POLITICAL NOTES: For Victory

The Communist Party of New York city adopted a new campaign symbol: instead of the famed, crescent-shaped hammer & sickle of the Red banner, a sledge hammer and pitchfork in the shape of a V.

Reason: a State law forbids the use of a foreign government’s insignia as a party emblem, and the hammer and pitchfork “stand for the same thing” as the hammer & sickle: labor’s unity.