Titus, "who preached an uncompromising version of faith in the revolutionary class struggle and scorn for all reforms." In 1910 he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In 1904 he joined an extremist group headed by a physician, Dr. After having several menial jobs in Pennsylvania he moved to New York City in 1900.įoster joined the Socialist Party in 1901 and over the next few years worked as a cook, seaman, dock-worker, farm hand, trolley-car conductor, metal worker, car carpenter and airbrakeman. Foster later wrote that he grew up in a slum where "indolence, ignorance, thuggery, crime, disease, drunkenness and general social degeneration flourished." At the age of ten Foster was forced to leave school in search of work. The family moved to Philadelphia in 1887. His mother, a devout Catholic of English-Scotch stock, bore twenty-three children, most of whom died in infancy." According to Theodore Draper: "His father, an English-hating Irish immigrant, washed carriages for a living. William Zebulon Foster was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on 25th February, 1881.
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