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(8) The identification of the years 1928-35 of Communist history as the Third
Period" arose from the analysis of the Communist International in the late 1920s.
This analysis argued that the second period of relative capitalist stability (that
followed the first period of revolutionary upsurge in the wake of the Bolshevik
revolution of 1917) was ending, and a third period of revolutionary advances was
pending.
(9) Despite its undeniably high level of discipline compared to other organizations,
discipline inside the party varied. Former Baltimore party leaders Albert E.
Blumberg and Dorothy Blumberg told historian George Callcott during an
interview in 1977 that older and immigrant Communists were often far less
concerned with discipline than younger U.S.-born Communists. George Callcott,
"Interview, Dr. and Mrs. Albert E. Blumberg, July 26, «97T (unpublished interview
notes). I want to thank George Callcott for giving me access to these notes.
(10) Sun. January 23, March 5, 20,22, May 2, August 23, December 19,1930.
(11) Evening San, May 1,1930, May 1,1931; Sun, May 2,1930, May 22,1934,
November 11,1933 (the Sun description of the 800-1000 people who gathered at
Lehmann Hall as party members is almost certainly in error). In the present study a
capital "C* will be used when discussing Communism to indicate formal affiliation
with Communist Party and International; a small "c" will be employed to denote
aspects of communism not necessarily formally related to the party.
(12) Evening Sun, November 7,1934. The Baltimore CP received over 2,400
signatures on election petitions in 1934. Afro-American* August 18, 1934.
(13) Callcott, Maryland and America, 109-10.
(14) "Reminiscences of Clarence Mitchell" (1981), interview by Ed Edwin, in the
Oral History Collection of Columbia University, 21-2.
(15) Sun, February 27,28, March 2,4.5,1930.
(16) Evening Sun, March 6,1930; Sun, March 7,1930; Roy Rosenzweig, "Organizing
the Unemployed: the Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933," Radical
America, 10 (July-August 1976), 41-43.
(17) Evening Sun, April 8,1930. According to the Sun, March 8,1938,300 new
members of the CP-initiated Trade Union Unity League were recruited in the
immediate aftermath of the Unemployment Day.
(18) Evening Sun, March 6, 1930; Sun, March 7, 1930.
(19) Evening Sun, March 6, 1930; Sun, March 7, 1930.
(20) Sun, December 5,6,9,1931, November 24,1932.
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