Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Party reorganization is badly needed. As a result of Communist and revolutionary disaffection, membership has shrunk from 118,000 in 1919 to 12,474 in 1923. Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Presidential Candidate in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1920, declared that there was now a "great reaction against reaction...
Lerner had been engaged by the Soviet Russian Government without pay to erect radios in Kemarova, Russia. He had Communist affiliations. As a known radical it was apparently considered worth while to arrest him first and investigate afterwards. He is the 29th innocent man that the police have "suspected" as responsible for the bomb outrage...
According to recent press reports the Kuzbas experiment is still very much alive. "Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas and charging certain radical promoters of the venture...
...furnace of a man can lead the legitimate calls of ' adjourn ' into the badly sung strains of Rule Britannia or The Red Flag or Tipperary or fisticuffs and not only make a fool of himself but degrade everyone associated with him. Fascism was stimulated into life by communist tactics...
...ultimatum was delivered by the Communists, after a vote of lack of confidence by the reactionary German Nationals in the Minister of the Interior had been defeated by 248 to 79 votes. Herr Katz, Communist, then tried to get an explanatory note written into the records, but the Socialist President, Herr Leinert, would not permit this. Katz thereupon called the Socialists " greasy scoundrels," an appellation which incensed the Socialists, who called out: " Drag the dirty dog down from the platform...