Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reds Down. Labor extremists found a competent mouthpiece in A. J. Cooke, communist, Secretary of the Miners' Federation. The policies of conservative laborites were largely expressed from the lips of J. H. Thomas, Colonial Secretary in the MacDonald Labor Cabinet...
Results of any real significance were two: 1) Britain, for a time at least, will not be at the mercy of a bloc of 5,000,000 laborers, which would make the K. K. K., the Italian Fascists or even the Russian Communist party look impotent in comparison; 2) Labor party leadership, especially by MacDonald and Thomas, who have really dominated in the past...
With a loud voice, the executive committee of the third Internationale issued orders nine columns long to the German Communist Party: Frau Ruth Fischer, its leader, is to be deposed. Thus she follows Rosa Luxemburg* and Klara Zetkin† into limbo. The reason given for the Communist order was the growing ineffectiveness of the Communist movement in Germany. Ernst Thaelmann, former dockyard worker, was named in her place. He is a more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight...
...with the Russian philosophies. There, as here, they express themselves through papers and meetings. The papers are poor things that are printed first in one shop, then in another. When they get up here they are taken seriously. Fewer than 100 people will get together and proclaim themselves the Communist Party of Mexico...
Soldiers at Aldershot have been laughing at the Communist propaganda and tearing down the radical broadsides posted in the neighborhood...