The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04
Parties to a Deep-Laid
Pot Are No Common
Soap-Box Orators.
DIRECTED IN RUSSIA
Genuine Attempt to Upset
United States Government
and Establish Soviet.
nv GuMhN PARKER.


tatorship ~ Lcnine ann Trotzky-
This is the main issue Involved IN
fhreo triaIa OF vital interest To tho
nation 10 be held here. tho trials of
1854 members OF tho communist
party the communist labor parry
and tho T. W. w
All are charged according 10 the
Indictments against them, with hav-
fng consplrcd TO overthrow tho gov
efnmont ~ tho United Stater
Pgt tho evidence against them
Will 20 oven deeper than That IL
viii prove. say the prosecution at
torreys. that the conspiracy was no
mere spreading Of "parlor boishev-
ism" no flareup campaign OF soap
hox nratory, no pamphletoeriDg or
glittering gencralitios from Green
wich Village demanding "justico'
for the "downtroddcn proletnriht'
hut that ~ was part OF cold. de-
iiberatc highly organized plot.
backed by Lcnine and 1rotzky AT
petrograd to overturn the United
States government by "a bloody rev.
olution and place IN It's stead tho
soviet rule OF Russia.
An outline OF the case against the
radicals was given the International
News Service by Special Assistant
states Attorney Frank Comerford'
who has charge of all three trials
under states Attorney Maolay
Hoyne. who gathered tho evidence
against them and brought about
thor Indictment
Mr. Comerford whs selected 20 d.
rect tho prosecution because OF his
wide knowledge OF radical move
ments In general. gained as n chi
cago attorney who once had oc-
casion to defend several OF them,
and because OF "A first hand under
standing OF bolshevism no obtained
az "A newspaper correspondent Gov
oring" the fighting against tho so
Wet armies In western Russit sew
eral months ago
All the defendants Mr.. Comerford
asserted. are under sworn pledge
to do everything In their power To
carry out the tenets OF the "manifes-
to- issued by the third international.
which met Mt Moscow In March,
1919. under tho leadership OF Lenine
and Trot2ky one OF tho chief
clauses 81 this manifesto" which
viii figure prominently In the trials.
reads as follows.
THE revolutionary era compels
tho prolctariat to make Ms OF the
means of battle which will concen-
trate it's entire energies. namely,
mass action. with It's logical result
ant, direct conflict with tho govern
mental machinery In open combat.
All other methods, such as revol,fx
nonary use OF bourgeois parliamen-
tarism. will be OF only secondary
Significance"
This phraseology leaves no doubt
az to It's meaning, according to Mr..
Comerford.
"It means that because Of their
pledge TO the manifesto all these
defendants are sworn TO do all they
con to bring about bloody revolu
ton In tho United States. to over
throw this government and substi-
tute Russian communism" he said
"The prosecution has evidence to
show that this was exactly what
these defendants were secretly
working for. and further. that Lo'
nine and Trotzky we're constantly
kept in touch with every move
made, IL they did not actually direct
them.
''It was Leninc and Trotzky VIII,
sent coHriers to the United Statoi
In the guisc OF ships stokers nn1
bringing with them copies Of th'
manifesto published In German
Hourwich the editor of Novy Mir
Russian paper published In New
York. and Isaac E. Ferguson, chic
counsel for tho communist party
"Hourwich," who once employee
TrotzSy as a reporter on his paper
Joined with Ferguson In having tn
'manifeato' translated into English
n was then published as a booklo
wv the Arbeitor Heitung, n Geraa
newspaper In Chicago, and distrib
uted from that city.
"Chicago was chosen by Lenin
ard rrot2ky as the conter for tn
spreading Of bolshevism In IN
United states tho point for mar
shsning their American force
under the red flag and sending thet
out when the time should arrive tu
their revolution against the go,
eminent Tho home of "BiE BIN
Haywood and the Headquarters "a
many radical movements, what NOR
natural than that the two nstut
dictators OF soviet Russia should =,
lect this city as tho Mecca for the
deep laid plot"
Tho first group TO he tried. wit
tho trial opening tentatively set IL
April &. is composed OF leaders {
the communist party, prumiuCt
among thcm are Mrs. Rose PASTE
Stokes. Nicholas l. uourwich lsaa
y. Ferguson, \, Bitucman, Max
milan Gonou. Paul petras and O.
car Tyworowsky OF New York, Joh
j. Ballam and John Schwartz ,
Boston, Marry W Wicks OF Por
land ore, and Alexander Stolitsk
of Mexico city. All are member
OF the organizations national eNoct
two committee. There are SO d,
PENDANTS in this group
The trial will he followed by TIT
of moro than 80 leaders OF the con
munist labor party. Most prom
nont among these Is William Bro
Lloyd, wealthy chicago man, VIII
before he became associated wit
this branch OF radicalism, W,
known as 1.-The millionaire socialist
The last group TO be tried will
some 40 members, OF tho |. W.
including their cOmmander-in-chlt IL
"Big Bill" Haywood