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A cooperative association "comprising individuals of various creeds, professions, and nationalities" and "loving freedom and hating oppression" brought out the first issue of the weekly Examiner on Saturday, November 19, 1881. The masthead carried the description: "Devoted to the discussion of all questions relating to the moral, social and material advancement of the people." A "Salutatory" on page one contextualizes this mission in great detail. At the appearance of its first issue, the Examiner was heralded by the Fall River Labor Standard as "a labor paper in a state that is all in the hands of the enemy." The cooperative added to the progressive profile of the paper by advertising the agreement of Connecticut reformer and suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker to write a column. The editor was Robert H. Pyne. His politics might be gleaned from news accounts of him addressing, in 1887, a mass meeting to protest the hanging at the Chicago Haymarket and, as state organizer of the United Labor Party, the Hartford Central Labor Union. In 1896, he was reported as speaking at a convention of the Connecticut People's Party.

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The Labor Standard, 1910–1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: March 7, 2023

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The Labor Standard, 1910–1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: March 7, 2023