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Pittsburgh Jewish Centre,
dedicated to Warsaw heroes,
wrecked, looted by hooligans

PITTSBURGH

The Jewish Cultural Centre in Pittsburgh, dedicated to the heroes
of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, has been looted and wrecked. The
attack followed a campaign by the Americans Battling Communism
society, which tried to brand the centre as Communist.

Two weeks ago the society made a court application urging the

Smith Act
trials open
in Seattle

SEATTLE

With seven U.S. Communist par-
ty, trade union and people’s organ-
ization leaders as defendants, the
United States’ seventh Smith Act
trial opened last week in the fed-
eral district court with the exam-
ination of prospective jurors.

The examination, conducted by
Federal Judge William Lindberg
with questions supplied by the de-
fense and the prosecution, is ex-
pected to take some time. The
panel now under consideration
consists of about .100 names.
Twelve jurors and four alternates
will be selected.

Henry Huff, Washington state
Communist party chairman, and
Paul Bowen, executive secretary
of the Seattle Negro Labor Coun-
cil, announced to the court that
they would appear as their own
attorneys. Both made it plain
that they were taking this step not
because they were unable to ob-
tain counsel but because of the
political nature of the case.

“T have given the matter serious
consideration and feel that because
of the nature of the case I should
represent myself,” Huff said, “The
issues are highly political, my
party will be on trial and I feel
that I am better qualified than
anyone else to bring such matters
to the attention of the court.”

Bowen pointed out that the Com-
munist party is a party of Negro-
white unity. ‘Many of my people,
who are not members. of the Com-
munist party, feel a closeness to
its principles, so I feel that I
should also speak directly to the
court and jury,” he said.

Attorney John Caughlan of se-
attle will represent Pension Union
President. William Pennock and
Civil Rights Congress Director
John Daschbach. Irvin Goodman
of Portland will represent Terry
Pettus, Northwest editor of the
Daily People’s World, and Mrs.
Barbara Hartle. Karly Larsen, In-
ternational Woodworkers of Am-
erica leader, will be represented
by John Walthew, assisted by
James McIver.

Including the Seattle defend-
ants, a total of 87 persons have
been charged under the Smith Act
since it was dusted off as a cold
war weapon by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice in 1948. The first
and second Foley Square cases in
New York as well as Los Angeles
and Baltimore trials, ended with
the conviction of a total of 43 per-
sons. Sentences ranged from one
to five years.

Two Smith Act defendants, Sim-
on Gerson and Isadore Begun, were
acquitted by orders of the trial
judge. The cases of four were
severed because of illness. Of
those convicted three are politi-
cal refugees. Of those indicated
four were never arrested.

Trials are now under way in
Hawaii and Pittsburgh involving
seven and five defendants respec-
tively. In St. Louis five defen-
dants jand in Detroit six defen-
dants, are awaiting trial? These
as well as those on trial in Seattle
were arrested on September 17
last year.

cancelling of the centre’s charter.
In support it produced two FBI
stoolpigeons who have been testi-
fying against the Communist lead-
er Steve Nelson and his four com-
rades now on trial in the city.

The hearing was postponed for
the State Supreme Court to de-
cide whether the lower court had.
jurisdiction. Then the destruction
of the centre took place.

Seven men entered the building.
Some. stood guard over the Negro
caretaker, Mrs. Minnie Brown, the
others broke open desks and offices
and wrecked every room.

They ripped down pictures of
the noted Jewish authdr Sholem
Aleichem and other Jewish cul-
tural leaders and looted the files,
throwing Jewish classics on the
—— and ‘trampling them under-
oot.

They stole the contents of the
Warsaw Ghetto file containing ir-
replaceable letters and poems
from surviving heroes of the War-
saw uprising, the 10th annivers-
ary of which was commemorated
Sunday.

' One of the stolen letters was
from Ber Mark, head of the Jew-
ish Historical Institute of Poland,
greeting the establishment of the
Pittsburgh Centre. :

The gangsters were apparently
searching for “evidence” to sup-
port charges that the centre is
“Communistic.” Mrs. Brown said,
after the raid that everything
Jewish looked “Communistic” to
them.

One howled at her that a picture
hanging in the office was “revolu-
tionary.” It was a reproduction
of a famous 15th century painting
of the persecution of the Jewish.
people during the Spanish Inquisi-
tion.

Federal election roundup

LPP nominates 11
in Greater Toronto

TORONTO
Nomination of Mrs. Annie Bull-
er-Guralnick as Labor-Progressive
party federal candidate for St.
Paul’s riding brings to 11 the total
of LPP nominations in the Greater
Toronto area. The LPP plans to
contest all 18 ridings.

Mrs. Annie Buller-Guralnick, a
veteran of the labor movement,

MRS. ANNIE

BULLER-GURALNICK

stressed in her acceptance speech
that “peace is essential” to the
welfare of the family. “Our LPP
slogan, Put: Canada First, will
Mean putting our families first,
welfare before warfare.” |

Accepting nomination as LPP
candidate in the constituency of
Hull at a meeting there April 13,
Ernest Gervais spoke of the job-
less crisis which has hit the city.

“Hundreds of pulp and sulphite
workers are already unemployed
and the thpeat of unemployment
hangs over everyone,” he said.
“Canadian dependence on the Am-
erican market, for which both old-
line parties share the responsibili-

ty, is the root cause of the prob-
lem.” :

“Save Windsor from layoffs and
depression,” will be one of the
campaign slogans in Essex West
and Essex East where Cyril Prince
and Mike Kennedy are the LPP
standard bearers.

LPP candidate for Toronto-High
Park, Dr. V. G. Hopwood, last week
urged emergency grants and
scholarships by the federal gov-
ernment to meet the crisis in Can-
adian education which he describ-
ed as “shocking” in a letter sent
to Prime Minister St. Laurent.

U.S. action illegal

violates UN

TORONTO
United States’ action in barring
Mrs. Rae. Luckock, national presi-
dent of the Congress of Canadian
Women, from attending current
United Nations sessions as the of-
ficial representative of the Wo-
men’s International Democratic
Federation, has now developed in-
to a “cause celebre.”

When the US. representative |’

reported to the Economie and So-
cial Council on April 9, that his
government would not grant Mrs.
Luckock’s application for visa, the
UN legal department promptly
made a study of the “Headquar-
ters Agreement” (this covers
granting of visas by the U.S.) and
came up with the conclusion that
Mrs. Luckock — as all other of>
ficial representatives to UN — is
“entitled to transit to and from
been made the subject of any re-
the Headquarters District (New
York), and that this right has not
servation.”

Further, it held that if the U.S.
continues to prevent her entry,
‘St is clear that there would exist
a dispute between the UN and the
U.S. concerning ... the agreement.
... If the dispute is not settled by
negotiation . . . it shall be referred
for final decision to a tribunal of

Bar on Mrs. Luckock 4

agreement

MRS. RAE LUCKOCK

d
three arbitrators, one to be ea

by the secretary-general (of -
UN), one to be named by the § ‘

retary of state of the Unilé

States, and the third to be chee
by the two, or, if they should fa

to agree upon a third, then by ri
president of the Internation

Court of Justice.”

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Viet Miuh routs French

Viet Minh troops, advancing on a wide front

chinese state of Laos, have precipitated a new crisis in _ e)
French imperialist policies of reconquest. French troops pattlé

treating from Sam Neva, have been decimated in aryn
and the French have abandoned Xieng Khouhang withou

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Affidavit spikes fantastic yarn of ‘Russian gift’

Rosenberg prosecution perjury exposed |

NEW YORK

The fight to win a new trial for
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was
strengthened last week by docu-
mented proof that prosecution
witnesses lied when they said the
Rosenbergs received a table from
the “Russian government.”

The Rosenberg defense commit-
tee proved, through an affidavit,
that the table was bought at Macy’s
department store — just as the
Rosenbergs said. it was.

The FBI claimed that this cheap
table was an expensive gift. The

FBI did not produce the table in

court, but forced witnesses to tes-
tify that photographs “looked like”
the console table referred to. An
affidavit made public by the Rosen-
berg defense committee shatters
the lie of the government wit-
nesses. It shows that the console
table. did not contain any’ of the
secret compartments alleged by
the government for microfilm.

An affidavit obtained from a
staff member of R. H. Macy states
that the markings found on the
table are those of Macy’s.

The markings, “N N 4046-760-F4,
1997” were explained in the affi-

davit as follows: “N N” means
Macy’s occasional furniture de-
partment.

“4046” is the pattern number,
assigned- by the Brandt Manufac-
turing Company to the style table
in the year 1946.

“760” means Brandt Manufactur-
ing Company Cabinet Works of
Hagertown, Md. “F4” is a sym-
bol of a Macy season; “F4” was
last used as a symbol in the fall
season of 1936. Photographs of
the table show this symbol could
be read either as “F4” or “E4.”
The letter was last used as a sym-
bol in the early part of 1944, The

A ste?
e comirtett

use of “E4” would be | i)
with the manufacturel’s , yeta
number, “1997” is Mac

selling price of $19.97. set

nig Rost
During the trial Spt je 38
berg said he bought 1 out § a
1944 or 1945 and paid 165
for it. Add 2 percent 41, tab7
to the $19.97 marked 0” 20
and the total comes J1, st@
This flatly contradicts snort
ment of U.S. Attorney 4
ing Saypol to the jury table jp
couldn’t buy a cone i ad
Macy’s if they had ™ 9.»
and 1945, for less than oe?

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 24, 1953 —