[1] According to the Fish committee reports, the YPA was open to youth from 8–15 years of age, after which they were expected to graduate into the Young Communist League proper.
[2] Selected YCL members were assigned to facilitate YPA activities, though ideally the children's branches were self-governing.
[4] YPA troops would meet in local workers centers, labor lyceums and halls owned by Communist affiliated groups.
[5] Despite the majority of the membership being of recent immigrant background, the YPA tried to distance itself from ethnic identification and tried to emphasize its status an organization of the generic "American proletariat".
After the New York YPA organized protests and demonstrations and several Pioneers had attended an international Communist youth meeting in Moscow, Eisman was permitted to travel to the Soviet Union rather than serve his sentence.