Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only recently the offices of the National Minority Movement, (radical movement in industry) was raided in London because it was disseminating pamphlets inciting the army to revolt. Last week the British Communist Party published a letter to the Labor Party and the Trade Union Conference urging them "to win the soldiers and sailors from the capitalists," to make the issue as between the workers and the exploiters "so that the army and navy mutiny," for "there is no doubt that the capitalist classes intend to intimidate and, if necessary, crush the workers with the army and navy...
Shapurji Saklatvala, M.P., sole Communist member, announced his intention of being present at this year's Inter-parliamentary Union Conference, to be held in Washington next month. He was asked if he thought the U. S. authorities would let it stand. After saying that he had two brothers who are U. S. "subjects," and that he will be paying them his first visit in 15 years, he added: "I don't for a moment expect the United States Government will be so childish as to interfere...
Allegedly out of Russia, from the pen of Comrade Leon Trotzky, came a violent denunciation of Max Eastman, U. S. Communist, and Max Eastman's book Since Lenin Died...
...long, dreary days the Reichstag had listened, sometimes restlessly, to a deadly debate on taxation. The Deputies, bored to the verge of unconsciousness, became alert on the instant when Socialist Herr Braun accused Communist Herr Rosenberg of praising Caesar Augustus. What had Caesar to do with German taxation? Everybody was wide awake. Herr Braun reminded the Reichstag that Caesar Augustus had enforced capitalistic taxation, which he compared to the tax measures under monotonous discussion. "It was," said he, "out of place for a Communist to render homage to Caesar...
...easy to dishonor dead emperors; I leave all those, including William II, to the Socialist member, who I feel has no grounds to condemn a Communist for praising a Roman since he donned a frock coat to attend the Hindenburg inauguration...