Alberta Gaol Sentences EDMONTON: George Powell, the Douglas Social Credit Adviser to the Alberta Gover-nment, was sentenced to gaol for six months with hard labour for defamatory libel. Mr Justice Ives said: "You eall yourself a technician, but you are nothing more than a propagandist. Muck of tke turmoil in Albertp, is due to you. I am recommending yoifr deportation. " Previously a sentence of tkree montks' imprisonment was imposed on Joseph Unwin, tke Government "Wkip^ wko kad been l'ound guilty of criminal libel in connection with the publication of a pampklet in wkick he described ninh prominent opponents of Mr William Aberhart, Social Credit: Premier, as ''baukers' toadies.'*
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 6
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