Dissolved?

The Communist Party of America has dissolved and has directed its members to join the Workers' Party, the legal, or "above ground" section of the organized American Communist movement, according to a statement issued by Charles F. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the " underground " Communist Party, and now on trial for criminal syndicalism in Michigan.

The Department of Justice declares that the dissolution is "only a trick to fool the workers and permit the Communists to operate with less danger of imprisonment." "The Communists may have given up their illegal party," said R. J. Branegan, "under cover" man in the Department of Justice, "but they have not given up their organization. That is to say, the nucleus of revolutionists who controlled the illegal party remain in control of the Workers' Party, and retain their affiliation with Moscow."