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.
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TACOMA, Wash., March 18. 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.
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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. The cable failure was
caused March 11, when the piledrlvfr
uiew, wurKing on ine river repairing
the dolphins at the Oregon-Washing
ton bridge, drave a pile through a
cable carrying 100 pairs of wires.
Considerable trouble was experienced
by the telephone workmen in recov
ering one end 'of the cable, thus de
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Hood River County Organized , to
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HOOD RIVER, Or.. March 18. (Spe
cial.) 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. "
One hundred Greeks are packing up
to leave here, and about as many
others are on their way.
to turn out sheet metal, including cul
vert pipes, silos, tank pipe and many
other kinds of sheet metal products.
The company was brought to Boise
by tbe industries committee of the
chamber of commerce.
Indian Fugitive Reported.
YAKIMA, Wash., March 18. (Spe
cial.) Columbus Tules, a Yakima In
dian wanted fof the killing of his
father, David Tules. is said to be on
the Warm Springs reservation in Ore
gon, .and willing to give himself up.
Officers here expect him to be ar
rested within a few days. Tules, it is
stated, intends to put up a plea of
self-defense. .
Ontario Finn to Move to Boise.
BOISE. Idaho, March 18. (Special.)
-The United States Manufacturing
company at Ontario, Or., has decided
to establish its business in Boise. A
complete new plant is to be erected
Beet Acreage Increased.
YAKIMA, Wash., March 18. (Spe
cial.) The Utah-Idaho Sugar com
pany has purchased 1100 acres of land
in the Sunnyside district within the
past two days in pursuance of its
plan to acquire beet acreage of its
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