Word: syndicalisme
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In Los Angeles, 27 members of the Industrial Workers of the World were convicted of criminal syndicalism and sentenced to from one to 14 years in San Quentin prison. Seventeen other " wobblies," as the I. W. W. are known, had previously been convicted.
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.
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.
"The capitalists of His day," shouted Foster, " crucified Christ because he tried to teach the world. He ran the capitalists out of the temple and they hated him for it. To-day the capitalists don't crucify us for preaching overthrow of their rule. They simply try to send...
A 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...