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...years ago, of the 36 million citizens who cast votes in the presidential election, 48,000 marked their ballots for William Zebulon Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist. Last week the House of Representatives, through a special committee headed by Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, began to investigate the menace, if any, to the stability of the U. S. Government of the revolutionary doctrines favored by this 0.13% of the nation's electorate. The first week's hearings began with a lesson in the generalities of Communism and concluded with an adroit plea from the American Federation...
...Negro citizens of the U. S. It calls itself "the third party." Perhaps it means that it was the third party to nominate its candidate. The first was the Socialist Party with Candidate Norman Thomas, 44. The second was the Workers (Communist) Party with Candidate William Zebulon Foster, 47. The fourth and fifth will be the Republican and Democratic Parties...
...speaker was William Zebulon Foster, famed U. S. Communist. He was speaking in Manhattan, where some 250 delegates to the Workers (Communist) party convention were about to nominate Comrade Foster for President of the U. S. His speech constituted a sort of premature acceptance oration...
Communism has never won political support in the U. S. as it has in some European countries (see page 15). Its ablest figure, the late Charles Emil Ruthenberg was a longshoreman's son who worked in factories and newspaper offices. The new leader William Zebulon Foster, 47, was a wandering slum boy of Taunton, Mass., who obtained a haphazard education in public libraries. First he was a Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program...
...Zebulon M. Pike rests in a military cemetery at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Last week the El Paso County (Col.) Pioneers' Society requested the Secretary of War to permit the removal of his remains to Pike's Peak. In 1806, as an army lieutenant, Pike went out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase, scaled a neighboring mountain, looked upon what is now called Pike's Peak, and declared it "never could be scaled by man." After the Pioneers' Society has shown him, he will not be so incredulous...