Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief summary of the main features of the Foster criminal syndicalism case follows: Last August the secret convention of the American Communist Party was raided by Federal officers in the sand dunes near Bridgeman, Michigan. Warrants were issued for 32 delegates, about two-thirds of whom were captured in the raid. The remainder surrendered voluntarily shortly before their comrades were to come to trial. William Z. Foster, leader of the Steel Strike of 1919, and next to Eugene Debs the most prominent radical in the country, was the first of the Communists to be brought to trial. The specific charge...
...most important event on the Russian calendar is the Congress of the Russian Communist Party, due next week...
...short time ago Krolikowski, communist, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for inciting agitation against the Republic. During his incarceration he was elected a member of the Polish Diet, and, in accordance with a law giving members immunity from imprisonment for political acts, he has now been released...
...meeting of 80 conservative members of the British Parliament has called upon the Government to introduce a bill for the suppression of seditious teaching of children under 16 in Communist schools. The Communist Sunday Schools are the particular objects of criticism...
...William Z. Foster, the moving spirit of a branch of the Communist party, established in America, is facing trial for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The chief witness for the state is an under cover" member of the Department of Justice. This man, nown as K-97, has produced evidence of secret codes, spy systems, educational and propaganda systems, and all the concomitants of a secret and well-organized party. Finally he has testified to a consultation between Foster and the Russian leaders from which Foster returned with a definite program for upsetting the government...