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Today in Labor History March 24, 1834: William Morris, British author, textile designer and revolutionary socialist was born on this date. He wrote the utopian novel “News From Nowhere” and founded the Socialist League in 1874. He was influenced by both Marxism and anarchism.

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William Morris at age 53, by Frederick Hollyer, with a long gray beard, wavy hair, head resting on fist, looking straight ahead, 1887. By Frederick Hollyer - https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZQOAAAAIAAJ Google Books edition of J. W. Mackail The Life of William Morris in two volumes, London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4578235