THE 3IOJIXING OREGONIAX, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920 IS DENIAL E CALLED PERJURY Aims of Communist Chiefs in Oregon Flayed. DEFENSE ALSO IS -HEARD TTRen Expected to Close Argument Today Reply by Prosecu tion to Be Brief. That their aims were legal, that th moant tn achieve their ends through the ballot, is answered in this case- in red letters whicn cannoi ou ". . wiped out. which brand these three men as bald-faced perjurers!" spoke Karl i Bernard, deputy district .at . torney, in the opening antument to the lurv vesterday in the first enm inal syndicalism case to, be tried in He referred to a letter written by Karl W. Oster. state secretary of the rcmmtinlst labor party, and one ' th defendants, the nicht of his ar . rest, to A. Wasrenknecht of New York, national executive secretary of the partv. In this letter, written in scar let ink. Oster had sneered. at the er forts of federal investigators to get information from him and wrote of . upendinK hours "whitewashing "mass action.- as well as the entire platform and programme." Letter Catura Surprise. The communication was sprung several days ago by the prosecution, a complete surprise, in direct refuta tion of much of Oster's testimony as the red leader was fmisning nis turn nn thA ntand. "Oster declared on the witness etand that his testimony regarding the aims of the communist labor party was the same explanation he made to Special Agent Bryon of the department of justice when he was arrested," continued Bernard. "He ' deliberately put a constitution on the ' ' Dlatform of the communist labor ' . Dartv which he knew was not war ranted and which he did not believe, himself, endeavoring for a second ' time to 'whitewash' the programme until, as he said in his letter, he made it 'look like an ordinary issue of the Youth's Companion.' " i Motion Is Overruled. ..' Bernard onened the argument tb morning, after Judge Morrow had overruled a motion of W. S. ITKen . - which sought to have the court in struct the jury as to the lnterpreta tion of all documents in evidence. The deputy district attorney concluded at 3 o'clock in the arternoon, wnen U'Ren opened for the defense. He will not finish his argument until late this morning. District Attorney Kvans will close for the state. It is not expected that instructions to the Jury will be read by Judge Morrow before late this afternoon. No cry of unfairness to the defense has been raised in the trial of Oster, Kred W. Fry and Claud Hurst, an un- ' usual thing in cases of this general j character in which an appeal to preju dice and sympathy is often a large part of the defense. Quite on the " contrary, in his address to the Jury U'Ren said: "I intend no personal re- y flection on the district attorney. I concede that he is fully as honest and , earnest in his love for the laws of Oregon as I think I am. Every cour tesy and consideration has been af- ' forded the defense by court' and counsel. k" Profiteer Are Scored. ' "Why has the powerful government - of the United States pounced on 5 few followers of the red flag and still permitted profiteers to sail a will under the black flag of piracy' . demanded U'Ren in the course of his '. argument. None of the accusations of the 1 prosecution based on the platform and . programme of the communist labor party were answered by U'Ren in the . course of his two-hour argument yes terday afternoon, but he is saving his main line of defense for this morning. Bernard centered his attack on the : platform and programme of the com munist labor party. He ridiculed the ' attempts of the defense to explain away certain paragraphs which he held to be direct advocates of force "7 and violence. Two paragraphs on ' ' which he said he put only the ob Tioua legical construction were: "Ma Anion" lm Evidence. "The most important means of cap ' turlng state power for the workers is the action of the masses, proceed ins from the place where the work er ers are gathered together in the shops and factories. The use of the political machinery of the capitalist state for this purpose is only sec ondary. ,. "In those countries In which there '",' a, possibility for the workers to use this machinery in the class strug . jrle. they have, in the past, made ef-. feetive use of it as a means of propa jranda and defense. In all countries where the conditions for a working ' class revolution are not ripe, the same process must go on." Commenting on these paragraphs, Bernard said: "They say that mass ' . action means the education of the ' masses. Does this 'education' 'pro ceed from the place where the work ers are gathered together in the shops and factories'? It appears to me it would have to come from the outside. ' " The use of the political machl aery ... is only secondary,' What can this mean but that it is second . ary to force and is only to be resorted i to if Tiolence is unsuccessful. And then It is to be used only In coun tries "where the conditions for , working-class revolution are rot ripe' and as a 'means of propaganda ; and defense. , Pkraara Are Pointed Out. ! To prove by their own assertions fat their official programme that the i communist laborites never intended '! to engineer a peaceful, legal revolu- I tion. Bernard pointed to phrases aimed against the supreme court and the 1 constitution of the United States. I The "capitalistic' supreme court "la -' able to obstruct the will of the work- '. ing class even if congress registered , that will, which it would not," says the programme. , .4 As to amendment of the constitu- , tion to secure their aims, as sug- . . treated on the witness stand by Victor J. Saulit, Oregon delegate to the con- . vention of the communist labor party J in Chicago, the programme says: "The constitution framed by the capitalist class for the benefit of the capitalist class cannot be amended in the work ers' Interest, no matter how large a majority may desire it." Explanation of the "revolution" in a document purporting to be the manifesto of the left wins; of the socialist party, from which the com munist labor party was formed, was read to the jury: "The revolution starts with rtrikes of protest, devel oping into mass political strikes and then into revolutionary mass action for the conquest of the power of the etate." "Does that sound like it Intends use of the ballot box for the "revolution ary mass action'?" demanded Bernard. "Dictatorship" Clause Analysed. The dictatorship of the proletari at," the avowed aim of the communist labor party, has been referred to by U'Ren during the trial as being, in his opinion, "mere nonsense and twad dle." , - "I am afimillar enough with the po litical history of Mr. U'Ren." com mented Bernard, "tn know that he by the majority, which the defendants would have you believe, Is the mean ing of their 'dictatorship.' " In his address U'Ren sought to en list sympathy for the three men on trial by pointing to ttfem as typical offshoots of an unjust Bo-cial system and by detailing the dark side of the fight of the under dog for recognition of his rights in the United States. He read I. W. W. songs which had been introduced' by the prosecution. He told of conditions he had wit nessed personally In the Gary steel mills and horrible working conditions in Oregon City paper mills. "Is it a wonder that some of these men were brutalized?" he asked. "Don't think that I approve of the methods of the L W. W.. their songs. nor do I justify them, but we should STUDENT STRIKE 111 CHEHALIS RENEWED School Revolt Thought Ended Breaks Out Again. FACULTY ALSO IS ROUSED Teacbers Threaten to Quit if Young- sters, Bather Than They, Are to Run the School." consider what made them what they are today." Red Flag Eulogy Is Read. He read an eulogy of the red flag, ending. "We'll keep the red flag fly ing here," and asked: "What would it be worth to society to have this depth of feeling expressed in a song for the red, white and blue? Whose fault is it that they dont sing it for our flag?" He spoke of Homestead. Crip ple Creek. Ludlow and Gary, of ma chine guns turned on women and chil dren, and painted a picture of op pression and tyranny. He compared the state with federal and police powers behind it to the trio at the bar, "a machinist, a day laborer and an old man, all three unable to em ploy counsel at adequate cost." , Other labor troubles were discussed. Carnegie and Frlck were named as typical leaders in oppression of work ers. Do you wonder that men will say there is no right but might? he asked. "MaiTy people see red- when they see these things. Ouc duty is to see what is the cause rather than to club them for it." Then he closed in on the case at issue. Members Here Estimated at 200. "There are not more than 200 mem bers of the communist . labor party in Portland and, probably 5000 in the United States," he said, "yet to pro tect us from having American in stitutions overthrown by N00 they have called on all the power of the government to round up the reds. There are more than 5000 under the black flag of the profiteers. What is the attorney-general doing as to them? Maybe he is at .work but we have seen no one on trial for profiteering. But the profiteers have wealth. "If the attorney-general and de partment of so-called justice was as active against the profiteers as the reds, suits having $4.50 worth of irgin wool would not be selling for 100.' If more attention was given to these pirates, we would not pay 15 for shoes for which $3.87 was re- eived by the man selling the leather. 'The reds have been rounded up in spectacular manner, but I believe big guns have been' used to kill snowbirds. WHS) can say this old matn Fry was dangerous, yet they would eport him as an alien? Is there anyone who thinks Hurst is dan gerous, notwithstanding his red neck tie? I Oster's Slur Explained. j Then Oster, a short-tempered Finn born in the United States, who Is J uoted as saying the blackest spo n his life Is that he was born in the nited States. He tells me that it was the fact that he was born in Anaconda, Mont, that was the black spot, and remembering labor condi tions there, I hardly blame him. If that is not the truth, a man may be forgiven a hasty expression." Bernard read from a book by Louis Fraina, communist leader, who poke of revolution as the act of a minority, said that "peaceful parlia roentary conquest of the state is sheer Utopia or reaction," and insisted that the new order would be established by the "mass action of the prole tarian minority, not peaceful parlia mentary action." Fraina's conception of the "dictatorship of the prole tariat," of which the local agitators mouthed, was shown to be the rule of a single class "but one class counts, none other has any rights!' through witnesses who were students of 1'Vaina testified that the dictator ship consisted of the rule of the ma jority. : I.eninr'n Letter la Quoted. Lenine's letter to an American work ingman was quoted from to siiow ad vocacy of force in the class revolu tion. It spoke of bloodshed and civil war being the natural accompani ments of revolution. From the communist labor party's own paper. Communist Labor. Ber nard drew a definition of revolution as "an illegal, sudden, inevitable, vio lent overthrow of government." The deputy district attorney leveled his guns on a 'pamphlet circulated by the thousands by the local reds, "Hands off soviet Russia." It advo cated that workers refuse to load ships destined for the relief of Amer ican soldiers in Russia with food or arms. This was one of the most damna ble pieces of literature they circulat ed," declared ernard. "I don't know whether or not the troops in Russia were justified. Maybe they were not. But that does not matter. American soldiers were, there, and these men would have let them starve and fight inadequately armed, if they had their way." Federal Timber to Be Sold. YAKIMA, Wash.. March 18. (Spe cial.) The reclamation service-plans to put on the market 4,000,000 feet of lumber at Rlmrock, announcement was made yesterday. T SUFFER . 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The Chehalis high school strike, which was thought to be ended yesterday broke out again today when 62 stud ents walked out of the high school after the terms of the settlement be tween the strikers and school officials were read. , Those who joined the -new strike did so, they said, because the school authorities broke faith with them and did not put into effect the settlement agreed upon yesterday. All the students were back in school when the day's session opened this morning. A. S. Cory, a member of the school board, read to the assembled high school body the plan of settlement. When he finished he said this action was final and that students who would not agree to the settlement might as well quit school. Thereupon 62 students arose from their seats and went home. The strikers say that the officials are refusing to lift the ban on school activities put on when a number of students held an unauthorized dance in the school building. The situation in ChehaMs was fur ther complicated after the students began their second strike by presen tation of an ultimatum- to the school board by the high school faculty. The faculty members notified the board that they would go on strike them selves if the students, rather than the faculty, are permitted to run the schools. In the face of this threatened teachers'- strike, the school board sus pended the 62 strikers and promised that no more negotiations with them will be undertaken. PHONE CABLE REPAIRED Residents of South Aberdeen Again Have Service. ABERDEEN', Wash., March 18. (Special.) Repairs on the telephone cable line to South Aberdeen, which nas Deen out of commission since March 11, have been completed and the 173 phones on the south side which were out of commission have been restored. 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The Hood River County Public Health association was organized here yesterday and officers were elected as follows: L. B. Gibson, chairman: Walter Kimball, vice chairman; Mrs. Trafford E. Smith, secretary; County Judge Blowers, treasurer, and Leslie Butler, C. N". Ravlin, Walter Kimball, Rev. W. H. Boddy, Mrs. E. R. Moller. Mrs. W. H. McClain, Mrs. F. H. Blackman, E. O. Blanchar and Mrs. Charles H. Castner, executive committee. The association will be adminis tered jointly by the state, county and Red Cross. The new association has purchased an automobile for Mrs. Glendora Blakely, recently appointed county nurse. FOREIGNERS GOING HOME Grays Harbor Cities Witness Exo dus of Europeans. HOQUIAM, Wash, March 18. (Spe cial.) The harbor cities now witness an exodus of foreigners who are going back because of. prohibition laws and a fear that their tobacco will go next. Times are good in Greece, Italy and other places now. they say, and there is a big demand for help at home. 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