Textile leader jailed,
unions launch protest

TORONTO —

Canadian director of the Unite
“inciting to riot” are a
justice and aimed at the entire labor movement,

(AFL) on charges of

The conviction of “R. Kent Rowley,

d Yextile Workers of America
travesty of
UE Presi-

dent €. S. Jackson told Quebec’s Premier Maurice Duplessis

in a wire sent last week on be-
half of 25,000 organized electrical
“workers in Quebec. and Ontario.
Jackson demanded that Rowley,

“who was arrested in the Valley-

_ fiela textile strike, be immediately

xe released on bail.

| MONTREAL —  Culminating
‘yet another Duplessis’ assault on
the trade-union movement, Kent
Rowley, Ganadian director of the
‘United Textile Workers of Am-

‘erica (AFL), was last week found
“guilty on charges of inciting to

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assembly. Charges were laid by
Duplessis against the textile union

2 head following the tear-gas at—

tack of provincial police on 2,000
cotton mill workers who were pic-
keting the strike-bound Montreal

C€otton’s.

Provincial characteriz-—

police,

“ed by. the Crown prosecutcr as

“impartial” witnesses, declared
that Rowley had led the attack
against them and the scabs they
were herding. Defence witnesses,
described by the same prosecutor
as. “nartial” because they were
‘unionists, testified that Rowley

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R. KENT ROWLEY

Said that the Crown had tried
to smear Rowley.

Rosario Lanctot, Valleyfield
chief of police, testified for Row-_
ley, and told the court that the

sible to prevent hostilities be-
tween the- textile workers and
Duplessis’ cops, and had called
for local police reinforcements.

Mr. Justice Wilfrid Lazure, in
his charge to the jury, told
them that “anarchy and revolu-
tion” will ensue if any class is
permitted “to attempt to achieve
its ambitions by illegal and
forcible means” ‘This is ths
same Class-conscious judge, with
the same class-conscious words,
who presided at the Fred Rose
trial.

On December 16 Rowley re-
ceived a sentence of six months
in jail. The case will be appealed
and a powerful defence organiza—
tion is already active on behalf
of the imprisoned Textile union
leader.

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Quebec needs a
Bill of Rights

MONTREAL — The
arrest and raids last week
on homes of LPP mem-

bers shows that Premier Du-
plessis is deliberately flouting
public opinion, already incensed
Over the WRoncarelli affair, and
indicates that the time has come
for the, immediate enactment of a
Quebec bill of rights.

This was the statement made
by Gui I. Caron, LPP leader to-
day. He added that the provin-

cial government’s actions im=
perils the civil rights of the
people, places in jeopardy every-

one whose views do not coincide
with those of Premier Duplessis.

Caron pointed to the fact
that the raids over the weelk-
end followed charges of conspir-
acy against the Jehovah’s Wit-
nesses, the high-handed cancella-
tion of Ronearelli’s license, arrest
of trade union leaders like Row-
ley, Parent, Beaucage and Sau-
ras, the persecution of Henri
Gagnon, leader of the squatters,
and attempts to prevent the LPP

from holding peaceful public
meetings.

“Only a bill of rights, codify-
ing the rights of Quebec Citi-
zens to free speech, press, as-
sembly and religion can guaran-
tee an end to the dictatorial,

undemocratic methods being
employed by Duplessis,” the
LPP leader stated. He added

that this bill of rights ought to
include a measure to outlaw

the propagation or practice of
racial or religious discrimina-

tion.

News on Burma
strike censored

RANGOON — British controlled
Rangoon was in the hands of la-

bor last Sept. 23 when all govern—
ment clerks, police, railwaymen
and postmen walked out in a
general strike along with work-
ers in basic industry—oil, steel
and dockyards. Slight concessions
were won in the workers’ demand
for a minimum wage of $10 a
month and a cost of living al-
lowance of $26 a month while in-
lation lasts. News was not pre-
viously reported abroad because
of censorship.

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in the prize drawing which high-

LPP annual bazaar sets
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