Intercollegiate Socialist Society (U.S.)

The Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), an on-campus student and faculty organization, was established by a group of prominent socialists in New York in 1905. Among the founding members of the ISS were James Graham Phelps Stokes, jCharlotte Perkins Gilman, William English Walling, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, leonard and Oscar Lovell Triggs. The ISS established numerous study and reading groups, sponsored rallies and lecture engagements for prominent socialists, published book lists and phmphlets relating to a variety of socialist issues and held occasional national meetings and annual conventions. In 1921 the ISS changed its name ot the League for Industrial Democracy so as to reflect its then older constituency and broader objectives. Harry W. Laidler was the organizing secretary of the ISS form 1910 to 1921 and the executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy from 1921 to 1956.

From the description of Records, 1904-1921. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 82086855

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