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Criminal Anarchy. New York State has a law forbidding anyone to incite persons to overthrow by violence the constituted Government. Under this law, one Benjamin Gitlow, radical Socialist, was convicted because, in 1919, he urged "mass industrial revolts" and "revolutionary mass action" in a published article. Gitlow fought the case to the Supreme Court on the free-speech issue...
Workers' (Communist): William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow...
...Manus, Manhattan waiter, had a son by his wife "Comrade Fanny." In a steamingly crowded hall, the son was christened Nikolai Lenin Manus, after which his "social-mother," Mrs. Kate Gitlow, mother of the communist leader, Ben, said these words...