Labor Party (Puerto Rico)

The Labor Party (Spanish: Partido Obrero), also known as the Socialist Worker's Party (Spanish: Partido Obrero Socialista), was a political party in Puerto Rico from 1899 to 1915.^[1]

Labor Party
Leader	Santiago Iglesias Pantín
Founder	Santiago Iglesias Pantín
Founded	July 18, 1899 (1899-07-18)
Dissolved	March 21, 1915 (1915-03-21)
Succeeded by	Socialist Party
Ideology	Laborism

The party was founded on July 18, 1899 by Santiago Iglesias Pantín, an early leader of the Puerto Rican labor movement who was influenced by the Socialist Labor Party of America.^[2]

The Labor Party was formally re-organized as the Socialist Party on March 21, 1915, in the town of Cayey. It originally served as the political arm of the Free Federation of Workers, which became the Puerto Rican branch of the American Federation of Labor.