DELEGATES TO THE 1923-24 CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA

Convention was held Dec. 30, 1923 to Jan. 2, 1924 in Chicago.

 

DISTRICT 1 [Boston]

C.J. Blockland

S.H. Bloomfield

J.F. Mullen

Henry Puro

William Simons

E.J. Sinisalo

 

DISTRICT 2 [New York]

Antonas ("Anthony") Bimba

Alexander Bittelman

J. Brahdy

Benjamin Gitlow

J. Jampolsky

Benjamin Lifschitz

Ludwig Lore

C. Paivio

Juliet S. Poyntz

C.E. Ruthenberg

 

DISTRICT 3 [Philadelphia, PA]

Alexander Bail

H. Benjamin

 

DISTRICT 4 [Buffalo, NY]

Peter Hansen

 

DISTRICT 5 [Pittsburgh, PA]

Paul Kucinic

Fred H. Merrick

 

DISTRICT 6 [Cleveland, OH]

Max Lerner

A. Schaeffer

A.V. Severino

D. Spehar

W. White


DISTRICT 7 [Detroit, MI]

Edgar Owens

Joseph Finnila

Herman Richter

 

DISTRICT 8 [Chicago, IL]

Phillip Aronberg

James P. Cannon

William Z. Foster

J. Johnstone

Charles Krumbein

Arne Swabeck

 

DISTRICT 9 [Minneapolis, MN]

George Halonen

Clarence A. Hathaway

John Miller

J. Skoglund

Norman H. Tallentire

Matti Tenhunen

 

DISTRICT 10 [St. Louis, MO]

John Mihelic

T.R. Sullivan

 

DISTRICT 12 [Seattle, WA]

Ella Reeve Bloor

W.H. Wilson

 

DISTRICT 13 [Los Angeles, CA]

D. Gorman

Paul Reiss

 

DISTRICT 15 [New Haven, CT]

Alfred Wagenknecht

 

AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT

Joseph Manley

 

UNORGANIZED TERRITORY

Fahle Burman

 

YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE

Martin Abern

John Edwards

John Williamson

 

FRATERNAL DELEGATES

F. Custance (Workers Party of Canada)

 

A. Zartarian (Armenian Federation)

Christ Koteff (Bulgarian Federation)

no representative of the Czecho-Slovak Federation

Joseph Kalousek (Estonian Federation)

Fahle Burman (Finnish Federation)

F. Herschler (German Federation)

L. Candela (Italian Federatiion)

M.J. Olgin (Jewish Federation)

W. Rodgers (Lettish Federation)

Roy Mizara (Lithuanian Federation)

Joseph Kowalski (Polish Federation)

no representative of the Romanian Federation

George Askenuzi (Russian Federation)

N. Juel Christiansen (Scandinavian Federation)

no representative of the South Slavic Federation

M. Durdella (Ukrainian Federation)

 

Rose Karsner (Friends of Soviet Russia)

John J. Ballam (Daily Worker Campaign Committee)

George Maurer (Labor Defense Council)

 

Central Executive Committee Members who are not Regular Delegates

Israel Amter

Max Bedacht

B. Bordisoff

Fahle Burman (sic.)

William F. Dunne

Marian Emerson

J. Louis Engdahl

Abraham Jakira

L.E. Katterfeld

William F. Kruse

Edward Lindgren

Jay Lovestone

Robert Minor

A. Nastasievsky

M.J. Olgin

John Pepper

Rose Pastor Stokes

Alexander Trachtenberg

William Weinstone

Harry M. Wicks

 

 


source: The Second Year of the Workers Party of America: Report of the Central Executive Committee to the Third National Convention: Held in Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 30, 31, 1923, and Jan. 1, 2, 1924: Theses, Program, Resolutions. (Chicago: Literature Department, Workers Party of America, n.d. [1924]), pp. 9-10.