Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-10-17
TO TRY q ALLEGED.
COMMUNISTS F 0 R.
ANTI SYND|CALISM
TRIAL TO OPEN IN ST. JOSEPH.
MIcH.--WERE ARRESTED IN
RAID ON THEIR MEETING LAST
AUGUST.

h 81. Joseph. Mich Oct, l7,-'By tie
A, P)-Twenty-one alleged comman-
/ ists, arrested as result OF raid on
a meeting held in the sand hills
Il twenty miles south OF here last Au.
gust, will be arraisned here TODAY,
. charged with violating the Michigan
anti-syndicaism law.
Among the prisoners are W, q. Eos
Z tier. leader Of the 1919 eteel strike;
Charles Ruthenherg executive seer q
/. itary of tho Workers party, legal
branch Of the underground communist
! Organization in this country and WI
v liam +. Dunn. Workers party centi.
date for governor o. New York Pos
tier has denied he attended the meet.
ing.
! Barrels Of communist literature
'documenta aud manuscripts will be
produced IL court by O. T.. Smith. Is.
sistant attorney general Ct Michigan.
who. is ii chgr.c Of the prosecution.
! When So nm BeiigoT a. his depu.
I tics aad fe1eral agents swooped down
on the meeting Ia TIE early hours OF
: Aug. y an o. The rGphernaiia cf
the alleged nat'onal communist con
3 vention h8d disa sTesceG, hui q CONF
try boy who saw some men hurving
I several barrels IN the waod5 led the
raders to the SPOT and four type.
writers. a duplicating machine. a half
dozen leather hriec eases, between
seventy and eighty portfolios OF pa
! pers. piles of printed matter and sta-
T, .tionery and other alleged communist
1 property were recovered.
Federal agents. specialists in radi-
cal matters. have been working for
weeks at the jail here classifying The
documents and Questioning eleven OF
the prisoners who Were unable 10
raise tie $10.00n bonds required.
The communist party of America
according to its program and cnnsfi-
tuition, dozens of copies of which were
seized, is an underground illegal or.
ganization" officially renre3cntDe the
Russian soviets IN this country. and
formed for Che purpose Of systematic
ally and pcfsistentIv propagatng The
idea 81 the IAevHabilty Of and neces
aity for violent revolution
by the tse OF force, The froeram |
says. the p2eietariat win destroy the |
nachinery OF tho boufgeois state and /
establish proletarian dictatorship |
based on soviet power
Under the subhead Of Mass Action
the program says:
The revolutionary epoch upon
which the world has now entered
. forces the proetariat to- resort "a mill
tant methods mass action, pddHug tG
/. direct collision with the bourgeois
state. Mass action eliminates In arm
I'd instruction ard civil war Mass
action is the proletarian revolt against
the oppression of the capitalist class
1t develops from spontaneous activi- |
ties CT the workers masaed In large |
industries. Among its initial mani I
festations are mass strikes and mass /
demonstrations
While the federal agents have de- /
c'incd to make public thc entire list I
of severity or eighty delegates 3ho az |
tended the secret conference in the I
woods, il has been reported chat on
of the delegates was an enlisserv from
Moscow who had arrived in the United
States only a few days before the con-
varti0n
Sixteen men were arrested in the
'midnieht raid Foster and two others
werc cXtrcdited from Chicago and two
more We're crested in New York
The defendants, with the exception |
.of Foster. viii be represented by Sv-
hrant Wcsselius Of Grand Rapids Fcg.
ter has retained Clarence Darrow. /
well known Chicago labor attorney, t.
defend him.