Page Four TH AD V.0 Cath se Nehru Declares Demands Of India Must Be Granted BOMBAY, India. — India’s 350,000,000 people Friday dem- onstrated their support of Na- tional Congress demands for full independence from Britain. At an early hour, no violence had been reported, although nationwide mass meetings were held and millions of Indians trekked to villages and cities to hear Congress speakers denounce British pretensions to be waging a war of democracy. They all re- newed demands for Indian self rule. The British arranged troop disposition and police for ‘any dis- turbances.’ The Textile Workers Federation held a one-day strike and urged its members to participate fully in the demonstrations, Gall to demonstrate had been is- sued earlier by Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Congress and uncom- promising advocate of full inde- pendence. in a round-robin cable to Indian leaders, Nehru reiterated the principles of the Congress, “The Congress stands complete- ly for the principles of its state- ment of September 14,’ Nehru declared. ‘Owing to its conviction that the war is being conducted to- ward imperialist ends, the Con- gress adopted the policy of non- co-operation. No accommodation is possible, except on the basis that India shall be recognized as an independent country, her fu- ture determined by a democratic- ally elected constituent assembly without any external interfer- ence and her foreign policy con- trolled and directed by herself.” The letter then discounted the efforts of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Mohamed Jinnah, Moslem faction- alist, who have sought to disrupt Indian unity and persuade the In- dian people to accept a compromise with the British. Coming a fort- night before the scheduled meeting between Gandhi and Jinnah with Lord Linlithgow, British Viceroy of India, Nehru's letter anticipated discussion at the Feb. 5 confer- ence in Delhi. “All recent statements about an ‘agreement’ are entirely unfound- ed,’ Nehru warned. “We will always welcome agreements, but only on the basis of the grounds stated.’ Labor Movement Leses Supporter Funeral services for the late Mrs. M. A. O’Brien, 3845 Inman avenue, Burnaby, who passed away Jan. 24, in her 52nd year after a lengthy ilimess, were conducted from Cen- tral Park Funeral Home last Sat- urday. Mrs. O’Brien was an active mem- ber of the Parent-Teacher Associa- tion and a staunch supporter of the labor moyement. She is sur- vived by her husband, three sons and three daughters, all resident in Burnaby. Interment was made View cemetery, in Ocean 10¢ _ 10¢ MOSCOW NEWS The special items in issue of Dec, 4th are: 1. The Treaty of Friendship between the U.S.S-R. and the People’s Gov- ernment-of Finland. , Declaration of the People’s Goy- ernment of Finland. 8. Radio speech by V. M. Molotov. Man of Finland. 5. Third anniversary of new Con- stitution of the U.S.S.R. 6. Chart showing relationship of the departments of state of the USSR. NEW AGE. BOOK SHOP — Note New Address — ROOM 14 — 163 W. HASTING ST. Vancouver, B.C. Razed By Earthquake THE SERIES of earthquakes that levelled Erzingan (below) and caused more than 30,000 deaths throughout Turkey also upset imperialist plans to make Turkey the center of a third anti-Soviet front in the east. Considerable damage was done to Turkey’s military preparation in the devastated area. Browder Says Conviction Part Of War Preparation NEW YORK, NY. — “My conviction is part of the administration’s drive toward war.” Last week Earl Browder made this statement a few minutes after the government had obtained a verdict against him on a passport technicality and Judge Alfred Coxe had sentenced the Com- munist leader to four years imprisonment and $2,000 fine — a harsh sentence which left specta- tors gasping. Earlier Browder had summed up his own case before the jury in a masterly address lasting an hour and twenty-five min- utes, fighting determinedly and often with success against the effort of the US attorney and the judge to silence him. Although Browder had completely exposed the thinness of the government's case in his summation to the jury, US Attor- ney John T. Cahill asked the judge to sentence Browder to 10 years—the maximum possible under the indictment. The Communist leader started his summation to the jury by declaring that his request to sum up was “in no sense a judg- ment that I was a better lawyer than my counsel.” He expressed his appreciation, of “the most able, excellent handling of my case by my chief counsel (George Gordon Battle) and his associates.” Then Browder took up the case point by point, pierced through the mass of technical window-dressing which the government had present- ed and laid bare the thin bones of the case. Browder quoted from the gov- ernment’s witnesses to prove that he had deceived no one and had obtained no rights to which he was not entitled. After exposing what he called the ‘thin web of technical material,’ Browder used the words of Lin- coln in describing the merits of the government’s case against him: “Tt is as thin as homeopathic soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that has starved to death.’ But if the “gigantic machinery of justice of our federal govern- ment” moves into action upon such a case, he declared, it must be assumed that there exists somewhere “adequate reasons.” Declaring that he was handicap- ped by the rules of the court from discussing those reasons, Browder nevertheless was able to make his point that the war drive was at the bottom of it. He did this by re- ferring to previous perlods in Am- erican history when cases were brought ‘which were on the face equally flimsy, but played serious and vital roles in the determina- tion of what happened to our coun- try.” After discussing the periods prior to Jefferson’s coming to pow- er and to the war period of 1916- 17 and of the cases of those times which “had the most serious sig- mificance in spite of their frivol- ousness,”’ Browder declared: “And I am not one to argue that this case here is not serious. I would emphasize the serious consequences, not for myself — which, after all, however import- ant it may be for me, is incident- al — but for the general struc- ture of American civil liberties, for the rights of American labor, and the American working peo- ple.” Browder concluded: “JT am general secretary of the Communist party in America, and I am proud of it,” he said. “I make no apologies for it. I am proud to be a Communist.” Notice of appeal was filed with the federal district court here last week and the case will now go be- fore the US Circuit Court of Ap- peals. Meanwhile, Browder will remain free on $7500 appeal bond pending hearing of the appeal. NEW YORK, NY. — From Mex- ico City this week the Communist party of Mexico sent a wire to President Roosevelt urging him to grant ‘immediate liberty’ to Earl Browder. Browder also received a mes- sage from Tim Buck, general secretary of the Communist par- ty of Canada, who extended the thanks of the Canadian people for his “courageous struggle” against “the plot to involve the United States in the war.’ Another message from Blas Ro- ca, general secretary of the Cuban Communist party, informed Brow- der that “the monstrous sentence imposed upon you has caused tre- mendous indignation among the workers and progressive people of Cuba.” Communist Will Contest Couneil 28-year-old Seattle woman, has fil- ed for city council here on a pro- gram of ‘Peace for America.’ “Our city needs higher wages, more relief and WPA, increased health and school facilities,” Miss Boggs said. “But such a program depends on the organized action of the people to stop those who seek to involve us in this imper- jalist war. ‘This war threatens to blackout our civil rights, the la- bor movement and the security of our people guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.’ Miss Boggs, a member of the Only Shoe Repair Store in Vancouver with a Signed Agreement with the Union NEW METHOD SHOE 337 Carrall St. Communist party, and graduate of University of Washington, declar- ed she had lived in Seattle for more than 20 of her 28 years. She is a member of the Seattle Newspa- per Guild. SEATTLE — Elizabeth Boggs, Hits False Analogy TORONTO, Ont—In a letter to the first issue of the Canadian Tri- bune, new weekly organ of demo- cratic opinion published here,, Cap- tain Lionel Edwards, former sec- ond-in-command of the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion in Spain, com- pares events in Finland with those of the Spanish struggle and points out the error of drawing any par- allel between these two wars. “What is this strange travesty of reason and justice that blinds the world today and makes a mockery of the true issues of the situation in Finland?” he asks, pointing out that while the Span- ish government was truly elected by the people, the Finnish govern- ment was not. In Spain every progressive political party had rep- resentation in the cabinet, sup- ported by the workers and peas- ants; in Finland workers’ parties were denied again and again con- stitutional representation, while Finnish prisons since 1918-19 have been full of political prisoners, Speaking highly of Finnish vol- unteers in the Spanish Republic’s International Brigade, who “form- ed a very strong kernel of our ma- chine-gun company,” Captain Ed- wards said he had come to know a great deal about Finnish history and present conditions from these men. He declared that he heard ter- rible stories of 1918-19 events, when Germany, aided by the western powers, enabled Baron Manner- heim and his army of reaction to forcibly overthrow the popular government and drown its follow- ers in blood. “It has been mid- SEATTLE, Wash.—Mayor J. tion's seventh convention which Lyle Telford of Vancouver, dependent member of the legislature for Vancouver East, y be a guest speaker at the Washington Commonwealth Fed opens here this Saturday. 7) Mayor Telford is to explain his charge that his talks on oil man- ipulation were ruled off radio sta- tion CKMO at instigation of the big oil companies. First hand accounts of India’s efforts to gain independence. from Britain will be given delegates by Rajni Patel, 24-year-old leader in the All India Congress, when he speaks at the mass meeting clos- ing the two-day session. 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