The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-09-17

0RGANIZED0N
MOUNTAIN TOP
Communist Party of America
Founded in Secrecy; Now
Acts Openly
100000 M E M b E r S
Has Mushroomed All Over
United States and Canada
Since Start 8
100000 M E M b E r S

New York, Sept. IA description
purporting to show that the Com
munist Party Of America was found
ed amid dramatic secrecy atop a
mountain in the Catskills % months
ago, and has mushroomed over the
United States and Canada, is contain
ed in the. fifth of series of articles
made public today by the United
Mine Workers of America, charging
a movement to bring America under
the banner of the Moscow commun-
lists.
At first, the article asserted, the
party was an Underground" organ
ization, functioning in secrecy. To
day, according to the miners, it has
q membership, direct and auxiliary
Of 100000, with interlocking direc-
torates binding it to As national or
CARNATIONS and 200 locals, and work.
ing in the open.
Prior to May, 1921 the Communist
International was represented as
having become so impotent through
federal prosecution and deportation
of members that formation of an
Underground" society was determiH-
ed upon.
And so, having chosen one of the
most historically primitive spots in
the East as setting, "7O Communist
leaders, representing the two factions
of the Communist party ands the
United Communist party. gathered in
the ancient hotel on the top of
Overlook Mountain on the morning of
May Is, 1921, to compose their diff
ferences and unite in single group,
to be known as the Communist Party
of America" said the article.
This assembly was not only at the
command of Lenin and Zinov;ev OF
the Communist Internal ional, but it
was accompanied with the threat
that if the factional differences were
not put aside and united front pre-
sented for invading the labor unions
of the United States, no more money
would be Forthcoming from Moscow
for financing the revolutionary move
ment in this country. Up to that time
Moscow had contributed money to
both of these factions, but had de-
cided that their hostility to each
other was neutralizing the results of
their work"
A personal emissary of Lenin and
Zinoviev was alleged to have domina-
ted the session.
"Silent and taciturn, this emissary
met the 10 delegates near Kingston,
NJ khn
"They were conveyed to the foot of
Overlook mountain in automobiles.
Guards saluted them along the roads.
For more than two weeks these
guards had been stationed in the vi
cinity Of Fort Montgomery, Tanners.
willie, Saugherties and Kingston.
Trains arriving at these towns were
observed by sentinels. A guard re-
manned behind the delegates to watch
the village marshal IN Woodstock.
Other guards were scattered around
the countryside as farm hands. There
were guards also in the Grand Cen
trail Station at New York"
When the party reached the hotel,
military discipline was alleged to
Fave been inaVgurated. Delegates
were forbidden to write letters or
take notes. Twice a day everyone was
searched. An "out-of-bounds" was es-
tsblished and as night approached
guards could. be seen signalling each
other with flashlights from the
mountain tops that all was well.r
Thus, according to the article, was
born the Communist Party of Am.
erica, and "the Central Executive
Cor'-,'"-- ~ the new party was
chosen from smong the prime leaders
G. the Communist organizations
throughout the country. These COM
mittee members were alleged to have
Ind places on the central executive
committee Of the workers party when
It latsr was founded.
Mass aetion by the, workers; ssiz-
ure Of labor unions and converting
them into militant enterprises. Dor.
ing from within the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. and, in partieular,
the United Nine Workers Of Amer
lea" was the platform adopted, de-
clares the article.
AThe extreme radicals are pr6mot.
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