Working Men's Party (New York)

Working Men's Party
Working Men's Party
Chairman	Thomas Skidmore
Secretary	Robert Dale Owen
Founded	1829
Dissolved	1831
Succeeded by	Locofoco faction of the Democratic Party
Headquarters	New York City
Newspaper	Working Man's Advocate
Ideology	Communalism; Labor rights; Utopian socialism
Political position	Left-wing
	Politics of the United States; Political parties; Elections;

Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877) was a prominent leader of the short-lived New York Working Men's Party.

For other organizations with a similar name, see Workingmen's Party (disambiguation).

The Working Men's Party in New York was a political party founded in April 1829 in New York City. After a promising debut in the fall election of 1829, in which one of the party's candidates was elected to the New York State Assembly, the party rapidly disintegrated into factionalism and discord, vanishing from the scene in 1831.

The New York Working Men's Party was one of a number of short-lived independent workingmen's parties which simultaneously emerged in Philadelphia, Boston, and many other urban centers of the United States during the period 1828 to 1832.

^ Byrdsall, Fitzwilliam (1842). The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party. New York: Clement & Packard. pp. 13–14.

[Byrdsall_1842_13–14-1] Byrdsall, Fitzwilliam (1842). The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party. New York: Clement & Packard. pp. 13–14.

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