To its own satisfaction, at least, the U.S. Communist Party showed last week how to run off a political convention. The 14th national convention since the party's founding in 1919, it began with a mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The meeting was open to all; 17,000 attended. Then 250 carefully culled-over delegates slipped off to the uptown and plainly bourgeois Riverside Plaza Hotel for the real business.
The delegates gathered in the Riverside's ballroom to show true "democratic forces" at work. The "capitalist" press was barred. A square-set man with a butch haircut, and with a handful of husky...
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