Gov't charged
with giving U.S.
Anticosti base

MONTREAL

Pierre Archambault, independent
candidate in the Montreal-Ste.
Marie federal byelection, made the
sensational charge in a radio ad-
dress on Friday last week that the
federal government is. diverting
Canadian funds to build an Ameri-
can military base on Anticosti Is-
land at the mouth of the St. Law-
rence River. He challenged Prime
Minister St. Laurent to deny his
charge.

Archambault, a former CCF can-
didate who has raised the banner
of non-conscription and no partici-
pation in foreign wars in his elec-
tio campaign, said the ceding of
strategic Anticosti to the American
brass was a result of “the satellite

role” Canada has adopted vis-a-vis

the [United States.

“American bases are, being built
on our soil, undertaken with Can-
adian money. The result is
that these bases. would make’ of
our land a military sieve in the
event of world war. Is our prov-
ince called upon to become a bat-
tleground in the interest of a for-
eign power without our knowing
about it?”

Archambault’s is the first public
statement which directly charges
the Canadian government with
ceding Quebec. soil to the Yanks
for war purposes. For weeks now
rumours have been flying thick
and fast in informed circles in
Quebec that the US. military
have taken over the key island of
Anticosti and are now building
military installations there.

If the statement is true, and
there is every indication that it
is founded on fact, the’ news that
Anticosti is becoming a Yank air
base will certainly cause serious
alarm in this anti-war province..

Fear of the reaction in Quebec
is probably the greatest single reas-
on for the government’s secrecy
over the deal.

French Canada has not forgot-
ten that in 1938 Anticosti was near-
ly sold to the Nazi navy through
the good graces of Premier Du-
plessis, a deal only spiked through
the vigilance of the Communist
press.

Women plan affair
fo finance delegate

An afternoon and evening prog-
ram is being held under auspices
of the Canadian Congress of Wo-
men at Clinton Hall, Thursday, on
October 19, and funds raised will
be used to send Mrs. Rae Luckock,
national leader of the organization,
as a delegate to the World Peace
Congress.

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By TERRY PETTUS

Reviving a slander first us

divert public demand for an investigation, the forces of creep-
ing fascism in Washington state are again playing up the lie
that Laura Law, wife of an IWA organizer at Aberdeen, was
murdered at the instigation of the U.S. Communist party,
acting on orders from mysterious “Soviet agents,” to prevent
her from telling what she supposedly knew about Communist

activities.

On the witness stand in a depor-
tation hearing, Paul Crouch, pro-*
fessional finger-man from Califor-
nia, repeated word for word the
propaganda campaign which was
launched in March, 1940, when the
demand for a federal investigation
had reached nation-wide propor-
tions and Grays Harbor officials
were frantically trying to keep the
facts from coming to light.

Crouch’s only contribution was
to charge that he knew two per-
sons, one living in Washington,
the other in California, who knew
all about the case.

Crouch has not named. the per-
sons, but this has not prevented
Prosecutor Stanley Krause (who
held the same office when the mur-
der was committed) from telling
the press that he has some new and
important information.. Krause will
not say just what that new infor-
mation is but promises to reveal it
“when we break the case.”

As was the case a decade ago,
the daily press is silent about the
reign of terror, intimidation and
mob action which preceeded the
murder of Laura Law, wife of Dick
Law, an IWA official, and an ac-
tive worker in progressive affairs.

The employer campaign portray-
ing the CIO as a “Communist plot”
to take over the country was at its
height in 1938 when the ILWU
held its international convention in
Aberdeen.

Outfits such as the “Committee
for Industrial Stabilization,” and
the “Silver Shirts” joined with the
KKK in bombarding the commun-
ity with leaflets naming CIO lead-
ers as “Communists” who must be
“liquidated.”

Newspapers whipped up the
lynch spirit. The Aberdeen Post
editorially called for the use of
“pick-handles” on ‘IWA-CIO
members. Telephone threats of
physical violence were common.

(Laura Law received one less
than a week before her death.)
Mrs. Law, member of a pioneer
Finnish family on the Harbor,
was gathering information as to
the identity of members of the
mob that had wrecked the Finnish
Hall a month earlier. Officers of
the Finnish Workers Federation
vainly demanded that Grays Har-
bor officials arrest those known to
have taken part in the wrecking.

On the night of January 5, 1940,
sometime between 8 and 10.30 p.m..,:
Laura Law was bludgeoned and
stabbed to death in her parents’
home in which she and her hus-
band and their two and a half
year old son also lived.

(The late Mrs, Hazel Pritchett

took the motherless boy into her
home at Vancouver, B.O., and car-
ed for him until his father could
again provide a home for him.)
As in the case of the wrecked
hall, the authorities became elab-
orately disinterested. Although the
murderer or murderers must have
been splashed with blood, police re-
fused to follow any of the leads
given them.

At the scene of the crime the
police did busy themselves, how-
ever. They faked a photograph

of the “Scene of the crime” by

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pulling the dead woman’s skirts
up in an obvious effort to make
the killing look like a sex crime.

Grays Harbor unions formed a
committee demanding restoration
of law and order in the community
and apprehension of the killer or

Rights Committee was formed.

The Law murder and the reign’

of terror figured heavily in the
convention of the powerful Wash-
ington Commonwealth Federation
which convened in Seattle Febru-
ary 3. Here again the demand for
an investigation was raised. A de-
tailed telegram stating point by
point how Grays Harbor Officials

‘had refused to act was sent to

Attorney General Robert Jackson,

With help from the-convention,
the Grays Harbor ‘Civil Rights
Committee sent a committee of
three to Washington, D.C. They
conferred with Henry J. Schwein-
haut, chief of the civil liberties
division of the department of jus-

» killers. A Grays Harbor Civil

tice. Schweinhaut directed Attor-

Fantastic murder lie revived
to whip up hysteria in Wash.

ney General J. Charles Dennis in
Seattle to “watch” developments.
The committee then presented doc-
umentary evidence to Attorney
General Jackson with the plea for

an investigation by the department
of justice—which did nothing.

But in March the counter-attack
began. Smarting under the fire
from progressive and civil rights
forces reaction took refuge in the
big lie. On a state-wide radio
hookup it was brazenly announced
that Laura Law was murdered be-
cause she “was ‘about to spill the
beans on the Communist party.”

Today the same lie, tossed out by
Crouch, a stoolpigeon, is making
headlines.

THEY DIDN’T WANT CANADIAN MONEY

Infantile antics of 199 Ameri-
can Legionnaires provoked the
‘ire of more than a few of the
Vancouver citizens who were
their unwilling hosts last week.

Lavishly decked out with med-
als and ribbons, although many
of them never got overseas in
the First World War, and plen-
tifully supplied with liquor, they
were self-styled “40 and 8” boys
whose contribution to the “Am-
erican way of life’ consists
mainly of such “cut up” antics
as dropping silk panties behind
women on the street and setting

Drunken ‘cut-ups’ ire citizens

up booby traps on sidewalks to
blow women’s skirts over their
heads — all in crude, drunken
“fun” of course.

Women embarrassed by their
antics and motorists impeded by
their well-practised methods of
tying up traffic took a dim view
of their drunken behavior.

One reeling ambassador for
the Marshall Plan, apparently
under the impression he was in
an occupied country, commanded
a girl in a Granville Street drug-
store to give him his change in
“real money” when he tendered

a $10 bill for cigarettes.
girl gave him American bills
and Canadian silver.
demanded, thrusting the silver
back at her, “I don’t want any
of that funny money you folks
got up here.
change in real American dough.”

as they were arrogant and crude
in their behavior, it was no sur-
prise to Vancouver citizens to
read this week that they had
demanded in convention that all
Communists in the U.S. be taken
into custody
placed on trial as “traitors.”

The

“Naw,” he

I wanna get my

As reactionary in their politics

immediately and

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

— OCTOBER 13, 1950,.— PAGE 6