Word: pollitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reds Up. Stung by the failure of their chief, the extremists rallied to the support of another measure, introduced as follows by Extremist Harry Pollitt: "We must have shop committees. . . We will prevent workers from being fired as soon as they suggest anything for the betterment of labor . . . We want it understood that Bolshevism is our object...
Anti Imperial. As the Congress drew to a close, it skidded again toward the Reds. A motion of censure against the British Empire was introduced. Extremist Harry Pollitt again rose to his feet, "The Empire means Lord Curzon or Lord Reading riding elephants! . . . It means appalling conditions in India, where workers have to be doped with opium before they will go down the mines . . . Every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...
...Congresses of recent years, much interest was taken in the question of Communism. M. Tomsky made a veiled speech which was regarded as the subtlest Bolshevik propaganda. One H. Pollitt advocated an international conference of all trades union movements, including the Amsterdam and Moscow Internationales, with the object of bringing the "organized workers of the world under international fighting leadership...