Word: gitlow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MINOR PARTIES Gitlow Lost & Found...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...that is definitely known thus far is that Gitlow, on a campaign tour of the West was scheduled to speak at Phoenix, Arizona, but that when his train arived there bands of Klansmen and members of the American Legion prevented his descending, and that when he was due to speak at Tuscon he could not be found...
...forcibly removed at Phoenix, and after a severe beating, taken to the Phoenix jail. When their posses were about to locate him, he was transferred to Nogales on the border. A wire from the Chief of Police of Nogales to Federal Officers in Washington. D. C., States that Gitlow is being held, but names no charge against...
...Junior League of the American Civil Liberties Union accuses you of being disloyal to the ideals and principles upon which our nation was founded. We have sufficient confidence in American institutions to believe that they can stand the test of open criticism. We demand that our fellow-citizen Benjamin Gitlow be protected in the proper exercise of his legitimate rights of free speech and assemblage, and we further demand that the reason for his arrest be made known at once...