Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Z. Foster, next to Debs the most prominent radical in America, recently acquitted of criminal syndicalism in Michigan...
Charles E. Ruthenberg, Secretary of the Communist Party, is the next man to be tried. Since he is a member of the Communist Party, instead of just a " sympathizer," as Foster is, the state is expected to be able to present a much stronger case for conviction...
...final address to the jury. 0. L. Smith, Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, made his plea for conviction on the basis of patriotism, urging the jurors to keep faith with our soldier dead " beneath the crosses on Flanders Field." Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel for the defense, compared the Foster trial to the trial of Socrates and the persecutions of the early Christian martyrs, and quoted from Plato, Thomas Jefferson, Wendell Phillips, and the Declaration of Independence in behalf of the right of free speech and revolution...
Judge White, in charging the jury, upheld the best traditions of the law in his scrupulous regard for fairness and strict interpretation of the statute. " Under the constitution and laws of Michigan," he said, "the Communist Party and Foster have the right to teach and advocate the theories and doctrines of the class struggle, mass action, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Soviet system of government, the abolition of the capitalistic system, and industrial unionism, internationalism, affiliation of the American union movement with the Red Internationale of Labor, the Communist social revolution and other industrial, economic and political changes mentioned...
...Foster's own comment on the outcome of the trial was short and quite free from any intemperate exultation...