Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Humanite, Paris Communist journal, pointed out as an example that the Longwy Steel Works, near the Franco-Belgo-Luxembourg border, claimed 447,000,000 francs indemnity and received 369,000,000 francs, or nine times the capital of the company in 1914† Originally, continued the journal, the indemnity had been fixed at 250,000,000 francs...
...Izvestia and the Pravda, Moscow Communist journals, the latter of which is the official organ of the Communist Party, referred to British "baseless insinuations," to "countless Colonial slaves," and berated British Premier Macdonald for "opposing the Hindu revolutionaries" and for "taking a false step in mentioning Russia's debts...
...Resolutions were passed denouncing William Z. Foster, communist, against the use of injunctions in labor disputes, demanding immediate evacuation of the Rhineland by the Allies, favoring the classification of "miner's asthma" as an occupational disease under the Workmen's Compensation...
...Thomas Myerscough of Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers (a communist organization attempting to "bore from within" the union) applied for reinstatement in the union. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances denied his request because he had organized a "dual" union (political and industrial...
...much poverty and lack of order yet exist in our country. If you want to honor Lenin's name build creches (foundling asylums), children's homes, schools, libraries, hospitals, sanatoria, and above all try so to act that by you his will may be done." A Communist leader said: "If our party is not very careful this Lenin worship will get away from us. It is not for nothing that the Old Testament relates that God hid the sepulchre of Moses on Mount Nebo so that the Israelites might not make a fetish out of their leader...