"Isn't the White League falling apart, it is unlikely they can do much."
"The White league is but one part of the groups that would be diametrically opposed to the 40 acres movement. And then there is the politics, after all, the democrats have a political stake in preventing the largely republican leaning Black population from voting."
"Isn't the While League's position politically untenable?"
"Mostly because they lost. There is a reason such groups still existed years after the fall of the Ku Klux Klan to the federal occupation forces."
"Surely the chances of open warfare akin to Bleeding Kansas is unlikely, I mean, most of the efforts have been attempts to marginalize the blacks, and prevent them from voting. Not completely uniquely southern, but how much could it escalate?"
*One member tosses an Eufaula, Alabama, newspaper onto the table*
"Well, while there hasn't technically been any outright coups that happened yet, the White Wing, did 'defend' the polling places from black voters, securing the local Dixiecrats seat in the local elections by securing the election areas themselves. Something which had little federal pushback, encouraging the use of intimidation to influence elections, if not at the same scale. While the actions of the 40 acres movement are pushing back, that might decide to take the next step, and through force of arms, directly install the Dixiecrats in what would indisputably be a coup."
"That, is courting war."
"Not if the democrat party stays silent for the benefit of securing the south, with the Republicans staying silent because of how unpopular a second Great American Civil War would be. Precedents be damned!"
"If that happens, then the 40 acre movement would be forced to respond, because if there is no federal reckoning, then the Jim Crow Law supporters and Dixiecrats may be emboldened to do it again, and turn the situation into a civil war."
"And in doing so, may embolden other factions to take a page from the Dixiecrat's book, and pull coups to try and put favored politicians into office."
A/N: A very loose thing. And honestly, the quest isn't quite early enough for the Wilmington Massacre. And while the Election massacre of 1874 can't TECHNICALY be called a coup, just massively blatant and violent rigging of the elections, it is still something that would definitely be very worrying.
Well that depends on exactly what you want to do, but approximately the same as buying guns and training militia as well as hiring them long term, most of which the FAM has already done.
A/N: A very loose thing. And honestly, the quest isn't quite early enough for the Wilmington Massacre. And while the Election massacre of 1874 can't TECHNICALY be called a coup, just massively blatant and violent rigging of the elections, it is still something that would definitely be very worrying.
It's 1896. This is two years from now, in the original timeline.
Article:
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d'état and massacre carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a race riot caused by black people. Since the late 20th century and further study, the event has been characterized as a violent overthrow of a duly elected government by a group of white supremacists
Utah was admitted as a state this year, the mormons making several concessions in order to become so.
A revolutionary group consisting of mostly Yaqui native Americans revolted on the Mexican-American border, being put down within a matter of days. Many leftists in the United States denounced this violent quelling, but ultimately it made few waves in the politics of the time.
In a victory for white supremacists, the court case Plessy V. Ferguson years in the making has been ruled upon by the Supreme Court, declaring that "separate but equal" was legal. Black activists attacked this decision but ultimately speaking it was the white man who held political power in America and their words were meaningless to them. But with legal avenues increasingly closed to them, many more were driven to the Forty Acres Movement, which grew to be increasingly against those institutions of America which continued to oppress them.
In Pennsylvania a major coal mine collapsed, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people. It was found that the coal mine owners had not been complying with regulations, and the governor seemed to do nothing but politely ask for them to start. The local miners have become increasingly militant, and the diminished United Mine Workers have begun talking of another strike.
Down South, the Cuban revolutionaries were struggling. No shipments of weapons had reached them, having to rely on arms stolen from the Spanish.
The Spanish responded to the rebellion with a reign of terror, mass executions or exiles, forcing residents into areas of strong Spanish control, and destruction of crops. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, died in crowded misery.
The rebel forces in the east of the island tried to take the cities, but it became largely a stalemate as both sides died in droves. By the end of the year very little territory had been exchanged, but many had died.
Major press in the US have begun advocating for war, declaring that it was the American duty to save American countries from European colonialism. Sympathy for the revolutionaries was widespread, and increased with the news of every atrocity by the Spanish.
The election at the end of this year was highly contested, with several parties competing once more.
With the Democrats tarnished by the failing economy, the Republicans swept into power. Yet it was still close: McKinley won by but a few votes in the electoral college.
The state level was more contested, with Democrats controlling all of the solid south, Populists battling it out for the west, and the SLP winning a couple states.
The SLP won Illinois and Colorado, did well in Louisiana, in the end sending two senators and 17 representatives to Congress. They got more electoral votes and popular vote than the Populist Party ever did, with over 1.5 million votes across the country.
The Populist Party maintained several house seats and a few senate seats in the West, but with the entire breakaway of the Colorado branch they were fading. Still, with the Democrats and Republicans both pro-business and the SLP policies more radical than they'd prefer, it seemed that they had nowhere to go.
Meanwhile the LLRP did well in Michigan, only not acting as a spoiler in favor of the Democrats because they decided not to run a presidential candidate, letting voters split their ballot and keeping their reputation as a local party. They sent four representatives to the house, putting them as a decent fifth party in congress, more than any other independent.
Republicans held the house by a few dozen but only got 45 out of 90 (or rather 86 with empty seats) in the Senate, giving them a small majority.
Women's suffrage won a great victory this election, with Utah, Idaho, and Ohio giving women the right to vote in federal elections.
In his inaugural speech, McKinley spoke out against the disenfranchisement of African Americans and the violence on both sides. He also stated that he wished his presidency would be a time of labor peace and his attention for arbitration between workers and business that could be resolved without seditious unions or violent strikes. He was confident, he said, that the outbursts in Illinois and Colorado did not represent the good workers of America. He condemned their divisive and outright treasonous rhetoric in the strongest words, saying that it was time for all Americans to be united against the threat to democracy that revolutionaries posed.
McKinley wasn't the only one wary of the socialists. In response to the election results, at workplaces across the country mere association with them was enough to get you fired for fear of unionization. While this wasn't as common at places already unionized (those businessmen had a different plan), it would make United Front future unionization attempts much more difficult.
All-Continental Union Association:
The newly branded ACUA celebrated their new goal by publishing a new newspaper. This would be published all across the United States as they hoped to connect with workers to displace the AFL.
The Continental Worker: 47
While it would prove to be decently popular, this was primarily among workers already in the ACUA or soon to be anyway. Still, it would serve to begin spreading the existent primarily Marxist ideology of ACUA members to the new unions.
California Campaigning: 31 + 5 (The Continental Worker) = 36
They would also attempt to peel off some of the AFL unions in California, but this attempt mostly fell flat. The AFL workers distrusted the Chinese (who were by now well integrated into the ACUA) and wished for reform, not revolution. Some were vaguely interested, but these conditions were untenable for the revolutionary organization.
Inviting ARU and Chicago Allies: 56 + 5 (Giving Debs leadership) + 5 (The Continental Worker) = 66
(One time 3% recruitment increase to represent joining unions)
The recent Pullman Strike had the ARU and a large amount of the Chicago unions go on strike, openly challenging the government. While it resulted in only minor concessions, it was not crushed, and the experience drew them closer together. By offering them to associate with the ACUA they would have a forum to officially work together as well as with unions across the country.
The ARU (which would be the largest union associated with the ACUA) was somewhat wary of the deal, as their leadership was largely composed of anarchists and therefore distrusted giving Marxists leadership over them. So as part of it, their president Eugene Debs was given a position on the executive council, and in exchange the ARU would join the ACUA and support the SLP.
New Orleans and New York unions: 67 + 5 (The Continental Worker) = 72
(One time 5% recruitment increase to represent joining unions)
They also reached out to the domains of the other United Front organizations. Down in New Orleans, most of the workers were unionized in allied unions that had gone on strike together. While they were formally part of the AFL, the AFL had refused to go on general strike with them–while the ACUA unions did. So it was not hard to convince the Workingmen's Amalgamated Council (the central labor council coordinating them) to switch their allegiance, being a stronghold of radicals in the south.
Over in New York, the anarchists had put good work into unionizing the city. It had a fairly high union density, almost all with some sort of anarchist influence. Using these connections with the RFAA it was relatively easy to convince them to associate with the ACUA. The Tailor's Unions were also willing to join, having taken the opportunity of the nation-wide Pullman Strike to unionize themselves.
With all these unions across the country, the ACUA had truly become a competitor to the AFL. This critical mass of members has made it much more attractive to new members, allowing for a vast increase in recruitment this year.
Unions support SLP: 72 + 5 (The Continental Worker) = 77
They also instituted a new rule requiring associated unions to officially support the SLP and encourage their members to vote as such. Most unions were highly in favor, especially the Western Federation of Miners who were dominant in Colorado and very radical as well as the Chinese guilds who were faced with two anti-Chinese candidates for president this year.
The pushback was from the anarchist unions. The ARU had agreed on the measure in exchange for Debs being getting a position on the executive council of the ACUA, but this mollified the others only a little. In the end they agreed, but any candidate of theirs in the North-East was purely to interrupt the mechanisms of the bourgeois state in any way they could.
The Western Federation of Miners lead the electoral charge in Colorado, with the other local ACUA unions doing their own part. They advertised how the SLP was the true successor of the Populist Party, planning on continuing their policies and more. Helped by, of course, the fact that the Colorado Populists had almost all defected over to the SLP and were extremely active in campaigning themselves, promising everything they did before and more.
With many rural farmers following the defection of the Populist Party branch (the others switching to the Democrats) and both urban and rural workers voting for the SLP for their promises of local change and relief from the depression which business owners used to exploit them, it was a landslide election. They won a large majority in both houses of the state legislature (as many previously Populist senators switched to SLP) and were able to send a representative to the House of Representative and two senators to the Senate, replacing Henry Teller, the incumbent senator, who had ran for president instead.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
The LLRP prepared for their largest effort yet in winning an election.
Sons of the Frontier Michigan: 72
They began with setting up a Sons of the Frontier chapter in Michigan. While it wouldn't effect the election this year, as people passed through the program or had their children do so, they would remember who gave them that opportunity.
South Dakota Apparatus: 56
They also set up an electoral apparatus in South Dakota, getting campaigning teams together and speaking to the locals. This would make campaigning there in the future much easier.
Donation drives: 41
(+16% of income, 19 to Michigan)
Donation drives went off to a rough start as the inexperienced party members tried to go door to door in the wealthier working class neighborhoods as well as the progressive businessmen who might support Land and Labor. Still, eventually they got into the swing of things and managed to get a substantial amount of funds for the Michigan election this year.
This was their best election yet. They advertised across the state their pro-labor policies, but primarily campaigned on one issue: the land value tax. Since it is based on the value of the land, not the property on it, it would be higher in cities and on natural resources, allowing tax relief for rural farmers. City workers would also benefit as they typically did not own land, the burden going towards factory owners (and home owners, though that middle class wasn't their primary base). It would also benefit businesses as it would force them to improve their land… in turn benefiting everyone else.
In the end they won multiple cities such as Detroit and Lansing, but failed to win the state. Many voters voted either Democrat or Republican for their favorite president, and chose lower seats based on that choice, though some preferred to vote straight-ticket for one party. And others didn't believe a third party ever had a chance. Still, enough workers were willing to split their vote McKinley for president and LLRP for the rest that they got a substantial minority in the state legislature.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
While the anarchists refused to run in the election, they did contribute extra funds to the SLP so that they could set up a campaigning apparatus. The election this year had a low turnout in New York, though Theodore Roosevelt lead the major Republican wave this year as a progressive advocate, planning on continuing to run for mayor next year in the united Greater New York (as before the boroughs had been individual cities).
Philadelphia mutual aid: 42
New Jersey mutual aid: 39
Local councils in Philadelphia set up mutual aid networks, members coordinating to help each other whenever needed. Famous anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre lead the charge on organizing, already being part of the Society of Friends of All Faith's mutual aid in poor Jewish neighborhoods. Still, the two mutual aid networks maintained being organized separately (albeit with shared members).
New Jersey was less effective. While councils were plentiful in the dense northern cities by New York, the southern areas largely rejected anarchism, with much fewer councils in the first place. In the end their mutual aid networks were much smaller than expected. They also had several of their soup kitchens raided by the police, though luckily that slowed by a lot when they realized there really was nothing but feeding people going on there.
Organizers entered the New York countryside, finding small towns and farms with former Farmer's Alliance farmers. With the failure of the Populist Party to win in the urban North-East, their organizations have largely floundered and lost momentum.
But the anarchist movement was one that could transcend the urban-rural divide despite its urban origins. It sought autonomy for rural collectives as well as more radical proposals for what the Farmer's Alliance had been aiming for such as collective instead of government control of the railroads, abolishing money (to be replaced with labor vouchers) instead of inflating it, collective instead of national control and payment of warehouses for produce, complete redistribution of wealth from the rich instead of just an income tax, and some sort of low-interest loan system (what form that would take in a money-less economy was a matter for the theorists).
The initial reception was somewhat cold, as they did not appreciate city slickers coming in and lecturing them on how to do their jobs with weird books and newspapers. But once a few rural folk joined the cause and took up organizing instead they phrased their suggestions in a much more amenable way. Much like how they already had coop stores and mills for buying cheaper goods and processing their produce, a mutual was just one step further in sharing equipment such as tractors so they could all pay less. Some went the extra step and formed coops, tearing down fences between their farms and collectively cultivating it.
Buying farms: 59
They also went to bankrupt farmers, those whose land was being taken by the banks because of their loans surely to be sold to some far away capitalist. They offered to buy them instead, but in exchange they would turn them into coops, and the farmers would be paid for their work while extra profit would go towards the federation as a whole.
Some denied the offer, preferring to be driven off their land than to work with "godless terrorists" or an "anti-American secret society". But many others accepted, thankful for the chance to stay, and formed the basis of these new coops. Some even declared their cooperative to be an anarchist council, joining the RFAA in full.
Buying out factories: 45
They managed to find a large tea and coffee factory which processed and packaged those products which had gone bankrupt, what with their customers not having the funds to buy luxury items. With RFAA support it was quickly back and running, now run democratically and donating its surplus profit to the RFAA.
Anarchists across the city, including many who had been careful to not be publicly known as anarchists, went on a spree of accusing the most influential and reactionary of New York police of the worst things. Paid articles in big newspapers like The World, directly talking to the city government, and campaigns directly to the people all published their crimes and abuse. Most of all they published extra editions of The Worker's Post in record numbers and paid newsies extra, shortly becoming the best selling newspaper in New York.
Mayor Teddy Roosevelt himself, who had prided himself on a commission set up to clean the department, personally put forth renewed efforts to clean up the department. Officers were fired and replaced.
And the replacements? In large part anarchists, those who kept their loyalties secret. But now they believed that they were ready to fully take over the department.
Communal living: 44 + 4 (The Worker's Credit) + 5 (New York Mutual Aid) = 53
Anarchist councils also used funds to set up sole communal housing. While they would never be able to afford housing all their members–without a revolution that is–they could buy quite a bit. They started off with just a little, having their members try out, then expanded, providing housing for many homeless. These are those people who make so little that they pay less in dues than they take in soup from the soup kitchens, but were valiant comrades all the same. And now all anarchists in NYC knew that they were working on a method to make sure that they'd have a place to stay, even if they lost their own home.
The Forty Acres Movement:
The FAM began by stockpiling more weaponry.
Stockpiling guns: 16d20 = 191
This went well, with dozens of individuals getting funds to slowly buy the weapons and ammo. They may sure to split up, not leaving a trace of any large gun purchases. Still, many suspect a leak might have gotten out, as the Louisiana legislature proposed a bill to ban all vigilante activities. It would be too late in the year to pass, but next year it would surely be enforced. While technically it would apply to the White League's lynchings as well, no one had illusions about who the state would choose to apply it to.
The campaign to further buy out farms went great, with trained barterers negotiating with dozens of farms. By the end of the year more black sharecroppers had become independent farmers, and the future looked bright. Many saw this as proof that they would eventually succeed in their goal, allowing for the liberation of African Americans from their white masters. But others only saw the long road ahead, and they sought faster change.
Hemp growing: 50 + 5 (The Liberator's Advocate) + 2 (Black Belt Newspapers) + 5 (omake) = 62
With the Boll Weevil destroying cotton crops across the south, they knew they needed a replacement. They put together a directive for those independent farmers still farming cotton to instead grow hemp. Stronger and more durable than cotton, it could also be used for other things such as paper, making it almost an ideal cash crop. The only problem was no one was geared to use it.
Textile factories: 47
So they set up textile factories in the local towns. These would have some limited workplace democracy like the tractor factory, but this time they would receive products from farms rather than supply them. These textile factories had a ready market in the locals and in the cities, products with all parts of the supply chain made by black hands.
Sharecropping travel: 24
Next they sought to get more recruits. Many black people were still stuck on sharecropping plantations, conditions little better than forty years ago when they were slaves and knowing little of the outside world outside of propaganda. They decided to form an organizing group which would set up a system where members would sneak into sharecropping plantations and invite the workers to tFAM.
This went wrong from the start. Various factions fought to be in charge and individuals accused each other of being too disloyal or radical or not radical enough and therefore this important job couldn't go to them. Objectively speaking, the committee wasn't even that important, but the mess in forming it exposed a growing flaw in the quickly expanding organization.
A few groups did set out, only to immediately get caught and have the cops called on them. By the end of the year they gave up, knowing they'd have to try again later.
For the committee itself, the organization was largely agreed that they needed reform and some sort of standardized way to assign people to committees. But in the process of drafting proposals, the factions went further and proposed reorganizing the group as a whole. The United Left wanted to have worker based elections and to begin building a parallel power structure to replace the state, while the Jeffersonians wanted to organize as a centralized party which would win elections and buy land for their members.
Unionize: 5d20 = 78
They also went to the cities to help workers unionize. Black workers had long been neglected by union organizers and treated much worse than the white workers with lower pay. But the FAM meant to fix that. With advice from their northern and western comrades, they went into the city and to the workers directly whether that be at a factory or laundry. With their help unions were beginning to form, though it would be a long process.
Urban branches: 47
With the new unions, they had urban contacts. And from there the first branches of tFAM sprung up in cities as their message of independence from the white man struck home with the black worker. While the central goal of the organization was to achieve the reparations deserved after slavery in land, their message was easily modified to be reparations in general, suiting the urban worker more.
Although they were few in number, with only barely more of a fifth of the black population living in cities at the time, they would soon to be as dedicated members of the organization as anyone else.
Louisiana election: 57 + 6 (funds and effort) = 63
In New Orleans, the favored candidate was Democrat Walter Flower, best known for his participation in the 1891 lynchings of 11 Italian Americans and backed by the anti-immigrant population who had seen him get off scott free.
Unions led the charge against him. The Workingmen's Amalgamated Council which had representatives from every union in the city officially supported the SLP candidate for mayor, a black union man named William Jones. Workers across the city advertised the cause, telling people as they got onto the train, as they went about their day, as they ordered food in a restaurant, and so on.
In the rest of the state, the Forty Acres Movement mobilized. Although they had little money, and unlike the rest of the campaigns no dedicated SLP organizers, they had people. The entire organization was a fourth the size of the state, and over twice the number of registered voters, albeit spread out over the entire black belt even if their highest concentration was Louisiana and Mississippi. They went from farmhouse to farmhouse, targeting those who would have voted Republican or Populist.
The part time militia did their part too, escorting voters to the booths, and standing armed outside voting locations to prevent white supremacists from intimidating voters. And, perhaps, being a little intimidating themselves. With the White League in retreat from last year, they offered no resistance.
But it wasn't enough. Louisiana long had literacy tests, which could arbitrarily declare black voters ineligible. They also required voters to be of "good character" and "will fully abide by the laws of the state", allowing them to disqualify anyone known to be against segregation or support the SLP.
Only in New Orleans did they win, the mayorship going to the unions. Statewide they won two house representatives along with a small number of state legislature seats in black concentrated areas. It was a setback, but one many in the FAM believed they could get past. Next election, so long as the winning Democrats didn't rig it even further, they would win.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths began by implementing dues based on income of their members, allowing for delinquency for those who cannot pay. Their hope is that despite the inevitable loss in membership, that the increased income will allow them to accomplish more. While they wouldn't be able to make much use of it this year, in the next they would find their coffers overflowing comparatively.
With the socialist faction solidly dominating the upper ranks of the organization this year, many in the nonpolitical faction have been considering splitting off. Some have already left, not wishing to start paying dues for a cause they're against.
Stockpile guns: 3d20 = 16
Their attempts to buy more weaponry went terribly as one of the members tasked with it took the money and left. While the rest of the organization could sue them, they decided it would be not worth the government attention.
Train militia: 5d20 = 41 * 4 = 164
One problem with this was it did mean that they didn't have enough guns to train their planned militia. Additionally, training itself did not go that well, with less than two hundred militia proficient in gun use by the end of the year.
Patrols: 74 + 1 (mutual aid groups) = 75
Many of the militia were Jewish themselves, having fled pogroms in the Russian Empire. These were the most militant, fearful of it happening again in their new home. Indeed, direct attacks against Jews were rare, as there were so few of them that most focus was against Catholic immigrants, but overt antisemitism was common.
With this solid base of patrolling militia, some proposed to go further to fight the gang presence in the city which often sorted itself along ethnic, and therefore religious, lines. By stopping the violence between those of different religions they could accomplish another step in religious tolerance.
Charitable Aid: 46
Finally they began setting up more charitable aid out of churches and synagogues that they're associated with in NYC. These would facilitate and provide donations to the poor, helping those who need it most.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The futurists went heavy on supporting industrialists and on the election this year.
Steel Belt Fund: 60 + 10 (medium funding) = 70
With the barely recovering economy, a major construction company was about to go under. With futurist help they stayed solvent, able to pay their workers without work to keep that expertise needed.
Politicians: 46
Across the steel belt, they managed to get eight House representatives and significant minorities in state legislatures to accept endorsements by the APFA. This year they were exclusively Republican, the party's platform lining up fairly closely to the APFA anyway. In doing so they helped them win their elections, but conversely, ensured that they knew who had supported them. And this was a power they could use.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Friends began this year by setting up branch offices all across the west. Now all members of the organization could have a local meeting place. This consisted of almost every Chinese-American community in the country, with around one in four people part of the organization.
Compromise Plan: 63
With their great size and increasing criticisms from the low ranking members, it was time to reorganize. They went with a compromise plan, neither completely subordinating the anarchist Yellow Scarves nor decentralizing the organization into anarchist councils. Instead the town committee and factory council were reorganized as sub-organizations along with a miscellaneous sub-organization.
This meant all members were split into one of four sub-organizations, which then came to elect delegates for overall leadership. Each sub-organization also got an increased amount of control over its own affairs, allowing for them to use their own expertise and management styles for the highest efficiency.
With this, each part of the organization was sure to be evenly represented along with giving it the ability to further specialize in several areas.
Chinese unions: 20d20 = 218, 218/500
It was much more difficult to help organize the less industrial Chinese workers, as they were often under much closer supervision. Still, they made decent efforts this year, with many of the restaurant workers, launderers, and other domestic workers joining new unions.
Contact NY: 27 + 5 (The Friendly News) = 32
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association had served the Chinese community in New York for over a decade, primarily acting as a way to train and aid Chinese people in becoming businessmen but also serving as a quasi-government for the community by providing social services.
With the Friends of Huddled Masses NYC branch growing, it had found itself increasingly displaced. Still, businessmen and hopefuls kept it as a strong center of the community, and so the FHM wished to form official ties.
This was denied. Despite their own business ties, the CCBA viewed them as anarchists and disruptors who would result in even more cracking down on the Chinese community while erasing their chances to have individuals rise up in society, bringing the rest of them with. They solidly wanted nothing to do with the Friends, and would serve as competing interests in NYC.
Rigging rail cars: 62
The Yellow Scarves began rigging railcars this year, all for a long-term plan. As anarchist revolutionaries they wish to eventually rebel against America during or before the inevitable crackdown by the capitalist interests that control the state. But concentrated as they are on the west coast, the Friends and their ACUA allies have an advantage in that an armed force getting past the rockies is effectively impossible without using existing train infrastructure.
By rigging railcars for Yellow Scarf control and potential shutdown, along with efforts along the rail lines themselves, they could effectively cut off the west coast from the rest of the country, preventing the army from coming in and destroying the revolution.
They also saved some funds in special storage so that if Sun Yat-Sen or his fellow revolutionaries needed help in China again, the Friends would be ready.
San Fransisco had almost a fifth of the population on the west coast at the time and was a center of finance and industry. Naturally through the combined efforts of the ACUA and FHM much of the city was unionized, and it was these unions that they worked with. This year they bought a bread and biscuit factory employing hundreds of workers. With more agricultural factories, some within the factory council have suggested buying farms to run industrially.
The Orange Disciples:
This year TOD directly talked to candidates, offering funds and support to any pro-suffrage Ohio representative. In Ohio these were almost exclusively Republicans this year.
They also continued campaigning directly to the people in support of women's suffrage, a task that has been ongoing for years. By now it was a popular proposal in the state (and indeed as other states gave women suffrage the cause seemed more and more rational), leaving it to the lawmakers to catch up.
These politicians supported by them were therefore beholden to their Orange Disciple donors, and with legislation already drafted they proposed an amendment to the state constitution that would grant women suffrage.
New York City, to be unified in just two years from now, was undergoing major preparations. But it was doing so under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt, an incredibly popular man in the area and leading progressive. With The Orange Disciples lobbying the city government to adopt labor laws along with his outspoken support it was a matter of ease, establishing rights for local workers.
They established a 54 hour workweek (the current average was 60) with overtime pay above that for men, but as an absolute maximum for women. This went past the currently most progressive state, Massachusetts, which had a 58 hour workweek for women. They also set some safety regulations, as many factories were extremely dangerous for the workers or were a fire hazard.
These unprecedented laws served as a great victory for the worker, and though the local anarchist-influenced unions denounced it as not meeting the demand of an 8 hour day for all, for many workers it came as a welcome relief.
New York Lobbying: 44 - 48 (funds) + 5 (legislation think group) + 5 (The Orange Post) = 6
Lobbying in the state legislature went less well, with the established business lobbyists having many times the funds to spend in the largest and most prosperous American state.
The New American Patriots:
The New American Patriots continued to expand their organization this year.
Student chapter: 58
Their college student supporters set up a student chapter at the California State Normal School for university students interested in the organization.
Loans: 43
They also set up more loans for small businesses, continuing their program from last year. Though with the depression beginning to end, some have suggested either stopping the program or using a more profitable scheme. While it has also still earned more goodwill with local businesses, it's just a small amount this year.
Government jobs: 61
They also low key encouraged their members ti get government jobs. Since they were mainly in California, these ended up being in the San Fransisco city government and California's state government in Sacramento, primarily low level button pushers. While they wouldn't be able to do anything avert without inviting a crackdown, this did give them an in for future subversion.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
The Society began by making a standardized bureaucracy for the organization to maintain cohesion.
Bureaucracy: 41
As SUS grew and more and more branches formed, they began developing an informal hierarchy, with the Chicago branch pre-eminent even beyond national leadership being primarily from it. As the founding and largest branch of the organization this was somewhat natural, but still many sought to address this. By making a formalized bureaucracy they have established a fair system of making decisions as well as the capability of streamlining decision making.
Credit union expansion: 58
They also established a part of the bureaucracy for the credit union for automatically expanding it to any areas SUS has a presence in. This would allow every SUS member to be able to use it in place of a bank, removing the dependence on such.
Language federations: 48 + 5 (The Valkyrie) = 53
(One time 5% recruitment increase to represent the joining members)
This past decade a few socialist language federations have formed, the Danish and Hungarian ones already affiliated with the SLP. By making them a semi-independent part of SUS, the goal was to tie them to the United Front rather than as an independent actor. It would also give SUS a national outreach, as the federations were spread out across the nation. In return, they would get influence over the movement, already focused on intersectionality with minorities.
Already having many members within SUS, this deal would give them proportional delegates both within SUS and to the United Front (from the SUS delegates) to ensure they have representation.
These language federations would keep their decentralized structures even as they joined the more centralized SUS, making them in some ways even more responsive to the immediate wants of the socialist immigrant communities.
They also accepted the Salon's proposal for a merger of the two organizations, or perhaps more accurately the Salon becoming part of SUS. With SUS's focus on intersectionality and the Salon already operating within the same clubs, this practically speaking didn't make much of an immediate difference, but it did mean that the Salon became a small interest group within the organization able to advocate for themselves.
School of Journalism: 70 + 5 (Chicago mutual aid) + 3 (ethnic socialist clubs) + 5 (The Valkyrie) = 83
They also established "The Chicago School of Journalism", a dedicated campus for teaching the vital skills of writing accessible, honest, and persuasive articles, and the investigative, interviewing, and research skills needed to find the truth that those in power want to obscure.
They staffed it with experience members in The Valkyrie as well as local Chicago teachers. It went off to a magnificent start, with many wishing to join. Once the first graduated class has finished their two years, all of the United Front would have access to better quality journalism.
SUS also established required training for members in regards to teaching them against prejudice towards minorities and against misogyny. They were a very diverse organization, with bourgeoisie white women, working colored men, now queer activists and of course mixed and matched all around. Just about the only demographic that didn't have a place within the Society was rich white men, not that they wanted it. Each and every group saw themselves as discriminated against, that women's rights was a distraction from the class war, no prejudice against working immigrants is the real issue we must face more, no it's the ignored and hated queers who have it worst.
And with that, despite uniting against their oppressors, many oppressed each other. Working class immigrants, often Catholic, saw women's suffrage as pointless. White men saw immigrants as scabs and lowing wages. Women saw socialist men as taking over their movements and subordinating them to "more important" issues. From its beginning, the Society of Universal Suffrage sought to address this through intersectionality. Yet the problems persist even within themselves.
So with this training they hoped to address the problem. In the end, people went. They didn't quit the organization merely because they had to do another training, even if some complained it was a waste of time. They sat as women lectured about solidarity and women's rights and internalized prejudice. Some of them even listened to what they were being taught, though others sat, heard, then made no changes to their behavior. It was, as one woman said, a work in progress, but leagues better than simply allowing for men's prejudices just because they're a socialist.
Altgeld: 34 + 5 (The Valkyrie) = 39
Walpurga Voight herself approached Altgeld with an offer. The Democrats were tainted by the depression, and were sure to lose across all the Midwest and North. But the SLP weren't tainted, and SUS had grown to be a dominant force in Chicago and the cities, allowing them to take away the Republican's urban voters. If Altgeld switched parties, it would be all but guaranteed that he would be re-elected.
But he refused. She misunderstood, he said, his motivations. He stood for the common working man, and American democracy, not socialism which would destroy it. He may stand for the white man, but she stands for the woman, the German, the Italian, the Irish, the black man, and the working people of the world, she had declared. He had not visited the striking workers or seen the camaraderie they shared; he did not see the power they held, together.
It was an uphill race against both major parties. SUS and the non-AFL unions united by the ACUA teamed up to decry Altgeld for sending in the militia, for stopping them from getting further demands for all the workers of the state. And they decried the businessmen who lowered prices and increased working hours and who sent their children to go die in the mines.
And they called for what they could do. Basic political rights for women and minorities, labor rights to alleviate the poverty so many had fallen into, and taxes on the businessmen who made profits greater than ever while the poor starved. They achieved a landslide victory, with their main electorate in Chicago and the other cities, and the democrats landing in second with their popularity among the rural farmers. Republicans, who in other areas of the country had their strength in the businessman and his urban worker, found themselves shunned by the electorate in favor of more radical solutions.
A socialist governor was in charge of one of the largest states in the union, with a majority in the house and a large minority in the senate. Also, they sent 14 representatives to the federal House of Representatives, but with the Democrats and Republicans of the state senate refusing to nominate a socialist, no federal senator was sent, leaving the seat empty. Their job was not yet done, as they would have to contest mayorship of Chicago in the next election, but to socialists in America and in Europe it was considered a great victory, as even the German SPD was merely minority in governments.
Many recalled that the same thing happened during the early days of the Republican Party when Lincoln first tried his hand at winning Illinois. The Democrats and Republicans could not agree on a candidate to send to the federal Senate, and so the seat stood empty. Within a decade, the Civil War had begun between the irreconcilable slavery and abolitionist sides.
Or perhaps that was mere scaremongering. After all, there were three other senate seats empty, and none considered that unusual. Just a mere consequence of a divided legislature.
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies:
This year Uranus didn't do much, with their members still just meeting in their safe places and hoping for a better future.
The Minutemen:
The Minutemen continued to vastly expand this year as more and more people worried about the growing radicalization and violence across the country.
Research committee: 69
They also set up a committee for researching small unit tactics, both traditional and new. These would be integrated into their war games, though not all would take them to heart. After all, for now they were highly simulated and also considered games where members preferred coming up with their own strategies which often only work within the games.
Election reform: 75
They also set up reform for committee appointments, a contentious issue last year. Looking back to the original Minutemen during the revolutionary war, they decided to copy the democratic method of leadership. Committee appointments would have elections in which the top candidates, as voted on by the whole organization, would be appointed.
With those elections, the newly elected committee members proposed that overall leadership should be chosen in the same manner. With the majority of the organization behind them, the leadership acquiesced and held elections for their own positions.
Agitators: 79
(7.9% increase in recruitment next turn)
They also sent agitators to speak for their cause at college campuses this year. This went very well, especially at Land-Grant Universities which include military tactics as part of their curriculum. Many students interested in the military sciences decided to join the organization, and even became interested in establishing clubs related to it.
Search: 38
Finally, a few members spent all year looking for a group that would be interested in creating some sort of nonlethal air-gun for training or experimentation purposes. This search failed, with no groups other than themselves interested in such a complicated device.
Salon der Geschlechter:
The Salon der Geschlechter requested to join SUS this year, becoming an interest group within it. By doing so they hoped to use the resources of the larger organization for establishing queer rights, something they were too few to do on their own.
Southern People's Alliance:
The SOA began with buying guns. Watching the conflicts between the FAM and White League in the deep south, they expected their own conflicts with the similar Red Shirts too.
Stockpile guns: 8d20 = 68
Their attempt at buying guns did not go well, with many vendors refusing to sell to them as they were "tainted" by their black members. Contacts within the FAM suggested that they use deniable members to discretely buy guns, so hopefully it wouldn't be a problem in the future.
Integrate coop mills and shops: 38
They also integrated the coop mills and shops into the organization. In practice this meant that anyone in the vicinity of one in the SPA would automatically be part of the coop, sharing in the profits and maintenance costs, not that they were directly owned by the SPA as a whole as many members had suggested with this initiative. Still it signified more cooperation, as this new method bypassed individuals negotiating to join and personal biases there.
Form coops: 60
With that integration, they experimented with forming cooperative farms. These would be farmed as a collective, sharing in the work and profits. Still, even with more farmers planning on going in the experiments footsteps in the next few years the SPA would always maintain a solid fraction of small family farmers.
Reach out to Farmer's Alliance: 41
While the Farmer's Alliance as a whole voted to refrain from merging, the SPA openly contacted those within the organization and invited them to switch. Citing the slow decline of the Populists and the rise of the SLP, they considered it the logical next step with mainstream politics rejecting all of their demands.
To continuously do this, they formed a committee to organize reaching out, as individually talking to folks was always more effective. This committee would dissolve once they've contacted effectively everyone they could, which would likely happen within a couple years.
Finally, they requested to join the United Front. Having turned more radical from UF demonstrations in the first place, this was seen as the logical next step. Sponsored into a meeting by a RFAA delegate, they were admitted by unanimous vote.
Many members kept voting for the fusionist ticket this election, with the SLP not yet established in North Carolina. This ticket continued to do very well, winning across the state. But next election many want to change it to SLP/Populist, despite the chance of splitting the vote against the Democrats.
Appalachian Brotherhood:
The Appalachian Brotherhood started out strong, with thousands of people joining the organization that called for freedom of the region.
Agitators to the Mines: 4d20 = 71
(7.1% increase in recruitment next turn)
Miners flocked to the organization in droves, organizing among each other. They were the heart of the Appalachian people, living and working all throughout the mountains.
They also began instituting dues, small but allowing for delinquent members. This would allow for all to join, even if they didn't have the funds to contribute.
The United Front:
This year the United Front sent representatives to the London Second International meeting. They were a strange bunch, compared to the Europeans (who dominated the meeting), having anarchists, Marxists, and agrarian socialists. So too were they strange in that unlike the split parties of France or Belgium, they united under a single name rather than coming as separate groups. And they had the only non-white members of the meeting, with the black delegates from the FAM and ACUA sending many Asian representatives.
During the meeting of 1893, the anarchists had been expelled. They had planned to formalize that decision this meeting, officially declaring what kinds of socialists could join. But in that time the American socialists had become the largest socialist party in the world, even past the German social democrats. First showcased at the world fair, they had only expanded since then, and became the new shining jewel of socialist hope. Even their anarchists were part of it, albeit not actually participating in the election this year, as expected.
The Spanish, French, Italian, Belgian, and British anarchists also all came to the meeting in the hopes of reversing the '93 decision with the strong position of the Americans. At American insistence, they were let in the door.
Still, the very first argument was about revisiting the question of the anarchists being expelled, making the Second International a purely Social Democratic Marxist endeavor, or the anarchists would be allowed to stay, making it a pan-Socialist union. The French and American Marxists brought it up, overruling the British Social Democrats who considered the question settled (and had threatened to call the police to kick out the anarchists). Voight gave a speech on how the very existence of the United Front was proof that anarchists and Marxists could would together and the power of unity in the struggle for liberation.
It was close, but with the American unified insistence, the delegates voted to allow the anarchists to stay. This would mark a turning point in international opinion, with groups shifting to follow the American strategy rather than German one. The French in particular were curious about the focus on direct action while not neglecting electoralism, with many anarchist and Marxist delegates leaving discussing forming their own united front.
Afterwards the meeting was continued, albeit with tensions between the Social Democrats and anarchists. They first discussed about colonialism: should they support any revolution, or only socialist ones? The traditional Marxist approach was to support any progressive revolution, even if it was bourgeois, and this was supported by most of the European delegates.
The American delegation went mostly against this traditional wisdom, with the exception of the FAM delegates, in that they wished to only support socialist revolutions. A bourgeois revolution would only result in a capitalist state, Debs declared, and their focus must be on destroying all capitalist states lest they inevitably turn against them.
Next they discussed whether rural folk could lead a revolution, or if it would be the task of the proletariat alone. Rosa Luxemburg spoke on this question in respect to her homeland Poland, where she spoke against the idea that Poland must have its independence as a nationalist folly that would doom their proletariat movement, but that since Russia had weakened the bourgeoisie through oppressing the consumers so that neither would have economic power, the proletariat might be able to rise in revolution. Thus, it must still be the proletariat who lead the revolution in spite of the agrarian majority.
The American delegates had a plurality speak in favor of the agrarian ability to lead a revolution, with some SUS delegates agreeing in part yet saying that they would be more likely to falter in the face of the industrial bourgeoisie order.
As a whole, the international agreed that they must organize both in industrial areas and agrarian in order to succeed.
Finally, the most decisive issue, electoralism. The British Social Democrats believed that electoral success was the main goal, while the German SPD and other Marxist parties mainly believed in it as a means to an end, though still wanted to focus on it a great deal, and indeed, participate in every part of liberal democracy.
With the exception of the anarchists, the Americans believed that while they must organize around a party, it would have to lead to revolution. Voight and the other SUS delegates in particular tried to convince the Marxists of the importance of direct action, that elections were but a single battlefield in winning hearts and minds for the eventual revolution. This came to mixed results, with the few East European and French delegates resolving to focus more on direct action, following America's lead.
The delegates of the international returned home, united in name, divided in thought, but would it be enough? Only time would tell.
The UF also campaigned in the elections this year, setting up electoral apparatuses in Illinois and NYC. These would be wholly SLP focused, trained campaigners who knew what to say to get the people's vote.
AN: Happy Holidays! Expect the plan vote around Monday as I, and I'm sure some of you, will be busy this weekend.
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)
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.
Member Unions:
- Most small west coast farming unions (+8% popularity west coast)
- Most west coast industrial unions (concentrated in Sacramento) (+3% popularity west coast/10% Sacramento)
- Western Federation of Miners (+5% popularity Western states)
-Most of the west coast guilds (Chinese trade unions) (+5% popularity California/2% Oregon/Washington)
-Some Chinese service workers (+2% popularity West Coast)
- Most Colorado unions (primarily services, smelters, and agricultural) (+10% popularity Colorado)
- Western railroad workers (+3% popularity western states)
- The American Railway Union (+5% popularity Midwest/3% Northeast)
- Many Chicago Unions (+5% popularity Chicago/2% Illinois)
- Workingmen's Amalgamated Council (Most New Orleans unions) (+8% popularity New Orleans/2% Louisiana)
- Most New York City industrial, factory, and ship worker unions (+8% popularity New York City/4% New York)
- Tailor's Unions in New York City (+1% popularity New York City)
- A few black belt unions
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
San Fransisco Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of San Fransisco, non-profit oriented. +3 to financial actions.
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +5 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, +5 to actions relating to ideology.
Teaching member unions: The federation sends teachers to each member union for best practices when striking as determined by the Striking Think Group. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking by all member unions.
Modifiers:
Critical Mass of Unions: Having achieved a critical mass of unions across the nation, the association has become much more attractive to join. +10% recruitment.
The Land and Labor Reform Party
Factions and Influence:
The Labor Reformers: 16%
Orthodox Georgists: 10%
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Sucessor 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 minority in the house and senate. Several municipal governments including Detroit and Lansing.
Federal: 4 representatives (4 Michigan).
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, -21 funds per turn.
North Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in North Dakota, -2 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 (1.5%), Minnesota (1.5%), Nebraska (.5%), and Michigan (0%) 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.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
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
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.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
The Worker's Credit: A credit union for the workers of the cities in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey and the cities Philadelphia and Boston, non-profit oriented. +4 to financial actions.
Garment Industry Factories (3 small): +3 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): +3 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
New York City Communal Homes: -2 funds per turn, +2 to loyalty of members in New York City.
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions
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, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—New York: -24 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in New York cities. +48% recruitment.
—Connecticut: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Connecticut cities. +16% recruitment.
—New Jersey: -8 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in New Jersey cities. +16% recruitment.
—Boston: -7 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Boston. +14% recruitment.
—Philadelphia: -8 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in Philadelphia. +16% recruitment.
The Forty Acres Movement:
Factions and influence:
United Left: 14%
Jeffersonians: 12%
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!
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Sub-Groups:
The Defense Group: 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
-1659 militia (33 cadres)
—13 cadres part time, -13 funds per turn
—Militia groups elect their own leaders as well as delegates to the Defense Group Leadership, though currently make up a minority of the latter's leadership.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions. -1 fund per turn.
—Tactic training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
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.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in Atlanta: +2 actions
Tractor factory in a Louisiana Town: +2 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
A few rural mills: For cooperative use. +1 funds per turn.
Town Hemp Textile Factories (Louisiana): +2 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
The Southern American Credit Union: A credit union primarily for African Americans, non-profit oriented. +3 to financial actions, +4 auto progress per turn to the independent farms action.
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +5 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, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -4 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +2 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. -1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment.
New Orleans Soup Kitchen: -2 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
Trained For Bartering: -1 funds per turn, +2 per die for buying out farms and stockpiling guns.
Associates:
Several New Orleans unions, a few black belt unions
Modifiers:
Boll Weevil Infestation: +2 per die for buying out farms, -3% income. This modifier will increase over time.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
Factions and influence:
Socialist: 16%
Nonpolitical: 9%
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.
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.
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.
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: -4 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in Philadelphia. +8% 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:
—New York City: -5 funds per turn. +10% recruitment.
—Philadelphia: -3 funds per turn. +6% recruitment.
Church/Synagogue Charitable Aid:
—New York City: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
—Philadelphia: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
New York patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. -2 funds per turn.
—164 militia
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, and nearby small cities. Several in upstate New York.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
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.
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
8 (Republican) House representatives, 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
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Factions and influence:
Anarchists: 11%
Industrialists: 10%
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.
-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.
-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: +6 funds
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit: +3 funds
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards: +1 funds.
San Gabriel Valley Stores: +1 funds
Los Angeles Railcar Factory: +2 funds
The Pacific Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of Los Angeles, non-profit oriented. +3 to financial actions. You may go up to -5 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn.
Continuous Actions:
Mutual Aid Groups in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +2% recruitment
Mutual Aid Groups in Sacramento. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Sacramento. +2% recruitment
Mutual Aid Groups in San Fransisco. -2 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in San Fransisco. +4% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +5 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.
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.
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), some Chinese service workers
Modifiers:
Extremely Large Organization: This organization has begun to reach its limit with a high number of members compared to its supporter groups. -20% recruitment
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.
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, +20% recruitment.
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, several progressive Ohio representatives
Legislative Successes:
Ohio Women's Suffrage
NYC Labor Laws (54 hour workweek max for women but with overtime for men, some safety regulations) (-3% NYC popularity for SLP, +3% NYC popularity for TOJ-backed parties)
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 State Normal School student chapter (+2% recruitment)
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
Modifiers:
Self-defense trained members: +5 to the next militia roll, one use only.
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
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.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter: Very weak
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
The Universal Credit Union in (location name): A credit union for the workers of the Great Lakes region, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. +1 funds per turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: Bonus appears in '98.
Farm Toolmaking Factory (1 medium): +2 funds per turn
Furniture Factory (1 small): +2 funds per turn
Textile Factory (2 medium): +4 funds per turn
Machine Shop (1 large): +4 funds per turn
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.
Continuous Actions:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Mutual Aid Groups and Soup Kitchens:
-Illinois: -15 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Illinois cities. +30% recruitment.
-Milwaukee: -4 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in Milwaukee. +8% recruitment.
-Detroit: -4 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in Detroit. +8% recruitment.
-Cleveland: -5 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Cleveland. +10% recruitment. Christian-Reformist faction.
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.
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies
(Uranus because it's a fairly vague reference to the first and only issue of a periodical of the same name published in 1870 by Karl Friedrich Ulrichs)
The unjust treatment of people of various sexuality and gender identity. The term queer which has just come into use fairly recently has been adopted (before it could become a widespread slur) to use as an identifying term for the community as a whole.
Locale: New York
Supporters: Queer peoples regardless of skin colour or religion, supporters of queer rights
Ideology: Non-violent protestation though not unwilling to defend themselves if attacked, to help people understand themselves and express themselves and to learn more about various sexualities and genders (i.e. urning people, homophiles), equality for queer people
Property:
Basement of a gay bar used as a meeting place. +1 action.
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.
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.)
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
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.
Appalachian Brotherhood
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.
Locale: Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside
Supporters: Appalachian Folk of various stripes.
Ideology: From liberal parliamentarian democracy to anarchism the AB acts as a large-tent for anyone left of center that wants a free and equal Appalachia
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.
Members: The Society for Universal Suffrage, Forty Acres Movement, and Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance
Socialist Labor Party:
Colorado Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Colorado, -4 funds per turn.
New York City Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in New York City, -27 funds per turn.
Illinois Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Illinois, -38 funds per turn.
Colorado Populist Donation Drives: +5 funds per turn, lasts 3 years (until 1898)
Governor Waite: Due to his popularity, +5 to election rolls in Colorado.
Elected Officials:
Illinois: A majority in the house, a minority in the senate, and the governor.
Colorado: A majority in the house and senate, and the governor.
Louisiana: A minority in the house and small minority in the senate and a majority in the municipal New Orleans government.
How much would it take to start a "big brothers big sisters" mentorship program in the inner cities? Preferably something like looking for troubled youths and putting them in contact with a university student or university alumnus, or a member with some means in or to provide mentorship, access to a support network, access to contacts, and other stuff to help them out.
Also, would it be easier to set up a private security company to set up if the New American Patriots find and line up some contracts ahead of time?
How much would it take to start a "big brothers big sisters" mentorship program in the inner cities? Preferably something like looking for troubled youths and putting them in contact with a university student or university alumnus, or a member with some means in or to provide mentorship, access to a support network, access to contacts, and other stuff to help them out.
[] Set up an experimental "big brothers big sisters" 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. 6 funds, -3 per turn.
Major press in the US have begun advocating for war, declaring that it was the American duty to save American countries from European colonialism. Sympathy for the revolutionaries was widespread, and increased with the news of every atrocity by the Spanish.
...So, how about trying to hijack this, by promoting support other than sending in the army, which would just be asking for IMPERIALISM to happen. Turning that into a call for volunteers and donations to aid Cuba, without the strings that would get involved if the american military gets mobilized.
...So, how about trying to hijack this, by promoting support other than sending in the army, which would just be asking for IMPERIALISM to happen. Turning that into a call for volunteers and donations to aid Cuba, without the strings that would get involved if the american military gets mobilized.
Honestly was partly considering trying to redirect the calls of war and risk of imperialism, into less risky and extensive stuff such as trainers, gun shipments, and volunteer units like those americans that would fight in the Spanish civil war in the leadup of WW2...
Though honestly, my faction probably has the best possible offerings for the war, and may benefit from the experience. So, would it be possible or the minutemen to send some people to try and help using the skills they had been cultivating?
With the depression lifting, every faction has had their income begin to rise again as members find themselves with more money, though it has by no means ended yet. Additionally, soup kitchens have become less effective as recruitment tools as America returns to more standard employment levels, the average person in need of it now the "normal" homeless and needy who have less time and future money to put into an organization.
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.
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.
[] Illegally buy and smuggle weapons to the Cuban Revolutionaries. ? funds.
Although illegal, the cause of the Cubans is popular among all types of Americans and there are many who'd like to aid them. This action has a chance of being caught by the American government, throwing the funds away and casting suspicion on the organization.
[] 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 rail workers in the North-East organize and join the ARU. ? funds, 0/1000
[] Support Pennsylvania coal mine workers in the United Mine Workers by providing funds and organization assistance for their planned strike. 10 funds.
-[] Send extra funds for Illinois, Ohio, and West Virginia branches of the UMW to sympathy strike. 20 funds.
[] Send organizers to help factory workers form unions in Chicago. ? funds.
[] 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. 78/?
[] Go to the steel belt and begin unionizing factory workers there. ? funds. 0/?
[] With Seattles population boom, organize among the new workers to create ACUA aligned unions. ? funds. 0/100
[] Do a national campaign across all areas of the United Front advocating for industrial unionism and the ACUA over the AFL. ? funds.
Note this action will be less effective while the ACUA is still split into many small unions.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds. Current: 12
[] Call a general strike of all associated unions to demand better labor conditions as well as preferential union shop.
[] Make more credit unions in Colorado and other areas the ACUA has a presence in.
[] Call for the small associated unions in the ACUA to unify based on industry, and for new unions hereafter to merge with these.
-[] Make this a requirement for ACUA membership.
[] 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.
[] Form an inter-union mutual aid organization committee which will help forward mutual aid requests to nearby ACUA union members. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
Proposed by Debs, this is the first stage of union-based mutual aid, the prototype of which he has already implemented within the ARU.
[] Make a committee whose job is to advertise to associated unions recommending members also pay dues to the ACUA. 10 funds, -10 per turn
[] 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
[] Run a candidate for New York's mayor. ? funds.
[] Help the RFAA's counter campaign for an anarchist election in NYC. ? funds.
[] Run a candidate for Chicago's mayor. ? funds.
If you do one of these actions while SUS or RFAA does you'll just both be putting effort into winning the SLP election, not as a competition.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
47,476 supporters
5 actions, 109 funds
[] Give funds to the Sons of the Frontier to expand their operations to more states.
-[] Iowa, 5 funds
[] Meet with union representatives in Michigan to establish a working relationship where the LLRP asks them for opinions on policy and they support them, citing Gomper's endorsement of the party.
[] Set up a fundraising committee. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] 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)
[] Form a dedicated part of the organization for creating legislation to pass onto representatives and to act as party whip. 10 funds, -10 per turn, +1 policy action
Policy Actions:
[] Draft and pass bills reforming municipal tax codes, slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. 5 funds.
-[] Lobby progressive members of the other parties to pass your bill. ? funds.
This is a required add-on to any of the below policy actions, as the LLRP does not have majority control of the state legislature.
[] 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.
[] 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.
[] Draft and pass a state constitutional amendment to grant women's suffrage. 5 funds.
[] Draft and pass a series of bills to establish hunting regulations and logging regulations so that the practices are sustainable. 5 funds.
[] Do a survey of North Dakota land and then request that President McKinley utilize the Forest Reserve Act to set aside chosen lands into the public domain. 3 funds.
National (Policy):
-[] Lobby other members of the senate or house to agree with your position. ? funds.
[] Support a protective tariff to protect factories from foreign competition.
[] Vote against a tariff to keep prices low.
Note you only have to vote here to use the party whip; otherwise, your few house representatives will vote against the tariff.
[] Vote for the Anti-Trust Act
[] Vote against the Anti-Trust Act
Secretary of State Sherman has tried to use his influence in the senate to pass another anti-Trust act, citing Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil becoming increasingly large. The senate took his bill and modified it, making any "organization which seeks to restrict free trade" to be illegal. Notably it does not specifically restrict anticompetitive agreements or attempts to monopolize the market to raise prices, the two main passages of his original act. Many socialists have been viewing it as a "Anti-United Front Act", as tFAM, tFHM, and SUS could be considered in violation of it as much as any trust could be. Sherman himself has stopped supporting his own act, claiming it has been mangled into uselessness.
If you don't vote here, your representatives will mostly vote in favor of the act.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
238,000 supporters, 12 UF delegates
7 actions, 244 funds
[] 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 rail workers in the North-East organize and join the ARU. ? funds, 0/1000
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.
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region.
-[] Other Massachusetts cities, 20 funds, -10 per turn
-[] Vermont Cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] New Hampshire cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
-[] Pittsburgh, 10 funds, -5 per turn
-[] Other Pennsylvania cities, 12 funds, -6 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.
[] Link the Philadelphia mutual aid network with the SFAF's, allowing them to support each other when needed.
[] Merge the Philadelphia mutual aid network with SFAF's, running it together.
Voltairine de Cleyre supports doing one of the above actions as though it would benefit SFAF more, it would also connect with the local Jewish community she has been living with.
[] Give The Worker's Credit the autonomous ability to add more offices in new cities and towns as your organization grows, now that it's large enough to be self-sustaining.
[] 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.
[] 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. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] 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.
[] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department. ? funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
[] 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. If it has been too long, they may convince enough councils to use a small amount of RFAA resources for this themselves.
[] Do a concerted effort convincing members not to assassinate the president.
[] 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
[] Expand the communal housing buying houses, apartment buildings, etc.
-[] New York City, 45 funds, -4 per turn.
-[] Other New York, 60 funds, -6 per turn.
-[] Connecticut, 10 funds, -1 per turn.
-[] New Jersey, 20 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] Philadelphia, 25 funds, -3 per turn.
-[] Boston, 10 funds, -1 per turn.
You may use one action to do only up to 2 regions at the same time for the above action.
[] Do a test run of buying houses and other livable buildings in New York and using them as communal living. 10 funds, -2 per turn.
[] 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.
[] Run a candidate for New York's mayor. ? funds.
Highly controversial, many anarchists are against it, though others agree that they should work in solidarity with the United Front's goals.
[] Run a counter campaign in NYC for an anarchist election. ? funds.
-[] Spend an extra action on putting extra effort into this.
This campaign is to pressure people to form community and workplace assemblies which choose recallable delegates to a city council, which can then appoint a delegate when a task a mayor would normally do is needed.
Supported by the most radical anarchists, this proposal is certain to lead to some sort of crackdown as it would be effectively making an independent city government. The goal here isn't necessarily immediate revolution, but proving that more people will show up to anarchist democracy than bourgeoisie democracy.
[] 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.
The Forty Acres Movement:
281,386 supporters, 14 UF delegates
7 free actions, 1 Defense Group action
101 funds
Weaponry: 182/17 (for militia) or 182/2813
[] 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).
[] 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. 582/27293 progress, 1d20 per fund.
[] Make a fund dedicated to giving out zero interest loans to African Americans.
[] Increase the funds dedicated to paying fines put on African-Americans for arrests that could result in prison. ? funds per turn.
[] 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 an organizing group to have members in secret actively travel to sharecropping plantations and invite the workers there to the group. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Go to the black belt cities and help black workers unionize. ? funds. 78/1200
[] Set up a smuggling office in New Orleans for the Cuban revolutionaries. 5 funds, -2 per turn.
Improves the chance of success and efficacy of a success for all smuggling actions to Cuba as well as provides a passive bonus to them.
[] Lobby against the anti-vigilante law in Louisiana. ? funds.
Following the recent extreme violence in the state, the state has proposed a new law that would more strictly ban vigilante justice organizations. This would technically ban both the White League and FAM defenders, though they have no illusion who it would be enforced against more, and also lynching is murder which is already illegal.
[] Draft a set of proposals for reorganizing leadership structure.
If this is not done soon, membership (or leadership) may take it into their own hands.
[] 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
The Defense Group:
Note: The "buy guns" and militia training general actions may count as Defense Group actions.
[] Hire militia to work part time rather than on a volunteer basis. ? cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre (recommend training first/concurrently)
[] Establish a set of procedures for formally training militia to be able to do so faster. 5 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Try to send a few white members to find when meetings of the White League happen, and then send militia to break it up. ? cadres.
[] Try to force a confrontation during a standoff with the White League where you have the numerical advantage.
[] Form a committee for discussing strategy and training militia leadership in it. -2 funds per turn.
After the weak attempt at forcing a favorable confrontation with the White League, it is time to take those lessons and others they could take and train leadership in it to do better in the future.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
68,162 supporters
5 actions, 92 funds
Weaponry: 8/681
[] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across the Mid-Atlantic. 40 funds, +1 action.
[] Set up large scale soup kitchens out of the churches and synagogues in a city that you're associated with, open to all. .5 actions each.
-[] Baltimore, 2 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Newark, 1 fund, -1 per turn
[] Approach the most prominent American muslim, Alexander Russell Webb, and offer money to help him remake a mosque in NYC. 5 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Split off a department for managing and organizing the militia and their patrols. 10 funds, -3 funds per turn. Gives a military action group.
-[] (Socialist faction) Have it organized with elected leadership from the militia.
[] Begin doing research on NYC gangs, talking to people in the poorest ethnic neighborhoods which are the primary recruiting grounds. 3 funds.
[] Accept the RFAA's proposal for the mutual aid networks.
[] Campaign in the New York mayoral election in favor of the SLP candidate. ? funds.
[] Campaign in the New York mayoral election in favor of Teddy Roosevelt. ? funds.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
41,887 supporters
5 actions, 100 funds
[] Establish the "Technocratic Institute of Planning" in Cleveland, a university for future politicians, entrepreneurs, and managers that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology for each area of study. 50 funds, modifies your funds per turn.
-[] Give scholarships for those in the American Dream Program. -5 funds per turn.
[] Bribe and tip off the police in the North-East to areas the anarchists are "intimidating immigrants". 10/20/40 funds.
[] Organize among the United Mine Workers that had a successful arbitration by the APFA in '94 to suggest further arbitration and promises of safety reform without a strike. 5/15 funds.
[] Lobby representatives to vote against the anti-trust act. ? funds.
[] Lobby representatives to vote for the anti-trust act. ? funds.
Description of act in LLRP and UF sections. Your influenced representatives will do whichever you lobby for cheaply, but you can influence others as well.
[] Do a campaign glorifying war through art and manifestos, supporting the US entry into war with Spain over Cuba. ? funds.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
139,854 supporters
6 free actions, 1 Yellow Scarves action, 1 industrial action
118 funds
[] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. ? funds. 218/500
[] Expand the Pacific Credit Union to other west coast cities and towns you have a presence in. 5 funds.
[] Set up soup kitchens in California cities and associated towns. 4 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
Portland in particular has a large Japantown, and so it'll be primarily working with them to do the organizing.
[] Set up mutual aid groups in Seattle, Washington, Tacoma, Washington, and other nearby places. 3 funds, -1 per turn.
Seattle and Tacoma have recently been subject to anti-Chinese race riots, and the labor movement there is still heavily racist, making it more difficult to organize there.
[] Reach out to the Canadian Chinese community to see about starting a branch there.
[] Set up a welfare committee in charge of managing mutual aid set ups, soup kitchens, etc. 5 funds, -3 per turn. 1 action transfers from free to Welfare.
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.
[] Recruit/move in wealthy neighborhoods in San Fransisco as servants to serve as informants and potentially assassins.
[] 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, 50/2000
[] Store funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. Current: 13 funds (free action)
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.
[] Work with the west coast unions to buy out their (often near-bankrupt) factories. 10 funds.
Has a chance for them to just become cooperatives instead of joining the Factory Management Council.
The Orange Disciples:
75,624 supporters
5 actions, 141 funds
[] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across New York , Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. 40 funds, +1 action.
[] Lobby various politicians to support progressive laws in a state (choose one). ? funds.
-[] Ohio
-[] Pennsylvania
-[] New York
-[] Nationally
[] 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.
[] Support a charity low cost schooling program in Pittsburgh for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities. 5 funds, -2 funds per turn.
[] Support an adult-literacy program through associated churches for rural areas in Pennsylvania. 10 funds, -4 per turn.
[] Establish a Pennsylvania committee for campaigning for women's suffrage in the state. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish a New York committee for campaigning for women's suffrage in the state. 12 funds, -6 per turn.
[] Campaign for Teddy Roosevelt in NYC for mayor as the progressive candidate. ? funds.
The New American Patriots:
17,111 supporters
4 actions, 18 funds
[] 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.
[] Set up an experimental "big brothers big sisters" 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. 6 funds, -3 per turn.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
370,411 supporters, 19 UF delegates
8 actions, 136 funds
[] Send organizers to help women factory workers form unions in Chicago. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help form a teacher union for elementary and high schools in Chicago, especially focusing on women teachers. ? funds.
[] Send agitators to Chicago unions to try to convince them to accept women and minorities.
[] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region.
-[] Indianapolis, 4 funds, -2 per turn
-[] Other Wisconsin cities, 8 funds, -4 per turn
-[] Other Indiana cities, 16 funds, -8 per turn
-[] Other Michigan cities, 12 funds, -6 per turn
-[] Other Ohio cities, 16 funds, -8 per turn
-[] St. Louis, 12 funds, -6 per turn
-[] St. Paul, 4 funds, -2 per turn
You may do one action to do up for 2 regions of the above.
[] Build a new factory. 15/20/25 funds.
-[] Write in what kind and where
[] Modify your textile factories to work with hemp as well as cotton. 10 funds.
You'll use the FAM as your supplier, providing a market for their goods. 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
[] 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.
[] Reach out to farm workers in Illinois, offering cheap farm tools to any SUS member. (Reduces profits from farm tool factory to zero)
[] With advice from the RFAA and SPA, have anarchist members reach out to small farmers in the same way, which may appeal better than Marxist strategies.
[] Try to co-opt the prohibition movement (a popular idea among women) and its rhetoric to expand your base.
[] Set up experimental community gardens in places where you can buy across Chicago to serve as a free food supply as well as help support the soup kitchens. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Found new gay bars in Chicago as safe places for queer people. 9 funds.
[] Kick out the Cleveland branch for being reformist and revisionist, and make more regulations on joining the fast-growing organization to maintain ideological unity.
This will also give a new action to define what, exactly, is the guiding ideology of SUS.
[] Use members of the Cleveland branch to make contact with Toronto, whose budding socialist movement is also dominated by Christian socialists.
Note it will be possible to make contact with Canadian workers in a different way in the future, this just allows for earlier and faster.
[] Run a candidate for Chicago's mayor, 1897. ? funds.
Once won, if you keep winning the state I may not require you to campaign again in off-years unless there is a significant challenge.
[] Make a central management structure for coordinating mutual aid efforts. 5 funds, -5 per turn, +1 welfare action.
[] 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
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies:
20,323 supporters
4 actions, 14 funds
[] Find old and new gay bars in New York City and associate with them, forming a communication network for safe places.
[] Make some informational packets to spread around to inform people who and what queer people around. ? funds.
[] Make contacts with friendly doctors.
Many in the queer community experience distaste with their bodies, so it has been suggested that they do research into potentially changing their bodies.
[] Support local members in founding more gay bars in cities across New York which don't have any. 9 funds.
-[] Maintain ownership of these by the organization.
The Minutemen:
24,322 supporters
4 actions, 15 funds
[] 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 the Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities to establish clubs and programs. 5 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Try to smuggle members to be volunteers fighting alongside the Cuban revolutionaries. ? funds, 1 per 100. (Works best with trained militia)
[] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across the South, more in coastal states. 40 funds, +1 action.
[] Create a fund for establishing more mills and shops, coordinating with farmers who need them. 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Establish a system of mutual aid in which members can borrow tools or money from each other when needed. 6 funds, -3 per turn.
-[] Extend it to nonmembers. Additional 5 funds, -5 per turn.
[] Convince some members to stay in the Populists party structure instead of switching over to influence them further.
[] Accept Mary Lease's proposal.
Mary Elizabeth Lease, leader of the pro-fusion faction of the Populists, has offered a deal in which the two parties will run joint tickets in some states, one party endorsing the party with a clear majority such as Populists in Kansas or SLP in Illinois, and agreeing on candidates elsewhere. If the SPA accepts, they will help her try to convince the rest of the Populists against their leader Thomas E. Watson, who is anti-socialist. If accepted, the UF will vote on accepting the deal next turn.
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Form contacts in local government in Pittburgh and the surrounding countryside for encouraging local rule. 4 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Set up a committee for developing a list of unique Appalachian cultural expression and sharing it, such as music and art. 5 funds, -3 per turn.
[] Individually contact local branches of the United Mine Workers for their support.
United Front
26 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.
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 Illinois, as they do not have majority control of the state senate. Colorado's populist representatives have joined the SLP, so they do have a 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 Colorado
-[] In Illinois
Note: Colorado already has women's suffrage.
[] Draft and pass a less radical women's suffrage amendment in Illinois, appealing more to liberal progressives. 5 funds.
[] 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 Colorado
-[] In Illinois
[] 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 Colorado
-[] In Illinois
[] 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
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 Colorado
-[] In Illinois
[] Start actively reshuffling the state militia composition to be more politically reliable. 8 funds.
-[] In Colorado
-[] In Illinois
[] Draft and pass new policies in New Orleans which are pro-union and pro-civil rights, as well as restaffing to make it easier for black people to vote in the future. 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
[] Build up a proper electoral apparatus in states using local org members.
-[] Upper New York, 33 funds, 33 per turn
-[] California, 12 funds, 12 per turn
-[] Louisiana, 11 funds, 11 per turn
-[] Mississippi, 13 funds, 13 per turn
-[] Alabama, 15 funds, 15 per turn
-[] Wisconsin, 16 funds, 16 per turn
-[] North Carolina, 16 funds, 16 per turn
[] Campaign in the Chicago mayoral election. ? funds.
[] Campaign in the New York mayoral election. ? funds.
[] Lobby in Congress for other representatives to support your voting positions. ? funds.
Votes (free actions):
[] Write-in budget plan name.
[] Merge the UF credit unions into one nationwide one. Write-in name.
[] Do not merge the UF credit unions.
SLP House and Senate Representatives:
[] Refuse to sit in Congress, as that would mean participating in bourgeois democracy.
[] Participate in Congress so that they may guide it to their benefit.
Refusing to sit may make winning elections more difficult in the future.
[] Support a protective tariff to protect factories from foreign competition.
[] Vote against a tariff to keep prices low.
The former is generally supported by urban workers, while the latter is supported by agricultural workers and farmers.
[] Vote for the Anti-Trust Act
[] Vote against the Anti-Trust Act
Secretary of State Sherman has tried to use his influence in the senate to pass another anti-Trust act, citing Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil becoming increasingly large. The senate took his bill and modified it, making any "organization which seeks to restrict free trade" to be illegal. Notably it does not specifically restrict anticompetitive agreements or attempts to monopolize the market to raise prices, the two main passages of his original act. Many socialists have been viewing it as a "Anti-United Front Act", as tFAM, tFHM, and SUS could be considered in violation of it as much as any trust could be. Sherman himself has stopped supporting his own act, claiming it has been mangled into uselessness.
[X][TFAM] Plan: Springboard Action
-[X] 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).
-[X] 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. 28 funds. 582/27293 progress, 1d20 per fund.
-[X] Set up an organizing group to have members in secret actively travel to sharecropping plantations and invite the workers there to the group. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Establish a set of procedures for formally training militia to be able to do so faster. 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Draft a set of proposals for reorganizing leadership structure.
-[X] 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
-[X] Train militia. 18 cadres.
-[X] Hire militia to work part time rather than on a volunteer basis. 18 cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre (recommend training first/concurrently)
101 funds.
Used all of the funds we have to set up a lot of the new organization stuff we got, which will bite into out funds next turn, but will also serve to get a lot more people on board with the program. also nipping the leadership thing in the bud right now and getting even more actions is pretty important, along with regular training of militia to part time positions concurrent with actual training. Finally the smuggling office will help any future action related to the war I think as we'll have a pretty good place to send stuff from, and we might be able to let other organizations use it.
edit: Took the militia training action instead of smuggling.
