Word: communism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communism. The A. F. of L. resolved that the Soviet regime in Russia is "the most unscrupulous, most antisocial, most menacing institution in the world today." William Z. Foster looked on sneeringly, while John L. Lewis, burly chief of miners, called him an "Arch Priest of Communism...
...public an organization which was striving to promote the lower classes at the expenses of the middle and upper class. Such perverted offspring of the American Federation as was the I. W. W., strengthened this brief. Labor, to the world, meant a force moving steadily coward toward communism...
...labor leaders perceived the futility of this course is a question. At any rate, the whole tone of labor has changed. With its increasing power, manifested by such an organization as the Federation, with the increasing modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...
...great economic problem facing the State is to increase the efficiency of industry to a point at which the peasant can be supplied with goods at a price which he can pay. The failure of "pure" Communism to achieve this end gave rise to the "heretical" capitalistic...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, until recently "War lord of Central China," long a potent bulwark against Communism, found his forces crumbling and his officers deserting by dozens last week as he retreated from Hankow, his one-time stronghold on the Yangtze, to Chengchow in northern Honan Province...