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jailed for contempt
i Smith Act trial

SEATTLE

2 what the defense charges is a prosecution policy of harassing
Se witnesses, Dr. Herbert J. Phillips, nationally known American

Noho, Was jailed for contempt by Judge William Lindberg in the
newest Smith Act trial last week. The court indicated that Dr.

PS would be held in the cou

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‘reed mm October, unless he

“to turn informer.

watose On trial are: Henry Huff,
Us hington state chairman of the
1 eg munist party; Paul Bow-
» €Xecutive secretary of Seattle

Pepe Labor Council; William J.

: Pena K, president of Washington
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editor of the People’s
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Barhaoe Workers’ leader; and Mrs.
: a Hartle,
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LONDON

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with the cases. It is now clear
that any defendant who takes
the stand does so under threat
of going to jail for “contempt.”

This is not the first time Dr.
Phillips has been victimized by the
witch-hunters.

He was dismissed from his Uni-
versity of Washington teaching
post in February 1940, after 19
years on the faculty. President
Raymond B. Allen took the action
after hearings for which’ Tracey
Griffin was hired as special prose-
cutor by the university. It was
concurred in by the board of re-
gents despite the recommendation
of eight of 11 members of a faculty
tenure committee that Dr. Phillips
be retained. :

Sole “ground” for the dismissal
was Dr. Phillips’ proudly proclaim-
ed membership in the U.S. Com-
munist party. ?

The noted educator who had
been teaching philosophy either
as graduate assistant or at full
academic rank since 1920, was also
victimized in an earlier “con-
tempt” frameup before the notor-

ious and now-defunct Canwell |;

state un-American committee.

Dr. Phillips was acquitted of
contempt in King county superior
court on that occasion.

In 1950 also Dr. Phillips headed
the ticket of the Independent
party in Washington state as can-
didate for U.S. Senate on a pro-
gram of opposition to the Korean
war and in defense of U.S. constit-
utional liberties.

After President Allen fired him,
thereby initiating a witch-hunt
that has since ravaged the Univer-
sity of -Washington’s academic
standing, Dr. Phillips toured
the U.S. at his own expense, to
speak before faculty and student
groups on many campuses.

Dr. Phillips, 62, is married, has
three children, and has been a
resident of Seattle since 1930. He
did his graduate work at- Cam-
bridge University in England and
Columbia University in New York.
His degree of philosophy doctorate
was awarded him at the University
of Washington.

Since his forced departure
from the teaching profession,
Dr. Phillips has supported his
family by working as a laborer.

I
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Sttiton in killing.”

"WHAT-— HE-TRIED TO SELL

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YOURS WITH EASY CREDIT!"

45 EAST HASTINGS
VANCOUVER 4, B.C

De Gasperi gov't falls

ALCIDE DE GASPERI

ROME

: 4 :
Premier Alcide de Gasperi’s gov-
ernment fell this week on a non-

confidence vote of 282-263. For

the 72-year-old Christian Democrat
leader, who formed his eighth gov-
ernment two weeks ago, it was his
first defeat since he assumed the
premiership in 1945.

Earlier, opening the debate in

the Chamber of Deputies, Pietro
Nenni, left-wing Socialist leader
whose: party almost doubled its

PIETRO NENNI

strength in the recent elections,
offered de Gasperi his party’s sup-
port if his government would fol-
low the “London line.”

This he defined as “the tendency
represented by London to put an
end to the cold war by means of a
peace without victors or vanquish-
ed,” as opposed to the Washington
tendency “to prolong the cold war
until. a problematical Western
victory based more or less on un-
conditional surrender.”

ment to Singapore.

Falling tin and rubber prices are bringing mass unemploy-

War threatens collapse
of Malayan economy

SINGAPORE

Fifty-four tin mines in Malaya have shut down in the past three
months, it was announced here last week. Their workers are now
unemployed and have no unemployment insurance or relief.

The mines are small or medium sized, but even the large mines,
due to falling tin prices, have long been laying off workers.

Sir Donald MacGillivray, deputy
High Commissioner for Malaya un-
der General Templer, arrived in
London last week for talks on the
critical financial and economic po-
sition that falling tin and rubber
prices have produced in that

ntry.
Farah tiie first six months of this
year government revenue has only
been half the figure estimated in
the budget. :

The chief source of revenue is
the export tax on tin and rubber
and with prices of these commodi-
ties still dropping the financial
position of the Malayan govern-
ment is desperate.

Already all the primitive social
services in the country have been
slashed by 20 percent.

If the decline in revenue con-
tinues the only possibility of mak-
ing any considerable economy
would be to slash the swollen ex-
penditure on the military and pol-
ice force, which is the chief charge
on the budget.

Only the end of the Malayan
war can save Malaya from finan-

cial collapse.

Iranians cry:

‘Yanks, go home’
TEHERAN

A hundred thousand Tudeh
(Working People’s party) support-
ers in Teheran last week urged
that the present Majlis (parlia-
ment should be dissolved and new
general elections held.

They demanded that U.S. “spy
nests” and military aid should be
given up; Iran should develop:
friendly relations with neighboring
countries such as the USSR; oil
should be sold to the USSR.

This was the first time the Tu-
deh supporters had held their na-
tional day demonstrations inside
the Majlis Square, with govern-
ment permission. The party is still
officially illegal.

Troops armed with fixed bayon-
ets stood behind the rostrum.

While Tudeh leaders were ad-
dressing the crowd, balloons float-
ed into the air bearing the slogans:

“Yankee, go home.”

U.S. drops
forged

currency

By AMOUR MILNE
; PRAGUE

The Czechoslovak ministry of
foreign affairs handed a note to
the United States embassy pro-
testing against the dropping of
forged Czech currency notes and
subversive leaflets over Czecho-
slovak territory.

It has been established that
these were dropped from aircraft
in U.S.-occupied Bavaria and car-
ried into Czechoslovakia by means
of small balloons.

Forged currency notes of differ-
ent values have been dropped in
huge quantities. Some are simply
forgeries. Others are replicas
bearing inflammatory texts in a
space about twice the size of a
postage stamp in the top right-
hand corner.

There have also been leaflets
calling on the Czechoslovak people
to prepare for ‘action against the
People’s government, and vicious-
ly attacking the Soviet Union.

I saw some of the one-crown
notes, with their inflammatory
texts printed in the corner.

These were not shown to me by
any government department but
by a friend who had himself pick-
ed them up in a garden in the
country about 50 miles from here.

Since the first dropping of the
notes and leaflets the offices of
local national committees and
police have been kept busy dealing
with a constant stream of people
bringing in this evidence of the

| latest provocative act by the U.S.

The Czechoslovak note to the
U.S. embassy demands that “the
government of the U.S. advise it
of the measures it has taken to
prevent the recurrence of simi-
lar provocations which are aim-
ed against the peaceful coexist-
ence of nations and which con-
stitute flagrant
with the domestic affairs of
Czechoslovakia.”

Soviet protests

1U.S. leatlets

BERLIN

The Soviet High Commissioner
in Germany, in a letter to the U.S.
High Commissioner has asked the
latter to stop U.S. planes flying
low and dropping leaflets over air-
fields in the Soviet Zone of Ger-
many. ;

The letter said that almost daily
for two weeks U.S. planes had
circled low over the two Soviet
airfields at heights of between
150 and 300 feet, and “the Soviet
military authorities naturally can-
not stand” for this new procova-
tive action.

The Soviet airfields are at Wer-
nevchen and Elstal.

“Such gross offences by Ameri-
can aircraft against flight safety
regulations are a menace to the
safety of the Soviet aircraft on
these airfields, as well as of the
Americans, British and French
transport -aircraft flying between
Berlin and West Germany,” Soviet
High Commissioner Semeonoy
wrote.

United Labor
PICNIC

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9
CONFEDERATION PARK

4600 EAST HASTINGS
NORTH BURNABY

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