a ite : po oat 8, No. 42 8 a Vancouver, 1 i} yf yy Hi Wij P19 NLL i Mp wiih British Columbia, Friday, October 28, 1949 ee 2° Price Five Cents Court action threatens controls LANDLORDS PLOTTING QUICK RENT BOOSTS \ j ¥ CIVIL RIGHTS CON GRESS PROTESTS TRIAL OF aE oe ‘Freedom vigil’ staged in capital NEW YORK A week of nation-wide protest Movement against conviction of 11 U.S. Communist leaders be- Cause of their political beliefs was to culminate Thursday this week in.a dramatic crusade to Wash- ington to save the Bill of Rights. Thousands of citizens, mainly from eastern and mid-western States, were expected to partici- Pate in the mass march on Wash- ington, The Civil Rights Congress, SPOn- Sor of the crusade, said it was being hela “to dramatize the al- arm of Americans at the threat to civil liberties” resulting from the Communist trial. William Patterson, CRC execur tive secretary, appealed to unions Aghting for their economic rights and to other democratic-minded Americans to join the crusade. He said: “In the American tradition of the Jeffersonian Clubs, which out the alien and sedition MaSR the Abolitionist societies; the Union Armies and the Negro people who joined to abolish Am- erican slavery; the millions of Gl’s, Negro and white, who fought fascism in the recent war... - the Civil Rights Congress calls on the American people to protest the verdicts delivered against them in Foley Square.” Two leading St. ne dG rs, the St. Louis Pos is- ecosn and the St. Louis Star- Times joined the swelling chorus of protest against the trial. The Post-Dispatch warned the verdict “could lead to a reign of fear for all.” While repeating many slanders against the Com- munists, the paper added: “Punish the Communists for their ideas and we open the way to punish others with less cause or no cause at all.” The Star-Times stated that “the fence of prohibition has been nar- rowed around civil liberties.” The attempt to oust Ben Davis, one of the 11 Communist leaders, from New York city council was slowed down when 2000 pickets demonstrated outside city hall here to protest the schemes to re- move the Negro leader from his elected post. A motion for his ouster has been sent to the council’s rules committee. The Democratic party majority on the council has en- dorsed a resolution asking for Davis’ ouster. Meanwhile, attorneys for the (Continued on page 7) See VIGIL “lam asking city council to urge Ottawa to re- tain rent controls; if rents go any higher the laboring man is going to stop eating.” \ This was the plea of Major Norman Buckley of the Salvation Army, when he appeared at Vancou- ver city hall Monday, along with representatives. of 13 other organizations, to urge council’s building and town planning committee to oppose federal! lift- ing of rent controls next March. — A. E. Robinson, chairman of the district council, Canadian Legion, warned the committee that re- moval of commercial rent control has already forced (Continued on page 7) See CONTROLS Tito beats war drums for Truman Stung by a Soviet note demanding recall of Karl Mrazovic, Yugoslav ambassador to the USSR, for “spying and subversive activities against the Soviet Union,’ Europe’s newest claimant to the bloody jackboot of Hitler and: Mussolini, Marshall Tito, this week fell back for support on his Washington advisers and adopted a belligerant pose. Resorting to the devices with which the erstwhile German and Italian fascist dictators distracted the world’s attention from their aggressive designs, Tito declaimed: “We shall fight and fight endur- ingly to prevent Yugoslavia’s subjugation by Russia.” Washington warmongers react- ed with delighted whoops to the “‘war crisis” an@ headlines in daily papers across Canada and the U.S. reflected their hopes. “The U.S. should make it quite clear to. Russia that if she attacks western Europe she will find her- self at war with us,” declared Senator Robert A. Taft, Repub- lican policy maker. One paragraph in a Washington dispatch glaringly illustrated the new alliance between Tito, still covering his betrayal of the Yugo- slay people’s aspirations with socialist phrases, and the anti- socialist Truman administration. The usual well-informed Wash- ington sources were quoted as be- lieving that “Russia must act fairly soon, before Tito can mar- shall support of the Western powers.” La Croix boasts gov t going to do job for him By MARK FRANK OTTAWA Wilfrid LaCroix, fascist-minded Liberal MP for Quebec-Montmor- ency, is not going to present his “anti-communist” bill to this ses- sion of parliament. The St. Laur- ent government, he boasts, is go- ing to do it for him—at the next session. This, in effect, is what LaCroix told this correspondent in an in- terview here. “I am expecting the government to do what I sought in my bill,” whe asserted. “Therefore, I am not bringing my bill forward. I think the government will bring in something at the next session. They are preparing something now.” (Continued on page 7) See LACROIX