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| DEFENSE DEMANDS PROSECUTION ~

By JANE

a big

Stoolpigeons’ lies
nailed by Bridges

GILBERT
SAN FRANCISCO

_ The Harry Bridges trial has been adjourned until next’ week, ‘but
question has been left hanging in the air:

Will Manning John-

son and Paul Crouch, U.S. government stoolpigeons, ever be brought

before the bar of justice for lying
Will either be
false testimony,
Henry Schmidt, and J. R. (Bob)
Robertson?

Vincent Hallinan, defense at-
torney, in his dramatic plea that
the court undertake responsibil-
ity for pressing charges against
the paid informers, pointed out
that the government could not
be expected to prosecute its own
witnesses,

: The US. justice department

has, as a matter of fact, pro-
tected its stoolpigeons from per-
jury proceedings,

Immigration _ Service officials
“went into court in New York to
prevent extradition of a certain
George Hewitt, another profes-
sional stoolpigeon, to the state
‘of Washington to stand trial for
perjury.

None other than Manning
Johnson was called upon in that
instance to support Hewitt’s
proven lies.

_*Johnson himself has twice

been caught telling lies while
under oath. In the Gerhart His-
ler case, the government twice
admitted Johnson’s falsehoods by
stipulation,

But Johnson was. never
- brought to trial for perjury.

» As the matter stands now in
‘the Bridges’ case, both stool-
‘pigeons will remain under gov-

ernment subpoena for the dura-

tion of the trial in order that
the defense may bring perjury
charges,

Judge George R. Harris, how-
ever, refused the defense’s re-
quest that Crouch and Johnson
be remanded to the U.S. marshal
at once for immediate prosecu-
tion.

Defense attorneys have indi-
cated they will press perjury in- |

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under oath?

tried for the crime of perjury which they, with
are trying to pin on three labor leaders, Bridges,

dictments before proper author-
-ities, probably the foreman of
the federal grand jury in this
district.

The evidence is overwhelming.
Both Johnson and Crouch swore
under oath that Bridges was in
New York City at a Communist

, convention June 24 to 28, 1936,

when the president of the in-
ternational Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union was in
‘California.

Newspaper stories, affidavits,
union meeting minutes prove
that Bridges was present in the
Bay Area from June 22 to July
6 of that year.

Fishermen back
union position

SEATTLE

Virtually unanimous approval
of the stand taken by Interna-
tional Fishermen and_ Allied
Workers delegates at the Cleve-
land CIO convention has ‘been
voted by the membership of
IFAWU at special mass meetings
in Seattle, Bellingham, Tacoma.
and Anacortes.

IFAWU president J. F. Jurich
reported for delegates and ob-
servers representing the organ-
ized fishermen and shoreworkers
whose union faces national CIO
charges and expulsion along with
other progressive-led CIO affil-
iates.

“What the convention boils
down to,” Jurich told the mem-
bership, “is the issue of whether
the fishermen and shoreworkers
have the ‘right to discuss and
act upon any problem affecting
their livelihood without having
their opinions and desires veto-
ed by top officials of the CIO.”

t

D.C. Abbott does |
‘Beer Barrel Polka’
to landlords’ tune

DOUGLAS ABBOTT
Called ‘Minister of Landlords’

Toronto police
arrest jobless .

TORONTO

Six members of an unemploy-
ed delegation demonstrating in
front of the National Selective
Service building here were ar-
rested by police and charged
with “obstruction.”

The men were quietly listen-
ing to a speaker outline steps
which could be taken by the
authorities to ease the critical
jobless
when the police charged in and
made the arrests.

Earlier the delegation had ap-
peared before the Board of Con-
trol at city hall to demand con-
tinuous cash relief for unem-
ployed. Stony-faced controllers
had turned a deaf ear to their
requests and showed little con-
cern over their plight.

New Electrical Workers

center opens

situation in Toronto

A delegation representing the Montreal-St.

League

~ MONTREAL

Andrew’s Tenants

met Finance Minister Douglas Abbott at his St. James office

here recently and a subsequent statement by the League said Abbott
had been asked to resign his House of Commons seat because he had
“lost the confidence of the majority of his electors by his attitude on

the rental question.”

Abbott is member for the
Montreal constituency of St. An-
toine-Westmount.

The League, an affiliate of the
Quebec Federation of Tenants,
declared in a.statement read to
Abbott’ that the government’s

policy placed the interests of
the property, owners before the
welfare of Canadian families and
the health of their children,

The League reported that Ab-
bott, in reply, said that “in view
of large sales of beer, it appear-
ed most tenants could well af-
ford to pay the rent increases
and that in comparison with the
increase in the cost of living,
rents should actually be at least
50 percent above the 1941 levels.
Because rents were so low, peo-
ple were not inclined to build
their own homes, but bought new
cars with the money they saved!”

.

The delegation was thoroughly
angered by the cynical behavior
of the “Minister of Landlords”
Abbott—especially in view of the
Canadian Welfare Council’s re-
cents statement that some Can-
-adians were paying as much as
80 percent of their income in
rent. Pee: ee

A League spokesman pointed
out Abbott’s attitude will only
spur members to fight harder
against the increase and for Ab-
bott’s resignation.

'

this month |

One of the finest trade union halls in Canada, the new Electrical
Workers Center at 111 Dunsmuir (Dunsmuir and Beatty) will be off-

cially opened January 14 to serve the 1,500 members of Local 213,

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL).
Carpenters, painters and decorators are busy putting the finishing
touches to the completely rémodeled building, which has an appraised

value of $140,000. A modern cafe-
‘teria, with a unionized staff, is

; already open and doing a rush-

_ing business, ;

home of

%

The Electrical Center has a
large auditorium, capable of
holding 700 to 800 people, and a
small meeting hall on the sec-
ond floor. In addition to the

m roomy, well-furnished business —
; offices on the ground floor there
& are several suites of offices up-
A. stairs: 7)

-In the basement there is a
good-sized swimming pool, show-
ers, a steam bath, a small gym-
nasium, and several rooms which.

will be used for lectures and ~

classes. Two classes, on “Elec-
tronics at Work” and “Linemen’s
Instruction” are being started
by the educational committee of.
the union this month, _

Local 213 is almost 50 years

old and is now opening its first

“100 percent IBEW home”.
Union members can be proud of
the growth of the local’s strength

/ and influence, which: are reflect-

ed in the purchase of the fine
new Electrical Workers Center.

# i

Unemployment
said ‘alarming’
NPA Alderman R. K. Gervin.
closed the doors on the press
Wednesday this week and chair-
ed a “hush-hush” meeting on un-
employment, Afterwards he told
newspapermen that the labor
and government leaders who dis-
cussed the question agreed that
there “a're 30,000 jobless in Van-
couver” (a figure given by the
Pacific Tribune last week) and
that “immediate action must be

taken to stem the alarming
growth .of unemployment.”

What action, if any, was plan-
ned Ald. Gervin didn’t say. But
he announced that another meet-
ing will be called within a week.

Represented at the secret con-
ference were six members of the
B.C. legislature, five MP’s, the ex-
ecutive of Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council, and leaders of
‘the Canadian Legion here.

{

on banquets, balls, dances and

“passes are barricaded by the po-

‘sides by six open cars filled with —
Fd BRODCA EURLAS othe sh
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER: 30, 1949—PAGE 8

Fortune |
amassed —
by Tito

Out of the Yugoslav under-
ground come revela-
tions concerning Tito’s personal
enrichment. The facts show that
Tito has amassed a fortune on
a scale and by methods closely
resembling those of the late
Nazi Field Marshal Hermann
Goering. :

amazing

In 1948, a special ship was
built for Tito at Kalevitsa and
another at the Tift shipyard. A
third ship at the port of Split
was kept especially for the ex- —
clusive use of Tito.

Tito’s mansion at Touskanzak
is guarded by 80 soldiers. Salar-
ies and expenses of the staff at
this one mansion alone range be- _
tween 130,000 and 150,000 dinah ~
a month. This means that it
costs the Yugoslav people about
five million dinah each year to
‘maintain just one of Tito’s many

. mansions! ;

Usually, Tito’s land possessions

“are guarded by officers of the

secret police (UDB) and these
guards have no lesser rank than
8 Capa, Braet may
Tito has a great weakness for
costly rings, precious stones and ©
ciamonds, and expensive jewelry
—and he indulges this weakness.

‘Fantastic amounts are spent

receptions given in honor of _

Tito’s followers and representa-

livs of the Western powers. Tito
has yet another mania: he likes
to show up on these occasions
wearing a different uniform ‘each
time. : ; :

The Yugoslav people have to
foot the bill for all of Tito’s
luxuries and extravagances. In-
stead of converting them into —
rest ‘homes, hospitals, places of
recreation and the like, the many _
manors and castles are kept ex- io te
clusively as amusement centers
for the Tito clique. — a IN

A special armored car was _
purchased for Tito in the U.S. —
Immediately, three identical ar-_

mored cars were bought so that

it is now impossible to tell which —
of the four cars Tito is using.
When he moves about Belgrade, —

the streets through which he

lice and army and all traffic en
route is stopped. Tito’s four ar-
mored cars drive in the middl
of the street, flanked on both

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