The daily worker., 1931-03-23
.ACQUIT WALKER
AS MASSES CHEER
Oregon Bosses Tried to
Jail Young Worker
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using mostly documentary evidence"
of the State and Revolution, Pro-
gramme of the c. T., Daily Worker
and other like evidence that they
procured"
The defense won the point of the
day when they forced R. P. Bonhan,
immigration supervisor, to qualify
that he was an expert on Commun-
ism. He tried to evade such stand
but the court ruled he must either
qualify as such or he had no reason
for being in court. AS an expert he
could not give the materialistic Con-
ception Of history, AS an expert he
could not give the materialistic con-
ception Of history and denied it was
necessary to know it in order to IN
derstand Communism. The defense
will use DR.. Mckinley of Reed college
to prove that he either is mistaken or
deliberately lied and that the defense
has good cause to consider him an
ass instead of an expert. Bonham
stated that his lecture on the three
RS Of Communism, Red Rebellion
and Riot, were making such a hit
that he was flooded with requests to
speak, He could not explain what
this had to do with his job as immi-
grafton inspector but every worker
must see that the bosses are using
him and his kind to create fascism
that they want in order to suppress
the militant organizations of the
workers.
PORTLAND, Oregon.-The third
day of the trial of Ferd Walker and
Paul Munter was marked by the COM
pletion of testimony by the defense
witnesses and the closing arguments
go to the jury tomorrow with three
hours agreed upon each side.
Propaganda of the class war was
introduced on scale that has never
been seen in class case before. Paul
Muntor, first witness for the defense
told the role of the I. L. D. and that
it was not part of the G. P.
He told how the I. L. D. was de-
Tending the Centralia prisoners,
Mooney and Billings, the facts about
Gastonia, etc.
Veteran Testifies.
John Moore, secretary of the local
I. L. D. branch and on bail for the
same charge threw a bombsheH into
the courtroom with the admission
that he had committed acts of force
and violence though he testified that
the G. P. did not advocate it at this
stage of the class struggle.
In answer to attorney Goodman's
question as to where he had COM
mitted these acts, Moore, replied, "I
was number one man on machine
gun in France and 7 slaughtered hun
dreds of workers at the least" Moore
went on to relate how the Communist
Party carried on propaganda among
the soldiers in order to win them over
to their class instead of fighting in
the mud and filth against other
workers for bosses profits.
The D. A. did not cross examine
any of the defense witnesses at great
length including the defendant Fred
Walker. Deputy Conn thought that
he had proven the G. P. and the Trade
Union Unity League to be the same
organization by reading the Party
Life section of the Daily Worker car
ried instructions about 80 per cent of
the members being assinged to T. U.
U. L. work but upon hearing Moore's
answer that in any organization the
duty OF a Party member was to win
over and make it a militant organi-
zation, he quit.
Stool Squirms.
M. r. Bacon, stool-pigeon, brought
into the court what was supposed to
be a financial record of the LID.
while he was city secretary. Good
man questioned him as to receipts for
payment, etc. and be answered that
he considered the receipts his own
private property therefore not neces-
sary for him to gring into court!
Prof. McKenna, of Reed College.
went on the stand in the afternoon
at the request of the defense and tes-
titled as to the necessity of under
standing the materialist conception of
history in order to know the func-
tioning of the G. P. The state did
not croSs-eXamine.
John Walker, father of the defend
ant went on the stand and told how
he had let Fred go into orphanages
when child because he could not
support him and how later Fred was
taken from him and his wife because
Of their militant activities in the S.P.
and put in homes when he suffered
abuses at the hands of caretakers that
affected his normal life for several
years.
Walker Tells Life Story.
The state had read many excerpts
OF literature and the defense read in
the unemployment insurance bill from
the pamphlet, Fight, don't starve,"
and Another War Coming, Lynch
Justice, Death Penalty Demanded
and many issues of the Daily Worker
were read by the defense attorney.
besides other literature.
Walker took the stand and related
his life story and boup b.y ,,,or,,;,,.-