The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13

Immediately he was whisked away
90 the grey p7i1Ga.
Makes Powerful Defense
| vrn Inc opening CT cou.t Buck
s4.kea ii, SAT down, and arranged his
papers, conyersing meanwhile with
| ". i Nickic, x G., advisory counsel,
and Alosg5 Garceau, prisoner, who
tooK notes.
'lha cay is hot and the prisoners
take off their jackets. On TINS back
| is seen a label, and on his trousers:
1884. He wears a grey-lined striped.
drab-looking shirt, which accentu-
ates his prison palor.
I For two and half hours he talks,
and the court room is tense, quiet,
not a sound inteIrupting the clear
ringing voice which beats against the
court walls, against the high ceiling,
against the faces of judge and crown
prosecutor, prison guards and court
officials
Sums Up Evidence
Buck sums UP the evidence of defense
witnesses, thoroughly exposing the lies
Of guards, the insinuations Of the
crown, the frame-up of Ottawa.
He describes the events of Oct. II,
tells of how he was caught in the path
of unavoidable events, closed in by
the walls of the prison.
you cannot do anything. You can
see thing grow, and can do nothing.
You have two choices. You can be
man, or you can be a rat, and there
are plenty of them in Kingston, and
very low creatures they are. You can
be part of this world and try to
influence these youngsters, or you can
be a rat and part of the sdministra-
ton that is SURPRISING men. I did
not choose to besa rat!
Jailed foh Communism
you are in the position Of being
damned if you db and damned if you
don't! You are lin prison, and what
ever happens, you are implicated
II had been convicted of being
Communist and officer OF the Com
munist Party, and sentenced to five
years.
There is not any evidence, nor
any suggestion in the evidence, that
did anything by word, or deed, or
gesture, until Garceau appealed to
me to steady the men when the troops
were reported coming.
"a clear majority of the 800 in the
prison dome were mere boys. I wish
I could bring before you a picture of
what happened. They felt they were
tricked." He is referring to when
Warden Smith was asked to phone
Ottawa regarding the demands, and
instear phoned for the troops.
VIII Continue Fight
He deals with the evidence of Guard
Gilbey. who swore that he saw a gang
Of men beating up another prisoner
as result of Bucks speech. Defense
evidence proved indisputably that it
was 'grudge fight" between two
men, not in any way connected with
the speech, and not occurring after
the speech. He admits he did not
recognize anyone there He says he
inquired al the keepers office-he
doesn't know when he doesn't know
of whom! Is this evidence?"
st may say frankly, much as want
to be acquitted want even more to
be cleared of some Of the implications
made, of the dime novel sensational
ism, of the charges of blaczguardism
and thuggery
Communists do not believe in pris-
on riots, nor in fomenting them That
is not our aim in life. We want
better society. We 90 not want big
ger and better pens, but smaller, and
II Doseible fewer. rens "
Tim Buck sits down. He turns
around and smiles to A. E, Smith and
myself, representatives of the Can
adam Labor Defense League, which
has fought for his release from the
first day of his Imprisonment, which
has fought the frame-up, which will
continue to fight until he and his
seven comrades are free.