Workingmen's Sick Benevolent and Educational Federation Records, 1924-1942

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Workingmen's Sick Benevolent and Educational Federation Records, 1924-1942

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Immigration History Research Center [ihrc]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6617871

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Workingmen's Sick Benevolent and Educational Federation (Avenel, N.J.).

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International Workers Order

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The International Workers Order (IWO), a Communist-affiliated, ethnically organized fraternal order, was founded in 1930 following a split from the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish labor fraternal order. Max Bedacht, the IWO general secretary from 1932-1946, also served on the Communist Party's Political Bureau. At its peak, shortly after World War II, the IWO had almost 200,000 members, including 50,000 in the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order. The IWO provided low-cost health and life insurance, medi...