THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, 3IARCII 1G, 1920
SCARLET LETTER IS
BANE OF RED CHIEF
Osier Boasts Fooling U. S.
Agents.
VEILED THREAT IS MADE
Mas Action Tenets of Portland
Kadicals Kvokes Nettled Expla
nation From Leaders on Trial.
(i 'ftrtinu'i From KirstPnp
slaughter at Centralia. was an inter
ested spectator at the trial yester
day. He is to defend 26 I. W. W.
harred under the same sort of In
dictment, as soon as the district at
torney's office is through with the
present case.
Vamierveer had as little respect for
the Montesano jury as the attorneys
for the prosecution.
"Sillv. absurd :" was his comment on
the verdict. "It's like saying two and
two make six. How was it possible
! ronsuire without premeditation? It
was an idiotic verdict and ought to
te set aside."
Oster had said that education was
tlie chief aim of the communist pro
gramme. Veiled Threat Sllnn.
"Po the primary object of the com,
mtinist labor party is to educate the
masses to rq to the polls and vote?''
asked Kvans.
'3."
"Then your mass action is simply
to capture the ballot?"
"If yon believe a country is ripe
for revolution maybe your mass ac
tion stuff will so good," was the aet
tjrd reply.
"What do you mean?"
"I meant your interpretation of
mass action," replied Oster, recain
int? his tempt r. "Mass action means
mads education to a realization of a
class to their condition in society,
fo that they will vote tor themselves
and not a cheap cigar."
"And when the platform says that
the ballot is but a secondary method,
what docs it mean?"
"That political machinery is only
secondary there is no hope for its
use until education has been accom
plished." "What does 'dictatorship of the pro
letariat' mean?"
"To me it means majority rule."
"It is not 'twaddle,' then, as your
attorney believes?"
"1 am not bound by any opinion of
my attorney." .
Oster admitted teHinsr KIton IVat
kins. former assistant United States
attorney, that the only black spot in
his life was that he was born in the
United .States.
Asked what he meant in a letter in
which lie said. "They are capitalizing
the Centralia frame-up." Oster de
clared, "I have gained that opinion
of the affair from newspapers. I
believe it was a frame-up by an asr
jrregation of finance in that vicinity
for the purpose of cleaning up the
I. W. W. there."
Memory I ed at Will.
When Oster's attention was called
to memoranda he had made on a per
sonal copy of the programme of the
communist party, opposite paragraphs
referring to "mass action" and other
features the state maintains indi
cates resort to force, the witness
said. "I do not propose to recollect
what I thought some months ago
when I made those notes."
U'lten almost committed a "faux
pas" during the morning session when
he offered in evidence Lenin's "Polit
ical Parties in Russia." The book
let was turned over to the district at
torney for examination. After glanc
ing through it, Kvans. scarcely sup
pressing a grin of pleasure, said, "The
state has no objection."
Somewhat astonished by the will
ingness of the prosecution to allow
the document to pass unchallenged,
V'Ren asked to see the pamphlet
gain. A hurried glance through its
contents and "I'll withdraw the offer."
eaid U'lien.
' I'm going to ask that you put that
In evidence." remarked Kvans to
U'P.en. during the noon recess.
"you'll have to get your own copy."
refused the attorney, smiling. News
paper reporters were denied permis
sion to examine the documents, which
the district attorney said was quite
favorable to the prosecution.
Oster, who is 26 years old. was born
in Montana and came to Portland in
January. 1919. He denied, under di
rect examination by his attorney, that
the communist labor party advocated
force, violence or sabotage, or that
any secret meetings had been held
prior to the raid on its hall. He said
he had always thought that the
names of its members were kept in a
card index and that he did not know
that the records were by number only
until after it had been called to his
munlst reign were ruled out by the
court.
Oster said he had never been a
member of the I. W. W. and that he
had never read the manifesto of the
Third Internationale, to which the
communist labor party platform sub
scribes. He had not even read the
platform and programme of the com
munist labor party when he joined
that organization, he said.
A second attempt of U'Ren to get
into evidence Woodrow Wilson"s defi
nition of "mass action," as expressed
in his book, "The New Freedom," met
with failure, when Judge Morrow re
fused to permit the witness to point
out the definition in Wilsons book,
saying that It was not a definition
adopted by the party and was not
competent legal evidence.
Of l .-( socialists in Oregon but 200
had joined the communist labor party
ud to the tim of his arrest, said I
Oster. He said that the reason the
communist party and the communist
labor party were formed with the
breaking off of the left wing of the
socialist party was that "officialdom
of the socialist party heeded little
the votes of the members, refused to
publish recent reftrendums and at
tempted to establish an autocracy
within the socialist party."
That the red flag was the official
REGISTER
WHO? All citizens who failed
to vote during 1918 or 1919. or
who have moved out of the
precincts in w hich they voted
during those years.
WHY? You cannot vote at the
spring primaries if you do
not. Nearly 400 registrants a
day must be taken care of be
fore April 21 if Multnomah
county is to have a normal
registration of 100.000. If you
put it off. the last-minute
crowds may make it impossi
ble for you to register.
WHERE? West end, first floor,
county courthouse. Fifth and
Salmon streets. Open Satur
day afternoons.
Registrations to Date.
Male. Female. Total.
Republicans. 3.1.815 21.65.1 55.468
Democrats.. .10,938 7.652 18.590
Otherparties 23,950 1,806 4.201
flrand total
Increase over Saturday.
78.249
272
emblem of the communist labor party
wa3 admitted under cross-examina
tion by Oster, though he acknowl
edged perplexity in "splitting up the
color, 'red,' as all radical parties seem
to recognize the same political fla
Radical 'irculnr Analysed.
Much of Oster"s early examination
bv the. prosecution was based on
mimeographed circular he had printed
to send to socialists throughout the
state. In capital Ifttcrs he had writ
ten. "Choose your flag. Raise it and
keen it flying!"
He expressed his sincere hope for
the future of radicals, in tins circu
lar. Kxnlainlnr hio definition of the
term "radical." Oster said: "A radical
Is a person who advocates what Web
ste r terms 'radical' reforms and ideas.
different from those in general use."
Oster further asserted that his ad
monition. "If you do not decide today
the chances are you will be compelled
to tomorrow." meant nothing more
than that fastly developing economic
conditions would force them to pay
attention to changes in society. The
transition would be, he declared
"into the communist state, the chief
object and aim of which is to produce
for use rather than for profit, as in
the political state of today." That
would be accomplished by taking over
industries, transportation, agricul
ture, public utilities, raw materials,
etc., he said.
"And how would this be done?"
asked the district attorney.
In his reply, Oster laid bare the
entire contention of the defense con
cerning the orderly legal method
which it is maintained was advocated
by the "reds" for gaining control of
the country.
Property Hl(ht Doubted.
"After having gained political con
trol through their majority, laws
could be passed which would be the
will of the majority." Political con
trol through a majority is the inter
pretation which the defense is plac
ing on the "mass action" referred to
in literature of the communist labor
party.
"Would property owners be com
pensated for the loss of their prop
erty under this scheme?" asked
Kvans.
"Laws could be passed to compen
sate them," said Oster. "Yet they
might not be passed; I don't know."
A copy of William C. Bullitt's re
port on a mission to Russia, refused
admission into evidence by Judge
Morrow last Friday, was admitted
yesterday, as a document taken in the
raid. With it. U'Ren sought to show
that conditions in Russia as known
to the communist labor party caused
them to desire "Hands Off Soviet Rus
sia." the title of one of the pam
phlets the party was circulating.
In this report to the president. Bul
litt recommends withdrawal of Amer
ican troops without delay, says that
Canadian soldiers refused to serve
there and that Lloyd George feared
The Aristocracy
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owe much if not most of their
fame to the fact that they break
away from that monotonous
family resemblance which most
ready-for-service clothes bear to
each other. There is none of the
old familiar ready-to-wear look
about them. They differ not alone
in the name of the maker, but in
the nature of the making-. They
are a separate and distinct branch
of the clothing family, with the
blue blood of quality in their
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thoroughbred in the way they are
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U'Ren endeavored to show conditions
ir. soviet Russia as revealed to mem
bers of the communist labor party,
which accounted for the strong bond
of sympathy and support between the
two. His contention is that things in
fiussia are not nearly as bad as paint
c.i. and that there is much commend
able in the communist stale the com
munist labor party seeks to install it,
America.
WATER FIGHT NEAR END
POWER COMPANY AGREES TO
GIVE IP DAM CONTROL.
30 CATTLE BRING $13,495
Average Price at Klamath Vails
Shorthorn Sale Is $149.
KLAMATH ALLS. Or., March 15.
(Special.) Thirty head of cattle
brought an average of 449 at the
annual Shorthorn breeders' sale Sat
urday. The sale proceeds totaled $13.-
495. The top price for cows was
brought by "Luceal," bred by W. W.
Green of Union county, purchased by
W. F. Hill of Merrill, Or., for 1775.
The best price for a bull was $700,
paid by Silas Obenchain of Klamath
Falls for "Lord Sultan," 16 months
old. from the herd of C. O. Garrett
of Glendale, Or.
Eighteen bulls brought an average
of $68 and 12 cows an average of
3. Eighteen Shorthorn calves were
distributed among members of the
county" boys and girls' agricultural
club.
attention by Special Agent Bryon of mutiny if he compeMed the Engli3n
"Wjison did not believe that there
woulj be sympathy anywhere witn
the department of justice.
Sotirt Sludirn Admitted.
He admitted reading the article,
"The Family and the Communist
Plate," in a copy of "Soviet Russia"
seized among others in the raid of the
hall, but questions of V'Ren tending
to bring out his knowledge of vice
conditions in Russia since the com.
he brutal aspect of bolshevism if it
were not for the fact of the domina
tion of large vested interests in the
political and economic world," was
one paragraph marked by U'Ren for
the jury's consideration.
By other publications introduce,!,
TODAY
CONSTANCE
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Explosion Causes Shutdown.
OMAHA. March 15. A gas ex
plosion in a manhole through which
pass all cables furnishing power to
the business district caused shut
downs of many factories and stopped
elevator and light service in nearly
all stores and buildings this after
noon. It was said it would be mid
night before service would be re
sumed. Theaters called off matinee
performances.
Klamath Falls Controversy Over
Link. River Structure Will Re
Settled Is Belief.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., March 15.
(Special.) The California-Oregon
Power company is ready to relinquish
its contract with the United States
government for the building of the
Link river dam, which includes pro
visions for the storage and dii?tribu
tion of power and irrigation water
supply in the Upper Klamath lake, on
assurance that the government will
build the. dam at once. This is ac
cording to a statement of George J.
Walton, local superintendent of the
company, at a conference with water
users and American Legion represen
tatives here.
The local post of the American
Legion and the water users have as
serted that through its contract with
the government the power company
could control the storage supply of
the lake, and in short seasons lower it
to a point where it would deprive
thousands of acres of irrigation. j
The agreement suggests a solution
for a controversy that has stirred tip
much factional dispute and resulted
in retarding irrigation development.
Its success depends at present on the
action of congress on the reclamation
appropriation bill, which must pass
before the government will have
funds for construction.
Clyde Johnston filed today with the
secretary of state his declaration of
candidacy for district attorney of
Lane county. Mr. Johnston is a republican.
Project to Cost $30,000.
SALEM, Or., March 15. (Special.)
The Kingman colony drainage district
with headquarters in Weiser, Idaho,
has filed application with 'the state
irrigation securities commission for
the certification of bonds in the sum
of $50,000. The project is located in
Malheur county and contains 3000
acres. Certification of the bonds is
sought in order that actual construc
tion of the drainage system may com
mence without material delay.
Municipal Plant Proposed.
SALEM, Or.. March 13. (Special.)
Harnessing of water power on the
middle fork of the Malheur river in
Harney county for electric purposes
at a cost of approximately $:t50.000 is
proposed in an application filed with
the state engineer here today by J.
Edwin Johnson of Vale. The proposed
development includes the installation
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Reception to lie Tendered.
EUGENE, Or., March 13. (Special.)
The Eugene chamber of commerce
ill tender a reception Thursday
night to its new secretary. Will G.
Steel, and to Attorney I E. Bean,
who was sent by the chamber to
Washington, 1. C, a short time ago
to work for the passage of the na
tional forest roads bill. The recep
tion to Mr. Bean will be an expres
sion of the appreciation of the cham
ber of his work. Mr. Fenn will nrl-
dre.ss tle citizens at th regular
weekly luncheon of the chamber
Thursday noon and tell hat was
accomplished by the delegation sent
to W'Rjihineton.
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