not apply to the charter members of new branches nor to the members who make application to newly organized branches during the first month.

"Section 6. No person who is a member or supporter of any other political organization shall be admitted to membership.

"Section 7. No person who has an entire livelihood from rent, interest or profit shall be eligible to membership in the Communist Party.

"Section 8. No person shall be accepted as a member who enters into the service of the national, state or local governmental bodies otherwise than through the civil service, or by legal compulsion.

"Provided, that the civil employment by the government is of a non-political character.

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Section 9. No members of the Communist Party shall contribute articles or editorials of a political or economic character to publications other than those of the Communist Party or of parties affiliated with the Communist International. (This clause shall not be considered as prohibiting the contribution of articles written from an economic or scientific standpoint to scientific or professional journals. Permission to answer an attack upon the Communist Party in the bourgeois press may be granted by the Central Executive Committee)."

It should be noted that those making application for membership were obliged to state that they had read the constitution and program of the party and to declare their adherence to the principles and tactics of the party, and of the Communist International. This has reference to the Third International of Moscow (Sec. I Chap. XVII), and pledges the candidate to engage actively in the work of the organization.

Section 7 bars from membership in the party all persons who have their entire livelihood from rents, interest or profits.

Section 8 bars all persons from membership who have entered the service of the United States, in the army, navy or other governmental employment.

Section 9 shows that the party intends to exercise complete control over its party membership.

The constitution will be found in full at the close of this chapter.

PHOTOGRAPH OF

1. Al. Renner, Chairman 2. Alexander Stocklitzky

3. Dr. Koppnagle, Chicago

4. Dennis E. Batt, Chicago

FIRST CONVENTION, COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA, CHICAGO, ILL., SEPT. 1-7, 1919.

10. Nicholas Hourwich, New York

C. E. RUTHENBERG AND I. E. FERGUSON.

Leaders of the Communist Party of America. Tried and convicted on charge of criminal anarchy upon evidence furnished the District Attorney of New York County by this Committee; now serving sentence in State Prison from 5 to 10 years.

Executive Secretary, Local New York, Communist Party of America.

Arrested on charge of Criminal Anarchy by direction of the Committee. November 8, 1919, tried, convicted and sentenced to State Penitentiary for not less than five years nor more than ten years.