- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
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I'm agnostic on the question, and decline to take a position. Do what you think best.
The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
- Thread starter Physici
- Start date
- Alt. History
A Sign of Things to Come
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
A Sign of Things to Come:
(Jack Olsen POV)
Victory was always a hollow notion. But after this war, there was only bitterness in your mouth as you watched Edward speak to the cheering crowd. You had heard recently that things were going to be different now, and you had felt nothing more.
Art wasn't here right now to allow you to bounce your thoughts around, he was happy in North Dakota, and more than happy to stay out in the fields and the prairies with the other victory parties that were there. This was the party's greatest victory and a grand sign of things to come.
Yet all you could think about was the chaos. The death, at home and abroad. This war that, against every judgment you had, relented to signing off on. Easily swayed by not only the eager members of the party, that wanted to show patriotism, to convince the American people that their future, the future you dreamed of could be one that would fight for the nation. That would put the republic before the ideals of your party.
How wrong you were. All you could see in newspapers and headlines from all over the country was just… agony. Strikers, strikebreakers, federal troops, and impromptu militias.
Death. Death and more death.
That was all you could see now. You had allowed this to happen, in what little part you had to play in this grand tragedy. The United States was Victorious yes.
Victorious, and fragmented even more than it had been before.
He had stories of the Reconstruction from his father and Grandfather. How a defeated and fragmented foe was tried and brutally picked itself back together. How it was struggling to find some semblance of unity in the self-inflicted wounds that the nation allowed itself to inflict.
Some wounds wouldn't heal.
That would take a lifetime to heal.
But it seems even a generation was not enough to heal the nation or its wounds. That even in victory, the horror a nation inflicted upon itself was ever-present. A nation has gone mad.
A Government is too scared of its own people.
"Jack, you alright?" There was a voice, a nagging voice that you thought you could recognize. Perhaps it was your own guilty conscious speaking to you. But you turned to see Sammy, walking in and taking off his hat. "Need a drink?"
You waved your hand. "No, I'm…" There was a pause. You looked at the beer, but you shook your head. No, you needed a clear head. "I'm fine."
As much as the celebration kept the energy light, maybe you wanted to do more.
"You don't look fine?" He replied as he offered a hand. "Penny for your thought?"
You shook your head, and pushed his hand away, as much as you wanted to accept it. Only Art could read you well enough to understand what you were feeling. And he wasn't here right now. "Sorry Sammy, but I don't think you could understand."
There was a huff. "We can always send a Telegram to Art?" He knew you too well.
You let out a laugh. "Maybe."
But you looked at the cheering crowd and sighed. You had made your choices, and liked them or hated them…
Those choices would haunt you till the end of your days. You only hoped that you would get a chance to right some wrongs.
Or failing that, find something worthwhile to leave behind.
AN: I just wrote this for reasons, to follow up on roleplay dice.
(Jack Olsen POV)
Victory was always a hollow notion. But after this war, there was only bitterness in your mouth as you watched Edward speak to the cheering crowd. You had heard recently that things were going to be different now, and you had felt nothing more.
Art wasn't here right now to allow you to bounce your thoughts around, he was happy in North Dakota, and more than happy to stay out in the fields and the prairies with the other victory parties that were there. This was the party's greatest victory and a grand sign of things to come.
Yet all you could think about was the chaos. The death, at home and abroad. This war that, against every judgment you had, relented to signing off on. Easily swayed by not only the eager members of the party, that wanted to show patriotism, to convince the American people that their future, the future you dreamed of could be one that would fight for the nation. That would put the republic before the ideals of your party.
How wrong you were. All you could see in newspapers and headlines from all over the country was just… agony. Strikers, strikebreakers, federal troops, and impromptu militias.
Death. Death and more death.
That was all you could see now. You had allowed this to happen, in what little part you had to play in this grand tragedy. The United States was Victorious yes.
Victorious, and fragmented even more than it had been before.
He had stories of the Reconstruction from his father and Grandfather. How a defeated and fragmented foe was tried and brutally picked itself back together. How it was struggling to find some semblance of unity in the self-inflicted wounds that the nation allowed itself to inflict.
Some wounds wouldn't heal.
That would take a lifetime to heal.
But it seems even a generation was not enough to heal the nation or its wounds. That even in victory, the horror a nation inflicted upon itself was ever-present. A nation has gone mad.
A Government is too scared of its own people.
"Jack, you alright?" There was a voice, a nagging voice that you thought you could recognize. Perhaps it was your own guilty conscious speaking to you. But you turned to see Sammy, walking in and taking off his hat. "Need a drink?"
You waved your hand. "No, I'm…" There was a pause. You looked at the beer, but you shook your head. No, you needed a clear head. "I'm fine."
As much as the celebration kept the energy light, maybe you wanted to do more.
"You don't look fine?" He replied as he offered a hand. "Penny for your thought?"
You shook your head, and pushed his hand away, as much as you wanted to accept it. Only Art could read you well enough to understand what you were feeling. And he wasn't here right now. "Sorry Sammy, but I don't think you could understand."
There was a huff. "We can always send a Telegram to Art?" He knew you too well.
You let out a laugh. "Maybe."
But you looked at the cheering crowd and sighed. You had made your choices, and liked them or hated them…
Those choices would haunt you till the end of your days. You only hoped that you would get a chance to right some wrongs.
Or failing that, find something worthwhile to leave behind.
AN: I just wrote this for reasons, to follow up on roleplay dice.
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- United States
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- He/She/They
I like it, interesting. And canon ofc.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
I like rolling the dice sometimes to figure out what to really do next. It's really fun.
Even though it may make people mad when they see the actions I take.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Hey, I resemble that remark!Even though it may make people mad when they see the actions I take.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
I was talking about Cyber... But I like that.
it's always fun to stick to the Roleplay dice and have to live with those consequences.
Did a quick copy and edit of the rolls for 1989.
Got it from here btw: The American Experiment (Riot Quest) Alt. History
California SLP Electiom Total: 52
Colorado SLP Election Total: 84
ACUA Illinois Strike Total: 37
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 1 Total: 109
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 2 Total: 144
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 3 Total: 139
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 4 Total: 147
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 5 Total: 143
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 6 Total: 111
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 7 Total: 135
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 8 Total: 110
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 9 Total: 108
ACUA Seattle Unionization Total: 87
ACUA Vet Representatives Total: 84
ACUA Union Organizers Total: 49
ACUA Colorado Equal rights bil Total: 58
LLRP Donation Drives Total: 54
LLRP Michigan Elections Total: 62
LLRP North Dakota Elections Total: 63
LLRP Passing Bill Total: 39
RFAA Guns 1 Total: 94
RFAA Guns 2 Total: 119
RFAA Guns 3 Total: 113
RFAA Guns 4 Total: 74
RFAA Guns 5 Total: 136
RFAA Guns 6 Total: 147
RFAA Guns 7 Total: 115
RFAA Guns 8 Total: 109
RFAA Guns 9 Total: 110
RFAA Guns 10 Total: 20
RFAA Militia Total: 64
RFAA Nested Councils Total: 50
RFAA NYC Takeover Total: 55
RFAA Guards Over Meetings Total: 73
RFAA Separate Militia Structur Total: 53
RFAA Mutual Aid Organizers Total: 38
FAM Guns 1 Total: 136
FAM Guns 2 Total: 100
FAM Militia Total: 64
FAM Louisiana Election Total: 59
FAM Reorganize Total: 44
FAM Lobbying Total: 52
FAM Legislation Creators Total: 40
FAM Guard election Total: 62
FAM Militia Training Procedure Total: 53
FAM New Orleans Rights Total: 66
SFAF Guns 1 Total: 138
SFAF Guns 2 Total: 129
SFAF Guns 3 Total: 102
SFAF Guns 4 Total: 40
SFAF Militia Total: 72
SFAF Charitable Aid Total: 64
SFAF Buddhist Temple Total: 72
SFAF Reach out Total: 68
SFAF Expand patrols Total: 50
SFAF Newspaper Total: 88
APFA tech fund Total: 61
APFA endorsement Total: 58
APFA All-American Workers Alli Total: 83
APFA Glorify War Campaign Total: 62
APFA Glorify War Campaign 2 Total: 124
APFA Glorify War Campaign 3 Total: 88
APFA Glorify War Campaign 4 Total: 9
APFA Cuba Aid 1 Total: 127
APFA Cuba Aid 2 Total: 51
FHM Unionization Total: 16
FHM NYC Total: 55
FHM Rails 1 Total: 53
FHM Rails 2 Total: 116
FHM Rails 3 Total: 137
FHM Rails 4 Total: 104
FHM Rails 5 Total: 61
FHM Guns 1 Total: 119
FHM Guns 2 Total: 112
FHM Guns 3 Total: 102
FHM Guns 4 Total: 43
FHM Militia Total: 58
FHM transfer industries Total: 49
FHM victoria mutual aid Total: 48
FHM Portland mutual aid Total: 46
TOJ West Virginia Total: 33
TOJ Schooling Total: 46
TOJ rural literacy Total: 53
TOJ Progressive endorsements Total: 35
TOJ Anti-conspiracy 1 Total: 114
TOJ Anti-conspiracy 2 Total: 125
TOJ Anti-conspiracy 3 Total: 45
TOJ Anti-Violence 1 Total: 107
TOJ Anti-Violence 2 Total: 74
NAP agitators Total: 62
NAP into government Total: 61
NAP guns Total: 61
NAP student chapters Total: 66
SUS Illinois Election Total: 60
SUS Arms Factory Total: 61
SUS Industry transfer Total: 61
SUS Gay bars Total: 50
SUS Kick out Cleveland branch Total: 60
SUS Pennsylvania and NY Total: 37
SUS Against Strikebreaking Total: 74
SUS Daycare facilities Total: 39
SUS Deploy militia Total: 63
UGPQOA: Find bars Total: 44
UGPQOA: Info packets Total: 57
UGPQOA: Contact friendly docto Total: 48
UGPQOA: Found gay bars Total: 52
MIN: University connections Total: 79
MIN: Gun shop connections Total: 65
MIN: Send militia Total: 60
MIN: Send sympathetic militia Total: 67
SPA guns Total: 140
SPA militia Total: 53
SPA mutual aid Total: 63
SPA command system Total: 53
SPA polling places Total: 39
AB Cultural Festival Total: 70
AB UMW Total: 58
AB councils Total: 56
AB agitators Total: 122
ADP mutual aid Total: 79
ADP join RFAA Total: 51
UF Populist Deal Total: 59
UF Reorganize Mutual Aid Total: 66
Populist-SLP Counter Deal Total: 52
WL Convince Crowd Total: 54
FAM Planning: Total: 37
WL Planning: Total: 60
Regulars: Total: 59
Green: Total: 56
WL: Total: 60
Crowd: Total: 56
Regulars 2: Total: 43
Green 2: Total: 48
WL 2: Total: 59
Crowd 2: Total: 51
Crowd Reaction: Total: 58
Crowd Reaction 2: Total: 75
Regulars 3: Total: 58
Green 3: Total: 54
WL 3: Total: 57
Crowd 3: Total: 59
NCA Firebomb Total: 28
Got it from here btw: The American Experiment (Riot Quest) Alt. History
California SLP Electiom Total: 52
Colorado SLP Election Total: 84
ACUA Illinois Strike Total: 37
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 1 Total: 109
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 2 Total: 144
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 3 Total: 139
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 4 Total: 147
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 5 Total: 143
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 6 Total: 111
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 7 Total: 135
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 8 Total: 110
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization 9 Total: 108
ACUA Seattle Unionization Total: 87
ACUA Vet Representatives Total: 84
ACUA Union Organizers Total: 49
ACUA Colorado Equal rights bil Total: 58
LLRP Donation Drives Total: 54
LLRP Michigan Elections Total: 62
LLRP North Dakota Elections Total: 63
LLRP Passing Bill Total: 39
RFAA Guns 1 Total: 94
RFAA Guns 2 Total: 119
RFAA Guns 3 Total: 113
RFAA Guns 4 Total: 74
RFAA Guns 5 Total: 136
RFAA Guns 6 Total: 147
RFAA Guns 7 Total: 115
RFAA Guns 8 Total: 109
RFAA Guns 9 Total: 110
RFAA Guns 10 Total: 20
RFAA Militia Total: 64
RFAA Nested Councils Total: 50
RFAA NYC Takeover Total: 55
RFAA Guards Over Meetings Total: 73
RFAA Separate Militia Structur Total: 53
RFAA Mutual Aid Organizers Total: 38
FAM Guns 1 Total: 136
FAM Guns 2 Total: 100
FAM Militia Total: 64
FAM Louisiana Election Total: 59
FAM Reorganize Total: 44
FAM Lobbying Total: 52
FAM Legislation Creators Total: 40
FAM Guard election Total: 62
FAM Militia Training Procedure Total: 53
FAM New Orleans Rights Total: 66
SFAF Guns 1 Total: 138
SFAF Guns 2 Total: 129
SFAF Guns 3 Total: 102
SFAF Guns 4 Total: 40
SFAF Militia Total: 72
SFAF Charitable Aid Total: 64
SFAF Buddhist Temple Total: 72
SFAF Reach out Total: 68
SFAF Expand patrols Total: 50
SFAF Newspaper Total: 88
APFA tech fund Total: 61
APFA endorsement Total: 58
APFA All-American Workers Alli Total: 83
APFA Glorify War Campaign Total: 62
APFA Glorify War Campaign 2 Total: 124
APFA Glorify War Campaign 3 Total: 88
APFA Glorify War Campaign 4 Total: 9
APFA Cuba Aid 1 Total: 127
APFA Cuba Aid 2 Total: 51
FHM Unionization Total: 16
FHM NYC Total: 55
FHM Rails 1 Total: 53
FHM Rails 2 Total: 116
FHM Rails 3 Total: 137
FHM Rails 4 Total: 104
FHM Rails 5 Total: 61
FHM Guns 1 Total: 119
FHM Guns 2 Total: 112
FHM Guns 3 Total: 102
FHM Guns 4 Total: 43
FHM Militia Total: 58
FHM transfer industries Total: 49
FHM victoria mutual aid Total: 48
FHM Portland mutual aid Total: 46
TOJ West Virginia Total: 33
TOJ Schooling Total: 46
TOJ rural literacy Total: 53
TOJ Progressive endorsements Total: 35
TOJ Anti-conspiracy 1 Total: 114
TOJ Anti-conspiracy 2 Total: 125
TOJ Anti-conspiracy 3 Total: 45
TOJ Anti-Violence 1 Total: 107
TOJ Anti-Violence 2 Total: 74
NAP agitators Total: 62
NAP into government Total: 61
NAP guns Total: 61
NAP student chapters Total: 66
SUS Illinois Election Total: 60
SUS Arms Factory Total: 61
SUS Industry transfer Total: 61
SUS Gay bars Total: 50
SUS Kick out Cleveland branch Total: 60
SUS Pennsylvania and NY Total: 37
SUS Against Strikebreaking Total: 74
SUS Daycare facilities Total: 39
SUS Deploy militia Total: 63
UGPQOA: Find bars Total: 44
UGPQOA: Info packets Total: 57
UGPQOA: Contact friendly docto Total: 48
UGPQOA: Found gay bars Total: 52
MIN: University connections Total: 79
MIN: Gun shop connections Total: 65
MIN: Send militia Total: 60
MIN: Send sympathetic militia Total: 67
SPA guns Total: 140
SPA militia Total: 53
SPA mutual aid Total: 63
SPA command system Total: 53
SPA polling places Total: 39
AB Cultural Festival Total: 70
AB UMW Total: 58
AB councils Total: 56
AB agitators Total: 122
ADP mutual aid Total: 79
ADP join RFAA Total: 51
UF Populist Deal Total: 59
UF Reorganize Mutual Aid Total: 66
Populist-SLP Counter Deal Total: 52
WL Convince Crowd Total: 54
FAM Planning: Total: 37
WL Planning: Total: 60
Regulars: Total: 59
Green: Total: 56
WL: Total: 60
Crowd: Total: 56
Regulars 2: Total: 43
Green 2: Total: 48
WL 2: Total: 59
Crowd 2: Total: 51
Crowd Reaction: Total: 58
Crowd Reaction 2: Total: 75
Regulars 3: Total: 58
Green 3: Total: 54
WL 3: Total: 57
Crowd 3: Total: 59
NCA Firebomb Total: 28
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
Ho boy, here we go again.
The Minutemen Meeting
The Minutemen meeting
"Well, the war was one HELL of a disaster. What were the Republicans even thinking?"
"In hindsight, it seems they were blinded by the idea they could boast about owning 'colonies'. And then the Unions decided to get in the way, while providing an excuse for the rich to turn the war fervor against them."
"Well, You did volunteer for the stupid war."*Humph*
"We all were to some degree supportive of the war, because even with some suspicions, we didn't have the perspective to see what the Republicans did. Weren't you even one of the more vocal supporters? Besides, for better or worse, most of our participation were basically getting kicked out under protest."
"Pretty sure they would have broken out the lashes if it weren't for the tensions in camp. I mean, even with the Fervor that was exploited, none of the other soldiers signed up for this."*Sigh*
"Which is gonna be a big source of problems. We have a bunch of disillusioned volunteers whom are now pariahs, as people seek to blame someone for the events. They are as much victims as the strikebreakers were at this point, being villafied for the crime of not seeing through the lies of those whom are truely responsable of the war, with people refusing to admit they themselves were tricked when politicians hijacked the desire to help to channel the energy for their own selfish gains."
"Considering we have a bunch off disillusioned people who know how to fight, whom are now social pariahs. How bad could it get?"
"Well, pretty bad. Because they are likely to band together, which, while not inherently problematic. Does open the chance of someone possibly taking control of the group, and using them for his/her own ends, with one of the worse cases involving creating a criminal empire with the basis of soldier training."
"Would that really be possible?"
"They may have been patriots, but it's hard to say how they'd handle being vilified by the nation, even some of our members chose to look at the volunteers with suspicion."*Ahem*
"...Fair"
"Well, how can we proceed then?"
"Well, we need to reach out to the disillusioned volunteers before someone less scrupulous does. I mean, at minimum the White League would enjoy having some actual soldiers join their number. And find ways to fight the surge from the war, and redirect it to the Republican party, the one whom exploited everyone to fulfil their desires, putting themselves over the nation and it's principles."
"The arts might help. Albiet one that isn't exactly easy since by it's nature, since inspiration of the artist just happens. Offering Patronage to Artists among the soldiers might pay some dividends."
"We could agitate on their behalf. Possibly see if we can find something we could use to leverage a lawsuit on their behalf against the Government. Although we would need to contact some lawyers for that. While winning is unlikely, the key point is changing the narrative."
"Something which could be helped through other methods, such as newspapers, and talking with others, alongside speeches."
"Onto other matters. Considering how both the Main parties showed little care for the nation, the Democrats for their handling of the South, and the Republicans for their imperialist adventure, where should we go from here?"
A/N: Well. Here is an omake I written about the Minutemen reaction to the Spanish-American war.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Rolls are close enough, and with the WL coming out ahead more often than not, that it seems like you could use some positive modifiers. Did FAM get an omake this turn?Ho boy, here we go again.
nachtingale
20. On that "honk, mimimi" type beat everyday.
- Location
- Malaysia
- Pronouns
- He/They
ah piss, I did write a radicalization buff for the FAM this turn. Could I change it to an actual roll bonus for the FAM? @Physici
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
1899. Combining the split-up actions' results:
ACUA Steel Belt Unionization Total: 1,146
RFAA Guns Total: 1,037
FAM Guns Total: 236
SFAF Guns Total: 409
APFA Glorify War Campaign Total: 283
APFA Cuba Aid Total: 178
FHM Rails Total: 471
FHM Guns Total: 376
TOJ Anti-conspiracy Total: 284
TOJ Anti-Violence Total: 181
...The APFA is probably having a very not fun time with the way the war went...😅
Didn't notice/remember that they were doing a glorify war campaign this turn, which....
Likely won't do any favors with the undoubtably harsh backlash caused by the Republicans and that treaty ending the war...
Didn't notice/remember that they were doing a glorify war campaign this turn, which....
Likely won't do any favors with the undoubtably harsh backlash caused by the Republicans and that treaty ending the war...
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- Location
- California,USA
A problem that will be remedied I've been assured by the GM.
yknow how the TOD could contribute to helping people like the FAM without resulting to violence? Propagandize against hate groups, make sure they get the least amount of support. Opening up schools is good and all, but like..make sure that people are taught not only literacy but also critical thinking skills.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
No because I don't feel like rewriting it.
Huh? I only did it the once. Y'all are just going back and looking at the same rolls as before. I can't edit the names of rolls.
Nice, canon.
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- Lake Wobegon
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- He/Him/His
Question: what would this mean for Supporters Gather? Would that take place after both turns for the year, in the middle, or something else?
Other questions: would the UF get two semiannual budgets, or one annual budget as before? How many withdrawals per year from the Amalgamated Credit Union would members be permitted, two or one?
Other question: what would this mean for annual expenses?
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- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
After both turns. The increase would be halved but so would the decay.
Two semiannual. Two, but they'd still have to repay from the last half-year, so if you borrow both times it's equivalent to borrowing once over the course of the year.
Hmm. I guess I'd divide them in two. I use a spreadsheet so there's not really a reason not to use halves occasionally.
KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
We've been severely action-restricted, but this exact topic has in fact been discussed by the 2 of us who do most of the work for that faction, yes.
I mean, it's not like we've done nothing this whole time; one of our major victories has been Women's Suffrage in Ohio (thus far), along with some wins for workers' rights in NYC.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Seems there's been another set of rolls for the SPA's militia (Poor Man's Fighters) and the Minutemen vs the Red Shirts in the Wilmington Coup.
Though judging by how the last rolls are the PMF and Minutemen's retreat, it seems that the Dixiecrats won this one.
Wilmington is majority-African American at this time (pre-coup) BTW, so that promises to be very Not Fun for the residents.
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1898: Actions
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
During the war, McKinley also signed a number of unrelated bills. The Newlands Resolution, opposed by almost all the other parties to no avail, would annex Hawaii to the United States. Large groups of native Hawaiians would protest the action, but were ultimately ignored.
Congress also passed the Curtis Act, which would order the break-up of tribal governments in the Indian Territory by 1906 and their communal land would be sold. It also gave authority to the federal Dawes Commission to determine membership of tribes. Altogether it effectively erased the rest of the Indian Territory's autonomy.
Over in Minnesota, disputes between a group of natives called the Indian Pillagers and the government resulted in what would soon be called the last battle of the Indian Wars. The main issues were frequent arrests of tribal members for minor offenses such as sale or consumption of alcohol and logging companies exploiting their land, causing considerable resent. An Ojibwe tribal protester was arrested and then broken free, and when local army and state militia members came to look a battle broke out, both sides claiming the other shot first. Dozens of Americans were killed or wounded and the populace of the state flew into a panic, though when the circumstances were revealed it eventually died down.
As a result of a merger, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil owns 84% of American oil and pipelines. This was merely one example of what many considered to be a worrying consolidation of industries, and others were following, with Carnegie Steel and Federal Steel looking to acquire each other and gain a majority market share nationally. But despite calls from Secretary of State John Sherman, there was no political will to break up these trusts.
The midterms were this year, and as usual the Republicans lost seats in the house. They went from a majority of over a dozen to just 172 seats (with 179 being a majority). Despite the war there was little rally 'round the flag effect as other than the naval war it was not going well and most of the army was on American soil fighting Americans while the economy went into a shock.
Over in the Senate the Republicans still gained seats on average, losing one in Michigan but gaining 5 others from the Democrats as McKinley's popularity stayed high. This gave them 49 Senate seats, out of 85 as 5 states failed to elect this year due to divided legislatures.
The Populists maintained their Senate seats but lost House seats, continuing their slow decline as their left joined the SLP and their right joined the Democrats.
All-Continental Union Association:
The ACUA began with major unionization drives.
Union organizers: 49
They began by creating a dedicated branch of the organization for union organizers, allowing them to concentrate expertise and have many work full time. The Union Drive Committee would work across the clock this year to desperately increase union density while competing with the AFL and increasingly hostile and savvy business owners.
Seattle: 8d20 = 87 + 8 (union drive committee) - 8 (business fears) - 8 (NCA interference) + 5 (omake) = 84
Seattle unionization drives went very well, with the unions thoroughly entrenching themselves within the city even as it vastly grew. Hostile business owners and the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance resulted in several straight up fights, but in the end the unified unions were able to stand firm.
Steel belt unionizing: 105d20 = 1146 + 105 (union drive committee) - 105 (business fears) - 105 (NCA interference) = 1041, 1367/1100
Throughout Indiana, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania thousands of union workers went to the great steel factories of the industrial heart of the country. Through this massive effort they helped over a hundred thousand workers unionize, collectively preparing to collectively work for their rights. Many workplaces stayed without unions or declined to associate with the ACUA preferring instead APFA arbitration, but the balance of power was solidly tilting towards the socialists. Now they just had to use this power against the capitalists.
This would begin to see the steel-belt as a mew center of power for the ACUA, even as their other unions declined in other events this year.
SLP Party Structures: 55
As of previous years, the SLP was a very small and local political party largely built up by any local socialists. With the expansion of the United Front and its adoption of the SLP for the political sphere it has greatly expanded through the efforts of activists in the other organizations. As a result its own legislation party structures never really developed even as it began to win elections.
In a collaboration with the DeLeon (who sought to structure it as the Marxist industrial union supporting the party), the ACUA began to expand and integrate these under-grown party structures. While the SLP was still nominally independent, they were now very much integrated with the ACUA, though elected leaders were often affiliated with other UF organizations.
Colorado Equal Rights Bill: 58
With their majority in Colorado, the SLP drafted an equal rights states-wide amendment. Although the formerly Populist senators and representatives needed some convincing, the overall radical energy of the state was more than enough to get a 2/3 majority. The statewide referendum reached an easy majority as well, only leaving it to be implemented.
While Colorado already had women's suffrage, this amendment guaranteed more rights for women and minorities. It guaranteed public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, right to serve on a jury, and suffrage rights for all adults 21 years or older regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, as well as designating election day as a state holiday.
In the process this also racially integrated all government jobs including the militia, though the latter were still more populist than socialist.
Strikebreakers join the picketlines: 37
Organizers from the black belt went north alongside the strikebreakers, hoping to connect with them. They used examples of New Orleans and Pennsylvania as well as the mutual aid networks as another option for relief to try to convince them to join the pickets and unions once they arrive.
Most of those convinced and radicalized decided to take SUS up on their offer of other jobs, not taking up more mining jobs than there were. The remaining ones viewed this as their contribution to the war effort and the ACUA as traitors, almost proudly trying to walk past the picket lines. But these were a small number compared to the strikers, not significantly relieving the coal crisis America began to face.
Vet Representatives: 53 + 5 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 61
This year the ACUA worked to selectively pick candidates for the election. With the large Possibilist faction dominating SLP representatives, the party found it necessary to make sure they would adhere to a stronger party line. And so by vetting candidates on theory and only choosing explicitly Marxist candidates (a combination of Orthodox Marxists, Agrarian Marxists, and De Leonists) they could ensure the party wouldn't fall to reformism.
De Leon worked with the ACUA on this, determined to establish a solid party line even as they had to accept many kinds from the nature of the United Front. By election time he's noted that he believes they've succeeded in purging the Colorado branch of Populists, with old candidates moved out or having read theory and radicalized, with the exception of one Senator. He almost kicked out that senator too, only to be stopped by the democratic processes of the organization. This was helped by Governor Waite deciding to retire, leaving the governor position to the new candidate Nixon Elliot, who had been a major figure on the SLP side of the Populist merger. Still, the faction was still existent within the party, not having been formally purged, and was the faction most enthusiastic about actually working with representatives giving them a measure of influence there, and one Senator was openly part of that faction.
De Leon has begun talking to the leadership of the SLP about the 1900 election, as he believed that with the backlash against the government past the '98 election due to annexing colonies it will be the perfect opportunity to run candidates in a number more states and potentially win themselves, providing grounds for the ACUA to take direct control of American industry and beginning a revolution.
California SLP Election: 52 + 26 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 83
California, birthplace of the WCUA. It has come a long way in this time, and has finally returned to establish political power there. With collaboration with the Friends of Huddled Masses they ran a massive electoral campaign for the SLP hoping to establish a socialist government.
There was a great deal of opposition, with a Democratic Georgist (as the LLRP had little presence that far West) James Maguire and the Republican Henry Gage who ran on a platform supporting the war and opening up California as a center of trade and was supported by the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance.
The strike and negative effects on the economy it had also hurt the candidacy, with many viewing them as simply in the wrong and preferring either the less radical Maguire or the pro-war Gage.
In the end the SLP candidate Job Harriman won a plurality governorship off the backs of the Asian community and ACUA workers, both urban and rural, though in the legislature they were a minority. Federally they won 3 Representatives, but with such a divided legislature they sent no Senators. They also won the mayoral election for San Fransisco, the largest city and a stronghold of SLP power.
Colorado SLP Election: 84 + 11 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 100
In Colorado, the SLP once again swept their way to an overwhelming victory. Even with Governor Waite retiring, his endorsement of continued SLP leadership lead to his successor gaining some of that popularity for himself. They also had the propaganda win of being the only state not to have the strike put down by the army yet, even if it was only because they weren't that important.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
For the Spanish-American War, the LLRP was instrumental in coming up with the compromise that lead to war, the Hanna Amendment. For their membership, they only advised to use their best judgement on enlisting or not.
The LLRP began by setting up branch offices all across Michigan and the Dakotas, ensuring all parts of the party would have local bases. This would greatly help with organizing and committing to working across all these areas.
Loan guarantees: 39 - 15 (low funds) = 24
They also tried negotiating with other parties to pass a bill encouraging cooperatives through guaranteed loans. But neither party was interested in helping cooperatives, seeing them as inferior to private businesses. In fact during the election they would use even the attempt to try to rally businessmen against the LLRP and taint them with a socialist lens, to moderate success.
Donation Drives: 54 + 5 (fundraising committee) = 59
(+34% of income, 52 to Michigan, 9 to ND)
Donation drives this year went very well, well tens of thousands of people participating in the campaign. Once again business interests were not particularly interested, but the LLRP was getting better at grassroots campaigning and reaching out to the people.
Michigan Election: 62 + 5 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 72
In Michigan, the LLRP finally pushed through. With the SLP's stance against the war, the LLRP was the reasonable labor alternative, and with their successful policy wins last year they were able to secure a victory. Their main electoral base were the urban workers, but they also pulled off a strong showing in the resource industry and some farmers, with the rural Democrats being their largest opposition this year.
Their candidate for governor was Edward Johnson, a former journalist turned activist and spokesperson for the LLRP. As the governor of one of the largest states in the union he would be influential both in the party and in national politics as the "reasonable" left wing governor as he begun to enact policy and fill government positions with Georgists.
They would also win a small majority in the state legislatures, allowing them a path for more legislation there in the next few years. Federally they would win 8 House of Representative seats and their first Senate seat.
North Dakota Election: 63 + 34 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) + 5 (omake) = 107
In North Dakota, Robert Wilson lead the first LLRP campaign. A Dakota cowboy and rancher turned politician he appealed to the common man as a local who would work on Dakota issues, unlike those big parties from out East.
He ran an energetic campaign advocating for the Land Value Tax, which for most workers would almost eliminate taxes and for many small farmers would reduce it, putting most of the burden on land owners in the cities and on natural resources of which North Dakota had plenty. He overwhelmingly won across the state, with only small Democratic opposition among farmers.
But even with the one-sided result, the nature of the state senate meant that only half were voted in at a time, and as such the LLRP attained only a minority. Because of this North Dakota also didn't sent a Senator to Congress this year, the legislature divided between parties.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
The anarchists began by finally establishing a militia arm of the federation.
Militia structure: 53
The Community Defense Committees would have a unified command subject to council oversight. This would let them more easily go on the offense and have unified forces on the defense, something considered necessary both in a potential revolution and in the immediate sense of fast response and helping their comrades.
The counter proposal for this was to have local councils form their own militia units, popular due to lacking resemblance to an army. But this proposal was decided against due to the difficulties in large scale coordination it would cause, not wanting to have each community defend themselves and leave everyone else out.
They would be democratically run, with officers at all levels elected from those they commanded, and at the top would not be a general but a military council for coordination and overall strategy.
Guns: 109d20 = 1037
The North-East was long a center of civilian gun manufacture, especially Connecticut, a stronghold of RFAA sympathies. Through various subversive methods they managed to acquire guns and ammo without too much suspicion, though after the fighting of this year it was to be much harder.
Train militia: 64 + 8 (FAM trainers) = 72 * 109 (funds) = 7848
With the help of Spartacist trainers from the FAM, the anarchists finally began arming up. Over the course of the year they ran massive training sessions for thousands of eager anarchists across the North-East
Nested Councils: 50
This year the RFAA began formalizing their system of nested councils. While many viewed anarchism as chaos and disorder, anarchists themselves very much did not see it that way, instead viewing anarchism as cooperation without rulers.
Their developing method of organization was based on a series of federative councils, and the goal was to entirely replace the state with them. This would have local popular assemblies which would consist of a community or workplace of up to a couple thousand people which would use consensus and majority voting. This step was theoretical for now, with no area actually fully under anarchist control. Then these assemblies would elect delegates to the next layer (or rather for now the local RFAA members would form the next layer), community councils for NYC and other large cities which would handle local administration.
The next layer, which since popular assemblies didn't exist yet and community councils only applied to large cities was effectively the first layer for most of RFAA, was the collective council. These would handle the administration for an entire collective, which would be a large town, city, or rural area. These collectives would send delegates to a regional council which would replace the states in a more reasonable and fluid manner, for example the Greater New York region which consists of that entire metropolitan area.
Finally delegates would be chosen up onto a national council, which would set overall goals and negotiate with those outside the RFAA. At each step delegates could be recalled at any time and a new one sent.
Each council could appoint recallable commissions or committees for specific tasks, effectively having temporary executives.
Police Department: 55 + 5 (mutual aid networks) + 5 (omake) + 5 (replaced reactionaries) + 25 (funds) + 10 (allied mayor) = 105
With New York having recently expanded to absorb the nearby cities, so did its police, and thus the job of taking over the police department got that much harder. But with their previous efforts replacing many of the most reactionary police officers with anarchist ones and the help of the Red Mayor Morris Hillquit, it was eminently achievable.
It started with Hillquit announcing that he would continue the police reform of his predecessor Teddy Roosevelt, phrasing it in a way as a concession to the Republicans. With that precedent he was able to appoint a new commission for that purpose which would proceed to slowly fire or replace the police chiefs with anarchists.
On their end, the anarchists used their pull in the community to defame the police chiefs and any other enemy police officer, building up public support for the commission. Slowly, to where no capitalist even caught wind of it, the New York police were subverted.
With full control of it they could hire and fire as much as they wanted, transforming the police fully. The city saw a remarkable transition as no longer did the police act as police, protecting capital against all else. While they still had to keep up a facade, charges against the poor dropped and the rich and privileged found themselves a little less immune to prosecution for crimes, with rape cases the one crime whose prosecution actually went up this year.
When the Spanish-American war began, the RFAA called for all to stop the imperialist American war machine as they could while issuing a statement of support for the Cuban anarchist and socialist revolutionaries. When the state militia came in to stop the strike of the New York stevedores the now allied police intervened, pretending to arrest them when necessary to keep them out of the hands of the true enemy.
While the capitalists would doubtlessly guess what happened soon, for now the infiltration of the police proved to be a very powerful weapon.
Guards Over Meetings: 73
The Nationalist Citizens' Alliance kept interrupting council meetings, especially in New York, by breaking in or standing outside the room or building and loudly protesting. The RFAA knew they had to respond.
Every council meeting, from community councils to the national, the CDC organized armed guards. Trained and well armed they kept out the NCA, on one occasional actually having to shoot them. Luckily this was in NYC, and when the police came they dismissed all claims of fighting. After this the NCA in NYC seemed to stop growing so much, with their forceful efforts seemingly to be to no avail and the main anti-SLP blocks in New York discouraging violence.
Though there were some complaints that the constant guard made meetings feel less friendly to the community, who had previously felt welcome to join council meetings at all times. Ultimately almost every council felt it was worth the trade off, as the guards were for the community's protection as well, and if they had not done so the only other option would have been to hide their meetings.
Mutual Aid Organizers: 38
With the United Front's decision to hand over mutual aid organizing to the RFAA, they had to actually establish organizing groups to do so. Gathering from their own experience as well as absorbing the FHM's former welfare committee and SUS' former welfare management they established the Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare which would allow them to greatly expand their efforts. There was some difficulty at first with integrating the previously more centralized welfare management, but with their long history of working together it was not ultimately an issue.
The RFAA would also accept the Amigos del Pueblo's request to join the federation. They would be organized as a region under the federation, but due to sheet distance and the naturally decentralized structure of the RFAA would have great latitude in their own actions.
The Forty Acres Movement:
This year the Forty Acres Movement continued preparing for the constant backlash against themselves. In response to the Spanish-American War they out out a statement supporting Cuban independence, opposing the American aristocracy's attempt to turn Cuba into a colony, but needed all hands on deck to fight the White League.
Guns: 22d20 = 236 + 44 = 280
First they continued buying guns, now experienced with all the local gun dealers. But with ratcheting tensions they suspected it would get increasingly hard in the future, as most gun dealers did not align with them and were only recently realizing who they were selling to. Many members suggested a version of what SUS did this year and to begin making weaponry production in their towns.
Militia: 64 + 10 (training procedures) = 74 * 21 (funds) = 1554
They also trained more cadres of militia, increasing the size by more than 50%. The rampant expansion of the militia every year has seen it truly grow from its humble origins as a localized anti-lynching group to the strongest power of the south, with only the national army largely than it in size. But this would not come without consequences–the white man knew this was a threat to his place in society.
The militia would be renamed the Spartacists this year to mark the momentous growth. They were named after Spartacus, famed leader of a slave uprising against Rome, as that was how they saw themselves: fighting against this new industrial kind of wage-slavery against the new Rome, America.
Trainers: 53
With their massive size and experience, they took it upon themselves to send trainers to the rest of the United Front. While some white people would resent being taught by them, even those whites who had joined such radical organizations, this merely helped filter out such bad candidates for the burgeoning militia across the country.
Reorganize: 44
After great debate, the Forty Acres Movement decisively went with the United Left's proposal for reorganizing. They would divide their rural land into areas based on population and local conditions, each electing a representative. Towns people and city folk would form workers' councils when possible, or just out of neighborhoods when not, and all these representatives would form a Council Committee for the region. These regions would then send representatives to a Council Congress which would decide on committee appointments and overall decisions.
By creating a new system of governance that could replace the states, they hoped to free themselves from the boundaries the white man set for them. It was also the next step towards revolution, with many becoming disillusioned of electoral success. Even if they would prevent the new Louisiana constitution from being passed and would win the next election, the only other state in the black belt without harsh laws disenfranchising them was Georgia, and two states was hardly enough when the Democrats would control the rest.
The Spartacists were also reorganized even as they got their new name. They would be divided into companies, of which the company officer was elected and each company sends one member to high command, which would still be subordinate to the Council Congress. Thus the militia was gradually transforming into more of a real army even as it fought more and more.
New Orleans Policies: 66
In New Orleans, the municipal government passed a substantial number of new policies this year. They limited weekly working hours to 40 with overtime and no reduction in wages. They also established a city-wide union shop, allowing the Workingmen's Amalgamated Council of the city to for employers to not hire anyone outside their unions.
In terms of civil rights, they prohibited having separate facilities for white and black people, effectively providing a haven against the "separate but equal" ruling. They also restaffed and fixed much of the local voting infrastructure, making it easier for black people to vote.
These bills lead to massive protests from outside the city by rural white folk who were angry at the forced mixing. They were joined by protests from within the city, the racist and furious white minority who feared mixing with black people.
It was around this time that the army came in. Along with the rest of the railway unions the railway workers had been striking, and the federal injunction demanding that they stop had come in. The railway unions of the city, always the least radical and least participatory, took it as an excuse to stop striking and preserving themselves in the process.
But the white crowd outside saw the FAM militia give in to the army who they saw as their allies.
Constitution Lobbying: 52 + 26 (funds) + 5 (The Liberator's Advocate) + 2 (black belt newspapers) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 88
This year a new constitution was proposed in Louisiana. It would provide restrictions, especially against poor and black voters such as a poll tax, various voting restrictions, and a grandfather clause that those whose grandparents could vote would still be able to vote, effectively taking away the vote from the black population.
Through a combination of lobbying, allying with the Populists and Republicans in the legislature, and straight up bribing a few Democrat politicians with a verifiable fortune, they managed to prevent the ratification of the constitution, delaying the question. But no doubt it would come up again, with most of the rest of the south implementing similar measures in the past or planning on it soon.
Guard election: 62 + 5 (Strategy Committee) = 67
For the election, the Spartacists made sure to guard each and every election station. They kept armed guards outside, intimidating any who would throw out black votes or try to intimidate black people against voting. Luckily there were no attacks, with most of the rowdy group gathering just outside New Orleans.
Louisiana SLP Election: 59 + 12 + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 76
The Forty Acres Movement and SLP organizers put a huge effort into winning the stage election, mobilizing the whole state. Organizers went door to door, plantation to plantation, helping black and poor white people vote. They also put a substantial effort into denouncing both the Republicans and Populists, the former for proving that they did not care as they held the presidency and did nothing for themselves, and the latter for cooperating with Democrats in so many states.
In the end they barely eked out a win, achieving a majority in the house and large minority in the senate. There was no governor or federal Senator election this year, meaning the state militia and executive was still in the hands of the Democrats. They did elect 4 representatives to the House, a nice win for the national SLP.
Party Management Structures: 40
With the election won, the FAM began establishing party management structures. These would act as party whip for the legislature and create legislation, allowing them to pass more bills next year.
Just a few days after the election, the crowd outside New Orleans began rumbling about something else. A conspiracy of Jews and Catholics had intervened in the ratification of the new constitution and threatened and bribed their way to stop it.
The crowd was angry. Unlike the KKK of old the White League did not hide their identities, relying on protection by the Democratic government they supported and therefore didn't care to stop them, and thus did not have distinctive outfits. But over time it grew increasingly obvious that more and more of the crowd was well armed. Eventually they brought in rifles and machine guns, and that was when the defenders of the city began to suspect they would attack.
WL Convince Crowd: 54 - 5 (omake) = 49
Around half of the rest of the crowd went with the White League into the city, padding out their numbers with handguns, broken beer bottles, and other such poor weapons. But the WL came prepared, with more advanced weaponry like last time such as machine guns and rifles. Their goal seemed uncertain–to wipe out the voting records? To simply kill and loot?
The Forty Acres Movement was almost prepared, with most of their militia already inside the city having come from all across the south in anticipation. But most of them did not expect the White League to actually attack a large American city, seeing it as somehow a step too far. Sure the crowd would disperse, or maybe they'd attack somewhere else and the Spartacists would have to pursue. Still, they had established checkpoints and a perimeter just outside the city just for such an occasion.
The New Orleans police were nowhere to be found.
By the time they reached the Spartacist defenses the crowd still numbered over two thousand people, angrily rolling down the street. The Spartacists fired the first shot, certain that this was a force sent here to massacre them like they tried to that town.
The crowd slowed and grew into a panic. But the White League was well organized and their members shot back. Eventually the Spartacists had to retreat into the city.
Inside the city they had to be careful not to cause damage, but they still had the advantage of a home ground. After a couple hours of fighting the While League retreated, with almost a hundred Spartacists dead and many more of the crowd.
President McKinley finally responded to the growing violence. A major American city was attacked, and no one knew what would have happened if they succeeded.
He denounced the increasing violence, and his apologies that the army was busy at the time with the war and the strike. He announced an initiative to hire more African Americans in "positions of consequence" and suggested they volunteer for the army. He also met with Booker T Washington on the matter, a prominent African American activist, though nothing else came of that this year. By bettering their positions in American society they could erase the legacy of slavery. Fighting would only alienate those who should be their allies in this great country.
As for the White League, he said that they should disarm. In response to their concerns that the election was rigged he offered to send federal election observers to the state in 1900, who although they could not interfere, could see that nothing afoul happened.
And indeed, while neither the White League nor the Forty Acres Movement would look to disarm as McKinley wished, it seemed that the next year would be more peaceful as all parties began to catch their breath.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
This year the Society continued building up their militia. They were especially concerned with the increasing violence against Catholics due to the Spanish-American War being against a Catholic country.
Guns: 41d20 = 409
They began with stockpiling guns, ammunition, and various other equipment. With proper maintenance this stash could last them for years to come.
Militia: 72 * 25 (funds) = 1800
Immediately they made use of that weaponry to train and arm almost two thousand more militia. This represented a huge escalation from before, something they had in common with the rising militia across the country. They were anticipating more and more violence, and they had to have a response to that.
Expand Patrols: 50
With the rise in hate crimes against Jews and Catholics, the SFAF saw it necessary to expand their patrols to Philadelphia and other cities in the Mid-Atlantic area. Groups of dozens of men patrolled neighborhoods and intervened in assaults and gang attacks as they happened. But with their defense of minorities came increased resistance as they began to be targets themselves.
Newspaper: 88
The SFAF also began printing a national paper this year, The Daily Truths, and the next step in expanding their reach. This paper proved to be incredibly popular, even among those outside the organization. They actually had so many subscriptions that they were running it at less of a loss than expected, with readers from across the country.
Reach out: 68 + 5 (The Daily Truths) = 73
The SFAF also expanded their reach again, connecting with churches and synagogues in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland. While the big cities in these areas already had many supporters, the smaller cities not near those big cities were more isolated. These areas had slowly been attracting supporters and branches of the organization had been setting up, so it was a good time to begin getting more active there.
Buddhist temple: 72 + 1 (mutual aid groups) = 73
The SFAF also set up a Buddhist temple in cooperation with New York's Chinatown. It would be the first in America, allowing Buddhist residents to finally begin practicing again. It would be fully owned by the residents there, though the Society would continue to donate to keep it running.
The NYC cross-religion meetings continued to be more diverse as now Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists all came together to talk about religion. Nowhere else in the world did this many different groups come together for discussion without a harsh break, as while these meetings could get heated, they never truly began to split.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
With the war finally started, the APFA grew into a frenzy. Thousands of their members would volunteer for the war and others would glorify it through art and song.
Campaign Glorifying War: 30d20 = 283
With the Spanish-American War beginning, the Futurists made manifestos and all kinds of art on the glory of war. They emphasized the suffering of the Cuban people and how this was so similar to the Revolutionary War and Civil War. Like how France came to America's aid in time time of need against the British so would America come to Cuba's aid.
Part of this was attacking those who spoke our against the war. The cowardice of the Orange Disciples hiding behind the army as they did the real work. The traitorous SLP demanding their state militia refuse to fight. And worst of all the treasonous All-Continental Union Association sabotaging the war effort. Many futurists (though not all) began talking of the need to purge American society of these anti-war influences which were holding them back.
The other wing of the futurists focused more on the lies of the American government, how they annexed territories despite fighting for liberation. It was this imperialism that was the corruption in society, they claimed. Only by truly fighting for liberty can society advance into the future.
Aid to Cuba: 15d20 = 178
With the Spanish-American War coming to a close, Cuba was wrecked. The rural areas were depopulated and the cities were bombarded, leaving the hard work of rebuilding to be done. To aid in this the futurists sent a substantial amount of donations. Additionally, the owners of a major construction company were part of the APFA and offered their services to help rebuild, allowing Cuba to make good use of those donations.
All-American Workers' Alliance: 83 + 5 (Forwards Together!) = 88
With Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups forming and expanding across the nation, the APFA decided to form a counter group. The All-American Workers' Alliance would begin to grow in popularity all across the steel belt, displacing and fighting with the NCA as they did.
Rather than being anti-union, they were pro-local unions, though rather ambivalent on national level unions. Unions were a tool that could force bosses to take rational long term management strategies rather than purposelessly hurting the common worker. Specifically they wished to fight for racial integration and efficient working conditions, and the standard unsanitary, long hours, and dangerous work was counterproductive.
With most of the steel belt factories unionized by the ACUA, the AWA represented the rest of the factories' workforce. Wanting better conditions but also being pro-war and not willing to risk it all on whatever radical scheme the ACUA would come up with next, they were also well received by the public.
Futurist technology fund: 61
This year famous scientist Nikola Tesla came up with a proposal for the APFA to set up a futurist technology fund to invest in prospective scientists and engineers such as himself. Science was an expensive job, and only through great funding could they push the boundaries of science further. It was also a good look for the organization, truly a public service.
Endorse politicians: 58
With this election season coming up the futurists also endorsed several candidates, focusing on more progressive ones. With the expected midterm loss, they endorsed both Republican and Democrat candidates, with 7 making it into the House and 1 into the Senate.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Early on in the Spanish-American War, the naval war for the Philippines was uncertain. But the wake of the first battle provided an opportunity. The Friends had already spoken out against the war and demanded immediate independence for the colonies and had begun organizing aid for the Philippines in service to this. Additionally the Yellow Scarves were keeping tabs on the Asiatic Squadron through their spies in wealthy households, many of whom had insider information.
During the brief time the Asiatic Squadron was in California for repairs and the army was fighting with the striking dockworkers to get scabs in to repair it, Sun Yat-Sen snuck into the country. Meeting with those members in charge of the treasury and equipment saved up to help his rebellious efforts towards China, he requisitioned around half of it. The FHM leadership actually wasn't even informed until after the hasty plan's completion, with those he spoke with assuming it actually was part of the plan to aid the Philippines.
In any case, he took a civilian trade ship over to Asia, still registered as an American ship. There he met with Aguinaldo and the other exiled Filipino revolutionaries, offering to bring them and supplies to rejoin the ongoing revolution. With Spain distracted and the naval war going bad for them, the revolutionaries accepted and together with Sun Yat-Sen finished the Philippine Revolution.
Service Union drive: 3d20 = 16 - 3 (business fears) - 3 (NCA) = 10, 498/500
The Friends began this year by finishing their unionization drives. By now the vast majority of all poor Chinese workers were in unions associated by them as they began to reject the great American myth of the "self-made man". Americans had no interest in allowing Chinese workers to rise up in society, and only by working together and with their allies could they achieve liberation. It helped that the right wing of the organization, the Chinese businessmen, put up limited opposition to the union drives, seeing the advantage of solidarity against White America combined with their influential positions within TFHM.
Of course, that wasn't everyone. Some capitalists had well established systems of preventing unionization, tactics more sophisticated than "fire everyone and hope there's non-union workers to hire". And the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance would threaten to burn down businesses that had unions as well as union meeting places, in a couple cases actually following through, making people fear to join unions.
New York's Chinatown: 55 + 5 (The Friendly News) + 3 (The Valkyrie) + 5 (mutual aid networks) = 68
Over in New York City, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the Friends of Huddled Masses had been fighting for the hearts and minds of the Chinatown's community. The CCBA was older and more established and had the backing of local business, serving a semi-governmental role in the community and encouraging the community to become entrepreneurs.
The Friends of Huddled Masses tried a different tactic. They emphasized the dignity of labor, of establishing rights for all of them now rather than the hope of becoming one of the lucky few to become rich. They also had the advantage of bringing in anarchist councils into the area who organized mutual aid efforts with the residents who were typically very poor.
Mayor Hillquit helped as well, promising to clamp down on legal discrimination by the city. He specifically entered the community, at a time where it was seen as overpopulated den of opium, prostitution, and exoticized that no respectable white man would enter, and talked to the residents about their problems.
And with that, the CCBA's influence began to fade. While they wouldn't truly disappear for at least many years, the Chinatown much like the Italian and Jewish areas next to it became a more radical bed of discontent and a hopeful focus for the future tied to the SLP.
Prepare the rails: 40d20 = 471 + 50 (railcar factory) = 521, 1084/2000
The Yellow Scarves also continued covertly planting dynamite and tools by railways through the mountains. With this push of effort, they can now say that in the event it is needed they could cut off half the railways into the west coast should it be necessary.
Stockpile weaponry: 40d20 = 376
The Friends also began buying guns and ammo. This would be the first major armament of the Yellow Scarves as they grew to an organization whose size was capable of standing on equal ground rather than sticking in the shadows.
Train Militia: 58 + 8 (FAM trainers) = 66 * 20 (funds) = 1320
With these they embarked on a massive training campaign. With the help of African American trainers and established procedures the Yellow Scarves established a militia force over a thousand strong, practically an army for the west coast. This was representative of the Yellow Scarves increasing militance as they believed they were getting a chance to fix things for them–just not in a legal way.
Legal ownership: 49 + 5 (Factory Management Council) = 54
The Factory Management Council had to undergo some restructuring this year in order to avoid the new Anti-Trust Act, which could be used to break them up considering they owned industries in a number of fields.
Each factory, store, or lumberyard would split off and form its own cooperative. These cooperatives would have their own rules requiring workers to be part of the Friends, and they would still elect representatives to the Factory Management Council, but unlike before the FMC no longer had authority over them. They could still give suggestions, and did, but the coops were legally independent.
The coops could still be easily tied to TFHM the opposite direction through their election of representatives, though this wasn't something that should run afoul of the act.
California SLP Election: 52 + 26 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 83
With their joining of the United Front, TFHM had adopted the SLP as their political party. For the first time they actively campaigned for an election, completely mobilizing their base. As a largely California based organization they had the home advantage, though they also faced steep opposition with much of the white population deeply racist. Additionally the strike and opposition to the war was very unpopular at this time and they very much saw it connected to the SLP.
But through fliers, door to door campaigning, and helping people vote they managed to win a plurality of votes, competing with both the Democrats and Republicans equally. An openly pro-Asian governor was in office, and this provided many opportunities and legal protections for them.
Victoria mutual aid: 48 + 5 (welfare committee) = 53
Victoria already had a sizable Chinatown, and it was there that the Welfare Committee mainly organized. They also reached out to various other cities in British Columbia, establishing the first Canadian mutual aid networks.
Portland mutual aid: 46 + 5 (welfare committee) = 51
Over in Portland it was the Japanese sections of TFHM which pulled their weight, organizing the large Japantown in the city to establish a mutual aid network. They also reached out to other Oregon cities, slowly establishing the network among the Asian population.
The Orange Disciples:
The Orange Disciples took a principled stand against the Spanish-American War, being pacifist with no exceptions. They explicitly warned their members not to volunteer and instead advocated for humanitarian support both during and after the war as it was Cuban people who were hurt the most.
While these statements were taken by many to support the unpopular strike, The Orange Disciples made no official comments on it, though individual leaders were split as the strikes began as peaceful.
West Virginia churches: 33 + 5 (The Orange Post) = 38
As the Orange Disciples grew, so did their geographic support expand. In West Virginia their members began asking churches to associate with them and endorse their progressive message, emphasizing West Virginia's abolitionist heritage in splitting from Virginia.
And many churches did agree, their unionism showing through.
Schooling programs: 46
The Orange Disciples continued their charity schooling programs for African Americans, women, and other minorities. Across New York City and Philadelphia they expanded the programs, helping those who were left behind by the school system. With the expansion of these efforts also saw many of the recipients joining The Orange Disciples, having been convinced through their schooling of their cause.
With these efforts many in TOD have began suggesting they connect with ideologically allied southerners to do this type of program there. With the continued poverty of African Americans it was much more needed down south than north, even if the distance and lack of familiarity with the area might make things difficult.
Adult-literacy program: 53
Out in rural Pennsylvania they established an adult-literacy program through their associated churches. Many farmers and other rural folk had subpar education, so this was to help them get closer to the city-standard. The program went well enough, with plenty going due to the cheapness, though there was still an undercurrent of resentment of the "city elite" trying to teach them.
Endorsement: 35 + 5 (committee for universal suffrage) = 40
During the election, they created a list of progressive candidates to endorse both in primaries and the actual election. They focused on candidates who would support women's suffrage for now.
In New York women's suffrage has not been as big of an issue as in Ohio, and so finding candidates who will publicly support it has been more difficult. Additionally while the SLP didn't put a lot of effort into campaigning they still had enough votes for any which candidate, and so TOD decided to focus their efforts upstate.
In the end several of their candidates, both Democrat and Republican, won on the state level, making a progressive block in the legislature. Additionally 6 progressive House Representatives won, all Republican this year as that area voted heavily Republican.
Stamp out conspiracy: 27d20 = 284 + 5 (omake) = 289
With Roosevelt's recent loss in the NYC election, TOD put forth effort to stop conspiracy nonsense before it could begin. They went around this year debunking and discrediting any anti-Semitic conspiracies and anti-socialist screeds to stop from racketing up tension and divisiveness. And indeed this seemed to work, at least in New York itself, as no new civilian groups took it upon themselves to start violence as they did in other parts of the country. The Nationalist Citizens' Alliance did try to start a fight, but were quickly arrested and the semi-violent organization languished.
Defame WL: 20d20 = 181
(18.1% reduced recruitment for the White League)
They also made a massive public campaign opposing violence as a means and as an end. In particular they focused on the White League, denouncing their attacks and their violent disregard of American institutions. For this they spent the extra money to go south with their efforts, reaching out to white southerners to implore them to choose peace over ever escalating violence. The path the White League is on will result in nothing good for any man white or black.
The New American Patriots:
With the outbreak of the war, the New American Patriots were suspicious, as the Spanish had no reason to draw the US into the fight. Still, they organized a medical and aid organization which they planned to follow behind the US army to provide treatment for both the army and civilians. But with the army never landing in the Philippines and travel east being shut down by the strike, they never managed to get to any front.
They also tried to sell guns to the army, weapons that they gleefully accepted with their vast expansion. While these guns would never be used against the Spanish due to the army going to put down the strike instead, the NAP were able to use the profits to expand their factory. They also tried selling guns to the Minutemen's volunteers in Cuba, but with the lack of rail it was infeasible.
Agitators: 6d20 = 62 + 6 (recruiters seminar) = 68
(6.8% increase in recruitment for next turn)
Once again the NAP sent agitators to speak at colleges and universities. With their preparation last year the recruiters did a remarkable job in presenting their ideals to the students. They were gaining sizable memberships there, with many more students joining and staying in the NAP as they graduated.
Student chapters: 66
With the expansion in student membership came the establishment of several more student clubs, with just about every California university having one. They were beginning to become a normal of college life as their progressive and pro-business ideals appealed to the upcoming elites.
Spoils system: 61
With the SLP victory in the California election, there was little room from benefiting from the spoils system. The SLP was more focused on giving dedicated union and FHM members jobs, of which the New American Patriots were a far ways away from.
Stockpile guns: 5d20 = 61 + 10 (gun factory) + 5 (omake) = 76
With the lack of army movement, the NAP took the opportunity to keep a number of their production for themselves. With the increasing violence and instability across the country they wished to be prepared for when things finally came to a head. Additionally there were calls from within the organization to form a private security company, and gathering the weapons for it was a first step.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
SUS began the year with some organizational restructuring. They also contributed extra funds to the United Front, as the largest and thus most flush organization.
Industry transfer: 61
With the Anti-Trust Act passing last year threatening the break-up of SUS, they had to move their industry from being owned by the organization to owned by individuals. Specifically, all of them ended up being transferred to Walpurga Voight, the most prominent leader of the movement. While some decried this as putting too much power in a single person, no one could doubt her dedication to the cause, and it ensured that it could stay centralized. In addition Voight made a show of publicly not joining the German Language Federation, maintaining that she was beholden to no faction within SUS but SUS itself.
Kick-out Cleveland Branch: 60
While radical compared to most of the country, the Cleveland branch was committed to their specific brand of Christian socialism and reformism. Thus with the other reorganization of SUS going on it was decided that they must be removed from the organization and a new Cleveland branch formed out of the ideologically closer members there. In addition they would set up some regulations to joining, requiring that new members say they supported revolutionary socialism. Anything more would require actually defining what their ideology was.
The Cleveland branch was furious, storming out of the room when told. They immediately contested ownership of local infrastructure, winning in many cases, causing a great deal of struggle as the local Society struggled to re-establish themselves. They would go on to form the Christian Socialists of America Party and compete in the election this year, and though they would lose it they kept optimism for the future.
Pennsylvania and NYC Branches: 37 + 5(The Valkyrie) = 42
The United Front had long since been separately geographically, as each movement started in a different region of the country. But as they expanded it made more sense for them to help each other establish nationally, split apart by ideology, as there were certainly many non-anarchists in New York even as there were anarchists in the Midwest. Thus with the help of RFAA councils and locals of the language federations already set up, SUS established new branches in Pennsylvania and New York. With this expansion they would also look to continue expanding North, East, and South, becoming more of an ideological faction within the United Front rather than geographical.
Gun Factory: 61 + 5 (mutual aid) + 3 (ethnic socialist clubs) = 69
With a combination of their Machine Shop and discrete purchases, SUS began to set up a large armaments and munitions factory complex in Chicago. Employing hundreds of men and women they churned out guns, ammo, and various other tools at an astounding rate. All would be sold to SUS for use in equipping its members.
But this would not go unnoticed. Such a large endeavor attracted attention, and before long the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance was holding protests against it. Their reasons were confused and contradictory–sometimes in protest that they weren't selling to the US military (which had enough weapons anyhow), sometimes in a strict pacifist way. But mostly it was warning that SUS was arming and was to be treasonous against America. The government would notice too, though their actions wouldn't be noticed quite yet.
NCA Firebomb: 28
Into the waning days of the railroad strike, as Illinois was the last holdout, the NCA took action. Their protests increasingly focused on calling SUS treasonous and rebellious and their members were getting violent. One of their members marched right up to the armaments complex drunk and with a homemade bomb, shouting about the sinfulness and evil and treason of the socialists and the corruption of their women away from them. Then they threw it only to miss and have it land in a crowd of factory workers.
One brave young woman grabbed a metal plate which happened to be nearby and jumped on it. The small explosion was contained with only minor injuries to her and the crowd ran over to the perpetrator and caught him.
Soon the young woman, Lora Eichel, would be hailed as a hero due to her heroic stunt. The police would refuse to prosecute the man, who would soon be forgotten by history as anything other than propelling a new up and coming leader to fame.
Union jobs and housing: 74 + 2 (Black Belt Newspapers) = 76
With their previous expertise in their Domestic Abuse Support Committee, SUS was well connected to find new jobs and housing for the would-be strikebreakers. In the black belt they used local newspapers to advertise what they're looking for, and directed would be strikebreakers to go to found jobs and housing instead. As people got moved north they continued in contact, finding northern jobs and housing for them as well as for local minorities. With the huge amount of funds dedicated to this they managed to reach the scale of the businessmen, with most of the people the National Association of Manufacturers contacted never making it to the mines.
Deploy militia: 63
In Illinois they deployed the militia to "prevent violence between strikebreakers and strikers". While they wouldn't fight the national army, up until they moved in the militia would maintain the picket lines for both railway workers and miners, preventing the capitalists from moving anyone in. Often when leaving an area for the day they would "forget" some rifles, leaving the strikers remarkably well armed by the end of the year.
In Chicago the police went against directives from the mayor and tried to arrest several of the strikers, but backed down in a standoff with the militia.
Illinois SLP Election: 60 + 4 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 69
In the Illinois election the SLP scraped out a win even with the backlash, mostly due to SUS's large amount of money and effort spent campaigning for them. They finally won a small majority in the state senate, allowing them to more easily pass laws and appoint a federal Senator. They also won 15 House seats, one more than before, as their support continued to grow as people gained confidence in the SLP as a viable third party.
They also won many votes in Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New York, though not enough to win in any particular area. Local branches have begun to get frustrated at the hyper-focus on Illinois in elections and have begin agitating for SUS to spend effort in other states as well.
Gay bars: 50 + 5 (mutual aid) = 55
Ever since joining SUS, the Salon der Geschlechter continued to plan and organize. Finally this year they managed to convince the executive to fund the establishment of gay bars in cities all across the Great Lakes region. These would be safe havens for all queer people of the cities and serve as meeting places and areas of understanding as well.
Daycare facilities: 39 + 5 (mutual aid) + 3 (ethnic clubs) = 48
This year SUS also set up a daycare program where women could drop off their children at a daycare facility near the working district and then go to work. This program saw great use immediately, allowing more women to either begin working or spend more time working. This also had the beneficial effect for SUS that it meant more of their members could pay dues, as they could have a steady source of income.
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies:
This turn their bars started getting attacked by homophobes. No deaths, but their lacking security caused significant interruption, and the attackers were starting to get bolder over time. Still it was an uncoordinated effort, simply one more case of increasing violence nationally.
Find gay bars: 44
Uranus began this year by finding old and new gay bars in other New York cities such as Buffalo. With these they began establishing a communication network with the queer community for safe places.
Informational Packets: 2d20 = 23
(2.3% increase in recruitment for next turn)
They also starting making and spreading around informational packets to start informing people who and what queer people are. As an extra benefit this publicity resulted in more allies joining the organization, many of whom would go on to come out as queer.
Founding gay bars: 52
They also founded many more gay bars themselves across New York. With these, every urban area in the state had at least a few, allowing queer people to meet and connect.
Friendly doctors: 48
They also started making contact with friendly doctors. In particular they wished to know if it was possible for some sort of surgery for those who did not identify by the sex of their birth. While several doctors were theoretically willing, there simply wasn't the research there on how to do such surgeries yet.
The Minutemen:
The Minutemen began in their response to the war with a short statement published to their members.
"The war, as we all want is to free the people of Cuba chafing under Spanish rule. And yet, war by it's nature is chaotic, the politicians have the ear of wealthy businessmen, looking to secure their next elections. The military, for good or ill are likely led by the same Officer School Graduates as they would have in peacetime. While we might see little wrong adding more to the family that is the USA, who is to say if people would make sure if basic rights such as the right to vote for those whom decide policy would carry over? For these reasons, instead of advising people join the US army, we will seek other likeminded people to help build a pipeline for volunteers both within and outside the involved organizations to directly support the brave rebels fighting for their freedom. Fighting with the surety that we will be fielded to fight for a just cause and not redirected to bring war where there are not the oppressed that needs freed."
They also called for politicians to impose new legislation requiring that any new territorial acquisitions have votes for whether or not they'd be willing to join the US. This was largely ignored by politicians, too caught up in the war itself and the large backlash to it.
As for their volunteers, they did manage to make it to Cuba with a small force who brought their personal weapons and fought in the last battle, but nothing large enough to change the tides on their own. But they did connect with the Cuban army in the process.
Land-Grant Universities: 79
The Minutemen approached several Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities to establish clubs and programs. These would focus on both military science and preparing students for joining the army or a military school. These programs proved to be startlingly popular, with enthusiasm for the military high this year.
Even at the end of the year, when enthusiasm for the military died, the programs retained their popularity, though fewer students talked of wanting to join the military. Instead the old American tradition of militia and private groups was gaining popularity, to the benefit of the Minutemen who many wished to join.
Gun manufacturer connections: 65
Many in the Minutemen already had good relations with gun shops and even gun manufacturers, being hobbyists with many guns themselves. It was a simple matter to turn these connections into connections for the Minutemen as an association. Soon they would be able to easily buy in bulk guns and ammunition for all their needs.
Send militia south: 60
The two states in the South that looked to have the Democrats lose was Louisiana and North Carolina. With Louisiana already having thousands of FAM militia, the Minutemen decided to send their 240 militia over to North Carolina, as they'd make a bigger difference there. Besides, the issue in Louisiana was New Orleans, and no one thought the White League would be bold enough to try to take on a major city.
Send people to sympathetic militia: 67
This year they also sent people to various sympathetic militia across the country. In particular their concern was with the White League, Red Shirts, and other various post-Confederate militia, and so the militia they went to were the FAM Spartacists and the SPA's militia. They were present at the battle of New Orleans, encouraging them to keep all their militia nearby and staying there when the White League finally came.
Their positive experiences together, forged in the heat of battle, lead to talks of continued cooperation in the future.
Southern People's Alliance:
This year the SPA decided not to make much of a statement on the Spanish-American War, but instead to focus on preparing to fight the Red Shirts who, if the White League was any example, would attack them this year.
Tools mutual aid: 63
In both North Carolina and Tennessee, the SPA established a system for facilitating mutual aid. Mostly for independent farmers and coops, it would help them send requests to each other for either money or tool loans. Everything from raked to tractors could be leant, helping many not need to spend to buy everything at a time. They opened this up to all farmers, not just those within the SPA, with the hopes that by connecting with them they would decide to join on their own.
Weaponry: 12d20 = 140
The SPA bought vast amounts of guns and ammo this year to prepare and use to train their new militia. They found that their black members couldn't buy any guns, with local gun manufacturers bowing to Democrat business interests, if they weren't that themselves.
Militia: 53 + 8 (FAM Trainers) = 61 * 12 (funds) = 732
With the Forty Acres Movement nearby it was easy to cooperate on training up new militia, more than doubling their amount. In particular they had many black recruits from Wilmington who feared for their safety and wished to do something about it.
Command system: 53
With an expanding militia, they also established a formalized command system for the Poor Man Fighters. This would involve elected officers and other elected command, a version of that system which was a mainstay among American militias.
Guard Polling Places: 39 + 5 (omake) = 44
In North Carolina, the Populists and Republicans had frequently made electoral alliances in favor of black rights. With the Republicans having won the 1896 gubernatorial election, they had maintained voting rights for the black population. And although the United Front officially decided not to fuse with the Populists this year, the SPA was in favor of it, deciding that this year they would not split the ticket and would unofficially support the Populists.
The city of Wilmington was the largest in the state, with over 10,000 people, and was a relatively wealthy city for black people. They also had black officials elected locally, something rare anywhere else.
The past few years the Democrats responded to the Republican consolidation of power by focusing on racial issues. Populist leadership tried to fight this by claiming they were the true "white man's party", but backlash from the SPA and the lack of success made them backtrack.
Prominent businessmen of Wilmington formed the White Government Union allied with the White Laborer's Union (who opposed having to compete with black people for jobs). They were also incited by the local black newspaper saying that white women willingly had sex with black men, starting a huge white backlash claiming that black men were predatory.
In the weeks leading up to the election the Poor Man Fighters had to guard Manly's (the writer of the editorial) press and house as well. Hundreds of Red Shirts rallied with the Democrats against him and all black people, facing off with the militia in contests of intimidation. Emboldened by their protectors, Populists continued to speak in the city and fight in the court of public opinion against the Democrats, maintaining that many white people supported black rights and didn't fear them.
Joining the Red Shirts were the New Hanover County Horsemen and former Rough Riders, parading through the streets. With the increasingly tense city having repeated face offs, no-one quite was willing to shoot yet. But the Redshirts were getting increasingly bold, calling the Poor Man Fighters a foreign group that had no place in the city. Ironically, the Red Shirts themselves hailed from across the Atlantic South, a fact the SPA bitterly pointed out.
Reportedly, the White Government Union told the Red Shirts that they must win the election for the Democrats even if it took killing every black person in the city. They took it to heart, and on November 8th the city was divided in two. The black majority neighborhoods and white majority neighborhoods were controlled by their respective militia, guarding all entrances in and out. The Poor Man Fighters were joined by 240 Minutemen who had come when they heard of the imminent violence. Unlike the FAM they had the advantage of not needing to keep militia in other states, meaning they were at full strength.
But the white part of the city wasn't enough. The polling places were on the other side. The Red Shirts attacked through defensive lines, the first truly urban combat of what would be known as the Race Wars of the South. They mainly relied on their business backer's advanced weaponry including gatling guns and rifles along with their Rough Rider veterans for leadership, with the rest of the white population of the city not quite riled up. But they had been vastly recruiting these past few months, with thousands of members at this point.
They were, at first, firmly rebuffed. Urban fighting gave lots of cover for a defending force and they used it well, though neither the Poor Man Fighters nor the Minutemen were used to it. The Red Shirts took not an inch of space and the black neighborhoods were safe as the Poor Mans Fighters killed hundreds of them. The Minutemen at first failed to integrate themselves with the larger militia's defensive lines, getting little combat.
After a short quiet, a message came from the backside of the city. Horsed riders were riding in, shooting black houses and civilians on their way. Hundreds of Poor Mans Fighters retreated from the previous front lines to stop them, sure this was the pivotal moment of the fight.
But it was simply a traitor. There were no Red Shirts coming from behind. But it did exist, dozens of riders coming in from the front and breaking through the now empty lines. The PMF began to rout as their remaining forces desperately retreated as they were overwhelmed.
The one exception was the force of 240 Minutemen, who had stayed together and fortified a neighborhood. They repelled the incoming Redshirts and gave time for nearby PMFs to regroup.
But it wasn't enough with the rest of the city overwhelmed. Red Shirts rode throughout the city shooting into houses, stuffing ballot boxes, burning black businessmen, and assaulting black inhabitants.
The Minutemen pocket was surrounded and overwhelmed, with less than half making it out. All captured militiamen were summarily executed. The rest of the PMF retreated better, mostly dying to gunfire as they made a now orderly retreat rather than being captured. Along with a couple thousand black inhabitants they retreated to nearby swamps.
The city government was forced to resign at gunpoint and Waddell, a leader of the Red Shirts was immediately elected mayor. That election Wilmington overwhelmingly voted Democrat, a swing of over 10,000 votes, and Democrats won the statewide elections.
The number of militia killed exceeded 500, and black civilians another of that, making this the worst massacre America had faced in years.
The national response was mixed. Some northern black journalists such as Dancy and Bruce blamed Manly for inciting the whites and the Southern People's Alliance for bringing weapons into the mix. This opinion was also largely held by white people, with the exception of the vocal leftist United Front who blamed local businessmen and the Red Shirts totally. Many across the South actively portrayed the SPA as the aggressors and the Minutemen as carpetbaggers roleplaying as the union and that the violence was a rational defense of white honor.
Despite appeals from citizens, President McKinley refused to send aid without a request from the governor, who did not do so.
Locally, several thousand black people left the city permanently. The city itself was heavily scarred and destroyed. The former White Laborer's Union was dissolved, with the members disappointed that while there were new jobs from business's new refusal to hire black workers, they had poor conditions and poor pay, as those were the jobs black people had.
In the aftermath of the Race Riot of Wilmington, the Red Shirts went national. Joining forces with the White League they took the lead and formed a new national organization named the White Union Army to fight the "n*****, catholic, and anarchist threat". The WUA would be an open organization with public members and many business supporters from across the south, being very well funded. They were organized similar to the military, with several veterans instrumental to their founding.
Appalachian Brotherhood:
In response to the war the Appalachian Brotherhood spoke out against it and warned their members not to volunteer, having no interest in American or Spanish imperialism.
Contact councils: 56 + 5 (Appalachian Cultural Committee) + 5 (omake) = 66
They contacted Pittsburgh anarchist councils which have become increasingly important members of the community. They agreed to work together on cultural initiatives, as while they were anarchists they were also Appalachian. This cooperation actually resulted in more community councils forming as citizens wanted to get directly involved in the organizing of this popular nation forming project.
Contact UMW: 58
The United Mine Workers had unionized workplaces in Appalachia from Western Pennsylvania down south through Ohio and West Virginia. By contacting individual unions to get them and their communities involved the AB was able to get a solid core of membership throughout those areas.
Appalachian Cultural Festival: 70 + 10 (many funds) + 5 (Appalachian Cultural Committee) + 5 (councils) = 90
(30% increase in recruitment for next turn)
The Appalachian Cultural Festival this summer was a huge hit. Various types of entertainment, dancers, camping, handicrafts, foods, bonfires, competitions and more were held both in Pittsburgh and smaller celebrations more southwards.
It resulted in many more people looking to get involved as it was the biggest event of the year, going on even as the nation was in chaos from the war and strike. The Appalachian Brotherhood was quickly becoming a major player in the people's movement of Pittsburgh and even more southwards into West Virginia.
Agitators: 11d20 = 122
(12.2% increase in recruitment next turn)
They also continued sending their people out to Appalachian cities, reaching out to spread their voice.
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People):
The Amigos del Pueblo responded to the war with a call to aid. While denouncing American imperialism they sent small amounts of supplies and volunteers to Western Cuba, where anarchist elements dominated. They didn't break the stalemate before the armistice was called, but they did establish connections with the anarchists there.
They also bought an office in Del Rio to serve as a meeting room this year.
Mutual aid networks: 79
In Del Rio and other western Texas cities with large hispanic populations they began establishing mutual aid networks in the cities. These efforts went very well, with the local hispanic population impoverished by local conditions and radicalized by continued contact with Mexican revolutionaries and their suppression.
Join the RFAA: 51
Finally, the AdP requested to join the RFAA. While they were more communist than collectivist, they were all anarchists and the RFAA allowed a great level of local autonomy. So with their permission, the Amigos del Pueblo officially organized as councils, with the AdO as a whole a regional council that sent a few representatives to the national council but otherwise acting on their own affairs.
United Front:
SLP representatives voted against both the Newlands Resolution and Curtis Act this year to no avail, as both passed. With the Republicans losing their majority in the house, however, they hoped to have more success on stopping bills in the future.
This year the United Front delegates came to a vote. Last year the SPA and Populist Party worked out a potential deal between the Populists and SLP where they would run joint tickets in states, with whatever party was larger choosing a candidate. Additionally the plan was for William Jennings Bryan to run as vice president in a shared 1900 presidential ticket.
Discussion was furious, with a variety of opinions. The Forty Acres Movement was fine with the deal, only wanting a few modifications. The Populists must adopt support of protection of the rights of black Americans in their official program and remove any outspoken racists.
The ACUA, FHM, and SPA had a more stringent requirement. After consulting with De Leon, who railed on the meeting's floor about the inherent capitalism of the Populist Party and that their goal should be to break it apart and not work with it, they agreed that their primary goal should be to liquidate the populists and absorb their former radicalized members. "We must not forget that the Populists are our enemies in the fight for the working class," as De Leon put it.
So their proposal was the Populists must adopt the SLP platform in full and any elected would resign on request of the SLP. With the added vote of the SUS delegates, they had the majority.
Deal: 59
The populists firmly refused this modification. While their left was in favor, the party's leadership strongly disagreed with revolutionary socialism, and many didn't want to work with the SLP instead.
Counter-deal fallout: 52
There's not much fallout from the failed deal, mostly just staying status quo of the left wing wanting to side with the SLP, the right wing wanting to work with the Democrats, and the center trying to stay independent.
Reorganize mutual aid networks: 66
As part of centralizing and integrating the United Front, there have been some proposals to redo how the mutual aid networks are handled. Either mutual aid would be centralized into a United Front bureaucracy, or it would be transferred to the RFAA to handle it on a national level. The latter would continue the trend of the parts of the United Front going national and differing in their specific ideology or function.
UF level mutual aid would have been structured off of the FHM's welfare committee and SUS' welfare management expanded across the entire UF.
But after much discussion the UF delegates decided that instead they'd go with the other option. This was in recognition that most of the mutual aid was already managed by anarchists and was often just facilitating local connections rather than as charity, making a decentralized method more amenable to the actual participants.
RFAA managed mutual aid would be decentralized and managed by local anarchist councils in accordance to RFAA principles. All current and future mutual aid networks and typically other types of mutual aid were moved to RFAA councils, paid by and managed by. This was accompanied by a change in membership, especially between SUS and the RFAA, as activists could join the organization that they best felt support their goals rather than just whatever leftist was in the area.
As for the election itself, the SLP built up electoral apparatuses in California and Louisiana. They also campaigned using UF funds in Colorado, California, and Illinois.
Congress also passed the Curtis Act, which would order the break-up of tribal governments in the Indian Territory by 1906 and their communal land would be sold. It also gave authority to the federal Dawes Commission to determine membership of tribes. Altogether it effectively erased the rest of the Indian Territory's autonomy.
Over in Minnesota, disputes between a group of natives called the Indian Pillagers and the government resulted in what would soon be called the last battle of the Indian Wars. The main issues were frequent arrests of tribal members for minor offenses such as sale or consumption of alcohol and logging companies exploiting their land, causing considerable resent. An Ojibwe tribal protester was arrested and then broken free, and when local army and state militia members came to look a battle broke out, both sides claiming the other shot first. Dozens of Americans were killed or wounded and the populace of the state flew into a panic, though when the circumstances were revealed it eventually died down.
As a result of a merger, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil owns 84% of American oil and pipelines. This was merely one example of what many considered to be a worrying consolidation of industries, and others were following, with Carnegie Steel and Federal Steel looking to acquire each other and gain a majority market share nationally. But despite calls from Secretary of State John Sherman, there was no political will to break up these trusts.
The midterms were this year, and as usual the Republicans lost seats in the house. They went from a majority of over a dozen to just 172 seats (with 179 being a majority). Despite the war there was little rally 'round the flag effect as other than the naval war it was not going well and most of the army was on American soil fighting Americans while the economy went into a shock.
Over in the Senate the Republicans still gained seats on average, losing one in Michigan but gaining 5 others from the Democrats as McKinley's popularity stayed high. This gave them 49 Senate seats, out of 85 as 5 states failed to elect this year due to divided legislatures.
The Populists maintained their Senate seats but lost House seats, continuing their slow decline as their left joined the SLP and their right joined the Democrats.
All-Continental Union Association:
The ACUA began with major unionization drives.
Union organizers: 49
They began by creating a dedicated branch of the organization for union organizers, allowing them to concentrate expertise and have many work full time. The Union Drive Committee would work across the clock this year to desperately increase union density while competing with the AFL and increasingly hostile and savvy business owners.
Seattle: 8d20 = 87 + 8 (union drive committee) - 8 (business fears) - 8 (NCA interference) + 5 (omake) = 84
Seattle unionization drives went very well, with the unions thoroughly entrenching themselves within the city even as it vastly grew. Hostile business owners and the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance resulted in several straight up fights, but in the end the unified unions were able to stand firm.
Steel belt unionizing: 105d20 = 1146 + 105 (union drive committee) - 105 (business fears) - 105 (NCA interference) = 1041, 1367/1100
Throughout Indiana, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania thousands of union workers went to the great steel factories of the industrial heart of the country. Through this massive effort they helped over a hundred thousand workers unionize, collectively preparing to collectively work for their rights. Many workplaces stayed without unions or declined to associate with the ACUA preferring instead APFA arbitration, but the balance of power was solidly tilting towards the socialists. Now they just had to use this power against the capitalists.
This would begin to see the steel-belt as a mew center of power for the ACUA, even as their other unions declined in other events this year.
SLP Party Structures: 55
As of previous years, the SLP was a very small and local political party largely built up by any local socialists. With the expansion of the United Front and its adoption of the SLP for the political sphere it has greatly expanded through the efforts of activists in the other organizations. As a result its own legislation party structures never really developed even as it began to win elections.
In a collaboration with the DeLeon (who sought to structure it as the Marxist industrial union supporting the party), the ACUA began to expand and integrate these under-grown party structures. While the SLP was still nominally independent, they were now very much integrated with the ACUA, though elected leaders were often affiliated with other UF organizations.
Colorado Equal Rights Bill: 58
With their majority in Colorado, the SLP drafted an equal rights states-wide amendment. Although the formerly Populist senators and representatives needed some convincing, the overall radical energy of the state was more than enough to get a 2/3 majority. The statewide referendum reached an easy majority as well, only leaving it to be implemented.
While Colorado already had women's suffrage, this amendment guaranteed more rights for women and minorities. It guaranteed public accommodation, non-legal disability, wage, employment, right to serve on a jury, and suffrage rights for all adults 21 years or older regardless of race, color, sex, or creed, as well as designating election day as a state holiday.
In the process this also racially integrated all government jobs including the militia, though the latter were still more populist than socialist.
Strikebreakers join the picketlines: 37
Organizers from the black belt went north alongside the strikebreakers, hoping to connect with them. They used examples of New Orleans and Pennsylvania as well as the mutual aid networks as another option for relief to try to convince them to join the pickets and unions once they arrive.
Most of those convinced and radicalized decided to take SUS up on their offer of other jobs, not taking up more mining jobs than there were. The remaining ones viewed this as their contribution to the war effort and the ACUA as traitors, almost proudly trying to walk past the picket lines. But these were a small number compared to the strikers, not significantly relieving the coal crisis America began to face.
Vet Representatives: 53 + 5 (The Continental Worker) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 61
This year the ACUA worked to selectively pick candidates for the election. With the large Possibilist faction dominating SLP representatives, the party found it necessary to make sure they would adhere to a stronger party line. And so by vetting candidates on theory and only choosing explicitly Marxist candidates (a combination of Orthodox Marxists, Agrarian Marxists, and De Leonists) they could ensure the party wouldn't fall to reformism.
De Leon worked with the ACUA on this, determined to establish a solid party line even as they had to accept many kinds from the nature of the United Front. By election time he's noted that he believes they've succeeded in purging the Colorado branch of Populists, with old candidates moved out or having read theory and radicalized, with the exception of one Senator. He almost kicked out that senator too, only to be stopped by the democratic processes of the organization. This was helped by Governor Waite deciding to retire, leaving the governor position to the new candidate Nixon Elliot, who had been a major figure on the SLP side of the Populist merger. Still, the faction was still existent within the party, not having been formally purged, and was the faction most enthusiastic about actually working with representatives giving them a measure of influence there, and one Senator was openly part of that faction.
De Leon has begun talking to the leadership of the SLP about the 1900 election, as he believed that with the backlash against the government past the '98 election due to annexing colonies it will be the perfect opportunity to run candidates in a number more states and potentially win themselves, providing grounds for the ACUA to take direct control of American industry and beginning a revolution.
California SLP Election: 52 + 26 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 83
California, birthplace of the WCUA. It has come a long way in this time, and has finally returned to establish political power there. With collaboration with the Friends of Huddled Masses they ran a massive electoral campaign for the SLP hoping to establish a socialist government.
There was a great deal of opposition, with a Democratic Georgist (as the LLRP had little presence that far West) James Maguire and the Republican Henry Gage who ran on a platform supporting the war and opening up California as a center of trade and was supported by the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance.
The strike and negative effects on the economy it had also hurt the candidacy, with many viewing them as simply in the wrong and preferring either the less radical Maguire or the pro-war Gage.
In the end the SLP candidate Job Harriman won a plurality governorship off the backs of the Asian community and ACUA workers, both urban and rural, though in the legislature they were a minority. Federally they won 3 Representatives, but with such a divided legislature they sent no Senators. They also won the mayoral election for San Fransisco, the largest city and a stronghold of SLP power.
Colorado SLP Election: 84 + 11 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 100
In Colorado, the SLP once again swept their way to an overwhelming victory. Even with Governor Waite retiring, his endorsement of continued SLP leadership lead to his successor gaining some of that popularity for himself. They also had the propaganda win of being the only state not to have the strike put down by the army yet, even if it was only because they weren't that important.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
For the Spanish-American War, the LLRP was instrumental in coming up with the compromise that lead to war, the Hanna Amendment. For their membership, they only advised to use their best judgement on enlisting or not.
The LLRP began by setting up branch offices all across Michigan and the Dakotas, ensuring all parts of the party would have local bases. This would greatly help with organizing and committing to working across all these areas.
Loan guarantees: 39 - 15 (low funds) = 24
They also tried negotiating with other parties to pass a bill encouraging cooperatives through guaranteed loans. But neither party was interested in helping cooperatives, seeing them as inferior to private businesses. In fact during the election they would use even the attempt to try to rally businessmen against the LLRP and taint them with a socialist lens, to moderate success.
Donation Drives: 54 + 5 (fundraising committee) = 59
(+34% of income, 52 to Michigan, 9 to ND)
Donation drives this year went very well, well tens of thousands of people participating in the campaign. Once again business interests were not particularly interested, but the LLRP was getting better at grassroots campaigning and reaching out to the people.
Michigan Election: 62 + 5 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 72
In Michigan, the LLRP finally pushed through. With the SLP's stance against the war, the LLRP was the reasonable labor alternative, and with their successful policy wins last year they were able to secure a victory. Their main electoral base were the urban workers, but they also pulled off a strong showing in the resource industry and some farmers, with the rural Democrats being their largest opposition this year.
Their candidate for governor was Edward Johnson, a former journalist turned activist and spokesperson for the LLRP. As the governor of one of the largest states in the union he would be influential both in the party and in national politics as the "reasonable" left wing governor as he begun to enact policy and fill government positions with Georgists.
They would also win a small majority in the state legislatures, allowing them a path for more legislation there in the next few years. Federally they would win 8 House of Representative seats and their first Senate seat.
North Dakota Election: 63 + 34 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) + 5 (omake) = 107
In North Dakota, Robert Wilson lead the first LLRP campaign. A Dakota cowboy and rancher turned politician he appealed to the common man as a local who would work on Dakota issues, unlike those big parties from out East.
He ran an energetic campaign advocating for the Land Value Tax, which for most workers would almost eliminate taxes and for many small farmers would reduce it, putting most of the burden on land owners in the cities and on natural resources of which North Dakota had plenty. He overwhelmingly won across the state, with only small Democratic opposition among farmers.
But even with the one-sided result, the nature of the state senate meant that only half were voted in at a time, and as such the LLRP attained only a minority. Because of this North Dakota also didn't sent a Senator to Congress this year, the legislature divided between parties.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists:
The anarchists began by finally establishing a militia arm of the federation.
Militia structure: 53
The Community Defense Committees would have a unified command subject to council oversight. This would let them more easily go on the offense and have unified forces on the defense, something considered necessary both in a potential revolution and in the immediate sense of fast response and helping their comrades.
The counter proposal for this was to have local councils form their own militia units, popular due to lacking resemblance to an army. But this proposal was decided against due to the difficulties in large scale coordination it would cause, not wanting to have each community defend themselves and leave everyone else out.
They would be democratically run, with officers at all levels elected from those they commanded, and at the top would not be a general but a military council for coordination and overall strategy.
Guns: 109d20 = 1037
The North-East was long a center of civilian gun manufacture, especially Connecticut, a stronghold of RFAA sympathies. Through various subversive methods they managed to acquire guns and ammo without too much suspicion, though after the fighting of this year it was to be much harder.
Train militia: 64 + 8 (FAM trainers) = 72 * 109 (funds) = 7848
With the help of Spartacist trainers from the FAM, the anarchists finally began arming up. Over the course of the year they ran massive training sessions for thousands of eager anarchists across the North-East
Nested Councils: 50
This year the RFAA began formalizing their system of nested councils. While many viewed anarchism as chaos and disorder, anarchists themselves very much did not see it that way, instead viewing anarchism as cooperation without rulers.
Their developing method of organization was based on a series of federative councils, and the goal was to entirely replace the state with them. This would have local popular assemblies which would consist of a community or workplace of up to a couple thousand people which would use consensus and majority voting. This step was theoretical for now, with no area actually fully under anarchist control. Then these assemblies would elect delegates to the next layer (or rather for now the local RFAA members would form the next layer), community councils for NYC and other large cities which would handle local administration.
The next layer, which since popular assemblies didn't exist yet and community councils only applied to large cities was effectively the first layer for most of RFAA, was the collective council. These would handle the administration for an entire collective, which would be a large town, city, or rural area. These collectives would send delegates to a regional council which would replace the states in a more reasonable and fluid manner, for example the Greater New York region which consists of that entire metropolitan area.
Finally delegates would be chosen up onto a national council, which would set overall goals and negotiate with those outside the RFAA. At each step delegates could be recalled at any time and a new one sent.
Each council could appoint recallable commissions or committees for specific tasks, effectively having temporary executives.
Police Department: 55 + 5 (mutual aid networks) + 5 (omake) + 5 (replaced reactionaries) + 25 (funds) + 10 (allied mayor) = 105
With New York having recently expanded to absorb the nearby cities, so did its police, and thus the job of taking over the police department got that much harder. But with their previous efforts replacing many of the most reactionary police officers with anarchist ones and the help of the Red Mayor Morris Hillquit, it was eminently achievable.
It started with Hillquit announcing that he would continue the police reform of his predecessor Teddy Roosevelt, phrasing it in a way as a concession to the Republicans. With that precedent he was able to appoint a new commission for that purpose which would proceed to slowly fire or replace the police chiefs with anarchists.
On their end, the anarchists used their pull in the community to defame the police chiefs and any other enemy police officer, building up public support for the commission. Slowly, to where no capitalist even caught wind of it, the New York police were subverted.
With full control of it they could hire and fire as much as they wanted, transforming the police fully. The city saw a remarkable transition as no longer did the police act as police, protecting capital against all else. While they still had to keep up a facade, charges against the poor dropped and the rich and privileged found themselves a little less immune to prosecution for crimes, with rape cases the one crime whose prosecution actually went up this year.
When the Spanish-American war began, the RFAA called for all to stop the imperialist American war machine as they could while issuing a statement of support for the Cuban anarchist and socialist revolutionaries. When the state militia came in to stop the strike of the New York stevedores the now allied police intervened, pretending to arrest them when necessary to keep them out of the hands of the true enemy.
While the capitalists would doubtlessly guess what happened soon, for now the infiltration of the police proved to be a very powerful weapon.
Guards Over Meetings: 73
The Nationalist Citizens' Alliance kept interrupting council meetings, especially in New York, by breaking in or standing outside the room or building and loudly protesting. The RFAA knew they had to respond.
Every council meeting, from community councils to the national, the CDC organized armed guards. Trained and well armed they kept out the NCA, on one occasional actually having to shoot them. Luckily this was in NYC, and when the police came they dismissed all claims of fighting. After this the NCA in NYC seemed to stop growing so much, with their forceful efforts seemingly to be to no avail and the main anti-SLP blocks in New York discouraging violence.
Though there were some complaints that the constant guard made meetings feel less friendly to the community, who had previously felt welcome to join council meetings at all times. Ultimately almost every council felt it was worth the trade off, as the guards were for the community's protection as well, and if they had not done so the only other option would have been to hide their meetings.
Mutual Aid Organizers: 38
With the United Front's decision to hand over mutual aid organizing to the RFAA, they had to actually establish organizing groups to do so. Gathering from their own experience as well as absorbing the FHM's former welfare committee and SUS' former welfare management they established the Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare which would allow them to greatly expand their efforts. There was some difficulty at first with integrating the previously more centralized welfare management, but with their long history of working together it was not ultimately an issue.
The RFAA would also accept the Amigos del Pueblo's request to join the federation. They would be organized as a region under the federation, but due to sheet distance and the naturally decentralized structure of the RFAA would have great latitude in their own actions.
The Forty Acres Movement:
This year the Forty Acres Movement continued preparing for the constant backlash against themselves. In response to the Spanish-American War they out out a statement supporting Cuban independence, opposing the American aristocracy's attempt to turn Cuba into a colony, but needed all hands on deck to fight the White League.
Guns: 22d20 = 236 + 44 = 280
First they continued buying guns, now experienced with all the local gun dealers. But with ratcheting tensions they suspected it would get increasingly hard in the future, as most gun dealers did not align with them and were only recently realizing who they were selling to. Many members suggested a version of what SUS did this year and to begin making weaponry production in their towns.
Militia: 64 + 10 (training procedures) = 74 * 21 (funds) = 1554
They also trained more cadres of militia, increasing the size by more than 50%. The rampant expansion of the militia every year has seen it truly grow from its humble origins as a localized anti-lynching group to the strongest power of the south, with only the national army largely than it in size. But this would not come without consequences–the white man knew this was a threat to his place in society.
The militia would be renamed the Spartacists this year to mark the momentous growth. They were named after Spartacus, famed leader of a slave uprising against Rome, as that was how they saw themselves: fighting against this new industrial kind of wage-slavery against the new Rome, America.
Trainers: 53
With their massive size and experience, they took it upon themselves to send trainers to the rest of the United Front. While some white people would resent being taught by them, even those whites who had joined such radical organizations, this merely helped filter out such bad candidates for the burgeoning militia across the country.
Reorganize: 44
After great debate, the Forty Acres Movement decisively went with the United Left's proposal for reorganizing. They would divide their rural land into areas based on population and local conditions, each electing a representative. Towns people and city folk would form workers' councils when possible, or just out of neighborhoods when not, and all these representatives would form a Council Committee for the region. These regions would then send representatives to a Council Congress which would decide on committee appointments and overall decisions.
By creating a new system of governance that could replace the states, they hoped to free themselves from the boundaries the white man set for them. It was also the next step towards revolution, with many becoming disillusioned of electoral success. Even if they would prevent the new Louisiana constitution from being passed and would win the next election, the only other state in the black belt without harsh laws disenfranchising them was Georgia, and two states was hardly enough when the Democrats would control the rest.
The Spartacists were also reorganized even as they got their new name. They would be divided into companies, of which the company officer was elected and each company sends one member to high command, which would still be subordinate to the Council Congress. Thus the militia was gradually transforming into more of a real army even as it fought more and more.
New Orleans Policies: 66
In New Orleans, the municipal government passed a substantial number of new policies this year. They limited weekly working hours to 40 with overtime and no reduction in wages. They also established a city-wide union shop, allowing the Workingmen's Amalgamated Council of the city to for employers to not hire anyone outside their unions.
In terms of civil rights, they prohibited having separate facilities for white and black people, effectively providing a haven against the "separate but equal" ruling. They also restaffed and fixed much of the local voting infrastructure, making it easier for black people to vote.
These bills lead to massive protests from outside the city by rural white folk who were angry at the forced mixing. They were joined by protests from within the city, the racist and furious white minority who feared mixing with black people.
It was around this time that the army came in. Along with the rest of the railway unions the railway workers had been striking, and the federal injunction demanding that they stop had come in. The railway unions of the city, always the least radical and least participatory, took it as an excuse to stop striking and preserving themselves in the process.
But the white crowd outside saw the FAM militia give in to the army who they saw as their allies.
Constitution Lobbying: 52 + 26 (funds) + 5 (The Liberator's Advocate) + 2 (black belt newspapers) + 3 (The Valkyrie) = 88
This year a new constitution was proposed in Louisiana. It would provide restrictions, especially against poor and black voters such as a poll tax, various voting restrictions, and a grandfather clause that those whose grandparents could vote would still be able to vote, effectively taking away the vote from the black population.
Through a combination of lobbying, allying with the Populists and Republicans in the legislature, and straight up bribing a few Democrat politicians with a verifiable fortune, they managed to prevent the ratification of the constitution, delaying the question. But no doubt it would come up again, with most of the rest of the south implementing similar measures in the past or planning on it soon.
Guard election: 62 + 5 (Strategy Committee) = 67
For the election, the Spartacists made sure to guard each and every election station. They kept armed guards outside, intimidating any who would throw out black votes or try to intimidate black people against voting. Luckily there were no attacks, with most of the rowdy group gathering just outside New Orleans.
Louisiana SLP Election: 59 + 12 + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 76
The Forty Acres Movement and SLP organizers put a huge effort into winning the stage election, mobilizing the whole state. Organizers went door to door, plantation to plantation, helping black and poor white people vote. They also put a substantial effort into denouncing both the Republicans and Populists, the former for proving that they did not care as they held the presidency and did nothing for themselves, and the latter for cooperating with Democrats in so many states.
In the end they barely eked out a win, achieving a majority in the house and large minority in the senate. There was no governor or federal Senator election this year, meaning the state militia and executive was still in the hands of the Democrats. They did elect 4 representatives to the House, a nice win for the national SLP.
Party Management Structures: 40
With the election won, the FAM began establishing party management structures. These would act as party whip for the legislature and create legislation, allowing them to pass more bills next year.
Just a few days after the election, the crowd outside New Orleans began rumbling about something else. A conspiracy of Jews and Catholics had intervened in the ratification of the new constitution and threatened and bribed their way to stop it.
The crowd was angry. Unlike the KKK of old the White League did not hide their identities, relying on protection by the Democratic government they supported and therefore didn't care to stop them, and thus did not have distinctive outfits. But over time it grew increasingly obvious that more and more of the crowd was well armed. Eventually they brought in rifles and machine guns, and that was when the defenders of the city began to suspect they would attack.
WL Convince Crowd: 54 - 5 (omake) = 49
Around half of the rest of the crowd went with the White League into the city, padding out their numbers with handguns, broken beer bottles, and other such poor weapons. But the WL came prepared, with more advanced weaponry like last time such as machine guns and rifles. Their goal seemed uncertain–to wipe out the voting records? To simply kill and loot?
The Forty Acres Movement was almost prepared, with most of their militia already inside the city having come from all across the south in anticipation. But most of them did not expect the White League to actually attack a large American city, seeing it as somehow a step too far. Sure the crowd would disperse, or maybe they'd attack somewhere else and the Spartacists would have to pursue. Still, they had established checkpoints and a perimeter just outside the city just for such an occasion.
The New Orleans police were nowhere to be found.
By the time they reached the Spartacist defenses the crowd still numbered over two thousand people, angrily rolling down the street. The Spartacists fired the first shot, certain that this was a force sent here to massacre them like they tried to that town.
The crowd slowed and grew into a panic. But the White League was well organized and their members shot back. Eventually the Spartacists had to retreat into the city.
Inside the city they had to be careful not to cause damage, but they still had the advantage of a home ground. After a couple hours of fighting the While League retreated, with almost a hundred Spartacists dead and many more of the crowd.
Strengths:
FAM Total: 2690
Regulars: 1500
Green: 1190
WL Total: 2980
WL: 2000
Crowd: 980
FAM Planning: 37 + 5 (strategy committee) = 42
WL Planning: 60
Regulars: 59 - 2 (planning) + 10 (entrenched) = 67
Green: 56 - 2 (planning) - 5 (green) + 10 (entrenched) = 59
WL: 60 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 63
Crowd: 56 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) - 10 (untrained) - 8 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 36
89 FAM casualties, 95 WL casualties, defenses held
Crowd Reaction: 58, doesn't flee
Strengths:
FAM Total: 2601
Regulars: 1460
Green: 1141
WL Total: 2885
WL: 1985
Crowd: 900
Regulars: 43 - 2 (planning) + 10 (entrenched) = 51
Green: 48 - 2 (planning) - 5 (green) + 10 (entrenched) = 51
WL: 59 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 62
Crowd: 51 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) - 10 (untrained) - 8 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 31
88 FAM casualties, 78 WL casualties, battle moves into the city
Crowd Reaction: 75, Angry, keeps on fighting
Strengths:
FAM Total: 2513
Regulars: 1422
Green: 1091
WL Total: 2885
WL: 1945
Crowd: 862
Regulars: 58 - 2 (planning) + 5 (entrenched) = 61
Green: 54 - 2 (planning) - 5 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 52
WL: 57 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 60
Crowd: 59 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) - 10 (untrained) - 8 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 39
85 FAM casualties, 88 WL casualties, WL pushed out of city
Total: 262 FAM casualties, 96 WL casualties, 165 crowd casualties
FAM Total: 2690
Regulars: 1500
Green: 1190
WL Total: 2980
WL: 2000
Crowd: 980
FAM Planning: 37 + 5 (strategy committee) = 42
WL Planning: 60
Regulars: 59 - 2 (planning) + 10 (entrenched) = 67
Green: 56 - 2 (planning) - 5 (green) + 10 (entrenched) = 59
WL: 60 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 63
Crowd: 56 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) - 10 (untrained) - 8 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 36
89 FAM casualties, 95 WL casualties, defenses held
Crowd Reaction: 58, doesn't flee
Strengths:
FAM Total: 2601
Regulars: 1460
Green: 1141
WL Total: 2885
WL: 1985
Crowd: 900
Regulars: 43 - 2 (planning) + 10 (entrenched) = 51
Green: 48 - 2 (planning) - 5 (green) + 10 (entrenched) = 51
WL: 59 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 62
Crowd: 51 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) - 10 (untrained) - 8 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 31
88 FAM casualties, 78 WL casualties, battle moves into the city
Crowd Reaction: 75, Angry, keeps on fighting
Strengths:
FAM Total: 2513
Regulars: 1422
Green: 1091
WL Total: 2885
WL: 1945
Crowd: 862
Regulars: 58 - 2 (planning) + 5 (entrenched) = 61
Green: 54 - 2 (planning) - 5 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 52
WL: 57 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 60
Crowd: 59 + 2 (planning) + 1 (size) - 10 (untrained) - 8 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 39
85 FAM casualties, 88 WL casualties, WL pushed out of city
Total: 262 FAM casualties, 96 WL casualties, 165 crowd casualties
President McKinley finally responded to the growing violence. A major American city was attacked, and no one knew what would have happened if they succeeded.
He denounced the increasing violence, and his apologies that the army was busy at the time with the war and the strike. He announced an initiative to hire more African Americans in "positions of consequence" and suggested they volunteer for the army. He also met with Booker T Washington on the matter, a prominent African American activist, though nothing else came of that this year. By bettering their positions in American society they could erase the legacy of slavery. Fighting would only alienate those who should be their allies in this great country.
As for the White League, he said that they should disarm. In response to their concerns that the election was rigged he offered to send federal election observers to the state in 1900, who although they could not interfere, could see that nothing afoul happened.
And indeed, while neither the White League nor the Forty Acres Movement would look to disarm as McKinley wished, it seemed that the next year would be more peaceful as all parties began to catch their breath.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
This year the Society continued building up their militia. They were especially concerned with the increasing violence against Catholics due to the Spanish-American War being against a Catholic country.
Guns: 41d20 = 409
They began with stockpiling guns, ammunition, and various other equipment. With proper maintenance this stash could last them for years to come.
Militia: 72 * 25 (funds) = 1800
Immediately they made use of that weaponry to train and arm almost two thousand more militia. This represented a huge escalation from before, something they had in common with the rising militia across the country. They were anticipating more and more violence, and they had to have a response to that.
Expand Patrols: 50
With the rise in hate crimes against Jews and Catholics, the SFAF saw it necessary to expand their patrols to Philadelphia and other cities in the Mid-Atlantic area. Groups of dozens of men patrolled neighborhoods and intervened in assaults and gang attacks as they happened. But with their defense of minorities came increased resistance as they began to be targets themselves.
Newspaper: 88
The SFAF also began printing a national paper this year, The Daily Truths, and the next step in expanding their reach. This paper proved to be incredibly popular, even among those outside the organization. They actually had so many subscriptions that they were running it at less of a loss than expected, with readers from across the country.
Reach out: 68 + 5 (The Daily Truths) = 73
The SFAF also expanded their reach again, connecting with churches and synagogues in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland. While the big cities in these areas already had many supporters, the smaller cities not near those big cities were more isolated. These areas had slowly been attracting supporters and branches of the organization had been setting up, so it was a good time to begin getting more active there.
Buddhist temple: 72 + 1 (mutual aid groups) = 73
The SFAF also set up a Buddhist temple in cooperation with New York's Chinatown. It would be the first in America, allowing Buddhist residents to finally begin practicing again. It would be fully owned by the residents there, though the Society would continue to donate to keep it running.
The NYC cross-religion meetings continued to be more diverse as now Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists all came together to talk about religion. Nowhere else in the world did this many different groups come together for discussion without a harsh break, as while these meetings could get heated, they never truly began to split.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
With the war finally started, the APFA grew into a frenzy. Thousands of their members would volunteer for the war and others would glorify it through art and song.
Campaign Glorifying War: 30d20 = 283
With the Spanish-American War beginning, the Futurists made manifestos and all kinds of art on the glory of war. They emphasized the suffering of the Cuban people and how this was so similar to the Revolutionary War and Civil War. Like how France came to America's aid in time time of need against the British so would America come to Cuba's aid.
Part of this was attacking those who spoke our against the war. The cowardice of the Orange Disciples hiding behind the army as they did the real work. The traitorous SLP demanding their state militia refuse to fight. And worst of all the treasonous All-Continental Union Association sabotaging the war effort. Many futurists (though not all) began talking of the need to purge American society of these anti-war influences which were holding them back.
The other wing of the futurists focused more on the lies of the American government, how they annexed territories despite fighting for liberation. It was this imperialism that was the corruption in society, they claimed. Only by truly fighting for liberty can society advance into the future.
Aid to Cuba: 15d20 = 178
With the Spanish-American War coming to a close, Cuba was wrecked. The rural areas were depopulated and the cities were bombarded, leaving the hard work of rebuilding to be done. To aid in this the futurists sent a substantial amount of donations. Additionally, the owners of a major construction company were part of the APFA and offered their services to help rebuild, allowing Cuba to make good use of those donations.
All-American Workers' Alliance: 83 + 5 (Forwards Together!) = 88
With Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups forming and expanding across the nation, the APFA decided to form a counter group. The All-American Workers' Alliance would begin to grow in popularity all across the steel belt, displacing and fighting with the NCA as they did.
Rather than being anti-union, they were pro-local unions, though rather ambivalent on national level unions. Unions were a tool that could force bosses to take rational long term management strategies rather than purposelessly hurting the common worker. Specifically they wished to fight for racial integration and efficient working conditions, and the standard unsanitary, long hours, and dangerous work was counterproductive.
With most of the steel belt factories unionized by the ACUA, the AWA represented the rest of the factories' workforce. Wanting better conditions but also being pro-war and not willing to risk it all on whatever radical scheme the ACUA would come up with next, they were also well received by the public.
Futurist technology fund: 61
This year famous scientist Nikola Tesla came up with a proposal for the APFA to set up a futurist technology fund to invest in prospective scientists and engineers such as himself. Science was an expensive job, and only through great funding could they push the boundaries of science further. It was also a good look for the organization, truly a public service.
Endorse politicians: 58
With this election season coming up the futurists also endorsed several candidates, focusing on more progressive ones. With the expected midterm loss, they endorsed both Republican and Democrat candidates, with 7 making it into the House and 1 into the Senate.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Early on in the Spanish-American War, the naval war for the Philippines was uncertain. But the wake of the first battle provided an opportunity. The Friends had already spoken out against the war and demanded immediate independence for the colonies and had begun organizing aid for the Philippines in service to this. Additionally the Yellow Scarves were keeping tabs on the Asiatic Squadron through their spies in wealthy households, many of whom had insider information.
During the brief time the Asiatic Squadron was in California for repairs and the army was fighting with the striking dockworkers to get scabs in to repair it, Sun Yat-Sen snuck into the country. Meeting with those members in charge of the treasury and equipment saved up to help his rebellious efforts towards China, he requisitioned around half of it. The FHM leadership actually wasn't even informed until after the hasty plan's completion, with those he spoke with assuming it actually was part of the plan to aid the Philippines.
In any case, he took a civilian trade ship over to Asia, still registered as an American ship. There he met with Aguinaldo and the other exiled Filipino revolutionaries, offering to bring them and supplies to rejoin the ongoing revolution. With Spain distracted and the naval war going bad for them, the revolutionaries accepted and together with Sun Yat-Sen finished the Philippine Revolution.
Service Union drive: 3d20 = 16 - 3 (business fears) - 3 (NCA) = 10, 498/500
The Friends began this year by finishing their unionization drives. By now the vast majority of all poor Chinese workers were in unions associated by them as they began to reject the great American myth of the "self-made man". Americans had no interest in allowing Chinese workers to rise up in society, and only by working together and with their allies could they achieve liberation. It helped that the right wing of the organization, the Chinese businessmen, put up limited opposition to the union drives, seeing the advantage of solidarity against White America combined with their influential positions within TFHM.
Of course, that wasn't everyone. Some capitalists had well established systems of preventing unionization, tactics more sophisticated than "fire everyone and hope there's non-union workers to hire". And the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance would threaten to burn down businesses that had unions as well as union meeting places, in a couple cases actually following through, making people fear to join unions.
New York's Chinatown: 55 + 5 (The Friendly News) + 3 (The Valkyrie) + 5 (mutual aid networks) = 68
Over in New York City, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the Friends of Huddled Masses had been fighting for the hearts and minds of the Chinatown's community. The CCBA was older and more established and had the backing of local business, serving a semi-governmental role in the community and encouraging the community to become entrepreneurs.
The Friends of Huddled Masses tried a different tactic. They emphasized the dignity of labor, of establishing rights for all of them now rather than the hope of becoming one of the lucky few to become rich. They also had the advantage of bringing in anarchist councils into the area who organized mutual aid efforts with the residents who were typically very poor.
Mayor Hillquit helped as well, promising to clamp down on legal discrimination by the city. He specifically entered the community, at a time where it was seen as overpopulated den of opium, prostitution, and exoticized that no respectable white man would enter, and talked to the residents about their problems.
And with that, the CCBA's influence began to fade. While they wouldn't truly disappear for at least many years, the Chinatown much like the Italian and Jewish areas next to it became a more radical bed of discontent and a hopeful focus for the future tied to the SLP.
Prepare the rails: 40d20 = 471 + 50 (railcar factory) = 521, 1084/2000
The Yellow Scarves also continued covertly planting dynamite and tools by railways through the mountains. With this push of effort, they can now say that in the event it is needed they could cut off half the railways into the west coast should it be necessary.
Stockpile weaponry: 40d20 = 376
The Friends also began buying guns and ammo. This would be the first major armament of the Yellow Scarves as they grew to an organization whose size was capable of standing on equal ground rather than sticking in the shadows.
Train Militia: 58 + 8 (FAM trainers) = 66 * 20 (funds) = 1320
With these they embarked on a massive training campaign. With the help of African American trainers and established procedures the Yellow Scarves established a militia force over a thousand strong, practically an army for the west coast. This was representative of the Yellow Scarves increasing militance as they believed they were getting a chance to fix things for them–just not in a legal way.
Legal ownership: 49 + 5 (Factory Management Council) = 54
The Factory Management Council had to undergo some restructuring this year in order to avoid the new Anti-Trust Act, which could be used to break them up considering they owned industries in a number of fields.
Each factory, store, or lumberyard would split off and form its own cooperative. These cooperatives would have their own rules requiring workers to be part of the Friends, and they would still elect representatives to the Factory Management Council, but unlike before the FMC no longer had authority over them. They could still give suggestions, and did, but the coops were legally independent.
The coops could still be easily tied to TFHM the opposite direction through their election of representatives, though this wasn't something that should run afoul of the act.
California SLP Election: 52 + 26 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 83
With their joining of the United Front, TFHM had adopted the SLP as their political party. For the first time they actively campaigned for an election, completely mobilizing their base. As a largely California based organization they had the home advantage, though they also faced steep opposition with much of the white population deeply racist. Additionally the strike and opposition to the war was very unpopular at this time and they very much saw it connected to the SLP.
But through fliers, door to door campaigning, and helping people vote they managed to win a plurality of votes, competing with both the Democrats and Republicans equally. An openly pro-Asian governor was in office, and this provided many opportunities and legal protections for them.
Victoria mutual aid: 48 + 5 (welfare committee) = 53
Victoria already had a sizable Chinatown, and it was there that the Welfare Committee mainly organized. They also reached out to various other cities in British Columbia, establishing the first Canadian mutual aid networks.
Portland mutual aid: 46 + 5 (welfare committee) = 51
Over in Portland it was the Japanese sections of TFHM which pulled their weight, organizing the large Japantown in the city to establish a mutual aid network. They also reached out to other Oregon cities, slowly establishing the network among the Asian population.
The Orange Disciples:
The Orange Disciples took a principled stand against the Spanish-American War, being pacifist with no exceptions. They explicitly warned their members not to volunteer and instead advocated for humanitarian support both during and after the war as it was Cuban people who were hurt the most.
While these statements were taken by many to support the unpopular strike, The Orange Disciples made no official comments on it, though individual leaders were split as the strikes began as peaceful.
West Virginia churches: 33 + 5 (The Orange Post) = 38
As the Orange Disciples grew, so did their geographic support expand. In West Virginia their members began asking churches to associate with them and endorse their progressive message, emphasizing West Virginia's abolitionist heritage in splitting from Virginia.
And many churches did agree, their unionism showing through.
Schooling programs: 46
The Orange Disciples continued their charity schooling programs for African Americans, women, and other minorities. Across New York City and Philadelphia they expanded the programs, helping those who were left behind by the school system. With the expansion of these efforts also saw many of the recipients joining The Orange Disciples, having been convinced through their schooling of their cause.
With these efforts many in TOD have began suggesting they connect with ideologically allied southerners to do this type of program there. With the continued poverty of African Americans it was much more needed down south than north, even if the distance and lack of familiarity with the area might make things difficult.
Adult-literacy program: 53
Out in rural Pennsylvania they established an adult-literacy program through their associated churches. Many farmers and other rural folk had subpar education, so this was to help them get closer to the city-standard. The program went well enough, with plenty going due to the cheapness, though there was still an undercurrent of resentment of the "city elite" trying to teach them.
Endorsement: 35 + 5 (committee for universal suffrage) = 40
During the election, they created a list of progressive candidates to endorse both in primaries and the actual election. They focused on candidates who would support women's suffrage for now.
In New York women's suffrage has not been as big of an issue as in Ohio, and so finding candidates who will publicly support it has been more difficult. Additionally while the SLP didn't put a lot of effort into campaigning they still had enough votes for any which candidate, and so TOD decided to focus their efforts upstate.
In the end several of their candidates, both Democrat and Republican, won on the state level, making a progressive block in the legislature. Additionally 6 progressive House Representatives won, all Republican this year as that area voted heavily Republican.
Stamp out conspiracy: 27d20 = 284 + 5 (omake) = 289
With Roosevelt's recent loss in the NYC election, TOD put forth effort to stop conspiracy nonsense before it could begin. They went around this year debunking and discrediting any anti-Semitic conspiracies and anti-socialist screeds to stop from racketing up tension and divisiveness. And indeed this seemed to work, at least in New York itself, as no new civilian groups took it upon themselves to start violence as they did in other parts of the country. The Nationalist Citizens' Alliance did try to start a fight, but were quickly arrested and the semi-violent organization languished.
Defame WL: 20d20 = 181
(18.1% reduced recruitment for the White League)
They also made a massive public campaign opposing violence as a means and as an end. In particular they focused on the White League, denouncing their attacks and their violent disregard of American institutions. For this they spent the extra money to go south with their efforts, reaching out to white southerners to implore them to choose peace over ever escalating violence. The path the White League is on will result in nothing good for any man white or black.
The New American Patriots:
With the outbreak of the war, the New American Patriots were suspicious, as the Spanish had no reason to draw the US into the fight. Still, they organized a medical and aid organization which they planned to follow behind the US army to provide treatment for both the army and civilians. But with the army never landing in the Philippines and travel east being shut down by the strike, they never managed to get to any front.
They also tried to sell guns to the army, weapons that they gleefully accepted with their vast expansion. While these guns would never be used against the Spanish due to the army going to put down the strike instead, the NAP were able to use the profits to expand their factory. They also tried selling guns to the Minutemen's volunteers in Cuba, but with the lack of rail it was infeasible.
Agitators: 6d20 = 62 + 6 (recruiters seminar) = 68
(6.8% increase in recruitment for next turn)
Once again the NAP sent agitators to speak at colleges and universities. With their preparation last year the recruiters did a remarkable job in presenting their ideals to the students. They were gaining sizable memberships there, with many more students joining and staying in the NAP as they graduated.
Student chapters: 66
With the expansion in student membership came the establishment of several more student clubs, with just about every California university having one. They were beginning to become a normal of college life as their progressive and pro-business ideals appealed to the upcoming elites.
Spoils system: 61
With the SLP victory in the California election, there was little room from benefiting from the spoils system. The SLP was more focused on giving dedicated union and FHM members jobs, of which the New American Patriots were a far ways away from.
Stockpile guns: 5d20 = 61 + 10 (gun factory) + 5 (omake) = 76
With the lack of army movement, the NAP took the opportunity to keep a number of their production for themselves. With the increasing violence and instability across the country they wished to be prepared for when things finally came to a head. Additionally there were calls from within the organization to form a private security company, and gathering the weapons for it was a first step.
The Society for Universal Suffrage:
SUS began the year with some organizational restructuring. They also contributed extra funds to the United Front, as the largest and thus most flush organization.
Industry transfer: 61
With the Anti-Trust Act passing last year threatening the break-up of SUS, they had to move their industry from being owned by the organization to owned by individuals. Specifically, all of them ended up being transferred to Walpurga Voight, the most prominent leader of the movement. While some decried this as putting too much power in a single person, no one could doubt her dedication to the cause, and it ensured that it could stay centralized. In addition Voight made a show of publicly not joining the German Language Federation, maintaining that she was beholden to no faction within SUS but SUS itself.
Kick-out Cleveland Branch: 60
While radical compared to most of the country, the Cleveland branch was committed to their specific brand of Christian socialism and reformism. Thus with the other reorganization of SUS going on it was decided that they must be removed from the organization and a new Cleveland branch formed out of the ideologically closer members there. In addition they would set up some regulations to joining, requiring that new members say they supported revolutionary socialism. Anything more would require actually defining what their ideology was.
The Cleveland branch was furious, storming out of the room when told. They immediately contested ownership of local infrastructure, winning in many cases, causing a great deal of struggle as the local Society struggled to re-establish themselves. They would go on to form the Christian Socialists of America Party and compete in the election this year, and though they would lose it they kept optimism for the future.
Pennsylvania and NYC Branches: 37 + 5(The Valkyrie) = 42
The United Front had long since been separately geographically, as each movement started in a different region of the country. But as they expanded it made more sense for them to help each other establish nationally, split apart by ideology, as there were certainly many non-anarchists in New York even as there were anarchists in the Midwest. Thus with the help of RFAA councils and locals of the language federations already set up, SUS established new branches in Pennsylvania and New York. With this expansion they would also look to continue expanding North, East, and South, becoming more of an ideological faction within the United Front rather than geographical.
Gun Factory: 61 + 5 (mutual aid) + 3 (ethnic socialist clubs) = 69
With a combination of their Machine Shop and discrete purchases, SUS began to set up a large armaments and munitions factory complex in Chicago. Employing hundreds of men and women they churned out guns, ammo, and various other tools at an astounding rate. All would be sold to SUS for use in equipping its members.
But this would not go unnoticed. Such a large endeavor attracted attention, and before long the Nationalist Citizens' Alliance was holding protests against it. Their reasons were confused and contradictory–sometimes in protest that they weren't selling to the US military (which had enough weapons anyhow), sometimes in a strict pacifist way. But mostly it was warning that SUS was arming and was to be treasonous against America. The government would notice too, though their actions wouldn't be noticed quite yet.
NCA Firebomb: 28
Into the waning days of the railroad strike, as Illinois was the last holdout, the NCA took action. Their protests increasingly focused on calling SUS treasonous and rebellious and their members were getting violent. One of their members marched right up to the armaments complex drunk and with a homemade bomb, shouting about the sinfulness and evil and treason of the socialists and the corruption of their women away from them. Then they threw it only to miss and have it land in a crowd of factory workers.
One brave young woman grabbed a metal plate which happened to be nearby and jumped on it. The small explosion was contained with only minor injuries to her and the crowd ran over to the perpetrator and caught him.
Soon the young woman, Lora Eichel, would be hailed as a hero due to her heroic stunt. The police would refuse to prosecute the man, who would soon be forgotten by history as anything other than propelling a new up and coming leader to fame.
Union jobs and housing: 74 + 2 (Black Belt Newspapers) = 76
With their previous expertise in their Domestic Abuse Support Committee, SUS was well connected to find new jobs and housing for the would-be strikebreakers. In the black belt they used local newspapers to advertise what they're looking for, and directed would be strikebreakers to go to found jobs and housing instead. As people got moved north they continued in contact, finding northern jobs and housing for them as well as for local minorities. With the huge amount of funds dedicated to this they managed to reach the scale of the businessmen, with most of the people the National Association of Manufacturers contacted never making it to the mines.
Deploy militia: 63
In Illinois they deployed the militia to "prevent violence between strikebreakers and strikers". While they wouldn't fight the national army, up until they moved in the militia would maintain the picket lines for both railway workers and miners, preventing the capitalists from moving anyone in. Often when leaving an area for the day they would "forget" some rifles, leaving the strikers remarkably well armed by the end of the year.
In Chicago the police went against directives from the mayor and tried to arrest several of the strikers, but backed down in a standoff with the militia.
Illinois SLP Election: 60 + 4 (funds and effort) + 5 (campaigning apparatus) = 69
In the Illinois election the SLP scraped out a win even with the backlash, mostly due to SUS's large amount of money and effort spent campaigning for them. They finally won a small majority in the state senate, allowing them to more easily pass laws and appoint a federal Senator. They also won 15 House seats, one more than before, as their support continued to grow as people gained confidence in the SLP as a viable third party.
They also won many votes in Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New York, though not enough to win in any particular area. Local branches have begun to get frustrated at the hyper-focus on Illinois in elections and have begin agitating for SUS to spend effort in other states as well.
Gay bars: 50 + 5 (mutual aid) = 55
Ever since joining SUS, the Salon der Geschlechter continued to plan and organize. Finally this year they managed to convince the executive to fund the establishment of gay bars in cities all across the Great Lakes region. These would be safe havens for all queer people of the cities and serve as meeting places and areas of understanding as well.
Daycare facilities: 39 + 5 (mutual aid) + 3 (ethnic clubs) = 48
This year SUS also set up a daycare program where women could drop off their children at a daycare facility near the working district and then go to work. This program saw great use immediately, allowing more women to either begin working or spend more time working. This also had the beneficial effect for SUS that it meant more of their members could pay dues, as they could have a steady source of income.
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies:
This turn their bars started getting attacked by homophobes. No deaths, but their lacking security caused significant interruption, and the attackers were starting to get bolder over time. Still it was an uncoordinated effort, simply one more case of increasing violence nationally.
Find gay bars: 44
Uranus began this year by finding old and new gay bars in other New York cities such as Buffalo. With these they began establishing a communication network with the queer community for safe places.
Informational Packets: 2d20 = 23
(2.3% increase in recruitment for next turn)
They also starting making and spreading around informational packets to start informing people who and what queer people are. As an extra benefit this publicity resulted in more allies joining the organization, many of whom would go on to come out as queer.
Founding gay bars: 52
They also founded many more gay bars themselves across New York. With these, every urban area in the state had at least a few, allowing queer people to meet and connect.
Friendly doctors: 48
They also started making contact with friendly doctors. In particular they wished to know if it was possible for some sort of surgery for those who did not identify by the sex of their birth. While several doctors were theoretically willing, there simply wasn't the research there on how to do such surgeries yet.
The Minutemen:
The Minutemen began in their response to the war with a short statement published to their members.
"The war, as we all want is to free the people of Cuba chafing under Spanish rule. And yet, war by it's nature is chaotic, the politicians have the ear of wealthy businessmen, looking to secure their next elections. The military, for good or ill are likely led by the same Officer School Graduates as they would have in peacetime. While we might see little wrong adding more to the family that is the USA, who is to say if people would make sure if basic rights such as the right to vote for those whom decide policy would carry over? For these reasons, instead of advising people join the US army, we will seek other likeminded people to help build a pipeline for volunteers both within and outside the involved organizations to directly support the brave rebels fighting for their freedom. Fighting with the surety that we will be fielded to fight for a just cause and not redirected to bring war where there are not the oppressed that needs freed."
They also called for politicians to impose new legislation requiring that any new territorial acquisitions have votes for whether or not they'd be willing to join the US. This was largely ignored by politicians, too caught up in the war itself and the large backlash to it.
As for their volunteers, they did manage to make it to Cuba with a small force who brought their personal weapons and fought in the last battle, but nothing large enough to change the tides on their own. But they did connect with the Cuban army in the process.
Land-Grant Universities: 79
The Minutemen approached several Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities to establish clubs and programs. These would focus on both military science and preparing students for joining the army or a military school. These programs proved to be startlingly popular, with enthusiasm for the military high this year.
Even at the end of the year, when enthusiasm for the military died, the programs retained their popularity, though fewer students talked of wanting to join the military. Instead the old American tradition of militia and private groups was gaining popularity, to the benefit of the Minutemen who many wished to join.
Gun manufacturer connections: 65
Many in the Minutemen already had good relations with gun shops and even gun manufacturers, being hobbyists with many guns themselves. It was a simple matter to turn these connections into connections for the Minutemen as an association. Soon they would be able to easily buy in bulk guns and ammunition for all their needs.
Send militia south: 60
The two states in the South that looked to have the Democrats lose was Louisiana and North Carolina. With Louisiana already having thousands of FAM militia, the Minutemen decided to send their 240 militia over to North Carolina, as they'd make a bigger difference there. Besides, the issue in Louisiana was New Orleans, and no one thought the White League would be bold enough to try to take on a major city.
Send people to sympathetic militia: 67
This year they also sent people to various sympathetic militia across the country. In particular their concern was with the White League, Red Shirts, and other various post-Confederate militia, and so the militia they went to were the FAM Spartacists and the SPA's militia. They were present at the battle of New Orleans, encouraging them to keep all their militia nearby and staying there when the White League finally came.
Their positive experiences together, forged in the heat of battle, lead to talks of continued cooperation in the future.
Southern People's Alliance:
This year the SPA decided not to make much of a statement on the Spanish-American War, but instead to focus on preparing to fight the Red Shirts who, if the White League was any example, would attack them this year.
Tools mutual aid: 63
In both North Carolina and Tennessee, the SPA established a system for facilitating mutual aid. Mostly for independent farmers and coops, it would help them send requests to each other for either money or tool loans. Everything from raked to tractors could be leant, helping many not need to spend to buy everything at a time. They opened this up to all farmers, not just those within the SPA, with the hopes that by connecting with them they would decide to join on their own.
Weaponry: 12d20 = 140
The SPA bought vast amounts of guns and ammo this year to prepare and use to train their new militia. They found that their black members couldn't buy any guns, with local gun manufacturers bowing to Democrat business interests, if they weren't that themselves.
Militia: 53 + 8 (FAM Trainers) = 61 * 12 (funds) = 732
With the Forty Acres Movement nearby it was easy to cooperate on training up new militia, more than doubling their amount. In particular they had many black recruits from Wilmington who feared for their safety and wished to do something about it.
Command system: 53
With an expanding militia, they also established a formalized command system for the Poor Man Fighters. This would involve elected officers and other elected command, a version of that system which was a mainstay among American militias.
Guard Polling Places: 39 + 5 (omake) = 44
In North Carolina, the Populists and Republicans had frequently made electoral alliances in favor of black rights. With the Republicans having won the 1896 gubernatorial election, they had maintained voting rights for the black population. And although the United Front officially decided not to fuse with the Populists this year, the SPA was in favor of it, deciding that this year they would not split the ticket and would unofficially support the Populists.
The city of Wilmington was the largest in the state, with over 10,000 people, and was a relatively wealthy city for black people. They also had black officials elected locally, something rare anywhere else.
The past few years the Democrats responded to the Republican consolidation of power by focusing on racial issues. Populist leadership tried to fight this by claiming they were the true "white man's party", but backlash from the SPA and the lack of success made them backtrack.
Prominent businessmen of Wilmington formed the White Government Union allied with the White Laborer's Union (who opposed having to compete with black people for jobs). They were also incited by the local black newspaper saying that white women willingly had sex with black men, starting a huge white backlash claiming that black men were predatory.
In the weeks leading up to the election the Poor Man Fighters had to guard Manly's (the writer of the editorial) press and house as well. Hundreds of Red Shirts rallied with the Democrats against him and all black people, facing off with the militia in contests of intimidation. Emboldened by their protectors, Populists continued to speak in the city and fight in the court of public opinion against the Democrats, maintaining that many white people supported black rights and didn't fear them.
Joining the Red Shirts were the New Hanover County Horsemen and former Rough Riders, parading through the streets. With the increasingly tense city having repeated face offs, no-one quite was willing to shoot yet. But the Redshirts were getting increasingly bold, calling the Poor Man Fighters a foreign group that had no place in the city. Ironically, the Red Shirts themselves hailed from across the Atlantic South, a fact the SPA bitterly pointed out.
Reportedly, the White Government Union told the Red Shirts that they must win the election for the Democrats even if it took killing every black person in the city. They took it to heart, and on November 8th the city was divided in two. The black majority neighborhoods and white majority neighborhoods were controlled by their respective militia, guarding all entrances in and out. The Poor Man Fighters were joined by 240 Minutemen who had come when they heard of the imminent violence. Unlike the FAM they had the advantage of not needing to keep militia in other states, meaning they were at full strength.
But the white part of the city wasn't enough. The polling places were on the other side. The Red Shirts attacked through defensive lines, the first truly urban combat of what would be known as the Race Wars of the South. They mainly relied on their business backer's advanced weaponry including gatling guns and rifles along with their Rough Rider veterans for leadership, with the rest of the white population of the city not quite riled up. But they had been vastly recruiting these past few months, with thousands of members at this point.
They were, at first, firmly rebuffed. Urban fighting gave lots of cover for a defending force and they used it well, though neither the Poor Man Fighters nor the Minutemen were used to it. The Red Shirts took not an inch of space and the black neighborhoods were safe as the Poor Mans Fighters killed hundreds of them. The Minutemen at first failed to integrate themselves with the larger militia's defensive lines, getting little combat.
After a short quiet, a message came from the backside of the city. Horsed riders were riding in, shooting black houses and civilians on their way. Hundreds of Poor Mans Fighters retreated from the previous front lines to stop them, sure this was the pivotal moment of the fight.
But it was simply a traitor. There were no Red Shirts coming from behind. But it did exist, dozens of riders coming in from the front and breaking through the now empty lines. The PMF began to rout as their remaining forces desperately retreated as they were overwhelmed.
The one exception was the force of 240 Minutemen, who had stayed together and fortified a neighborhood. They repelled the incoming Redshirts and gave time for nearby PMFs to regroup.
But it wasn't enough with the rest of the city overwhelmed. Red Shirts rode throughout the city shooting into houses, stuffing ballot boxes, burning black businessmen, and assaulting black inhabitants.
The Minutemen pocket was surrounded and overwhelmed, with less than half making it out. All captured militiamen were summarily executed. The rest of the PMF retreated better, mostly dying to gunfire as they made a now orderly retreat rather than being captured. Along with a couple thousand black inhabitants they retreated to nearby swamps.
The city government was forced to resign at gunpoint and Waddell, a leader of the Red Shirts was immediately elected mayor. That election Wilmington overwhelmingly voted Democrat, a swing of over 10,000 votes, and Democrats won the statewide elections.
The number of militia killed exceeded 500, and black civilians another of that, making this the worst massacre America had faced in years.
The national response was mixed. Some northern black journalists such as Dancy and Bruce blamed Manly for inciting the whites and the Southern People's Alliance for bringing weapons into the mix. This opinion was also largely held by white people, with the exception of the vocal leftist United Front who blamed local businessmen and the Red Shirts totally. Many across the South actively portrayed the SPA as the aggressors and the Minutemen as carpetbaggers roleplaying as the union and that the violence was a rational defense of white honor.
Despite appeals from citizens, President McKinley refused to send aid without a request from the governor, who did not do so.
Locally, several thousand black people left the city permanently. The city itself was heavily scarred and destroyed. The former White Laborer's Union was dissolved, with the members disappointed that while there were new jobs from business's new refusal to hire black workers, they had poor conditions and poor pay, as those were the jobs black people had.
MIN detect coup? 47, pretty late
Red Shirts Recruitment: 49
Strengths:
Allied: 1539
PMF: 1299
Min: 240
Redshirts: 1980
Allied planning: 38
Redshirt planning: 39 + 5 (veteran commanders) = 44
PMF: 84 - 3 (planning) - 5 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 81
Min: 40 - 3 (planning) - 3 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 39
Redshirts: 68 + 2 (size) - 2 (planning) - 4 (green) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 64
79 Allied casualties, 125 Redshirts casualties, stopped flat
Strengths:
Allied: 1460
PMF: 1240
Min: 220
Redshirts: 1855
PMF: 27 - 3 (planning) - 5 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 24
Min: 68 - 3 (planning) - 3 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 67
Redshirts: 58 + 2 (size) - 2 (planning) - 4 (green) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 54
55 Allied casualties, 16 Redshirts casualties, Redshirts break through, PMF almost routs
Strengths:
Allied: 1405
PMF: 1186
Min: 219
Redshirts: 1839
PMF: 49 - 3 (planning) - 5 (green) = 41
Min: 57 - 3 (planning) - 3 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 67
Redshirts: 55 + 2 (size) - 2 (planning) - 4 (green) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 51
55 Allied casualties, 31 Redshirts casualties, allied forces rout
PMF Retreat: 73, 900 escape
Min Retreat: 40, 100 escape
Red Shirts Recruitment: 49
Strengths:
Allied: 1539
PMF: 1299
Min: 240
Redshirts: 1980
Allied planning: 38
Redshirt planning: 39 + 5 (veteran commanders) = 44
PMF: 84 - 3 (planning) - 5 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 81
Min: 40 - 3 (planning) - 3 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 39
Redshirts: 68 + 2 (size) - 2 (planning) - 4 (green) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 64
79 Allied casualties, 125 Redshirts casualties, stopped flat
Strengths:
Allied: 1460
PMF: 1240
Min: 220
Redshirts: 1855
PMF: 27 - 3 (planning) - 5 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 24
Min: 68 - 3 (planning) - 3 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 67
Redshirts: 58 + 2 (size) - 2 (planning) - 4 (green) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 54
55 Allied casualties, 16 Redshirts casualties, Redshirts break through, PMF almost routs
Strengths:
Allied: 1405
PMF: 1186
Min: 219
Redshirts: 1839
PMF: 49 - 3 (planning) - 5 (green) = 41
Min: 57 - 3 (planning) - 3 (green) + 5 (entrenched) = 67
Redshirts: 55 + 2 (size) - 2 (planning) - 4 (green) + 5 (weaponry) - 5 (attacking) = 51
55 Allied casualties, 31 Redshirts casualties, allied forces rout
PMF Retreat: 73, 900 escape
Min Retreat: 40, 100 escape
In the aftermath of the Race Riot of Wilmington, the Red Shirts went national. Joining forces with the White League they took the lead and formed a new national organization named the White Union Army to fight the "n*****, catholic, and anarchist threat". The WUA would be an open organization with public members and many business supporters from across the south, being very well funded. They were organized similar to the military, with several veterans instrumental to their founding.
Appalachian Brotherhood:
In response to the war the Appalachian Brotherhood spoke out against it and warned their members not to volunteer, having no interest in American or Spanish imperialism.
Contact councils: 56 + 5 (Appalachian Cultural Committee) + 5 (omake) = 66
They contacted Pittsburgh anarchist councils which have become increasingly important members of the community. They agreed to work together on cultural initiatives, as while they were anarchists they were also Appalachian. This cooperation actually resulted in more community councils forming as citizens wanted to get directly involved in the organizing of this popular nation forming project.
Contact UMW: 58
The United Mine Workers had unionized workplaces in Appalachia from Western Pennsylvania down south through Ohio and West Virginia. By contacting individual unions to get them and their communities involved the AB was able to get a solid core of membership throughout those areas.
Appalachian Cultural Festival: 70 + 10 (many funds) + 5 (Appalachian Cultural Committee) + 5 (councils) = 90
(30% increase in recruitment for next turn)
The Appalachian Cultural Festival this summer was a huge hit. Various types of entertainment, dancers, camping, handicrafts, foods, bonfires, competitions and more were held both in Pittsburgh and smaller celebrations more southwards.
It resulted in many more people looking to get involved as it was the biggest event of the year, going on even as the nation was in chaos from the war and strike. The Appalachian Brotherhood was quickly becoming a major player in the people's movement of Pittsburgh and even more southwards into West Virginia.
Agitators: 11d20 = 122
(12.2% increase in recruitment next turn)
They also continued sending their people out to Appalachian cities, reaching out to spread their voice.
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People):
The Amigos del Pueblo responded to the war with a call to aid. While denouncing American imperialism they sent small amounts of supplies and volunteers to Western Cuba, where anarchist elements dominated. They didn't break the stalemate before the armistice was called, but they did establish connections with the anarchists there.
They also bought an office in Del Rio to serve as a meeting room this year.
Mutual aid networks: 79
In Del Rio and other western Texas cities with large hispanic populations they began establishing mutual aid networks in the cities. These efforts went very well, with the local hispanic population impoverished by local conditions and radicalized by continued contact with Mexican revolutionaries and their suppression.
Join the RFAA: 51
Finally, the AdP requested to join the RFAA. While they were more communist than collectivist, they were all anarchists and the RFAA allowed a great level of local autonomy. So with their permission, the Amigos del Pueblo officially organized as councils, with the AdO as a whole a regional council that sent a few representatives to the national council but otherwise acting on their own affairs.
United Front:
SLP representatives voted against both the Newlands Resolution and Curtis Act this year to no avail, as both passed. With the Republicans losing their majority in the house, however, they hoped to have more success on stopping bills in the future.
This year the United Front delegates came to a vote. Last year the SPA and Populist Party worked out a potential deal between the Populists and SLP where they would run joint tickets in states, with whatever party was larger choosing a candidate. Additionally the plan was for William Jennings Bryan to run as vice president in a shared 1900 presidential ticket.
Discussion was furious, with a variety of opinions. The Forty Acres Movement was fine with the deal, only wanting a few modifications. The Populists must adopt support of protection of the rights of black Americans in their official program and remove any outspoken racists.
The ACUA, FHM, and SPA had a more stringent requirement. After consulting with De Leon, who railed on the meeting's floor about the inherent capitalism of the Populist Party and that their goal should be to break it apart and not work with it, they agreed that their primary goal should be to liquidate the populists and absorb their former radicalized members. "We must not forget that the Populists are our enemies in the fight for the working class," as De Leon put it.
So their proposal was the Populists must adopt the SLP platform in full and any elected would resign on request of the SLP. With the added vote of the SUS delegates, they had the majority.
Deal: 59
The populists firmly refused this modification. While their left was in favor, the party's leadership strongly disagreed with revolutionary socialism, and many didn't want to work with the SLP instead.
Counter-deal fallout: 52
There's not much fallout from the failed deal, mostly just staying status quo of the left wing wanting to side with the SLP, the right wing wanting to work with the Democrats, and the center trying to stay independent.
Reorganize mutual aid networks: 66
As part of centralizing and integrating the United Front, there have been some proposals to redo how the mutual aid networks are handled. Either mutual aid would be centralized into a United Front bureaucracy, or it would be transferred to the RFAA to handle it on a national level. The latter would continue the trend of the parts of the United Front going national and differing in their specific ideology or function.
UF level mutual aid would have been structured off of the FHM's welfare committee and SUS' welfare management expanded across the entire UF.
But after much discussion the UF delegates decided that instead they'd go with the other option. This was in recognition that most of the mutual aid was already managed by anarchists and was often just facilitating local connections rather than as charity, making a decentralized method more amenable to the actual participants.
RFAA managed mutual aid would be decentralized and managed by local anarchist councils in accordance to RFAA principles. All current and future mutual aid networks and typically other types of mutual aid were moved to RFAA councils, paid by and managed by. This was accompanied by a change in membership, especially between SUS and the RFAA, as activists could join the organization that they best felt support their goals rather than just whatever leftist was in the area.
As for the election itself, the SLP built up electoral apparatuses in California and Louisiana. They also campaigned using UF funds in Colorado, California, and Illinois.
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1898: Organization Info Sheets
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
All-Continental Union Association
The Land and Labor Reform Party
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
The Forty Acres Movement:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Orange Disciples:
The New American Patriots
The Society for Universal Suffrage
Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies
The Minutemen
Southern People's Alliance
Appalachian Brotherhood
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)
United Front
All Organization Modifiers:
National Association of Manufacturers Collaboration: -10 to a roll for buying industry
Nationalist Citizens' Alliance Interference: -2 per die for unionization rolls.
Factions and Influence:
Marxists: 16%
Anarchists: 8%
Possibilists: 7%
Dues: Low with delinquency
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) (anarchist)
Committees:
Striking Think Group: A group composed of union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Inter-Union Mutual Aid Organizing Committee: -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +3 to rolls regarding loyalty of members, +5 to rolls inviting new unions to join
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
-Expanded and Integrated SLP Party Structures: Internal SLP Party structures have been integrated and expanded by the unions. -5 UF funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Union Drive Committee: Organizers to help workers form unions and join the ACUA. 1 action transfers from free to unionizing, +1 to the roll per die for unionizing. -3 funds per turn.
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)
-Most Chinese service workers (+5% popularity West Coast, 1% NYC/.5% New York)
- Most Colorado unions (primarily services, smelters, and agricultural) (+11% popularity Colorado)
- Western railroad workers (+2% popularity western states)
- The American Railway Union (+3% popularity Midwest/2% Northeast)
- Most Chicago Unions (+7% popularity Chicago/3% Illinois)
- Workingmen's Amalgamated Council (Most New Orleans unions) (+10% popularity New Orleans/3% 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 (+8% popularity Birmingham/1% Alabama)
- United Mine Workers (+3% popularity Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia/2% Indiana)
- Steel Belt Factory Unions (+6% popularity Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 4% Pennsylvania)
- Most Seattle Unions (+10% popularity Seattle, 2% Washington)
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco.
National Newspaper (The Continental Worker): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology.
Teaching member unions: The 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.
Marxists: 16%
Anarchists: 8%
Possibilists: 7%
Dues: Low with delinquency
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) (anarchist)
Committees:
Striking Think Group: A group composed of union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Inter-Union Mutual Aid Organizing Committee: -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +3 to rolls regarding loyalty of members, +5 to rolls inviting new unions to join
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
-Expanded and Integrated SLP Party Structures: Internal SLP Party structures have been integrated and expanded by the unions. -5 UF funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Union Drive Committee: Organizers to help workers form unions and join the ACUA. 1 action transfers from free to unionizing, +1 to the roll per die for unionizing. -3 funds per turn.
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)
-Most Chinese service workers (+5% popularity West Coast, 1% NYC/.5% New York)
- Most Colorado unions (primarily services, smelters, and agricultural) (+11% popularity Colorado)
- Western railroad workers (+2% popularity western states)
- The American Railway Union (+3% popularity Midwest/2% Northeast)
- Most Chicago Unions (+7% popularity Chicago/3% Illinois)
- Workingmen's Amalgamated Council (Most New Orleans unions) (+10% popularity New Orleans/3% 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 (+8% popularity Birmingham/1% Alabama)
- United Mine Workers (+3% popularity Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia/2% Indiana)
- Steel Belt Factory Unions (+6% popularity Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 4% Pennsylvania)
- Most Seattle Unions (+10% popularity Seattle, 2% Washington)
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco.
National Newspaper (The Continental Worker): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology.
Teaching member unions: The 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: 17%
Orthodox Georgists: 10%
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Successor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?)
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership
Elected Officials:
Michigan: A small majority in the house and senate. Most municipal governments including Detroit and Lansing.
—Governor: Edward Johnson, next election 1900
—Mayor Archibald Masterson, next election 1900
North Dakota: A majority in the house, minority in the senate.
—Governor: Robert Wilson, next election 1900
Federal: 1 Senator (1 Michigan), 9 Representatives (8 Michigan, 1 North Dakota).
Committees:
Fundraising Committee: In charge of setting uo and asking for funds from donors and the general populace. -5 funds per turn, +5 to fundraising actions.
Legislation and Party Whip Committee: Creates legislation for party representatives to use and acts as a party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Property:
Lansing Meeting Hall: +1 action
Michigan and Dakotas Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Lansing Newspaper (Demeter's Dream): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Michigan movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Lansing.
Michigan Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Michigan, -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 (2.5%), Minnesota (2.5%), Nebraska (1.5%), and Michigan (1%) which organizes group camping for hundreds of youth. Gives a stacking + .5% popularity (approval among non-party members) go per year up to 5 in the state.
Legislation Passed:
Michigan:
Municipal tax code reform (1897), slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. +2% popularity Michigan cities/1% Michigan
Logging and hunting regulations (1897), fining clearcutting based on land value decrease and game laws restricting hunting seasons and limits per person. +1% popularity Michigan.
The Labor Reformers: 17%
Orthodox Georgists: 10%
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Successor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?)
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership
Elected Officials:
Michigan: A small majority in the house and senate. Most municipal governments including Detroit and Lansing.
—Governor: Edward Johnson, next election 1900
—Mayor Archibald Masterson, next election 1900
North Dakota: A majority in the house, minority in the senate.
—Governor: Robert Wilson, next election 1900
Federal: 1 Senator (1 Michigan), 9 Representatives (8 Michigan, 1 North Dakota).
Committees:
Fundraising Committee: In charge of setting uo and asking for funds from donors and the general populace. -5 funds per turn, +5 to fundraising actions.
Legislation and Party Whip Committee: Creates legislation for party representatives to use and acts as a party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Property:
Lansing Meeting Hall: +1 action
Michigan and Dakotas Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Lansing Newspaper (Demeter's Dream): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Michigan movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Lansing.
Michigan Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Michigan, -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 (2.5%), Minnesota (2.5%), Nebraska (1.5%), and Michigan (1%) which organizes group camping for hundreds of youth. Gives a stacking + .5% popularity (approval among non-party members) go per year up to 5 in the state.
Legislation Passed:
Michigan:
Municipal tax code reform (1897), slowly implementing the land value tax in place of other taxes. +2% popularity Michigan cities/1% Michigan
Logging and hunting regulations (1897), fining clearcutting based on land value decrease and game laws restricting hunting seasons and limits per person. +1% popularity Michigan.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
Factions and Influence:
True-Anarchists: 14% (14% of election funds/effort get requisitioned)
Solidarity: 19%
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers, farmers in mutuals or coops
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Formalized nested councils: -10 funds per turn, +1 action. Go to turn 1898 for detailed description.
Interest Groups:
Amigos del Pueblo
Committees:
Striking Thinking Group: A group composed of anarchist union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective, and bring that knowledge back to their unions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking among affiliated unions.
Immigrant Welcoming Committee: A committee that organizes members in reaching out to new immigrants and integrating them into their networks of mutual aid and union contacts. -25 funds per turn, +29% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees: Democratically run militia beholden to the councils as a whole. -5 funds per turn, +1 militia action.
-7848 militia
-Stands guard over all council meetings, -3 funds per turn, protection from interference.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare: -5 funds per turn, +1 welfare action, +5 to welfare actions.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
Garment Industry Factories (3 small): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Coop Farms: +3 funds per turn, democratically run but extra profits going towards the federation as a whole.
Tea and Coffee Factory (1 large): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions, the New York City police department
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (The Worker's Post): -3 funds per turn. Printed in several languages. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants.
International Newspaper (The International Traveler): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Internal Newspaper (The Revolutionary Anarchist): Funding lasts through 1899. Printed in several languages. +7 to actions involving ideology and supporting arming and immediate revolution. +.5% True-Anarchist influence per year.
Mutual Aid:
This section's bonuses also apply to all members of the United Front who have a presence in the area. This is marked in the "Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens" section. All sections apply to the ACUA, RFAA, and SUS.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—New York: -24 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in New York cities. +24% recruitment. Fourth FHM.
—Connecticut: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Connecticut cities. +8% recruitment.
—New Jersey: -8 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in New Jersey cities. +8% recruitment.
—Boston: -7 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Boston. +7% recruitment.
—Pennsylvania: -19 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Pennsylvania cities. +19% recruitment.
—Illinois: -15 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Illinois cities. +15% recruitment.
—Milwaukee: -4 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in Milwaukee. +4% recruitment.
—Michigan: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Michigan cities. +10% recruitment.
—Ohio: -13 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Ohio. +13% recruitment.
—Indiana: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Indiana cities. +10% recruitment.
—New Orleans Soup Kitchen: -2 funds per turn, +2% recruitment. FAM
—San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +1% recruitment. FHM
—Sacramento. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Sacramento. +1% recruitment. FHM
—San Fransisco. -2 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in San Fransisco. +2% recruitment. FHM
—Oregon. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Oregon cities. +1% recruitment. FHM
—British Columbia. -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in British Columbia cities. +3% recruitment. FHM
—Del Rio and Western Texas: -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Western Texas cities. +3% recruitment. AdP
Communal Homes:
-NYC: -8 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in NYC.
-Connecticut: -1 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in Connecticut cities.
Daycare Facilities (each in a Great Lakes state gives a boost to SUS income):
-Chicago: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Rural Mutual Aid: A system to facilitate farmers to borrow tools and money from each other. Note these bonuses do not apply to the ACUA or SUS, as they're primarily used by independent small farmers and coops.
—North Carolina: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment. SPA
—Tennessee: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural Tennessee. +4% recruitment. SPA
True-Anarchists: 14% (14% of election funds/effort get requisitioned)
Solidarity: 19%
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers, farmers in mutuals or coops
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Formalized nested councils: -10 funds per turn, +1 action. Go to turn 1898 for detailed description.
Interest Groups:
Amigos del Pueblo
Committees:
Striking Thinking Group: A group composed of anarchist union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective, and bring that knowledge back to their unions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking among affiliated unions.
Immigrant Welcoming Committee: A committee that organizes members in reaching out to new immigrants and integrating them into their networks of mutual aid and union contacts. -25 funds per turn, +29% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees: Democratically run militia beholden to the councils as a whole. -5 funds per turn, +1 militia action.
-7848 militia
-Stands guard over all council meetings, -3 funds per turn, protection from interference.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare: -5 funds per turn, +1 welfare action, +5 to welfare actions.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
Garment Industry Factories (3 small): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Coop Farms: +3 funds per turn, democratically run but extra profits going towards the federation as a whole.
Tea and Coffee Factory (1 large): +6 funds per turn, owned by individuals and run democratically.
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions, the New York City police department
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (The Worker's Post): -3 funds per turn. Printed in several languages. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants.
International Newspaper (The International Traveler): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Internal Newspaper (The Revolutionary Anarchist): Funding lasts through 1899. Printed in several languages. +7 to actions involving ideology and supporting arming and immediate revolution. +.5% True-Anarchist influence per year.
Mutual Aid:
This section's bonuses also apply to all members of the United Front who have a presence in the area. This is marked in the "Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens" section. All sections apply to the ACUA, RFAA, and SUS.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—New York: -24 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in New York cities. +24% recruitment. Fourth FHM.
—Connecticut: -8 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Connecticut cities. +8% recruitment.
—New Jersey: -8 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in New Jersey cities. +8% recruitment.
—Boston: -7 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Boston. +7% recruitment.
—Pennsylvania: -19 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Pennsylvania cities. +19% recruitment.
—Illinois: -15 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Illinois cities. +15% recruitment.
—Milwaukee: -4 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in Milwaukee. +4% recruitment.
—Michigan: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Michigan cities. +10% recruitment.
—Ohio: -13 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Ohio. +13% recruitment.
—Indiana: -10 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Indiana cities. +10% recruitment.
—New Orleans Soup Kitchen: -2 funds per turn, +2% recruitment. FAM
—San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Los Angeles. +1% recruitment. FHM
—Sacramento. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Sacramento. +1% recruitment. FHM
—San Fransisco. -2 funds per turn. +2 to rolls in San Fransisco. +2% recruitment. FHM
—Oregon. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in Oregon cities. +1% recruitment. FHM
—British Columbia. -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in British Columbia cities. +3% recruitment. FHM
—Del Rio and Western Texas: -3 funds per turn. +3 to rolls in Western Texas cities. +3% recruitment. AdP
Communal Homes:
-NYC: -8 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in NYC.
-Connecticut: -1 funds per turn, +10 loyalty of members in Connecticut cities.
Daycare Facilities (each in a Great Lakes state gives a boost to SUS income):
-Chicago: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Rural Mutual Aid: A system to facilitate farmers to borrow tools and money from each other. Note these bonuses do not apply to the ACUA or SUS, as they're primarily used by independent small farmers and coops.
—North Carolina: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment. SPA
—Tennessee: -4 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural Tennessee. +4% recruitment. SPA
The Forty Acres Movement:
Factions and influence:
United Left: 21%
Jeffersonians: 9%
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans, urban African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -6 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Sub-Groups:
Spartacists: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
-5 funds per turn
-1 action
-3774 militia (75 cadres/19 companies)
—34 cadres part time, -34 funds per turn
—500 other militia are regulars
—700 part time are experienced
—Companies elect their own leaders as well as representatives to the Spartacist Command Council, which is then subordinate to the Council Congress.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions. -1 fund per turn.
—Tactic training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
—Training Procedures: -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Strategy Committee: -2 funds per turn, +5 to strategy or planning roles.
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
Hemp Informational Committee: -2 funds per turn. Helps farmers switch over from cotton to hemp plants.
Sharecroppers Organizing Group: Members secretly travel to sharecropping plantations, inviting the workers there to the FAM and linking them into their networks. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in Atlanta: +2 actions
Tractor factory in a Louisiana Town: +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
A few rural mills: For cooperative use. +2 funds per turn.
Town Hemp Textile Factories (Louisiana): +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural Mississippi. +5% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Liberator's Advocate): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -4 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +3 to actions relating to ideology in the black belt.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food, as well as town manufacturers buying/selling preferentially and cheaper within movement members. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Paying off fines that could result in jail. -1 fund per turn, +2% 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, -2% income. This modifier will increase over time.
Racist gun dealers: -1 per die for buying guns.
United Left: 21%
Jeffersonians: 9%
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans, urban African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -6 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Sub-Groups:
Spartacists: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
-5 funds per turn
-1 action
-3774 militia (75 cadres/19 companies)
—34 cadres part time, -34 funds per turn
—500 other militia are regulars
—700 part time are experienced
—Companies elect their own leaders as well as representatives to the Spartacist Command Council, which is then subordinate to the Council Congress.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions. -1 fund per turn.
—Tactic training: Part time militia count as regulars. -3 funds per turn.
—Training Procedures: -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Strategy Committee: -2 funds per turn, +5 to strategy or planning roles.
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
Hemp Informational Committee: -2 funds per turn. Helps farmers switch over from cotton to hemp plants.
Sharecroppers Organizing Group: Members secretly travel to sharecropping plantations, inviting the workers there to the FAM and linking them into their networks. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in Atlanta: +2 actions
Tractor factory in a Louisiana Town: +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
A few rural mills: For cooperative use. +2 funds per turn.
Town Hemp Textile Factories (Louisiana): +4 funds per turn, managed with limited workplace democracy.
Continuous Actions:
Mississippi Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Mississippi movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural Mississippi. +5% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Liberator's Advocate): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -4 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +3 to actions relating to ideology in the black belt.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food, as well as town manufacturers buying/selling preferentially and cheaper within movement members. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Paying off fines that could result in jail. -1 fund per turn, +2% 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, -2% income. This modifier will increase over time.
Racist gun dealers: -1 per die for buying guns.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
Factions and influence:
Socialist: 18%
Nonpolitical: 8%
Dues: Income
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism. Their platform explicitly opposes economic, social, and political injustices as well as unjust hierarchies.
Departments:
Department of the Militia: Manages New York, Philadelphia, etc. patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. Organized with elected leadership from the militia. -5 funds per turn. 1 militia action.
—1964 militia
Committees:
Immigrant Care Group: Sets up and helps integrate new arrivals to America. -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment.
Awareness Committee: Ensures member churches, synagogues, etc. aren't under threat and keeps track of groups opposed to minority religions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to rolls detecting or finding enemy action.
Property:
New York Office: +1 action
Mid-Atlantic Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
New York Newspaper (The New York Plurality): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City.
National Newspaper (The Daily Truths): -8 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in New York City. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in New York City. +2% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in Philadelphia: -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 and Charitable Aid:
—New York City: -8 funds per turn, +12% recruitment
—Philadelphia: -6 funds per turn, +9% recruitment
—Baltimore: -4 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
—Newark: -2 funds per turn, +3% recruitment
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Several in upstate New York.
New York Mosque (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
NYC Buddhist Temple (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
Socialist: 18%
Nonpolitical: 8%
Dues: Income
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism. Their platform explicitly opposes economic, social, and political injustices as well as unjust hierarchies.
Departments:
Department of the Militia: Manages New York, Philadelphia, etc. patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. Organized with elected leadership from the militia. -5 funds per turn. 1 militia action.
—1964 militia
Committees:
Immigrant Care Group: Sets up and helps integrate new arrivals to America. -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment.
Awareness Committee: Ensures member churches, synagogues, etc. aren't under threat and keeps track of groups opposed to minority religions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to rolls detecting or finding enemy action.
Property:
New York Office: +1 action
Mid-Atlantic Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
New York Newspaper (The New York Plurality): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City.
National Newspaper (The Daily Truths): -8 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in New York City. -1 fund per turn. +1 to rolls in New York City. +2% recruitment.
Mutual Aid Groups in Philadelphia: -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 and Charitable Aid:
—New York City: -8 funds per turn, +12% recruitment
—Philadelphia: -6 funds per turn, +9% recruitment
—Baltimore: -4 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
—Newark: -2 funds per turn, +3% recruitment
Affiliations: Some churches and synagogues in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Several in upstate New York.
New York Mosque (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
NYC Buddhist Temple (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
American People's Futurist Alliance:
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.
Property:
Technocratic Institute of Planning: A Cleveland university for future politicians, entrepreneurs, and managers that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology. +3 funds per turn, more bonuses in '01.
—Scholarships for the American Dream Program: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Associates: Several small coal mines in the Steel Belt, most of the independent steel mills factories in the Steel Belt, moderate sized gun factory in Cincinnati, major steel belt construction company
All-American Workers' Alliance
7 (5 Republican, 2 Democrat) House representatives, 1 senator (Republican) minorities in Steel Belt legislatures endorsed
Rich benefactors: +7.8 funds per turn
Continuous Actions:
Contacts on Ellis Island: Contacts subtly direct immigrants to the APFA. -5 funds per turn. +6% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Forwards Together!): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
The American Dream Program: Helps immigrants and poor find well paying jobs, learn entrepreneurship, and get loans. -10 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +5 to actions regarding loyalty of your members.
New England Immigrant Operations: Work with the Ellis Island contacts and American Dream Program to help integrate immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. -8 funds per turn, +9% recruitment
Futurist Technology Fund: -5 funds per turn, occasionally events will happen. +5% recruitment.
Modifiers:
War Veterans: +5 to militia training rolls for the next 4 years (until 1902).
The 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.
Property:
Technocratic Institute of Planning: A Cleveland university for future politicians, entrepreneurs, and managers that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology. +3 funds per turn, more bonuses in '01.
—Scholarships for the American Dream Program: -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment
Associates: Several small coal mines in the Steel Belt, most of the independent steel mills factories in the Steel Belt, moderate sized gun factory in Cincinnati, major steel belt construction company
All-American Workers' Alliance
7 (5 Republican, 2 Democrat) House representatives, 1 senator (Republican) minorities in Steel Belt legislatures endorsed
Rich benefactors: +7.8 funds per turn
Continuous Actions:
Contacts on Ellis Island: Contacts subtly direct immigrants to the APFA. -5 funds per turn. +6% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Forwards Together!): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
The American Dream Program: Helps immigrants and poor find well paying jobs, learn entrepreneurship, and get loans. -10 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +5 to actions regarding loyalty of your members.
New England Immigrant Operations: Work with the Ellis Island contacts and American Dream Program to help integrate immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. -8 funds per turn, +9% recruitment
Futurist Technology Fund: -5 funds per turn, occasionally events will happen. +5% recruitment.
Modifiers:
War Veterans: +5 to militia training rolls for the next 4 years (until 1902).
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Factions and influence:
Anarchists: 15%
Industrialists: 11%
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Infiltrations: Several west coast railroad unions. Wealthy neighborhoods as servants across the west coast, especially San Fransisco. (+3/+5 to assassination, spying, or otherwise interference rolls in west coast cities/San Fransisco)
-1320 militia
-Faction: Anarchist
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
-Consists solely of elected representatives from said towns.
Factory Management Council: Manages owned factories and is elected from the factory workers. -1 funds per turn. -1 general action, +1 industrial action, +5 to industrial rolls.
-Each factory is a cooperative and has greater self-management.
-Faction: Industrialists
Miscellaneous Representatives: For those not in another sub-organization, elects delegates to form overall leadership.
Committees:
Guild Coordination Committee: Coordinates affiliated guilds and helps them communicate with each other.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Local Meeting Halls (+1 action)
San Fransisco Canning Factories: +12 funds
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit: +6 funds
San Fransisco Cigar Factories: +3 funds.
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards: +2 funds.
San Gabriel Valley Stores: +2 funds
Los Angeles Railcar Factory: +4 funds
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:
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Forging Certificates of Residence: Contacts in the government forge these certificates to allow a minor amount of immigration. -3 funds per turn.
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), most 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. -15% recruitment
Anarchists: 15%
Industrialists: 11%
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Infiltrations: Several west coast railroad unions. Wealthy neighborhoods as servants across the west coast, especially San Fransisco. (+3/+5 to assassination, spying, or otherwise interference rolls in west coast cities/San Fransisco)
-1320 militia
-Faction: Anarchist
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
-Consists solely of elected representatives from said towns.
Factory Management Council: Manages owned factories and is elected from the factory workers. -1 funds per turn. -1 general action, +1 industrial action, +5 to industrial rolls.
-Each factory is a cooperative and has greater self-management.
-Faction: Industrialists
Miscellaneous Representatives: For those not in another sub-organization, elects delegates to form overall leadership.
Committees:
Guild Coordination Committee: Coordinates affiliated guilds and helps them communicate with each other.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Local Meeting Halls (+1 action)
San Fransisco Canning Factories: +12 funds
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit: +6 funds
San Fransisco Cigar Factories: +3 funds.
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards: +2 funds.
San Gabriel Valley Stores: +2 funds
Los Angeles Railcar Factory: +4 funds
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:
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Forging Certificates of Residence: Contacts in the government forge these certificates to allow a minor amount of immigration. -3 funds per turn.
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), most 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. -15% 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.
Pennsylvania Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania.
New York Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in New York. -6 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in New York.
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Orange Post): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
City Cleanup Program: With local churches, pay the unemployed to clean up their cities. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
City literacy programs: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities.
—Philadelphia: -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment
—NYC: -10 funds per turn, +20% recruitment
Adult literacy programs: A charity program run through rural churches.
—Pennsylvania: -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, many churches across West Virginia, several progressive upstate New York representatives and 6 House Representatives (republican)
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 Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-racist, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Pennsylvania Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in Pennsylvania.
New York Committee for Universal Suffrage: A committee that focuses on advertising for universal suffrage in New York. -6 funds per turn, +5 to actions related to advertising for universal suffrage in New York.
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Orange Post): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
City Cleanup Program: With local churches, pay the unemployed to clean up their cities. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
City literacy programs: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities.
—Philadelphia: -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment
—NYC: -10 funds per turn, +20% recruitment
Adult literacy programs: A charity program run through rural churches.
—Pennsylvania: -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, many churches across West Virginia, several progressive upstate New York representatives and 6 House Representatives (republican)
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 universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
San Fransisco small gun factory: +2 funds per turn, +2 per die up to 5 die for buying weaponry.
Continuous Actions:
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: A program in San Fransisco to look for troubled youths and put them in contact with a university student/alumnus as a mentor to give them a support network and contacts. -3 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
Modifiers:
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.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
Notable Members:
Many low ranking bureaucrats in San Fransisco and California governments.
Property:
San Fransisco Office (+1 action)
California universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
San Fransisco small gun factory: +2 funds per turn, +2 per die up to 5 die for buying weaponry.
Continuous Actions:
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: A program in San Fransisco to look for troubled youths and put them in contact with a university student/alumnus as a mentor to give them a support network and contacts. -3 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
Modifiers:
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
Dues: Income with delinquency
Founded by the scandalous and disgraced (yet not disowned) heiress to financier Emmerich Voight, Walpurga Voight, and her eclectic circle of friends and associates for the purpose of advancing their radical social and political ideals. This tightly-knit inner circle is often referred to as "the Valkyries" or "the Coven" by detractors and supporters alike. Its self-professed aims are the liberation of all peoples from tyranny, regardless of its form or excuse. It champions the cause of women, workers, and minorities, and decries the obvious 'divide and conquer' methods by which the powerful turn those causes against one another.
Locale: The Great Lakes Region, particularly in Chicago.
Supporters: Women, Feminists, Socialists, Racial Minorities, Internationalists; particularly among those who are in more than one of those categories, and/or are militant/radicalized.
Ideology: An early form of Intersectional Socialism derived from the implicit principles of the era's socialist, feminist, and anti-racist thinking, fused and formalized into an explicit tendency by Walpurga Voight. As formulated by Voight, the ideology is radical, militant, and uncompromising, refusing to accept attempts to divide and conquer, or to accept the liberation of workers or women or minorities being sacrificed for the sake of others.
Notable Members:
Walpurga Voight: Owns industry in propert
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -8 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter: Very weak
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
The Chicago School of Journalism
Farm Toolmaking Factory (1 medium): +4 funds per turn
Furniture Factory (1 small): +4 funds per turn
Hemp Textile Factory (2 medium): +10 funds per turn
Machine Shop (1 large): +8 funds per turn
Armaments and Munitions Factory Complex: -16 funds per turn, +250 weaponry per turn
Great Lakes Gay Bars: +3 funds per turn
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, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Self Defense Program: A program for teaching women self-defense, with Annie Oakley as a leader. -3 funds per turn, women in SUS areas have better self-defense skills, +5 to train militia action.
Anti-Prejudice/Misogyny Training: Members are trained in not being misogynist or prejudiced towards minorities, decreasing conflicts there and making it less likely the organization will have that sort of problem. -2 funds per turn.
Affiliations: Various ethnic socialist clubs in Chicago serve as meeting places for local initiatives. +3 to rolls in Chicago.
Founded by the scandalous and disgraced (yet not disowned) heiress to financier Emmerich Voight, Walpurga Voight, and her eclectic circle of friends and associates for the purpose of advancing their radical social and political ideals. This tightly-knit inner circle is often referred to as "the Valkyries" or "the Coven" by detractors and supporters alike. Its self-professed aims are the liberation of all peoples from tyranny, regardless of its form or excuse. It champions the cause of women, workers, and minorities, and decries the obvious 'divide and conquer' methods by which the powerful turn those causes against one another.
Locale: The Great Lakes Region, particularly in Chicago.
Supporters: Women, Feminists, Socialists, Racial Minorities, Internationalists; particularly among those who are in more than one of those categories, and/or are militant/radicalized.
Ideology: An early form of Intersectional Socialism derived from the implicit principles of the era's socialist, feminist, and anti-racist thinking, fused and formalized into an explicit tendency by Walpurga Voight. As formulated by Voight, the ideology is radical, militant, and uncompromising, refusing to accept attempts to divide and conquer, or to accept the liberation of workers or women or minorities being sacrificed for the sake of others.
Notable Members:
Walpurga Voight: Owns industry in propert
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -8 funds per turn (scales 1 per 50k)
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -10 funds per turn, +1 policy action.
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter: Very weak
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
The Chicago School of Journalism
Farm Toolmaking Factory (1 medium): +4 funds per turn
Furniture Factory (1 small): +4 funds per turn
Hemp Textile Factory (2 medium): +10 funds per turn
Machine Shop (1 large): +8 funds per turn
Armaments and Munitions Factory Complex: -16 funds per turn, +250 weaponry per turn
Great Lakes Gay Bars: +3 funds per turn
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, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
Self Defense Program: A program for teaching women self-defense, with Annie Oakley as a leader. -3 funds per turn, women in SUS areas have better self-defense skills, +5 to train militia action.
Anti-Prejudice/Misogyny Training: Members are trained in not being misogynist or prejudiced towards minorities, decreasing conflicts there and making it less likely the organization will have that sort of problem. -2 funds per turn.
Affiliations: Various ethnic socialist clubs in Chicago serve as meeting places for local initiatives. +3 to rolls in Chicago.
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.
New York Gay Bars: +2 funds, +2% recruitment
Associations:
Gay bars in New York, forms a communication network
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.
New York Gay Bars: +2 funds, +2% recruitment
Associations:
Gay bars in New York, forms a communication network
The Minutemen
Beginnings: A relatively new movement which started as a group of military enthusiasts including some soldiers and even an officer or two. Starting off as just people with similar interests, the original group was formed around a new kind of game brought from the officer that was part of the army. But between the gaming sessions, and learning of more recent events, between the scandals, Custer's folly, and the complete mess that was the Union during the revolution, led to them to enter politics. And as part of that, they are seeking some way to try and find some way to be able to somewhat simulate combat, even if in an incomplete form to try and better understand it.
Locale: Largest group is in Pennsylvania.
Supporters: Military historians, people with military background or family in military. And relatively recently, hobbyists and others.
Ideology: Leaning a bit to the left, but they focus on cutting through the big business BS, ESPECIALLY in military matters. And they tend to carry the belief that understanding the topic is important.
Property:
Remodeled farmhouse near Pittsburgh: +1 action
Committees:
War Game Committee: Organizes war game sessions. -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Committee appointments are decided by elections in which the top voted in the organization are chosen. Overall leadership is chosen in a similar manner.
Tactics Research Committee: Researches traditional and new small unit tactics. One third of new militia are regulars (and two thirds green). -2 funds per turn.
Militia:
100 regulars
Programs:
Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities Clubs and Programs: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Associates:
Gun shops and manufacturers: +4 per die for buying weaponry.
Locale: Largest group is in Pennsylvania.
Supporters: Military historians, people with military background or family in military. And relatively recently, hobbyists and others.
Ideology: Leaning a bit to the left, but they focus on cutting through the big business BS, ESPECIALLY in military matters. And they tend to carry the belief that understanding the topic is important.
Property:
Remodeled farmhouse near Pittsburgh: +1 action
Committees:
War Game Committee: Organizes war game sessions. -2 funds per turn, +10 to militia training action.
—Committee appointments are decided by elections in which the top voted in the organization are chosen. Overall leadership is chosen in a similar manner.
Tactics Research Committee: Researches traditional and new small unit tactics. One third of new militia are regulars (and two thirds green). -2 funds per turn.
Militia:
100 regulars
Programs:
Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities Clubs and Programs: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Associates:
Gun shops and manufacturers: +4 per die for buying weaponry.
Southern People's Alliance
Circumstance of Founding: Formed from members of the People's Party and Farmers' Alliance (Southern and Colored) who attended the Chicago World Fair and were intrigued by the United Front demonstrations, eventually turning outright towards Socialism. The economic hardship following the Panic of 1893 turned them from a series of informal debate clubs within the People's Party left wing into a full-fledged organization in and of itself.
Locale: US South
Supporters: Poor rural Whites, African Americans, former Farmers' Alliance members, People's Party radicals/left-wing, Railroad Workers
Ideology: Agrarianism, Cooperativism, Populism, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarian Socialism. Specifically anti-racist, viewing racism as a tool of the Planter Aristocracy. Have a view of "Three Great Enemies": The Planter Aristocracy, the Banks, and the Railroad Companies.
Other Notes: Some internal disagreement between an Anarchist wing that seeks to emulate the direct action and parallel organization methods of the FAM, RFAA, and SUS, and an "Agrarian Marxist" Wing that hopes to transition the larger People's Party towards something that can be used as a vehicle to bring about Socialism (or formally split off the left-wing to serve the same purpose if that doesn't work.)
Sub-Groups:
Poor Man's Fighters:
-Formalized command system with elected officers and command: -5 funds per turn, +1 PMF action
-900 militia, 300 of which are regulars
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
Committees:
Farmer's Alliance Contact Committee: -3 funds per turn, +9% recruitment.
Coop Mill and Shop Integration Committee: Integrates existing coop mills and shops into the organization, meaning everyone in the vicinity of each is essentially part of that coop. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. +2% recruitment. -2 funds per turn.
Continuous Actions:
North Carolina Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the North Carolina movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment.
Locale: US South
Supporters: Poor rural Whites, African Americans, former Farmers' Alliance members, People's Party radicals/left-wing, Railroad Workers
Ideology: Agrarianism, Cooperativism, Populism, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarian Socialism. Specifically anti-racist, viewing racism as a tool of the Planter Aristocracy. Have a view of "Three Great Enemies": The Planter Aristocracy, the Banks, and the Railroad Companies.
Other Notes: Some internal disagreement between an Anarchist wing that seeks to emulate the direct action and parallel organization methods of the FAM, RFAA, and SUS, and an "Agrarian Marxist" Wing that hopes to transition the larger People's Party towards something that can be used as a vehicle to bring about Socialism (or formally split off the left-wing to serve the same purpose if that doesn't work.)
Sub-Groups:
Poor Man's Fighters:
-Formalized command system with elected officers and command: -5 funds per turn, +1 PMF action
-900 militia, 300 of which are regulars
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
Committees:
Farmer's Alliance Contact Committee: -3 funds per turn, +9% recruitment.
Coop Mill and Shop Integration Committee: Integrates existing coop mills and shops into the organization, meaning everyone in the vicinity of each is essentially part of that coop. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. +2% recruitment. -2 funds per turn.
Continuous Actions:
North Carolina Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the North Carolina movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment.
Appalachian Brotherhood
Dues: Low with delinquency
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
Property:
Pittsburgh Meeting Room: +1 action
Committees:
Appalachian Cultural Committee: Collects a list of unique Appalachian culture and encourages people to share it. -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment, +5 to rolls relating to getting local groups involved.
Continuous Actions:
Pittsburgh Newspaper (Yinz Voice): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Pennsylvania movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Pittsburgh.
Affiliates:
Pittsburgh RFAA councils (+5 to Pittsburgh actions)
UMW branches
After a recent bout of seasonal flooding from the north-west oil fields of Pennsylvania, to northern West Virginia coal mines, the intelligentista, farm workers, oil workers, steel workers, and mine workers of the region declared that the nonexistant response of the national or state authorities meant that the region was on its own. Half an effort of nation building, half an expression of the already unique regional cultures and conditions of the area, the group has a dream of being free and equal. From south-west new york, to the southern part of the mountain range, they have yelled the call of liberation for the colonized region of Appalachia from the imperialist USA.
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
Property:
Pittsburgh Meeting Room: +1 action
Committees:
Appalachian Cultural Committee: Collects a list of unique Appalachian culture and encourages people to share it. -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment, +5 to rolls relating to getting local groups involved.
Continuous Actions:
Pittsburgh Newspaper (Yinz Voice): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Pennsylvania movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Pittsburgh.
Affiliates:
Pittsburgh RFAA councils (+5 to Pittsburgh actions)
UMW branches
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)
Founded in a bar in Del Rio, Texas, by a mismash group of Hispanic left-wing intellectuals and farmers, alongside some exiled Cuban revolutionaries. It is inspired by the successes of the United Front and its constituent members in organizing within the states. Their current goal is the organizing and radicalization of the growing Hispanic/Mexican-American population in the Sun Belt, with the eventual dream of assisting their Mexican homeland in the overthrow of the Porfiriato regime.
They are organized as a region of the RFAA.
Locale: Mostly Texas based, with some connections in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Areas with outsized Mexican populations basically.
Supporters: Hispanic labourers, workers and farmers, Mexican intellectuals in exile.
Ideology: Big Tent Socialism (Mostly Agrarian Socialists and Anarcho-Communists), Pro-Hispanic advocacy
Property:
Del Rio Office: +1 action
They are organized as a region of the RFAA.
Locale: Mostly Texas based, with some connections in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Areas with outsized Mexican populations basically.
Supporters: Hispanic labourers, workers and farmers, Mexican intellectuals in exile.
Ideology: Big Tent Socialism (Mostly Agrarian Socialists and Anarcho-Communists), Pro-Hispanic advocacy
Property:
Del Rio Office: +1 action
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, Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance, Friends of Huddled Masses
Socialist Labor Party:
California Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in California, -12 funds per turn.
Colorado Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Colorado, -4 funds per turn.
Illinois Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Illinois, -38 funds per turn.
Louisiana Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Louisiana, -11 funds per turn.
New York City Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in New York City, -27 funds per turn.
Elected Officials:
California: A large minority in the house, a minority in the senate.
—Governor Job Harrison, next election 1902
—San Fransisco Mayor George B. Benham
Colorado: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Nixon Elliot, next election 1900
Illinois: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Charles A. Baustian, next election 1900
—Mayor of Chicago John Glambeck, next election 1899
Louisiana: A majority in the house and large minority in the senate
—A majority in the municipal New Orleans government, Mayor William Jones, next election 1900
New York City: The mayor Morris Hillquit (next election 1901) and major boroughs other than Brooklyn
Federal: 3 senators (2 Colorado, 1 Illinois), 24 representatives (3 California, 2 Colorado, 15 Illinois, 4 Louisiana)
Passed Legislation:
Colorado Equal Rights Amendment (1898): Lowered DC for elections in Colorado.
New Orleans Labor and Civil Rights Laws (1898): 40 hour work week with overtime, city-wide union shop, no separate facilities by race, restaffed voting infrastructure. +4% popularity New Orleans, 1% Louisiana.
Membership modifiers:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): +3 to actions related to ideology, +5% recruitment.
Amalgamated Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of the America, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. +5 auto progress per turn to the FAM independent farms action. You may specify that you are going up to 5 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn. +3 funds per turn.
FAM Trainers and Procedures: +8 to militia training action. -5 funds per turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: +10 to rolls creating new newspapers. Newspaper ideology bonus increased to +7. +5 to public relations actions. +1 per die for public campaigns.
Ideological: Each part of the United Front is driven forward due to their strong ideals. Bonus to ideological coherency for each UF organization.
Business fears: -1 per die for unionization rolls.
-1 per die for buying guns.
Members: The Society for Universal Suffrage, Forty Acres Movement, Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance, Friends of Huddled Masses
Socialist Labor Party:
California Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in California, -12 funds per turn.
Colorado Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Colorado, -4 funds per turn.
Illinois Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Illinois, -38 funds per turn.
Louisiana Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Louisiana, -11 funds per turn.
New York City Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in New York City, -27 funds per turn.
Elected Officials:
California: A large minority in the house, a minority in the senate.
—Governor Job Harrison, next election 1902
—San Fransisco Mayor George B. Benham
Colorado: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Nixon Elliot, next election 1900
Illinois: A majority in the house and senate.
—Governor Charles A. Baustian, next election 1900
—Mayor of Chicago John Glambeck, next election 1899
Louisiana: A majority in the house and large minority in the senate
—A majority in the municipal New Orleans government, Mayor William Jones, next election 1900
New York City: The mayor Morris Hillquit (next election 1901) and major boroughs other than Brooklyn
Federal: 3 senators (2 Colorado, 1 Illinois), 24 representatives (3 California, 2 Colorado, 15 Illinois, 4 Louisiana)
Passed Legislation:
Colorado Equal Rights Amendment (1898): Lowered DC for elections in Colorado.
New Orleans Labor and Civil Rights Laws (1898): 40 hour work week with overtime, city-wide union shop, no separate facilities by race, restaffed voting infrastructure. +4% popularity New Orleans, 1% Louisiana.
Membership modifiers:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): +3 to actions related to ideology, +5% recruitment.
Amalgamated Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of the America, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. +5 auto progress per turn to the FAM independent farms action. You may specify that you are going up to 5 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn. +3 funds per turn.
FAM Trainers and Procedures: +8 to militia training action. -5 funds per turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: +10 to rolls creating new newspapers. Newspaper ideology bonus increased to +7. +5 to public relations actions. +1 per die for public campaigns.
Ideological: Each part of the United Front is driven forward due to their strong ideals. Bonus to ideological coherency for each UF organization.
Business fears: -1 per die for unionization rolls.
-1 per die for buying guns.
All Organization Modifiers:
National Association of Manufacturers Collaboration: -10 to a roll for buying industry
Nationalist Citizens' Alliance Interference: -2 per die for unionization rolls.
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Oooh boy, the fascists are getting organized.