ABSTRACT

The Central Workers' Circle organized, and then supervised several groups or organs to benefit its workers. Two organs, the treasury and the library, were fundamental to the Central Workers' Circle so that it could achieve its goals. These organs had a combined economic, cultural, and social purpose. The first network to organize was the one that had mostly Social Democratic ideas. To accomplish the goals, the dozen or so workers' leaders who gathered in late 1889 and early 1890 recognized that the members of circles needed a centralized organization to direct and coordinate the twenty or so workers' circles in the city. The priorities that the Central Workers' Circle maintained with their intellectual counterparts. The financial resources that the Central Workers' Circle possessed. At the moment when the Central Student Circle succeeded in conducting numerous activities with the Central Workers' Circle, it was buffeted by several police arrests.