me Tie 9 nag jeeag acl | \ | te A mat & ih eo ih itm iC pane ei . A we o> a Nl aiff Jl i> | y i Viol’ 7 INO: 3: Vancouver, B.C., Friday, January 16, 1948 << Five Cents Graham must stand tria ACCUSED ANTI-SEMITE HAD U.S, BRITISH LINKS Evidence of an international link-up of pro- fascist, anti-Semitic propaganda was brought out during trial of Thomas P. Graham, who appeared before Magistrate Mackenzie Matheson in Vancou- ver Police Court this week, charged with seditious libel arising out of recent distribution of anti-Jewish liter- ature, Although no information was forthcoming as to Gra- ham’s means of livelihood, he possessed a British passport, and from evidence given, it appeared that he had lived in Australia, had made his way to England, then to the United States and thence to Vancouver, and that he was on his way back to Australia or New Zealand, obtaining contacts “everywhere he went. . Detective Archie Plummer produced a letter addressed to Mrs. L. C. Van Hyning, 901-537 South Dearborn St; Chicago, which he said was found on Graham when arrest- ¢d. In the letter, read by the prosecutor, Graham’ said he would “be leaving for Australia about June” and that he had been a member of the ‘‘Australia First” movement which gives “as its Number 1 enemy, the Jew.” “I can assure you,” the letter stated, “in England the Jew’s number is up. I only left there about five months ago and nearly all are anti-Jewish .. . The Jew will soon be turned out of England... “America is the very last line of defense,” the letter went on. “It is obvious that the Oriental Russians must be halted . . . We cannot afford to let sentiment stand in our way.” Thanking her for sending him an anti-Semitic pamphlet, “Woman’s Voice,” the letter asked for a copy of it to be sent to a Mrs, Pankhurst-Walsh in Sydney, Australia, “whose Australia, Detective Plummer produced a copy of the book ‘‘Der Feuhrer” which he had found while searching Graham’s room, with pencilled notations in the margins against Jews. He also produced photographs of two pieces of carbon paper on which were drawings of human heads purporting to show means of identifying Jews. _ Plummer also produced. an envelope and a pamphlet, similar to those mailed out to organizations and individuals, which had been found in Graham’s jacket pocket. Trade union leaders testify Copies of this pamphlet were identified by prosecution witnesses, who included Pen Baskin, international repre- sentative of United Steelworkers; Melvin Kemmis, Bakery Workers’ Union secretary; Bert Marcuse, Trade Union Re- search Bureau director; John Phillips, Civic Employees’ Union secretary; Ann Thorne, assistant secretary for Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, B.C. District Union; and john Jorgenson, 4740 Argyle, all of whom received copies of this leaflet in the mail, Cross-examining Phillips, Graham demanded to know Phillips’ nationality and politics, “I am a Jew and proud of it,” replied Phillips, “but my politics are my own business and have nothing to do with the case. I might add,” Phillips remarked, ‘that I (Continued on page 8—See ANTI-SEMITE) ' the Germany Army was un- ~ be unable to do so.” Back to Europe e@ Back to Europe go the U.S. Marines, but this time to support the type of fascist regime they fought four years to destroy. Arm- ed with tanks, guns and other combat equipment, 1,- 000 of them sailed for the Mediterranean to reinforce battleship personnel in Greek and Italian waters. This was the ‘logical consequence of the Truman doctrine and the Marshall plan. But many observers doubted that it would earn the U.S. any more than the hatred of Europe. Wrote Max Wer- ner, famed the usually ac- curate military analyst: “If able -to break the guerillas, King Paul’s army also will Gov’t feels force Reports that Ottawa “is seething with rumor and conjecture as to the line of action the government will take to cope with the high price situation” indicated this week that the King gov- ernment is at last being forced to recognize the hard- ship its prices policy is in- flicting on working people throughout the country. — There is no question that | the government is feeling the tremendous pressure gen- erated by the public cam- paign conducted by such or- ganizations as the House- wives Consumer Association and the trade unions. Wide- spread publication of the huge profits being made by food and other corporations has given the public a clear insight into the govern- ment’s policy. “I can’t afford bacon. I can hardly afford any meat. I have to buy butter, milk and eggs, but I can’t afford all my family needs. I’m be- ginning to see now what the government means by aus- terity.” . This remark, made at a protest meeting sponsored by the B.C. Housewives’ Consumer Association here this week, is typical of the protests pouring into Otta- wa. As a result, the govern- ment is finding it increasing- ly difficult to ignore the clamor for restoration of price controls, “The best opinion” in the capital is “that butter and bacon will be replaced under control first.” But whether the government will use its powers to bring all essentials back under control or wheth- er it will merely offer token ; Y . eee. mother was one of the Pankhursts of the suffragette move- ment,” another to an address on Pendrill Street in Van- couver, and to a Rudd Mills, 18 Queens Street, Melbourne, measures in the hope of off- setting the protest depends now on the pressure exerted by consumers. A brief review of the pro- test movement in British Columbia showed this week: © In Vancouver, despite refusal of Cecil Merritt, Conservative M.P. for Bur- tard, to speak, a representa- tive meeting backed the de- mand for return of price con- trols. ®@ In Victoria, the CCL Labor Council instructed its representative on the con- tinuations committee of the Vancouver Island Joint La- bor Conference, Ben F. Sced, to move for initiation of a broad protest campaign against high prices. e At Edmonton, the Housewives’ League is con- (Continued on page 8) See PRICES