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ti • Foreword ____________ A ___A___ ____ ___________________ __ _______ ____________ 1
- Origin ............_.._.._. _ _________________________ _ ________________ 3
5 Socialist Party Left-Wing Section Convention, 1919 ............. ...-- 4
1 Manifesto ........._._______________ _ ________ __ ______________ 4
i Committees .........._.________ __ ,___________ _ ______________ 9
f National Conference of Left-Wing ...._._______,_______.,_________ _ 10
Q, Call for conference ............._.__.._....__. .. ______________ 10
Q Left-Wing National Council, manifesto ..........._......._______ ,... 13
E Convention To Organize Communist Party ._..._______.__________ __ 25
. Joint call for Communist Party Convention-- .__.______________ 25
% Communist Party of America, 1919 ......._.....,....._._____________ __ 29
` Manifesto ......._______________ _ ______________ _ ________________ 29
Program ............................._._____.____ ,, _______________ 35
g Constitution ...................... . ...................__.._____,_. 37
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES * Communist Labor party, 1919 _______________________________________ __ 42
UNITED STATES House or REPRESENTATIVES Q Unit§éagg§HI;]?1;?S€r£,i;?§u·iééé ····‘··································  
FRANCIS E. WALTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman , Constitution ...._._. L ___._______________ _ ________________________ 47
Monoau M. nounnmz, Missouri BERNARD w. Kmiwny, New York ; Communist Party of America. 1921 (merger of Communist Party of
CLYDE DOYLE, California DONALD L. JACKSON, California ' A1l}9I`l€9· Bild UHUZQG Communist Party) ---~-...................... --- 51
EDWIN E. WILLIS, Louisiana GORDON H. SCHERER, Ohio C011Stituti0n and program ....... - ..................... - .......... 51
WILLIAM M. TUCK, Virginia ROBERT J. McINTOSH, Michigan Constitution .-..-............ - ............. - ................... ..- 62
RICHARD Agmqgl Staff Director i Workers Party O? America. 192]- ————---—---—-—---—------- - ------- - ---- 69
H 2; Party organization ..._.__._,,____________________ _ _______________ 70
l Convention and constitution ...................._.__..____________ 72
  An open party and an underground party ..................._..._._._. 77
  Workers Party of America, 1923 (merger of Communist Party of America
E and Workers Party of America) ............_..........._....__...._. 79
'   ' Workers (Communist) Party of America, 1925 ........................ ... 80
  Constitution ........._.........__._______ _ _______________________ 80
Q   Communist Party of the United States of America, section of the Com-
2; munist International, 1929 ........_......................_.._____.__ 89
_ 1 _ Open letter from Executive Committee of the Communist Interna-
  tional .......................... . ............................... 89
A Constitution ................................ - .................... 90
; 1 The Communist International changes its tactics .....................,.. 98
E Communist Party of the United States of America, 1938 ............... 99
F Constitution .............................._...___..___.____.____. 99
Communist Party of the United States of America, 1940 .................. 108
I Constitution ........................................_............ 108
Communist Political Association ....................................... 114
Constitution ..................................................... 115
Return to status quo ante bellum, Duclos letter ...................... 119
, a Browder’s reply .................................................. 120
  End of Communist cooperation with capitalist countries ............. 120
at Communist Political Association 1945 Convention ................. 120
Q Communist Party of the United States of America, 1945 ................. 122
i Constitution ..................................................... 122
  Communist Party, U. S. A.——l958 L.._,...........................t....,...,...... 128
i  Constitution, 1957 .....,............_r........,1......................Va..... 130
A Voice of the Kremlin in American Communist activities ..........V.............. 137
i  Relationship of American communism to the Soviet Union ......,.,......,t...., 139
l Alleged dissolution of the Communist International .,........,....t1....,r....... 143
1 Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers Parties (Cominform) .,_.___ 148
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