New-York tribune., 1920-01-28

oAAoi III pal ClCuidl WIFI Cne govern
ment of Lenine and Trotzky.
To that end it occupied virtually
the entire day with reading into the
record pamphlets, manifestoes and
stenographic reports Of speeches.
To these ponderous tactics of the
prosecution, counsel for the defense
offered no violent protests. Several
times objections were made that the
material being presented was irrele-
want and immaterial.
All Objections
Are Overruled
Each time the objection was over
ruled, and the dreary reading con-
tinued. Among the pieces of evi-
dence with which the record was
enriched to-day we're:
The translation Of a pamphlet pub
llshed by the Jewish Socialists Fedora
tion entitled THE Dictatorship of the
Proletariat,' transcription of an ad-
dress by Alexander Trachenberg, de-
livered at the Park View Palace 10th
Street and Fifth Avenue. on November
at the celebration Of the ami
versary of the birth of the soviet
republic; the manifesto Of the Com
munist international, signed by Len
inc, Trotzky and others; the mani
festo OF the Socialist party, Issued Sep
tember a, 1919, transcription of an ad-
dress delivered in Brownsville on No
vember 7 by Louis Waldman, one OF
the five suspended Assemblymen.
Waldman's speech WAS the sole piece
OF evidence introduced during the day
that brought the issues down from
broad discussion of general principles
to a definite, personal accusation In
the stenographic report he is quoted as
saying at the conclusion Of an address
in which he gloritied the Russian So
wet government and attacked the cap-
italist system:
I've must select between two alter
natives either the ideas and phi
losophy of the Russian qoyern~
mcnt or the ideas and philosophv Of
Gary and Wilson, and Palmer and
Lloyd George and Clemenceau
Waldman Protested
Against Blockade
Between the two for my part. and
for the part of thousands of Socialists
now battling in America to-day, we
choose to stand by the ideas and
philosophy and program and principles
of Lenine and Trotzky"
Earlier is his address he protested
against the blockade, which he said
was starving Russia. and asserted:
America is one of the murderers of
hundreds of thousands of women and
children in Russia"
The rest of the material read into
the record dealt in general terms with
the proletarlat revolution to- be and .he
ensuing dictatorship of the working
classes.
Under The drone of the interminabln
reading, the crowd that filled the high
celed Assembly hall nodded or
whispered together. There was none
OF the bitter legal warfare that has
marked earlier sessions
Possibly this was due to the absence
Of Morris Hillquit, who hitherto has led
the defense in battle
Hi1lquit Too Ill
TO Conduct Defense
Dangerously i'll when he came down
from Saranac to aid the suspended
members Of his party, the preparation
or the case and last weeks exhaustinp
series Of legal conflicts have weakened
hlm so that his physician has told him
that he must rest for at least q week
before returning to the succor of his
clients. Seymour Stcdman yesterday
voiced what objections were made.
One other specific charge was
brought out by John 3. Stanchfield,
who led the prosecution
While examining julius Gerber. ev-
ecutivc secretary Of New York County
local of the Socialist party. he elected
from him the admission that Section
OF the constitution of the Socialist
party was still in force He then read
it:
ANY member of the Socialist party
elected to an Office who shall in anv
way vote to appropriate moneys for
mintary or naval purposes or war
shall be expelled from the party"
Five Compelled
To Stand by Party
lie then pointed out that the five
men on trial were bound to obey this
Injunction, through reading the fol-
iow'ng from the state constitution Of
the Socialist party:
ANY person eighteen wears of .pe
or over who agrees to abide by the
national platform and constitution and
resolutions Of the Socialist party may
become a member OF the party"
After having brought this oLt. he
then reminded the committee that the
flve men on trial had taken the fol-
lowing oath before being admitted to
the Assembly:
Il solemnly swear | will obey the
constitution of the State Of New York"
Then, as if to show that the five were
faced with the necessity Of being dis
loyal, either to their party or their
state, he read Section 8 Of the New
York State constitution, bearing on the
organization of militia. This set forth
that an armed force of 10000 men Wa
to be maintained and that: