Evening star., 1941-12-02
18 Convicted Of Plot
Against Army Face
Terms Of 10 Years
Cleared on Sedition Count;
Appeals Are Planned
In Minneapolis Cose
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. IA pos
sible Federal prison term up to 10
years loomed today before l8 per-
sons, members of or associated with
the Socialist Workers Party, who
were convicted by jury here on
charges of conspiracy to create in
subordination in the armed forces
of the Government.
Albert Goldman, New York attor-
ney and one of those convicted last
night, announced that every legal
step and every other resource would
be exhausted for appeal purposes
He Immediately made plans for ~
ing an appeal before Judge M. M.
Joyce in Federal Court here next
Saturday.
Judge Joyce set next Monday As
the date for sentencing.
Conviction of the 18 defendants
was on one of two counts Of an in
dictment returned last July after a
raid on the Socialist Workers Party
Offices here and in St. Paul. Bushels
of literature were seized in the raid,
and introduced in evidence at the
trial. along with two Red flags and
several pictures Of Leon Trotsky.
Communist leader who was assas-
sinated in Mexico
Amendment Added In 1910.
Court attaches said the verdict
marked the first convictions under
the Smith amendment to the Sedi-
ton Act of 1861. That amendment,
added to the law in June. 1910, makes
1t unlawful to advocate overthrow
of the Government.
The count on which the defend
ants were convicted alleged they
conspired to interfere with, impair
and influence the loyalty, morale
and discipline of the military and
naval forces of the United States"
1t also charged the defendants with
preparing and distributing literature
which advised the necessity, de-
STABILITY and propriety Of over
throwing and destroying the Gov
ernment of the United States by
force and violence"
All the defendants we're acquitted
of one count of the Indictment
that alleging seditious conspiracy
to overthrow the Government by
violence
20 Indicted Originally.
Originally the Government OBJ
tanned indictments against % per-
sons. OF the original defendants,
however, Grant Dunno, Minneapolis
labor leader. escaped trial by COM
mitting suicide three weeks before
the cases were called october H.
Indictments against five others were
dismissed on defense motion after
the Government had finished Its
testimony and five others were ac-
quilted on both counts in yester-
days verdict.
Miles Dunno, president Of General
Drivers Union 544 &C. I. o., was
one of those acquitted. but his
brother, Vincent R. Dunno. also
leader IN the union, was convicted.
Likewise acquitted were Kelly Pos
tai. another union leader: Ray
Organ, Ray Rainbolt and Harold
Swanson.
Defendants convicted besides Mr..
Goldman and v. r. Dunno were
Harry De Boer, Carlos Hudson,
Clarence Hamel, Emil c. Hansen,
Jake Cooper, Edward Palmquist,
Carl Skoglund. all members of or
allegedly associated with S. w. p;
James P. Cannon, New York, ma
tional secretary of the party; Mrs.
Grace Carlson. State organizer:
Felix Morrow, New York, editor of
the New Militant, official party
organ; Oscar Coover. Alfred Russell,
Oscar Schoenfeld, Max Goldman,
Farrell Dobbs and Carl Kuehn.