TOKYO — The Supreme Court o Japan will render its verdict in the celebrated Mat- sukawa labor case on August 10.

The unusual importance of the case was highlighted by two legal precedents.

@ For the first time in his- tory the Supreme Court is sitting in summer session.

@ For the first time in Jap- anese history defendants sen- tenced to death have been re- leased on bail. All 17 Matsu- kawa defendants are free on bail—including the four con- demned to die.

The high tribunal’s verdict is to come down exactly 10 years — minus a week — after a Tokyo-bound train was de- railed near the town of Mat- sukawa_ at midnight August 17,1949.

The wreck, in which three

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railway men died, was the sig- nal for an official reign af ter- ror against the unions, and fi- nally 17 unionists were con- victed of conspiring to derail the train.

The case took a dramatic turn in 1954 when the defense learned of, the existence of missing minutes that proved the innocence of Hajime Sato, one of those sentenced to death. ;

The minutes confirmed that Sato had been in union nego- tiations with the Tsoshiba Branch of the Matsukawa El- ectric Co. at the very time the prosecution said he was at a meeting where the train-wreck CONS PEC: was allegedly hach- ed.

Vast public indignation and protest, reaching into Japan’s Diet, finally compelled the prosecution to confess it had the tell-tale minutes and to produce them before the Su- preme Court in open hearings last November. %

Although traditionally the court does not accept new evi- dence, but simply reviews cas- es tried in lower courts, on this occasion the high tribunal received the missing minutes, which supported the defense charge of frame-up.

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The article contained some solid, factual material, but the writer seemed to go overboard | : in defending the CBC, on the grounds that it carried less crime and violence programs than certain other stations.

The point I would like to make is — why carry crime and violence programs at all?

I do not refer to war pro- grams — the horrors of war, as shown in the newsreel shots ean only have the good effect of making people more deter- mined than ever to fight for peace. Also, the war programs have a certain historical inter- est. :

The CBC. feels that ‘“‘the only shows liable to be harmful are those which duplicate life as the child knows it and intro- duce violent items as an in- tegral part of these familiar surroundings.”

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READER, Vancouver, B.C.: I would like to thank the Pacific Tribune for~ the nice write-up on Helen Sobell.

The Vancouver Sobell Com- mittee has launched a cam- paign to secure justice for Mor- ton Sobell. The fight for clem- ency has reached new heights in the U.S. as Sobell begins his tenth year in prison.

The big immediate job the local committee is undertaking is a Christmas amnesty appeal from Canadians to President Eisenhower.

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“Tt is almost 10 years since Morton Sobell entered prison. Some may doubt his guilt. But

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