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The Union Labor Party was a San Francisco, California working
class political party of the first decade of the 20th century.
The organization, which endorsed the doctrine of nativism, rose
to prominence in both the labor movement and urban politics in
the years after 1901, electing its nominee as Mayor of San
Francisco in 1909. Organizational history  Preliminary overview
During the first decade of the 20th century, employers across
America made effective use of judicial injunctions to prohibit
trade unions from engaging in strikes to win recognition for
themselves and wage-and-hour gains for their members. This so-
called "open shop drive" put organized labor, concentrated in an
array of local and international craft unions joined under the
umbrella of the American Federation of Labor on the defensive.
In San Francisco, one