Foreign Language Federations (1890s - 1930) - Estonian

 ESTONIAN FEDERATIONS

 
The first major radical publication in the Estonian language in the United States was a weekly called Uus Ilm, which was founded in 1910 in New York.



There was a small Estonian Federation in the Socialist Party of America, headed by Andrew Pranspill. The federation seems to have dissolved or left the SPA at the time of the 1919 split.



Estonian Federation of the United Communist Party of America
There was an Estonian language group associated with the United Communist Party. Uus Ilm remained as a legal publication issued in association by this group.
In December 1920 there were 19 of the UCPs 673 primary party units ("Groups") that used the Estonian language, about 3% of the total.

[fn: DoJ/BoI Investigative Files, NARA M-1085, reel 940, doc. 501 -- downloadable below.]



Estonian Federation of the unified Communist Party of America
There was a functioning Estonian Federation of the Communist Party of America by 1922, with "A. Weber" the National Secretary. "A. Reader" was National Organizer of the Federation.
Circa May 1922, a convention of the Estonian Federation elected the following as members of the Bureau of the Estonian Federation: "A. Weber" (Secretary); P. Kopp, W. Korn, A. Lambito, A. Malak, and N. Noges (probably all pseudonyms).

[fn. Comintern archive, f. 515, op. 1, d. 119, l. 57.]

 
Uus Ilm continued to be published weekly in New York. In 1925 it had a circulation of 550 and was edited by Alexander Kovel.