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...brief summary of the main features of the Foster criminal syndicalism case follows: Last August the secret convention of the American Communist Party was raided by Federal officers in the sand dunes near Bridgeman, Michigan. Warrants were issued for 32 delegates, about two-thirds of whom were captured in the raid. The remainder surrendered voluntarily shortly before their comrades were to come to trial. William Z. Foster, leader of the Steel Strike of 1919, and next to Eugene Debs the most prominent radical in the country, was the first of the Communists to be brought to trial. The specific charge...
...Soviet Government has a hard row to hoe. The sum total of the Communist Party is only an infinitesimal part of the Russian population, who, may it be said, give the Bolsheviki more trouble than is generally supposed. The Government has another task hardly less difficult: the efficient governing of Russia. This requires money. One way of getting it is by the sequestration of church property...
...reorganization of the court system of Soviet Russia, according to the latest reports from Moscow, abolishes the special workmen's tribunals set up in the early days of the Revolution, and also does away with the Cheka, the most notorious of the terrorist institutions for enforcing Communist dictatorship...
...meeting of 80 conservative members of the British Parliament has called upon the Government to introduce a bill for the suppression of seditious teaching of children under 16 in Communist schools. The Communist Sunday Schools are the particular objects of criticism...
...William Z. Foster, the moving spirit of a branch of the Communist party, established in America, is facing trial for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The chief witness for the state is an under cover" member of the Department of Justice. This man, nown as K-97, has produced evidence of secret codes, spy systems, educational and propaganda systems, and all the concomitants of a secret and well-organized party. Finally he has testified to a consultation between Foster and the Russian leaders from which Foster returned with a definite program for upsetting the government...