due to changing circumstances and the aging of its members the corporation controlling the property took advantage of the plans for the relocating of North Hibbing and sold its property to the mining interests in 1938.

The sale, however, resulted in a dispute between the 'corporation' and the society as a whole on the disposition of the funds realized through the sale: the Finnish Workers Club, Inc., claimed to be the proper owner of the property and accused the `corporation' of ignoring the wishes of the members (there were about 70 in 1956) by using the funds arbitrarily, by refusing to go along with the members' decision to build a new hall in the re-located part of town. Since no solution seemed possible, the matter went to the courts, and after four years of waiting the decision which was handed down took the control of the money out of the hands of both litigants.

Judge Mark Nolan decreed in 1954 that the proceeds of the sale - $59,775.98, minus taxes and legal fees - were to be placed in the hands of a five-man board, which was to use the money as a fund for students of Finnish descent from Hibbing and the Town of Stuntz to use in the form of loans to be granted without interest charges. The Workers Club, Inc. appealed the ruling, declaring it an arbitrary disposition of the organization funds contrary to the by-laws of that organization, but in 1956 the State Supreme Court upheld Judge Nolan's decision.

The official name of the fund thus established became the American Finnish Workers Society's Memorial Education Trust. As to the funds at its disposal, Attorney Jokinen of Mulvahill & Jokinen, counsel for the hall `corporation,' estimated the sum to be under $40,000 after payment of taxes (some $7,000) and legal fees incurred by the `corporation.' The Workers Club, Inc., by the way, had to pay its legal fees out of its own pockets.

In August 1956 Jokinen proposed, and Judge Nolan appointed, the following persons to administer the fund: Dr. John J. Neumeier, Dean of the Hibbing Junior College; Clyde Hill, music teacher in the Hibbing school system (and son of a local Finnish barber, Sanfrid Hill); Jacob Keränen and Alli Luoma, both members of the 'corporation'; and the Northern National Bank of Duluth.

The Workers Club, Inc., incidentally, is still active and remains a supporter of the Industrialisti.

The above chronicle does not give the full story of the workers' movement in Hibbing. To trace another aspect of it involves a return to 1914 and the split in the socialist ranks. At that time

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