Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Eugene Debs has been forced into semi-retirement because of ill-health, William Z. Foster is probably the most active and prominent radical leader in the United States...
Since the failure of the Steel Strike, Foster has been a director of the Trade Union Educational League, an organization whose aim is to "bore within" conservative unions...
...brief summary of the main features of the Foster criminal syndicalism case follows: Last August the secret convention of the American Communist Party was raided by Federal officers in the sand dunes near Bridgeman, Michigan. Warrants were issued for 32 delegates, about two-thirds of whom were captured in the raid. The remainder surrendered voluntarily shortly before their comrades were to come to trial. William Z. Foster, leader of the Steel Strike of 1919, and next to Eugene Debs the most prominent radical in the country, was the first of the Communists to be brought to trial. The specific charge...
...want to see your new- est schools and hospitals for children, and study, the best American systems." Mme. Kalinin is expected to sail shortly. She, like her husband, is a simple peasant. A woman of about 35 years of age, she is the mother of three children and the foster mother of two famine orphans...
...William Z. Foster, the moving spirit of a branch of the Communist party, established in America, is facing trial for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The chief witness for the state is an under cover" member of the Department of Justice. This man, nown as K-97, has produced evidence of secret codes, spy systems, educational and propaganda systems, and all the concomitants of a secret and well-organized party. Finally he has testified to a consultation between Foster and the Russian leaders from which Foster returned with a definite program for upsetting the government...