Independent American Political Groups: The Workers' Council (1921)

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORYThe Workers' Council of the United States was a short-lived independent organization which emerged from the Socialist Party of America after its 1921 National Convention held at Detroit. The group was comprised of the members of the SP faction known as "The Committee for the Third International," which included prominently among its members J. Louis Engdahl, former editor of The American Socialist, and William F. Kruse, former head of the SP's youth section. Also forming a part of this small group were a host of individuals who played a significant role in the Jewish Socialist Federation, including Alexander Trachtenberg, Benjamin Glassberg, Moissaye J. Olgin, and J.B. Salutsky.

The Workers' Council of the United States published ten issues of a biweekly newspaper called The Workers' Council, and at least one pamphlet, entitled Go to the Masses! J. Louis Engdahl was the Secretary of the organization, which maintained an office located at 80 E 11th Street in New York City.
The Workers' Council was one of the organizations signing the call for the formation of a legal Workers Party of America in November of 1921 and dissolved itself into that new organization at its December 1921 founding convention.