Complex sentence: In this publication Swinton was free to espouse his own radical ideas about the American labor movement and the publication gained a national readership and proved influential for a few years before falling due to financial difficulties in 1887.
Split into simpler sentences: In this publication Swinton was free to espouse his own radical ideas about the American labor movement and the publication gained a national readership. The publication gained a national readership and proved influential for a few years before falling due to financial difficulties in 1887.