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Frank Bohn (socialist)
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Frank Bohn (September 26, 1878 – July 29, 1975) was an advocate of industrial unionism who was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World. From 1906 to 1908 he was the National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of America, before leaving to join forces with the rival Socialist Party of America. After World War I his politics became increasingly nationalistic and he left the labor movement altogether.
Frank Bohn was born September 26, 1878 on an Ohio farm. He was the son of a German revolutionary who emigrated to the United States following the failure of the Revolution of 1848.
Bohn served as a soldier and non-commissioned officer in the Spanish–American War. He later claimed that the graft, corruption, and mismanagement that he witnessed as a soldier was the experience which made him a political radical.
Bohn attended the University of Michigan and obtained a Ph.D. degree in History in 1904.
In 1904, Bohn was a national organizer for the Socialist Labor Party of America and the party's industrial union offshoot, the Socialist Trade & Labor Alliance. It was in this capacity that Bohn sat as one of 22 invited radical political and labor leaders attending a "secret conference" held in Chicago on January 2, 1905, to discuss the prospective formation of a new general industrial union—the Industrial Workers of the World. This three-day conclave thrashed out their disagreements and issued a set of 11 principles and an Industrial Union Manifesto. It issued a call for a convention to be held in Chicago on June 27, 1905, to launch the new general industrial organization.
After formation of the IWW, he worked for a time as an organizer for that organization, touring the United States and Canada speaking on their behalf.
From 1906 to 1908, Bohn served as National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party. In this capacity, he was named a delegate to the 1907 Stuttgart Congress of the Second International.
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