Word: ruthenberg
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Charles E. Ruthenberg, second defendant to be tried under the Michigan State Criminal Syndicalism law, was found guilty. The jury was out five hours and took three ballots...
...single sentence written by Charles E. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the Communist Party, now on trial for criminal syndicalism in the state of Michigan, may get him convicted. In an article published in the official organ of the Communist Party (since deceased, with the Workers' Party as its sole heir and beneficiary), Ruthenberg declared that the Communist plans for seizing the Governmental power in the United States " includes the use of armed force." The prosecution is making much of this point, since W. Z. Foster evaded conviction on the plea that he did not advocate force. Ruthenberg...
...second of the Michigan criminal syndicalism trials opened with the selection of a jury to try Charles F. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the recently dissolved Communist Party. The defense attorneys, led by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman (with ex-President Taft) of the War Labor Board, and defender of William Z. Foster, devoted most of their attention to questioning prospective jurymen in regard to their prejudices against Karl Marx, internationalism, the Soviet Government of Russia, organized labor, strikes and kindred topics...
...fact that the Department of Justice used agents provacateurs to trap the Communists was one of the sensational revelations of the Foster trial. The State revealed the identity of another "under cover" man from the Department by adding the name of Louis Lobel to the list of witnesses against Ruthenberg. Lobel was one of the Government spies who watched the secret convention of the Communists before it was raided by direction of Francis Morrow ("K-97"), star witness for the prosecution against Foster. Dramatic developments are expected...
...Communist Party of America has dissolved and has directed its members to join the Workers' Party, the legal, or "above ground" section of the organized American Communist movement, according to a statement issued by Charles F. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the " underground " Communist Party, and now on trial for criminal syndicalism in Michigan...