Evening star., 1949-09-02
Aims Of Communists
Always Were Same,
Red Trial Is Told
BY fhe Associated Press


BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-No mat
ter what it's called, a rose still is
a rose, and, says a Red leader, that
is how things are with the Com
munist Party in America.
Testifying in the Red conspiracy
trial yesterday, Carl Winter, the
party's Michigan State chairman,
contended that the Communist
Party by any other name has the
same objectives.
He denied the Governments
charges that a change in the
party's name in 1945 marked a
switch from peaceful policy to
one of advocating violent revolu-
ton.
At their National Convention
that year, the Communists re-
named their party the Communist
Party of the United States" drop
ping the label Communist Polit-
ical Association" which had been
adopted a year earlier. q
The II defendants are accused
of conspiring to advocate force
full overthrow of the Government
since the 1945 change.
Denies CPA was Dissolved.
Winter maintained that since
that time, the party has sought,
as it did before, to establish by
peaceful means a Peoples front"
for socialism in the United States.
He denied that the Communist
Political Association was dis
solved"
Federal Judge Harold r. Me-
dina remarked:
II had thought-perhaps mis-
takenly so-that everybody agreed
the CPA had been dissolved when
the Communist Party was recon-
stituted."
That wasn't so, Winter said.
The party had just adopted a
new constitution, and new
name.
1T was our intent to further
the same objectives for which we
had been working as members OF
the CPA," he added.
$50 you say" the judge inter-
jected, that while politically we
reconstructed the party, there is a
flaw here which we want to take
advantage of legally?'
Not at ALL" replied Winter, II
say what we did was once again
put proper label on what we were
striving to accomplish"
Earlier, defense attorneys in
dicated that the eight-months-old
trial may be nearing its close.
One of them Harry Sacher, re-
marked, during arguments. that
the trial has "only a matter of
days" to run.
Later. newsmen asked him:
How many days? Six? Twelve?
Eighteen?" Mr.. Sacher's only
comment: you've been patient so
far. Please be a little more pa
tient."
1t was reported the defense
does not plan now to call all of
the defendants to the stand, as
had been previously indicated.
So far, six of the red leaders have
testified.
a, Courtroom reports had 1t that
only one more defendant. Henry
Winston, the party's organizational
chairman, would be called. The
defense also plans to present a
from William z. Foster,
the party's national chairman.
He was indicted with the II
others. but his trial was postponed
because of a heart ailment.
A new defense attempt to have
a mistrial declared was overruled
and a Georgia newspa-
perman barred from the witness
stand.
The renewed motion was based
on the week-old charge that Rus
sell Janney, the author and a
of the jury is too biased
to give the defendants a fair trial.
Judge Medina turned down the
renewed motion as he did the
original last week,
At the same time, the court
refused to let the defense call
George Landry, State editor of the
Macon Telegraph, who once inter-
viewed Mr.. Janney on his views
toward communism.
Mr.. Janney was interviewed by
Mr.. Landry in Macon last Feb
ruary, before the Communist trial
jury was selected.
Mr.. Landry quoted Mr.. Janney
in the newspaper as saying that
communism breeds on intoler-
ance" and that people who want
communism should 60 to Russia
and live"
This and statements attributed
to Mr.. Janney after the trial be-
gan was cited by the defense as
evidence that the juror did not
live up to his oath to consider
the trial evidence with an open
mind.
The trial was recessed yester-
day until after the Labor Day
week end. It will resume Tuesday.
Iran, U. S. to Trade Students
TEHERAN, Iran, Sept. "A
Fulbright agreement providing an
exchange of scholarships between
the United States and Iran was
signed here yesterday. Foreign
Minister Ali Asghar Hekmat
signed for Iran and Ambassador