death_place death_date religion birth_place birth_date spouse article_title name
north sydney , nsw , australia 25 may 1940 anglican marylebone , middx , london 31 january 1866 mary henrietta williams sam rosa
 samuel albert rosa
sam rosa

samuel albert `` sam '' rosa -lrb- 31 january 1866 -- 25 may 1940 -rrb- was a british socialist and journalist .
the son of housepainter alexander rosa and mary elizabeth henshaw , rosa was probably born in marylebone , middx , london where he attended st andrew 's school and the polytechnic school of art in regent street .
in 1884 he was an executive member of the social democratic federation , and in 1886 as a journalist in the united states was a member of the socialist labor league and the knights of labor .
in 1888 he moved to melbourne and established the local branch of the australian socialist league ; on 20 july 1889 he formed the social democratic league with william maloney and w. d. flinn , publishing a pamphlet , `` social democracy '' , in 1890 .
he was later imprisoned for making `` inflammatory '' anti-sabbatarian speeches , and became prominent as a spokesman for the unemployed .
he went to america on 10 april 1886 at age 19 on board the ship ` england ' to new york , his destination was colorado .
later on 19 october 1888 rosa moved to sydney from america and became secretary of the australian socialist league .
in january 1892 he was deposed and the league began to move towards state-oriented socialism , which rosa opposed .
he married mary henrietta williams , a widowed dressmaker , on 14 june 1892 at paddington .
he successfully sued `` truth '' for libel in september , but in 1893 was imprisoned for three months after selling arthur desmond 's `` hard cash '' .
rosa himself published a novel in 1894 , initially titled `` the coming terror '' but republished as `` oliver spence '' in 1895 .
he ran unsuccessfully for the new south wales legislative assembly as a labor candidate in 1894 and 1895 .
he attended the people 's federal convention at bathurst in 1896 , and , at odds with most other socialists , opposed federation .
he stood unsuccessfully as an independent for the senate in 1901 .
despite the earlier disputes between him and `` truth '' , he was appointed its editor by his friend john norton in 1901 and worked for the paper in 1923 .
he was chairman of the industrial vigilance council during world war i and was expelled from the labor party in july 1919 together with jock garden and albert willis after they denounced the state executive as corrupt and useless .
rosa then chaired the first conference of the industrial socialist labor party .
in 1923 , after leaving `` truth '' , he edited `` common cause '' , the journal of the australian coal and shale employees ' federation , and in 1925 became leader-writer and literary editor of the `` labor daily '' when it amalgamated with `` common cause '' .
in 1934 he returned to `` truth '' , and in 1937 he was elected president of the society of australian composers and authors .
he died in 1940 .
