Arizona republican., 1918-12-14
SECRET PLANS OF
 SOCIALIST LEAGUE
 REVEALED IN COURT
Young Peoples Socialist
 League Planned To Re organize; Dillon Letter Denounced The W ar

CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-An outline of a plan to perpetuate the Young Peoples Social league by means of a secret, disguised organization in the event of the leagues suppression by the gov ernment was laid before the jury to- day in the trial of the five socialist leaders who are charged with conspir- acy to violate the espionage act.
 The plan was contained in a mimeo- graph copy in a scrap book taken by the government from socialist head quarters, The document was ad- dressed to the comrade secretaries of the Young Peoples Socialist league, known as 'Yipsel,'' and was over the name of William F. Kruse, national secretary of the organization and one of the defendants.
 The letter read to the jury by the district attorney, c. F. Clyne, con- tained a warning that it was not in tended for all the league, but should be made known ito the most trustwor- thy ones"
 Our papers have been suppressed, our wires tapped, and it may not be long before our league may be declared illegal" the letter read. If my direc- tions are followed we will have an emergency organization. Several cop ies of the mailing lists should be made and placed in safe places. Three sub | stitutes for each officer should be trained for the duties of the positions. One of these emergency officers should 1 be a girl, so that if all our boys are 1 jailed we can still have an organiza- tion.
 League Would Only Change Name
 If suppressed, each league should get together with another name, say of an athletic or dramatic organization, 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 pos sible. It is underground 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 a number put into the record of the case of the government. Another letter readSto the jury from the same source purported to be a let ter prepared by William B. Dillon state secretary of the socialist party | in New Mexico, directed to New Mexi- can socialists and calling on them to refuse to fight during the war This l letter ascribed the war to the machi- nations of Wall street and declared that the crisis of the nation had been reached. It concluded: We all love the U. $. A. too well to see her tied tc bloody wheels. I will venture jail rath- CT 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 Chi. l cnoia jet
 ness stand. She identified the scrap
 book containing the Dillon and othel letters as the file which she kept O letters turned out by her department and said that 800 copies of the Dillol letter were made and given to Adolpl
 Germer national secretary of the so
 cialist party and one of the defen dants.
 Camp Grant Soldier 1estifies Much of the afternoon session wa
 occupied in the oss-examination o Private Arnold Schiller, the first gov
 ernment witness.
 Other witnesses were William Man delbaum, bookkeeper of the Arbeiter Zeitung Publishing company, whicl printed the American Socialist an pamphlets for socialist leaders; Irwi F. Weber of Reading, Pa, state finan cldI secretary or the PennSylVanl Young Peoples Socialist league, an
 James F'riberg, "Yipsel," now in tn } United States naval service.
 Counsel for the defendants, at tn 5 conclusion of Private Schiller's cross t examination, moved that all his testi 7 mony be stricken from the record O t the ground that a prima facie case ha
 not been obtained. The motion wa
 overruled. On cross examination
 Schiller said the socialist papers whic
 he received and distributed in Cam
 Grant were the Chicago Socialist an
 not the American Socialist, the na
 tional edition which is edited by Louis Engdahl, one of the defendant He said Duncan Schmidt was the ed itor of the Chicago edition. Previou testimony of the witness was that l. did not remember the name of th
 editor of the Chicago Socialist.
 Schiller denied he told William Bros l Lloyd, recent candidate for Unite S States senator from Illinois. that [ n had turned against Kruse to save h