Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-03 | Page 22 | Trotzky Wins Election for Bureau Place

I WINS ELECTION FOR FOE BUREAU PLACE I MOSCOW Jan 2 AP The AP-The The vie tor tory of Lc Loon Leon n the former war and the defeat of L. L B. B B Kameneff and G. G were the most conspicuous features of today's elections for membership in II the pow powerful political bureau of the communist party the highest directing organ of soviet Russia Although Kameneff managed to win a place as an alternate m member mem m- m ber her of or the bureau along with wih jinsky and his displacement as a senior member by a young man like C. C the new head of the red arm army constitutes in the opinion of the political observers a distinct downfall for the veteran chairman of the council counci of labor and defense I The elimination of the finance as a member of the bureau is hardly less less' sens sensa- sensa tio ial because in addition to holdIng holdIng holding hold- hold Ing the finance portfolio he has been for a long time lime an alternate member of the political bureau The defeat of these two stalwart art communists IsI is I attributed chiefly to their having participated most actively in the I minority movement against tile the tle old guard in the the pr convention