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THE ADVOCATE

January 26, 1946 2

Terrible
Conditions
Revealed

Daladier Maneuvers
For Secret Trial;
Hints Death Penalty

PARIS, France. — On Oct.
10 last Prime Minister Daladier
in a national broadcast declared
that France was fighting “not
only for our soil and homes, but
also for civilization which sur-
passes our frontiers and which
made us what we are, free
worthy beings.”

Liashing out at Hitler, he de-
nounced dictators “who massacre
Communist workers,” asserted that
his government would “never think
of confusing the workers of France,
whatever may be their political
opinion,” with French Communist
leaders.

Even before he made that speech
Prime Minister Daladier had
launched his attack on the Com-
munist party, at attack which to-
day has been extended to include
the entire labor movement. Thou-
sands of Communists, Socialists,
trade unionists and anti-fascist
emigres have been imprisoned,
placed in concentration camps, or
exiled to the colonies.

An unknown number of militant
trade unionists is believed to have
been executed, since relatives of
arrested men have been informed
in the phrase made ominously
familiar in Hitler’s Germany, tnat
they ‘died’ in concentration camp.

In the Sante prison here some
30 Communist deputies are hela
in freezing, vermin-infested cells,
their crime, that they signed a let-
ter urging the French parliament
to discuss the question of peace.

HEALTH IMPATRED.

Eleven of the 30-odd Gommunist
deputies are severely mutilated
veterans of the last imperialist
war. The terrible conditions of
their imprisonment are impairing
thehealth of all the imprisoned de—
puties, but particularly of the 11
world war veterens.

The condition of four deputies,
Jean Duclos, Ferdinand Corn-
avin, Georges Levy and Jean
Brun has become so alarming
that there is a possibility they
will never live to face trial

Duclos is in a critical state.
Twenty-four surgical operations
Were necessary to save a fraction
of the sight of one eye after a
Shell blasted away half his face
during the last war. Filthy prison
conditions—the deputies are al-
lowed to go to the showers once a
week to wash—threaten him with
total blindness.

Brun, isolated in a dirty cell,
lost both his legs during the last
war. The wounds never healed,
and his condition today may lead
to death from septacemia. Protest
forced authorities to promise ame-
lioration of his condition. For
companion and helper they gave
him near-blind Jean Duclos.

Doctors have warned that Levy,
66-year-old leader of the Lyons
workers, may die of a stroke at
any time.

Condition of Cornavin became
so alarming that the examining
judge obtained a provisional liber-
ation for him, for fear of bearing
direct responsibility for his death.

Two days after his liberation
Cornavin walked quietly into the
Chamber of Deputies on the mem-
orable occasion when Florimond
Bonte read a statement to the as-
sembly and was arrested. Corna-
Vin sat quietly, said nothing. But
after the chamber had dispersed
he was again arrested.

WORKING CLASS SYMBOL,

To the French working class
these men have become a symbol.
With their seven cripplec col-
leagues they have faced the exam-
Ining judge, as any of the depu-
ties, with firmness and unwaver-
ing courage.

So strong has the protest be-
come that the Daladier govern-
ment, which has already hinted
at the death penalty for the de-
puties, is now maneuvering to
hold the trial in camera.

As during the Reichstag fire
trial in Germany, only world pub-
lic opinion, world protest, resolu-
tions from the labor movements
can secure the liberation of these
elected deputies of the people—
whose ‘crime’ was that they fought
for peace.

Repeal the War Measures Act

Mythical Sniper
Shoots 57 From
imagimary Tree

MOSCOW, USSR. — Cer-
tain Dute¢h radio stations
have broken down, confessed
that press ‘reports’ of Hel-
sinki victories are no more
than fantasies composed in
Scandinavian taverns as far
from the Finnish front as the
yarns are from the truth.

Station PHOH-1 recently
stated bluntly that “a whole
army of press reporters is
now in Helsinki. Sitting in
their hotel rooms, these gen-
tlemen write descriptions of
‘exploits’ by Finns they have
never seen.” PHOH-! cited
the one about a mythical
White Guard Finn who
climbed a Petsamo fir tree,
shot 57 Red Armymen. The
only trouble with this yarn,
remarks PHOH-1, is that
there isn’t a single fir tree in
the Petsamo area!

Seeks War
Upon USSR

Enlistment of Czechoslovak
nationals into a foreign legion,
not to wrest their country from
the Nazi grip but to war on the
USSR, was the main aim of

Rev. J. Peikan, Czechoslovak
ian catholic priest from Chi-
2ago, in an address te a small
Zathering in Moose hall here
Sunday.

With little apparent respect for
the facts and lessons of history,
Rev. J. Pelikan directed his speech
against the USSR in what was
virtually an open call to war
against the Soviet. He stated that
the Soviet Union had a military
pact with Germany, but when
questioned, on this he could, of
course, produce no proof.

The speaker declared that Bri-
tain and France were now endeay-
oring to build up a numerical su-
periority over the German air
force so-that by spring Germany

| would be ready to talk peace and

then the war against the Soviet
Union would start.

Judging ,however, py the num-
ber and tenor of questions asked
him, he found little support for
his war plans.

Hits DAWA

Decision

Delegates from Cumberland, BC,
local to the recent convention held
at Calgary by District 18, United
Mine Workers of America, opposed
the convention’s decision to seek
establishment of a commission to
€o0verm coal miners’ wages during
wartime, according to James Rob-
ertson, secretary of Cumberland
local, who was in Vancouver last
week-end on his way to the inter-
national convention of the UMWA
now in session at Columbus, O.
Robertson stated that while the
convention went in favor of in-
creasing existing wage scales, it
decided not to terminate present
agreements immediately but to ask
the government instead to estab-
lish a commission to fix wages
on a sliding scale based on the
cost of living in relation to wages
paid during the past year.
Cumberland delegates, Robert-
Son continued, opposed this deci-
sion on the ground that it tied min-

‘taining wage

ers to the war policies of employ-
ers, who would exert every influ-
ence to prevent the men from ob-
increases commen-
surate with increased living costs.

Proposal advanced by Robertson
was that present agreements
should be terminated and new
agreements providing the desired
increase in wage scales negotiated.

Refuses Order

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Ac-
cording to the American Guardian,
famous progressive weekly here
edited by Oscar Ameringer, the
postmaster at Clearwater, BC, re-
fused to issue a money order to a

subseriber on the ground it was a
‘communist’ paper.

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French Communist Deputies Near

Death In Prison

Policies Of
King Scored
By Youth

Young Communist
League Executive
issues Statement

TORONTO, Ont—“The spir-

Despite the Detroit radio priest's
belated attempt to wash his hands

it of brotherhood and interna-
tional friendship is not dead in|
the hearts of youth,” declares a
statement on the Huropean war
issued by the national execu-
tive here of the Young Com-

munist League of Canada.

Asserting that war is imperial-
ist in Character, the statement
scores the King government for
“annulling the democratic rights
of the Canadian people” by enact-
ing the War Measures Act “in the
name of freedom,’ and banning the
Clarion in Qntario and Clarte in
Quebec.

The statement points to the huge
profits on war orders being made
by such corporations as Interna-
tional Nickel, while young workers
are denied jobs or relief or ,if they
do get employment, have to accept
low wages. It criticises the gov-
ernment for spending vast sums
for war purposes while such con-
ditions obtain.

Turning to the conflict in Fin-
land, the statement accuses British
imperialism of seeking to use Fin-
land to provoke war against the
Soyiet Union, pointing out that
Finland, “controlled by interna-
tional bankers and for years ruled
by an iron heel dictatorship,” is
important to the imperialists, “who
wish to use it as a landing ground
for their military air fleets, as a
jumping-off board in their war
against the Soviet Union.”

It closes with a call to the youth
of Canada to defend their ‘civil
liberties and democratic rights,”
ito “fight for higher wages, jobs, ed-
ucation and security,” to join the
trade union movement and fight

of the ‘Christian’ Front, quotations
from his own organ, Social Justice,
prove conclusively that relations
between him and the conspirators
were based on mutual admiration.

They regarded him as _ their
ideological ‘fuehrer.’ He endorsed
their work.

While Coughlin praised the anti-
Semitie terrorists, he in turn re-
ceived the warm praise of ex-
President Hoover for a $1000 gift
to the Mannerheim aid fund.

Hoover personally signed a wire
to the radio priest reading:

‘My colleagues and I are
deeply grateful to you for your
fine contribution to the Finnish
relief fund reported to me by
Mr. George Heidman. Your gen-
erous deed is most encouraging
to all of us.”

As for Father Coughlin’s rela-
tions with the ‘Christian’ Front
and John F. Cassidy, jailed leader
of the terrorists, the following
quotations are revealing:

PRAISE FOR CASSIDY.

Social Justice, July 24, 1939, re-
porting a Philadelphia mass meet-
ing:

“Pather Coughlin praised the
heroism and zeal of the Christian
Front in those areas where its
work had already borne fruit, and
urged Philadelphians to emulate
their Christianity and American-
ism.” :

Same issue, same story:

“Sketching the formation and
growth of the Christian Front, Mz.
John Cassidy, of New York, head
of the organization, pointed out
that units of the organization are
now in formation in several cities
of the eastern seaboard.”

This should serve to show up

for a speedy end to the war.

from the original program laid

A combined audience of some 8005
persons listened attentively to the
speakers as they dealt with the
theoretical teachings—practical ap-
plication—of the man who more
than 22 years ago led his people
in a great social upheaval which
changed the whole relationships of
private ownership to social own-
ership and created a new state
which stands in direct opposition
to the world of capitalism.

Bruce, in a spirited address,
struck out at the calumnies now
being hurled at Joseph Stalin, in
efforts to show that Stalin is not
carrying through Lenin’s policies
and declared that these same lying
slanders were used against Lenin
while he was alive.

Reactionaries and Trotskyites
had coined the word Leninism as}
a derogatory term and the same
was now being used in the term
Stalinism, but Stalinism is an ap-
probium, just as Leninism |jand
Marxism, Bruce stated.

Fergus McKean spoke of the
theoretical teachings of Lenin, re-
jecting the false claim that Marx
supplied the theory Lenin applied
in practice. f

Marx, who lived
period of history, said McKean,
was unable to foresee many
things which have now been work-
ed out in the Soviet Union. But
Marx also combined theory with
practice. It remained for Lenin
to develop and enrich Marxism in
the epoch of imperialism and to
lead the Russian people to estab-
lishment of what under Stalin’s
guidance has become the world’s
first socialist state.

While Lenin had been dead for
the past 16 years, McKean deciar-
ed, his immortal literary works to-
day are read by millions of people
throughout the capitalist world.
William Bennett, chairman of
the meeting, drew attention of the
audience to faked pictures involy-
ing the magazine Click, and the
Vancouver Sun. The Sun had pub-
lished a picture allegedly smuggled
eut of Russia in 1931 which was
published two months previous in
USSR In Construction, a Soviet
pictorial magazine.

He also showed fake pictures of
alleged bombings of Helsinki ap-
pearing in several Canadian and
American papers. “The pictures
are as phoney as the news the cap-
italist press publishes,” Bennett de-

in a different

clared.

McKean, Bruce Speakers
At Lenin Memorial Meet

“The tenets of Lenin are being carried out by the Soviet
Union in the present world situation today, despite attempts of
the social democrats and capitalists to show there is a deviation

down following the successful

revolution in Russia in 1917,” declared Malcolm Bruce, well-
known writer and lecturer, who, with Fersus McKean, Com-
munist party provincial secretary, spoke at two meetings held
simultaneously in Orange hall here Sunday night commemorat-
ing the death of V. I. Lenin 16 years ago.

Jobless
Man Freed

Charges of vagrancy against K.
McLeod were dismissed last PFri-
day when he appeared in police
court here before Magistrate Mc-
Kenzie Matheson, but Norman
Harris was found guilty and given
one week’s suspended sentence in
which to procure a letter from a
farmer stating that he had worked
in’ 41939)

The men were arrested last week
while soliciting funds in the beer
parlors for the Relief Project
Workers’ union’s hospital fund
and charged with vagrancy D, a
begging charge. ;

Arraigned in police court Thurs-
day, Magistrate Matheson granted
a one day’s adjournment on ap-
plication of George Drayton, Can-
adian Labor Defense League or-
Sanizer ,until legal counsel could
represent them.

H. C. B. Forsyth, defense counsel,
argued in court the following day
that the men could not be charged
with begging since they were not
soliciting for themselves, but solely
for their organization. This held
good in MecLeod’s case, but the
prosecution changed the charge to
vagrancy A, a person without em-
ployment or visible means of sup-
port.

A police officer said in evidence
that Harris had been in the post
office ‘riot’ and that he had seen
him several times since, but never
working. Magistrate Matheson re-
mark that Harris’ reputation
grew worse as the constable con-
tinued, drew the interjection from
Counsel Forsyth that ‘it always
does at the hands of a policeman.’

Pro-Rees Popular

Enrolment in British Columbia’s
provincial recreation centers has
now passed the 17,000 mark, it was
announced this week. More than
1000 men and women have joined
the Pro-Recs during the past two
weeks.

Coughlin Backed Christian Front,
Social Justice Quotations Reveal

NEW YORK. NY.—From ihe ‘Christian’ Front to Father Coughlin to Herbert Hoover to
General Baron von Mannerheim. This was the strnage combination that emerges in the wake.
of the arrests of 17 ‘Christian’ Fronters on charges of terrorism and asserted plotting against
the United States government, including a reputed plan to bomb the Daily Worker and Jewish
Forward plants and headquarters of the American League for Peace and Democracy here.

ee fraud Father Coughlin’s present
explanation that he was advocat-
ing a ‘Christian Front’ in the ab-
Siract and was not supporting the
one organized by Cassidy which,
Says Coughlin now, is a ‘Commun-
ist’ machination !

A representative committee of
16 prominent educators and
churchmen here urged the federal
Sovernment to investigate the role
of Father Coughlin in the Chris-
tian Front conspiracy to over-
throw the government and estab-
lish a US Fascist regime.

This committee has charged that
it was “in response to Father
Coughlin’s urgent call for forma-

Front was formed.’

Included among the prominent —

figures who telegraphed Attorney
General Robert H. Jackson and
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Director J. Edgar Hoover, demand
ing a probe of the radio priest’s
activities were:

Professor Harold C. Urey of
Columbia University, Nobel Prize
winner in chemistry; Robert W.
Searle, general secretary of the
Greater New York Federation of
Churches; Dean Christian Gauss
of Princeton University; Dr. Guy.
Emery Shipler, editor of The
Churchman; and Professor Franz
Boaz, eminent anthropologist.

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