Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British vessels. The entire Soviet headquarters seems to have been what writers of mystery stories refer to as a "hot-bed of intrigue...
...Upheld the constitutionality of the California Syndicalism Act in the case of Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney. Miss Whitney had been convicted (1920) of violating the Syndicalism Act in assisting in the organization of the California Communist Labor Party. The court ruled that the Syndicalism Act could not be called discriminatory because it "affects all alike no matter what their business or calling"; could not be said to violate right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years...
...rehearsing the background and the bill at length) : "... The Government's mandate for introducing this bill was tha General Strike. . . . Things have drifted too far. The activities of the trade unions are shifting from the industrial to the political sphere, in which some of them are controlled by the Communist party...
Several Laborites: "Name them! . . . Name a single Communist union! . . . Liar! . . . Withdraw...
...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...