Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North Carolina's labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, "went rough" last week, led to the summoning of National Guardsmen...
Declared President B. M. Hart of the Clinchfield Mill: "I will meet only with my own employes. I cannot see that there is any difference between this so-called conservative union and the Communist union at Gastonia. They act alike...
...Like the Communist Party of Soviet Russia, the Nationalist Party of China is the supreme political ego of China, tolerates no rival groups, deals out political sentences in open meeting by the vote of a well-heeled majority...
...wife." It came to light in Manhattan's Chinatown, in a subtle feud between two newspapers, the Chinese Nationalist Daily News and the Chinese Journal. The feud was aggravated some months ago when the Nationalist flayed the Journal for publishing advertisements of Japanese goods. The Journal, edited by Communist Thomas P. Chan, replied by flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred to Li Chi Ming, wife...
What should Judge Barnhill decide? If ever a judge had cause to let his personal feelings influence his decision, it was Judge Barnhill at that moment, for he had just been handed a cartoon from the New York Daily Worker, Communist sheet, depicting him as a fat ogre dripping gore. Judicious, big-minded, he smiled tolerantly at this libel on his integrity by friends of the defense?and 20 minutes later granted the defense's request for a change of venue. Fortunate were the defendants that somebody was not punished for contempt of court. The case was moved to Charlotte...