Workers and the State by Walter T. Johnson
Walter T. Johnson argues that the state acts as the instrument of the capitalist class in a global workers’ struggle. He notes rising use of armed force in industrial disputes, cites cases like Butte and the Great Steel Strike, and calls for a strong workers’ vanguard to achieve a decisive revolution. He discusses legal repression of Communists, court practices, and the Ben Gitlow case as examples of legal obstacles to labor organizing.
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H. G. Wells
Congress
Butte
Colorado
Boston
West Virginia
Ben Gitlow
Swere
W Aull
Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Smany
Harry Jim Larkin
Ruthenberg
Georgian Ard
Midantmdrane
Britain Faces Imminent Revolution Over Mine Nationalization
A sweeping labor coalition led by miners and transport workers threatens upheaval across the British Isles. Government calls for volunteer defense fail to quell unrest as strikes expand to rail and land transport, flooding mines with pump men and risking a political crisis and possible collapse of the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Isles
British Empire
Mmovement
Britain
Soviet offer to trade captured American for jailed Communists
A Vienna based report says the Soviet government would exchange Captain Kirkpatrick, an American POW, for the pardon of James Larkin or Benjamin Gitlow. Both Gitlow and Larkin were convicted under the state criminal anarchy law and jailed at Dannemora, with Gitlow later moved to Sing Sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Larkin
Chas E. Ruthenberg
I. E. Ferguson
Harry D. Winitzky
Kirkpatrick
Andronevsky
Wrangel
Count Sxechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Aosta
United States
Gitlow
Posters of the Soviet Propaganda Wall Displays
A halftone analysis describes Soviet era posters on city walls showing a united worker procession toward the Communist Party headquarters. It notes bold colors and texts urging unity, anti old regime figures, and calls from Trotzky about dirt and lice. The piece also mentions posters promoting education, science, and sports, including amateur access to private yachts and clubs not required.
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Communist Party
Russia
Francia McCullagh
Soviet
Trotzky
Communist Saturdays
Oki
Toilers Unemployment Drive Expands Nationwide Campaign
The Toiler newspaper promotes a continuing campaign to educate and mobilize the unemployed. Readers are urged to fund and distribute the weekly Toilers, aiming to reach millions. The piece notes the Supreme Court refusal to review the IWW cases and reports Haywood and 14 others sentenced in 1917, with appeals and amnesty as next steps.
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Big Am
America
Supreme Court
Haywood
LL W. W
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walter T. Johnson
Triple Alliance
Frank ©. Laughlin
Appellate Court
Gitlow An Larkin
Revolutionary Age
Loiuine Bryant
Russian Press Review
Moscow
Louine Bryant
John Reed
Wwe
Hwcthyeckyio
Napthion
Lenin
Rosarents i Liebknecht
The
Third International
Ee Red Labor International
Original
Bartoome
Suka
Clark Avenue
Cleveland
Leavenworth Kas
Department of Justice
Hyon
Circuit Court For Appeals
D. Haywood
Otto Christenson
Free Propaganda Fund
Arses Desbeteegaee
Pepeetpet Owen
Washington
William D. Qe
Lapolis
Chicago
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