"Workingmen of All Countries Unite"
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The letterhead of the Local 97 Minute Book. The national organization reflected the influence and inspiration of the Marxist German Social Democratic Party, denominating their members as "genossen," the same term used for membership in the German socialist party, the equivalent of "comrade" in English.
Date: July 31, 1890
Image credit: Photo by Dave Riehle, document from the Minnesota Historical Society Collections
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Brewery Workers, Bosses and Consumers
German workers and German bosses had a monopoly on brewing beer in St Paul, as they did almost everywhere in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As historian Gary Brueggeman has explained (“Beer Capital of the State-St Paul’s…