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Czechoslovak sports festival

Bart
they

These girls were among the 315,000 young people who took

in Czechoslovakia’s recent First National Sparktakiade. Here
are shown in a parade through the streets of Prague at the
Pening of the great sports festival.

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Three B.C. centres.
water

Three British Columbia centres,

two ; :
Wo in: the’ northern part of the

Proyj
vince and one on Vancouver}:

Ts <
sland, have announced their in-

fant:
ention of fluoridating their water
SUpDlies,

First in the province to approve
“oridation Was Smithers, which
nounced its decision last month.
Se city of Prince George follow-
With a Similar announcement.

“ene Week, Nanaimo City Coun-
Brie informed by C. F. New-
Sires put commissioner for
Nanaimo Water District
ye board had approved fluori-
of water
Meeting on July

msthod and the
Stam,

supplies and was
26 to discuss the
construction pro-

ee “cision wi affect the ity
anaimo and four districts,
field, Chase River, Harewood
~ebarture Bay.
The
Citeg

orth

board’s letter ito* council
Creat Its authority’ under the
“t Nanaimo Water District

c to nn”
Proceed with its fluoridation

fop
Puttj }
iSite ting the question to a pleb-
der | ™ the districts organized un-
» One district, Departure

e act
ha
‘s already approved fluorid-
" principle.

Sard

’

“ty Members
: had Made an e
Batic
in 'on before reaching their
argy " and found no intelligent
My aan against fluoridation.
by the Cation
Provin

Stated that
xtensive in-

has been approved
cial department of
Welfare, ‘the Canadian
ig Soa and various
aie ee 4nd dental bodies as
ut Preventing tooth decay,
Y in children.

eee
ts been bitterly opposed by
dist Sroups in a cam-
by the Pure Food Guild,
~ legislature, Mrs. Lydia

Orla, pawtt Credit MLA for

It‘ noted that although |
48 No provision in the act.

to fluoridate

‘been permitted to take pre-trial
depositions from them.

. The witnesses are an odd mix-

It’s the latest style

Fhis is the latest thing in
Canadian-made swim suits, com-
plete with front zipper, trim and
pompom. It’s quite effective, too

aS denounced it.

—in the water and out.

‘

tends to call, and the defense has

‘Mervyn Rathbone, Lew Michener

formers in the 1949 criminal trial
of Bridges, and Nat Honig, who did
his first stint on the stand in the|
second Bridges deportation hear-;

Frank Mayer, billed as “experts”
on
Saunders, who made his debut as
an informer-witness in the 1952
| California Smith Act trial, and

Harry Hook, one-time business
agent of Machinists Lodge 68, Sania
Francisco.

Bruce Hannon, one-time officer of|d
the defunct Maritime Federation! s

of the Pacific.
‘|-ed as a witness for Bridges in the
1951 deportation hearing, ‘but will
now perform for the prosecution..

man and ‘hod-carrier,
making an easier living as a $25-a-|
day “consultant” of the justice de-
partment
against Bridges in the 1949 trial.

pert” Lautner, who has played the
“witness” circuit from Honolulu
to New York.

bits in Smith Act trials
York, Baltimore,
lulu,
Angeles, as well as countless per-
formances at “deportation hearings
and one long run before the U.S.

Subversive Activities Control
‘Board.
Rathbone, former California

state CIO secretary, and Michener,
jobs in the CIO United Auto Work-
maker in the 1949 Bridges trial.

court by a new-and-old combina-|,
tion of counsel.

York attorney, directed the final
(and
‘Court phase of the Bridges defense

U.S. GOV’T TRIES AGAIN

Fifth Bridges trial

adds new features

SAN FRANCISCO

It was something new, something old, as Harry Bridges entered a U.S. federal court-

room this week to fight
the country.

Newest thing is the extent and le
International Longshoremen’s and Ware

was the one-day work stoppage

the latest round in the 21

‘year effort to throw him in jail or out of

vel of support generated behind its president by the
housemen’s Union. High point ‘of this greater unity

that halted all dock work on the
Pacific ‘Coast and-.in Hawaii on
June 6.

In the dock locals, diehard
“right wingers” who have fought
Bridges for as long as 20 years,| ;
‘publicly announced that they are
Yehind him in this “beef.”

Oldest thing of all is the sup-
posed issue of fact to be tried—
was Bridges a member of the U.S.
Communist party? That issue has
‘been investigated. and tried for 21
years now, and each time it was
tried the prosecution was found
wanting in fact or in law.

Technically the current proceed-
ing is a civil suit to strip Bridges
of his citizenship on the grounds
that he falsely denied Communist
party ‘membership under oath
when he was naturalized in 1945.

Actually, the proceeding is the
first step looking to deportation

of the militant labor leader.

It being a civil suit, the U.S.
Justice Department has ‘been re-
quired to list the witnesses it in-

Francisco labor attorney, repre-
sented Bridges during the first de-
portation hearing in 1938 and in
ture of the old and new. Ss

einai

HARRY BRIDGES
The fifth, round

Australians
back Bridges

SYDNEY
The Australian home town work-
ers of Harry Bridges, president of

:|the International Longshoremen’s

Warehousemen’s Union, are com-
ing to his defense.

Geoff McDonald, organizer for
the Building Workers Industrial
Union, writes in the Sydney Trib-
une that the “Footscray (Mel-
bourne) BWIU has set up a Harry
Bridges Home Town Defense Com-
mittee.” :

McDonald, in his article hailing
‘Bridges as “a man we can be proud
of,” reports that “on many build-
ing jobs in the state of Victoria
resolutions have been carried and
sent to America” in defense of the
‘Melbourne-born Bridges.

After tracing Bridges’ water-
front history since the 1934 strike,
McDonald calls upon Australian
workers to “take up the ‘banner of
solidarity”. and support Bridges in

ubsequent proceedings.

his fifth deportation trial.

THE OLD: John Schomaker,

and Lawrence Ross, all star per-

Two decades of persecution

ing in 1941.
THE NEW: John Lauter and

communism; David (Butch)

In between the old and new, is

Hannon appear-

Aside from Hook and Hannon,
all the others can qualify as “pro-
fessionals.”

Schomaker, erstwhile longshore-
has been

since his testimony

Most practiced informer is “ex-

first investigation conducted by
the U-S. District Director of Im-
migration and Naturalization in
San Francisco concluded with a
report that: “Whenever any legal
ground for the deportation of
Bridges has been brought to: the

bor, it has been investigated, but’
invariably it has been found that
he was in the clear. . .
ond probe, conducted by George
D. Reilly,

SAN FRANCISCO
The various prior proceedings
gainst Harry Bridges have been:

© The first consisted of two
epartmental investigations which
tretched from 1934 to 1937. The

ttention of the department of -la-

.- 7) Je See-

then solicitor of the

Among his appearances were
in New
Denver, Hono-

Detroit, Seattle and Los

who thas run the gamut of paid

ers, shared star billing with Scho-
fey
—)
Bridges is represented in!o

Telford Taylor, top-flight New b

successful) U.S. Supreme
in the 1949-53 criminal proceed-
ing. a

Richard Gladstein, veteran San

Union asks higher
pension in NWT

Union of the International Union

of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
is asking the Northwest territorial

Territories.

Northwest Territories Council also

hospitalization for senior citizens.

YELLOWKNIFE, NWT
“Yellowknife District Miners

overnment to supplement federal
ld age pensions of $40 with an
dditional $20 a month in view of
igh living costs in the Northwest

The union’s resolution to the

sks free medical attention and

Record shows actions
taken against Bridges

US. Labor Department, also found
no grounds for action against
Bridges.

@® The second was a full-dress
deportation hearing which consum-
ed 11 weeks in the summer of
1938 before Dean James M. Landis
of Harvard Law School. Dean
Landis dismissed. charges against
Bridges. After hearing all the
evidence, Landis ruled that the
allegation of Communist member-
ship or affiliation had not been
proved. :

@® The third was another full-
dress deportation hearing which
consumed 10 weeks in the spring
of 1941 ‘before Judge Charles M.
Sears. While Judge Sears upheld
the deportation charges, the U.S.
Supreme Court in June, 1945, over-
ruled ‘his findings, and vindicated
Bridges.

@ The fourth was a criminal
prosecution, charging that Bridges
falsely denied Communist party
membership when the secured his
citizenship in September, 1945. Al-
though the jury returned a verdict
of guilty, the U.S. Supreme Court
set aside the verdict on June 15,
a and restored Bridges’ citizen-
ship.

@ The fifth and present pro-
ceeding is ‘based on the same
charges as was the criminal pros-
ecution that was thrown out by
the Supreme Court. The U.S. Jus-
tice Department seeks to strip
Bridges of his citizenship on the
allegation that he falsely denied
Communist party membership
when he was naturalized.

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