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Detroit Communist Conflict Over House of the Masses Property
Detroit lawyers and socialist factions battle over control of the House of the Masses and the Workers Educational Association property. Seymour Stedman leads a court action arguing the Communists are criminal and nonmembers of the Socialist Party, seeking to seize the clubhouse for the Socialist Party amid raids and immigration-law arrests in January 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Workers’ Educational Association
Michigan Socialist Party
Communist
Detroit
House of the Masses
Michigan Party
Paul Taylor
Ben Blumenberg
Lazarus
Davidow
Socialist Party of
Michigan
Taylor
Ida Ruth Stewart
Christian Science Church
Charles G. Gildemeister
Blumenberg
Social-Democratic Party
Kaiser
Reverend Taylor
Gildemeister
Inw
Palmer
Mr. Gildemeister
Seymour Stedman
Socialist Party
Stedman
The
Ehie
National Executive Committee
Scheidemann Party
Berger
Crimi
United States
Secretary of Labor
Communista
Communist Party
Carty
Socialist Party of the
Becletes Party
Chancery Court
Lazarus D. Davidow
Callendar