DELEGATES TO THE 1921 FOUNDING CONVENTION OF THE UNITED COMMUNIST PARTY Convention was held May 15-28, 1921, at the Overlook Mountain House, near Woodstock, NY IMPARTIAL CHAIRMAN J. Swift [Dr. Jacob Hartman] REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AMERICAN AGENCY OF THE CI Charles E. Scott [Karlis Janson] UNITED COMMUNIST PARTY DELEGATES (elected at the Kingston Convention, Dec. 1920)
D1 [Boston]
Bronk [???] <-- Latvian from Boston; the UCP DO
Long [???] <-- Hungarian from Boston
Smith [???] <-- Latvian man from Boston, NOT Marion Sproule
D2 [New York]
Ames [???] <-- Woman from NYC, alternate pseudonym "Sparks"
Baker [Will Weinstone]
Gorny [Joseph Kowalski]
Jerome [???] <-- Jew from NYC
Nelson [Jay Lovestone]
D3 [Philadelphia]
Clay [???] <-- District Organizer
Monroe [???]
D4 [Pittsburgh]
Ryan [???] <--Bureau of Investigation spy!!!
D5 [Cleveland]
Cook [James Cannon]
Dengler [Walter Brustor]
Schiller [???] <-- from Cleveland, the DO
H.D. Wendel [???] <-- from Cleveland, an "American"
A May 14, 1921 BoI report by Special Agent Bliss Morton indicates the other 2 UCP delegates from the Cleveland District were Tom Lewis and Walter Karath.
D6 [Detroit]
Cox [???] <-- a Slav. Formerly lived in Pittsburgh
Wilson [???] <-- about age 50; an "American"
D7 [Chicago]
Burke [Charles Krumbein]
Evans [???] <-- from Milwaukee, a Slav
Fox [???] <-- a Jew
Lansing [Arne Swabeck]
Mitchell [???] <-- a Jew
D8 [St. Louis]
Bower/Baurer [???] <-- a Russian. St. Louis DO.
Page [T.R. Sullivan]
D9/10 [San Francisco]
Duffy [Alfred Wagenknecht]
D11 [Seattle]
Elk [Ludwig Katterfeld]
D12 [Minneapolis]
Jasberg [???] <-- a Slav from Minneapolis
Ward [???] <-- a Hungarian from Minneapolis -- NOT BROWDER
D13 [Milwaukee]
Rice [???] <-- a Slav, a barber from Milwaukee
D14 [Syracuse]
Marxon [???] <-- a Russian
Fraternal Delegates -- Members of the UCP CEC
Collins [Joseph Zack Kornfeder]
Mills [Alexander Bilan]
Flynn [Edward Lindgren]
Ford [Israel Amter]
Duboff [Abram Jakira]
Davidson [Robert Minor]
COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA DELEGATES (30)
Henry [George Ashkenuzi]
Moore [John Ballam]
Morris [J. Wilenkin]
Nichols [???] <-- a Ukrainian
Baldwin [Oscar Tyverovsky]
Bryant [???]
Nostosh [???]
Davis [???]
Sullivan [A.S. Edwards]
Heller [???] <-- could be A.A. Heller, but probably a pseudonym
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Fraternal Delegates -- Members of the UCP CEC
Riley [Joseph Stilson]
Leon [???] <-- a Lithuanian
source: Comintern Archive, RGASPI, f. 515, op. 1, d. 50, ll. 26-28; H.L. Lenon Bureau of Investigation report (source was "Ryan"), NARA M-1085, reel 942, file Þle 202600-2265.