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Terence V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman for the [[Knights of Labor]] said in 1882 that "the main, all-absorbing question of the hour is the land question."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bHXZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA337 Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d8RMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90 The Single Tax Movement in the United States]</ref>  In 1884, the Knights inserted a clause(iv) in its platform that called for "all lands now held for speculative purposes be taxed to their full value"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsRMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89 Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics: 1885, Volume 1], Knights of Labor platform, Adopted September 10th, 1884</ref>  The book was particularly popular with workers and trades unionists because they felt that George was on their side.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xWQ7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA15 The Forum, Volume 3], Henry George's Economic Heresies</ref>

Terence V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman for the [[Knights of Labor]] said in 1882 that "the main, all-absorbing question of the hour is the land question."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bHXZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA337 Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d8RMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90 The Single Tax Movement in the United States]</ref>  In 1884, the Knights inserted a clause(iv) in its platform that called for "all lands now held for speculative purposes be taxed to their full value"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsRMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89 Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics: 1885, Volume 1], Knights of Labor platform, Adopted September 10th, 1884</ref>  The book was particularly popular with workers and trades unionists because they felt that George was on their side.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xWQ7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA15 The Forum, Volume 3], Henry George's Economic Heresies</ref>

[[John Dewey]] described George as "one of the world's great social philosophers, certainly the greatest which this country has produced."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPBCD9H-vVcC&pg=PA302|last1=Dewey|first1=John|title=The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933-1934|date=2008|publisher=SIU Press|pages=302}}</ref>  According to Daniel Bell, a former sociologist at [[Harvard]], "Henry George stands paramount in the authentic tradition of the great agrarian reformers of the United States."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bell|first1=Daniel|title=Marxian Socialism in the United States|date=1996|publisher=Cornell University Press|pages=27}}</ref><ref name=smucker>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH9gR5erxrwC&pg=PA104|last1=Smucker|first1=Donovan|title=Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics|date=1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|pages=104}}</ref>  George also had a huge impact on [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the largest figures of the early 20th century [[Social Gospel]] movement,<ref name=smucker /> and [[William Simon U'Ren]] became active in the Single Tax movement using [[Initiative, Referendum, and Recall]] as a means to push the Single Tax agenda.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JQnZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21 Single Tax Conference, Held in New York City, November 19 and 20, 1910, Under the Auspices of the Joseph Fels Fund Commission, Volume 1]</ref>

[[John Dewey]] described George as "one of the world's great social philosophers, certainly the greatest which this country has produced."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPBCD9H-vVcC&pg=PA302|last1=Dewey|first1=John|title=The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933-1934|date=2008|publisher=SIU Press|pages=302}}</ref>  According to Daniel Bell, a former sociologist at [[Harvard]], "Henry George stands paramount in the authentic tradition of the great agrarian reformers of the United States."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bell|first1=Daniel|title=Marxian Socialism in the United States|date=1996|publisher=Cornell University Press|pages=27}}</ref><ref name=smucker>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH9gR5erxrwC&pg=PA104|last1=Smucker|first1=Donovan|title=Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics|date=1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|pages=104}}</ref>  George also had a huge impact on [[William Simon U'Ren]], who became active in the Single Tax movement using [[Initiative, Referendum, and Recall]] as a means to push the Single Tax agenda.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JQnZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21 Single Tax Conference, Held in New York City, November 19 and 20, 1910, Under the Auspices of the Joseph Fels Fund Commission, Volume 1]</ref>

 

George made significant inroads with the [[Social Gospel]] movement.  [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the largest figures of the early 20th century [[Social Gospel]] movement,<ref name=smucker /> was a strong believer.  Father Edward McGlynn, one of the most popular and prominent Catholic priests of his day,<ref>[http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/K18George_McGlynn_and_Leo_XIII.pdf Henry George Dr. Edward McGlynn & Pope Leo XIII]</ref> was excommunicated for his outspoken support of Georgism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cAcUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA486 Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FK_Z-IusmLoC&pg=PA72 Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924]</ref>

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