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   The I.S.S. was founded in 1905 by Upton Sinclair, Walter Lippmann, Clarence   
   Darrow, and Jack London with the stated purpose of throwing "light on the   
   world-wide movement of industrial democracy known as socialism."   
      
   In the spring of 1921, the ISS held a vote regarding the name and goals of   
   their organization. Harry Laidler announced: "the members of the   
   Intercollegiate Socialist Society had declared themselves in favor of the   
   change in name and purpose." In November,   
    the organization assumed its new name and enlarged its scope to addressing   
   society at large. They also presented their new guiding principle: "Education   
   for a New Social Order Based on Production for Public Use and Not for Private   
   Profit."   
      
   In its early years, the LID addressed societal problems such as poverty, child   
   labor, work conditions, and poor housing conditions, under the leadership of   
   notable activists: Robert Morss Lovett, Charles P. Steinmetz, Florence Kelley,   
   and Stuart Chase.    
   It became the base for leftwing intellectuals, otherwise known as Muckrakers.   
   During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the LID organized radio stations and   
   broadcasts centered around the New Deal. Throughout its history, the LID has   
   called itself a    
   proponent of the labor movement. The group saw this movement as a progressive   
   force that is misunderstood by intellectuals. The goal of this is to break   
   down these perceived boundaries and to promote "education for increasing   
   democracy in our economic,    
   political, and cultural life"   
      
   Today's affiliates are mostly anti-communists and focus their energy on   
   democracy building in places such as Eastern Europe, Africa, and Central   
   America, while paying very little attention to its domestic program.   
      
   Its campus presence waned until the Great Depression of the 30s led to an   
   increase in radical student activism. The collegiate section was reorganized   
   into an autonomous Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) in 1933.   
   This merged with the    
   Communist National Student League in 1935 to create the popular front American   
   Student Union. LID activity on campus remained somewhat dormant until 1946,   
   when the Student League for Industrial Democracy was reconstituted.   
      
   On Jan. 1, 1960 the SLID changed its name to the Students for a Democratic   
   Society and began to take a more radical direction. In July 1962 Michael   
   Harrington, then chair, and Tom Kahn clashed with Tom Hayden and Alan Haber   
   over their Port Huron    
   Statement, in particular its   
      
   * suggestion that the labor movement was "too quiescent, to be counted with   
   enthusiasm" as an agent for change,   
   * espousal of participatory democracy and dislike of formal offices, seen as   
   potentially undemocratic and lacking accountability, and   
   * failure to explicitly exclude communists from its vision of the New Left.   
      
   By 1965, SDS had separated from the LID, but it ended national activity in   
   1969, after it had been taken over by Maoist groups, some of which advocated   
   and committed political terrorism.   
      
   The LID has been actively supporting the Solidarity movement in Poland since   
   1980, providing financial, moral and political support. Furthermore, in 1986,   
   the LID coordinated efforts on a campaign to protest the crackdown on Polish   
   universities by the    
   government. The LID, in conjunction with Poland Watch Center and Committee in   
   Support of Solidarity, publishes a quarterly bulletin Solidarnosc. The   
   Brussels-based Committee in Support of Solidarity (CSS) is a group heavily   
   supported by the National    
   Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. govt-funded organization that sponsors   
   anticommunist,"democracy-building" projects around the globe. In a three-year   
   period, CSS received over a million dollars from NED.[citation needed]   
      
   The League is a membership organization. Fees range from $5 to $25 per year,   
   while lifetime memberships are $500.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Industrial_Democracy   
      
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