Struik Files Measure To Quash Indictment

Dirk. Jan Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor of Mathematics, said yesterday that he and Harry E. Winner have filed a motion with the Middlesex County District Court "to quash the indictment" of advocating "the violent overthrow of the Commonwealth."

He and Winner, a Malden advertising executive, were indicted last September by a Middlesex County Grand Jury. The motion will come up March 11, and should it succeed, will cancel the impending trial. No exact date has yet been set for the trial, which was originally scheduled for December.

M.I.T. suspended Struik immediately after his indictment. The previous July he had refused to answer any of the 125 questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The charges developed from the testimony of F.B.I. agent Herbert A. Philbrick.

January 16 the District Attorney filed a bill of particulars against Strulk and Winner. Struik reasserted he is a Marxist, not a Communist.