THE ADYOCATE Reporter Witness For Crown Remarks Made At CLDL Meet Basis Of Charges Laid CALGARY, Alta——Charged under the War Measures Act, Ald. Patrick Lenihan has been acquitted by a Supreme Court jury here. The charges, both laid under Section 39, covering utterance “in- tended or likely to cause disaffec- tion to his majesty” and “intend- ed or likely to prejudice recruit- ing,” arose out of a speech made on Dec, 3 at a meeting called to organize a branch of the Canadian Labor Defense League. Defended by the Canadian La- bor Defense League, Lenihan was at first represented in court by Col. Dingle, who later retired from the ease, necessitating a last-minute appointment of counsel by the Crown. Four defense witnesses, includ- ing the defendant, took fhe stand and testified that the speech was intended as a criticism of restric tions of democracy prevailing un- der the War Measures Act Sole witness for the prosecuton was Duncan Campbell, reporter on the staff of the Calgary Her ald, who had taken notes at the meeting and had written up an account of the speech. The defense contended that as the crown witness had not taken shorthand notes of the speech, his testimony could not be accepted as a correct account of what Lenihan Said. OPPOSED LENIBAN : Counsel Collison, representing Lenihan, asked witness if he was aware that the Herald had taken a Stand against Ald. Lenihan ever Since he had first stood for pub- lic office, that the paper had con- sistently opposed him ever since his election, and had attempted to discredit him in the eyes of the public. He said that because Leni- han had been elected over certain candidates sponsored by the Her- ald (“and I say ‘sponsored’ advis- edly’) the Herald had taken a stand against him. Witness denied any knowledge of these facts and said that he had not been ‘told’ how to write. Asked if the statements of Ald. Lenihan had prejudiced him against the king, the reporter admitted his loyalty had not been affected. Counsel for the defense and for the prosecution tangled on the question of the Soviet Union, Blan- chard, for the crown, drew ridicule from Collison for his repetition of Ienihan’s reference to the “White light of Socialism” — “that same white light the Finns are now see- ing,” Blanchard added. Collison claimed that an attempt was being made to convict a Calgary alder- Iman by referring to a country with which Canada was not at war. REVISION URGED. The Defense of Canada Regula- tions have never been submitted to pariiament and pointing out that many prominent people have protested the Regulations, Collison urged revision at the next session of parliament He declared that much stronger criticism than that implied in the Lenihan speech could be heard from one end of Canada to the other. Witnesses for Ald. Lenihan were Mrs. Maude Butler, chairman of the Unemployed Women’s Associa- tion, Mrs. Isabele Wallace and H. Patterson. Bail was put up by Fred White, local trades council head and city alderman, who is also a candidate for the legislature in the forth- coming provincial elections. Greet .. A. E. SMITH ata DANCE i130 W. HASTINGS Music by The Swingettes SATURDAY, MAR. 3 8 P.M. Refreshments Come Farly! Throughout Canada Ontario Loggers Win Pay Increase PORT ARTHUR, Ont.—Following four days of negotiations between timber operators and representatives of Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ union, Local 2786, an agreement has been reached under which all employees in lumber camps in the Thunder Bay district will receive a 10 percent general wage inerease as from April 1, 1940. To Study In US CHIANG WEI-KUO, son of General Chiang Kai-shek, who is in the United States to begin a study of American military affairs. Beet Union Asks Boost LETHBRIDGE, Alta—Alberta’s beet workers will seek a wage n- crease of approximately $4 an acre above the 1939 rates, it was decid- ed at the recent wage scale con- venton of the Alberta Beet Work- ers’ union, local 103, United Gan- nery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America, CIO affiliate. The conference, one of the best in the history of the union, pointed to the sharp rise in prices since the war and to the increase in the factory price of sugar, emphasized that a wage increase for beet workers was long overdue. Answering the cry of over-pro- duction, delegates pointed out fhat a million dollar sugar factory, with capacity to handle from 12,000 to 15,000 acres of beets, is being erected in Manitoba. Calling at¢ention to the 50 cents per 100 lbs, increase in the price of sugar, it was pointed out that if the company splits this increase fifty-fifty with the growers, it would give $200,000 to divide among 1000 farmers and $200,000 to a handful of company share- holders, 2 sum sufficient to pay the workers from $30 to $31 an acre, In- stead of the $25 an acre they are asking, Chief proposals advanced by the conference were: 1. That the share contract be the basic uniform contract for the year 1940. 2. Failing a share contract, that $2.50 be paid for every ton grown on the acreage, the contractor to thin, hoe, weed, irrigate and top the beets as required. 3. Failing either of the above, cash contracts of $25 an acre up to 10 tons, plus $1 bonus for every ad- ditional ton, the contractor to thin, hoe, weed ,irrigate and top the beets, 4. That on any of the above the grower will guarantee the con- tractor $25 an acre. Candidate Quits GLASGOW, Scotland—Resigna- tion from the Labor party of Mal- colm MacE wen, prospective Labor candidate for Ross and Cromarty, is announced. In a letter to the chairman of the Divisional Labor party Mac- Ewen said his differences with the party were too great to allow him any alternative. He deciared the party had thrown overboard all the princples which induced him to join. * SPECIAL! WHILE YOU WAIT Men’s Half Soles and Rubber Heels * 1.00 Empire Shoe Repairs 66 East Hastings Street The conference was presided over by suis Fine, chief concilia- tion officer of Ontario labor de partment Bruce Magnuson, president of Local 2786, acted as spokesman for the union committee. The schedule agreed upon is subject to approval by the minister of labor under the provisions of the Indus- trial Standards Act, Alberta Finn Farmer Fined EDMONTON, Alta. — After be- ing urged to plead guilty, Frank Sward, Finnish farmer in the Fork Lake district in northern Alberta, has been sentenced to a fine of $100 and $14 costs for distributing peace leaflets, Sward was arrested by RCMP, sentenced by Judge LaBelle at Lac La Biche on Jan. 24, without get- ting a chance to secure legal ad- vice. Without an interpreter, unable to speak English well, Sward was unable to present his case proper- ly. Youth May Get s s Civie Franchise WINNIPEG, Man. — Last week a well-filed Zallery, including a large number of young people, heard Winnipeg city council decide the fate of some vital legislation. fixtension of the franchise to all young people over the age of 21, ir- respective of property qualifica- tions, was one of the questions. Referred to the legislative com- mittee by the last meeting, coun- cil received the committee’s pro- Posal that a referendum be held during the November civic elec- tions, and that if a majority of electors favored extension of the franchise, the legislature be asked to amend the city charter accord- ingly. Amendment moved by Ald. Gray and Ald. Blumberg, and supported by Ald. Penner and Ald. Forkin, that the legislature be asked for the required powers during the Present session, with the referen- dum following in Wovember, was defeated, 11-7, but the committee’s recommendation was endorsed by a 17-1 vote. Montreal Court Sentences Woman TORONTO, Ont—Mrs_ Evariste Dube, Walter Mazurkiewiez and Steve Hasuik have been sentenced to fines of $500 or six month’s im- Prisonment under Section 39A of the Canada Regulations by distri- buting the pamphlet, ‘The People Want Peace.’ In sentencing Mrs. Dube, a French Canadian woman, mother of three children, Judge Guerin Stated: “It is quite apparent that this woman is working for an organiza- tion. She says that she is against the war and wants peace. But we all want peace... put we can’t Speak about it “She says that as a bona fide citizen, she wanted to criticize the government ‘for taking part in the War, but owing to her lack of instruction she has not the ability to do so, therefore if the organiz- ation for which she is working has enough money to Print and distri- bute leaflets, I will condemn her to a $500 fine so as she can see if the said organzation will protect her by Paying the fine...” A number of other cases on the same charge are stil] before the court in Montreal], Mayor Of Aberdeen Charged Finnish Workers Federation Brings : $30,000 Damage Suit SEATTLE, Wash.—City and county officials at Aberdeen, Wash., were named in two damage suits for $30,000 filed last week in federal court at Tacoma, Wash., as an aftermath of destruction of the Finnish Workers’ hall by a mob Dec. 2. Richard J. Ultican, commission- er of Grays Harbor County; Dan- ie] McGillicuddy, official of the Americanization committee of the American Legion; Ward Penning, former safety inspector of Wash- ington state department of labor and industries and several John Does were named in the first com- plaint. A second suit named Mayor Her- bert Horrocks, Police Chief George S. Dean and assistant chief, Rob- ert Schmidt Both suits were brought by the Finnish Workers Federation, Wil- liam Hoikkila, Pacific Coast rep- resentative and filed by attorneys for the Grays Harbor Civil Rights Committee, Irvin Goodman of Portland and John Caughlan of Seattle. Destruction of the hall, occu- Pied by the Finnish Workers since 1905, was an ominous pre- lude to the assassination of Lau- ra Law, wife of a CIO official in her home a few blocks away, on January 5 this year. Charging a conspiracy by Ulti- ean, McGillicuddy, Penning and others, the complaint alleges: ‘“‘That Said conspirators did unlawfully conspire together during the ten days immediately preceeding De- cember 2 to organize and direct a riot against the said hall for the purpose of wrecking and demol- ishing the same to prevent its use by members of the plaintiff.” MAYOR CHARGED Thrusting responsibility for the breakdown of law enforcement upon the doorstep of city officials, a second complaint charges Mayor Horrocks, Police Chief Dean and his assistant, Schmidt, “knew of the conspiracy.” “Defendants and each of them wrongiully and unlawfully neg- lected and refused to prevent the execution of the aforesaid con- spiracy and that said defendants and each of them neglected and refused to prevent the destruc- tion of plaintifi’s property.” The damage suits for $30,000 to run concurrently allege $16,000 val- uation to the three-storey build- ing which was wrecked and an ad- ditional $12,000 for destruction of equipment and other personal pro- perty crumbled by the fury of the mob. Soviet To Drain Polish Swamps MOSCOW, USSR—The impass- able bogs of the Polesia lowlands in Western Soviet Byelo-russia, formerly under Polish rule, are to be drained and transformed into flourishing farmland fields, accord- ing to reclamation plans drawn by Soviet scientists. Proportion of swampland in a Majority of districts in Pinsk and Polesia regions runs as high as 70 percent of the entire land, amount- ing to 9,115,000 acres in Poland alone. Under the plan worked out by a commission of outstanding experts which has spent six weeks study- ing the problem of drainage and reclamation of the Polesian marsh- es, 2,518,000 acres will be placed under the plow. Pass This Paper On! Winnipeg Labor Rejects Mannerheim Aid Plea WINNIPEG, Man.—An attempt to involve Winnipeg and District Trades and Labor council in aid to the Finnish White Guards was rebuffed after a heated discussion lasting almost an hour at the last council meeting. Council voted 46 to 12 in favor of the executive’s recommendation that no action be taken on the re- quest, which came from Fort Gar- ry lodge 189 of the Machinists’ un- ion. The press and visitors were excluded from the meeting while the discussion took place. The verbal battle started when a letter was read from the Fort Garry lodge to the council, request- ing that aid be given by the trade union movement to the White Guard Finns. It was explained that the national executive committee of the Finnish Relief Fund, under honorary chairmanship of ART President William Green, had re Wasoetnan)| 4t!lUl!lU.l lel le Machinists to give its support to the fund, The trades council executive brought in a recommendation that no action be taken. An amendment was ruled out of or- der by the chair, and visitors and the press ‘left the room while council went into a committee of the whole to discuss the matter. Winnipeg local of the Interna- tiona] Typographical union will re- Main affiliated to the trades coun- cil. This was the reply of R. J. To Nominate Candidate NEW YORK, NY.—A vigorous Communist campaign in the United States 1940 national elections was foreshadowed this week as the national convention of the dential and vice-presidential candidates was set for May 30 in New York City. This city was chosen for the con- vention following a spirited contest between three cities for selection at the opening session of the na- tional committee here. National committee members from Chicago and Philadelphia had sought to have the convention held in their cities. The meeting was keynoted by Earl Browder’s declaration that ‘the issue among the American masses is no longer a third term, but a third party.” Party to nominate presi- Browder will, in all probability, be the party’s candidate for presi- dent, and James W. Ford its nomi- mee for vice-president n the 1940 elections, Wiliam Z%. 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