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Eggert, Gerald G. "Coxey's March on Washington, 1894." American History Illustrated 1977 12(6): 20-31.  Coxey was Greenbacker, Populist, and founder of the Good Roads Association.  He wanted the federal government to issue non-interest-bearing bonds (Greenbacks) to hire the unemployed to construct roads, schools, courthouses, and other public facilities. To publicize his plan, he organized a march of the unemployed on Washington, D.C. from his home in Massillon, Ohio. The marchers left Ohio in March 1894 and arrived in Washington on May Day, 1894.  

Gustaitis, Joseph. "Coxey's Army." American History Illustrated 1994 29(1): 38-45.  Outlines the story behind Coxey's Army and Jacob Coxey's reform ideas.  Included are creation of a national road-building program, the issuing of non-interest-bearing bonds to finance it, and federal aid for the unemployed. 

Hooper, Osman Castle. "The Coxey Movement in Ohio." Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly. 9:155-76. Oct 1900.  

Hurt, R. Douglas. "The Farmers' Alliance and People's Party in Ohio." The Old Northwest: A Journal of Regional Life and Letters. 10(4):439-62. Winter 1984-1985.  Alliancemen and Populists usually were the most radical and dissatisfied elements of the agricultural and working communities.  Both organizations supported regulation of railroads, direct election of senators, expansion of the money supply, the graduated income tax, the initiative and referendum, and women's suffrage.  Ohio Populism was stillborn because Ohio farmers did not suffer the same economic hardships as Great Plains or Southern farmers.  America: history and life, 24a:5346

Nornow, William F. "Bellamy Nationalism in Ohio 1891-1896." Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 58:152-170. April 1949. 

Pierce, Michael. "Farmers and the Failure of Populism in Ohio, 1890-1891." Agricultural History 2000 74(1): 58-85. Although there was widespread sympathy among farmers for the Populist platform and considerable discontent with national economic developments, the strong two-party system in the state provided opportunities for farmers to draw support for farm issues from the traditional parties. The strength of the two-party system also made it likely that farmers would eventually lose influence if they chose to work outside the traditional parties.  

_____. "The Plow and Hammer: Farmers, Organized Labor and the People's Party in Ohio." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1999.  DAI, 60, no. 08A (1999): 3104.  The Ohio People's (Populist) party was essentially a labor party. While Ohio farmers remained loyal to the traditional parties, many Ohio labor organizations; including the United Mine Workers and the central labor bodies of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus; endorsed the People's party. The state's leading trade unionist, John McBride, led the forces attempting to take the American Federation of Labor (AFL) into an alliance with the People's party and defeated Samuel Gompers for the presidency of the AFL in 1894.  The fusion of the of the Populists and Democrats in 1896 destroyed the coalition that Ohio trade unionists had built around the People's party. Although some of the state's unionists joined the Democrats, most Ohio trade unionists saw the fusion as a betrayal. Instead, they joined other political parties or de-emphasized political action. At the national level the AFL had been roughly divided between forces led by McBride wanting to transform the Federation into a partisan organization through an alliance with the People's party and forces led by Gompers feeling that the Federation should emphasize economic action. By leaving McBride and his allies without a party, the fusion undercut the political unionists and contributed to the triumph of Gompers and pure and simple unionism. 

_____. "The Populist President of the American Federation of Labor: The Career of John McBride, 1880-1895. Labor History [Great Britain]  2000 41(1): 5-24. McBride supported the Democratic Party in the mid-1880's.  McBride became the Ohio Miners' Union's first president in 1882 and held the post until 1889. After a brief tenure as a state representative, McBride helped found the Ohio People's Party in 1891.  Despite the failure of an 1894 miners' strike, McBride's popularity continued among the rank and file, and he defeated Samuel Gompers, who opposed direct political affiliation, for the office of AFL president in 1894.  In his year as president, McBride worked to bring the union into third party political action.  Gompers defeated McBride for reelection by a narrow margin in 1895.  McBride abandoned his union activity afterward.   America: History and life,

Rockwood, Dean Stephen. "The People's Party in Ohio, 1891‑1896." M.A. Thesis, Miami U, 1970.  

Socolofsky, Homer E. "Jacob Coxey, Ohio's Fairly Respectable Populist." Kansas Quarterly. 1(4):63-69. Fall 1969.