Word: ruthenberg
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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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...
...Ruthenberg faces a prison sentence of ten years or a fine of $5,000, or both...
...Ruthenberg's conviction in the Michigan trial was based upon his advocacy of force in realizing the Communist revolution. The main exhibit which condemned him was an article written by him in which he said that the workers must adopt " extraparliamentary means," including the " use of armed force to overthrow the Government of the United States...
William Z. Foster, Charles E. Ruthenberg and Robert Minor, the three chief defendants in the Michigan criminal syndicalism trials, spoke at Webster Hall, New York, before a cheering audience of 600 ardent radicals...
...Twice before I was sent to prison for conducting this fight for the working classes," said Ruthenberg in his speech. "Each time I came out I took up the task where I had left off. . . . If we lose this fight we shall go to prison with our heads erect- bleeding but not bandaged...