eee a er a ear rh a aa Tc RRR tet ee — Admits Communist indictments ‘phoney’ : —NEW-> YORK ‘Renewal of its demand for dismissal of the indictnient against 12 of its top leaders, Was voiced by the Communist Party here after Rep. John McDowell (R. Pa.) conceded that the _frame-up charges could not possibly survive a court test, McDowel, acting Republican chairman to the House Un-Ameri- can Committee, made this startling admission in the course of a par- tisan attack on the justice depart- ment. & McDowell said the charges against against the 12 Communist leaders were so groundless that they won't stick.” He added that the justice department was playing partisan polities’ and the indict- ments were mere “window dress- ing.” ; The Communists said that Mc- Dowell was “dishing out eye-wash” in alleging the indictments were deliberately made weak and unten- able by the justice department. Asserting that McDowell had been stung by the justice depart- ment’s previous charges that’ the un-American committee had no _ basis for demanding espionage in- cictments against four persons, Communist statement added. “Thus, the partisan falling out of the bipartisan warmongers and fascists gives the American people an opportunity to see what the GOP and the Democrats are really up to. “Rep, McDowell now admits that ‘competent constitutional lawyers’ who examined the in- dictments of the 12 Communist leaders, say they can’t survive a court test. They thus confirm what we Communists and many non-Communists have been say- ing—this is a Reichstag frameup. “As Truman himself boasted, these indictments were timed, to trump the House Un-American - Committee’s ‘spy’ scare. Attorney General Clark did his ‘best’. The indictments are ‘faulty’ for the simple reason that no Communist leader has ever been guilty of an overt act aimed at the forcible overthrow of the government, nor has the Communist Party ever ad- vocated such action. “Now all honest people, and es- pecially all working people, can see that the justice department, no less than the House un- American Committee, has been trying to take them for a ride. This is the ride on which Hitler took the German people—the ride to national dishonor,’ fascism and disastrous world war. “The Communist Party “believes that our fellew-Americans will be justly outraged by this sinister bi- partisan conspiracy which a par- tisan squabble has exposed. “We urge that the people, and in the first place the trade unions, now rise in their wrath to demand that the justice department call off its anti-Communist trial. We urge further that all ‘who now see the bi-partisan conspiracy behind the fog of partisan politics, redouble their efforts to defeat both Truman and Dewey, and to elect to office eandidates who Owe nothing to ‘Wall Street and will defend the Bill of Rights and world peace.” Honor rol Is your name on this list of PT sub getters? : “PROVINCE Subs Nancy Hamilton, North Surrey 9 “f J, Senkiw, 7 L. Brady, South Surrey....-- 6 - Charlie Johnson, Vernon.....- 5 A. Johnson, Sointua....-.----~ 5 CITY Charlie Stewart, Gas and Transport ....---- nee ese as 7 A. Mackie, Gas and Transport 5 T. Antila, Niilo Makela.....--- 5 ‘Rita Whyte, Kitsilano.....---- . Frank Politano, Grandview.... 2 ‘ Sid Dove, Capital Hill LALLA ll Insists on right to testify Business Agent Thomas C. Workers (CIO), testifies at the House _ attempts of Charles Kersten (left) ters that business agents who claimed ‘they 2 Cameron (right) of Local 475, United Electrical, Radio and Machine labor sub-committee’s hearing in’New York. Republican chiirman. to squelch him, Cameron told the inquisi- had been fired by the local for their political views had Shouting’ down beer: bounced for refusing to carry out policies decided by the membership. Campaign for 2000 subs lagging; : By FEL ASHTON At the beginning cf this month the Pacific Tribune | subscriptions which, everyone agreed, easily be reached in a few week was quite a modest s. But the ‘consistent work can achieve aim aunched a campaign for 2,000 objective and one that could achievements of three weeks—a total of 287 subs —should give us. cause for reflection of the need for fulfilling pledges made* when the cam- 1 | paign ‘started, Pledges alone won't fy us and, I’m sure they can’t satis- \ but for one reason or another they | satisfy the printer, they don’t satis-| been meaning to renew their sub, | WIUC % |fy Pacific Tribune readers who want) haven’t got around to it yet. It’s | the IWA to launch the Woodwork- ers Industrial Union of Canada, | that a plot was well advanced to) destroy the militant woodworkers’ | organization in this province and) strip its members of the wages and | conditions they had won. | _ Stool pigeons and police agents, | men who were easily spotted by | workers because they never did a' good day’s work, had been planted) throughout the industry in pre- | paration for the strike the oper- ators hoped to provoke. The support now being given to| the WIUC shows how the plot mis- carried. Open company collabora-| tion with IWA organizers, as at) Alberni Plywoods and B.C. Forest Products mill in Vancouver, in- timidation of WIUC members and flagrant distortion of facts to favor the Fadling clique by the big busi- nes3 daily press have been instru- mental in swinging to the WIUC, many members who were at first confused by company and IWA propaganda. At the conciusion of a three-week | organizing drive, the WIUC was, able to report this week that: @ It had issued nine charters cov- ering Local 71 (Coast); Local 217 (Vancouver sawmills); Local 80 (Cowichan Lake); Local 81 - (a new local covering the Na- naimo area from Chemainus to Parksville); Local 85 (Port | berni); Local 367 (Mission); Local 363 (Courtenay); 424 (Prince George); Local 405 | (Cranbrook). According to the) B.C. Lumber Worker, “actual | voting by iogging crews showed | absolute majorities for ape) WIUC.” ‘ A constituent convention will be) held at Pender Auditorium here) this coming weekend, October | 23-24, to draw up @ constitution | and elect officers who will func- | tion unti) the first constitutional! convention. The program is ,ex-| pected to center around the un; ion’s organizational program, already under way, to take over the contract, guarantee retro-| Local) . 1s to see their paper grow in circula- tion and influence to the point where jt can successfully challenge the distortions and propaganda of the daily press, This is the place to begin—and | there's no time like the present. We can learn something from the ex- ample set by the Dibble family, for instance, all of whom have been selling the Pacifiic Tribune for the past three years. As in any other job, hard, consistent work pays off, and 11-year-old Velma Dibble can point to the 30 customers to whom she sells our paper every week as proof of what can be done. You may not be able to také a bundle of papers every week and cover a route as, Velma does, but you can seil a sub to a neighbor or some. one on the job.. You can find cut what former subscribers to our paper live in your own community -—we'll be glad to tell you who they are—and drop around some night to get them to renew. You'll prob- ably find, as I have myself, that they are quite friendly and have Goss to give-lecture John Goss, noted Canadian sing- er, will give a public lecture on “A Marxist Looks at Culture,” at his studio, 641 Granville Street, on Sunday, October 31, at 8 p.m., it was announced this week. active pay, secure the $2 log- gers’ board rate, and follow pol- icies calculated to achieve jobs, have been elected from char- tered locals on the basis of two for the first 200 and one. for every additional 100 members. In addition, one delegate will at- tend from every operation, bringing the total representa- tion to several hundreds. “While the Fadling clique is spin- |ning yarms for the daily press we are signing up the members,” de- clared WIUC Vice-President Har- old: Pritchett this week. peace and security. Delegates our job in this campaign to get around to them, because if we pro- crastinate and they procrastinate it means another renewal lost, an- other opportunity to win a sup- | porter for peace and progress | neglected. te. So how about getting that sub? Put the PT on your MUST list. | THE DAILY | PROVINCE | (Owned by the Southam Co. Ltd. of Montreal) Is Still Produced | Behind an I.T.U. PICKET LINE! VANCOUVER TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION SCANDAL | -—Vichy sympathies during the war and now supporters of De Gaulle, are shaping the government’s de- cision to regard the case as “offi- cially closed.” Senator DesSureauit, wealthy Quebec lumber dealer and director of the Banque Canadienne Nation- ale, in-a letter to Le Canada, Montreal daily, last month, ac- knowledged that the success cf his intervention “was made possible - thanks to the consistent and valu- able sympathy of the_Rt. Hon. L. St. Laurent.” The significance of this ‘“con- sistent and valuable sympathy” is - shown .by the records of the four collaborators, three of whom were admitted to Canada by an order- in-council, unpublished on the rre- text that it was not of sufficient ‘public interest, passed on Septem- iber 22. All three had been living “underground” in France and en- tered Canada under assumed names. The fourth was admitted to Canada under the government’s ruling to permit immigration from France on the same basis as im- migration from Britain, Dr. George Benoit Montel (alias — Gaston Ringeval), who entered Canada some two years ago and was given a post at Laval Univers- ity, of which Senator Dessureault is a governor, ran the city of An- necy for the Vichy regime and was sentenced to life imprison- ment at hard labor for collaborat- ing with the Nazis. Julien Gaudens Labedan (alias Armand Berard), until he was fired this week employed as an interior decorator in Montreal, was sentenced to death for treason by a Toulouse court which convict- ed him of war crimes. ‘ Dr. Andre Charles Emanuel Boussat (alias Alfred Bordes), now employed by a pharmaceutical company in- Montreal, was .also sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor and. confiscation of property con a charge of “national degradation” arising from his col- laboration with the Nazis. The fourth man, Jean Louis Huc, a forestry engineer now em- ployed, by Howard Smith Paper Mills, Quebec, was convicted of acts prejudicial to the national defence of France and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and loss of civil rights. é ) No., 226 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 22, 1948—PAGE 12