The Workers’ Council. Vol. 1 No. 8. October 15, 1921.

Contents: Famine Appeal for Soviet Russia, Editorial, Washington Conference Exposed, The Task of the Hour, The American Coal Miners by J. Louis Engdahl, Labor Dictatorship Is Historical Necessity, by Donald Mcleod, Socialist Party and Soviet Russia, Lusk and Hillquit Accommodated, Medical Care in Soviet Russia, Launch the National Campaign.

The Worker’ Council purpose was to win the Socialist Party of America to the Third, Communist, International and later to win locals and individuals. Published (mostly) weekly by the International Education Association in New York City, Workers Council included important members of the SP, mainly from its Jewish Federation like. J. Louis Engdahl, Benjamin Glassberg, William Kruse, Moissaye J. Olgin, and J. B. Salutsky, editor of the radical Jewish weekly, Naye Welt. They constituted the Left Wing that remained in the Socialist Party after the splits of 1919 and were organized as The Committee for the Third International. Most would leave the SP after its1921 Convention, joining the Workers (Communist) Party after a short independent existence later that year.

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