The Axe, 21 juillet 1922, vendredi 21 juillet 1922

[" prove what was said was defa- >\" The \u2018ind nt \u2018exclamation ] Thane = oberts, Syeatad a \"mitten ur 8, a, ,Ç CRITICAL | PLAIN COMMENT SPEARING WITHOUT CONCERNING FEAR OR i PUBLIC FAVOR.A JOURNAL OF CTION AGAINST REACTION QUESTIONS.EDITED BY JOHN H.ROBERTS ; \u201cLAY THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE\" Ne.38 MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JULY 2st, 1023 Annual subscription Two dollars.Price: Senter SAYS BROKERS STOLE MILLION Montreal Stockbroker, witness for Prosecution, states under oath that Logan and Bryan, New-York Brokerage house, robbed his firm, of over One Million Dollars.5 BRUNSON ONLY \\ ALBAN GERMAIN, K., WHEN EDITOR REMAINS UNFAGED BY HIS ACCUSER Defence Counsel moves for Quashing of Indictment on Grounds that ne proef of Libel is furnished! by Logan and Bryan.In addressing the Court at the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr.Alban Germain, K.C., Counsel for the Editor of THE AXE, asked for the quashing of the indictment on the ground that no evidence had been adduced in support of the allegation that what Mr.Roberts, the accused, had written in THE AXE was libellous \u201cThere have been no witnesses brought forward,\u201d he said, \u201cto matory.Where is the complainant ?\u201d Counsel asked, \u201cis he but a myth?Why was he not put in the box?If no such evidence is given the public will say that the procedure followed was allowed in order to allow Logan and Bryan to come here and establish in Canada a virginity they no longer possess, of Which I can find no trace.There not being any such witnesses their guilt might be presumed.We od the trial will go on and we are veady to face the music.\u201d JOHN HE SAYS \u201cTHTS ALE When Norris P.Bryant \u2018made his\u201d startling statement under oath in our libel case to _the effect that Logan and Bryan had robbed the firm of Bryant, Izard and Co.of over one million dollars, Peter Ber- .covitch, K.C feet and heatedly exclaimed, | \u2018v\u201cThat is merely' to make cheap | - or some in THE AXE,\u201d \u201cThat's a lie,\u201d shouted John H.Roberts, the accused editor.{truth but was practically alone C., jumped to his { MYTH?\" ASKS A GOOD CASE My lawyer said the case I had.Was strong\u2014it now ap- He must have meant \u2018twas durable.Its lasted many years.BY CONFRERE FOR LAWYER SCATHED TAGTIGS HE USED C.H Cahan, KC, Attempts to pere se \u201cConversation to give] nasty twist to Bryan\u2019s Evidence \u2014 Scored by Witness and Attorney.\u201cBryant Isard, by whom 1 was employed, were cor respondents of Logan and Bryan, and that firm was robbed of over one million Which Montreal Bank was it that had lengthy conferences with-two New York lawyers regarding THE AXE| about a month ago?fe Who was the Montreal mul- ti-millionaire who lately declared at a dinner party that |THE.AXE not only told the among Canadian papers in telling it?E ne Hé OS And who was the Bank President at the same function who damned THE- AXE but said he had to buy it to see if} 1 he was going the axe?Why has \u201che blonde young man who drove a Paige Roadster about town sold his car?ir ko À | Did the young lady with red hair have anything.to.do with t?Why can Continent?Is it all part of a conapira- to reduce Wages?| Words to that effect ?facturer?this ie of bor |.\u201c0 publiés he has already paid|troubles on the: North sr tures new\u201d?Bryan!\u201d The startling statement snapped out by Norris P.Bryant, a Montreal stockbroker, created a sensation in the croweded courtroom.The judge ruled out the latter part of the witness\u2019 anwser but later allowed a similar statement to pass.: At the close of the day John dollars, by Logan and \u2014 merchant who lately turned, his son out of house and home?ds sk Has he forgotten the old adage that \u201cboys will be boys \u2018?\u2018 NH Mn What fool ided possessed him to go around to the homes of his son's chums and tell their parents that said sons were young degenerates, or se oT ok Who is the downtown business man who has two numbers for his automobile, one for general use and one for occasions when it is standing outside his sweetie\u2019s apartment house?K # + : Who is the Lady of the Lake Shore who carries on a somewhat more than mild flirtation with a Montreal manu- x wo 0 Is it not time the Montreal fellow his trunks and sought \u201cfresh fields and pas- \u201cx Who was the fellow who (continued on page 4) year old girl in Montreal, then deserted her to marry another girl somewhat prominent in social circles in this city?rN Does he forget that the code amongst his fellow-officers during the war was to play the game with the girl and not desërt her when trouble comes?3 5% À Does he realise that this jchild wife in name only has been unfitted \u2018for future motherhood by'reason of the \u2018illegal operations to which she submitted at his demand?OH x If the least reparation he could make would not be to see that this girl is provided for in some way and not left to be a burden on the parents who have so far nobly stood by her?Monk Is Murray Bay the morally 'salubrious place it has always been pictured as being?.de MW If THE AXE sent its \u201cspecial commissioner\u201d down as has been requested would not Who is the Grais Strset ruined the life of & seventeen the story create interest \u2018 In certain dirciet os?COVERNMENT RAILWAYS AND THE CPR JOIN FORGES TO REDUCE WORKERS PAY AND IMPOSE DEGRADING CONDITIONS Railmen Resist attempt to tempt to impoverish them - ask for Conciliation Board.It appears as if Canada may be flung into the turmoil and trouble of nation-wide railway strikes.The whole af the railway compe- nies of the Dominion, including the Government-owned lines, acting through their association (who said \u201ctrust\u201d?) have served notice of reductions of wages and changed conditions of labor upon the men.The men with that patience and statesmanship which is a charae- teristic of the organised laber movement (we sometimes think it too patient) have asked for a conciliation board.This! must be granted and the decreases withheld from becoming effective, if there 2 | is anything like fair play for labor What The Man In The Street Wants To Know | in this country, which we begin te doubt.Ît looks to us as if the powers of predatory wealth that be are doing their best to goad the workers of Canada into sheer Bolshevism.Compare the wages of the average railway worker with the sa lary of Mr.Howard Kelley, of the Grand Trunk Railway which is $52,000 per year.just about $48 (continued on page 2) COURT OPENSAT + TEN OCLOCK In accordance with the suggestion of Judge Amédée Monet, we take pleasure in announcing that \u2018the Police Court opens at ten o'clock, sharp, évery morning, except Sunday.All persons charged with more or less serious crimes, such as libelling stockbroke™ | hour mentioned.If- anybody should find ft difficult to get up at\u2019 early an hour, it- can be for Dan\u2019 Sullivan to \u2018cpl!\u2019 them\u2019 up.or perhaps a judge may be pae- suaded to hear the case in the prisoner's office to save.the latter's.time and | health, the Courts, being | so.dnmmatlary.\u2018Anyhow, the Overt © prt ar ie «dp giv J rr.PRB £m Trae pa pee should be on hand promptly at the | = opens at re 3 SF eta yg fe te ee ho Wood a op aie Ut ns die =, 5 ; wr AEH i wren,» mûse.mn 28 ro # CE.00e.He Page 2 Why ! Publish The Axe It is :.mueing at times, and somewhat pitiful as well to note the concern that many good people feel about THE AXE.Thig past week I had separate conversations with two old friends of mine.Both are Cabinet Ministers; one of the Federal Government, the other at Quebec.Each is interested in me personally, I know, and wishes me well.Their views as expressed to me are typical of those of many people.One took me to ask for my articles on the Ogilvie-Martin case, holding the viewpoint that the publication of them would not be for the best welfare of many who might read them, especially young people.Now I can fully appreciate and sympathise with my honorable friend\u2019s viewpoint (you can see that there are some remnants of snobbery left in me by my evident relish in talking about my highly-placed friends.) But I have given very careful thought to what he said to me on the matter.And what he said has not changed my viewpoint.The young people who may read my little paper are probably reading \u201cstuff\u201d in the American magazines, for instance, compared with which the stories in THE AXE about Shirley Ogilvie are Sunday School literature.I admit it wag not pleasant reading.But a tremendous wrong had been done to a girl by a man in high position, the greatest wrong a man could do.And to the wrong done was added humiliation, as public as a court record could make it, and the vulgar branding with a foul name .To crown all, the man who had taken his pleasure at the expense of a woman\u2019s honor was mean and contemptible enough to take legal means to secure the return of his presents from the gir] he had ruined.My sober judgment, on reflection, is that to defend the wronged woman and to pillory \u201cthe man who wanted his money back\u201d, is to do something that carries one of Life\u2019s most significant lessons for young people, teaching the essential truth that man must be woman's protector not her betrayer and that when a man has stained his soul and a woman\u2019s in sin, he must pay the price equally with her, at least, and that any attempt on his part to brand her with a shameful epithet while he returns to his former honor and glory in Society, will not be tolerated in the better day that\u2019s dawning.To write what I wrote of Shirley Ogilvie in the white heat of a flaming enthusiasm, in burning indignation at a man\u2019s foul deed, the whole surcharged with a passionate fervour in the cause of justice, will never hurt the mind or morals of the youngest of my readers My other friend also mentioned the Ogilvie case (it shows how deeply THE AXE'S plain speech in that matter has sunk into the minds of men) But he looked at the question from a different angle again.\u201cWhere are you going with your paper?\u2019 he asked, \u201cwhere are you going?\u2019 His fears, it turned out, were occasioned by THE AXE'S strong stand against the fuct of one law for the rich and another for the poor.\u201cIt is a terrible thing\u201d he said, \u201cto teach the people that the rich can get justice in the Courts but the poor cannot; that our judiciary is not impartial\u201d.For reply I pointed out three recent cases, mentioning the names in two of the instances cited.The other case was that of a judge who for five years has had lunch every day with a lawyer friend and who, when the latter had a case before the judge in question, not a case in which he was merely the attorney but one in which he was directly involved, hundreds of thousands of dollars being at stake, would barely listen to the opposing side and gave judgment unhesitatingly in hig friend\u2019s favor.That judge should never have sat on his friend\u2019s case, He was incapable of delivering an impartial judgment ! My friend, equally honorable but not so high as the other friend mentioned, agreed with me.(Most people do agree with me when they listen to me and hear my proofs.) Don\u2019t you see, folks, what was the matter with these two high-souled men ?They believed the truth would hurt and the fact is that truth never hurts, If it is true that the rich by reason of their riches and the special influence that wealth gives them can secure favor and consideration that the poor cannot obtain from judges and the Courts, .he sooner the people know it the better, because once they know what now they only vaguely feel \u2019 they will soon give short shrift to such an unspeakably vile system.Either they will elect their own judges or else judges who may be guilty of such conduct wil] suffer impeachment and dismissal.It will only require one lesson of the kind to right the wrong.Incidentally, in justice to the many judges cf unquestioned honor and probity let me say the venal or corrupt judge is the exception not the rule in the Province of Quebec.JOHN H.ROBERTS.THE AXE, FRIDAY, JULY 21st.luz THE CZAR ALLOWS LABELLE TO VOTE The Taschereau Cabinet has decided to take a straw vote, so to speak, to see how the wind blows.A bye-slection will be held in Labelle County and if the electors there stand by the Government and return its candidate, the Quebec Braves will try in the other ridings that are vacant just now.supreme daring! This almost almighty power is afraid to bring on all the bye-elec- tions at one time, thus absolutely ignoring the democratic principle of all elections on one day.And what is wqrse, these stalwarts of democracy think so little of the rights of democracy that they will keep the other constituencies without representation until they feel fairly confident they can return their own candidates.THANK GOD FOR LABELLE.Well, Labelle it is! Thank God for Labelle County! It gives us a chance to fight and a fighting chance to drive a nail in the coffin of the Quebec Government.Its going to be a hard fight.Mr.Perron, the Minister of Roads, will go into the county and preside over à convention at which a candidate will be selected.Of courte, following the usua] practice of the party in power, he will promise the citizens of Labelle County not the moon but good roads aplenty.The million dollars that he has had placed at his disposal out of the profits on booze he will virtually promise holus bolus.to Labelle, good roads, macadam roads, as- phaite roads, and cement roads wil] he pledge the Government to build.And lots of the people will fall for his promises.But let us suggest to the\u2019 electors of Labelle, \u2018that before they promise one vote \u2018on the basis of good roads they ses that the contracts are let and the good roads \u2018irrevocably certain.\u2018When they have this done, they can vote as they like anyhow.PATRONAGE BAIT, If the Liberal Government elects its candidate in Labelle, there will be great rejoicing amongst Tas- :chereau and his friends.They will rclaim it as a vote of confidence.But bye-elections in this province jusually go with the Government.The patronage bait is too attractive.Its a general election that will tell the tale.And the longer the Government delay their appeal to the electors the more humifiat- ing their defeat will be.To all who want to see the end of the Taschereau tyranny we say, do not get.discouraged.over delayed vie- tory.The people of the province are sick at heart of the autocratic methods of the party in power.Over-taxation, interference With local autonomy, the immorality of plunging the whole province into partnership in.the booze business, the determined enmity to the labor organisations, the scandals of colonization, and all the other crimes of the oligarchy which rules an ruins will meet their just desert.All in good time.\u201cOUR IMMORTAL DEAD\u201d We cannot pass by the burial of the victims of the Herrin occurrence without calling attention to the fine and sympathetic treatment evidenced by the coal com- \u2018pany in rendering homage to the deceased.Press despatches tell us that the strike breakers and gunmen\u201d found a last resting place in the potter's field.That was the measure of appreciation expressed by the coal mine; owners for the service rendered by the deluded pawns who had come into the field to break down the working and living conditions of ithe -striking miners.| A potter\u2019s field grave, a num- i What inestimable courage! What| RES OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : TURN THE RASCALS OUT.RAILWAY WORKERS FIGHT REDUCTION (continued from page 1) 500 too much, and you will see why the workers on the railways rightly resent this attempt to make the railways into sweat shops and themselves into Wage-slaves.We have not the slightest sympathy with the organised attempts now in progress in Canada to reduce wages.That the word has gone out from the financial masters of Canada to reduce wages thers can be no doubt.But in our judgment the fools of high finance are doing the crasiest.thing for themselves they could possibly do.Canada is only really prosperous when wages are high.The higher the standard of living, the more the common people have to spend, the larger the wage fund, the greater is the buying power of everybody.Low wages means skimpy buying, starved cupboards, and slender comforts.If a worker receives barely sufficient to buy food for his family, how can he rent a decent house, keep his family properly clad, and give them the other reasonable necessities of Tife?He simply cannot do it.Consequently, every storekeeper -suffers, the butcher, the baker, the cabinet maker, the clothier, the shoe dealer, the hatter, the whole crowd of them.Amusement enterprises lack patronage.Railway receipts drop.Every trade oP business catering to the wants and needs of the common people, who constitute ninety-five per cent of our population, suffers.This week\u2019s wages are next week's store-receipts.When the people are pinched in their pay envelopes they are pinched in their bellies.And the great body of people who live by catering to the needs of the workers suffer with them, because when the workers are earning low wages they cannot live at the rate of high wages.So it is that to all of us, with the exception of the financial magnates who own our banks and trust companies, our railways, and the basic industries of Canada, reduced wages for the workers of Canada mean a general levelling down of prosperity.That is one reason why THE AXE is with the workers all the time and every time.The workers of Canada produce the wealth of Canada.They are entitled to the biggest share of that wealth.To pay them low wages is to make them discontented, starved in body, soul and spirit, and ready to follow the lure of Bolshevism, beside lowering the level of national prosperity.We therefore take our stand with the railway workers, urge them to resist every attempt to lower their wages, using every legal means {within their power to protect themselves from this latest dastardly attempt to enslave them atill more in the chains of their would-be- masters, And we ask all those who live by catering to the workers, whose prosperity depends upon working-class prosperity, to realise that their interests and those \u2018of the workers are identical and \u2018not contradictory.As a last word, we advise the Federal Government that it had better go slow in re- CP EEE CT bered headstone and then.forgetfulness by those who were served \u2014that is the portion of those who lend themselves to the exploiters in the doing of the murderous work whieh must needs be done in order that the workers may be \u2018(kept in subjection.\u2014 From the Seattle Union Record, CIVIC EMPLOVES DEMAND RIGHTS It looks very much as i2° the members of Executive Committee of the City of Montreal, swollen with an exaggerated sense of their own \u2018importance, and making themselves look excruciatingly funny by their assumption of à dignity they do not possess, will plunge the city into one of the worst strikes it has ever suffered, The men be- love they have grievances.They have done the honest, manly, and respectful thing of ventilating their grievances and making their demands known before the governing body of the city.The policemen and firemen went so far as to seek that arbitration which is provided for in the laws of the Province of Quebec.The Executive Committee, hoggver, while pretending to agree to the arbitration, double - crossed their employees and took an injunction to prevent the board of arbitration meeting.This was after they had nominated their own representative on the said board.As a consequence the differénces between the policemen and firemen and the City can not be arbitrated upon until the Fall, In the meantime, these loyal and faithful servants of the city, men who daily risk their lives for the protection of their fel.low-citisens, are rankling under a sense of injustice, are working for wages which they feel are far too low, and are denied the elementary right of human beings in every British country of agitating for their rights.Sergeant Bouchard, the representative of the policemen and firemen on the Trades and Labor Council, is under suspension for saying something to his fellow.unionists that his superiors (Heaven, save the mark!) don\u2019t like because probably it was only toe true, SERVE NOTICE ON CITY.Now the Federation of Municipal employees, in mass meeting assembled, has served notice on the city that théy want consideration to be given to their reasonable requests anl the group of jackasses parading in the skins of lions, that we call the Eexcutive Committee, the city and its inhabitants, so infatuated with the pomp of power that the accident of civic politics has thrust upon them, and s0 incapable of considering civic politics apart from the effect they will have upon their own political fortunes, that they are\u2019 prepared to plunge the City of Montreal into all the horrors and, it may be, tragedies of a colossal civic strike, tying up every- municipal service, rather than meet the city's employees in conference and discuss the grievances their servants claim to suffer.Could madness go further ?True it iy that \u201cWhom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.\u201d Even Médéric Martin, from whom we look for better things, talks about calling out the militia.~~ What folly] What rot! OUR GALLANT LEADERS.Alderman Brodeur, riding on a white horse along St.Catherine Street, waviñg a tin sword calling will use the flat of his sword upon them.Turcot as Chief of Staff of Montreal's merry, mad - militia ! Desroches, he could use his massive intellect and unapproachable intelligence as head of the Intelligence (continued on page 3) A EE ES ducing the wages of its railway em- \u2018 ployeeg or else, it may not fare so well at the polls néxt time.è C.P.R., as a dividend-producing: institution may cynically defy \u2018pub-\" lic opinion and play the part of wage-cutter; but the \u201cGovernment are so blind to the best interests of on the inhabitants to behave themselves like good children of else he must be the model.employer or.â later pay the cost of its botrayal - ; of thesworkers.hee en % \u20ac TASCHEREAU MOBILISES SPIE THE AXE, FRIDAY, JULY 21st.1934 GOVERNMENT OFFERS HUGE REWARDS TO CITIZENS WHO INFORM ON FRIENDS \u201cInformers names will be kept secret.You needn\u2019t appear in Court\u201d, declares dastardly Government offer.- STAR CHAMBER METHODS Secret Document reveals Government\u2019 plans to manufacture Stoolpigeon\u2019s in Quebec Province The Taschereau Government seems likely go down to posterity as the Government which made one half of the inhabitants of Quebec drunkards and the other half stool-pigeons.They have recently declared rofit of nearly five million de lars on Government booze and the Provincial Treasurer says he expects the profits to increase and the sales to groater.Logical deduction; ncreased drunkenness.That settles the point about the drunkard-making character of Taschereau and Co.Regarding the creation of stool-pigeons, we reproduce a document which has come into our hands which shows how these high- minded \u201cgentlemen\u201d who guide the destinies of the Province of Quebec are seeking to convert the other half of us into spotters and stool-pigeons, brib- _ ing neighbour to spy upon neighbour, and friend upon friend, until there will not be those sterling qualities that have hitherto marked the people of Quebec, the neighbourliness, the trust and confidence in each other, and the good fellowship the lack of which is death.Think of it.\u201cInformers can rest assured that their identity shall not be divulged and that they will not be re- be| quired to appear as witnesses in the Courts\u201d.A great army of spies, this is what Taschereau is creating, made such by the offer of huge bribes.$2, 520.00 for spying and informing on your neighbour.Good Heavens, what an unspeakable crime this is of which the Quebec Government is guilty.Let our readers ponder the document for themselves and at the polls turn out the gang which wants to trade upon the work of spies and stool-pigeons and turn Quebec into a breeding ground of deceit, depravity, and betrayal, The document a trace left in the people of follows: THE QUEBEC LIQUOR COMMISSION The_figures shown in the following columns represent the amounts \u2018which will be paid to Revenue Collectors and persons who will de mounce to the Quebee Liquor Commission, liquor either held or sold «contrary to law, which shall be seiz- od and confiscated.This tariff will remain in force until further mo- tiée.7 Information can be conveyed to - Brigadier-General E.de B.Panst, 8 East Notre-Dame Street, Mont- .Up to and not exceeding \u2026 .ve unes $ 1000 and upwards, not exceeding - 1250 and upwards, not exceeding 1500 and upwards, not exceeding 1750 and upwards, not exceeding 2000 and upwards, not exceeding $250 and upwands, not exceeding 2800 and upwards, not exceeding : 2750 and upwards, not exceeding \"* 8000 and upwards, not exceeding - 8250 and upwards, not exceeding - 8600 and upwards, not exceading \u2026 8750 and upwards, not exceeding © 4000 and upwards, not exceeding «+ 4500 and upwards, not exceeding .5000 añd upwards, not exceeding §500 and upwards, not exceeding 6000 and upwards, not exceeding \u201c 6500 and upwards, not exceeding 7000.and upwards, not exceeding ; -: 7500 and upwards, not exceeding \u20188000 and upwards, not exceeding 8500 and upwards, not exceeding 9000 and upwards, not exceeding 9500 and upwards, not exceeding 10000 and upwards, not exceeding 11000 and \u2018upwards, not exceeding 12000 and upwards, not exceeding 18000 and upwards, not exceeding 14000 and upwards, not exceeding \u201c \u201846000 and upwards, not exceeding\u2019 +.18000 and upwards, nat exceeding i.17000 and upwards, not exceeding 2, 18000 and upwards, not exceeding =.19000 and upwards, not excesding ©.$0080 and upwards, pot exceading oy 1 and upwards, not excesiing Over 49009 .ree oo aap ar aioe real, either personally or by mail.Informers can rest assured that thelr identity shall not be divulged, and that they\u2018 will not be required to appear as witnesses in the Courts.The payment of the moneys shall be made directly by the Commission separately to the informer and to the collector after judgment has been rendered; all costs incurred in the prosecution of the accused shall first be deducted .from the value of the goods confiscated.Collector : Informer $1000 5% 20 1260 $58.75 , $ 241.25 1500 67.50 282.50 1750 76.25 323.76 2000 85.00 .865.00 2250 98.75 406.25 - 2500 102.50 447.50 2750 111,25 488.75 3000 12000 .\u2018 526.00 8250 126.25 561.25 3500 182.50 597.59; .8760 © 138.98 623.75) 4000 145.00 © \u2014 658.00 4300 \"15750 722.50 5000 170.00 - 780.00 5500 182.50 847.50) - 6000 =.19500 905.00 6500 \u2014 20756 = 26750 7000 \u2018 ».220.40 1080.09, .1500 230.00 \u201d 1070.00 8000 \u2018 24000 = 111000 -8500 250.00 1150.60 9000 260.00 1160.00 9500 270.00 1230.00 10000 20000 1279.00 11000 .300.60 - 1250.00 120 320.00 1439.00 13000 340.00 1510.00 14000 \u2018 360.00 1590.00 15000 830.00 1870.00}! 16000 890.00 .\u20181710.00 17060 © DOS + 175000 18000 - .41006\u2018'.1790.60 19000 42000 1830.00 20000 430.00 1870.00 80000 \u201888040 2276.00 40000 .86200 2030.00 in court.It read: OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : WE WANT A FIVE CENT CAR FARE, CIVIC EMPLOYES DEMAND RIGHTS (continued from page 2) Department, while Bédard might be placed in command of the (hot) Air Force.Tom O'Connell is too good a sport to be considered a possibility in .the race for military honors, but being Irish there's no telling how a fight will appeal to him.We look to the sober sense of Alderman O'Connell to save the others from making fools of themselves.Naturally, some of our leading newspapers are outspoken against the men.Let the men be unafraid.These newspapers are always against the workers.They get their circulation, and consequent buge advertising revenues, from the workers of Montreal, but they\u2019 are on the side of the exploiters 21 the workers every time the latter are fighting for their rights.The men have legitimate grievances.All they need to do is to stand firm for their rights and not hesitate to take strong and daring action in fighting for justice.\u2018They have rights who dare maintain them\", The Executive Committee will have to face their electors by-and- by.The working people of this city are a majority of iis inhabit ants.- None of us with to see our ci employees underpaid or overworked and we most assuredly do not approve of \u2018the never-ending audacity of the elected persons\u2019 we know as the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal.Loyalty to each other, trust in their leaders, frankness and wisdom in placing their case before the public, and determination to win, will being victory.OUR POLITICAL PLATFORM : HOME RULE FOR MONTREAL.HUBBY WALKED IN SLEEP There are many high and mighty people who are fond of moralising on the immoralities of the poor.But far better for these Society Pecksniffs if they looked at home and concerned themselves with the vices of their own class instead of deploring the lack of virtue in what they disdainfully term \u201cthe lower classes\u201d.We illustrated our thoughts on this topic a few weeks ago in our article entitled.\u201cIs Montreal Society rotten?\u201d to which question we returned an emphatic \u201cyes\u201d Incidentally we have heard that one lady member of Montreal High Society has stated she will take action against THE AXE for libel after Logan and Bryans case is finished with.Well, well, its all in the day\u2019s work.Now to give added emphasis to the article mentioned comes à % | little lively story of an aristocratic.divorce case in England It has all the elements that characterise the people we discussed in our Montreal Society article; contempt for the decencies and proprieties; the unmasculinity of the man and the over-fimininity of the \u2018woman; and the usual trim- 1mings, dancers, Dagos and depravity.The case in question is one in which John Hugo Russell, heir to Lord Ampthill secks release from his wife.He admitted in evidence that he masqueraded as à WOman and said that he agreed with his wife never to consummate their marriage.Russell said she explained the birth of their child saying that he walked in his sleep, which, he averred, was a habit.he did not possess.A letter from Mrs.Russell to her husband, written in Switzerland in 1920, was read ARE \u201cYour wife is 10, happy, almost to bursting.You will be furiously jealous, but 1 can\u2019t p it.Your wife has a vast me 04 pi n'a Æ osre {with her.\u2018There are Greeks, slim and silky Argentines, and a professional damcer with whom I tango nightly.I Rave four young men who are priceless and so naughty.So is your wife.\u201cI love dearly my Dago young man, whose hair is beautifully marcelled and whose clothes fit him like a glove.He has lovely hands.\u201d Russel admitted having an entire trousseau for dressing like a woman and visiting at a woman's flat, posing as her relative.Gilbert Bradley is the co-re- spondent named by Russell, who testified he had carried a day dress to his wife when she had stayed over night at Bradley\u2019s flat.\u201cI found my wife still abed,\u201d he testified, \u201cbut Bradley was up and Jooked as though he had spent a cold night.\u201d Russel also mentioned Lionel Crosg as a co-respondent, because, be said, his wife had made two trips to Paris with Cross.When Russell objected she replied, he said: Now, isn't that a pretty story?Not of Griffintown, Point St-Charles, or the East End of Montreal.No, the people there are too decent for that kind of thing.But of 4 part of Britain's aristocracy, the people that Montreal's High Society with a big 8 imitates and emulates.That's why we publish the story.We \u2018want to destroy the fetish of Society worship, so powerful by in Montreal.We're sick of the righteous airs and attitudes of the Knights and their Lalies, and all the hangers-on who ape their manners and condone their morals, o- lack of \u2018tem.And we are going to ruh {the lesson in at every oppor-i {tunity until we get a cleaner at mraphore in Mwatreal When we get the higher moral tone in Society circles, we can hope to clean up the.Red Light Distris, not before Anyhow, \u201cWhy, Lionel\u2019s a mere boy.\u201d St.James Street M HOW THE SUCKERS WERE FLEECE \u201cThey were the prototype at that time of the sort of brokers that went broke this year by the dosen.The general principles and methods were the same, though the particular devices for fleecing the public differed somewhat, certain details having been changed when the old tricks became too well known.These people used to send out tips to buy or sel! a certain stock\u2014- hundreds of telegrams advising the instant purchase of a certain stock and hundreds recommending other customers to sell the same stock, on the old racing-tipster plan.Then orders to buy and sell would The firm would buy and come in.sell, say, a thousand of that stock through a reputable Stock Exchange firm and get a regular report on it.This report they would show to any doubting Thomas who was impolite enough to speak about bucketing customers\u2019 orders, \u201cThey also used to form discretionary pools in the office and as a great favor allowed their customers to authorize them, in writing, to trade with the customer's money and in the customer's name, as they in their judgment deemed best.That way the most cantankerous customer had no legal redress when his money disappeared.They'd bull a stock, on paper, and put the customers in and then they'd execute oné of the ald- fathioned bucket-shop drives and wipe out hundreds of shoestring margins.They did not spare anyone, women, school-teachers and [old men being their best bet.\u201d EDWIN LEFEBVRBE, In Saturday Evening Post.THE AMYOT REPORT Now that we are face to face with a miniature General Election, no less than six bye- elections being just ahead of us, it would be a fitting time for the Taschereau Government to publish the Amyot Report on eon- ditions in the Quebec Jail.This they have promised Mr.Arthur Sauve would be done but so far the Governnient has not mustered up courage to give it to the world.The fact is that there was such a rotten state of things discovered existing at the Quebec Jail that; the Government would rather lose the whole of the coming six.bye-elections than let the public know the truth.THE AXE hag already pulled aside the curtain a little just a little and the whole Cabinet had eto- mach cramps as a result.When if ever the Amyot Report finds a place in our columns the members of the Government will have to be ôperated on for appendicits.THE AXE'S \u2018PHONE NUMBER, MAIN 7934 \u2014\" ADDRESS: 20 ST.JAMES 81, MONTREAL res The Axe is published by John H.and by The Axe Publishing Ca, » \u2014 -y WT c FN vas SAL as A, es 1 4 an Bee THE AXE, FRIDAY, JULY 21st, 1922 LOGIN AND BRANSTOLEMILON 55556552 NEUF SUNENDTANE CHEE RTL NDSUEO 9 K.C., Counsel for Logan and: \u2018Bryan.in the Libel proceed-! ) ings on Wednesday last.There's | | to sec John HI.Roberts While the Taschereau Gov LIQUOR MONOPOLY \u2018a lot of people who would like Local Broker, whose Firm was formerly Logan Montreal but he's here to stay.ernment is congratulating.it leave and Bryan's Correspondent, gives Sensation.| Mo\" eeL being bis home: feel, and seeking applause al Evidence Mr.Taschereau Makes \u2018huge profit of nearly five mil- .: Another of his Habitlions dollars it has made on the sale of liquor it may be well.Page 4 BE SIDELIGHTS ON (continued from pagg 1) 4 Te tue = 5 minal libel laid by Logan and Bryan, brokers, of New York, The commital brings to ita close another chapter of THE AXE\u2019s fight against this Wall Street financial house, a fight which has created as keen interest in the financial district of Los Angeles as it has on St.James Street, Montreal.C.H.CAHAN, K.C., CRITICISED.The actions of C, H.Cahan, K.C., counsel for the prose- NOT A BROKER Judge Enright, in the Enquête Court, a little wordy warfare took place between Mossrs.Bercovitch, of the prosecution and Alban Germain, K.C., for the defence.\u201c] cannot continue on Thursday,\u201d said Mr.Germain, \u2018as 1 shall be out of the city.| have been at the bar for twen- ty-five years without rest and I need a little holiday.\u201d Mr.Bercovitch: \u2014 * When will you be back?\" Mr.Germain: \u2014 \u2018On Monmain, K.C., Mr.Roberts\u2019 Counsel, asked Norris P.Bryant \u2018about an interview the latter \"had with C.H.Cahan, X.C., Logan and Bryan's Counsel, and Bryant repliel that he ; would rather not speak about that interview as he had been given to understand that the interview was of a private character and nothing was to be said about what took place there, Mr.Germain at once said, \u201cVery well, then, if the himself three fingers of Scotch Perhaps if there were others in the party they had two or three drinks.With most fel lows it stopped there.But now, what happens?Men cannot get a drink of spirits in a hotel or restaurant.So they buy a bottle, take it to their office, or their homes, or carry it in their automobile and drink until it has gone.We know whereof we speak when we say that the amount of spi- H.Roberts, Editor of THE ARE a y Judge|| , AL the chore of Tumsders | Co Honor nae.oreatoa.Tt used : y 5 i .» has created.se Enright on the charge of cri- Ben\u201d ol the Loman snd | A noticeable feature of the to be that a man would go into! Hon.L.A.Taschereau 3 case was when Mr.Alban Ger-| a restaurant or hotel and buy! Premier of Quebec Dear Czar: You are reported as having said that Mr.Sauve is the only person in the Province of Quebec who is dissatisfied with the Quebec Liquor Commission When you say that, you know that you do not speak the truth.There are thousands of us, just how many thousands you are going to find out for yourself when your bogus government faces the province at the polls.Mrcuticn, resulted in scathing des Si enterview at vate! bit re an Len criticism from Mr.Alban Ger-|] day night.\u201d nterview was of a private rits consumed to-day in the of- ; in hi main, K.C., for the attorney] Mr.Bercovitch: \u2014 * That's character I will not ask you fices of Montreal is simply Sauve is not.love Ju bis gis not a very long holiday.\u201d any questions about it.\u201d In con-| staggering in its immensity.ner \u2018a the Liquor ara Editor.Cahan in his examination of Bryant had used as the basis for his examination a private conversation which took place recently between himself (Cahan) and Bryant.Mr.Germain: \u2014 \u201cNo | cannot afford long holidays.| am not a broker.\u201d Headings of the now famous Lo- Bryant objected to Cahan's|gan and Bryan articles were read methods, \u201cI thought you were|to witness, and titters of merri- tradistinction to this incident may be placed another feature of the trial.C.H.Cahan, K.C., asked Norris P.Bryant as to certain statements the latter had made to Cahan during an interview which the latter sought with Bryant, implying Drunkenness is to be seen in offices to-day that was never seen in the old days before Government Control.We know splendid fellows who are simply going to pieces through this practice of keeping a bottle of Scotch in the office to treat of the present government at Quebec.The people are becoming more and more dis gusted with your crowd of pettifogging pikers every day you stay in office.You are through, Mr.Tascherau.Better take that job on the Bench a man who would play the|ment were heard as counsel asked: : ' ame,\u201d he said.\u201cI see, now,| \u201cWill you identif ¢| that Bryant had asked for|their friends and customers) 1.n that I was taken.\u201d \"| THE AXE of peut et on che money fsr himself and a trip| With.An employer of labor has while you still have the chance.complained to us of trouble Never yours This was followed by burning criticism of Cahan'\u2019s actions by Alban Germain, K.C., who decried his confrere's actions as unethical.As a result Cahan endeavoured to clean his slate by offering to take the witness stand himself.His evidence was not heard.THE ADVERTISING CONTRACT.Efforts were made throughout the proceedings by the prosecution to show that there had b:en collusion between Norris P.Bryant and the Editor of THE AXE in the preparation of the series of articles referring to the Logan and Bryan concern, They attempted to show that an advertising contract given to the newspaper by Bryant Bros.Limited, Norrig P.Bryant's company, was given for the purpose not of advertising Bryant Brothers, Ltd, but for \u201cadvertising Lofront page of which appears an article headed \u201c Logan and Bryan's Suicide Club Has Canadian Member?\u201d HEADINGS OF ARTICLES.Other articles headed \"Logan and Bryan get into trouble az result of theft from public pocketbook\u2019; \u201cStrange Story of Logan and Bryan Double X Experts.Further exposures of the Swashbucklers A Sad case in Regina.\u201d \u201cConspiracy Charge against Logan and Bryan, wire kings.Buckety Ben and his pals may face courts for attempt to ruin broker's business.\u201d \u201cBuckety Ben Bryan admits truth of charges made.King of the Confidence Men gumshoes into Montreal.A Fight to the Finish.\u201d \u201cBuckety Ben starts to make restitution to Logan and Bryan victims.Insults Montreal citizens by donating $1,000 of Major Bishop's money to hospital fund.\u201d (The heading referring to the hospital fund donation in par- around the world for the accused Editor and his wife in order to stop the publication of the attacks on Logan and Bryan.To this Bryant replied, \u201cI NEVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT, AND I AM SURPRISED AT YOU SAYING THAT I DID.WHEN I WAS INTRODUCED TO YOU I THOUGHT YOU WERE A MAN THAT WOULD PLAY THE GAME, BUT NOW I SEE THAT 1 AM MISTAKEN.\u201d At the end of the case the prosecution was asked if there were any more witnesses to be heard, to which Lawyer Cahan replied, \u201cNo, unless, 1 go into the witness box myself.Certain statemnts have made here to-day reflecting upon my professional honor and if the Court thinks it advisable I will took no action in the matter! and Mr.Cahan did not go into! with his workers on this account, saying that insteaa of getting one or two drinks on pay night, they call and take a bottle away with them and never stop drinking until the hottle is emptied.This employer said he has had to get one employee\u2019s wife to come for the man\u2019s wages, because the Lcttle habit was e:ting coo big = hole into the weekly pay check, The growing danger from automobiles may also be credited to this bottle habit.Motorists who drink, instead of calling somewhere for a drink, take a bottle in the car and drink en route and while alcohol \u2018may be a good propel ling force it is in its wrong place inside a chauffeur, inducing carelessness, recklessness, and disregard for human life.go into the box.\u201d The Court A RED HOT PROTEST.This is not a temperance ser- THE AXE A NEWFOUNDLAND AXE Recently we had a visit at THE AXE office from Arthur English, Editor and Proprietor of \u201cPublic Opinion\u201d which is published at St.John\u2019s, Nfld Mr.English might well call his paper THE AXE because he is doing a similar work with it to that we are doing here.Perhaps he writes a little more politely than we do but may be he'll grow out of that.But there\u2019s no mustaking what Mr.English means and we fully expect he gets under the skin of many of the stuff.There are \u201clittle tin Gods\u201d in Newfoundland as well as in Canada; politicians who are pompous and politici- Ba wore under oath ticular pred and interested the witness box.mon.It is a red hot protest|ans who are crooks; states- that it was a bona fide con-|remove Logan and Bryan's wire |e again something that is mak-|men who are fools and fools tract between his firm and|from Bank of Montreal here.MUST WE Hi AND ing for disaster.The bottle ha-| who are statesmen 't does good to prick the bubble o eir THE AXE; that it was unaer- stood that it was to be used only when THE AXE should be increased in size, and that neither he, or his company had paid out one cent to THE AXE or it's publisher.Mr.Cahan appeared confused.To go into the evidence in detail would be to reprint facts which have already been given to the public.It was a Gala Day in Court, a day of sensations by no means the least of ; \u201c by him of various documents, post- pc EE amen wa made i Wena (21 200 11S, SAMOS camnable suff, But, It vas] PLATFORM ; ; 11.30, ) is P| CNE i 3 And Mr Bryant, it must bel ikl for the prose | EVidence was sorte notes that better far in the old days whol | DOWN WITH 3 4 p - tion, was not present in court.the editor personally made for drink where now he must buy THE LIQUOR j .Ed tion's witness, FORMER HEARING In the opening proceedings on Tuesday afternoon, an amused courtroom heard the first details of the case.Leslie M.Roberts, son of the editor, himself associate editor of THE AXE, was placed in the box, by Peter Bercovitch, K.C., for the prosecution and was asked to identify copies of THE AXE, in which the alleged.libels against Logn and Bryan appeared.À Buckety Ben\u2019: snake-like methods of hiding behind skirts of respectable business organisations must come to an end.\u201d \u2018Appeal to Bank of Montreal to remove Logan and Bryan's wire from the bank's premises,\u201d were read to witness by Mr.Bercovitch and were identified.After hearing the evidance of an operative of a private detective agency who served the warrant on the editor of THE AXE and the testimony of Deputy High Constable Dan Sullivan as to receipt T0 WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ! John H.Roberts went half way around the world in 1918, the *emperance people of Canada paying his expenses.He returned to Montreal in 1921, paying his own travelling expenses.Nobody has ever offered, suggested, hinted at, or promised him to pay for a trip around the world for himself EMPTYHANDED7 During the trial it transpired that although the operatives of a local detective agency had -searched the office of The Axe Publishing Company for evidence and had taken away almost everything they found in the office, files, books, let- his articles on Logan and Bryan, a contract for advertising with the firm of Bryant Brothers, which it was shown was to take effect when THE AXE is enlarged, copies of a letter and bill to a firm of stockbrokers in Los Angelesreferring to copies of THE AXE supplied (showing the continent-wide circulation of THE AXE, by the way), and a statement of 138,000 copies of THE AXE supplied to the Montreal distributor.during a bit is a curse.The Government is profiting by it at the expense of the sobr:e ÿ of the people the happiness of many homes, and the safety of the pedestrian public.It makes for the worst kind of drinking, solitary tippling.It takes the bottle into the home where.the children suffer from the bad example.It makes men drink more and spend too much on booze.The old way Was better.No one will accuse us of being friendly to booze.We hate the a bottle.Montreal should have no Government liquor stores.At most there should be about three hundred hotels and restaurants, all strictly supervised, and allowed to sell spirits.That is infinitely to be preferred to the present system which breeds and begets private drinking and leads to increased consumption of lime THE AXE and the weekly brief period, and.:copies of bulletins, self-sufficiency and ease the fatty degeneration of their swollen heads.\u201cPublic Opinion\u201d is doing this good work well in our neighbouring Dominion and we wish it well.Come again, brother and if we are out of jail we hope to see more of you.OUR POLITICAL COMMISSION ! = \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 pr ES liquor.If the Taschereau Government is so enamoured of high profits that it will not grant this much-needed reform let the electors make a change in the Government by electing those who will.We would prefer no booze but between the one, properly supervised, we are for the old one.those he attacks.Well that's present system and the old > | (to think of the price we pay.° | OUR LIBEL [ASE Fake one feature alone, the ual Stupendous Blund \"huge bottle trade that the sys-: @rs.Lee VIE x Eu \u2014 1% TS » "]