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Show f IfiBTS OF COLUMBUS I MEMBER IS WITNESS is oa 'i : Jj Iff Peter W ColIins of Boston $f j Testifies at Hearing of the - ; Socialist Ousting ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 6. Peter W. Mm Collins of Boston, a Knight of Clum- ! bus worker, was recalled to the stand IftjL at Wednesday's session of the tml of SV the five suspended Socialist assembly- W I men, to support a claim by the prose- M ' cution that the Socialist party as I dominated by aliens. This claim was the basis of a charge that Socialist -fg ' public officials were controlled by - dues-paying aliens through reslgna- foc2 I f tions filed with their party organ iza- fij tions after tliey had been nominated, cemljl i Earlier in the trial Mayor G. It. Lunn dstjj of Schenectady, had testified that bujjf prior to being expelled freni the So-; Sffij ;' clalist party, he once had signed such j WM a resignation. j 'j? When adjournment was taken until j a next Tuesday, the prosecution at the Sj end of tho third week had virtually ' ; . closed its case. Counsel announced ! M ; that only some "odds and ends" re-' InTf : niained to be introduced. I : Collins, who previously had qual-' fljft J' Jfied as an expert on labor and Social-1 '.' I 1 ism. was (he day's only witness. In cross examination the defense sough 'to show Collins was employed by a '"secret society" fighting Socialism, that he was prejudiced in favor of .trade unionism as opposed to Socialism Social-ism and that ho lacked knowledge of , Socialism and ihe Socialist party. ; Having made the "conservative" estimate es-timate that at least 70 per cent of Socialist So-cialist party members were aliens, Mr. Collins said that through the resignation resigna-tion clause in the party constitution "the Socialist party is actually a government gov-ernment within a government, determining deter-mining how its members shall act in public places." Asked by Lnairman Martin to differentiate dif-ferentiate between communists. Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World, left wing Socialists, radical Socialists "and I guess" Socialists, Mr. Collins quoted Victor L. Berger as saying there were many roads to Socialism, but "enly one variety of Socialism." They have their different varieties of Socialists for the purpose of getting ; where they can drive home Socialism ! and make Socialists, he continued. "It j is tho most scientific system of decep-1 tion in the world, because it wants to I make a thousand different .people be-1 lievc that it stands for a thousand dK-' Iferent things." j Mr. Collins, who said he based his estimate of alien members on exhaus-' live acquaintance with Socialists made while touring the country lecturing against Socialism was asked by the de-, Tense how he reached this estimate. . He replied he had questioned Social-, ists Jiad heard the question of alien j membership brought out in debate and j 1 had obrorved for himself." |