It was small and short-lived group, but it played an important role in the 1921 creation of the Workers Party of America.
It included many individuals who would have prominent careers in radical and labor movements such as Moissaye Olgin, J. Louis Engdahl, Alexander Trachtenberg, William F. Kruse, and Melech Epstein.
The Committee officially left the Socialist Party after the Jewish Federation had seceded, changing its name to the "Workers Council of the United States."
[3] After a series of negotiations the Workers' Council, the American Labor Alliance (the CPs already existing legal front) and the Communist Party of America agreed to the creation of the Workers Party of America at a convention at Star Casino, New York on December 23–26, 1921.
One of the stipulations for the Workers' Council joining the new organization was the creation of a daily Yiddish newspaper.