The Labor Party ( es, Partido Obrero), also known as the Socialist Worker's Party ( es, Partido Obrero Socialista), was a

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from 1899 to 1915. The party was founded on July 18, 1899 by Santiago Iglesias Pantín, an early leader of the Puerto Rican

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who was influenced by the

Socialist Labor Party of America The Socialist Labor Party (SLP)"The name of this organization shall be Socialist Labor Party". Art. I, Sec. 1 of thadopted at the Eleventh National Convention (New York, July 1904; amended at the National Conventions 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924 ...

.''Arts / Teatro obrero / Workers Theater.''
Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Fundacion Puertorriquena para las Humanidades. Retrieved 29 February 2012. The Labor Party was formally re-organized as the

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on March 21, 1915, in the town of Cayey. It originally served as the political arm of the Free Federation of Workers, which became the Puerto Rican branch of the

American Federation of Labor The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutua ...

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