Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Mine Workers. He is quiet and rather retiring. His policy is nearer to that of Mr. Gompers than is that of Mr. Woll, Mr. Gompers' own protÉgÉ. He does not favor a third party or labor party. He has been active against communist propaganda and the extreme radicals in the labor movement. He has leaned to the progressive group in promotion of a Workers' Educational Bureau and in support of Government ownership of railways. But, on the whole, he is in the middle ground with a leaning toward the conservative wing...
...consideration the increased vote, the position remained the same. Almost complete returns: Party Seats Gain Loss Social Democratic . , 130 30 0 Nationalist 114 8 0 Centre 68 3 0 Democratic 32 4 0 German Peoples' 50 6 0 Popular 14 0 IS Bavarian Peoples' 19 3 0 Communist 45 0 17 Other Parties 17 0 Totals 489 54 35 Elected. Most conspicuous of those elected was Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, conspicuous for his appearance because of his famous snow-white beard, which reaches his chest in two magnificent and cylindrical cascades; conspicuous for his intellect because...
Among others were: Chancellor Marx (Centre), Foreign Minister Stresemann (German Peoples' Party), ex-Chancellors Scheidemann and Wirth (Social Democratic), General Erich von Ludendorff (Popular Party), Count zu Reventlow (Popular Party), Count von Bernstorff, ex-German Ambassador to the U. S. (Democratic), Fräulein Ruth Fischer (Communist...
...that it is not the tool of conservative standpatters. The relation between the Syndicalist Law of Michigan and the amendments of the constitution which guarantee freedom of speech must be determined by the appeal of Ruthenberg from the Michigan courts. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers' Party and a prominent Communist, has been, at intervals, the subject of prosecution by government attorneys. At last he is allowed to appeal to the supreme judicial body to find out how far the constitutional guarantee is henceforth to be enforced...
...most significant part of the second letter repudiated the contention that the Third or Communist Internationale is connected with the Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Said the Commissar: "I am instructed by my Government to reiterate the declarations repeatedly made as to the complete political and administrative independence of the Communist Internationale from the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. My Government has never undertaken, and cannot undertake, to refuse the right of asylum to the Communist Internationale or to any other working-class organization. Still less, can it undertake to exercise pressure upon them...