Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present stage of the conflict the position of the Secretary of Labor is impregnable. The crime with which he is charged by the Department of Justice apparently consists of a decision that membership in the Communist Labor Party does not "per se" render an alien liable to instant deportation. This decision is eminently reasonable and just. Secretary Wilson announces that after careful investigation he cannot find any part of the program of this party which advocates violence or the forcible overthrow of government. Many aliens, he further points out, are members of the party without knowing it. It seems hardly...
...pretend that recent news from Russia is reassuring. The uncompromising attack of the Communist despotism on the great co-operative associations is disquieting. But it is not our business. We have meddled enough. Every element in Russia except a handful of expatriates wants us to keep our hands off. It is a crime for France to stir up Poland to try to be another eatspaw for French interference. It is not much less of a crime for any other government to refuse export licenses to any business man who wants to begin trade with Russia on any terms that suit...