Word: pollitics
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Albert Samuel Inkpin, 41, secretary of the British Communist party ; William Charles Rust, 22, secretary of the Young Communists' League; Harry Pollit, 30 boiler maker and member of the executive board of the Communist Internationale; William Gallacher, 43, brass finisher; and Walter Hannington, 30, engineer. † John Ross Campbell, Editor of the Workers' Weekly; Arthur McManus, head of the colonial department of the Communist Party; John Thomas Murphy, head of its political bureau ; Robert Page Arnot, director of the Labor Research Department; E. W. Cant, Communist organizer; Thomas W. Wintringham, journalist; Thomas Bell, engineer...
...once. While headlines blared that Britain had at last begun war upon the Reds, eight famed Communists were arrested by operatives of Scotland Yard. They were: Albert Inkpin, secretary of the British Communist party; John Campbell, editor of the Communist Workers' Weekly; T. W. Wintringham, assistant editor; Harry Pollit, Secretary of the Communist National Minority movement; W. Rust, Secretary of the Young Communist League; E. W. Cant; Thomas Bell; "Willie" Gallacher...
...this group Harry Pollit is notable as "the ablest Communist in Great Britain." At the International Trade Unionist Conference at Scarborough (TIME, Sept. 21), he was one of those most instrumental in rushing through the "motion of censure against the British Empire," which so alarmed reactionaries. And it was he who cried that, because of the machinations of the Conservatives, "every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...