Encyclopedia > Committee of Fifty

Article Content

Committee of Fifty

The Committee of Fifty met in New York City in October of 1829. They advocated redistribution of property[?] between the poor and rich; as well as abolition of banking, monopoly, and debt imprisonment[?].

They also nominated a slate of Working Men's Party[?] candidates for the upcoming elections.

See also: Working Men's Party[?], Communism, Socialism,Anarchism, Industrial Revolution

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Sanskrit language

... for all Indian language writing systems except Urdu. For the ingenious phonetic classification scheme of these writing systems see Indian language. The sounds ar ...