Oscar Ameringer is one of the great nearly forgotten voices of Oklahoma history. Ameringer was one of the leading lights of the Oklahoma Socialist Party, a newspaper editor, a political activist and organizer, a crusader against the KKK, was very nearly elected mayor of Oklahoma City, and was indicted for sedition for writing an insufficiently [...]
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May Day Ramblings – From The Oklahoma Leader, May 1924
[Another prescient op-ed by Oklahoma labor leader Oscar Ameringer rescued from the public domain. Enjoy!] They are marching In brand new overalls with funny little caps on their noodles. This is the regulation uniform prescribed by the bosses to distinguish them from the better classes. Some two thousand years ago the Romans passed a law [...]
