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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, January 16, 1948

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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

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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