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Show ALBflP SOCIALISTS DEfyYTNEY PLEDGED SUPPORT TO SOUiETE j Letter Introduced As Evidence Declared Written by Foes of Political Party ! MENTAL RESERVATION , TO OATH IS ALLEGEC Frvusted Members of Assembly As-sembly Put Up Strong Fight to Regain Seats ALBANY, N. Y., Jan 28. DenK that Socialists had pledgpd support t 1. C. A. K. Martens, Russian sovicl 'ambassador'" or had endorsed for cs tablishment in America for th? ?oicl fyttc-m of government, was made to ;day by counsel for the defense at the trial before the assembly Judiciary ( committee ol the five suspended So "Mali;-. ;. js-emblynieri charged with din j loyalty. Seymour Stcdman of Chicago, renewed re-newed his motion to strike out a let-Iter let-Iter introduced yesterday addressed to Martens signed "Rebecca du Hay" and I purporting to be tho sentiments of the (Socialist organization in the eighth assembly as-sembly district of New York represented repre-sented by Assemblyman Louis Walde-rman-onCdf the defendants. Not By Socialist j Mr. Stcdman said evidence would (show that the letter pledging support to Martens was written not by the Socialist So-cialist organization, but by a group which after "an open political rupture" had been excluded from the Socialist party. Not only was Waldeman not a member mem-ber of this organization, said Mr. Stcdman, Stcd-man, but tho "outcasts" had nominated nominat-ed a candidate to run against him. At the1 same time Mr. Stedman reviewed re-viewed a motion to strike out all speeches except those made by the five defendants, on the ground that they were not responsible for what ohers had said. Chairman Louis M. Martin of the committee denied Mr. Stedrann's motion. mo-tion. Mental Reservations Tactics adopted yesterday by the prosecution at the trial of the five suspended sus-pended Socialist assemblymen charged with disloyalty served to substantiate the report that counsel for the assembly assem-bly judiciary committee will seek to prove the Socialists unfit to serve because be-cause they took their oaths of office with "mental reservations." Without comment and simply by introduction in-troduction of evidence in logical sequence, se-quence, John L. Stanchfield, commit-jlec commit-jlec counsel, drove into the record the following: i That although the five assembly-men, assembly-men, by a clause In their party const!-i const!-i tution, faced expulsion if they votea 1 Jinnvrmrin tinnu fm' inilit:irv nr nnvnl purposes, they nevertheless had sworn lo unhold the constitution of this state which places upon the legislature the duty of providing funds for maintenance mainten-ance of militia. Reading of Document j This evidence was sandwiched between be-tween reading of a radical document which asserted that "Socialists seek to outer into the government lo be near the doors of the chambers where dictatorship dic-tatorship sits and to hinder the dictatorial dic-tatorial work In any way possible," and the manifesto adopted by the Socialists So-cialists at their nnlional convention in Chicago last year which was termed by the prosecution a pledge of support to Lenine and Trotzky to aid in organization organ-ization of a third Internationale: Defense of Russia Committee counsel, which has charged that American Socialists were ' agents of "an invisible empire projecting project-ing Itself as a revolutionary force into other countries," then introduced speeches made at a celebration In New York of the second anniversary of the Russian revolution and a letter purporting pur-porting to have been written by the Socialist organization in the Eighth assembly district in New York, pledging pledg-ing support to Ludwig Martens, self-styled self-styled Russian soviet "ambassador" lo the United States, and approving establishment es-tablishment in America of the soviet form of government. This district is represented by Assemblyman Louis Waldemau, a defendant, one of whose speeches in defense of soviet Russia also was introduced. |