COMMUNISTS: Comrade, Be Gone

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The Communist Party last week drummed another erring comrade out into the cold capitalist world. He was Party Wheelhorse Robert Wood, 43, a Harvard Law School graduate, onetime state secretary of the party in Oklahoma, and more recently a member of the party's New York County Committee and a writer for the Daily Worker. The indictment against Backslider Wood, as published in the Daily Worker, had the ring of similar ceremonies in Moscow, Bucharest and Prague: "Wood was expelled for . . . panic in the face of the fire of the class enemy, for acts endangering the party . . . for acts of white chauvinism, and conduct unbecoming . . . his post."

Added the Daily Worker: "Wood claims he is making an effort to understand the seriousness of his mistakes and weaknesses. If this should prove to be the case, the New York State Committee believes it is possible for Wood to rehabilitate himself as a working class force . . ."