ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE
CREED OF COMMUNISTS TUITION LX PORTLAND DISCLOSURES IN COURT (Reed. July 2G, 2.40 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO. July 25. M. Bacon, a Portland police officer, who joined 'the Communist Party in 1930 in order to spy upon it, testified at the trial of Harry 'Bridges to-day that the Communists were taught in a party school at Portland that iOwas proper t'o rob the banks, or 'for Communist members of the United States army to “turn the guns against their own officers.’’
A Communist leader told the school that the Communists had waylaid a bank messenger at San Francisco and obtained £BOOO in order to replenish the party funds.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 7
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