FOR REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 7

FOR REVOLUTION.

— . COMMUNIST PLOTS. Efforts To Rouse American Army And Navy. DISCLOSURE AT TRIAJ* United Press Association.—Copyright. J (Received U p.m.) SAX FRAXCISCQj, July 24. At the hearing of the. Communism charges laid against, the United States Labour leader, "Harry Bridges, which wan continued, to-day, a former Communist, Theodore Stark, gave evidence. He said: "Comnuunists have had units aboard the United States battleship Oklahoma, and ;*bso- in the Bremerton Navy yard trying to win over the armed forces to help fin a revolution." He described»a Communist meeting at Seattle in .1830, at which a United States Armjpsoldier in uniform, his face hidden in mask, reported on Communist activities in Fort Lawton. Seattle. Earlier.' in the trial a witness, Dietrich, ch.ewing gum as he testified, said: "I oiicft 'phoned Bridges' home when he was <tut of town. His wife was peeved and said she didn't care if she never saw bim again. She said she must show hinvi up, saying, 'I have got his Commvmist party book, and I am going to flj»sh it to the world.' Bridges had his wife sent to the country and 'had •women shake down the place to recover ' the book.'" He added that fellowworkers had frequently asked Bridges if he was a Communist. He replied: "If getting better conditions for workers | makes me a Communist, then I am a Communist."