ABSTRACT
The American party reported an increase in average membership from 12,058 in 1922 to 16,325 for the first six months of 1925. The pre-Bolshevization party had a much greater power of attracting members than of holding them. The post-Bolshevization party attracted fewer members but retained a larger percentage. Bolshevization wiped out the foreign-language federations without wiping out the foreign-language problem. The Comintern tirelessly berated the American party for its weakness in the heavy, mass, basic industries. Most of the party's other publications, twenty-six in number, could not support themselves and needed frequent or occasional financial assistance from the national office. The majority of auxiliaries and trade-union committees also depended on the party financially. The financial and political ties between the Comintern and the American Communist movement were intimately related to each other, but it would not have made much difference if the Comintern had called the tune without having paid the piper.
