Organizational newsletter of the unified Communist Party of America, officially known as the "Communist Party of America, Section of the Communist Internantional." This is the second of two typeset issues called thee "Official Bulletin" of the group.

This issue contains an extensive summary of the decisions of the governing Central Executive Committee of the organization, including the rulings on the question of membership transfers to Soviet Russia and the membership status of Harry Moore Wicks, Maximilian Cohen ("Allen"), and Alexander Bittelman ("Raphael"). Officers of the CEC itself are named for party members and the new dues system and district structure outlined. Ongoing discussions with the quasi-Communist left wing of the Socialist Party as well as the Bohemian (Czech language) and Jewish (Yiddish language) Federations of that party are noted.
This issue also includes the extensive reports of the Committee for Control of Educational Work and the Industrial Department of the CEC (i.e. on trade union policy).
A complete itemized financial statement for the United Communist Party for the months April and May 1921 also appears here.

Pseudonyms used in this issue:
Allen - Maximilian Cohen
Andrew - Nicholas Hourwich
Carr - Ludwig "Louis" Katterfeld
Curtis - John J. Ballam
Dow - Charles Dirba
Griffith - Joseph Zack Kornfeder
Golden - James P. Cannon
Kelly - George Ashkenuzi
Lewis - Will Weinstone
Marshall - Max Bedacht
Paul - J. Wilenkin
Raphael - Alexander Bittelman
Ray - Joseph Stilson
Staley - Shachno Epstein [Comintern Rep]
Wheat - Jay Lovestone

Paper No. 2 - The Toiler

New CPA Districts mentioned:
District 1 - Boston
District 2 - New York City
District 3 - Philadelphia
District 4 - Cleveland
District 5 - Chicago
District 6 - Detroit

Original document resides with the Riazanov Library of California. Published in the USA prior to 1923, public domain.

This imaged scanned from an original document by archivist Marty Goodman as part of the Riazanov Library Digitization Project. Additional digital editing by Tim Davenport, who also wrote this file description.
This file is released into the public domain without restriction.

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