Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-14
Letter from William B. Dillon,
State Secretary of Socialist
Party, Is Read in Trial of
Berger Et AL.
PLAN FOR SECRET
ORGANIZATION SHOWN
Young Peoples Socialist
League Was to Be Organ
lied So That Work Could
Go On, E.


Chicago. ILL.,, Dec. l3.-An outline
of plan to perpetuate the Young
Peoples Socialist league by means OF
la secret, disguised organization. in
the event Of the leagues suppression
by the government was laid before the
jury today in the trial of the five So
cialist leaders who are charged with
conspiracy to violate the espionage
act
The plan was contained in a mime
eograph copy Of scrap book taken
by the government from the socialist
Headquarters. The document was adj
dressed to the comrade secretaries OF
the Young Peoples Socialist league
known as "Yipsel' and was over the
name of William +. Kruse, national
secretary of the organization and one
of the defendants.
All Not Trusted.
The letter, read TO the jury by Dis
tfict Attorney (. Il. Clyne contained q
warning that 1t was not intended for
all the league but should be made
Known to the trustworthy ones"
"Our papers have been suppressed
our wires tapped and it may not be
long before our league may be declar-
ed Illegal" the letter read. IF my
directions are followed we will have an
emergency organization. Several cop
les of the mailing lists so should be
made and placed in safe places. Three
substitutes for each officer should be
trained for the duties of the positions
One of these emergency officers
should be a girl so that if all our boys
are jailed we can still have an organ
ization.
IF suppressed each league should
get together with another name, say
of an athletic or a dramatic organi-
cation, but still the Young Peoples
Socialist league. If the disguise is
discovered reorganize again and
again, All this must be carried on as
secretly as possible 1t is UNDER
ground work, but these are unusual
times. Do not have this letter read
in the league meetings. Too many
should not be trusted"
The letter was dated July IA, 1917
and was one of number put into
the record Of the case by the govern
ment.
Letter From New Mexico.
Another letter read to the jury from
the same source purported to be q
letter prepared by William b. Dillon
state secretary of the socialist party
in New Mexico directed to New Mex
lean socialists and calling on them &c
refuse to fight during the war This
letter ascribed the war to the ma
chinations of Wall street and declar-
ed that the crisis of the nation had
been reached. 1t concluded "We al
love the u. S. A to we'll to see her tied
to bloody wheels. l will venture tc
Jail rather than become a licensed
murderer"
Before reading the Dillon letter
the government attorneys called Miss
Anna Campbell, formerly in charge OF
the mimeograph work at the Chicago
socialist headquarters to the witness
stand She identified the scrap book
containing the Dillon and other letters
as the file which She kept of letters
turned out by her department ano
said that 500 copies of the Dillon let
ter were made and given to Adolph
Germer, national secretary of the So
cialist party and one of the defend
ants.
Much of the afternoon session wa:
occupied in the cross examination OF
Private Arnold Schiller, the first gov
eminent witness.
Would Strike, Soldiers Evidence.
Other witnesses were William Men
delbaum, bookkeeper of the Arbeiter-
Zeitung Publishing company, which
printed the American Socialist anC
pamphlets for socialist leaders, Irwir
+. Weber of Reading, Pa, state finan
cial secretary of the Pennsylvania
Young Peoples Socialist league. ant
James Ftiberg, n "Yipsel." now in the
United States naval service.
Counsel for the defendants. at the
conclusion of Private SchiIler's eros:
examination moved that all his testi
mony be stricken from the record OF
the ground that a prima facie case
had not been obtained The motor
was overruled. On cross examination
Schiller said the socialist paper,
which he received and distributed If
! Camp Grant, We're the Chicago So
cialist and not the American SocIaf
ist. the national edition (which is edit.
ed by ]. Louis Enghahl, one of the
defendants. He said Duncan Schmid
was the editor of the Chicago edition
| Previous testimony of the witness was
that he did not remember the name
of the editor of the Chicago Socialist
Schiller denied he told William
pross Lloyd, recent candidate fol
United States senator from Illinois
THAT he had turned against Kruse Il
save his own hide