Word: foster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech before the United Cloth Hat and Cap Workers of America he rang a general alarm against men of "William Z. Foster's type" and their efforts to " bore from within " the Federation by means of " internal cliques" such as the Trade Union Educational League. "If these men had all the gold of the capitalist class in their pockets they could not better serve the capitalists to the detriment of the working man than by doing just what they are doing," said Mr. Gompers...
...preside. The other men who will take part in the discussion are Mr. F. W. Moore '93; Coaches Martin and Farrell; Manager Chandler; and the members of the Advisory Committee, Mr. H. S. Grew '96, Mr. F. W. Garcelon, Law '95, Mr. R. C. Floyd '11, Mr. R. C. Foster '11, Mr. W. J. Bingham '16, and Mr. A. T. Lyman...
...Communist Party (since deceased, with the Workers' Party as its sole heir and beneficiary), Ruthenberg declared that the Communist plans for seizing the Governmental power in the United States " includes the use of armed force." The prosecution is making much of this point, since W. Z. Foster evaded conviction on the plea that he did not advocate force. Ruthenberg's written admission that he does propose bullets instead of ballots to realize the " social revolution" is held to incriminate him beyond escape...
...Michigan criminal syndicalism trials opened with the selection of a jury to try Charles F. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the recently dissolved Communist Party. The defense attorneys, led by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman (with ex-President Taft) of the War Labor Board, and defender of William Z. Foster, devoted most of their attention to questioning prospective jurymen in regard to their prejudices against Karl Marx, internationalism, the Soviet Government of Russia, organized labor, strikes and kindred topics...
...fact that the Department of Justice used agents provacateurs to trap the Communists was one of the sensational revelations of the Foster trial. The State revealed the identity of another "under cover" man from the Department by adding the name of Louis Lobel to the list of witnesses against Ruthenberg. Lobel was one of the Government spies who watched the secret convention of the Communists before it was raided by direction of Francis Morrow ("K-97"), star witness for the prosecution against Foster. Dramatic developments are expected...