Griffin cites Mulligan case to nail Bonner’s ‘trial by newspaper claim Attorney-General Robert Bonner was reminded of the Mulligan scandal this week by Hal Griffin, LPP candidate in Vancouver-Point Grey. general’s attitude toward charges of corruption depends o supporter or opponent of the Social Credit government,” Bonner’s statement to a meeting in West Vancouver that “in this country we do not indulge in trial by newspaper.” HAROLD GRIFFIN Vancouver-Point Grey Ballot A “Bonner uses this to justify his withholding of the facts in the Sommers case, but he had no such scruples in the Mul- ligan case,” Griffin declared, “Sommers is a former min- ister of the crown, a leader of Social Credit, and his actions reflect on the govern- ment’s own integrity. “Mulligan was a Liberal, a big wheel in the Vancouver Liberal machine which Social Credit wanted to smash. “Bonner .had no objection to trial by newspaper in the Mulligan case because it suit- ed Social.Credit purposes. But in the -face of damning evi- dence, he made no effort to bring Mulligan before the courts nor any effort to pre- Labor editor contests Point Grey for LPP There are few parts of the province and the country that Harold (Hal) Griffin, 44-year eld LPP candidate for Van- couver-Point Grey, has not come to know intimately in the course of a newspaper career that began 29 years ago in London, England. Born in England and orphaned in the First World War, he went to work as a cub reporter for London sub- urban newspapers when he was 15 years old, completing his education at night. Two years later he was a sub- editor on a Fleet Street press agency. In 1931, when he was 18, he emigrated to Canada, - living first in Montreal, then Toron- to. He worked as a reporter for the Regina Leader-Post and then came west to Van- couver with the intention of going to Mexico. Instead, he went to the Yukon. With two companions, he walked the 68 miles over the * White Pass to Carcross, -YT, in mid-winter and then went on alone another 150 miles to Atlin and Teslin. (Eleven years later, when the Alaska Highway was being built, he travelled by jeep to many of these places in the course of a trip through northern Can- ada and Alaska to write a book, Alaska and the Can- adian Northwest). In Atlin he worked in placer mines, took to the trail again MNT eer ae freezeup came _ and finally landed back in Van- couver where he wrote features for the Vancouver Province magazine, including the story of Bob Henderson, discoverer of the Klondike, whom he had met in the Yukon. In 1933 he left for Central America and the West Indies, crossed to Europe and_return- ed to Canada to make his home in the Bridge River country. There he joined the CCF. He worked on the old B,C. Commonwealth here as re- porter and later news editor until the staff walkout in pro- test against failure to turn control of the paper over to the CCF. dn 1936 he broke with the CCF over the issue of aid to Republican Spain and toured the province for the Spanish Aid Fund. The same year he joined the old Communist Party of Canada and was ap- pointed assistant editor of the B.C. Workers’ News. For the past 20 years he has been variously editor and as- sociate editor of the successors to the B.C. Workers’ News and he is now associate editor of the Pacific Tribune. A foundation member of the LPP, he contested New West- minster federal riding in 1945 and Vancouver-Point Grey provincial riding in 1953. Married, with one daughter and one son, he is active in several cultural and commun- ity organizations. when ee ity ee Bl “Apparently the attorney- n whether the accused is a said Griffin, commenting on vent him from leaving the country because a court trial would implicate a lot of people including Liberals and Conser- vatives who are now support- ers of Social Credit. “Bonner was derelict in his duty in the Mulligan case and he is derelict in his duty in the Sommers case because in both instances he puts the in terests of partisan politics above the interests of justice.” Mulligan walked out of the probe into graft and corrup- tion in the police department, and moved to California. Al- though the probe report said that evidence showed Mulligan had accepted money from local gamblers, the. govern- ment refused to bring him back to Vancouver to stand trial. 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