Word: ruthenberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief Soviet representatives on the new Executive Council of the International, as chosen last week, are MM. Zinoviev, Stalin and Bukharin. A representative was also chosen from each nation. To Charles Ruthenberg, U.S. communist, was entrusted the task of "representing" not only the U.S. and Canada but Japan as well...
...dissipate hostile propaganda of the last campaign, is to have another chance to prove that it is not the tool of conservative standpatters. The relation between the Syndicalist Law of Michigan and the amendments of the constitution which guarantee freedom of speech must be determined by the appeal of Ruthenberg from the Michigan courts. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers' Party and a prominent Communist, has been, at intervals, the subject of prosecution by government attorneys. At last he is allowed to appeal to the supreme judicial body to find out how far the constitutional guarantee is henceforth to be enforced...
...then went over to organized Labor, and finally deserted to Communism. Now he is head of the Workers' Party, the "overground" organization of the Communist Party which found it wise to "submerge" after one of its conventions, picturesquely staged amid Michigan sand dunes, had been raided and Foster, Ruthenberg and others arrested. There was Joseph Manley, son- in-law and arch-disciple of Foster. There was C. E. Ruthenberg who began as a Socialist, then found himself imprisoned as a criminal anarchist. In all, he has some nine arrests and three convictions to his credit. Now he is Executive Secretary...
Following Mr. La Follette's blast, Samuel Gompers expressed his disapproval of the St. Paul Convention. The Committee of 48, a Progressive organization, withdrew its support of the convention. William Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg, leaders of the Workers' Party (Communist), issued a counterblast saying that Mr. La Follette was really opposed to the "formation of a class Farmer-Labor Party to fight the battles of farmers and workers." A number of organizers of the convention declared that Senator La Follette was in error about the Communists. But with Mr. La Follette and his followers deserting the St. Paul...
Charles E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, stated the ideal program as: 1) easy Constitutional amendments, 2) abolition of Supreme Court and courts' power of veto, 3) abolition of the Senate, the Presidential veto, the present Congressional committee system, and of the system of 48 state laws, which served as a " fig-leaf for centralized dictatorship of employers...