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Show OLE HANSON TO TESTIFY IN COMMUNIST TRIALS CHICAGO. July 19 Judge Oscar) Hebel. silting In the trial of twenty Cemmunlst-Laborites. charged with conspiracy to overthrow ihe govern-! ment by force, today ruled that testimony testi-mony by Ole Hanson, former mayor of Seattle, and Harry Wilson. Cnlted States secret service agent who posed in Seattle as secretary of the Soldiers' ' Sailors' and Workmen's soviet council. I wan admissible. Attorneys for the defendants had argued for two days to bar th- stories Ol the two witnesses, who will t-u 1 the story of the Seattle genrral ntrlke' last year. The state contends the strikf was a revolt and had been the' enforcement of the Communist-Labor party 's policy of overthrow ef the government by force. i |