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Työmies (1895)
''Työmies'' (The Worker) was the official organ of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. The paper was launched in 1895 and continued until the suppression of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic in 1918. History ''Työmies'' was established by the Helsinki Workers' Association in 1895. The paper's first editor was Adam Hermann Karvonen, an elementary school teacher. The paper was terminated after the Battle of Helsinki in 1918, when the German tropps invaded Helsinki during the Finnish Civil War. The paper was succeeded as the official organ of the Social Democratic Party of Finland The Social Democratic Party of Finland ( , SDP, nicknamed: ''demarit'' in Finnish; , SD) is a social democratic political party in Finland. It is the third-largest party in the Parliament of Finland with a total of 43 seats. Founded in 1899 as ... by the ''Suomen Sosialidemokraatti'' (Finnish Social-Democrat), later known as ''Demari'' (The Socialist) and ''Uutispäivä Demari'' (Socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Työmies
''Työmies'' (The Worker) was a politically radical Finnish-language newspaper published primarily out of Hancock, Michigan, and Superior, Wisconsin. Launched as a weekly in July 1903, the paper later went to daily frequency and was issued under its own name until its merger with the communist newspaper '' Eteenpäin'' (Forward) in 1950 to form ''Työmies-Eteenpäin''. ''Työmies'' was affiliated with the Finnish Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America before later becoming a publication of the Communist Party, USA. History Establishment ''Työmies'' was established in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1903 as ''Amerikan Suomalainen Työmies'' (The Finnish-American Worker).Auvo Kostiainen, "Finns," in Dirk Hoerder with Christiane Harzig (eds.), ''The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography: Volume 1: Migrants from Northern Europe.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987; pp. 224, 234-235. The original ''Amerikan Suomalainen Ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |