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Extracts from the Statutes of the f dei
Communist Party of the U. S. A. { ul,}
§ 3—Membership P3
1. A member of the Party can be every per- l th*
son from the age of eighteen up who accepts the `
program and statutes of the Communist Interna- ` to
tional and the Communist Party of the U. S. A., ‘
who becomes a member of a basic organization * si;
of the Party, who is active in this organization, c low
who subordinates himself to all decisions of the a ex
Comintern and of the Party, and regularly pays ut-
his membership dues. M my
4. Members who change their place of work, i
or in case they are members of a street nucleus, ,_ te]
their place of residence, must secure a transfer · to
card from the Party unit in which they have held · li;
membership and must present this card to the W
unit to which they have been transferred, A ge
duplicate of the transfer card given the member l m,
shall be sent to the leading committee of the   ha
territorial section from which the member trans- . be
‘ fers and transmitted by this committee to the l th
territorial section to which the member transfers. ~ CO
If the member transfers from one section to ev
another, the transfer card shall be transmitted or
thru the DC; if the member transfers from _ Si,
one district to another, the transfer card shall ‘
be sent thru the CC. Transfers from one dis- P,
trict to another shall be entered in the Member- cc
ship Book of the member. l
6. Every member of the Party who is eligible P,
to be a member of a trade union must become a Wi
member of the union to which he is eligible. he
§ 4»—The Structure of the Party 81
1. The Communist Party, like all sections of UT
the Comintern, is built upon the principle of