Bill 93 sections “viciously and dangerously” threaten labor’s right to strike, the Canadian Con- } Canadian Congress of Labor (| eondemns Bill 93 clauses as ‘vicious and dangerous’ OTTAWA gress of Labor charges in a 4,000 word statement to its membership. It will make its views known to the Special Committee of the House set up to study the bill, Two redrafted parts of the Criminal Code, many changes in which are covered in Bill 93— Sections 365 and 372—-were pinpointed as containing “connotations of the most alarming kind for Communist leaders to enter appeal against sentences — NEW YORK The world was given another insight into the workings of American “democracy” last week when 13 Communist leaders, con- victed on charges of conspiracy to violate the thought-controlling Smith Act, were sentenced to terms ranging from one-to three years in prison, and fine of $2,000 to $6,000. : Citizenship of Il million threatened NEW YORK The American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born has an- nounced it will defend V. J. Jerome and Louis Weinstock, first U.S. residents threatened with revocation of citizenship under the McCarran- Walters Act. . Jerome and Weinstock were among 13 Communists sentenced to prison last week after conviction on charges of conspiracy to violate the Smith Act. They drew three- year prison terms. Denaturaliza- tion proceedings against them were announced immediately after their conviction on January 21 While denaturalization proceed- ings previously had been instituted against Al Richmond, editor of the San Francisco Daily People’s World, and John Steuben, editor of March of Labor, those actions were filed before the McCarran-Walter Act went into effect and hense invoked prior legislation.. In taking the cases of Jerome and Weinstock, the committee said: “Weinstock and Jerome are charg- ed with having withheld informa- tion. at the time they became U.S. citizens 22 and 25 years ago. This ‘information’ was that they did not say—even though not asked at the |: time—that they were members of the Communist party. “The justice department in its cases seeks to establish preced- ents for the total destruction of the right of 11 million naturalized U.S. citizens.” Golden Gate Cafe 186 E. Hastings 8t. - “QPEN FOR SERVICE” PENDER AUDITORIUM _ (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender Phone PA. 9481 ‘Immediately after sentence was pronounced, defense attorneys filed notice of intention to appeal, and opened a fight for “reasonable bail.” The 13 defendants have been in jail since January 21 when the jury verdict was returned and Judge Edward J. Dimock revoked their bail. Judge Dimock was |disposed to grant bail, but defense attorneys protested that his first figure — $25,000 for each—was unreasonable and beyond the means of the de- fendants. During their nine and one-half months trial, nine defendants were free on bonds of $10,000, one on $5,000, and threc, all non-citizens, were forced to put up $20,000 cash.. In setting sentence, Judge Dim- ock said he was not inclined to regard the crime as serious as the prosecution painted it. He said that the U.S. Congress set a maxi- mum penalty of five years in pris- on, and therefore must have consid- ered the offense less weighty than those for which much higher penal- ties were set. : 5 The seven defendants who drew the severest penalties—three years and $6,000 fine—were. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 62, veteran labor leader and Commun- ist party national committee member; Pettis Perry, 56, Alaba- ma-born Negro leader formerly of Los Angeles and alternate member of the Communist national com- mittee; Alexander Bittleman, 63, Jewish leader and Communist theoreticion; Alexander Trachten- berg, 67, president of Interna- tional Publishers; V. J. Jerome, Communist editor, novelist and > cultural leader; Louis Weinstock, former leader of the AFL Paint- ers Union, and Arnold Johnson, active Communist _ legislative worker and former organizer in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The five sentenced to two years and $4,000 fine were: Jacob Mindel, 71, Marxist schol- ar and teacher who suffers from a chronic heart ailment; Betty Gannett, 46, Communist educa- tional directory; Al Lannon, 45, a pioneer organizer of the CIO National Maritime Union and Communist leader in the maritime industry; William W. Weinstone, 55, veteran Communist, and | George Blake Charney, 47, a New York state Communist party of- ficer. The sentence of a year and a day with a $2,000 fine, was given Claudia Jones, 87, Negro leader and secretary of the party’s na- tional women’s commission. The judge denied a motion to reduce Mindel’s sentence on grounds of ill health. ; organized labor.” The sections make it possible for “hostile public authorities” to prose- cute unions and could be used to break strikes the CCL declared. Section 365 provides for a five year jail sentence for anyone break- ing a contract covering public utili- ties or the running of railway trains. The ‘COL brief said the new sec- tion could provide employers with an opportunity “to goad a union into a strike or to refuse to honor their contractual obligations with a union.” It added: “This section embodies a legal concept not found elsewhere in our law, namely, that a person can be prosecuted under the Criminal Code for the breach of a civil con- tract. ( “Traditionally the breach of a civil obligation involves the right to seek a remedy in the civil courts, for example, a right to sue for damages. Section 365 provides that in certain circumstances breach. of contract, a civil matter, should be punishable by a court of competent criminal jurisdiction. : “Collective agreements are bind- ing upon the employer, the trade union, as bargaining agent, and the employees represented by the trade union. It is conceivable that under section 865 employees could be prosecuted for an unauthorized act of a union executive; or, conversely, that a trade union could be prose- cuted as a result of a wildeat strike in. an industry covered by section. 365.” Farlier, in the House of Com- mons, Justice Minister Garson had said he had the full approval of both national trade union centres in drafting these sections. The CCL brief, which comes after scores of requests from CCL unions, notably the United Auto Workers, is seen here as cutting off any pretense Garson had of labor support for a as the UAW stewards put it. bill “aimed at the heart of labor,” |’ OW MAN-STORES- IN YOU) LOOM Y ARE TEM OWVED: Wn RECENT YEARS THE MAIN STREET OF WRTBALLY EVERY MAJOR-CITY IN TRE US BAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY HORDES © EUROPEAN JEWS, WHO ARE SLOWLY DRIVING GENTILE BUSINESS MEN PTO UNLFSS VMMEDIATE ACTION 15 CHRISTIAN MERCHANTS WILL BE OF BUSINESS ANP GOMMERGE N Virsa ep ion Mots CITIES. AY JL {te 10 NHL WAVE ALREADY BOUCHT ry BUSINERS THe Tue yenor No action against anti-Semites Anti-Semitic advertising like this appears in U.S. newspapers today and reply postcards shown are given pestal privileges in the U.S. mails. Quebec authorities do not move a finger to stop anti- ‘ Semitic tracts, many of which originate in the U.S. The federal government has taken no action against the regular publication Quebec City of Le Castus, bitterly anti-Semitic and racist. i il : Law teachers question UN ‘loyalty tests’ in Canadian Bar Review The Canadian Bar Review has published a, letter from fovf prominent Canadian lawyers urging a “searching examination © the conclusions reached by three jurists who gave an opinion loyalty tests and the United Nations Secretariat at the, request Trygvie Lie, UN general secretary. POO MONO UCI CO ICUS CDE ALLL bi FBI political interference hit by ex-senator SEATTLE Officials of Republican and Der _mocratic parties are being called upon by the Progressive party to join in protesting FBI interfer- ence in legislative political activi- ties. The call was made by Thomas C. Rabbitt, Progressive executive secretary and former state sen- ator, who charged he was “way- laid” by two FBI agents who in- sisted on having a “confidential talk”| with him. The FBI, he charged, had started a ‘“whisper- ing campaign that I am an FBI agent.” IMNBILET Tee FREDERICKTON Delegates from nine Canadian universities attending the Eastern Regional Conference of the Student Christian Movement recently went on record against preposed revisions of the Criminal Code now before a special committee of the House of Commons. Only three abstentions were re- corded in the vote of the 70 dele- gates ‘attending. A resolution de- clared “this conference is alarmed at the extent to which the extreme political atmosphere has found its way into laws proposed for our jnation by the department of jus- tice.” It specifically lists a large num- ber of sections of Bill 93 protesting “the vague wording of certain sec- tions and the removal of safeguards to certain civil rights.” More particularly the conference urged that “real substance” be put behind the resolution “in the form: | of action in our local units and campuses.” Letters to MP’s and Justice Minister Stuart Garson were urged. SCM conference finds freedoms ‘intimidated’ by Bill 93 proposals “The conference warned that “the essential functions of a de- mocracy of free speech and poli- tical opposition are dangerously intimidated by the proposed re- vision of the Criminal Code of Canada.” The January issue of the Angli- can Outlook carries two pages of commentary on Bill 93. It notes that the bill contains “provisions which should disturb all those who are concerned about the preserva- tion of democratic safeguards for the liberty of the citizens.” Dealing in detail with its undemo- cratic provisions the publication notes that “it contains many im- portant and startling changes in criminal law, that threaten free- doms and safeguards won by cen- turies of struggle.” It urges action by writing to MP’s and Justice Minister Gar- son, pointing out: “If we do not take pen in hand now, it will be | useless to wring our hands later.” "PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 13, 1953 — PAGE ? -mission’s opinion is the view ¢ on of Signers of the letter to the BaF Review were W. Friendmann, F. © LaBrie and J. B. Milner, all on the teaching staff of the School of Law: University of Toronto, and R Scott, of the Faculty of Law, Gill University. They wrote: “The fact that the opinon was made unanimously by an Americal a British and a Belgian jurist may cause lawyers and non-laywers abBe | to believe that its authority is ™ challengable. The undersigd©&”* after a careful study of the opinio} strongly feel that it is open to 8° ous objection.” The letter then quoted from the jurists’ 50-page document and g®" a summarized .version of the ©? clusions, including this one: “Any employee of the United N® tions, who in the course of any 40" orized national investigation, JU” cial or non-judicial (such as at ie vestigation by a Congressional ¢ a mittee), exercises his constitutio? privilege against self-incriminatio’® should also be absolutely bart | from further employment.” | | Said the letter: 7 “The gravest aspect of Me of the coor the exercise of the legal priviles® against self-incrimination in . He tional proceedings is automatically a bar to employment in the Unite | Nations. . . . “The recommendations of- commission . . . have increased | sense of insecurity in the Nations Secretariat. At @ Ja when the United Nations and oth! | international institutions are u@é going severe political testing; Mei commission’s opinion must i? ‘ ‘fairness be considered a surprising unsatisfactory treatment of the com plex problems presented to it. :* 9 7 “The United Nations must ¥O™ out its own code. Conviction PY d national court for such major “| generally recognized offenses ita ‘treason, sedition or the betray ie | official secrets should justity @ missal from. the United Nate but the adoption, in any one see, try, of special offenses, and inv gation procedures that fall short oss established standards of faith@” cannot be regarded as part of ee erally recognized principles: ot therefore as a proper standard nal the United Nations. Such nati? f practices should not therefore for themselves establish good caus dismissal.”