Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge White, in charging the jury, upheld the best traditions of the law in his scrupulous regard for fairness and strict interpretation of the statute. " Under the constitution and laws of Michigan," he said, "the Communist Party and Foster have the right to teach and advocate the theories and doctrines of the class struggle, mass action, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Soviet system of government, the abolition of the capitalistic system, and industrial unionism, internationalism, affiliation of the American union movement with the Red Internationale of Labor, the Communist social revolution and other industrial, economic and political changes mentioned...
...discussing the verdict, Russell Dunn, a grocer, and one of the jurors voting for acquittal, said'. "They didn't give us the dope. The prosecution didn't prove that the Communist Party advocated violence. That was the only thing we split on. We kept arguing about that until everybody got tired, but nobody changed his mind all the way through...
...regard this as a victory," he said," not only for me, but for the jury. It is a remarkable fact that five men and a woman should have risen above all the prejudices they must have had against many of the doctrines outlined in Communist literature, and should have voted solely on the facts at issue...
...creed of the Russian communists, according to an interviewer of Litvinof, is as follows: "We do not believe that the church can serve two masters. We must choose between the Communist Party and the Church...
...solitary imprisonment. The Soviet Government replied to Secretary Hughes' plea for mercy for the Catholics that there are still 50 political (wartime) prisoners in Leavenworth who have done less against government than the ecclesiastics had done against theirs. The Russians rejected Poland's offer to exchange prominent Communist prisoners now in Polish prisons in return for Monsignor Butchkavitch, who is a Pole...