Word: communists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin. Berlin's Police President Karl Zörgiebel forbade all outdoor demonstrations on Der Tag. All the more determined, Communist bands assembled early in various parts of the city. Leather-helmeted police swinging rubber clubs quickly cleared the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden, but the Communists, acting according to a pre-arranged plan, concentrated in two suburban workers' districts, Wedding...
...their underclothes, National Guardsmen rushed up just in time to arrest the no-longer snoring strikers and lodge them in the Gastonia jail for rioting. Thus did the textile strike in North Carolina (TIME, April 8) become rough last week. The National Textile Workers' Union is a Communist organization. The United Textile Workers' Union is a branch of the American Federation of Labor. A contest for control had flared up between these two. The Communist organizers had fostered the Gastonia strike, which now was not moving rapidly enough toward victory to suit the strikers. The mills had hired...
...cried "Emperor" Cook huskily, turning directly to H. R. H., "You, sir, have done a marvelous thing. Never was I so impressed as by your speech on Christmas night. I was with two Communist friends and when your name was announced to speak on behalf of the miners' fund, they scoffed, but they listened to what you had to say and when you had finished, with tears in their eyes they put their hands in their pockets and gave what money they had to the fund...
Later "Emperor" Cook received the following telegram: "The political bureau of the Communist party in Great Britain observes your treachery to the workers' cause. It reached a further stage at yesterday's banquet in fawning adulation of a typical representative of the class which battens upon workers...
...from Russia accurately and impartially presented," the Tribune editorialed, "we have abandoned our bureau in Soviet Russia." Most of the news that American correspondents can obtain in Russia is contemptuously, and rightfully so, described as "handouts." The Soviet news agency edits the news and fabricates information to conform with Communist policies...