Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capitalistic Washington, State Department officials stuck to the story of the ogre that is Bolshevism, refused passports to Socialists, rebuked far-away Mexico for communistic tendencies. In Chicago their archenemy, Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg, master-Bolshevik, eyes hope-haunted with a thousand failures, lay still, died. Throughout the U. S. tiny bands of comrades mourned. "He was," said the Daily Worker, communist newssheet, "the sole outstanding figure who carried over into our party the very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty...
Bitter, humorless, antagonizing more than he converted, Charles Ruthenberg split the Socialist party in 1919, became leader of the small Communist wing, while the late Eugene Victor Debs remained leader of the Socialists. Comrade Ruthenberg's ultimate purpose was "revolution without violence"; he advocated strikes "because they are a dress rehearsal for the revolution" which he hoped would free the workers from capitalism...
...Down with War!" chanted the Communists, drubbing and banging on their desks. They were particularly incensed at a clause which would make every man, woman and child in France liable to be drafted for combat or work behind the lines. "This bill proposes," cried a Communist, "nothing less than to make the French war-time slaves to French capital...
...surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause and cheers for 15 minutes-proof enough that Leon Trotzky is still great, though subservient to Dictator Stalin...
...Suppressed the Communist newspaper Justica; banished onetime President of the Chamber of Deputies Rafael Luis Gumucio as a "Red"; jailed onetime Premier Ladislao Errazuriz for the same trumped-up offense; and arrested 19 "Red" Deputies and 100 "Red" citizens-really his political enemies, who were forthwith hurried into exile upon a ship bound for Central American ports...