The daily worker., 1935-01-24

! as a VICIOUS, treacnerOuS batter OF
workers in 1880, when, under the
direction Of the police department,
he Joined the Communist Party and
instigated the arrest of - workers.
Since then, from a mere novice in
anti working class activities, he has
been promoted by local police and
industrialists to position as au-
thority on "anti-radical work. His
bad-smelling record was dragged
out of him, over the protests of the
! prosecution and the court, during
his testimony in this, his latest ef-
fort to railroad a worker to the
penitentiary.
Witness Is a VigiIante
Bacon, as well as the other five
States witnesses, is a member of
the Citizens Emergency League,
armed vigilante group organized by
the Chamber of Commerce during
the West Coast maritime strike. It
is upon his testimony that the
State is basing most of its ease"
against the working class of Port
land.
During his direct examination, the
State introduced a number Of ex-
hibits, including issues of the Com
munist;" the Party Organizer"
the Daily Worker; the Young Work
er, and Marks Communist Mani
festc.
Other State exhibits introduced
as evidence of Criminal Syndical-
ism and sabotage included a gavel
used by Edward Denny when he
presided as chairman at an open
mass meeting last July called by
the Communist Party in protest
against the raids and the shooting
of striking longshorc1nen by the po-
lice. The meeting was raided by
police.
The sly, underhanGed methods
used by the prosecution, represented
by George Graham and Maurice
Tarshis, and assisted by Circuit
Judge James Stapleton, are demon
strated by the manner in which the
exhibits were introduced. Becon
was put on the stand-not qualified
as an expert witness, but merely to
Identify the States exhibits" Frag-
merst.s, lifted from their context,
were read to the jury-excerpts
from the Manifesto, in which Marx
related the history OF the proletariat
since its development, being one
such example. This brief passage
included the observation that the
early proletariat expressed the
growing class antagonisms by re-
belling against the machine, and by
individualistic acts of destroying
machinery and burning factories.
The material, as everyone who has
read the Manifesto knows, is purely
historical. 1t was read to the jury
in a highly oratorical voice by the
prosecutor, Graham, and identified
by Bacon as advocacy of methods
by the Communist Party.
Lies About Communist Party
Under cross examination, handled
in the main by Harry L. Gross, with
the cooperation of Irwin Goodman
and Clifford O'Brien, Bacon was
pinned down to the question as to
the teachings of the Communist
Party, while he was a member of it
in 1880, as to the significance of the
passage. The prosecution shouted
objections, declaring that the de-
tense had no right to question Ba-
con as an expert" because he was
not qualified as such. For hours
the battle ragged. The Court at
tempted to silence the defense,
which fought militantly Attorney
Gross then read several pages of
the Manifesto, showing the context
of the passage. At last, when Ba-
con was pinned down and forced
to answer the question: rs it not
a fact that the methods stated in
that passage are not methods adj
vocated in the teachings Of the
Communist Party, but are declara-
tions of historical developments" he
openly and deliberately lied, STAT
ing that they were methods taught
by the Communist Party.
That was after the prosecution
had stornasd for long period to
protect the witness from the ques-
tion, and after the defense on more
than one occasion openly challenged
the court for its partiality.
De Jonge Surrenders
! PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 23.-Dirk
De Jonge, Portland delegate to the
National Unemployment Insurance
Congress, surrendered to the sher-
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