Word: syndicalisme
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For, in 1919, Miss Whitney was arrested in Oakland after having defied civic authorities in making a speech in behalf of one John McHugh, I. W. W. member. At her trial, Miss Whitney admitted having joined the Communist party. True, she had never been accused of hurling bombs, preaching revolutions...
After her conviction, Miss Whitney refused to petition for a pardon maintaining that such an act would be an admission of a guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the...
¶ Upheld the constitutionality of the California Syndicalism Act in the case of Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney. Miss Whitney had been convicted (1920) of violating the Syndicalism Act in assisting in the organization of the California Communist Labor Party. The court ruled that the Syndicalism Act could not be called...
One Raymond W. Henderson, almost totally blind attorney from California, amazed the nine black-robed justices by his able delivery of arguments and ready replies to all questions. All the while, his fingers fluttered over notes and indexes made in raised lettering. He was pleading a case which challenged the...
Charlotte Anita Whitney is not in prison. She would have been there had not the Supreme Court granted a rehearing of her case, for she had been convicted under the California Criminal Syndicalism Law and sentenced to 1 to 14 years in prison for belonging to the Communist Labor Party...