Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...that a secret service operative in the employ of the United States had succeeded in joining the Communist organization and was responsible for any violent statements attributed to the defendants. The party convention on which the raid was made, declared Mr. Walsh, was called for the purpose of abolishing underground tactics in favor of coming out into the open as a legal group. When the vote was taken, this Government detective cast the deciding ballot against open legality. Later, said Mr. Walsh, the Communist Party was formally disbanded in a New York Convention, and the Workers' Party, a legal...
...great deal of worry and trouble. What is there that a Russian ambassador, with a soviet consular service to aid him, could not do to further the plans of a government pledged to the overthrow of all capitalistic countries? He could certainly double or treble the effectiveness of an underground party such as is now being revealed in Michigan...
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...significant feature in the political situation. Russia has a longer contiguous boundary with China than with any other country, and Bolshevik agents are making every effort to stir up the people. How far they have been successful cannot yet be judged because whatever movement there may be is still underground. The men who are running the government, however, are rather fearful for the immediate outcome...