Word: communism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennies pinched by Scotch employers since the War have turned many a braw Sandy and honest Wully to Communism. Scotland's shipyards on the Clyde and Scotland's dreary coal mines are the new cradle of British Reds. Last week the British Coal Miners' Federation Conference met at Llandudno, Wales, and was bearded by five Scotch Reds, executives of the Scotch Communist Miners' Union, which was recently expelled from the parent Federation. "Tyrant!" bawled the Scots at Federation President Herbert Smith, 65, "we demand a hearing...
...months ago Bela Kun was arrested in Vienna, Austria (TIME, May 7), and last week his trial began. He wore a red tie, the virile emblem of his militant Communism. Reeking with wood violets, he disconcerted his judges, drowned the musty odors of the courtroom, and recalled that Wilhelm II, onetime Kaiser and All Highest, esteemed wood violet as a second best perfume to his favorite Kolnisches Wasser or Eau de Cologne...
...picture will certainly irritate those who dislike Communism as it will those who feel that they deserve a story in return for the effort of watching a screen for two hours. Its photography is sufficiently original and its glimpses of uncomfortable armies and furious peasants are good enough to make the film fairly exciting for those whose esthetic instincts can sometimes be aroused by the cinema...
...Russia, however, one may profess pure Communism without being able to gain admittance to the Communist Party, a rigidly exclusive Oligarchy whose members alone have the right to hold public office...
Therefore it is a clear if paradoxical fact that, although there are fewer members of the Communist Party of Russia than there are Communists in Germany, yet the whole number of Russians who vote* must and do vote Communist, whether or not they profess Communism. Of course the number of Russians who do profess Communism, and in that sense only are "Communists," is many times greater than the number of Germans who vote the Communist ticket...