party-membership card

party-membership card (plural party-membership cards)

1. Alternative form of party membership card.
   • 1941 March 25, “March 25 in History”, in Buffalo Evening News, volume CXXI, number 139, Buffalo, N.Y., →OCLC, page 25, column 7:

     The Dies Committee votes a contempt citation against James H. Dolsen, Pittsburgh Communist, after he refuses to give the true name of a Communist who used the name “Franklin D. Roosevelt” on his party-membership card.

   • 1947 October 15, “Boswell vs. Commies: Round 1 Is a Draw”, in Bergen Evening Record, volume 53, number 111 (15481 overall), Hackensack, N.J., →OCLC, page 5, column 2:

     The two Communists—whom Boswell compelled to show their party-membership cards to prove they weren’t impostors—were John F. Norman, a writer on the staff of the Daily Worker, 35 East Twelfth Street, New York City, and Louis Joel, Bergen County organizer for the party.

   • 2005 April 18, Mark Lawson, “How real should a PM be?”, in Evening Standard, West End final edition, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 1:

     At first, I thought of writing the story as a roman à clef: perhaps Wilson could be “Henry Worthington”, the name Peter Wright claims he was given in his MI5 file. This, though, would make the story seem more fictional than it is. Deciding to use names from real party-membership cards and security passes throughout the book, I came to the conclusion that the central problem in fiction about politics is the baptism of the characters.

   • 2010 August 6, Tom Pattantyus, “From red boxers to tea partiers”, in The Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Santa Clarita, Calif., →OCLC, page A6, column 1:

     It is important to note that while all steelworkers were automatically made Communist Party members regardless of their wishes, only a few were really communist. In those years, refusal of a party-membership card was very hazardous to one’s health.