[1] The paper was noted for the 1929 trial and conviction of editor Arvo Vaara on charges of sedition and libel.
Jones, a United Church clergyman who led the campaign against Vapaus, asserted that the Finnish community in the Sudbury area was "living in terror" of Communist intimidation, that children were being indoctrinated with seditious ideas and that the paper was undermining the sanctity of marriage by encouraging Finnish families to live in common-law relationships.
[1] Vaara was defended in the trial by Arthur Roebuck, who would later become Attorney General of Ontario in the government of Mitchell Hepburn.
[1] In 1974, the newspaper merged with the Finnish-Canadian literary magazine Liekki, moved to Toronto and was renamed Viikkosanomat.
Its role was continued partially by the magazine Kaiku, published by the Finnish Organization of Canada since 1990.