1. (p. 342.) The Daily Worker, April 2, 1934.
2. (p. 351.) The Comintern had called on all communist parties to bolshevize themselves by cleansing their organizations of the remnants of the old socialist parties. O ne aspect of this was building a centralized organization based on shop nuclei in place of a loosely federated organization based on election districts and language federations.
3. (p. 357.) The New York Times, March 2, 1931.
4. (p. 357.) The day after the trial, Yokinen was arrested and soon released on bail. The government continued its efforts to deport him and was ultimately successful after the Supreme Court upheld the deportation order on March il, 1932.
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5. (p. 359.) See Dan T. Carter, Scottsboro: A Tragedy ofthe American
South (Oxford University Press, 1969), for a detailed account ofthe trial.
6. (p. 359.) As quoted in Harry Haywood and Milton Howard,
/,ynching (New York: Daily Worker, 1932), p. 13.
7. (p. 360.) "Is the N.A.A.C.P. Lying Down On lts Job?'' The Crisis,
October 1931, p. 354.