Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communism. The A. F. of L. resolved that the Soviet regime in Russia is "the most unscrupulous, most antisocial, most menacing institution in the world today." William Z. Foster looked on sneeringly, while John L. Lewis, burly chief of miners, called him an "Arch Priest of Communism...
...devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known that the group of Russian peasant songs sung by Baritone Boris Saslavsky was arranged by one A. F. Goedike at the express command of the Soviet Government...
...this course is a question. At any rate, the whole tone of labor has changed. With its increasing power, manifested by such an organization as the Federation, with the increasing modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...
Premier Mykolas Slezevicius of Lithuania journeyed to Moscow last week and signed a treaty of neutrality and non-aggression with Soviet Russia. The treaty is to run for five years and contains a clause recognizing the territory of Vilna as Lithuanian. Poles were vexed, since Poland claims that Vilna is Polish. Moscow newsorgans hailed the pact as a blow to British influence in the Baltic...
Underlying causes: 1) nationalization by Soviet Russia of a doubtful majority of the Bank's shares; 2) disorganization due to civil war of the Chinese Eastern Railway largely owned by the Bank; 3) record depression of the world silver market last week to 59? an ounce, the Bank having the largest silver holdings in China...