The Socialist Labor Party Hall’s Primo Maggio 2016 celebration continues the fun, food, and education on May Day itself with a timely illustrated talk by Prof. Robert Weir, “Solid Men in the Granite City: Barre’s Socialist Mayors”. (These men are particularly suitable topics for this year’s celebration because they were not only both from Barre’s Scottish community, but the Hall was their party’s regular meeting place.)
Long before Bernie Sanders became Burlington’s first democratic socialist mayor, Barre elected two socialists of its own, Robert Gordon in 1916 and Fred Suitor in 1931.
In his talk, Prof. Weir discusses the impact and nature of the “evolutionary” socialism practiced by Gordon and Suitor, men described by former Vermont Republican governor Deane Davis, who worked for both, as “good men” and “conservative.”
Dr. Weir is a Fulbright scholar and author/editor of seven books including The Encyclopedia of the American Labor Movement and Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia.
Light refreshments available.
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