found it dominated by the Republican Party and the mayor himself corrupt. While they found some contacts in government employees who were sympathetic to their cause, the elected representatives were pro-business, and that meant pro-America, not Appalachia.
The surroundings were residential communities, mill towns, satellite cities, and hundreds of mining towns. Each had their own municipal government to contact, and it went similar to Pittsburgh, with the occasional better success of a small town mayor being in favor and the residential communities being strongly against it with their more middle class character.
The one exception was the town Vandergrift built with the principle of welfare capitalism and private homeownership. It was extremely loyal to capitalist George McMurtry, and their residents have rebuffed all attempts at contact.
Mountain Bases: 57 + 5 (omake) = 62
With open warfare across the south, the brotherhood began preparing for when they would be targeted for their aims of a free Appalachia. They began building up bases and supply caches in the mountains of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, each only accessible with a local guide navigating. These would serve as safe places for any army or refugee.
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People):
The AdP began fully complying with the RFAA's rules this year, having a long time to integrate due to distance, and but have finally instituted mandatory dues by income.
Merge with PR: 42 + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 45
They reached out to the Puerto Rican anarchist organization Federación Regional de Travajadores, the largest leftist group on the island. They have had a strong pro-American stance, seeing connections with American leftist groups as advantageous to the movement. When discussing the idea of a merger they were immediately in favor, eager for access to resources the pan-American organization had.
This year would also see Santiago Iglesias form the Socialist Labor Party of Puerto Rico, inspired by the SLP in America, while the nascent Free Federation of Workers would apply to join the All-Continental Union Association.
Puerto Rico Mutual Aid: 54
With resources from the mainland, they would establish mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Puerto Rico. This would be especially important this year with two hurricanes hitting Puerto Rico, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands without food, shelter, or work. Most sugar and coffee plantations were destroyed, and they knew it would be the work of years to rebuild them.
In the absence of welfare, the Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists came in. Mostly hailing from the southwest, they set up soup kitchens for the many poor and helped them help each other through networking.
(+10% recruitment for next turn, slightly reduced income)
Immigrant aid committee: 52
But they didn't just focus on the Caribbean. They established an Immigrant Aid Committee, which would help Mexicans who wished to move to the United States, whether they be refugees or just wanting a job.
With expanding industry and lots of farmland in the Southwest there were plenty of jobs, especially for immigrants who were willing to work for less. By helping them establish themselves here, many more would be able to safely come, and in turn view the AdP positively.
Anarchist Aid: 42
Finally, they set up a supply line to the Cuban anarchists. This would help them buy American supplies and arouse less suspicion, for whatever they needed.
The current anarchist movement was scattered, with a strong collectivist presence, a smaller anarchist communist movement, and anarchist-feminists, the main feminist group on the island. With encouragement and help from the AdP they would form a Cuban region of the RFAA, mostly autonomous aside from the name and occasionally sending delegates to national RFAA meetings. It would be an alliance of their various anarchist groups and part of the Cuban United Front, albeit still refusing to actively participate in their election this year.
Committee For Indigenous Advocacy:
A new explosive movement emerged this year. With the killings of the Indian Pillagers in Minnesota; the Curtis Act soon dissolving the Five Tribes, taking their land, and establishing residential schools; the Newlands Resolution taking away the independence of Hawaii; and the countless other crimes against indigenous peoples everywhere that the US had committed.
It would begin in Hawaii, as a group of Hawaiians decided to reach out to the American Indians, seeking solidarity in their shared experiences. Soon the movement spread across Minnesota, South Dakota, and the Indian Territory as indigenous peoples across the country wanted to reassert their sovereignty. Many socialists and radical progressives across the country joined the movement, having sympathy for their plight. They would headquarter the national organization in Washington D.C., the heart of their oppressors, and ironically another place under rule by the federal government with no local representation. Still, by nature it would be a fairly federally structured organization with each branch having a wide degree of latitude but sharing resources.
United Front:
This year started out controversial, as Daniel De Leon stepped into the rented out Los Angeles meeting hall.
He suggested that now was the time to centralize the United Front under the Socialist Labor Party and his theories of Marxism. The ACUA would remain as the associated labor union, focusing on labor matters while the SLP put their full effort into winning the 1900 election. After winning they would transfer full political and economic control to the ACUA. While not a popular proposal, his unique status and incessant demanding forced the delegates to hear him out.
Few wanted to dissolve their organizations, and most doubted their ability to win the next election, and so they resoundingly defeated the proposal. The only exception were the ACUA delegates, who stood to gain a great deal from it were it to pass, but ultimately made little fuss.
As a counter proposal, there has also been a push (supported by De Leon now that his other idea did not pass) to create a formal Executive Committee of the United Front. They would be a smaller body selected by the UF delegates. This would be another step in centralizing the UF and would be in charge of running the various active parts of the United Front that aren't tied so specifically to one organization.
With the exception of all but two RFAA delegates (the Mexican ones) they voted to implement the Executive Committee.
Vote against the Treaty of Paris: 52 - 23 (low funds) = 29
Before the new Congress was inaugurated, the old Senate would vote on the Treaty of Paris. The SLP senators would stand in Congress against the bill, their allies of convenience being the anti-imperialist Democrats. They pointed out the massive strike, the mutinous soldiers, and the massive protests from all segments of society, including those just outside Congress. They also lobbied the Democrats with the money they had, though with their competition being the vast moneyed interests who wanted to invest in the new lands it was not enough.
They did manage to secure an amendment that would have the new lands vote on a referendum in two years time in regards to independence, allowing the treaty to go through but keep the potential of independence for America's new acquisitions, an important victory.
Anti-Root: 48 - 50 (no funds) = -2
After they passed the Treaty of Paris, the last session of the 55th Congress finished. The 56th Congress would pick up where they left off and look at the Root Amendment.
With lobbying funds exhausted, the SLP representatives had much less influence on this bill, and despite their loud protests it passed.
Socialist Party of Cuba: 61 + 2 (UF funds, Union campaigning, SPC campaigning) = 63
In Cuba, the Revolutionary Assembly was dissolving to hold elections across all of Cuba for the first time. As these representatives would create Cuba's constitution and either accept or reject America's Hanna Amendment, it was an important one. All adult Cuban males would be allowed to vote, notably not denying the more radical illiterate and poor.
Four parties formed to contest it. The Republican Party lead by Tomas Estrada Palma had the most funds, with their presidential candidate staying in America during the campaign and getting donations. The Democratic Union Party was the major opposition and the most conservative party. Both supported close ties and possible annexation with the US.
The National Party was initially the only independent party, but following a short spat near when it formed the leftists and their community council based organizing left to form the Socialist Party of Cuba. With former anarchist Enrique Messonier as their candidate they went the furthest of all parties and denounced the Hanna Amendment as full imperialism, and that the revolution was not yet done.
With that, Martin Veloz began a Cuban United Front of anarchists and Marxists. It would united the SP, the ascendant anarcho-syndicalist Cuban Workers' Federation, and the Cuban Region of the RFAA, all with their revolutionary goal. They condemned Cuban railroads, cigarette factories, mining, and land all under immediate investment (and therefore ownership) by American businessmen. Additionally with the enforced free trade, Cuba lost important tariff income and the ability to develop their own industries with it being cheaper to buy from America anyway. Not to mention that Cuba was given the colonial government's debt, something they had no ability to pay.
The Socialist Party of Cuba proposed to deny the Hanna Amendment, enact protectionist tariffs and an income tax, and full nationalization of industries. Only with these policies could they truly chart an independent path.
With this they were helped by America's United Front, who donated funds to help them campaign. Additionally the massive protests in America regarding the resulting state of Cuba and its imperialism spoke for themselves that America did consider Cuba their colony, a fact the socialists repeatedly pointed out in debates.
The Socialist Party ran a massive campaign, mobilizing and encouraging workers councils in cities and farms across the nation even as the union directed their people to vote and have their friends do too. They and the Republican Party traded barbs about the other being American stooges, both receiving American funding, and the latter's candidate wasn't even in Cuba.
With election day over, the Socialist Party managed to achieve a plurality of the Cuban Constituent Assembly, with the Republican Party second. Combined with the National Party they voted against accepting the Treaty of Perpetual Friendship and Amity. They ensured the constitution included universal male suffrage and the continuation of a single General Assembly rather than adopting America's bicameral system.
President Messonier wasn't able to get most of his plans done this year, with most of the assembly against him and American ambassadors meeting with him in private. Still, with no new invasion of Cuba was forthcoming and they were now politically independent (if not economically with most of their economy owned by Americans), so he hoped to achieve more on his agenda by the next general election in 1903.
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1899: Organization Info Sheets
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
All-Continental Union Association
The Land and Labor Reform Party
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
The Forty Acres Movement:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Orange Disciples:
The New American Patriots
The Society for Universal Suffrage
The Minutemen
Southern People's Alliance
Appalachian Brotherhood
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)
Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
United Front
All Organization Modifiers:
National Association of Manufacturers Collaboration: -10 to a roll for buying industry
Nationalist Citizens' Alliance Interference: -2 per die for unionization rolls.
Factions and Influence:
Marxists: 16.5%
Anarchists: 8.5%
Possibilists: 6%
Dues: Low with delinquency (supporters count specifically references those paying dues, members of the union not paying dues are gained through actions)
Formed to organize cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
Locale: California, The West, United Front areas
Supporters: Agricultural unions, migrant labor, and industrial unions.
Ideology: Marxism and Agrarian Socialism, not enforced.
Notable Members:
Eugene Debs (on executive council) (currently in jail) (anarchist)
Committees:
Striking Think Group: A group composed of union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Inter-Union Mutual Aid Organizing Committee: -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +3 to rolls regarding loyalty of members, +5 to rolls inviting new unions to join
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
-Expanded and Integrated SLP Party Structures: Internal SLP Party structures have been integrated and expanded by the unions. -5 UF funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Union Drive Committee: Organizers to help workers form unions and join the ACUA. 1 action transfers from free to unionizing, +1 to the roll per die for unionizing. -3 funds per turn.
Dues Encouragement Committee: Advertises to member unions suggesting people pay their dues. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment per turn, limited by total union membership.
Departments:
Agriculture and Fisheries (2% Colorado)
—Agriculture Workers Union (+8% popularity west coast, 2% Colorado, 10% Hawaii) Marxist faction
Mining and Energy
—Mine Workers Union (+6% popularity western states, 3% Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, 2% Indiana)
General Construction (3% west coast, 3% Illinois/2% Midwest, 2% Northeast)
—Ship and Boat Builders Union (+2% popularity west coast/3% Washington, 2% Hawaii, 1% Midwest, 4% NYC/2% New York/1% Northeast)
ADD some Louisiana here during advertising thing for their shipyards
Manufacture and General Production (6% popularity California, 5% Washington, 5% Oregon, 1% Hawaii, 5% Colorado, 8% Illinois, 7% Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, 5% Pennsylvania, 1% Louisiana, 12% NYC/6% New York, 1% South)
Transportation and Communication
—Marine Workers Union (Many workers on New York based ships and ports, some workers on Pacific, Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Gulf ports)
—Railway Workers Union (+4% popularity western states, 5% Midwest, 6% Northeast, 1% Louisiana) Anarchist faction
Public Service (+5% popularity West Coast, 2% West, 6% NYC/3% New York/2% Northeast, 4% Colorado, 3% Illinois/2% Midwest, 1% South)
—Includes most Chinese service workers
A few black belt unions, split between Manufacturing, construction, and services (+8% popularity Birmingham/1% Alabama, 1% black belt)
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco.
National Newspaper (The Continental Worker): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology.
Teaching member unions: The union trains teachers in each area to ensure all parts of the union know best practices when striking as determined by the Striking Think Group. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Book clubs teachings Marxist and Anarchist ideology: -3 funds per turn, -1% Possibilist, +0.5% Marxist/Anarchist faction strength per turn
Modifiers:
Critical Mass of Unions: Having become the preeminent One Big Union, the association has become much more attractive to join. +5% recruitment.
Marxists: 16.5%
Anarchists: 8.5%
Possibilists: 6%
Dues: Low with delinquency (supporters count specifically references those paying dues, members of the union not paying dues are gained through actions)
Formed to organize cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
Locale: California, The West, United Front areas
Supporters: Agricultural unions, migrant labor, and industrial unions.
Ideology: Marxism and Agrarian Socialism, not enforced.
Notable Members:
Eugene Debs (on executive council) (currently in jail) (anarchist)
Committees:
Striking Think Group: A group composed of union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Inter-Union Mutual Aid Organizing Committee: -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +3 to rolls regarding loyalty of members, +5 to rolls inviting new unions to join
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
-Expanded and Integrated SLP Party Structures: Internal SLP Party structures have been integrated and expanded by the unions. -5 UF funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Union Drive Committee: Organizers to help workers form unions and join the ACUA. 1 action transfers from free to unionizing, +1 to the roll per die for unionizing. -3 funds per turn.
Dues Encouragement Committee: Advertises to member unions suggesting people pay their dues. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment per turn, limited by total union membership.
Departments:
Agriculture and Fisheries (2% Colorado)
—Agriculture Workers Union (+8% popularity west coast, 2% Colorado, 10% Hawaii) Marxist faction
Mining and Energy
—Mine Workers Union (+6% popularity western states, 3% Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, 2% Indiana)
General Construction (3% west coast, 3% Illinois/2% Midwest, 2% Northeast)
—Ship and Boat Builders Union (+2% popularity west coast/3% Washington, 2% Hawaii, 1% Midwest, 4% NYC/2% New York/1% Northeast)
ADD some Louisiana here during advertising thing for their shipyards
Manufacture and General Production (6% popularity California, 5% Washington, 5% Oregon, 1% Hawaii, 5% Colorado, 8% Illinois, 7% Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, 5% Pennsylvania, 1% Louisiana, 12% NYC/6% New York, 1% South)
Transportation and Communication
—Marine Workers Union (Many workers on New York based ships and ports, some workers on Pacific, Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Gulf ports)
—Railway Workers Union (+4% popularity western states, 5% Midwest, 6% Northeast, 1% Louisiana) Anarchist faction
Public Service (+5% popularity West Coast, 2% West, 6% NYC/3% New York/2% Northeast, 4% Colorado, 3% Illinois/2% Midwest, 1% South)
—Includes most Chinese service workers
A few black belt unions, split between Manufacturing, construction, and services (+8% popularity Birmingham/1% Alabama, 1% black belt)
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco.
National Newspaper (The Continental Worker): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology.
Teaching member unions: The union trains teachers in each area to ensure all parts of the union know best practices when striking as determined by the Striking Think Group. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Book clubs teachings Marxist and Anarchist ideology: -3 funds per turn, -1% Possibilist, +0.5% Marxist/Anarchist faction strength per turn
Modifiers:
Critical Mass of Unions: Having become the preeminent One Big Union, the association has become much more attractive to join. +5% recruitment.
The Land and Labor Reform Party
Factions and Influence:
The Labor Reformers: 17%
Orthodox Georgists: 10%
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Successor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?)
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership
Elected Officials:
Michigan: A small majority in the house and senate. Most municipal governments including Detroit and Lansing.
—Governor: Edward Johnson, next election 1900
—Mayor Archibald Masterson, next election 1900
North Dakota: A majority in the house, minority in the senate.
—Governor: Robert Wilson, next election 1900
Federal: 1 Senator (1 Michigan), 9 Representatives (8 Michigan, 1 North Dakota).
Committees:
Fundraising Committee: In charge of setting up and asking for funds from donors and the general populace. -5 funds per turn, +5 to fundraising actions.
Legislation and Party Whip Committee: Creates legislation for party representatives to use and acts as a party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Party Outreach Committee: Strategizes for getting other parties to vote for LLRP bills. -5 funds per turn, +5 to lobbying for a bill to pass/not pass
Property:
Lansing Meeting Hall: +1 action
Michigan and Dakotas Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Lansing Newspaper (Demeter's Dream): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Michigan movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Lansing.
Michigan Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Michigan, -24 funds per turn.
North Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in North Dakota, -3 funds per turn.
South Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in South Dakota, -4 funds per turn.
Affiliations:
The Sons of the Frontier, an organization in the Dakotas (2.5%), Minnesota (2.5%), Nebraska (1.5%), and Michigan (1%) which organizes group camping for hundreds of youth. Gives a stacking + .5% popularity (approval among non-party members) go per year up to 5 in the state.
Legislation Passed:
Michigan:
Municipal tax code reform (1897), slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. +2% popularity Michigan cities/1% Michigan
Logging and hunting regulations (1897), fining clearcutting based on land value decrease and game laws restricting hunting seasons and limits per person. +1% popularity Michigan.
Women's Suffrage (1899), slightly lowered DC for elections in Michigan
North Dakota
- Municipal tax code reform (1897), slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. +2% popularity North Dakota cities/0.5% North Dakota
The Labor Reformers: 17%
Orthodox Georgists: 10%
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Successor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?)
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership
Elected Officials:
Michigan: A small majority in the house and senate. Most municipal governments including Detroit and Lansing.
—Governor: Edward Johnson, next election 1900
—Mayor Archibald Masterson, next election 1900
North Dakota: A majority in the house, minority in the senate.
—Governor: Robert Wilson, next election 1900
Federal: 1 Senator (1 Michigan), 9 Representatives (8 Michigan, 1 North Dakota).
Committees:
Fundraising Committee: In charge of setting up and asking for funds from donors and the general populace. -5 funds per turn, +5 to fundraising actions.
Legislation and Party Whip Committee: Creates legislation for party representatives to use and acts as a party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Party Outreach Committee: Strategizes for getting other parties to vote for LLRP bills. -5 funds per turn, +5 to lobbying for a bill to pass/not pass
Property:
Lansing Meeting Hall: +1 action
Michigan and Dakotas Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Lansing Newspaper (Demeter's Dream): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Michigan movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Lansing.
Michigan Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Michigan, -24 funds per turn.
North Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in North Dakota, -3 funds per turn.
South Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in South Dakota, -4 funds per turn.
Affiliations:
The Sons of the Frontier, an organization in the Dakotas (2.5%), Minnesota (2.5%), Nebraska (1.5%), and Michigan (1%) which organizes group camping for hundreds of youth. Gives a stacking + .5% popularity (approval among non-party members) go per year up to 5 in the state.
Legislation Passed:
Michigan:
Municipal tax code reform (1897), slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. +2% popularity Michigan cities/1% Michigan
Logging and hunting regulations (1897), fining clearcutting based on land value decrease and game laws restricting hunting seasons and limits per person. +1% popularity Michigan.
Women's Suffrage (1899), slightly lowered DC for elections in Michigan
North Dakota
- Municipal tax code reform (1897), slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. +2% popularity North Dakota cities/0.5% North Dakota
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
Factions and Influence:
True-Anarchists: 14% (14% of election funds/effort get requisitioned)
Solidarity: 19%
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers, farmers in mutuals or coops
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Formalized nested councils: -10 funds per turn, +1 action. Go to turn 1898 for detailed description.
Interest Groups:
Amigos del Pueblo
Appalachian Brotherhood
Committees:
Striking Thinking Group: A group composed of anarchist union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective, and bring that knowledge back to their unions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking among affiliated unions.
Immigrant Welcoming Committee: A committee that organizes members in reaching out to new immigrants and integrating them into their networks of mutual aid and union contacts. -25 funds per turn, +29% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees: Democratically run militia beholden to the councils as a whole. -5 funds per turn, +1 militia action.
-7848 green militia
—200 regulars
-Stands guard over all council meetings, -3 funds per turn, protection from interference.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare: -5 funds per turn, +1 welfare action, +5 to welfare actions.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
Garment Industry Factories (3 small): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Coop Farms: +3 funds per turn, democratically run but extra profits going towards the federation as a whole.
Tea and Coffee Factory (1 large): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions, the New York City police department
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (The Worker's Post): -3 funds per turn. Printed in several languages. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants.
International Newspaper (The International Traveler): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
NYC Council Tasks: The NYC councils have taken over some tasks for the city, being subcontracted out for it. +5% NYC popularity, +3% recruitment.
Mutual Aid:
This section's bonuses also apply to all members of the United Front who have a presence in the area. This is marked in the "Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens" section. All sections apply to the ACUA, RFAA, and SUS.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—New York: -24 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in New York cities. +24% recruitment. Fourth FHM, fourth AB.
—Connecticut: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Connecticut cities. +8% recruitment.
—New Jersey: -8 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in New Jersey cities. +8% recruitment.
—Massachusetts: -17 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Massachusetts cities. +17% recruitment.
—Pennsylvania: -19 funds per turn (partially paid by SFAF). +5 to rolls in Pennsylvania cities. +21% recruitment. 3/4 AB
—West Virginia: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in West Virginia cities. +8% recruitment. AB
—Illinois: -15 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Illinois cities. +15% recruitment.
—Milwaukee: -4 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in Milwaukee. +4% recruitment.
—Michigan: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Michigan cities. +10% recruitment.
—Ohio: -13 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Ohio. +13% recruitment. Third AB
—Indiana: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Indiana cities. +10% recruitment.
—St. Louis: -6 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in St. Louis. +6% recruitment.
—New Orleans Soup Kitchen: -2 funds per turn, +2% recruitment. FAM
—San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +1% recruitment. FHM
—Sacramento. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Sacramento. +1% recruitment. FHM
—San Fransisco. -2 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in San Fransisco. +2% recruitment. FHM
—Oregon. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Oregon cities. +1% recruitment. FHM
—British Columbia. -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in British Columbia cities. +3% recruitment. FHM
—Del Rio and Western Texas: -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Western Texas cities. +3% recruitment. AdP
-Puerto Rico: -6 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Puerto Rico cities. +6% recruitment. AdP
Communal Homes:
-NYC: -9 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in NYC.
-Connecticut: -1 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in Connecticut cities.
Daycare Facilities (each in a Great Lakes state gives a boost to SUS income):
-Chicago: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Schools:
-NYC: -14 funds per turn, +1 loyalty of members in NYC (+1 per year up to 10), +7% recruitment per turn (changes to +14% next turn)
Rural Mutual Aid: A system to facilitate farmers to borrow tools and money from each other. Note these bonuses do not all apply to the ACUA or SUS, as they're primarily used by independent small farmers and coops.
—North Carolina: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment. SPA, half AB
—Tennessee: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural Tennessee. +4% recruitment. SPA, half AB
True-Anarchists: 14% (14% of election funds/effort get requisitioned)
Solidarity: 19%
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers, farmers in mutuals or coops
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Formalized nested councils: -10 funds per turn, +1 action. Go to turn 1898 for detailed description.
Interest Groups:
Amigos del Pueblo
Appalachian Brotherhood
Committees:
Striking Thinking Group: A group composed of anarchist union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective, and bring that knowledge back to their unions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking among affiliated unions.
Immigrant Welcoming Committee: A committee that organizes members in reaching out to new immigrants and integrating them into their networks of mutual aid and union contacts. -25 funds per turn, +29% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees: Democratically run militia beholden to the councils as a whole. -5 funds per turn, +1 militia action.
-7848 green militia
—200 regulars
-Stands guard over all council meetings, -3 funds per turn, protection from interference.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare: -5 funds per turn, +1 welfare action, +5 to welfare actions.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
Garment Industry Factories (3 small): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Coop Farms: +3 funds per turn, democratically run but extra profits going towards the federation as a whole.
Tea and Coffee Factory (1 large): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions, the New York City police department
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (The Worker's Post): -3 funds per turn. Printed in several languages. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants.
International Newspaper (The International Traveler): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
NYC Council Tasks: The NYC councils have taken over some tasks for the city, being subcontracted out for it. +5% NYC popularity, +3% recruitment.
Mutual Aid:
This section's bonuses also apply to all members of the United Front who have a presence in the area. This is marked in the "Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens" section. All sections apply to the ACUA, RFAA, and SUS.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—New York: -24 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in New York cities. +24% recruitment. Fourth FHM, fourth AB.
—Connecticut: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Connecticut cities. +8% recruitment.
—New Jersey: -8 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in New Jersey cities. +8% recruitment.
—Massachusetts: -17 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Massachusetts cities. +17% recruitment.
—Pennsylvania: -19 funds per turn (partially paid by SFAF). +5 to rolls in Pennsylvania cities. +21% recruitment. 3/4 AB
—West Virginia: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in West Virginia cities. +8% recruitment. AB
—Illinois: -15 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Illinois cities. +15% recruitment.
—Milwaukee: -4 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in Milwaukee. +4% recruitment.
—Michigan: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Michigan cities. +10% recruitment.
—Ohio: -13 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Ohio. +13% recruitment. Third AB
—Indiana: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Indiana cities. +10% recruitment.
—St. Louis: -6 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in St. Louis. +6% recruitment.
—New Orleans Soup Kitchen: -2 funds per turn, +2% recruitment. FAM
—San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +1% recruitment. FHM
—Sacramento. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Sacramento. +1% recruitment. FHM
—San Fransisco. -2 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in San Fransisco. +2% recruitment. FHM
—Oregon. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Oregon cities. +1% recruitment. FHM
—British Columbia. -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in British Columbia cities. +3% recruitment. FHM
—Del Rio and Western Texas: -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Western Texas cities. +3% recruitment. AdP
-Puerto Rico: -6 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Puerto Rico cities. +6% recruitment. AdP
Communal Homes:
-NYC: -9 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in NYC.
-Connecticut: -1 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in Connecticut cities.
Daycare Facilities (each in a Great Lakes state gives a boost to SUS income):
-Chicago: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Schools:
-NYC: -14 funds per turn, +1 loyalty of members in NYC (+1 per year up to 10), +7% recruitment per turn (changes to +14% next turn)
Rural Mutual Aid: A system to facilitate farmers to borrow tools and money from each other. Note these bonuses do not all apply to the ACUA or SUS, as they're primarily used by independent small farmers and coops.
—North Carolina: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment. SPA, half AB
—Tennessee: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural Tennessee. +4% recruitment. SPA, half AB
The Forty Acres Movement:
Factions and influence:
United Left: 21%
Jeffersonians: 9%
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans, urban African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -6 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Sub-Groups:
Spartacists: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
-5 funds per turn
-1 action
-4248 militia (84 cadres/21 companies)
—34 cadres part time, -34 funds per turn
—500 other militia are regulars
—700 part time are experienced
—Companies elect their own leaders as well as representatives to the Spartacist Command Council, which is then subordinate to the Council Congress.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions. -1 fund per turn.
—Tactic training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
—Training Procedures: -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Strategy Committee: -2 funds per turn, +5 to strategy or planning roles.
Industrial Planning Commission: Elected from the worker councils, it is in charge of developing the industry of the black belt. -5 funds per turn, transfers 1 action to industrial, +5 to industrial actions.
-United Left faction
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
Hemp Informational Committee: -2 funds per turn. Helps farmers switch over from cotton to hemp plants.
Sharecroppers Organizing Group: Members secretly travel to sharecropping plantations, inviting the workers there to the FAM and linking them into their networks. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in Atlanta: +2 actions
Tractor factory in a Louisiana Town: +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
A few rural mills: For cooperative use. +2 funds per turn.
Town Hemp Textile Factories (Louisiana): +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
Armaments and munitions manufacturing: -16 funds per turn, +250 weaponry per turn
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural Mississippi. +5% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Liberator's Advocate): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -4 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +3 to actions relating to ideology in the black belt.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food, as well as town manufacturers buying/selling preferentially and cheaper within movement members. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Paying off fines that could result in jail. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Trained For Bartering: -1 funds per turn, +2 per die for buying out farms and stockpiling guns.
Town Governments: Established by local councils, and continuing to be established, they are a form of dual power conflicting with legal town governments. They collect taxes and do normal town functions. A small amount of taxes are given to the Council Congress. +15 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
Associates:
Several New Orleans unions, a few black belt unions
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Modifiers:
Boll Weevil Infestation: +2 per die for buying out farms, -3% income. This modifier will increase over time.
WUA Connections: -2 per die for buying guns, -2 per die for buying out farms.
United Left: 21%
Jeffersonians: 9%
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans, urban African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -6 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Sub-Groups:
Spartacists: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
-5 funds per turn
-1 action
-4248 militia (84 cadres/21 companies)
—34 cadres part time, -34 funds per turn
—500 other militia are regulars
—700 part time are experienced
—Companies elect their own leaders as well as representatives to the Spartacist Command Council, which is then subordinate to the Council Congress.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions. -1 fund per turn.
—Tactic training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
—Training Procedures: -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Strategy Committee: -2 funds per turn, +5 to strategy or planning roles.
Industrial Planning Commission: Elected from the worker councils, it is in charge of developing the industry of the black belt. -5 funds per turn, transfers 1 action to industrial, +5 to industrial actions.
-United Left faction
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
Hemp Informational Committee: -2 funds per turn. Helps farmers switch over from cotton to hemp plants.
Sharecroppers Organizing Group: Members secretly travel to sharecropping plantations, inviting the workers there to the FAM and linking them into their networks. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in Atlanta: +2 actions
Tractor factory in a Louisiana Town: +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
A few rural mills: For cooperative use. +2 funds per turn.
Town Hemp Textile Factories (Louisiana): +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
Armaments and munitions manufacturing: -16 funds per turn, +250 weaponry per turn
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural Mississippi. +5% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Liberator's Advocate): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -4 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +3 to actions relating to ideology in the black belt.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food, as well as town manufacturers buying/selling preferentially and cheaper within movement members. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Paying off fines that could result in jail. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Trained For Bartering: -1 funds per turn, +2 per die for buying out farms and stockpiling guns.
Town Governments: Established by local councils, and continuing to be established, they are a form of dual power conflicting with legal town governments. They collect taxes and do normal town functions. A small amount of taxes are given to the Council Congress. +15 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
Associates:
Several New Orleans unions, a few black belt unions
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Modifiers:
Boll Weevil Infestation: +2 per die for buying out farms, -3% income. This modifier will increase over time.
WUA Connections: -2 per die for buying guns, -2 per die for buying out farms.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
Factions and influence:
Socialist: 19%
Nonpolitical: 7%
Dues: Income
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism. Their platform explicitly opposes economic, social, and political injustices as well as unjust hierarchies.
Departments:
Department of the Militia: Manages New York, Philadelphia, etc. patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. Organized with elected leadership from the militia. -5 funds per turn. 1 militia action.
—2939 militia
Committees:
Immigrant Care Group: Sets up and helps integrate new arrivals to America. -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment.
Awareness Committee: Ensures member churches, synagogues, etc. aren't under threat and keeps track of groups opposed to minority religions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to rolls detecting or finding enemy action.
Property:
New York Office: +1 action
Mid-Atlantic Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
New York Newspaper (The New York Plurality): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City.
National Newspaper (The Daily Truths): -8 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in New York City. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in New York City. +2% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in Philadelphia: -2 funds per turn (partially paid by RFAA). +5 to rolls in Philadelphia. +10% recruitment.
Upstate New York Religious Center Mutual Aid: -5 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural New York, additional +5 to rolls involving churches. +5% recruitment.
Church/Synagogue Soup Kitchens and Charitable Aid:
—New York City: -8 funds per turn, +12% recruitment
—Eastern Pennsylvania: -7 funds per turn, +11% recruitment
—Maryland: -5 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
—New Jersey: -4 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities in NYC. -9 funds per turn, +18% recruitment.
Rural Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity program run through associated churches and synagogues in rural New York. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York City, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Several in (rural) upstate New York.
New York Mosque (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
NYC Buddhist Temple (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
Socialist: 19%
Nonpolitical: 7%
Dues: Income
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism. Their platform explicitly opposes economic, social, and political injustices as well as unjust hierarchies.
Departments:
Department of the Militia: Manages New York, Philadelphia, etc. patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. Organized with elected leadership from the militia. -5 funds per turn. 1 militia action.
—2939 militia
Committees:
Immigrant Care Group: Sets up and helps integrate new arrivals to America. -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment.
Awareness Committee: Ensures member churches, synagogues, etc. aren't under threat and keeps track of groups opposed to minority religions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to rolls detecting or finding enemy action.
Property:
New York Office: +1 action
Mid-Atlantic Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
New York Newspaper (The New York Plurality): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City.
National Newspaper (The Daily Truths): -8 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in New York City. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in New York City. +2% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in Philadelphia: -2 funds per turn (partially paid by RFAA). +5 to rolls in Philadelphia. +10% recruitment.
Upstate New York Religious Center Mutual Aid: -5 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural New York, additional +5 to rolls involving churches. +5% recruitment.
Church/Synagogue Soup Kitchens and Charitable Aid:
—New York City: -8 funds per turn, +12% recruitment
—Eastern Pennsylvania: -7 funds per turn, +11% recruitment
—Maryland: -5 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
—New Jersey: -4 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities in NYC. -9 funds per turn, +18% recruitment.
Rural Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity program run through associated churches and synagogues in rural New York. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York City, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Several in (rural) upstate New York.
New York Mosque (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
NYC Buddhist Temple (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
American People's Futurist Alliance:
Factions and influence:
Hawks: 15% (Gives -7 to denouncing violence)
Technocrats: 10%
Anti-Imperialist: 10%
Dues: Income
The rapid industrialization and technological development of the late 19th century caught the attention of a variety of up-and-coming inventors, industrialists, political reformers, and even the occasional revolutionary. A "Futurist Symposium" held at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris helped catalyze them into a political movement, of which the APFA is the American manifestation.
Locale: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
Supporters: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); industrial magnates, nationalist politicians, military officers (right wing)
Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy and for the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures", while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society.
Notable members:
Andrew Carnegie (+1 funds per turn)
Committees:
Anti-Machine Committee: Set up to replace machines in integrating immigrants into America in exchange for their loyalty. -2 funds per turn. +4% recruitment.
Industrial Union Committee: A committee that helps mediate between striking workers and industrial magnates. -1 funds per turn, striking unions get -3 to rolls but factory owners are more likely to accept their demands (applies to the Steel Belt).
The Anti-Corruption Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-corruption and pro-industry, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for such laws.
Military Strategy Committee: -3 funds per turn, +5 to strategy/planning rolls, +5 to actions setting up a militia.
Property:
Technocratic Institute of Planning: A Cleveland university for future politicians, entrepreneurs, and managers that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology. +3 funds per turn, more bonuses in '01.
—Scholarships for the American Dream Program: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Associates: Several small coal mines in the Steel Belt, most of the independent steel mills factories in the Steel Belt, moderate sized gun factory in Cincinnati, major steel belt construction company
All-American Workers' Alliance (Technocrat and Anti-Imperialist factions)
7 (5 Republican, 2 Democrat) House representatives, 1 senator (Republican) minorities in Steel Belt legislatures endorsed
Rich benefactors: +7.8 funds per turn
Continuous Actions:
Contacts on Ellis Island: Contacts subtly direct immigrants to the APFA. -5 funds per turn. +6% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Forwards Together!): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
The American Dream Program: Helps immigrants and poor find well paying jobs, learn entrepreneurship, and get loans. -10 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +5 to actions regarding loyalty of your members.
New England Immigrant Operations: Work with the Ellis Island contacts and American Dream Program to help integrate immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. -8 funds per turn, +9% recruitment
Futurist Technology Fund: -5 funds per turn, occasionally events will happen. +5% recruitment.
Modifiers:
War Veterans: +5 to militia training rolls for the next 4 years (until 1902).
Hawks: 15% (Gives -7 to denouncing violence)
Technocrats: 10%
Anti-Imperialist: 10%
Dues: Income
The rapid industrialization and technological development of the late 19th century caught the attention of a variety of up-and-coming inventors, industrialists, political reformers, and even the occasional revolutionary. A "Futurist Symposium" held at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris helped catalyze them into a political movement, of which the APFA is the American manifestation.
Locale: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
Supporters: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); industrial magnates, nationalist politicians, military officers (right wing)
Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy and for the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures", while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society.
Notable members:
Andrew Carnegie (+1 funds per turn)
Committees:
Anti-Machine Committee: Set up to replace machines in integrating immigrants into America in exchange for their loyalty. -2 funds per turn. +4% recruitment.
Industrial Union Committee: A committee that helps mediate between striking workers and industrial magnates. -1 funds per turn, striking unions get -3 to rolls but factory owners are more likely to accept their demands (applies to the Steel Belt).
The Anti-Corruption Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-corruption and pro-industry, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for such laws.
Military Strategy Committee: -3 funds per turn, +5 to strategy/planning rolls, +5 to actions setting up a militia.
Property:
Technocratic Institute of Planning: A Cleveland university for future politicians, entrepreneurs, and managers that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology. +3 funds per turn, more bonuses in '01.
—Scholarships for the American Dream Program: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Associates: Several small coal mines in the Steel Belt, most of the independent steel mills factories in the Steel Belt, moderate sized gun factory in Cincinnati, major steel belt construction company
All-American Workers' Alliance (Technocrat and Anti-Imperialist factions)
7 (5 Republican, 2 Democrat) House representatives, 1 senator (Republican) minorities in Steel Belt legislatures endorsed
Rich benefactors: +7.8 funds per turn
Continuous Actions:
Contacts on Ellis Island: Contacts subtly direct immigrants to the APFA. -5 funds per turn. +6% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Forwards Together!): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
The American Dream Program: Helps immigrants and poor find well paying jobs, learn entrepreneurship, and get loans. -10 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +5 to actions regarding loyalty of your members.
New England Immigrant Operations: Work with the Ellis Island contacts and American Dream Program to help integrate immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. -8 funds per turn, +9% recruitment
Futurist Technology Fund: -5 funds per turn, occasionally events will happen. +5% recruitment.
Modifiers:
War Veterans: +5 to militia training rolls for the next 4 years (until 1902).
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Factions and influence:
Anarchists: 15%
Industrialists: 11%
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Infiltrations: Several west coast railroad unions. Wealthy neighborhoods as servants across the west coast, especially San Fransisco. (+3/+5 to assassination, spying, or otherwise interference rolls in west coast cities/San Fransisco). Manilla military base (+5 to and allows for assassination, spying, or otherwise interference rolls in Manilla)
-1320 militia
-Faction: Anarchist
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
-Consists solely of elected representatives from said towns.
Factory Management Council: Manages owned factories and is elected from the factory workers. -1 funds per turn. -1 general action, +1 industrial action, +5 to industrial rolls.
-Each factory is a cooperative and has greater self-management.
-Faction: Industrialists
Miscellaneous Representatives: For those not in another sub-organization, elects delegates to form overall leadership.
Committees:
Guild Coordination Committee: Coordinates affiliated guilds and helps them communicate with each other.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Local Meeting Halls (+1 action)
San Fransisco Canning Factories: +12 funds
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit: +6 funds
San Fransisco Cigar Factories: +3 funds.
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards: +2 funds.
San Gabriel Valley Stores: +2 funds
Los Angeles Railcar Factory: +4 funds
California Farms: +2 funds
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Forging Certificates of Residence: Contacts in the government forge these certificates to allow a minor amount of immigration. -3 funds per turn. +5% recruitment.
Rigging Railcars: Railcars made by FMC factories are rigged by the Yellow Scarves allowing them to be quickly shut down. +50 per turn to shutting down rails action.
Head Tax Fund: A fund for paying the head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada, allowing more to come in and without debt or obligation to companies. -10 funds per turn, +5% recruitment, +3 to rolls for loyalty in Canada.
Associates:
Most of the west coast guilds (Chinese trade unions) including canning factory unions, Chinese miner unions across the west (also in Western Federation of Miners), most Chinese service workers
Modifiers:
Alerted Feds: The government is aware of the rigged rails and is actively looking for it, forcing the Yellow Scarves to be more careful. -2 per die for the rigging rails action.
Anarchists: 15%
Industrialists: 11%
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Infiltrations: Several west coast railroad unions. Wealthy neighborhoods as servants across the west coast, especially San Fransisco. (+3/+5 to assassination, spying, or otherwise interference rolls in west coast cities/San Fransisco). Manilla military base (+5 to and allows for assassination, spying, or otherwise interference rolls in Manilla)
-1320 militia
-Faction: Anarchist
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
-Consists solely of elected representatives from said towns.
Factory Management Council: Manages owned factories and is elected from the factory workers. -1 funds per turn. -1 general action, +1 industrial action, +5 to industrial rolls.
-Each factory is a cooperative and has greater self-management.
-Faction: Industrialists
Miscellaneous Representatives: For those not in another sub-organization, elects delegates to form overall leadership.
Committees:
Guild Coordination Committee: Coordinates affiliated guilds and helps them communicate with each other.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Local Meeting Halls (+1 action)
San Fransisco Canning Factories: +12 funds
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit: +6 funds
San Fransisco Cigar Factories: +3 funds.
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards: +2 funds.
San Gabriel Valley Stores: +2 funds
Los Angeles Railcar Factory: +4 funds
California Farms: +2 funds
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Forging Certificates of Residence: Contacts in the government forge these certificates to allow a minor amount of immigration. -3 funds per turn. +5% recruitment.
Rigging Railcars: Railcars made by FMC factories are rigged by the Yellow Scarves allowing them to be quickly shut down. +50 per turn to shutting down rails action.
Head Tax Fund: A fund for paying the head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada, allowing more to come in and without debt or obligation to companies. -10 funds per turn, +5% recruitment, +3 to rolls for loyalty in Canada.
Associates:
Most of the west coast guilds (Chinese trade unions) including canning factory unions, Chinese miner unions across the west (also in Western Federation of Miners), most Chinese service workers
Modifiers:
Alerted Feds: The government is aware of the rigged rails and is actively looking for it, forcing the Yellow Scarves to be more careful. -2 per die for the rigging rails action.
The Orange Disciples:
Dues: Income with delinquency
The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Pennsylvania Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania.
New York Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in New York. -6 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in New York.
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Orange Post): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
City Cleanup Program: With local churches, pay the unemployed to clean up their cities. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
City literacy programs: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities.
—Philadelphia: -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment
—NYC: -10 funds per turn, +20% recruitment
Adult literacy programs: A charity program run through rural churches.
—Pennsylvania: -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
—Ohio: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, many churches across West Virginia
Several progressive upstate New York representatives and 6 House Representatives (republican)
Christian Socialists of America
Legislative Successes:
Ohio Women's Suffrage
NYC Labor Laws (54 hour workweek max for women but with overtime for men, some safety regulations) (Obsolete)
Associates:
Rich benefactors: +43.7 funds per turn
The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Pennsylvania Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania.
New York Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in New York. -6 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in New York.
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Orange Post): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
City Cleanup Program: With local churches, pay the unemployed to clean up their cities. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
City literacy programs: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities.
—Philadelphia: -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment
—NYC: -10 funds per turn, +20% recruitment
Adult literacy programs: A charity program run through rural churches.
—Pennsylvania: -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
—Ohio: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, many churches across West Virginia
Several progressive upstate New York representatives and 6 House Representatives (republican)
Christian Socialists of America
Legislative Successes:
Ohio Women's Suffrage
NYC Labor Laws (54 hour workweek max for women but with overtime for men, some safety regulations) (Obsolete)
Associates:
Rich benefactors: +43.7 funds per turn
The New American Patriots
Originally fabricated out of whole cloth by scheming British business interests, it was hijacked by a small group of actual ideologues.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
Notable Members:
Many low ranking bureaucrats in San Fransisco and California governments.
Property:
San Fransisco Office (+1 action)
California universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
San Fransisco small gun factory: +2 funds per turn, +2 per die up to 5 die for buying weaponry.
Winter Security Group: A private security company. -5 funds per turn, +1 WSG action.
Continuous Actions:
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: A program in San Fransisco to look for troubled youths and put them in contact with a university student/alumnus as a mentor to give them a support network and contacts. -3 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
Modifiers:
Small business loans: Repayment beginning in 1900 of 3 funds a year for 4 years. Repayment beginning in 1901 of 3 funds a year for 4 years.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
Notable Members:
Many low ranking bureaucrats in San Fransisco and California governments.
Property:
San Fransisco Office (+1 action)
California universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
San Fransisco small gun factory: +2 funds per turn, +2 per die up to 5 die for buying weaponry.
Winter Security Group: A private security company. -5 funds per turn, +1 WSG action.
Continuous Actions:
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: A program in San Fransisco to look for troubled youths and put them in contact with a university student/alumnus as a mentor to give them a support network and contacts. -3 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
Modifiers:
Small business loans: Repayment beginning in 1900 of 3 funds a year for 4 years. Repayment beginning in 1901 of 3 funds a year for 4 years.
The Society for Universal Suffrage
Dues: Income with delinquency
Founded by the scandalous and disgraced (yet not disowned) heiress to financier Emmerich Voight, Walpurga Voight, and her eclectic circle of friends and associates for the purpose of advancing their radical social and political ideals. This tightly-knit inner circle is often referred to as "the Valkyries" or "the Coven" by detractors and supporters alike. Its self-professed aims are the liberation of all peoples from tyranny, regardless of its form or excuse. It champions the cause of women, workers, and minorities, and decries the obvious 'divide and conquer' methods by which the powerful turn those causes against one another.
Locale: The Great Lakes Region, particularly in Chicago.
Supporters: Women, Feminists, Socialists, Racial Minorities, Internationalists; particularly among those who are in more than one of those categories, and/or are militant/radicalized.
Ideology: An early form of Intersectional Socialism derived from the implicit principles of the era's socialist, feminist, and anti-racist thinking, fused and formalized into an explicit tendency by Walpurga Voight. As formulated by Voight, the ideology is radical, militant, and uncompromising, refusing to accept attempts to divide and conquer, or to accept the liberation of workers or women or minorities being sacrificed for the sake of others.
Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.
Notable Members:
Walpurga Voight: Owns industry in property
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -8 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Militia: 530 regulars, protects vulnerable areas such as the gay bars
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter/Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies: Weak, gives 1 queer action
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
The Chicago School of Journalism
Farm Toolmaking Factory (1 medium): +2% recruitment per turn
Furniture Factory (1 small): +4 funds per turn
Hemp Textile Factory (2 medium): +10 funds per turn
Machine Shop (1 large): +8 funds per turn
Armaments and Munitions Factory Complex: -16 funds per turn, +250 weaponry per turn
Great Lakes Gay Bars: +3 funds per turn
New York Gay Bars: +2 funds per turn
Chicago Military Training Facility: -20 funds per turn, -200 weaponry per turn, +1060 Regular level militia per turn.
Universal Development: A construction company. -16 funds per turn, +1 construction action, can build/expand two things at a time.
Committees:
Domestic Abuse Support Committee: Continuously organizes aid for women getting away from abusive situations using their institutions, getting a job at a unionized workplace or one of their factories when possible. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Queer Informational Packet Committee: Organizes designing and spreading informational packets to inform people who and what queer people are. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Continuous Actions:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Self Defense Program: A program for teaching women self-defense, with Annie Oakley as a leader. -3 funds per turn, women in SUS areas have better self-defense skills, +5 to train militia action.
Anti-Prejudice/Misogyny Training: Members are trained in not being misogynist or prejudiced towards minorities, decreasing conflicts there and making it less likely the organization will have that sort of problem. -2 funds per turn.
Affiliations: Various ethnic socialist clubs in Chicago serve as meeting places for local initiatives. +3 to rolls in Chicago.
Founded by the scandalous and disgraced (yet not disowned) heiress to financier Emmerich Voight, Walpurga Voight, and her eclectic circle of friends and associates for the purpose of advancing their radical social and political ideals. This tightly-knit inner circle is often referred to as "the Valkyries" or "the Coven" by detractors and supporters alike. Its self-professed aims are the liberation of all peoples from tyranny, regardless of its form or excuse. It champions the cause of women, workers, and minorities, and decries the obvious 'divide and conquer' methods by which the powerful turn those causes against one another.
Locale: The Great Lakes Region, particularly in Chicago.
Supporters: Women, Feminists, Socialists, Racial Minorities, Internationalists; particularly among those who are in more than one of those categories, and/or are militant/radicalized.
Ideology: An early form of Intersectional Socialism derived from the implicit principles of the era's socialist, feminist, and anti-racist thinking, fused and formalized into an explicit tendency by Walpurga Voight. As formulated by Voight, the ideology is radical, militant, and uncompromising, refusing to accept attempts to divide and conquer, or to accept the liberation of workers or women or minorities being sacrificed for the sake of others.
Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.
Notable Members:
Walpurga Voight: Owns industry in property
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -8 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Militia: 530 regulars, protects vulnerable areas such as the gay bars
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter/Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies: Weak, gives 1 queer action
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
The Chicago School of Journalism
Farm Toolmaking Factory (1 medium): +2% recruitment per turn
Furniture Factory (1 small): +4 funds per turn
Hemp Textile Factory (2 medium): +10 funds per turn
Machine Shop (1 large): +8 funds per turn
Armaments and Munitions Factory Complex: -16 funds per turn, +250 weaponry per turn
Great Lakes Gay Bars: +3 funds per turn
New York Gay Bars: +2 funds per turn
Chicago Military Training Facility: -20 funds per turn, -200 weaponry per turn, +1060 Regular level militia per turn.
Universal Development: A construction company. -16 funds per turn, +1 construction action, can build/expand two things at a time.
Committees:
Domestic Abuse Support Committee: Continuously organizes aid for women getting away from abusive situations using their institutions, getting a job at a unionized workplace or one of their factories when possible. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Queer Informational Packet Committee: Organizes designing and spreading informational packets to inform people who and what queer people are. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Continuous Actions:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Self Defense Program: A program for teaching women self-defense, with Annie Oakley as a leader. -3 funds per turn, women in SUS areas have better self-defense skills, +5 to train militia action.
Anti-Prejudice/Misogyny Training: Members are trained in not being misogynist or prejudiced towards minorities, decreasing conflicts there and making it less likely the organization will have that sort of problem. -2 funds per turn.
Affiliations: Various ethnic socialist clubs in Chicago serve as meeting places for local initiatives. +3 to rolls in Chicago.
The Minutemen
Beginnings: A relatively new movement which started as a group of military enthusiasts including some soldiers and even an officer or two. Starting off as just people with similar interests, the original group was formed around a new kind of game brought from the officer that was part of the army. But between the gaming sessions, and learning of more recent events, between the scandals, Custer's folly, and the complete mess that was the Union during the revolution, led to them to enter politics. And as part of that, they are seeking some way to try and find some way to be able to somewhat simulate combat, even if in an incomplete form to try and better understand it.
Locale: Largest group is in Pennsylvania.
Supporters: Military historians, people with military background or family in military. And relatively recently, hobbyists and others.
Ideology: Leaning a bit to the left, but they focus on cutting through the big business BS, ESPECIALLY in military matters. And they tend to carry the belief that understanding the topic is important.
Property:
Remodeled farmhouse near Pittsburgh: +1 action
Committees:
War Game Committee: Organizes war game sessions. -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Committee appointments are decided by elections in which the top voted in the organization are chosen. Overall leadership is chosen in a similar manner.
Tactics Research Committee: Researches traditional and new small unit tactics. One third of new militia are regulars (and two thirds green). -2 funds per turn.
Militia:
400 regulars
Programs:
Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities Clubs and Programs: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Continuous Actions:
TFAM and SPA trainers: +3 to militia training actions, -3 funds per turn. Gives a bonus to both TFAM and SPA.
Cuban Liberation Army Connections: Shares Minutemen's scientific methods of warfare and listens to their guerrilla experiences. -3 funds per turn, allows for better guerrilla warfare should it be needed, +5 to guerrilla actions
Associates:
Gun shops and manufacturers: +4 per die for buying weaponry.
Locale: Largest group is in Pennsylvania.
Supporters: Military historians, people with military background or family in military. And relatively recently, hobbyists and others.
Ideology: Leaning a bit to the left, but they focus on cutting through the big business BS, ESPECIALLY in military matters. And they tend to carry the belief that understanding the topic is important.
Property:
Remodeled farmhouse near Pittsburgh: +1 action
Committees:
War Game Committee: Organizes war game sessions. -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Committee appointments are decided by elections in which the top voted in the organization are chosen. Overall leadership is chosen in a similar manner.
Tactics Research Committee: Researches traditional and new small unit tactics. One third of new militia are regulars (and two thirds green). -2 funds per turn.
Militia:
400 regulars
Programs:
Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities Clubs and Programs: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Continuous Actions:
TFAM and SPA trainers: +3 to militia training actions, -3 funds per turn. Gives a bonus to both TFAM and SPA.
Cuban Liberation Army Connections: Shares Minutemen's scientific methods of warfare and listens to their guerrilla experiences. -3 funds per turn, allows for better guerrilla warfare should it be needed, +5 to guerrilla actions
Associates:
Gun shops and manufacturers: +4 per die for buying weaponry.
Southern People's Alliance
Circumstance of Founding: Formed from members of the People's Party and Farmers' Alliance (Southern and Colored) who attended the Chicago World Fair and were intrigued by the United Front demonstrations, eventually turning outright towards Socialism. The economic hardship following the Panic of 1893 turned them from a series of informal debate clubs within the People's Party left wing into a full-fledged organization in and of itself.
Locale: US South
Supporters: Poor rural Whites, African Americans, former Farmers' Alliance members, People's Party radicals/left-wing, Railroad Workers
Ideology: Agrarianism, Cooperativism, Populism, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarian Socialism. Specifically anti-racist, viewing racism as a tool of the Planter Aristocracy. Have a view of "Three Great Enemies": The Planter Aristocracy, the Banks, and the Railroad Companies.
Other Notes: Some internal disagreement between an Anarchist wing that seeks to emulate the direct action and parallel organization methods of the FAM, RFAA, and SUS, and an "Agrarian Marxist" Wing that hopes to transition the larger People's Party towards something that can be used as a vehicle to bring about Socialism (or formally split off the left-wing to serve the same purpose if that doesn't work.)
Sub-Groups:
Poor Man's Fighters:
-Formalized command system with elected officers and command: -5 funds per turn, +1 PMF action
-Tactics training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
-Strategy Committee: -2 funds per turn, +5 to strategy or planning roles.
-1150 militia, 300 of which are regulars
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
Committees:
Coop Mill and Shop Integration Committee: Integrates existing coop mills and shops into the organization, meaning everyone in the vicinity of each is essentially part of that coop. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. +2% recruitment. -2 funds per turn.
Continuous Actions:
North Carolina Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the North Carolina movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment.
Mills and Shops Fund: Established more coop mills and shops where needed. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. +6% recruitment, -6 funds per turn.
Associates:
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Locale: US South
Supporters: Poor rural Whites, African Americans, former Farmers' Alliance members, People's Party radicals/left-wing, Railroad Workers
Ideology: Agrarianism, Cooperativism, Populism, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarian Socialism. Specifically anti-racist, viewing racism as a tool of the Planter Aristocracy. Have a view of "Three Great Enemies": The Planter Aristocracy, the Banks, and the Railroad Companies.
Other Notes: Some internal disagreement between an Anarchist wing that seeks to emulate the direct action and parallel organization methods of the FAM, RFAA, and SUS, and an "Agrarian Marxist" Wing that hopes to transition the larger People's Party towards something that can be used as a vehicle to bring about Socialism (or formally split off the left-wing to serve the same purpose if that doesn't work.)
Sub-Groups:
Poor Man's Fighters:
-Formalized command system with elected officers and command: -5 funds per turn, +1 PMF action
-Tactics training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
-Strategy Committee: -2 funds per turn, +5 to strategy or planning roles.
-1150 militia, 300 of which are regulars
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
Committees:
Coop Mill and Shop Integration Committee: Integrates existing coop mills and shops into the organization, meaning everyone in the vicinity of each is essentially part of that coop. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. +2% recruitment. -2 funds per turn.
Continuous Actions:
North Carolina Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the North Carolina movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment.
Mills and Shops Fund: Established more coop mills and shops where needed. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. +6% recruitment, -6 funds per turn.
Associates:
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Appalachian Brotherhood
Dues: Same as RFAA
After a recent bout of seasonal flooding from the north-west oil fields of Pennsylvania, to northern West Virginia coal mines, the intelligentista, farm workers, oil workers, steel workers, and mine workers of the region declared that the nonexistant response of the national or state authorities meant that the region was on its own. Half an effort of nation building, half an expression of the already unique regional cultures and conditions of the area, the group has a dream of being free and equal. From south-west new york, to the southern part of the mountain range, they have yelled the call of liberation for the colonized region of Appalachia from the imperialist USA.
They are organized by RFAA councils.
Locale: Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside
Supporters: Appalachian Folk of various stripes.
Ideology: As primarily anarchists, the AB acts is for those that wants a free and equal Appalachia.
Property:
Pittsburgh Meeting Room: +1 action
Mountain Bases: Bases and supply caches in the mountains of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, navigable only with local guides. Allows for safe refuge.
Committees:
Appalachian Cultural Committee: Collects a list of unique Appalachian culture and encourages people to share it. -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment, +5 to rolls relating to getting local groups involved.
Continuous Actions:
Pittsburgh Newspaper (Yinz Voice): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Pennsylvania movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh + Nearby Government Contacts for Encouraging local rule: -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions meant for encouraging local rule. Mainly government employee contacts, not elected representatives.
Affiliates:
UMW branches
After a recent bout of seasonal flooding from the north-west oil fields of Pennsylvania, to northern West Virginia coal mines, the intelligentista, farm workers, oil workers, steel workers, and mine workers of the region declared that the nonexistant response of the national or state authorities meant that the region was on its own. Half an effort of nation building, half an expression of the already unique regional cultures and conditions of the area, the group has a dream of being free and equal. From south-west new york, to the southern part of the mountain range, they have yelled the call of liberation for the colonized region of Appalachia from the imperialist USA.
They are organized by RFAA councils.
Locale: Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside
Supporters: Appalachian Folk of various stripes.
Ideology: As primarily anarchists, the AB acts is for those that wants a free and equal Appalachia.
Property:
Pittsburgh Meeting Room: +1 action
Mountain Bases: Bases and supply caches in the mountains of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, navigable only with local guides. Allows for safe refuge.
Committees:
Appalachian Cultural Committee: Collects a list of unique Appalachian culture and encourages people to share it. -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment, +5 to rolls relating to getting local groups involved.
Continuous Actions:
Pittsburgh Newspaper (Yinz Voice): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Pennsylvania movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh + Nearby Government Contacts for Encouraging local rule: -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions meant for encouraging local rule. Mainly government employee contacts, not elected representatives.
Affiliates:
UMW branches
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)
Dues: Same as RFAA
Founded in a bar in Del Rio, Texas, by a mismash group of Hispanic left-wing intellectuals and farmers, alongside some exiled Cuban revolutionaries. It is inspired by the successes of the United Front and its constituent members in organizing within the states. Their current goal is the organizing and radicalization of the growing Hispanic/Mexican-American population in the Sun Belt, with the eventual dream of assisting their Mexican homeland in the overthrow of the Porfiriato regime.
They are organized as a region of the RFAA.
Locale: Mostly Texas based, with some connections in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Areas with outsized Mexican populations basically. Additionally Puerto Rico.
Supporters: Hispanic labourers, workers and farmers, Mexican intellectuals in exile.
Ideology: Big Tent Socialism (Mostly Agrarian Socialists and Anarcho-Communists), Pro-Hispanic advocacy
Property:
Del Rio Office: +1 action
Committees:
Immigrant Aid Committee: Helps Mexicans who wish to move here whether it be refugees or just to get a job. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
Continuous Actions:
Puerto Rico Newspaper (El Porvenir Social): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Puerto Rico movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Puerto Rico.
Cuban RFAA Supply Line: -2 funds per turn, gives supplies to the Cuban anarchists.
Founded in a bar in Del Rio, Texas, by a mismash group of Hispanic left-wing intellectuals and farmers, alongside some exiled Cuban revolutionaries. It is inspired by the successes of the United Front and its constituent members in organizing within the states. Their current goal is the organizing and radicalization of the growing Hispanic/Mexican-American population in the Sun Belt, with the eventual dream of assisting their Mexican homeland in the overthrow of the Porfiriato regime.
They are organized as a region of the RFAA.
Locale: Mostly Texas based, with some connections in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Areas with outsized Mexican populations basically. Additionally Puerto Rico.
Supporters: Hispanic labourers, workers and farmers, Mexican intellectuals in exile.
Ideology: Big Tent Socialism (Mostly Agrarian Socialists and Anarcho-Communists), Pro-Hispanic advocacy
Property:
Del Rio Office: +1 action
Committees:
Immigrant Aid Committee: Helps Mexicans who wish to move here whether it be refugees or just to get a job. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
Continuous Actions:
Puerto Rico Newspaper (El Porvenir Social): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Puerto Rico movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Puerto Rico.
Cuban RFAA Supply Line: -2 funds per turn, gives supplies to the Cuban anarchists.
Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
The Committee emerged from American Indian, Native Hawaiian, radical-progressive and socialist collaboration in opposition to the Curtis Act and Newlands Resolution, and the intensification of residential schools.
Locale: Nationwide, particularly in the Indian Territory, the Indian Reservations and Hawaii, headquartered in Washington D.C.
Supporters: American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and those sympathetic to their plight.
Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationism, anti-imperialism, broadly left-wing among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
Locale: Nationwide, particularly in the Indian Territory, the Indian Reservations and Hawaii, headquartered in Washington D.C.
Supporters: American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and those sympathetic to their plight.
Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationism, anti-imperialism, broadly left-wing among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
United Front
A confederation of socialist organizations in the United States, it was founded during the world fair in Chicago where a unified effort of several leftist organizations was underwent to advertise their cause to the world.
An Executive Committee meets between sessions and is in charge of implementing most UF decisions as well as appointing commissions and committees.
Members: The Society for Universal Suffrage, Forty Acres Movement, Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance, Friends of Huddled Masses
Socialist Labor Party:
California Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in California, -15 funds per turn.
Colorado Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Colorado, -5 funds per turn.
Illinois Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Illinois, -48 funds per turn.
Louisiana Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Louisiana, -14 funds per turn.
New York City Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in New York City, -34 funds per turn.
Elected Officials:
California: A large minority in the house, a minority in the senate.
—Governor Job Harrison, next election 1902
—San Fransisco Mayor George B. Benham
Colorado: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Nixon Elliot, next election 1900
Illinois: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Charles A. Baustian, next election 1900
—Mayor of Chicago John Glambeck, next election 1899
Louisiana: A majority in the house and large minority in the senate
—A majority in the municipal New Orleans government, Mayor William Jones, next election 1900
New York City: The mayor Morris Hillquit (next election 1901) and major boroughs other than Brooklyn
Federal: 3 senators (2 Colorado, 1 Illinois), 25 representatives (3 California, 2 Colorado, 15 Illinois, 5 Louisiana)
Passed Legislation:
California Eminent Domain Bill (1899): Requires the state government to continuously use eminent domain to buy up private land used for public transport and communication and municipalities to own public utilities. +1% popularity California. +0.5 per die for FHM preparing railroad action.
Colorado Equal Rights Amendment (1898): Lowered DC for elections in Colorado.
Illinois Equal Rights Amendment (1899): Lowered DC for elections in Illinois.
Illinois Labor Laws and Welfare (1899): 8 hour workday/40 hour workweek with overtime; public assistance in meals, books, clothes, etc. for schoolchildren; pay in wages instead of scrip; a minimum wage for all workers; and state and municipal employment programs for the unemployed. +3% popularity Illinois, slightly boosts income.
New Orleans Labor and Civil Rights Laws (1898): 40 hour work week with overtime, city-wide union shop, no separate facilities by race, restaffed voting infrastructure. +4% popularity New Orleans, 1% Louisiana.
New York Labor Laws and Municipal Restructuring (1899): City-wide union shop, right to sympathy strikes, bar private security from interfering with a strike, 40 hour work week with overtime, reduced power of Boroughs, good access to voting. +5% popularity in NYC, slightly boosts income.
Armed Forces:
Various UF militia
California militia
Membership modifiers:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): +3 to actions related to ideology, +5% recruitment.
Amalgamated Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of the America, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. +5 auto progress per turn to the FAM independent farms action. You may specify that you are going up to 5 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn. +3 funds per turn.
FAM Trainers and Procedures: +8 to militia training action. -5 funds per turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: +10 to rolls creating new newspapers. Newspaper ideology bonus increased to +7. +5 to public relations actions. +1 per die for public campaigns.
Ideological: Each part of the United Front is driven forward due to their strong ideals. Bonus to ideological coherency for each UF organization.
Business fears: -1 per die for unionization rolls.
-1 per die for buying guns.
An Executive Committee meets between sessions and is in charge of implementing most UF decisions as well as appointing commissions and committees.
Members: The Society for Universal Suffrage, Forty Acres Movement, Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance, Friends of Huddled Masses
Socialist Labor Party:
California Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in California, -15 funds per turn.
Colorado Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Colorado, -5 funds per turn.
Illinois Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Illinois, -48 funds per turn.
Louisiana Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Louisiana, -14 funds per turn.
New York City Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in New York City, -34 funds per turn.
Elected Officials:
California: A large minority in the house, a minority in the senate.
—Governor Job Harrison, next election 1902
—San Fransisco Mayor George B. Benham
Colorado: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Nixon Elliot, next election 1900
Illinois: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Charles A. Baustian, next election 1900
—Mayor of Chicago John Glambeck, next election 1899
Louisiana: A majority in the house and large minority in the senate
—A majority in the municipal New Orleans government, Mayor William Jones, next election 1900
New York City: The mayor Morris Hillquit (next election 1901) and major boroughs other than Brooklyn
Federal: 3 senators (2 Colorado, 1 Illinois), 25 representatives (3 California, 2 Colorado, 15 Illinois, 5 Louisiana)
Passed Legislation:
California Eminent Domain Bill (1899): Requires the state government to continuously use eminent domain to buy up private land used for public transport and communication and municipalities to own public utilities. +1% popularity California. +0.5 per die for FHM preparing railroad action.
Colorado Equal Rights Amendment (1898): Lowered DC for elections in Colorado.
Illinois Equal Rights Amendment (1899): Lowered DC for elections in Illinois.
Illinois Labor Laws and Welfare (1899): 8 hour workday/40 hour workweek with overtime; public assistance in meals, books, clothes, etc. for schoolchildren; pay in wages instead of scrip; a minimum wage for all workers; and state and municipal employment programs for the unemployed. +3% popularity Illinois, slightly boosts income.
New Orleans Labor and Civil Rights Laws (1898): 40 hour work week with overtime, city-wide union shop, no separate facilities by race, restaffed voting infrastructure. +4% popularity New Orleans, 1% Louisiana.
New York Labor Laws and Municipal Restructuring (1899): City-wide union shop, right to sympathy strikes, bar private security from interfering with a strike, 40 hour work week with overtime, reduced power of Boroughs, good access to voting. +5% popularity in NYC, slightly boosts income.
Armed Forces:
Various UF militia
California militia
Membership modifiers:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): +3 to actions related to ideology, +5% recruitment.
Amalgamated Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of the America, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. +5 auto progress per turn to the FAM independent farms action. You may specify that you are going up to 5 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn. +3 funds per turn.
FAM Trainers and Procedures: +8 to militia training action. -5 funds per turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: +10 to rolls creating new newspapers. Newspaper ideology bonus increased to +7. +5 to public relations actions. +1 per die for public campaigns.
Ideological: Each part of the United Front is driven forward due to their strong ideals. Bonus to ideological coherency for each UF organization.
Business fears: -1 per die for unionization rolls.
-1 per die for buying guns.
All Organization Modifiers:
National Association of Manufacturers Collaboration: -10 to a roll for buying industry
Nationalist Citizens' Alliance Interference: -2 per die for unionization rolls.
Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
- Location
- Your Nearest Orbital Habitat
The bill failed and we got a fine for anti-trust stuff, sucks major ass.
But with a recruitment bonus and halfway to unionization efforts completing we are making good progress.
Still want to make the most of the infestation tearing through cotton farms before it dies out.
But with a recruitment bonus and halfway to unionization efforts completing we are making good progress.
Still want to make the most of the infestation tearing through cotton farms before it dies out.
- Location
- America
Mmm. I was expecting something like 200 dudes, but you know what? I'm happy.
Winter Security is open for business.
Also Ooooooh! An extra action! There are so many things I could do with an extra action!
Now to expand into the military hardware biz. Probably try to hire indigenous workers. All things considered. And if a few guns "rejected for not meeting sufficiently stellar standards" fall off the back of a wagon.
I'm thinking Scoped rifles, pistol carbines, machineguns. And if possible, Light artillery.
Winter Security is open for business.
Also Ooooooh! An extra action! There are so many things I could do with an extra action!
Now to expand into the military hardware biz. Probably try to hire indigenous workers. All things considered. And if a few guns "rejected for not meeting sufficiently stellar standards" fall off the back of a wagon.
I'm thinking Scoped rifles, pistol carbines, machineguns. And if possible, Light artillery.
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Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
The POC was this I believe:
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
I meant the Overflow. I really hate it when I forget to save my edits.
- Location
- America
I wonder if it would be possible to distribute flare guns to some various people in ARM organizations so that they can call in WSG patrols wherever it has presence. Given radicalization, it might be a good idea to have backup on demand.
Might need to do it roundabout by them as having "VIP protective contracts" though.
Also when trying to come up with something to put on a logo for WSG, I put "we won't start it, but we will end it" into google translate and it returned came up with: "non incipiemus, sed finiemus"
Marketing based on restraint and professionalism. Focus on those who would rather not pay White Supremacist protection racket fees, but also would really rather not have political militias at their doors.
edit: just as a musing. If I could go back and redo all of my actions in the quest from the beginning, I'd probably have gone with the Church of Divine Combustion rather than the NAP. It would have been a lot more fun. I wouldn't need to focus on any big picture stuff. Just factory churches and religious nutters tromping around Florida just having a grand old time.
Might need to do it roundabout by them as having "VIP protective contracts" though.
Also when trying to come up with something to put on a logo for WSG, I put "we won't start it, but we will end it" into google translate and it returned came up with: "non incipiemus, sed finiemus"
Marketing based on restraint and professionalism. Focus on those who would rather not pay White Supremacist protection racket fees, but also would really rather not have political militias at their doors.
edit: just as a musing. If I could go back and redo all of my actions in the quest from the beginning, I'd probably have gone with the Church of Divine Combustion rather than the NAP. It would have been a lot more fun. I wouldn't need to focus on any big picture stuff. Just factory churches and religious nutters tromping around Florida just having a grand old time.
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Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Now all I'm thinking of all the Florida Man Memes we could have made in those times, and I am sad at the missed opportunity.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
It meant that you put more money into lobbying there than the representatives see in a decade and since you're trying to connect to progressive representatives who in this era are anti-corruption, they complained, which took away from actually passing the bills you want. Plus OOC you rolled terribly there.
A similar if lesser thing happened in Louisiana a few turns ago where they complained of bribery, though they rolled better and didn't quite reach overflow so it was just success with consequences (it contributed to the battle of New Orleans).
Edit: I wrote overflow instead of a number to show that the original roll still mattered even though you put enough funds in to make it not matter if I didn't do this.
This is so that with the super tiny states like that you can't just spam a small amount of funds and get them to do whatever you want because that doesn't make much sense.
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Good-ish. But it's kinda obvious that the time frame were given for certain elements to pull some 'shenanagins'...
...Well, kinda fairish since the Minutemen are kinda treading between the centrist and left with their connections, for better or worse...
And, looks like we got ourselves bleeding Kansas 2.0...
War between the WUA and the 40 acres movement is definitely inching closer. The only question in the minds of the Minutemen is how exactly the battle lines are drawn, and the exact position of the various factions. Including interestingly enough the schism that is starting to form in the Republicans thanks to their roots clashing with the attempt of the party heads to unite to deal with the situation.
1900: Planning
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
As the United Front continued to see explosive growth this year, especially the Forty Acres Movement in the south which has been steadily building dual power to the applaud of socialists from across the country, the next presidential election was about to begin. Business interests would pour money into both the Democratic and Republican candidates regardless of their planned policies, fearful of the socialist threat. The LLRP and People's Party would continue as regional powers in this multipolar age, resisting efforts to fully merge with either the SLP or the Democratic Party.
The two mainstream parties would have contentious primaries this year. The Democrats had one man rise to the top, Ben Tillman, Senator of South Carolina. With the collapse of Tammany Hall, and with it much of the influence of northern Democrats, and the more progressive Democrats joining the Populists, the nomination was dominated by the deep south.
Ben Tillman was known for being a virulently racist orator, who lost the '96 convention due to a disastrous speech in favor of the agrarian and silver factions (the same convention that lead to William J. Bryan leave the Democrats for the Populists). But with the Bourbon Democrat solidly losing the election, they turned back to the populist faction with the hope of luring back Populist voters. His pro-farmer policies, while flexibly defining farmer to mean both the poor who tilled their own land and the aristocracy of the south, lead him to popularity among all rural white men. He was also an anti-corruption advocate, proudly speaking on it while belittling his opponents as ignorant, imbecilic, and backwards.
Additionally he was solidly in support of the WUA, portraying it as an all American militia defending white civilization, and being a former Red Shirt himself. He did moderate his position as he was anti-lynching, considering that the job of the government. He spoke the most on the Afro-Socialist threat rising across the country, demanding that socialists be not given an inch anywhere in the country. He also personally traveled the country to campaign, breaking from American tradition which had the presidential candidates stay home.
His vice presidential candidate was Adlai Stevenson, another pro-silver but respectable former representative.
McKinley won his nomination with a majority, hurt by the discourse around the war but maintaining support of his party with no other major figure. As a compromise with the progressive Republicans, he ran with his friend Robert La Follette as his vice presidential candidate, and promised additional labor reforms to quell the radicalism surrounding the working class. His campaign was supported by the popular Teddy Roosevelt doing an on the ground campaign, having promised him Secretary of War if he wins again.
Some actions are universal and can be included in any organization's plan, others are just for one. Funds are per turn, they don't stack. Any ?s are for you to write-in a number for that action. New actions as write-ins are encouraged to be suggested at any time.
For election actions, you may spend up to two actions on a single area (large city or state) to double-up effort on it. Campaigning in multiple states will divide up effort proportionately, not evenly.
When voting, put the organization acronym before the name of the plan like this:
[X][ACUA] Plan do stuff
Universal Actions:
[] Require dues
--[] Small
--[] Medium
--[] Large
--[] Based on income
-[] Allow delinquent members
More dues reduces membership but increases income. Allowing delinquent members offsets the membership decrease but you also get less income.
[] Make a newspaper.
-[] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
Making newspapers can increase recruitment and increase the effectiveness of other actions such as putting candidates up for election. Only use an action for initial creation.
[] Stockpile guns. ? funds.
To complete is members/100. Roll 1d20 per funds. Rolling completion, decays 5% per turn representing use and action never disappears.
[] Train militia. ? cadres.
Uses 1 funds and 10 "stockpile guns" progress per cadre. Get 5d20 trained militia per cadre.
[] Organize protests about ?
Write-in option.
[] Attack organization building of ?
-[] ? times.
-[] Claim credit.
Write-in, can be an OTL organization or one of the other player organizations. Costs 1 wealth per building attacked. Note if it's discovered you did it, or if you claim credit, there will be consequences.
[] Make a public campaign defaming a rival person or group.
-[] Spend ? funds.
[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
-[] On the streets of cities. ? funds.
-[] In the factories of cities. ? funds.
-[] To mining towns. ? funds.
-[] To the farmworkers. ? funds.
-[] In colleges and universities. ? funds.
-[] At parties of the rich. ? funds, min 20.
-[] In the lobbies of politicians. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Republican Party. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Democratic Party. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Populist Party. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. ? funds.
-[] Write-in states
All-Continental Union Association:
280,000 supporters, 14 UF delegates
6 actions, 1 unionization action, 2 policy actions
217 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
69,233 supporters
6 actions, 1 policy action
165 funds
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
365,000 supporters, 18 UF delegates
8 actions, 1 CDC action, 1 welfare action
309 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn.
Weaponry: 133/78 (for militia)
The Forty Acres Movement:
402,000 supporters, 20 UF delegates
7 free actions, 1 Spartacist action, 1 industrial action, 1 policy action
118 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn and by 40 funds for the fine.
Weaponry: 244/42 (for militia)
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
111,546 supporters
6 actions, 1 militia action
138 funds
Weaponry: 135/29 (militia)
American People's Futurist Alliance:
50,625 supporters
5 actions, 136 funds
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
155,583 supporters, 8 UF delegates
6 free actions, 1 Yellow Scarves action, 1 industrial action
160 funds
Weaponry: 158/13 (militia)
The Orange Disciples:
113,859 supporters
6 actions, 252 funds
The New American Patriots:
26,027 supporters
4 free actions, 1 Winter Security Group action
28 funds
Weaponry: 2/4 (WSG)
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
460,000 supporters, 23 UF delegates
8 actions, 1 construction action, 1 queer action, 1 policy action
393 funds
Note: I've already reduced the above value by 5 for the funds borrowed last turn.
Weaponry: 367/4067
The Minutemen:
29,286 supporters
4 actions, 13 funds
Weaponry: 18/2 (militia) or 18/243
Southern People's Alliance:
149,700 supporters, 7 UF delegates
6 actions, 1 PMF action
32 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn.
Weaponry: 61/12 (militia)
Appalachian Brotherhood:
39,700 supporters, 2 UF delegates
5 actions, 53 funds
Amigos del Pueblo
70,500 supporters, 4 UF delegates
5 actions, 56 funds
Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
63,800 supporters
4 actions, 22 funds
United Front
94 funds
American Reform Movement (pacifist)
American Reform Movement (militant)
The two mainstream parties would have contentious primaries this year. The Democrats had one man rise to the top, Ben Tillman, Senator of South Carolina. With the collapse of Tammany Hall, and with it much of the influence of northern Democrats, and the more progressive Democrats joining the Populists, the nomination was dominated by the deep south.
Ben Tillman was known for being a virulently racist orator, who lost the '96 convention due to a disastrous speech in favor of the agrarian and silver factions (the same convention that lead to William J. Bryan leave the Democrats for the Populists). But with the Bourbon Democrat solidly losing the election, they turned back to the populist faction with the hope of luring back Populist voters. His pro-farmer policies, while flexibly defining farmer to mean both the poor who tilled their own land and the aristocracy of the south, lead him to popularity among all rural white men. He was also an anti-corruption advocate, proudly speaking on it while belittling his opponents as ignorant, imbecilic, and backwards.
Additionally he was solidly in support of the WUA, portraying it as an all American militia defending white civilization, and being a former Red Shirt himself. He did moderate his position as he was anti-lynching, considering that the job of the government. He spoke the most on the Afro-Socialist threat rising across the country, demanding that socialists be not given an inch anywhere in the country. He also personally traveled the country to campaign, breaking from American tradition which had the presidential candidates stay home.
His vice presidential candidate was Adlai Stevenson, another pro-silver but respectable former representative.
McKinley won his nomination with a majority, hurt by the discourse around the war but maintaining support of his party with no other major figure. As a compromise with the progressive Republicans, he ran with his friend Robert La Follette as his vice presidential candidate, and promised additional labor reforms to quell the radicalism surrounding the working class. His campaign was supported by the popular Teddy Roosevelt doing an on the ground campaign, having promised him Secretary of War if he wins again.
Some actions are universal and can be included in any organization's plan, others are just for one. Funds are per turn, they don't stack. Any ?s are for you to write-in a number for that action. New actions as write-ins are encouraged to be suggested at any time.
For election actions, you may spend up to two actions on a single area (large city or state) to double-up effort on it. Campaigning in multiple states will divide up effort proportionately, not evenly.
When voting, put the organization acronym before the name of the plan like this:
[X][ACUA] Plan do stuff
Universal Actions:
[] Require dues
--[] Small
--[] Medium
--[] Large
--[] Based on income
-[] Allow delinquent members
More dues reduces membership but increases income. Allowing delinquent members offsets the membership decrease but you also get less income.
[] Make a newspaper.
-[] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
Making newspapers can increase recruitment and increase the effectiveness of other actions such as putting candidates up for election. Only use an action for initial creation.
[] Stockpile guns. ? funds.
To complete is members/100. Roll 1d20 per funds. Rolling completion, decays 5% per turn representing use and action never disappears.
[] Train militia. ? cadres.
Uses 1 funds and 10 "stockpile guns" progress per cadre. Get 5d20 trained militia per cadre.
[] Organize protests about ?
Write-in option.
[] Attack organization building of ?
-[] ? times.
-[] Claim credit.
Write-in, can be an OTL organization or one of the other player organizations. Costs 1 wealth per building attacked. Note if it's discovered you did it, or if you claim credit, there will be consequences.
[] Make a public campaign defaming a rival person or group.
-[] Spend ? funds.
[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
-[] On the streets of cities. ? funds.
-[] In the factories of cities. ? funds.
-[] To mining towns. ? funds.
-[] To the farmworkers. ? funds.
-[] In colleges and universities. ? funds.
-[] At parties of the rich. ? funds, min 20.
-[] In the lobbies of politicians. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Republican Party. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Democratic Party. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Populist Party. ? funds.
[] Campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. ? funds.
-[] Write-in states
All-Continental Union Association:
280,000 supporters, 14 UF delegates
6 actions, 1 unionization action, 2 policy actions
217 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn.
[] Make a standardized bureaucracy for the organization to maintain cohesion in it and all its branches. Gives +1 action, 30 funds, -5 funds per turn (cost scales with size)
[] Do a national campaign across all areas of the United Front advocating for industrial unionism and the ACUA over the AFL as well as focusing on bringing the small futurist unions back into the ACUA. ? funds.
[] Try disrupting AFL meetings, sending people in to argue, etc. to try to break up the AFL. ? funds.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds. Current: 9
[] Call a general strike of all associated unions to demand better labor conditions as well as preferential union shop.
[] Send organizers to Mexico to help local burgeoning union efforts. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to British Columbia to make contacts with local unions, offering support. ? funds.
For now Mexican and Canadian unions won't officially join the ACUA from these actions, it's just foreign aid.
[] Immediately expel the Possibilists, including some of Colorado's representatives.
[] During the election vet representatives and selectively pick Orthodox or agrarian Marxist representatives, replacing old Possibilist representatives.
[] Buy up weaponry and ammunition and distribute it to the union workers to defend themselves better in the next strike. ? funds.
This action is equivalent to the buying guns one, just doesn't involve training militia.
Unionization Actions:
[] Send organizers to help factory workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 0/3000
[] Send organizers to help dock-workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 49/1000
[] Send organizers to help (mostly iron) mine workers in Michigan and Wisconsin form unions. ? funds, 0/300
[] Send organizers to help form a teacher union for elementary and high schools in Chicago, especially focusing on women teachers. ? funds.
[] Go to the black belt cities and help workers unionize. ? funds. 697/3600
[] Send organizers to the south starting with North Carolina and Tennessee to help rail-workers unionize. ? funds. 0/1400
[] Send organizers to southern mines to help mineworkers start unionizing. ? funds. 0/600
[] Send organizers to help Hispanic migrant laborers in the south-west start unionizing. ? funds. 0/300
[] Have organizers in Wyoming to help cattle rancher employees unionize, particularly those of the politically powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association. 0/30
[] Send organizers to Montana to help cattle rancher employees unionize (overflows from Wyoming unionization). 0/80
[] Have organizers in Wyoming and Idaho try to unionize the service industry. 0/60
[] Help organize Puerto Rican unions, primarily on the farms but also the few urban workplaces. ? funds. 0/350
[] Do a national campaign across all areas of the United Front advocating for industrial unionism and the ACUA over the AFL as well as focusing on bringing the small futurist unions back into the ACUA. ? funds.
[] Try disrupting AFL meetings, sending people in to argue, etc. to try to break up the AFL. ? funds.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds. Current: 9
[] Call a general strike of all associated unions to demand better labor conditions as well as preferential union shop.
[] Send organizers to Mexico to help local burgeoning union efforts. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to British Columbia to make contacts with local unions, offering support. ? funds.
For now Mexican and Canadian unions won't officially join the ACUA from these actions, it's just foreign aid.
[] Immediately expel the Possibilists, including some of Colorado's representatives.
[] During the election vet representatives and selectively pick Orthodox or agrarian Marxist representatives, replacing old Possibilist representatives.
[] Buy up weaponry and ammunition and distribute it to the union workers to defend themselves better in the next strike. ? funds.
This action is equivalent to the buying guns one, just doesn't involve training militia.
Unionization Actions:
[] Send organizers to help factory workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 0/3000
[] Send organizers to help dock-workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 49/1000
[] Send organizers to help (mostly iron) mine workers in Michigan and Wisconsin form unions. ? funds, 0/300
[] Send organizers to help form a teacher union for elementary and high schools in Chicago, especially focusing on women teachers. ? funds.
[] Go to the black belt cities and help workers unionize. ? funds. 697/3600
[] Send organizers to the south starting with North Carolina and Tennessee to help rail-workers unionize. ? funds. 0/1400
[] Send organizers to southern mines to help mineworkers start unionizing. ? funds. 0/600
[] Send organizers to help Hispanic migrant laborers in the south-west start unionizing. ? funds. 0/300
[] Have organizers in Wyoming to help cattle rancher employees unionize, particularly those of the politically powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association. 0/30
[] Send organizers to Montana to help cattle rancher employees unionize (overflows from Wyoming unionization). 0/80
[] Have organizers in Wyoming and Idaho try to unionize the service industry. 0/60
[] Help organize Puerto Rican unions, primarily on the farms but also the few urban workplaces. ? funds. 0/350
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
69,233 supporters
6 actions, 1 policy action
165 funds
[] Give funds to the Sons of the Frontier to expand their operations to more states.
-[] Iowa, 5 funds
-[] Wisconsin, 5 funds
[] Now that the oldest who participated in the Sons of the Frontier are adults, try using them to start a program to connect with youth voters and get them to join the LLRP. 4 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Set up a campaigning apparatus in Minnesota. 17 funds, -17 per turn.
[] Do election year donation drives, the extra funds going to campaigning.
[] Make an agreement with another party for the future to nominate their presidential candidates as well, but in exchange they don't campaign for state-level elections in ND, SD, or Michigan.
-[] Republican Party
-[] Democratic Party
-[] Populist Party
-[] Socialist Labor Party (requires UF agreement)
[] Campaign in elections. ? Actions
-[] In Michigan, ? funds
-[] In North Dakota, ? funds
-[] In South Dakota, ? funds
-[] In Minnesota, ? funds
Can spend up to an 1 more amount of actions as states.
[] Put extra effort campaigning in a state.
-[] In Michigan
-[] In North Dakota
-[] In South Dakota
-[] In Minnesota
[] Run a presidential candidate. Write-in name. (Free action, if you took other campaigning actions)
Policy Actions:
-[] Lobby progressive members of the other parties to pass your bill. ? funds.
This is a required add-on to any of the below North Dakota policy actions, as the LLRP does not have majority control of the state legislature.
It costs an action plus the funds per state for passing the bills below.
[] Draft and pass bills reforming the state and municipal tax codes, which will slowly implement a land value tax (tax paid by ownership of land based on its value regardless of the property on it) while reducing sales/excise taxes (the current largest tax), property taxes, and income taxes. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
[] Encourage cooperatives in the cities and in agriculture as well as small farmers by instituting a policy of guaranteeing loans to help with start-up capital. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
[] Draft and pass a state constitutional amendment to grant women's suffrage. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
[] Draft and pass a series of bills to establish hunting regulations and logging regulations so that the practices are sustainable. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
[] Do a survey of Michigan land and then request that President McKinley utilize the Forest Reserve Act to set aside chosen lands into the public domain. 3 funds.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
[] Start reshuffling the militia composition to be more politically reliable towards the LLRP for the event it is necessary.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
National (Policy):
-[] Lobby other members of the senate or house to agree with your position. ? funds.
[] Vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Vote against the Sedition Act
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country.
[] Vote for the Foraker Act
[] Vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
If you don't use the party whip here, your representatives will vote against the Sedition Act but in favor of the Organic Acts.
-[] Iowa, 5 funds
-[] Wisconsin, 5 funds
[] Now that the oldest who participated in the Sons of the Frontier are adults, try using them to start a program to connect with youth voters and get them to join the LLRP. 4 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Set up a campaigning apparatus in Minnesota. 17 funds, -17 per turn.
[] Do election year donation drives, the extra funds going to campaigning.
[] Make an agreement with another party for the future to nominate their presidential candidates as well, but in exchange they don't campaign for state-level elections in ND, SD, or Michigan.
-[] Republican Party
-[] Democratic Party
-[] Populist Party
-[] Socialist Labor Party (requires UF agreement)
[] Campaign in elections. ? Actions
-[] In Michigan, ? funds
-[] In North Dakota, ? funds
-[] In South Dakota, ? funds
-[] In Minnesota, ? funds
Can spend up to an 1 more amount of actions as states.
[] Put extra effort campaigning in a state.
-[] In Michigan
-[] In North Dakota
-[] In South Dakota
-[] In Minnesota
[] Run a presidential candidate. Write-in name. (Free action, if you took other campaigning actions)
Policy Actions:
-[] Lobby progressive members of the other parties to pass your bill. ? funds.
This is a required add-on to any of the below North Dakota policy actions, as the LLRP does not have majority control of the state legislature.
It costs an action plus the funds per state for passing the bills below.
[] Draft and pass bills reforming the state and municipal tax codes, which will slowly implement a land value tax (tax paid by ownership of land based on its value regardless of the property on it) while reducing sales/excise taxes (the current largest tax), property taxes, and income taxes. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
[] Encourage cooperatives in the cities and in agriculture as well as small farmers by instituting a policy of guaranteeing loans to help with start-up capital. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
[] Draft and pass a state constitutional amendment to grant women's suffrage. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
[] Draft and pass a series of bills to establish hunting regulations and logging regulations so that the practices are sustainable. 5 funds.
-[] North Dakota
[] Do a survey of Michigan land and then request that President McKinley utilize the Forest Reserve Act to set aside chosen lands into the public domain. 3 funds.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
[] Start reshuffling the militia composition to be more politically reliable towards the LLRP for the event it is necessary.
-[] North Dakota
-[] Michigan
National (Policy):
-[] Lobby other members of the senate or house to agree with your position. ? funds.
[] Vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Vote against the Sedition Act
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country.
[] Vote for the Foraker Act
[] Vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
If you don't use the party whip here, your representatives will vote against the Sedition Act but in favor of the Organic Acts.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
365,000 supporters, 18 UF delegates
8 actions, 1 CDC action, 1 welfare action
309 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn.
Weaponry: 133/78 (for militia)
[] Send organizers to help factory workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 0/3000
[] Send organizers to help dock-workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 49/1000
Starting in areas they have the most presence in, these union campaigns once completed will result in a high union density from Pennsylvania and New Jersey northwards.
[] Find farms that have gone bankrupt and in danger of being bought out by capitalists and ask the farmers for permission to buy them yourselves, combining them into RFAA integrated coops that the former residents are welcome to work at. 30 funds.
[] Send agitators to New England unions to try to convince them of the necessity of Anarcho-Collectivism.
[] Call for a general strike among contacted unions.
[] Have anarchists move to Washington D.C. full time and try to get a position in White House menial work such as cleaners or butlers, in positions to spy or assassinate leaders. 3 funds.
[] Modify your textile factories to work with hemp as well as cotton. 10 funds.
As hemp fibers are more durable and stronger, you will also see an increase in profit.
[] Put effort into marketing the new clothes as long-lasting and strong. ? funds, ? funds per turn
[] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. ? funds.
Argentina currently has the largest number of anarchists in Latin America, but for now they're disunited and separated into individualist and communist factions. Sending organizers and funds could help them form a unified organization like the RFAA has.
[] Transfer funds to the AdP regional councils. ? funds (free action).
[] Transfer funds to the AB interest group aligned councils. ? funds (free action).
Community Defense Committees:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as CDC actions.
[] Use the 200 veterans that joined the CDC to train a few hundred of the current militia to a higher standard. 5/20 funds, 10/40 weaponry.
[] Support the assassins in their request to kill McKinley. 20/30/40 funds.
Some anarchists have been quietly suggesting that they take out the president within a few years, and that it may be a trigger for revolution now that they have achieved what they believe is sufficient organization.
[] Support the assassins in their request to kill Tillman. 10/20/30 funds.
With an open threat to their southern comrades trying to reach the presidency, many anarchists claimed there was only one way to save them.
[] Send militia to a southern state in anticipation of another White Union Army attack after the election. Costs 1 fund per 2 cadres (50 militia per cadre) for travel.
-[] Louisiana, ? cadres.
-[] Mississippi, ? cadres.
-[] Alabama, ? cadres.
-[] North Carolina, ? cadres.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare:
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region.
-[] Vermont and New Hampshire Cities, 12 funds, -6 per turn
-[] Rhode Island, 8 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Baltimore, 14 funds, -7 per turn
-[] Maryland and Delaware, 16 funds, -8 per turn
-[] Other Wisconsin cities, 8 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Kansas City, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Other Missouri cities, 12 funds, -6 per turn
-[] St. Paul, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Louisville, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Appalachian Kentucky, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Appalachian Virginia, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Washington cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Colorado cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi cities, 10 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Hawaii, 2 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do only up to 3 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Montreal. 12 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Halifax. 3 funds, -1 per turn.
Although beginning as an American movement, Canada has always had close ties to their neighbors, and so it was inevitable that the American radical labor movement would spread to Canada. Although small for now, with some effort the RFAA could help locals contact others and set up local councils in Montreal, their biggest city and right next to the New England border or Halifax, which has strong connections with anarchist sailors.
[] Set up a system between farmer coop shops and RFAA industry and any other wholesaler they can to help reduce prices for farmers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Set up a system between farmer coops and the cities where RFAA members will buy directly from the farmers to distribute to city anarchists, bypassing retailers to reduce prices for the city workers and increase payment to the farmers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Expand the system of rural mutual aid in which members can borrow tools or money from each other when needed to in more states.
-[] New York, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Pennsylvania, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Vermont and New Hampshire, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] New Jersey, 2 funds, -1 per turn
-[] South Carolina, 5 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Georgia, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Alabama, 6 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Mississippi, 5 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Louisiana, 5 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Illinois, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Indiana, 6 funds, -4 per turn
-[] California, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] West Virginia, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Maryland and Delaware, 4 funds, -2 per turn
You may use one action to do only up to 3 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Expand the communal housing buying houses, apartment buildings, etc.
-[] Other New York, 50 funds, -5 per turn.
-[] New Jersey, 30 funds, -3 per turn.
-[] Philadelphia, 30 funds, -3 per turn.
-[] Other Pennsylvania, 50 funds, -5 per turn.
-[] Massachusetts, 60 funds, -6 per turn.
-[] Chicago, 40 funds, -4 per turn.
-[] California, 20 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi, 10 funds, -1 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, 10 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do only up to 3 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Try setting up community gardens all across New York City to supply the soup kitchens and feed the community, buying the space for it. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Set up daycare facilities near working districts so that parents can drop off their children and then go to work.
-[] NYC, 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Upstate New York, 30 funds, -6 per turn
-[] Philadelphia, 20 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Other Pennsylvania, 30 funds, -6 per turn
-[] New Jersey, 20 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Other Illinois, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Indiana, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Wisconsin, 10 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Michigan, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Ohio, 30 funds, -6 per turn
-[] California, 10 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi, 5 funds, -1 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, 5 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do up to 3 regions at a time for the above action.
[] Set up anarchist-run free schools in cities.
-[] Upstate NYC, 40 funds, -8 per turn
-[] Philadelphia, 25 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Other Pennsylvania, 45 funds, -9 per turn
-[] New Jersey, 25 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Chicago, 35 funds, -7 per turn
-[] Other Illinois, 20 funds, -4 per turn
-[] California, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi, 10 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, 5 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do up to 3 regions at a time for the above action.
[] Try establishing community centers in NYC to be run and managed by the community. 30 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Try to expand west coast mutual aid networks to non-Asian communities and establish soup kitchens in those cities.
-[] California, 8 funds, -4 per turn.
-[] Oregon, 4 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] British Columbia, 4 funds, -2 per turn.
These may be done as one action.
[] Send organizers to help dock-workers in the North-East form unions. ? funds, 49/1000
Starting in areas they have the most presence in, these union campaigns once completed will result in a high union density from Pennsylvania and New Jersey northwards.
[] Find farms that have gone bankrupt and in danger of being bought out by capitalists and ask the farmers for permission to buy them yourselves, combining them into RFAA integrated coops that the former residents are welcome to work at. 30 funds.
[] Send agitators to New England unions to try to convince them of the necessity of Anarcho-Collectivism.
[] Call for a general strike among contacted unions.
[] Have anarchists move to Washington D.C. full time and try to get a position in White House menial work such as cleaners or butlers, in positions to spy or assassinate leaders. 3 funds.
[] Modify your textile factories to work with hemp as well as cotton. 10 funds.
As hemp fibers are more durable and stronger, you will also see an increase in profit.
[] Put effort into marketing the new clothes as long-lasting and strong. ? funds, ? funds per turn
[] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. ? funds.
Argentina currently has the largest number of anarchists in Latin America, but for now they're disunited and separated into individualist and communist factions. Sending organizers and funds could help them form a unified organization like the RFAA has.
[] Transfer funds to the AdP regional councils. ? funds (free action).
[] Transfer funds to the AB interest group aligned councils. ? funds (free action).
Community Defense Committees:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as CDC actions.
[] Use the 200 veterans that joined the CDC to train a few hundred of the current militia to a higher standard. 5/20 funds, 10/40 weaponry.
[] Support the assassins in their request to kill McKinley. 20/30/40 funds.
Some anarchists have been quietly suggesting that they take out the president within a few years, and that it may be a trigger for revolution now that they have achieved what they believe is sufficient organization.
[] Support the assassins in their request to kill Tillman. 10/20/30 funds.
With an open threat to their southern comrades trying to reach the presidency, many anarchists claimed there was only one way to save them.
[] Send militia to a southern state in anticipation of another White Union Army attack after the election. Costs 1 fund per 2 cadres (50 militia per cadre) for travel.
-[] Louisiana, ? cadres.
-[] Mississippi, ? cadres.
-[] Alabama, ? cadres.
-[] North Carolina, ? cadres.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare:
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region.
-[] Vermont and New Hampshire Cities, 12 funds, -6 per turn
-[] Rhode Island, 8 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Baltimore, 14 funds, -7 per turn
-[] Maryland and Delaware, 16 funds, -8 per turn
-[] Other Wisconsin cities, 8 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Kansas City, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Other Missouri cities, 12 funds, -6 per turn
-[] St. Paul, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Louisville, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Appalachian Kentucky, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Appalachian Virginia, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Washington cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Colorado cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi cities, 10 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Hawaii, 2 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do only up to 3 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Montreal. 12 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Halifax. 3 funds, -1 per turn.
Although beginning as an American movement, Canada has always had close ties to their neighbors, and so it was inevitable that the American radical labor movement would spread to Canada. Although small for now, with some effort the RFAA could help locals contact others and set up local councils in Montreal, their biggest city and right next to the New England border or Halifax, which has strong connections with anarchist sailors.
[] Set up a system between farmer coop shops and RFAA industry and any other wholesaler they can to help reduce prices for farmers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Set up a system between farmer coops and the cities where RFAA members will buy directly from the farmers to distribute to city anarchists, bypassing retailers to reduce prices for the city workers and increase payment to the farmers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Expand the system of rural mutual aid in which members can borrow tools or money from each other when needed to in more states.
-[] New York, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Pennsylvania, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Vermont and New Hampshire, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] New Jersey, 2 funds, -1 per turn
-[] South Carolina, 5 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Georgia, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Alabama, 6 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Mississippi, 5 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Louisiana, 5 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Illinois, 7 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Indiana, 6 funds, -4 per turn
-[] California, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] West Virginia, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Maryland and Delaware, 4 funds, -2 per turn
You may use one action to do only up to 3 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Expand the communal housing buying houses, apartment buildings, etc.
-[] Other New York, 50 funds, -5 per turn.
-[] New Jersey, 30 funds, -3 per turn.
-[] Philadelphia, 30 funds, -3 per turn.
-[] Other Pennsylvania, 50 funds, -5 per turn.
-[] Massachusetts, 60 funds, -6 per turn.
-[] Chicago, 40 funds, -4 per turn.
-[] California, 20 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi, 10 funds, -1 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, 10 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do only up to 3 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Try setting up community gardens all across New York City to supply the soup kitchens and feed the community, buying the space for it. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Set up daycare facilities near working districts so that parents can drop off their children and then go to work.
-[] NYC, 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Upstate New York, 30 funds, -6 per turn
-[] Philadelphia, 20 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Other Pennsylvania, 30 funds, -6 per turn
-[] New Jersey, 20 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Other Illinois, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Indiana, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Wisconsin, 10 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Michigan, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Ohio, 30 funds, -6 per turn
-[] California, 10 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi, 5 funds, -1 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, 5 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do up to 3 regions at a time for the above action.
[] Set up anarchist-run free schools in cities.
-[] Upstate NYC, 40 funds, -8 per turn
-[] Philadelphia, 25 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Other Pennsylvania, 45 funds, -9 per turn
-[] New Jersey, 25 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Chicago, 35 funds, -7 per turn
-[] Other Illinois, 20 funds, -4 per turn
-[] California, 15 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Louisiana and Mississippi, 10 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, 5 funds, -1 per turn
You may use one action to do up to 3 regions at a time for the above action.
[] Try establishing community centers in NYC to be run and managed by the community. 30 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Try to expand west coast mutual aid networks to non-Asian communities and establish soup kitchens in those cities.
-[] California, 8 funds, -4 per turn.
-[] Oregon, 4 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] British Columbia, 4 funds, -2 per turn.
These may be done as one action.
The Forty Acres Movement:
402,000 supporters, 20 UF delegates
7 free actions, 1 Spartacist action, 1 industrial action, 1 policy action
118 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn and by 40 funds for the fine.
Weaponry: 244/42 (for militia)
[] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. ? funds. 848/36500 progress, 1d20 per fund.
[] Give legal ownership of your industries to loyal individuals who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to tFAM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
[] Go to the black belt cities and help black workers unionize. ? funds. 606/1200
[] Go to southern mines and help black mine workers unionize. ? funds. 0/200
[] Increase the budget for paying off petty fines that could jail African-Americans. 5 funds, 5 per turn.
[] Begin establishing more public elementary schools in controlled towns and cities, beginning the process of better educating black youth and hopefully winning over more people to FAM town governments.
-[] Work with Northern whites to help fund these schools, putting less pressure on the towns.
If TOD does their action to help southern schools, the subaction here means working specifically with them and is boosted.
[] Have members stop paying taxes to states not controlled by the SLP, and to the FAM instead. Warning: Invites a crackdown. Gives ???
[] Refuse to pay the fine. +40 funds this turn.
-[] Optional write-in?
Spartacists:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Spartacist actions.
[] Hire militia to work part time rather than on a volunteer basis. ? cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre (recommend training first/concurrently)
[] Start integrating field medics into the Spartacists, recruiting primarily from sympathetic student graduates who have medical knowledge but also volunteer nurses, doctors, etc. 5 funds, -1 per turn, adds 200 militia to total and all companies have medics going into the future, reducing deaths if not casualties.
[] Use the Spartacists to threaten white land owners into selling at a pittance. More funds means more likely to result in a serious fight. ? funds. 50 progress per fund.
[] Start sending the Spartacists on raids against jails, freeing the African Americans there and inviting them to join. 5 funds, -5 per turn, -10 weaponry per turn.
[] Try to send a few white members to find when meetings of the White Union Army happen, and then send militia to break it up. ? cadres.
[] Try to force a confrontation during a standoff with the White Union Army where you have the numerical advantage.
[] Accept Minutemen trainers (free action).
Industrial Planning Commission:
[] Set up textile factories in towns, allowing hemp to be processed nearby where it's harvested, using the same limited workplace democracy as in the tractor factory. 25 funds and 1 action each state. Can pick the same state multiple times.
-[] Louisiana
-[] Mississippi
-[] Alabama
-[] Georgia
[] Set up hemp paper factories in towns, using the same limited workplace democracy as before. 20 funds and 1 action per state. Can pick the same state multiple times.
-[] Louisiana
-[] Mississippi
[] Buy or build more mills for members to cooperatively use and achieve further independence. 20 funds.
[] Set up a new small tractor factory in a large town. 25 funds.
[] Establish farm tools factories in towns, to be sold directly to members. 20 funds.
[] Set up armaments and munitions manufacturing in aligned towns, the result to be used directly by FAM. 30 funds, -16 per turn. +250 weaponry per turn.
[] Try to modify the armaments and munitions manufactures to make more advanced weapons like machine guns, resulting in a smaller but better equipped force. 5 funds, changes to 120 per year but gives +5 to infantry rolls.
[] Establish a military training facility. 40/80 funds, -10/20 per turn, -100/200 Weaponry per turn. Trains approximately 500/1,000 regular-grade militia per turn.
[] Give legal ownership of your industries to loyal individuals who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to tFAM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
[] Go to the black belt cities and help black workers unionize. ? funds. 606/1200
[] Go to southern mines and help black mine workers unionize. ? funds. 0/200
[] Increase the budget for paying off petty fines that could jail African-Americans. 5 funds, 5 per turn.
[] Begin establishing more public elementary schools in controlled towns and cities, beginning the process of better educating black youth and hopefully winning over more people to FAM town governments.
-[] Work with Northern whites to help fund these schools, putting less pressure on the towns.
If TOD does their action to help southern schools, the subaction here means working specifically with them and is boosted.
[] Have members stop paying taxes to states not controlled by the SLP, and to the FAM instead. Warning: Invites a crackdown. Gives ???
[] Refuse to pay the fine. +40 funds this turn.
-[] Optional write-in?
Spartacists:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Spartacist actions.
[] Hire militia to work part time rather than on a volunteer basis. ? cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre (recommend training first/concurrently)
[] Start integrating field medics into the Spartacists, recruiting primarily from sympathetic student graduates who have medical knowledge but also volunteer nurses, doctors, etc. 5 funds, -1 per turn, adds 200 militia to total and all companies have medics going into the future, reducing deaths if not casualties.
[] Use the Spartacists to threaten white land owners into selling at a pittance. More funds means more likely to result in a serious fight. ? funds. 50 progress per fund.
[] Start sending the Spartacists on raids against jails, freeing the African Americans there and inviting them to join. 5 funds, -5 per turn, -10 weaponry per turn.
[] Try to send a few white members to find when meetings of the White Union Army happen, and then send militia to break it up. ? cadres.
[] Try to force a confrontation during a standoff with the White Union Army where you have the numerical advantage.
[] Accept Minutemen trainers (free action).
Industrial Planning Commission:
[] Set up textile factories in towns, allowing hemp to be processed nearby where it's harvested, using the same limited workplace democracy as in the tractor factory. 25 funds and 1 action each state. Can pick the same state multiple times.
-[] Louisiana
-[] Mississippi
-[] Alabama
-[] Georgia
[] Set up hemp paper factories in towns, using the same limited workplace democracy as before. 20 funds and 1 action per state. Can pick the same state multiple times.
-[] Louisiana
-[] Mississippi
[] Buy or build more mills for members to cooperatively use and achieve further independence. 20 funds.
[] Set up a new small tractor factory in a large town. 25 funds.
[] Establish farm tools factories in towns, to be sold directly to members. 20 funds.
[] Set up armaments and munitions manufacturing in aligned towns, the result to be used directly by FAM. 30 funds, -16 per turn. +250 weaponry per turn.
[] Try to modify the armaments and munitions manufactures to make more advanced weapons like machine guns, resulting in a smaller but better equipped force. 5 funds, changes to 120 per year but gives +5 to infantry rolls.
[] Establish a military training facility. 40/80 funds, -10/20 per turn, -100/200 Weaponry per turn. Trains approximately 500/1,000 regular-grade militia per turn.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
111,546 supporters
6 actions, 1 militia action
138 funds
Weaponry: 135/29 (militia)
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in New York cities to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in Virginia cities to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in Delaware cities to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in rural New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
-[] In Philadelphia, 16 funds, -7 per turn
-[] In other Eastern Pennsylvania cities, 12 funds, -5 per turn
-[] In Newark, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In other New Jersey cities, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Baltimore, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In other Maryland cities, 5 funds, -2 per turn
You may do one action for two regions of the above.
[] Begin discussion clubs for discussing more explicitly leftist theology discussing ideas from authors such as Tolstoy to develop new theories. 3 funds, -3 per turn.
Department of the Militia:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as militia actions.
[] Begin doing research on NYC gangs, talking to people in the poorest ethnic neighborhoods which are the primary recruiting grounds. 3 funds.
[] Continue the standoffs with the White Union Army in Maryland. Make sure the militia is 1/2/3/4/5/6 times larger than theirs in the standoffs.
-[] Attack first if they won't.
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in Virginia cities to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in Delaware cities to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in rural New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland to find ones willing to officially support your message.
[] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
-[] In Philadelphia, 16 funds, -7 per turn
-[] In other Eastern Pennsylvania cities, 12 funds, -5 per turn
-[] In Newark, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In other New Jersey cities, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Baltimore, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In other Maryland cities, 5 funds, -2 per turn
You may do one action for two regions of the above.
[] Begin discussion clubs for discussing more explicitly leftist theology discussing ideas from authors such as Tolstoy to develop new theories. 3 funds, -3 per turn.
Department of the Militia:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as militia actions.
[] Begin doing research on NYC gangs, talking to people in the poorest ethnic neighborhoods which are the primary recruiting grounds. 3 funds.
[] Continue the standoffs with the White Union Army in Maryland. Make sure the militia is 1/2/3/4/5/6 times larger than theirs in the standoffs.
-[] Attack first if they won't.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
50,625 supporters
5 actions, 136 funds
[] Try to pressure associated companies into large scale tests of scientific management across industries. 10 funds.
[] Bribe and tip off the police in the North-East to areas the anarchists are "intimidating immigrants". 10/20/40 funds.
[] Kick out the new anti-war futurists, ensuring unity within the movement.
[] Continue working with the All-American Workers' Alliance to challenge the remaining AFL unions and the ACUA in the steel belt. 40/80/120 funds.
-[] Instead just challenge the AFL, allowing for the Left of the AAWA to work with the ACUA.
[] Try establishing major meeting centers in Boston and Sacramento for Northeast and Western futurist industrialists to start being more active and get more businesses there to associate. 20 funds.
[] Start building a standardized schooling curriculum K-12 and start a national committee to push public schooling systems to accept it. 35 funds, -35 per turn.
[] Lend the Military Strategy Committee's expertise to another group. Write-in group.
[] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. ? funds.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Sedition Act.
-[] Lobby in Congress for this.
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country. Futurist politicians are expected to vote in favor.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Foraker Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Bribe and tip off the police in the North-East to areas the anarchists are "intimidating immigrants". 10/20/40 funds.
[] Kick out the new anti-war futurists, ensuring unity within the movement.
[] Continue working with the All-American Workers' Alliance to challenge the remaining AFL unions and the ACUA in the steel belt. 40/80/120 funds.
-[] Instead just challenge the AFL, allowing for the Left of the AAWA to work with the ACUA.
[] Try establishing major meeting centers in Boston and Sacramento for Northeast and Western futurist industrialists to start being more active and get more businesses there to associate. 20 funds.
[] Start building a standardized schooling curriculum K-12 and start a national committee to push public schooling systems to accept it. 35 funds, -35 per turn.
[] Lend the Military Strategy Committee's expertise to another group. Write-in group.
[] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. ? funds.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Sedition Act.
-[] Lobby in Congress for this.
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country. Futurist politicians are expected to vote in favor.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Foraker Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
155,583 supporters, 8 UF delegates
6 free actions, 1 Yellow Scarves action, 1 industrial action
160 funds
Weaponry: 158/13 (militia)
[] Form a dedicated part of the organization for creating legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and to act as party whip. 10 funds, -10 per turn, +1 policy action
Yellow Scarves:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Yellow Scarves actions.
[] Use the unions to request better conditions at mines, and assassinate bosses who militantly refuse. 1/5/10 funds.
[] (Use in conjunction with a strike) assassinate leaders of enemy militia or strikebreakers. 1/5/10 funds.
[] Assassinate leaders of local opposition groups such as the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance. 5/10/20 funds.
[] Send in saboteurs to local Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflict and break them up. 3 funds.
[] Prepare for seizing households of the rich that Yellow Scarves have members working at, allowing for quickly capturing the owners and preventing the fleeing of wealth. 15 funds.
[] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. ? funds, 1414/2000
[] Decide to also prepare the rails in Canada. Adds 500 progress needed to the above action. (Free action)
[] Store funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. Current: 30 funds (free action)
[] Sun Yat-Sen plans on starting an uprising in Huizhou after the start of the Boxer Rebellion, and is requesting funds. (All current funds stored for him will be given as well). ? funds.
Factory Management Council:
[] Further expand canning operations in San Fransisco. 20/30 funds.
[] Find prospects for mines and set up a small mine somewhere in California. 15 funds.
[] Set up timber processing plants in Locke and Walnut Grove. 20 funds.
[] Buy out farms Chinese workers labor on. Run these industrially, like the factories. 20/30 funds.
[] Buy out sugar cane farms in Hawaii. Run these industrially, like the factories. 20/30 funds.
Yellow Scarves:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Yellow Scarves actions.
[] Use the unions to request better conditions at mines, and assassinate bosses who militantly refuse. 1/5/10 funds.
[] (Use in conjunction with a strike) assassinate leaders of enemy militia or strikebreakers. 1/5/10 funds.
[] Assassinate leaders of local opposition groups such as the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance. 5/10/20 funds.
[] Send in saboteurs to local Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflict and break them up. 3 funds.
[] Prepare for seizing households of the rich that Yellow Scarves have members working at, allowing for quickly capturing the owners and preventing the fleeing of wealth. 15 funds.
[] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. ? funds, 1414/2000
[] Decide to also prepare the rails in Canada. Adds 500 progress needed to the above action. (Free action)
[] Store funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. Current: 30 funds (free action)
[] Sun Yat-Sen plans on starting an uprising in Huizhou after the start of the Boxer Rebellion, and is requesting funds. (All current funds stored for him will be given as well). ? funds.
Factory Management Council:
[] Further expand canning operations in San Fransisco. 20/30 funds.
[] Find prospects for mines and set up a small mine somewhere in California. 15 funds.
[] Set up timber processing plants in Locke and Walnut Grove. 20 funds.
[] Buy out farms Chinese workers labor on. Run these industrially, like the factories. 20/30 funds.
[] Buy out sugar cane farms in Hawaii. Run these industrially, like the factories. 20/30 funds.
The Orange Disciples:
113,859 supporters
6 actions, 252 funds
[] Lobby various politicians to support progressive laws in a state (choose one). ? funds.
-[] Ohio
-[] Pennsylvania
-[] New York
-[] West Virginia
-[] Nationally
[] Go to various churches across Virginia and ask to associate with them and endorse their progressive message.
[] Start handing out flyers and other methods of recruiting at associated churches. ? funds.
[] Request for member priests at associated churches to officially sanction the organization to their followers.
[] Working with southern leaders, begin a program to help start and continuously fund schooling programs in the poorest areas of the South for African American youth. 15/30/60 funds, 15/30/60 per turn.
-[] Specifically refuse to work with TFAM.
If the FAM does their action to establish schooling at the same time while working with northern whites, TOD will work with them on this.
[] Establish a black college in the south, with plenty of scholarships to be more available. 40 funds.
-[] Write in name/location?
-[] Keep ownership of it instead of as an entity independent of TOD.
[] Establish a program for investing into African American owned businesses. ? funds, -? funds per turn.
[] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
-[] In Cleveland, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Buffalo, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Cincinnati, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Pittsburgh, 5 funds, -2 per turn
You may do one action for two regions of the above.
[] Support an adult-literacy program through associated churches for rural areas in New York. 12 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Support an adult-literacy program through associated churches for rural areas in West Virginia. 6 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Create together a list of progressive candidates to endorse this election in primaries and actual election, particularly those who support women's suffrage.
-[] Ohio ? funds.
-[] Pennsylvania ? funds.
-[] New York ? funds.
-[] West Virginia ? funds.
If you campaign for a party, you will only endorse members from that party.
[] Campaign for the Christian Socialists of America in Ohio. ? funds.
-[] Suggest they nominate another party's presidential candidate. Write-in.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Sedition Act.
-[] Lobby in Congress for this. ? funds.
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country. Politicians associated with the disciples are expected to either vote against or vote only without press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Foraker Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
-[] Ohio
-[] Pennsylvania
-[] New York
-[] West Virginia
-[] Nationally
[] Go to various churches across Virginia and ask to associate with them and endorse their progressive message.
[] Start handing out flyers and other methods of recruiting at associated churches. ? funds.
[] Request for member priests at associated churches to officially sanction the organization to their followers.
[] Working with southern leaders, begin a program to help start and continuously fund schooling programs in the poorest areas of the South for African American youth. 15/30/60 funds, 15/30/60 per turn.
-[] Specifically refuse to work with TFAM.
If the FAM does their action to establish schooling at the same time while working with northern whites, TOD will work with them on this.
[] Establish a black college in the south, with plenty of scholarships to be more available. 40 funds.
-[] Write in name/location?
-[] Keep ownership of it instead of as an entity independent of TOD.
[] Establish a program for investing into African American owned businesses. ? funds, -? funds per turn.
[] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
-[] In Cleveland, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Buffalo, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Cincinnati, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[] In Pittsburgh, 5 funds, -2 per turn
You may do one action for two regions of the above.
[] Support an adult-literacy program through associated churches for rural areas in New York. 12 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Support an adult-literacy program through associated churches for rural areas in West Virginia. 6 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Create together a list of progressive candidates to endorse this election in primaries and actual election, particularly those who support women's suffrage.
-[] Ohio ? funds.
-[] Pennsylvania ? funds.
-[] New York ? funds.
-[] West Virginia ? funds.
If you campaign for a party, you will only endorse members from that party.
[] Campaign for the Christian Socialists of America in Ohio. ? funds.
-[] Suggest they nominate another party's presidential candidate. Write-in.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Sedition Act.
-[] Lobby in Congress for this. ? funds.
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country. Politicians associated with the disciples are expected to either vote against or vote only without press censorship.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Foraker Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Pressure associated representatives to vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
The New American Patriots:
26,027 supporters
4 free actions, 1 Winter Security Group action
28 funds
Weaponry: 2/4 (WSG)
[] Look for patronage from wealthy businessmen in California. +? funds.
[] Set up a loan scheme to small businesses with more favorable terms than big banks would give them. 20 funds.
[] Use university connections to set up a study regarding business practices, current ones vs more social democrat-type theories. 3 funds.
[] Expand the small gun factory. 10/20/30 funds.
[] Have several members move to set up a new discrete chapter in Washington DC and try to get federal government jobs. 5 funds.
[] Try to set up the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in NYC. 6 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Try to engage with New York university students to set up student chapters there. 5 funds.
Winter Security Group:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as WSG actions.
[] Search for businesses who might wish to hire the private security company. 1 fund.
[] Search for small businesses, bars, etc. who would be willing to take the private security company on as a contractor to provide security, usually just one security guard at a time. 1 fund.
[] Set up a loan scheme to small businesses with more favorable terms than big banks would give them. 20 funds.
[] Use university connections to set up a study regarding business practices, current ones vs more social democrat-type theories. 3 funds.
[] Expand the small gun factory. 10/20/30 funds.
[] Have several members move to set up a new discrete chapter in Washington DC and try to get federal government jobs. 5 funds.
[] Try to set up the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in NYC. 6 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Try to engage with New York university students to set up student chapters there. 5 funds.
Winter Security Group:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as WSG actions.
[] Search for businesses who might wish to hire the private security company. 1 fund.
[] Search for small businesses, bars, etc. who would be willing to take the private security company on as a contractor to provide security, usually just one security guard at a time. 1 fund.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
460,000 supporters, 23 UF delegates
8 actions, 1 construction action, 1 queer action, 1 policy action
393 funds
Note: I've already reduced the above value by 5 for the funds borrowed last turn.
Weaponry: 367/4067
[] Send organizers to help form a teacher union for elementary and high schools in Chicago, especially focusing on women teachers. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help (mostly iron) mine workers in Michigan and Wisconsin form unions. ? funds, 0/300
[] Establish an Workers Planning Council, elected from those working in SUS owned industry, for managing current industry and the planning of new. 5 funds, -5 funds per turn, 1 action transfers to Construction and +5 to construction actions.
[] Set up covert supply lines to the RFAA's CDC, FAM's Spartacists, and SPA's PMF. Costs 1 fund per turn per 100 weaponry due to shipping costs.
-[] ? weaponry per turn to the RFAA.
-[] ? weaponry per turn to TFAM.
-[] ? weaponry per turn to the SPA.
[] Interfere in Pinkerton's hiring efforts by having talks with any potential recruits and following their recruiters.
-[] Additionally, secretly firebomb their office. 1 funds.
[] Find farms that have gone bankrupt and in danger of being bought out by capitalists and buy them yourselves, combining them into larger and democratically run farms that they can work at. 30 funds.
-[] Ask the farmers for permission first.
[] Further reach out to farmers, emphasizing that under socialism they would have the freedom to have their own farms while not being in danger from a single bad harvest.
[] Try to convince farmers that are already part of SUS to experimentally voluntarily collectivize their farms, which should increase efficiency and camaraderie.
[] Contact the Socialist Labor Party of Canada for future collaboration and help them set up their party. 10 funds.
-[] Work with them to establish local branches of SUS in Canada as well.
In early '98 E. T. Kingsley and Amelia Yeomans formed the Socialist Labor Party of Canada based on De Leonist principles, active in British Columbia and Toronto. Kingsley, a disabled political activist, was an extreme impossibilist, against any political reforms including women's suffrage. Yeomans, on the other hand, was a physicist and prominent suffragist activist of Canada who radicalized when she met with the Society for Universal Suffrage in a visit to America. She represented the relatively less radical side of the organization, who wished to make reforms in the immediate.
[] Have the Language Federations work with the RFAA's Immigrant Welcoming Committee on helping immigrants integrate into America. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish professional military organization for the militia, with a democratically elected structure. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
-[] Certain positions must be appointed by SUS leadership to ensure control.
-[] Name it? (Optional)
Construction:
Note: You can build or expand two at a time, the latter of which has already been accounted for in the below actions by giving more options for cost. Building two things with one action means you have to go with the cheaper option for both.
[] Build a new factory. 15/20/25/30/35/40 funds.
-[] Write in what kind and where
[] Expand the farming tools welfare program by constructing more factories for it. 15/20/25/30/35/40 funds.
[] Expand the construction company. 25 funds, -16 per turn, +1 construction action.
[] Modify the armaments and munitions complex to make more advanced weapons like machine guns, resulting in a smaller but better equipped force. 5 funds, changes to 150 per year but gives +5 to infantry rolls.
[] Expand the armaments and munitions complex. 25/50 funds, +250/500 (150/300 if done previous action) weaponry per turn, -16/32 funds per turn.
[] Establish or expand a military training facility. 80/160 funds, -20/40 per turn, -200/400 Weaponry per turn. Trains approximately 1,000/2,000 regular-grade militia per turn.
Queer:
[] Establish an Institute for Sexual Research for anthropological and psychological research on gender and sex, provide sex education, and work as a health clinic especially for those queer people who did not identify as the sex of their birth. 60 funds, -6 per turn.
[] Found new gay bars across the Midwest and Northeast for cities which lack them to serve as safe places for queer people. 25 funds.
[] Found new gay bars on the west coast to serve as safe places for queer people. 18 funds.
[] Send organizers to help (mostly iron) mine workers in Michigan and Wisconsin form unions. ? funds, 0/300
[] Establish an Workers Planning Council, elected from those working in SUS owned industry, for managing current industry and the planning of new. 5 funds, -5 funds per turn, 1 action transfers to Construction and +5 to construction actions.
[] Set up covert supply lines to the RFAA's CDC, FAM's Spartacists, and SPA's PMF. Costs 1 fund per turn per 100 weaponry due to shipping costs.
-[] ? weaponry per turn to the RFAA.
-[] ? weaponry per turn to TFAM.
-[] ? weaponry per turn to the SPA.
[] Interfere in Pinkerton's hiring efforts by having talks with any potential recruits and following their recruiters.
-[] Additionally, secretly firebomb their office. 1 funds.
[] Find farms that have gone bankrupt and in danger of being bought out by capitalists and buy them yourselves, combining them into larger and democratically run farms that they can work at. 30 funds.
-[] Ask the farmers for permission first.
[] Further reach out to farmers, emphasizing that under socialism they would have the freedom to have their own farms while not being in danger from a single bad harvest.
[] Try to convince farmers that are already part of SUS to experimentally voluntarily collectivize their farms, which should increase efficiency and camaraderie.
[] Contact the Socialist Labor Party of Canada for future collaboration and help them set up their party. 10 funds.
-[] Work with them to establish local branches of SUS in Canada as well.
In early '98 E. T. Kingsley and Amelia Yeomans formed the Socialist Labor Party of Canada based on De Leonist principles, active in British Columbia and Toronto. Kingsley, a disabled political activist, was an extreme impossibilist, against any political reforms including women's suffrage. Yeomans, on the other hand, was a physicist and prominent suffragist activist of Canada who radicalized when she met with the Society for Universal Suffrage in a visit to America. She represented the relatively less radical side of the organization, who wished to make reforms in the immediate.
[] Have the Language Federations work with the RFAA's Immigrant Welcoming Committee on helping immigrants integrate into America. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish professional military organization for the militia, with a democratically elected structure. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
-[] Certain positions must be appointed by SUS leadership to ensure control.
-[] Name it? (Optional)
Construction:
Note: You can build or expand two at a time, the latter of which has already been accounted for in the below actions by giving more options for cost. Building two things with one action means you have to go with the cheaper option for both.
[] Build a new factory. 15/20/25/30/35/40 funds.
-[] Write in what kind and where
[] Expand the farming tools welfare program by constructing more factories for it. 15/20/25/30/35/40 funds.
[] Expand the construction company. 25 funds, -16 per turn, +1 construction action.
[] Modify the armaments and munitions complex to make more advanced weapons like machine guns, resulting in a smaller but better equipped force. 5 funds, changes to 150 per year but gives +5 to infantry rolls.
[] Expand the armaments and munitions complex. 25/50 funds, +250/500 (150/300 if done previous action) weaponry per turn, -16/32 funds per turn.
[] Establish or expand a military training facility. 80/160 funds, -20/40 per turn, -200/400 Weaponry per turn. Trains approximately 1,000/2,000 regular-grade militia per turn.
Queer:
[] Establish an Institute for Sexual Research for anthropological and psychological research on gender and sex, provide sex education, and work as a health clinic especially for those queer people who did not identify as the sex of their birth. 60 funds, -6 per turn.
[] Found new gay bars across the Midwest and Northeast for cities which lack them to serve as safe places for queer people. 25 funds.
[] Found new gay bars on the west coast to serve as safe places for queer people. 18 funds.
The Minutemen:
29,286 supporters
4 actions, 13 funds
Weaponry: 18/2 (militia) or 18/243
[] Start up a youth group starting in Pennsylvania inspired by the Sons of Dakota where young boys can go camping and learn skills which could potentially be useful in the military. 5 funds.
-[] Write-in name
-[] Instead, contact the Sons of Dakota and fund a new branch of their organization in Pennsylvania.
[] Make connections with military programs at other northern Land-Grant Universities to establish clubs and programs. 10 funds, -6 per turn.
[] Try to make friendly contact with current military leadership, and sound them out for not being entirely onboard with fighting American civilians like last year.
[] Try to make contacts of military grade manufacturers who make gear such as gatling guns so the Minutemen can order directly from them.
This will make ordering weaponry more expensive, but give a buff to fighting if it succeeds.
[] Send militia to whatever southern states look to have Democrats lose their election. ? funds, 1 per 100.
-[] Write-in name
-[] Instead, contact the Sons of Dakota and fund a new branch of their organization in Pennsylvania.
[] Make connections with military programs at other northern Land-Grant Universities to establish clubs and programs. 10 funds, -6 per turn.
[] Try to make friendly contact with current military leadership, and sound them out for not being entirely onboard with fighting American civilians like last year.
[] Try to make contacts of military grade manufacturers who make gear such as gatling guns so the Minutemen can order directly from them.
This will make ordering weaponry more expensive, but give a buff to fighting if it succeeds.
[] Send militia to whatever southern states look to have Democrats lose their election. ? funds, 1 per 100.
Southern People's Alliance:
149,700 supporters, 7 UF delegates
6 actions, 1 PMF action
32 funds
Note: I already reduced the above funds by 5 due to the borrowing last turn.
Weaponry: 61/12 (militia)
[] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across the South, more in North Carolina and just west and south of it. 40 funds, +1 action.
[] Starting with North Carolina and Tennessee try to help southern rail-workers unionize. ? funds. 0/1400
[] Make a program to start making markets in cities to directly sell produce, reducing price for the urban poor and increasing prices for the farmer as the middle man is cut out. 10 funds, -10 per turn.
[] Based on the RFAA's programs, work with Wilmington residents to set up a mutual aid group, as well as establish a soup kitchen there. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
Poor Man Fighters:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Poor Man Fighters actions.
[] Hire some militia part time so they can spend more time training. ? cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre.
[] Send the militia in North Carolina to force polling booths to accept black and poor white votes, illegally forcing a win.
The above can only be used in conjunction with an electoral campaign.
[] Send militia to Wilmington to protect your people while campaigning for an SLP slate. ? funds.
This can be done instead of a state-wide electoral campaign.
[] Starting with North Carolina and Tennessee try to help southern rail-workers unionize. ? funds. 0/1400
[] Make a program to start making markets in cities to directly sell produce, reducing price for the urban poor and increasing prices for the farmer as the middle man is cut out. 10 funds, -10 per turn.
[] Based on the RFAA's programs, work with Wilmington residents to set up a mutual aid group, as well as establish a soup kitchen there. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
Poor Man Fighters:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Poor Man Fighters actions.
[] Hire some militia part time so they can spend more time training. ? cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre.
[] Send the militia in North Carolina to force polling booths to accept black and poor white votes, illegally forcing a win.
The above can only be used in conjunction with an electoral campaign.
[] Send militia to Wilmington to protect your people while campaigning for an SLP slate. ? funds.
This can be done instead of a state-wide electoral campaign.
Appalachian Brotherhood:
39,700 supporters, 2 UF delegates
5 actions, 53 funds
[] Try to contact West Virginian towns that may be open to advocating for Appalachian independence. 3 funds.
[] Contact friendly towns and establish an Appalachia Coordination Committee made up of representatives from each place for coordination purposes outside of state boundaries. 3 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Establish a committee for hosting a Appalachian Cultural Festival each summer. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Run a campaign in Pittsburgh to make a new election for the people to form workplace or neighborhood councils to elect a slate of delegates to act as a city council, trying to get as many people to vote in it as possible for legitimacy. Afterwards, form a city charter and petition the state for legitimacy. ? funds.
With Pittsburgh's mayor extremely corrupt and the city incompetent (especially their police), there are rumors that the state plans to impeach the mayor and appoint one of their own, effectively taking control of the city. While Pittsburgh does not have an election this year, this would be an attempt to create an alternate city government.
[] Challenge the mayorship of Wheeling, WV, in the election this year. ? funds.
[] Run a campaign in Wheeling for citizens to, instead of voting in the official election, to form workplace and neighborhood councils to elect a parallel city council, and try to take over the city functions. ? funds.
The incumbent mayor of Wheeling, West Virginia's largest city, is Andrew J. Sweeny, an industrialist who opposed the Appalachian Brotherhood due to their anarchism.
[] Contact friendly towns and establish an Appalachia Coordination Committee made up of representatives from each place for coordination purposes outside of state boundaries. 3 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Establish a committee for hosting a Appalachian Cultural Festival each summer. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Run a campaign in Pittsburgh to make a new election for the people to form workplace or neighborhood councils to elect a slate of delegates to act as a city council, trying to get as many people to vote in it as possible for legitimacy. Afterwards, form a city charter and petition the state for legitimacy. ? funds.
With Pittsburgh's mayor extremely corrupt and the city incompetent (especially their police), there are rumors that the state plans to impeach the mayor and appoint one of their own, effectively taking control of the city. While Pittsburgh does not have an election this year, this would be an attempt to create an alternate city government.
[] Challenge the mayorship of Wheeling, WV, in the election this year. ? funds.
[] Run a campaign in Wheeling for citizens to, instead of voting in the official election, to form workplace and neighborhood councils to elect a parallel city council, and try to take over the city functions. ? funds.
The incumbent mayor of Wheeling, West Virginia's largest city, is Andrew J. Sweeny, an industrialist who opposed the Appalachian Brotherhood due to their anarchism.
Amigos del Pueblo
70,500 supporters, 4 UF delegates
5 actions, 56 funds
[] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across the Southwest and Puerto Rico. 40 funds, +1 action.
[] Establish mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in New Mexico. 4 funds, -2 per turn
[] Establish mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in southern Arizona. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Help organize Puerto Rican unions, primarily on the farms but also the few urban workplaces. ? funds. 0/350
[] Expand the system of rural mutual aid in which members can borrow tools or money from each other when needed to in western Texas and New Mexico. 4 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Establish connections with farmers and laborers to allow laborers to buy food directly from farmers rather than give the white middle man a cut.
[] Set up anarchist-run free schools in Puerto Rican cities. 5 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Use remnants of the Van der Linde gang to begin building up a militia. 5 funds, gives 5d20 * 5 + 18 militia.
[] Send organizers to help Hispanic migrant laborers in the south-west start unionizing. 0/300
[] Send monetary support to those who wish to found a Mexican Liberal Party, which was dissatisfied with the conservative government. ? funds.
-[] For some of the money, give it specifically to the most radical local liberal clubs.
[] Establish mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in New Mexico. 4 funds, -2 per turn
[] Establish mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in southern Arizona. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Help organize Puerto Rican unions, primarily on the farms but also the few urban workplaces. ? funds. 0/350
[] Expand the system of rural mutual aid in which members can borrow tools or money from each other when needed to in western Texas and New Mexico. 4 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Establish connections with farmers and laborers to allow laborers to buy food directly from farmers rather than give the white middle man a cut.
[] Set up anarchist-run free schools in Puerto Rican cities. 5 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Use remnants of the Van der Linde gang to begin building up a militia. 5 funds, gives 5d20 * 5 + 18 militia.
[] Send organizers to help Hispanic migrant laborers in the south-west start unionizing. 0/300
[] Send monetary support to those who wish to found a Mexican Liberal Party, which was dissatisfied with the conservative government. ? funds.
-[] For some of the money, give it specifically to the most radical local liberal clubs.
Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
63,800 supporters
4 actions, 22 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Support the Home Rule Party of Hawaii in their election this year. ? funds.
[] Try to organize merging newly individual land in the Indian Territory under the stewardship of the CIA to be used communally as before (technically buying it from them). ? funds.
[] Try to buy land surrounding Minnesota Ojibwe reservations from the logging companies to keep them away. 20/40/60/80/100 funds.
[] Try to form contacts with tribal governments on reservations.
With the land merged, this will also help with preventing poor indigenous farmers from having to sell it to white people. The CIA will not profit from the land, the goal is to return it to tribal governments.
[] Support the Home Rule Party of Hawaii in their election this year. ? funds.
[] Try to organize merging newly individual land in the Indian Territory under the stewardship of the CIA to be used communally as before (technically buying it from them). ? funds.
[] Try to buy land surrounding Minnesota Ojibwe reservations from the logging companies to keep them away. 20/40/60/80/100 funds.
[] Try to form contacts with tribal governments on reservations.
With the land merged, this will also help with preventing poor indigenous farmers from having to sell it to white people. The CIA will not profit from the land, the goal is to return it to tribal governments.
United Front
94 funds
Any UF org can add on any UF proposals to the end of their vote as a free action. For internal UF votes, not choosing a vote means you are abstaining on it. Non-free actions are taken by your own org, not as part of the UF vote.
Actions (NOT free actions):
[] Request to join the United Front.
[] Leave the United Front.
[] Contribute extra funds to the UF. ? funds.
[] Send a covert team to break into the prison holding Debs and free him. 1/5/10 funds.
This counts as a militia action, can be done by ACUA, RFAA, or SUS.
[] Run yearly protests on May Day and create committees to organize such consisting of a one day general strike and various demonstrations to demand it is made a holiday and to advertise the cause. 10 funds, -10 per turn, per turn effect uses UF funding.
Only one of ACUA, SUS, or RFAA needs to do this action, but the flavoring of it will be biased towards whoever does it.
[] Support the Home Rule Party of Hawaii (Robert Wilcox), and offer a (home rule dominated) electoral fusion with the SLP. ? funds.
Although the governor was appointed by the president, Hawaii got the chance to send a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives chosen by election as well as would elect its first territorial legislature this year (assuming the Organic Act passes). The FHM or ACUA could support a delegate, either the indigenous-run party (strongly favored to win), or running their own candidate under the SLP. Note that Asians have extremely low voter registration rates (mostly due to not speaking English or Hawaiian), with the main voting demographics being indigenous and white men, who are expected to vote somewhat along racial lines.
[] Campaign for the SLP. ? actions.
-[] State, ? funds.
Can do as many actions as 1 more than the number of states you are campaigning in.
Policy Actions (Not free actions, may be taken by anyone with a presence in the state, each policy for each state is its own action):
-[] Lobby progressive senate members of the other parties to pass your bill. ? funds.
This is a required add-on to any of the below policy actions for states that do not have majority control of both state legislatures. Equal rights amendments may require a 2/3 majority.
[] Draft and pass an equal rights bill, guaranteeing public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, right to serve on a jury, and suffrage rights for adults 21 years or more regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, as well as designating election day as a state holiday. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Promote a state constitutional amendment providing for direct recall of representatives and propose laws based on referendum, as well as the direct election of senators. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Draft and pass a bill reforming the tax code for more progressive tax system including a corporate tax and death tax while lowering sales taxes. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Draft and pass a bill requiring the state government to continuously use eminent domain to buy up private land used for public transport and communication and municipalities to own public utilities. 5 funds.
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
This process will take many years, sped up by tax reforms (which give the state more money).
[] Implement labor laws and welfare such as the 8 hour workday; public assistance in meals, books, clothes, etc. for schoolchildren; pay in wages instead of scrip; a minimum wage for all workers; and state and municipal employment programs for the unemployed. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Louisiana
[] Start actively reshuffling the state militia composition to be more politically reliable. 8 funds.
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
[] Draft and pass bills repealing sodomy laws and recognizing same-sex marriage. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Expand NYC employment programs, hiring unemployed for public works projects including construction of roads, schools, parks, and other public buildings; creative music and writing projects; and work at city owned services such as libraries. 5 funds.
-[] Transfer these to the councils.
-[] Additionally, pay more money than the program actually costs. +10 funds per turn to RFAA.
[] Draft and pass new pro-labor policies in San Fransisco and other California cities, as well as repealing any Chinese-targeted laws. 5 funds.
Budget:
Make a plan (only one person has to vote for it) for the uses of the UF budget, with [UF] instead of an org name. The vote section will include an option to choose which plan your org would prefer to go with.
[] Donate funds to an organization from the UF finances.
-[] Write-in
[] Send representatives to the Fifth Congress of the Second International. 5 funds.
[] Fund Cuba's United Front's delegates to the Second International, making them the first non-Europeans represented there (aside from USA). 2 funds.
[] Build up a proper electoral apparatus in states using local org members.
-[] Oregon, 4 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Washington, 5 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Hawaii, 2 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Upper New York, 39 funds, 39 per turn
-[] Mississippi, 16 funds, 16 per turn
-[] Alabama, 18 funds, 18 per turn
-[] Wisconsin, 21 funds, 21 per turn
-[] Indiana, 25 funds, 25 per turn
-[] Michigan, 24 funds, 24 per turn
-[] Ohio, 42 funds, 42 per turn
-[] North Carolina, 19 funds, 19 per turn
-[] Puerto Rico, 10 funds, 10 per turn
[] Lobby in Congress for other representatives to support your voting positions. ? funds.
[] Campaign in a state election.
-[] State, ? funds.
[] Establish a commission for gathering and advertising socialist and union songs. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish a commission for standardizing SLP legislation, allowing organizations to do 2 states per policy action. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish a commission to look into how a post-revolution economic and political system would look like, including members from every organization. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in budget plan name.
[] Change the Commissions of Mutual Aid and Welfare to be managed by the Executive Committee of the UF.
[] Keep mutual aid managed by the RFAA.
This change would move mutual aid actions to UF level, allowing anyone with an interest in the area to take them, and the amount paid will be to the UF budget. They will stay 3 regions per action, but that number will not increase (RFAA was going to make it 4 when they got 400k members). Additionally, the action will be moved to the UF as well, allowing them to take 3 with their budget.
Since I'm adding this vote option late, it'll only get voted on if a majority of delegates vote for it, otherwise you can try again next turn.
[] Increase the UF budget to 15%.
[] Keep the UF budget at 10%.
SLP House Representatives:
[] Vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Vote against the Sedition Act
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country.
[] Vote for the Foraker Act
[] Vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
Second International Positions (free actions):
[] Establish the International Socialist Bureau, a standing committee consisting of representatives from the entire International.
[] Do not establish a bureau.
[] It is okay for socialists to enter bourgeois governments.
[] The entry of a socialist into government was not normal, but was a transitional and exceptional emergency measure, and it is not a question of principle but tactics and thus alright if his party approves.
[] Universally condemn entering a bourgeois government.
This question was specifically over a french socialist entering government as Minister of Commerce with the aim of ameliorating the conditions of labor.
[] When the revolution comes, the bourgeoisie should have their capital taken from them with no compensation and they should be exiled.
[] When the revolution comes, the bourgeoisie should have their capital taken from them with no compensation and but they may remain as workers.
[] When the revolution comes, the bourgeoisie should be compensated for the nationalized industry.
[] The working class should be against all wars.
[] The working class should be in favor of international peace but also support the struggles of anti-colonial forces fighting for independence.
[] War is fine if it's for a good cause.
[] Write-in anything else to bring up.
Actions (NOT free actions):
[] Request to join the United Front.
[] Leave the United Front.
[] Contribute extra funds to the UF. ? funds.
[] Send a covert team to break into the prison holding Debs and free him. 1/5/10 funds.
This counts as a militia action, can be done by ACUA, RFAA, or SUS.
[] Run yearly protests on May Day and create committees to organize such consisting of a one day general strike and various demonstrations to demand it is made a holiday and to advertise the cause. 10 funds, -10 per turn, per turn effect uses UF funding.
Only one of ACUA, SUS, or RFAA needs to do this action, but the flavoring of it will be biased towards whoever does it.
[] Support the Home Rule Party of Hawaii (Robert Wilcox), and offer a (home rule dominated) electoral fusion with the SLP. ? funds.
Although the governor was appointed by the president, Hawaii got the chance to send a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives chosen by election as well as would elect its first territorial legislature this year (assuming the Organic Act passes). The FHM or ACUA could support a delegate, either the indigenous-run party (strongly favored to win), or running their own candidate under the SLP. Note that Asians have extremely low voter registration rates (mostly due to not speaking English or Hawaiian), with the main voting demographics being indigenous and white men, who are expected to vote somewhat along racial lines.
[] Campaign for the SLP. ? actions.
-[] State, ? funds.
Can do as many actions as 1 more than the number of states you are campaigning in.
Policy Actions (Not free actions, may be taken by anyone with a presence in the state, each policy for each state is its own action):
-[] Lobby progressive senate members of the other parties to pass your bill. ? funds.
This is a required add-on to any of the below policy actions for states that do not have majority control of both state legislatures. Equal rights amendments may require a 2/3 majority.
[] Draft and pass an equal rights bill, guaranteeing public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, right to serve on a jury, and suffrage rights for adults 21 years or more regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, as well as designating election day as a state holiday. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Promote a state constitutional amendment providing for direct recall of representatives and propose laws based on referendum, as well as the direct election of senators. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Draft and pass a bill reforming the tax code for more progressive tax system including a corporate tax and death tax while lowering sales taxes. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Draft and pass a bill requiring the state government to continuously use eminent domain to buy up private land used for public transport and communication and municipalities to own public utilities. 5 funds.
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
This process will take many years, sped up by tax reforms (which give the state more money).
[] Implement labor laws and welfare such as the 8 hour workday; public assistance in meals, books, clothes, etc. for schoolchildren; pay in wages instead of scrip; a minimum wage for all workers; and state and municipal employment programs for the unemployed. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Louisiana
[] Start actively reshuffling the state militia composition to be more politically reliable. 8 funds.
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
[] Draft and pass bills repealing sodomy laws and recognizing same-sex marriage. 5 funds.
-[] In California
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
-[] In Louisiana
[] Expand NYC employment programs, hiring unemployed for public works projects including construction of roads, schools, parks, and other public buildings; creative music and writing projects; and work at city owned services such as libraries. 5 funds.
-[] Transfer these to the councils.
-[] Additionally, pay more money than the program actually costs. +10 funds per turn to RFAA.
[] Draft and pass new pro-labor policies in San Fransisco and other California cities, as well as repealing any Chinese-targeted laws. 5 funds.
Budget:
Make a plan (only one person has to vote for it) for the uses of the UF budget, with [UF] instead of an org name. The vote section will include an option to choose which plan your org would prefer to go with.
[] Donate funds to an organization from the UF finances.
-[] Write-in
[] Send representatives to the Fifth Congress of the Second International. 5 funds.
[] Fund Cuba's United Front's delegates to the Second International, making them the first non-Europeans represented there (aside from USA). 2 funds.
[] Build up a proper electoral apparatus in states using local org members.
-[] Oregon, 4 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Washington, 5 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Hawaii, 2 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Upper New York, 39 funds, 39 per turn
-[] Mississippi, 16 funds, 16 per turn
-[] Alabama, 18 funds, 18 per turn
-[] Wisconsin, 21 funds, 21 per turn
-[] Indiana, 25 funds, 25 per turn
-[] Michigan, 24 funds, 24 per turn
-[] Ohio, 42 funds, 42 per turn
-[] North Carolina, 19 funds, 19 per turn
-[] Puerto Rico, 10 funds, 10 per turn
[] Lobby in Congress for other representatives to support your voting positions. ? funds.
[] Campaign in a state election.
-[] State, ? funds.
[] Establish a commission for gathering and advertising socialist and union songs. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish a commission for standardizing SLP legislation, allowing organizations to do 2 states per policy action. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish a commission to look into how a post-revolution economic and political system would look like, including members from every organization. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in budget plan name.
[] Change the Commissions of Mutual Aid and Welfare to be managed by the Executive Committee of the UF.
[] Keep mutual aid managed by the RFAA.
This change would move mutual aid actions to UF level, allowing anyone with an interest in the area to take them, and the amount paid will be to the UF budget. They will stay 3 regions per action, but that number will not increase (RFAA was going to make it 4 when they got 400k members). Additionally, the action will be moved to the UF as well, allowing them to take 3 with their budget.
Since I'm adding this vote option late, it'll only get voted on if a majority of delegates vote for it, otherwise you can try again next turn.
[] Increase the UF budget to 15%.
[] Keep the UF budget at 10%.
SLP House Representatives:
[] Vote for the Sedition Act with press censorship.
[] Vote for the Sedition Act without press censorship.
[] Vote against the Sedition Act
A bipartisan measure, this act prohibits interference with military operations or recruitment, prevented insubordination within the military, and prevented the support of US enemies during wartime. It would specifically target those who made speeches or other subversive influence to get people to not volunteer or to get the army to engage in insubordination, allowing for greater prosecution against them.
One version of the bill also established press censorship, something hotly debated. It would effectively give the president the ability to stop any newspaper. While many opposed this measure giving too much power to the president and possibly violating the First Amendment, it seemed to have decent support given context of the country.
[] Vote for the Foraker Act
[] Vote against the Foraker Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Organic Act of 1900, sponsored by Ohio Senator Joseph Foraker, would end military rule in Puerto Rico. Instead a governor and executive council would be appointed by the president, the latter 5/11 parts Puerto Rican, and an elected House of Representatives would be put in place. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
[] Vote for the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Vote against the Hawaiian Organic Act
[] Propose a counter-bill: Write-in
The Hawaiian Organic Act would end military rule in Hawaii, replaced by a governor appointed by the president and an elected bicameral legislature. It would also give citizenship to all island residents.
Second International Positions (free actions):
[] Establish the International Socialist Bureau, a standing committee consisting of representatives from the entire International.
[] Do not establish a bureau.
[] It is okay for socialists to enter bourgeois governments.
[] The entry of a socialist into government was not normal, but was a transitional and exceptional emergency measure, and it is not a question of principle but tactics and thus alright if his party approves.
[] Universally condemn entering a bourgeois government.
This question was specifically over a french socialist entering government as Minister of Commerce with the aim of ameliorating the conditions of labor.
[] When the revolution comes, the bourgeoisie should have their capital taken from them with no compensation and they should be exiled.
[] When the revolution comes, the bourgeoisie should have their capital taken from them with no compensation and but they may remain as workers.
[] When the revolution comes, the bourgeoisie should be compensated for the nationalized industry.
[] The working class should be against all wars.
[] The working class should be in favor of international peace but also support the struggles of anti-colonial forces fighting for independence.
[] War is fine if it's for a good cause.
[] Write-in anything else to bring up.
American Reform Movement (pacifist)
Actions (NOT free actions):
[] Found ARM (pacifist).
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in new name for ARM (pacifist)
[] Stay named ARM.
[] Found ARM (pacifist).
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in new name for ARM (pacifist)
[] Stay named ARM.
American Reform Movement (militant)
Actions (NOT free actions):
[] Found ARM (militant).
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in new name for ARM (militant)
[] Stay named ARM.
[] Found ARM (militant).
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in new name for ARM (militant)
[] Stay named ARM.
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[]Min Recruit and Sounding for Patriots
-[] Try to make friendly contact with current military leadership, and sound them out for not being entirely onboard with fighting American civilians like last year.
-[]Send Agitators to Universities 4 funds
-[]Send agitators to Journalists 5 funds
-[]Send Agitators to Sympathetic War Vets 4 funds
My current preliminary plan. Albiet not sure if I could target specific groups...
-[] Try to make friendly contact with current military leadership, and sound them out for not being entirely onboard with fighting American civilians like last year.
-[]Send Agitators to Universities 4 funds
-[]Send agitators to Journalists 5 funds
-[]Send Agitators to Sympathetic War Vets 4 funds
My current preliminary plan. Albiet not sure if I could target specific groups...
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
That's fine, but should be [][Min] and you can send agitators to multiple groups with 1 action.
Any effect spending more actions on sending agitators, or is my current plan basically only two actions? 😅
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Okay Magoose Dice, since its Election Season, lets see how many actions are for election-related stuff?
D6 => 5
Okay, we're really going all in this election.
[][LLRP]Plan: This is going to be interesting, to Say the Least (Election Edition)
-[] Campaign in elections. 2 Actions
--[] In Michigan, 40 funds
--[] In North Dakota, 20 funds
--[] In South Dakota, 20 funds
--[] In Minnesota, 40 funds
-[]Make A Newspaper
--[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
- [] Do election year donation drives, the extra funds going to campaigning.
-[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[] On the streets of cities. 22 funds.
-[] Do a survey of Michigan land and then request that President McKinley utilize the Forest Reserve Act to set aside chosen lands into the public domain. 3 funds.
-[]Michigan
[][ARM] Plan, Peace and Hope, for the American Experiment
-[]Found ARM (pacifist).
@Physici A Question since I'm a little confused about what this means:
D6 => 5
Okay, we're really going all in this election.
[][LLRP]Plan: This is going to be interesting, to Say the Least (Election Edition)
-[] Campaign in elections. 2 Actions
--[] In Michigan, 40 funds
--[] In North Dakota, 20 funds
--[] In South Dakota, 20 funds
--[] In Minnesota, 40 funds
-[]Make A Newspaper
--[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
- [] Do election year donation drives, the extra funds going to campaigning.
-[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[] On the streets of cities. 22 funds.
-[] Do a survey of Michigan land and then request that President McKinley utilize the Forest Reserve Act to set aside chosen lands into the public domain. 3 funds.
-[]Michigan
[][ARM] Plan, Peace and Hope, for the American Experiment
-[]Found ARM (pacifist).
@Physici A Question since I'm a little confused about what this means:
Does it mean I can say, use two actions to campaign in 4 states? I'm a little unsure about that, and just want it clarified so that things won't get wierd in the planing?
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- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Basically just two actions.
You are correct. But each action applies a bonus proportional to your current supporters count, so it can be beneficial to spend more. Also note the bonus from funds is proportional to a states population (same as electoral apparatus ratio), so large states need way more for the same effect.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Also, do we need to use a Free Action to found ARM? I just want to make sure.
[x] [SFAF] Plan We Picked a Side
-[x] Protests against the Sedition Act, in any form. 5 funds
-[x] Request to join the United Front.
-[x] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
--[x] In Philadelphia, 16 funds, -7 per turn
--[x] In other Eastern Pennsylvania cities, 12 funds, -5 per turn
-[x] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
--[x] In Baltimore, 5 funds, -2 per turn
--[x] In other Maryland cities, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[x] Transfer 27 funds to the SPA and 55 funds to the UF.
-[x] Continue the standoffs with the White Union Army in Maryland. Make sure the militia is 2 times larger than theirs in the standoffs.
-[x] Militia action: Train militia 13 funds.
Following the tense clashes with the WUA in Maryland, the socialist (not really an accurate name, as it was a mix of apolitical militants and radical anarchists) faction saw a surge of support in the organization. Arguing that they were severely outnumbered and frightened by the bloody rhetoric of Tillman, which was primarily focused on African-Americans and socialists but occasionally veered into anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic sentiments, they called for a formal alliance with the organizations that had done the most to fight the WASP supremacists. Furthermore, reports that the Poor Man's Fighters had astonishingly managed to survive the defeat from Wilmington led a delegation of members to travel south to supply "the men preserved by miracles" with what support they could spare.
-[x] Protests against the Sedition Act, in any form. 5 funds
-[x] Request to join the United Front.
-[x] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
--[x] In Philadelphia, 16 funds, -7 per turn
--[x] In other Eastern Pennsylvania cities, 12 funds, -5 per turn
-[x] Support a charity low cost schooling program in for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities.
--[x] In Baltimore, 5 funds, -2 per turn
--[x] In other Maryland cities, 5 funds, -2 per turn
-[x] Transfer 27 funds to the SPA and 55 funds to the UF.
-[x] Continue the standoffs with the White Union Army in Maryland. Make sure the militia is 2 times larger than theirs in the standoffs.
-[x] Militia action: Train militia 13 funds.
Following the tense clashes with the WUA in Maryland, the socialist (not really an accurate name, as it was a mix of apolitical militants and radical anarchists) faction saw a surge of support in the organization. Arguing that they were severely outnumbered and frightened by the bloody rhetoric of Tillman, which was primarily focused on African-Americans and socialists but occasionally veered into anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic sentiments, they called for a formal alliance with the organizations that had done the most to fight the WASP supremacists. Furthermore, reports that the Poor Man's Fighters had astonishingly managed to survive the defeat from Wilmington led a delegation of members to travel south to supply "the men preserved by miracles" with what support they could spare.
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- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Yes that does take an action.
[][Min] Recruit and Sounding for Patriots
-[] Try to make friendly contact with current military leadership, and sound them out for not being entirely onboard with fighting American civilians like last year.
-[] Try to make contacts of military grade manufacturers who make gear such as gatling guns so the Minutemen can order directly from them.
-[]Investigate the possibility of training militia in specialized skills
-[]Send Agitators to Universities 4 funds
--[]Send agitators to Journalists 5 funds
--[]Send Agitators to Sympathetic War Vets 4 funds
Well, got two more actions here. And one is a write-in basically there to use the last action, and possibly get some edge in later combat. Like dedicated couriers, or combat engineers possibly.
-[] Try to make friendly contact with current military leadership, and sound them out for not being entirely onboard with fighting American civilians like last year.
-[] Try to make contacts of military grade manufacturers who make gear such as gatling guns so the Minutemen can order directly from them.
-[]Investigate the possibility of training militia in specialized skills
-[]Send Agitators to Universities 4 funds
--[]Send agitators to Journalists 5 funds
--[]Send Agitators to Sympathetic War Vets 4 funds
Well, got two more actions here. And one is a write-in basically there to use the last action, and possibly get some edge in later combat. Like dedicated couriers, or combat engineers possibly.