The Workmen’s Circle provides free burials for twenty-five Triangle Fire victims in its cemeteries.

ILGWU leads the strike of approximately 60,000 strikers.

Clara Lemlich, a young, Jewish immigrant, is a galvanizing force for the ILGWU-led Strike.

The first charter is granted by the New York State Insurance Department.

Workmen’s Circle members, mainly immigrant Bundists, help build the Jewish Labor Movement, and lead the growth of trade unions, earning the organization the title of the “Red Cross of Labor.”

The Workingmen’s Circle Society (founded 1892) is reorganized into a workers’ order named the Workmen’s Circle on September 4, 1900.

Members of the Workingmen’s Circle Society, which will become the Workmen’s Circle in September, are instrumental in founding the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on June 3, 1900.

Almost 2.5 million mostly Yiddish-speaking Jews immigrate to the US, and to New York City in particular.