Evening star., 1923-03-21
PLAN FOR REVOLT
Barred AT TRIAL
Continued from First Page.)


forces the proletariat to resort to mil
itant methods-maSS action leading
to direct collision with the bourgeois
state! Mass action eliminates in
armed insurrection and civil war.
The communist party will educate
and organize the working masses for
mass strike and mass demon
strations. and will lead them in these
struggles 1t is through such
are prepared for the final conflict for
power. This can be nothing else but
"A direct struggle between the armed
forces of the capitalist state on the
one hand and the armed force of the
proletariat revolution on the other.
The communist party will keep in
the foreground the idea of violent
revolution for the destruction Of the
capitalist state and the establish
ment of the dictatorship o: the
proletariat based on soviet power"
Flamboyant appeals by communist
writer's for armed actiou--not armed
phrases praise foC the Harrin. ILL.,.
miners and call for "huIiets-not
ballots" featured yesterdays session
OF the trial
The state. with the assistance of its
star witness. Francis Morrow, who as
"k-9I," Il Department Of Justice
agent, attended the communist conven-
as n delegate. put into the record a
mass of speeches and writings of COM
munists in this country:
Frank J.. Walsh, chief counsel for
Foster. fought the Introduction of
every piece of evidence. but time and
again his objections were overruled by
Judge Charles White.
Morrow's testimony delved into the
inner workings of the convention last
summer. He testified Foster WAS
FRIDAY
Sunday August 20, leaving sun
day morning. few minutes after
two other federal agents, Jacob Spoil
anSky and Edward Shanahan. had
been seen prying about the grounds.
EIe testified Foster served on the
presidum. the governing body of the
communist gathering; that he was
present when Arnold 1-oZovkSky of
Moscow, representing the Russian
leaders, presented reports and de
livercd speeches. and that Foster at
tended at other sessions.
Morrow identified report pre-
Scnted to the convention showing
membership conditions in the fifth
Observation-Disclosures Foster, ac-
cording to the evidence. was a paid
Off 1ial of the party. Part of the
report was in code and he produced
what he said was the secret code of
the communist party OF America and
translated the coded parts.
The secret code was nothing more
nor less than blank application for
a United States domestic money or
der-such as can be picked up from
the counter in any post office in the
country. paragraph on the back.
headed Fees for money orders drawn
on domestic form" furnished the code.
DECIDES Messnge.
on the convention report was a row
of fractions reading: 80: -; 6-1;
-; o.: g.; 35; 1912; 81; 10; Is"
The first fraction, Morrow testified.
meant the seventh line down. sixth
letter to the right. Deciphering the
code, he spelled out the words Labor
Herald" the name of communist
paper of Chicago. of which Foster is
the editor.
@. L. Smith. assistant attorney gen
eral of Michigan. read to the jury an
cartoonist. who is member of the
central executive committee OF rhe
communist party. praising the Herrin
mob and advising communists to
clouds" and get ION a working basis
with those workers who don't talk
about armed mass action. but take
their guns and close down scab
mine and paralyze the state ma
chinery by military action.
Another article from the communist
which was read to the jury despite
Mr. Walsh's objections. was written
by Roger Ganley," the party alias.
| Morrow testified. Of Thomas O'Fla-
herty of Chicago who also is await
| ing trial here. O'F1aherty is asso-
| ciated with Foster in the publica-
! ton of the Labor Herald.
Believe in Class War.
Communists are not pac.fsts,"
| O'Flaherty wrote. They oppose the
pacifism which meekly submits to
the will of the masters OF society.
They are militants. They believe in
war-the class war. They oppose
the militarism of capitalism which
pits workers against workers in
fratricidal strife, but they say that
the capitalist governments can only
be overthrown by the same kind of
armed force that is now used by
the ruling class to keep the working
class in subsection. They believe in
establishing the Dictatorship OF the
proletariat by force and maintaining
it by force during the transition
period from capitalism to socialism"