One branch of this organization was led by the author of the treatise The Rights of Man to Property, Thomas Skidmore, and managed to elect Ebenezer Ford to a state assembly seat on what the Journal of Commerce contemptuously called "the Fanny Wright ticket."  Much of the original organization of this faction was conducted by William Heighton, who had begun holding meetings in Southwark whre he railed against "a system of competition," and through the writings of Stephen Simpson in the Columbian 
One branch of this organization was led by the author of the treatise The Rights of Man to Property, Thomas Skidmore, and managed to elect Ebenezer Ford to a state assembly seat on what the Journal of Commerce contemptuously called "the Fanny Wright ticket."  Much of the original organization of this faction was conducted by William Heighton, who had begun holding meetings in Southwark whre he railed against "a system of competition," and through the writings of Stephen Simpson in the Columbian Observer, this party's opposition to the banking system influenced Andrew Jackson. William John Duane, a drafter of this party's anti-bank report, would later become Treasury Secretary under Jackson, and this party's namesake Advocate was published by George Henry Evans. This party had its greatest electoral successes in 1828 in Philadelphia, but following a split in 1833, many members of this party joined the Equal Rights Party, while many of its New York members went over to the Locofocos. Originally created as the political arm of the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations, for ten points, identify this political party which advocated such reforms as limited working hours and universal malfe suffrage, the first labor-oriented political party in the United States.
One branch of this organization was led by the author of the treatise The Rights of Man to Property, Thomas Skidmore, and managed to elect Ebenezer Ford to a state assembly seat on what the Journal of Commerce contemptuously called "the Fanny Wright ticket."  
Working {Men's} Party