Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things went wrong. The American Federation of Labor, which does not believe in direct political action, stayed away. Senator La Follette had repudiated point-blank any support the Convention might give him, declaring that it was in the hands of communist interests. So only about 400 delegates came...
...Follette and the A. F. of L. had despised his work. There was William Z. Foster, who began as an I. W. W., then went over to organized Labor, and finally deserted to Communism. Now he is head of the Workers' Party, the "overground" organization of the Communist Party which found it wise to "submerge" after one of its conventions, picturesquely staged amid Michigan sand dunes, had been raided and Foster, Ruthenberg and others arrested. There was Joseph Manley, son- in-law and arch-disciple of Foster. There was C. E. Ruthenberg who began as a Socialist, then found himself...
...this Mr. Foster might have replied with great point: "We don't want a pure Communist organization nor a pure Communist platform because it will serve us better to control a party which might get many non-communist votes?on that account we would have liked to ride on the tail of Mr. LaFollette's kite. It would give us an opening and make a better impression in Moscow...
...plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist (Third) International, the Presidium for a Communist International Congress, to be held at Moscow this month, was named...
...program of the Congress: 1) Lenin and the Communist International, 2) activities of the Executive Committee and tactics, 3) world economic position; 4) future policy, 5) tactics relating to the labor federation movement, 6) national questions, 7) questions of organization, 8) propaganda, 9) Fascism, 10) questions about the intelligentsia, 11) economic position of Russia, 12) question of the peasants, 13) Young Communist movement, 14) Communist aid organization, 15) questions of different sections, 16) question of coöperatives, 17) election of the Executive Committee and President...