I. (p. 364.) Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 285.
2. (p. 365.) /bid, p. 257.
3. (p. 368.) United Press International dispatch quoted in The Daily
Worker, June 9, 1931.
4. (p. 371.) Formerly a member of the Central Committee of the German Communist Party, Ewart led an opposition to the Thaelmann leadership. As a result, he was pulled out of Germany and assigned to international work. Later, while representing the Comintern in Brazil, he was captured and tortured to death by the regime ofthe dictator Vargas.
5. (p. 373.) "Lessons ofthe Strike Struggles in the U.S.A.: Resolution of the E.C.C.I.," The Communist, May 1932, pp. 402-13.
6. (p. 375.) Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were arrested in July 1916 for their activities in opposition to World War I. Their frame-up conviction attracted support from workers all over the world. Due to this mass movement and, in particular, the efforts of the ILD, Mooney was finally released in January 1939 and Billings in October of that year.
Mooney's health was ruined by twenty-two years in prison and he died in 1942.
7. (p. 376.) See "The NAACP Prepares New Betrayals of the Negro Masses," Daily Worker, May 28, 1932, and Daily Worker, May 30, 1932;
"The Scottsboro Decision," The Communist, May 1932, pp. 1065-75; Harry Haywood and Milton Howard, Lynching.