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...Angeles the "Red Squad" is not a body of Communist storm troops but a group of muscular policemen who go about the city discouraging radical agitation. Last week the Red Squad permitted William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President of the U. S., to utter the first eleven words of a campaign speech to 1,000 partisans assembled on the Plaza. Week prior the police had broken up a Communist meeting, shot one Comrade...
...President the party nominated William Zebulon Foster, twotime (1924 & 1928) Communist candidate; for Vice President one James W. Ford, a Negro whose grandfather was lynched...
...Workers of the World ("Wobblies") whose unclassified membership slugged and dynamited its way to notoriety before the War but is now practically defunct with a claimed strength of 68,000. A little closer to the centre the line is occupied by the Trade Union Unity League, commanded by William Zebulon Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist. Liveliest unit in this organization is the National Miners Union which was active in the coal fields of the Pittsburgh area last spring (TIME, July 6). The T. U. U. L. claims 100,000 members, although it is estimated only 7,000 of them...
More famed even than the Burpees are the Starks who came less recently into the Burbank activities. Judge James Stark, home from the War of 1812, founded the company in the territory explored (1806-07) by General Zebulon Pike which then stretched from the Mississippi to the Santa Fe. Today the Stark organization maintains the oldest nurseries in the U. S., the largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen...
Slow and orderly but pregnant with violence was the start of a Communist strike last week in Paterson, N. J., great silk manufacturing centre of the U. S. Sponsor for the walkout was William Zebulon Foster's radical National Textile Workers' Union whose agents and inciters took such woe and bloodshed to the cotton textile industry in and around Gastonia, N. C. two years ago (TIME, April 8, 1929 et seq.). Paterson's hard streets are historically fertile soil for labor disturbances; twice within the last decade have they been harrowed by major textile strikes...