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THE aDVOCATR

Church Leaders Protest Raid On Youth Magazi

Toronto Youth Meet
Scores War Act As
Anti-Canadian

TORONTO, Ont. — Manu-‘

seripts and personal papers of
the editors were seized by RC
MPolice and Toronto city po-
lice in a recent raid on the of
fices here of New Advance, na-
tional labor-progressive maga-
zine published monthly in the
interests of Canada’s youth.

Only after protests had been
wired to Prime Minister King
by leading churchmen was the
seized material returned—with
apologies, but without explana-
tion of the raid.

Commenting on the raid in the
current issue, the editors state:

“On Thursday, March 7, New
Advance offices were raided. The
only copies of two feature articles
in this issue were seized. The War
Measures Act invited the raid, the
RCMP and Toronto police staged
it.

“On Monday, March 11, all the
material was returned ‘with apol-
ogies.’ The RCMP officer who re-
turned it commented: ‘I hope that
we have not inconvenienced you
fellows too much, we found noth-
ing wrong.’

“What happened between these
dates is most interesting and in-
Structive. Reading time for-each
of the two articles was 25 to 30
minutes. Friday morning should,
therefore, haye been the latest time
for their return. The authorities
knew they were holding up our
press, but they showed no hurry.

“On Friday leading members of
nationa lorganizations in Toronto
heard of the raid. Everywhere
people expressed indignation.

“Saturday a telegram to Macken-
zie King was suggested by a prom-
inent United Church official. Sun-
day night it was sent, signed by
four prominent church leaders.

“Monday was the day of victory.

“Clearly it was the protest that
brought quick action. The lesson
hits heme.”

The raid also drew scathing
comment from Globe and Mail
columinist, Judith Robinson, who
demanded:

“What happens to papers seiz-
ed under cover of the Defense of
Canada Regulations where the
owners have no important
friends in the United Church of
Canada? What happens to the
owners? Would seized papers
have been returned with such
speed and civility if nobody more
impressive than John Smith and
Bill Jones had sent a telegram
of protest to Ottawa? Or if there
were not going to be an election
this month? Or if the documents
had been the preperty not of a

TORONTO, Ont. (CUNS)—
Condemnation of the Defense
of Canada regulations as defi-
nitely undemocratic, un-Cana-
dian and subversive’ was
voiced in a resolution adopted
at the recent fourth annual
Congress of the Toronto Youth

Council. Some 300 delegates
from representative youth groups
joined in intense discussion of the
major problems of unemployment
and civil liberties confronting
youth,

Members of the federal govern-
ment were urged to withdraw un-
democratic clauses of the regula-
tions and all parliamentary can-
didates in this area were asked to
State their views publicly by the
council.

Protesting excess profits being
made by war industries, the coun-
cil decided to ask the local city
council to set up a committee to
investigate price increases on
Staple commodities.

Opposition to military or labor
conscription was contained in 2
resolution urging the Canadian
Youth Congress to organize with
an anti-conscription campaign for
duration of the war so that ‘No
Conscription’ pledges of political
leaders will not be revoked as they
were in 1917.

After thorough discussion of the
problem of hundreds of thousands
of unemployed youth, the council
recommended that the provincial
government be again approached
with a demand that the province
cooperate with the Dominion-pro-
vincial training scheme.

Positive action on an adequate
ployment insurance was atso de-
manded and the Congress opposed
lowering of compulsory school at-
tendance age from 16 years as urg-
ed by Premier Hepburn and indus-
trialists.

A ‘Jobs for Youth’ campaign and
public works program with trade
union conditions to fit their needs
Was also urged.

with respectable parents and An-
glo-Saxon names, but a lot of
hungry young rebels with neither
parents nor Connections useful
to a politician?

“Wartime regulations so loose
that they can be fitted to any
use of any bureaucrat in any
police department are a great
deal too loose for the safety of
the ordinary citizen. They need
refitting. We cannot all be offi-
cials of influential churches.”

Members of the New Advance
advisory board include represent-
atives of the YWCA, Student Chris-
tian Movement, YPU, United

group of well-fed young rebels

Church, the AFL, and CIO.

Throughout Canada

Binder Case Goes
To Spring Assizes

OTTAWA, Ont. — Charged

under the War Measures Act

with printing and distributing election leaflets allegedly con-
taining anti-war statements, Harry Binder, his brother Louis
Binder, and Arthur Saunders have been committed for trial

at the spring assizes on May 6.

Cash bail of $3000 each for Harry
Binder and Arthur Saunders and
of $2000 for Louis Binder was re-
newed,

The Canadian Labor Defense
Teague considers this one of the
most important of the cases under
the War Measures Act now before
the courts. Not only is the demo-
cratic principle of a free election
involved, but conviction may be
the pretext for invoking clauses
4 and 5, section 62, of the War
Measures Act to outlaw a political
organization.

Fine imposed On
Regina Youth

REGINA, Sask. — Fine of $10
and costs was imposed by Magis-
trate W. B. Scott on Willis Sha-
parla, youthful Reginian, when he
appeared in police court here on
a charge of distributing leaflets
likely to cause disaffection to his
majesty or to prejudice recriuting.

The charge was based on Sha-
parla’s action in distributing a
leafelt headed “We are fighting
—for what?” at a political meeting
held in Balfour Technical School

here.

Edmonton Homes
Raided By Police

EDMONTON, Alta. — In recent
simutlaneous raids on a number

of homes in this city, Alex Young,
widely known throughout Alberta

as a leader of the labor move-
ment, was arrested, later charged
under the War Measures Act.

While police searched his home,
Young was arrested, taken to the
RCMPolice Barracks. Two days
later four charges under section
39a of the War Measures Act were
preferred against him.

Police also raided six other
homes here, assertedly looking for
copies of the Communist party's
election manifesto, none of which
were found, however.

Edmonton offices of the Cana-
dian Labor Defense League, which
is leading a broad campaign in de-
fense of civil rights, were also
Taided in what is regarded here
as an attempt to intimidate sup-
porters of the labor movement... A
typewriter and CLDL files were
seized.

Sask. Conference

Seores War Aet

REGINA, Sask. — Resolutions
protesting the Defense of Canada
regulations and urging repeal of
those sections of the War Measures
Act depriving the Canadian people
of their right of freedom of speech,
press, organization and assembly,
were adopted at a Canadian Labor
Defense League district conference
here recently.

Presided over by CLDL National
Secretary A. C. Smith, the confer-
ence was attended by 47 delegates
representing an organized mem-
bership of 1300.

Freed

C. H. MILLARD, secretary
of the CIO in Canada, gained
his freedom this week when
charges preferred under De-
fense of Canada Regulations
were withdrawn after he
wrote Ontario’s Attorney-
General Conant that he had
not the slightest intention or
desire to agitate public
opinion or feeling against
Canada’s war effort.

Millard was arrested at
Timmins last fall after an ad-
dress to miners in which he
declared that “there was not
a great deal of sense in going
to Europe to fight Hitlerism
while there was Hitlerism
right here in Canada.”

“Release of one trade
unionist does not prove that
the threat to trade unionism
has been routed,” the union
defense committee stated.
“No explanation or apologies
have yet been made for raids
on union offices which were
conducted by the Conant
labor-hating administration
at the time of Millard’s ar-
rest.

“There must be no let-up
in the fight to restore democ-
racy in Canada. The channels
for expression of protest
must be kept free,” the state-
ment concluded:

Committee

Room Raid

QUEBEC, Que.—Donat Deblois
was arrested here Tuesday and
remanded until April 3 on a
charge under the War Measures
Act of postiug anti-war signs.

During Monday night scores
of signs .urging Quebecois to
‘vote against the war’ were post-
ed throughout this city,

MONTREAL, Que. — Four men
were arrested and later charged
under section 39a of the War Mea-
sures Act when RCMP and provin-
cial police raided a committee room
of Evariste Dube, Communist can-
didate for Montreal-St, Mary, and
seized a quantity of election liter-
ature,

Three of the arrested men, Ro-
dolphe Majeau, Romeo Duval and
Ernest Gervais, were campaign
workers. The fourth, Jules Tobin,
single unemployed man, had no
connection with the campaign but
merely happened to be in the com-
mittee room when police staged
their raid,

When the four men were ar-
raigned in court, Judge J. C. Lang-
lois, at the request of Provincial
Police Commissioner Marcel Gad-
boury, KC, demanded heavy bail.
‘POLITICAL CASE’

Defense Counsel] A. Leiter, chars-
ing that “this is a political case,”
protested the demand for heavy
bail, declared:

“I understand that they were
arrested in the committee room of
a candidate in a federal election,
which is very important. It seems
to me one of the elemental prin-
ciples of democratic procedure
that a political candidate has the
right to have a committee room,
and that people have the right to
enter it,

“At least one of the accused was
there purely by accident and had
just come in to ask for information.
I think that it is essential for the
preservation of our democratic sys-
tem that police officers be not
given arbitrary authority to Fege)
around and lock up committee
rooms and take upon themselves
the office of deciding who shall or
Shall not be a candidate in a feq-
eral election.”

Despite police terrorism, Duhe’s
supporters opened the committee
room as usual on the day following
the raid and continued their cam-
paign activities.

Four other French-Ganadians
have been arrested and charged,
two under the still-potent padlock
law and two under a civic bylaw.
governing distribution of pamph-
lets, with distributing copies of
Clarte, banned French-Canadian

labor weekly, from: door-to-door.

Ruling To
Reinstate

Miners Won

Union Registers
First Victory In
Teck Hughes Fight

KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont.
(CUNS) — First victory of the
Mine, Mill and Smelter Work-
ers’ union in its fight to obtain
collective bargaining rights for
hardrock miners employed at
Teck Hughes mine was seen
here last weel: in the decision
of a federal conciliation board

that six workers, discharged
for union activity, be reinstated
before hearings are resumed.

Suggestion of the board that six
miners be rehired, specifically Un-
ion President Bland and Ernest
Fisher, who signed the conciliation
board application, was hailed by
union members as confirmation of
their claim that discharge of 47
miners was due to discrimination
by the mine management against
trade unionists. The 47 were fired
& week after the federal labor de-
partment provided for a vote to be
taken on strike action if miners’
demands were not met by concilia-
tion.

The board’s proposal that six of
those fired should be reinstated
“as a token of co-operation” was
accepted by the company and the
union. An understanding was also
reached that the 41 other miners
who were fired will be given pref-
erence in re-employment.

Question of reinstatement of the
others will take precedence when
the board reconvenes at the end of
the month.

iimployes Resign

From Committee

HAMILTON, Ont. — (CUNS) —
Declaring that they had lost all
confidence in the ability of the
works council to take care of their
interest in wages and working con-
ditions, employee representatives
on the works council in Canada
Works of the Stee) Company of
Canada, resigned in a body last
week,

Following the wholesale resigna-
tion from the company union,
many of the workers volunteered
to form an rganizing ecmmittee to
aid the SWOC in forming an ef-
fective organization.

While company officials on the
Works Council were telling em-
ployee representatives they could
not increase wages, a company
Statement showed a large increase
in Steleo earnings with a predic-
tion they would soon soar higher.

In a statement of resignation,
members of the works council
charged that the management re-
fused to allow the employees a
democratie vote on continuation of
the company union, that employees
Were discharged for union activity
and that the works council had
only been approved by a narrow
Margin to give it a trial, but that
it had proven useless to the work-
ers,

Miners Urge
6-Hour Day

HALIFAX, NS — Withholding
of leases from coal mine operators
who refuse union conditions to
miners Was urged upon the Nova
Scotian Sovernment in a brief pre-
sented to the cabinet last week by
officers of District 26, United Mine
Workers, headed by Silby Barrett
board member and chairman of the
Canadian CIO.

Reduction of the hours of work
fro meight to six daily and appoint-
ment of a commission to survey
youth employment conditions was
urged. Increases in ola age pen-

sions and Compensation benefits
Were also asked

Housewives In
Montreal Active

MONTREAL, Que. — The Can-
adian Housewives’ League of
Montreal, with a membership com-
posed, in the main, of Engiish-
speaking women, is conducting a
campaign for appointment to the
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
of a representative of consumers’
interests. °

Since February rents in Mont-
real have been rising and the de-
mand for lower rents has been
made a central point in the organ-
ization’s campaign against profit-
eering and high living costs.

The league has distributed
throughout the city thousands of
placards reading, “Our rent last
year was $—. We would like to
stay at the same price.”

Collaborating with the Canadian
Housewives League is a similar or-
ganization of French-Canadian
housewives, L’Association des Men-
ageres Unies, formed a month ago.

Finnish ‘Socialist’ Editor
Would ‘Talk With Pistol? —

Evidence that the Finnish government was prepared tc
its people into a disastrous war with the Soviet Union 1!
than negotiate a peaceful solution of differences was)
firmed by Eevo A. Pulli, when he visited Vancouver last -

Editor of the Social Democrat,
published in Finland, Pulli was
sent to North America by the Fin-
nish government while the Soviet
Union was negotiating for naval
bases with Esthonia, Latvia and
Lithuania.

Speaking at Hastings Auditor-
jum last Friday while four strong-
arm Men guarded the doors and
city police were stationed down-
Stairs, Pulli launched into a tirade
against the USSR.

Asserting that Finland had ac-

Cepted a forced peace he s
am here to state that when 1
Straightened out, we are fo)
move the borders back to
they belong.”

While posing as a Social
ocrat, Pulli revealed his true
ist calibre when he stated
those who refused to suppo>
cause and have redeemed
selves by washing their hand
dirty soap, I say I would 1.
talk to them inside the ©
borders with a pistol.”

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