Kapuskasing Loggers Win Court Dismissal

KAPUSKASING—Charges of rioting and being members of an unlawful assembly’ against 63 bushworkers were dis-

missed in magistrate’s court in this Northern Ontario pulp

and paper centre.

Another 177 loggers face unlawful assembly charges and the same group with two additional bushworkers will be arraigned on the rioting charges later.

Hearing of the charges in the biggest mass trial in Ca- nadian history stemmed from a month-long strike of two locals of the Lumber and Saw- mill Workers Union. The un- ion, a division of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, conducted the strike against Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co. and an associated company, Kimber- ly-Clark Canada Ltd., in an effort to apply the 40-hour week achieved in an earlier contract settlement. The strike was ended by an agreement - to submit the issues to arbi- tration.

The charges against the striking loggers were laid after a battle between the strikers and independent farmer-settlers who continued

Joyce Spicer, made the presentation. Gifts were a slide projector and screen and a silver tea service.

to stockpile pulpwood_ for shipment to the Spruce Falls mill while the strike was in

progress. At a clash at Reesor _

Siding near Kapuskasing, three strikers were killed and nine wounded after an esti- mated 75 shots were fired at a band of strikers attempting to halt the stockpiling opera- tions.

Twenty farmer-settlers were committed to stand trial in Ontario Supreme Court on charges of non-capital murder. When the committals were appealed, Chief Justice J. C. McRuer supported the com- mittal of Paul Coulombe, man- ager of the Val Rita Co-op- erative engaged in the stock- piling at the siding. However, he ordered the other 19 set-

‘tlers to be returned before a

magistrate for further evi- dence on a preliminary hear- ing of the non-capital murder charges against them.

During the hearing of the

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3rd Vice President; C. H. Webb, ist Vice-Pres Vice-President; R. Tweedie, Financial Secretary; S. Spicer, Recording Secretary; E. Baker, Williams F. Ibis, Giscome Sub-Local; W. Koshman, Warden;

charges against the 242 bush- workers in a Kapuskasing theatre, Crown witnesses had great difficulty in identifying the accused. One police officer admitted he had nothing to determine the accuracy of his identification. Dr. W. E. Wim- berger, who told union coun- sel John Brooke, of Toronto,

D of Local 1-424, Prince George. Seated from left, T. — ident; R. Inglis, President; J. Bott, S. Ball, Quesnel Sub-Local. Standing left, Lake Sub-Local; C. Mueller, Conductor;

G. Hurlbert, Chetwynd Sub-Local.

under cross-examination that he. could pick out those of the accused who had sustained in- juries, was only able to pick out one man—and he was on crutches. He then told Magis- trate W. S. Gardner, of Tim- mins, he could identify the men only by giving them medical ‘examinations and looking at their wounds.

At the end of the third day of the hearing, a motion for dismissal of the unlawful as- sembly charges against 65 of the bushworkers on grounds of lack of evidence was up- held by Magistrate Gardner. Crown Attorney S. A. Cald- bick agreed there was insuf- ficient evidence in these cases.

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