Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the third conviction for the ex-Secretary of the Communist Party in recent years and his ninth arrest since he entered the revolutionary movement a dozen years ago. During the war he was found guilty of obstructing the draft and sent to an Ohio workhouse. After the war, he was convicted of writing the notorious "left wing" manifesto which split the regular Socialist Party and led to the birth of insurrectionary Communism in America. He was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison and served 18 months before the Appellate Court reversed the decision and released...
Ruthenberg's conviction in the Michigan trial was based upon his advocacy of force in realizing the Communist revolution. The main exhibit which condemned him was an article written by him in which he said that the workers must adopt " extraparliamentary means," including the " use of armed force to overthrow the Government of the United States...
...next Communist to be tried will be Robert Minor, cartoonist, writer and former editor of the Liberator, leading Bolshevik monthly in America...
Foster received an ovation of several minutes when he stepped upon the stage. He reviewed the trial and likened himself and his colleagues to Christ, whom he called " the original Communist...
Police reserves were unable to disperse the crowd until the Communist leaders left the hall, when they were followed for blocks by the cheering radical sympathizers...