The New Order (International Workers Order Youth). Vol. 1 No. 5. May 1932.

Contents: May 1932, National Youth Day or Decoration Day by Dave Greene, The Order of the Day by Slim, En Route to the USSR by Sam Miller, The Mutiny at Archangel by Harry Raymond, Proletarian Music by Norman Plotkin, A Letter from Sam Glesser, “Are You Fighting Against War?” by Alice Roxin, Sports by Sam Kessler, News of the I.W.O., National Student League by Joe Cohen, Study Circles, From Coast to Coast With Our Branches.

Barricade, the publication of the I.W.O’s Youth Section, was renamed New Order. The International Workers Order was a left-wing mutual benefit and fraternal organization tied to, but much broader than, the Communist Party. Founded in 1930, but with a long history in the Workmen’s Circles, it reached 200,000 members before being forced to disband in 1954 over state legal suits targeting its ties to the Communist Party during McCarthyism. Many of its sections would continue on, most notably the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order. The IWO provided its members health and life insurance, medical and dental clinics, it supported foreign-language newspapers, schools, sporting and cultural clubs, summer camp, libraries, and cemeteries. The IWO began as a left-wing split in the SP and Bundist dominated Workmen’s Circle, the largely Yiddish speaking Der Arbeter Ring, in 1929. As the IWO grew it would have 15 sections, the largest of which was the Jewish section, about a third of its membership. An English section was established as well as the Hungarian Workmen’s Sick, Benevolent, and Educational Federation; the Ukrainian-American Fraternal Union; the Carpatho-Russian National Society; the Cervantes Society Mutualista Obrera Puertorriqueña; the Garibaldi American Fraternal Society; the Hellenic-American Brotherhood; the Serbian-American Federation; the Russian American Mutual Aid Society; the Slovak Workers Society; the Polonia Society; the Rumanian American Fraternal Society; the Czech Workers Society and the Finnish American Mutual Aid Society.

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