Margaret Haile

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Margaret Haile was an American and Canadian socialist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a teacher and journalist by profession. Frederic Heath's "Socialism in America," published in January 1900 in the Social Democracy Red Book, lists her, along with Corinne S. Brown and Eugene V. Debs, among "One Hundred Well-known Social Democrats".

A resident of Massachusetts in 1901, Haile was a member of the Executive Board of the Social Democratic Party as it planned the formation of the Socialist Party of America. She was one of two women on the nine-member board, and may have been the first woman to serve on the board of an American Socialist organization.

Haile moved to Canada shortly thereafter, and became in 1902 the first woman to run for legislative office in Canada, on the platform of the Canadian Socialist League. She may have been the first woman to run for major elected office within the entire British Empire.

[edit] References

• Oakley C. Johnson, Marxism in United States History Before the Russian Revolution (1876-1917) (1974), ISBN 0-391-00326-7.

[edit] External links

• Margaret Haile, "Some Theories of Party Organization", Social Democratic Herald, Vol. 4, No. 1 (22 June 1901) (accessed 28 November 2006)