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Poison pens
- busy again

During the past few weeks a num-
ber of letters have been brought
into the Pacific Tribune office by
trade unionists and others. In every
case these jetters are unsigned.
They have been addressed to trade
unionists on strike in Vancouver
foundries and the Daily Province,
members of the Hred ‘Rose Defense
Committee and a number of
LPPers. In some instances the
spelling and construction indicate
a high degree of illiteracy and in
others, could well have been written
by the highly trained legal minds
of the CMA,

The theme throughout is identical
—‘Orders from Moscow”; the free-
dom of the press versus the tyr-
anny of Russia’; “Ered Rose and
ai] LPPers should be shot.”

hike rats, these poison pen ar-
tists prefer the dark. To declare
themselves openly would enable
them to be identified as being
among those declassed elements
who, for petty reward, provide
themselves as the willing tools of
fascism. Upon their like Hitler
founded his Nazi party. :

One of these unsigned letters
Slandering Hred; Rose proposes to
solve all problems “by joining the
CCE” We hardly think the CCE
will feel proud of its anonymous
booster.

Green

An editorial carried in the July
issue of the Trades and Labor
Congress Journal terms Green’s
action “a direct attempt on the
part of the AFI to dominate our
Congress in the hope that through
the influence exerted by inter-
national unions over their Canad-
ian membership the AFI, can con-
trol our Congress.

“It is a most unwarranted case
of interference in the affairs of
our Congress and cannot be al-
lowed if our Congress is to con-=
tinue as a free trade union center.”

Ceilings

the open market at a price in-
creased between $5 and $6 a
thousand since the lifting of the
ceiling are finding it increasingly
difficult to continue their opera-
tions. In this situation we urge
your government immediately to
restore the price ceiling on logs,
to retain the price ceiling on
wholesale lumber and thus ensure
the greatest production without
imposing new costs upon the con-
Sumer or placing an added burden
upon prespective home builders

Main purpose of the conference
will be to work out a program
around which all organizations par-
ticipating can unite their efforts.

At the last labor council meeting,
William Sands, council president
and executive member of the B.C.
Federation of Labor, William Lang-—
mead, EWA international repre-
sentative, and Sam Jessop, presi-
dent of the Cannery Workers’
Union, were named as a committee
to contact other organizations in
preparation for the conference.

Langmead’s remarks that the
unity established between wood-
workers and fruit growers during
the recent TWA strike should be
Strengthened “by labor proving to
the srowers that we are as con-
cerned with helping them to solve
their problems as they should be
interested in supporting our efforts
to maintain a decent living stan-
dard” won unanimous endorsation
of council delegates. A resolution
adopted called for unity of all pro-
gressive groups to secure a greater
measure of prosperity for the
Okanagan Valley through mutual
support of organized labor’s wage

demands and organized grower’s
efforts to maintain fair fruit
prices.

“Finger men”

A titter went through the court-
room as he added, “I even heard
him call them comrade.”

‘fe said that he had had a num-
ber of other persons under obser-
vation, but he had not seen them
since, presumably because “they
have gone under cover.”

City Prosecutor Gordon Scott an-
nounced his intention of calling 18

witnesses, of whom only five took
the stand Tuesday before proceed-
ings were adjourned.

The 12 men charged with unlaw-
ful assembly elected to be tried
before a higher court should they
be- committed when preliminary
hearings were resumed Thursday,
and the cases against three others,
Alan Anderson, Donald Borland
and Thomas LL. Lisoway, charged
with obstructing a police constable,
were also stood over until Thursday.

David Siegler is appearing for
Taylor, Izzard, McCrae, Rockandel
and Lamb, all of whom are mem-
bers of AFI unions, and John Bur-

Okanagan labor seeks
laber-grower unity

KELOWNA.—A conference of labor, growers’, veter-
ans’, church and other organizations to discuss prices as
they affect the general welfare of Okanagan Valley com-
munities is to be called here on the initiative of Okanagan
Valley Labor Council (CCL). 2

Vets must have
right to choose

By IVAN BIRCHARD

Canadians are free. They
are free to work or free to
Starve if they don’t work and
do not belong to the rich un-
employed. They are free to
live where they choose — if
they have the money to pay
the shot.

if they are veterans who apply
for assistance to become small
holders under the Veterans Land
Act they are free to settle in the
Fraser Valley or some other
Place well away from Vancouver.
They are not free to settle in
North Vancouver or Burnaby
districts. Should they attempt to
do so, their application will be
refused because someone has de-
cided that these areas are un-
suitable,

Wise men appointed by the
government to administer the
Veterans Land Act have decided
that in this instance, soldiers who
fought for freedom are not free
to live where they choose.

Their decision is discriminating
against the districts and against
the veterans who desire to Iecate
there. It is a negation of the
things we fought for.

The government must be told
that Canadians are not going to
allow their veterans to be pushed
around.

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Bring Fred

workingman,

years in prison. :
His trial was a gross miscar-
riage of justice. The, reactionary,

antilabor- press, the’ slandering,

lying, irresponsible press of big
business, spared no effort to pre-
judice public opinion against him
before his trial began. He was
labelled guilty in advance by the
Royal Commission whose unconsti-
tutional “methods have been con-
demned by outstanding figures in
Canada and other countries He
was convicted on the unsupported
circumstantial evidence of noth-
ing better than a -well-rehearsed
informer.

-The frame-up and persecution
of working class leaders is noth-
ing new in the history of the la-
bor movement._Tom Mooney was
framed on a bombing charge and
spent 20 years in prison before he
Was exonerated and pardoned. Be-
hind the persecution of Hred Rose
are the same enemies of the labor
movement. They are the ones who
tried to defeat the seamen, who
are trying to defeat the steel and
the textile workers, who would
smash the labor movement if they
could. They see in the spy hys-
teria a golden opportunity to
weaken the labor movement by
removing from public life a man
who has always fought for the
things they hate most—the rights
ef the Jewish people and other
minority groups. :

Among the common people a
movement is developing to defend
Hred Rose, because they realize
that in defending him, they are
defendins their own

country.

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fo people, says Gauld

By ALEX -GAULD :
National Chairman, Fred Rose Defense Committee

Rose case

The working people of Canada have lost a great cham-
pion. Amid a fog of prejudice and hysteria, Fred Rose, a
whose whole life
struggle of the labor movement, has been condemned to six

has been devoted to the

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As this letter is written, Rose is
in the Montreal jail. While mura
erers, gangsters and peddlers of
narcoties are granted bail pending
their appeals, the working-class
Member of Parilament for Cartier
is considered “too dangerous” to
be allowed bail.

The facts of the Fred Rose case
must be placed before the people
The unlimited resources at the
command of the prosecution must
be met by a fund large -enoush
to ensure that Fred Rose’s right to
justice is not hampered by the
lack of money

We ask that you do your utmost -
to help in this work. Send resolu-
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Ottawa, urging that Rose be
granted bail pending. his appeal!
Personal and group contributions
are a most pressing need. Every
contribution will be gratefully ac-
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made payable to Michael Buhay,
who is secretary-treasurer of the
committee, at 5285 St. Urban-St.,
Montreal.

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