Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Members of the Socialist Labor Party of America, Socialist Labor Party of America politicians, Jack London, James Connolly, Algie Martin Simons, Albert Parsons, George D. Herron, Meyer London, Frank Bohn, Daniel De Leon, Wilhelm Rosenberg, Mack Reynolds, J. Mahlon Barnes, Emil Herman, Ella Reeve Bloor, Adolph Douai, Louis C. Fraina, Antoinette Konikow, George Boomer, Algernon Lee, Louis B. Boudin, Job Harriman, James H. Maurer, Abraham Cahan, Dos Abend Blatt, Denis Kitchen, Olive M. Johnson, Frank T. Johns, Arthur E. Reimer, Gaylord Wilshire, Maximilian Cohen, Workers' International Industrial Union, Julius Gerber, Max S. Hayes, Socialist Labor Party Hall, William Mailly, Charles Matchett, Arnold Petersen, J. Edward Hall, Georgia Cozzini, Eric Hass, Louis Fisher, Simon Wing, Jules Levin, Henning A. Blomen, William Wesley Cox, August Gillhaus, Charles Hunter Corregan, Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party, Horace Hillis, Socialist Industrial Unions. Excerpt: John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of White Fang and Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss. Flora Wellman.Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was a great-great-great-grandson of Puritan Thomas Wellman. Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and Spiritualist claiming to channel the spirit of an Indian chief. Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe that London's father was astrologer William Chaney. Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. Most San Francisco civil records were destroyed by the extensive fires that followed the 1906 earthquake, it is not known with certainty what name appeared on his birth certificate. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his "wife" and also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself "Florence Wellman C