Labor reform bills improve the life of the worker – a fundamental mission of the Workmen’s Circle.

As the Young Circle League expands its activities, and essentially becomes the English-speaking division of the Workmen’s Circle, the Call of Youth becomes the Workmen’s Circle Call.

The Workmen’s Circle: Its History, Ideals, Organization and Institutions by Maximillian Hurwitz is published, the first book about the Workmen’s Circle.

The Workmen’s Circle holds fundraising drives to support the pro-Republican fighters.

Labor reform bills improve the life of the worker – a fundamental mission of the Workmen’s Circle.

The Workmen’s Circle helps found the Jewish Labor Committee, established to fight the rise of Nazism in Europe.

The Young Circle Bulletin merges with the English section of The Friend, becoming an eight page publication the Call of Youth distributed to the Young Circle League and the Workmen’s Circle’s English speaking branches.

In 1929 the first issue of the News Bulletin is published as the mouthpiece of the newly established Young Circle League of the Workmen’s Circle. Its articles are also reprinted in The Friend, the English-language section of the Workmen’s Circle’s Yiddish newsletter, Der Fraynd.

Throughout the next decade, Workmen’s Circle warns about the rise of Fascism in Europe and the U.S., denouncing virulent antisemitism, and strongly supporting resistance.

The Workmen’s Circle begins organizing a Young Circle League in 1926 to appeal to the American-born children of its Yiddish-speaking immigrant members. This initiative rapidly expands, and by 1927 twenty-one Young Circle Clubs are in operation.

At a massive Madison Square Garden convention, the Circle delegates vote to expel communist delegates, signaling a political split that had been brewing for some years.

Based on the principles of collective medical aid, branches “band together and inaugurate a system of district doctors, to render medical aid and advice to Workmen’s Circle members and their families.”

The Workmen’s Circle extends its support to non-Jewish workers, acting as the distributing agency for funds sent by Jewish labor organizations to support the striking steelworkers in Homestead and Pittsburgh.

The Workmen’s Circle initially sympathizes with the Bolsheviks, but opposes the regime by the mid-1920s.

As part of the Workmen’s Circle commitment to maintaining Yiddish culture, it establishes the Fraye Yidishe Folksbiene, the “Free Yiddish People’s Stage.”

The Workmen’s Circle, with other labor-supporting socialist organizations, opposes the war as one foisted on America by capitalists. By 1918, the organization takes a pro-war stance, conducting war bond drives.

At its National Convention the Workmen’s Circle unanimously passes a resolution endorsing equal suffrage, later enshrined in law by the 19th Amendment.

At its National Convention the Workmen’s Circle unanimously passes a resolution endorsing equal suffrage, later enshrined in law by the 19th Amendment.