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Trade with China would keep fle

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of, People’s China,
Policies dictated by

CCF to challenge Bill 93
threat to civil liberties;

TLC, CCL prepare protests

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srowing protest about certain

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will compel ‘a full debate. Follow-
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ve liberties of trade unions or on
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Bill 93
ommons, got its first reading Jan-

: € Senate.
oe Cond tim

“ple of the bill will be under de-

Committee invited representa-
eats, they would plan appearances.
°rman S. Dowd, executive sec-
ry for ‘the COL said: “It cer-
Y has been discussed here and
ssion will be prepared I am
€ added that the matter
pas Presently in the hands of the

Striker
under this section and have

The Certainty expressed by both

make representations and

Vis, 2SSertions that the code re-
‘sions

s wed
trey, °* the projected bill in its en-

. é.
Canada could keep a fleet of ships busy on the Pacific, plying between Vancouver and the ports
if policies of peace and trade dictated by the people’s interests replaced the ruinous
U.S. interests. The Maplecove (above), whose gallant fight against the sea thrilled the
Country last month, is one of the few Canadian vessels carrying Canada’s colors to the Far East.
a ee

the bill that infringes on

>» now before House of

following its arrival from
When it is read a
e in the House, the prin-

such a time every mémber

throughout the country

ails.
interviews, both CCL
spokesmen said as soon as

dealings

C. Cushing, secretary
of the TLC, said his or-
was interested in “‘clari-
of Section 365. “Two
during the railway strike
could have been

five year penalty.”

CCL chiefs that they
Outright criticism of Se-
Contrasted sharply with

inister Stuart Garson’s

d been approved by the
ups, following consulta-

of the two spokesmen
expressed positive sup-

: he two largest trade union centres, the Canadian Congress of Labor and the
a ae eae of eed are now preparing briefs that will challenge sections of Bill 93
(formerly Bill O and Bill H-8 in the Senate) covering revisions to the Criminal Code. :
H. W. Herridge (CCF-Kootenay West) said last week that “a committee of our group is
g on representations right now.” He added: “We will definitely challenge as a group any-

OTTAWA

Candidates will earry fight

*

continues: :

“The CCF group in parliament
is preparing to oppose the bill in
its present form. The Trades and
Labor Congress and the Canadian
Congress of Labor both have an-
nounced they sare demanding
changes in the present bill. These
are good signs.

“The statements I’ made in De-
cember to the Senate Committee
studying the bill with the aim of
exposing the anti-labor; anti-demo-

Criminal Code have been fully sub-
stantiated.

“T said then and) repeat now that
to impose this new code upon Can-
adians in its present form would
be to fasten police-state rule on
Canadians. It is a. good sign that
the OCF and labor unions while
not going as far as they might in
exposing this code, and while try-
ing to draw a distinction between
attacks on democracy and attacks
on the Communists, are moving
into the fight against Bill 93.

“That is only a beginning, but
a good one. The main thing is to
show Canadians that under cover
of anti-Communist legislaton, all
democratic citizens are being ex-
posed to dire threats to their

liberties. The rising movement of

Buek repeats warning:

Bill 93 threatens all

“Oppositi he new Criminal Code contained in House of
pposition to the ne : Ec 0
Commons Bll 93 (formery Bill O, and before that Bill H-8) is
growing right across the country,”
leader, in a statement released here last week.

TORONTO

declared Tim Buck, LPP national.
The statement

cratic nature of this U.S.-inspired:

defense for the Rosenbergs shows
that Canadians are stirred by in-
justice and attacks on civil rights.

“The fight against Bill 93 is to
prevent such crimes as the death
sentence on. the Rosenbergs from be-
ing perpetrated in Canada.

“As the LPP federal candidate in
Toronto Trinity I am calling on all
LPP candidates to take their fight
against Bill 93 into the public arena
and to make wider public opposition
to Bill 93 their main concern, now
that the bill has been introduced
into the House of Commons.”

Fishermen will
meet in March

Ninth annual convention of the
United Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers Union has been set to open
‘Monday, ‘March 9 and the official
call has been issued to all union
locals and sub locals.

“Tt would appear,” the call states,
“that in 1953 the union’s general aim
of maintaining and improving the
living standards of fishermen, tend-
ermen and shoreworkers will re-
quire the maximum unity and effort

in Comox

Burnaby .

Two more Labor-Progressive
inated in B.C. this week, bringng t
bearers in the province to seven.
(Burnaby-Coquitlam) and Comm
Alberni). s

At a public meeting Sunday

and Burnaby resident to contest
Burnaby - Coquitlam constituency.
This is a new riding, created by the
recent redistribution which par-
titioned the old federal constituency
of Burnaby-Richmond, at present
represented by Tom Goode (Lib-
eral).

Tom McEwen, LPP candidate for
Coast Capilano constituency, guest
speaker at the meeting. pointed out
that “the only answer to the con-
tinuing Liberal sellout of Canada
to the Yankee war trusts, which is
destroying Canada’s independence,
security and peace, is for the peo-
ple to put forward their own candi-
dates; to enter the coming federal
elections united and determined to
save Canada from suicidal Liberal
and Tory policies which lead direct-
ly to war, economic stagnation and
social ruin.”

In accepting the nomination,
Kucher stated that he would fight
to realize those things ‘he had
fought for as a navy man, and
which are “so well set forth in the
LPP program, Canadian Inde-
Pendence and People’s Demo-
cracy. I will try to get this pro-
gram into every home and plant
in Burnaby-Coquitlam, so as to

assure an end to Liberal betray-
al.’

The LPP became the first party
to place a candidate in the field in
Comox-Alberhi when Commander
W. S. T. Morrison of Parksville
was given a unanimous endorsation
by delegates from LPP clubs in Al-
berni, Parksville, Royston, Cumber-
land, Courtenay, Comox and Camp-
bell River attending a public nom-
inating conference in the ‘Cumber-
land Oddfellows Hall.

Commander Morrison, who re-
ceived honorable discharge from
the Canadian Navy at the end of
the Second World War after 21
years divided service, served as
village commissioner of Parks-
ville in 1947-49, A fourth gen-
eration Canadian, whose - great-
grandfather fought in the War
of 1812, Morrison has been an
active worker in many organiza-
tions and prominent in public life
since his retirement from the

RCN.

The meeting, whic
ed by. Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial
leader, established a federal con-
stituency committee to lead the cam-
Paign and elected Jack Higgin, Roy-
ston logger, as campaign manager,
and Mark (Mosher, Alberni long-

shoreman, as the candidate’s officia]
agent.

h was address-

In his, acceptance speech Morri-
Son expressed his conviction that
Canadian independence in the mat-
ters of peace and trade will be the

most vital issues in the forthe

oming
election.

“My experience in. England for
the last two years,” the candidate
said, “has convinced me of the
pressing need to break thréugh the
present U.S.-imposed trade barriers
to open trade with the sterling coun- |
tries and get ‘our surplus fish,- lum-
ber and agricultural products moy-

ing into the markets of Europe and
Asia.

“Another tssue I’m vitally con-
cerned with is the establishment of
a Steel mill and smelter on this east
coast of the Island. We have the
hydro-electric capacity, ready supr
plies of high grade ore, coal, lime

by the entire, membership.”

n

LPP nominates

- Alberni,
Coquitlam

party federal candidates were nom-
he number of LPP federal standard-

Latest nominees are Alex Kucher
ander W. S. E. Morrison (Comox-

evening in Capitol Hill community

hall, Burnaby LPP Section nominated Alex Kucher, Navy veteran

t
death i
e t € il

Vancouver police were “cleared
of blame” by a coroner’s jury this
week which investigated the death
of logger Einar Berge, 32, who died
in Vancouver General Hospital Jan-

uary 15 after spending the previous
night in city jail.

The jury ruled that Berge died as
a result of skull fractures and brain
hemorrhage caused by a fall “prior
to his arrest.”

Berge was arrested June 14 on
a drunk charge and booked into
city jail at 9:45 p.m. He spent
the night in jail and was rushed
to hospital at 10 o’clock the fol-
lowing morning, where he died
three hours later.

City pathologist Dr .Thomas J.
Harmon said death had been caus-
ed by a skull fracture and injury
to the brain, which could have been
caused by a fall, not by a punch.
Before police arrested Berge he
‘had been in a scuffle with a tap-
man at St. Regis hotel beer parlor,
witnesses said.

The jury’s verdict of “accidental
death” was accompanied by a re-
comnrendation that a special clinic,
with a staff of doctors, should be
set up at city jail to examine pris-

oners before they are put into cells.
.

Eleven constables and two police
sergeants who were on duty during
the time Berge spent in the jail
paraded to the stand to give evi-
dence. They remained “unaware”
of Berge’s condition until 9:50 am.,
when a constable became alarmed
and brought the prisoner’s condition
to the attention of a sergeant,

The jury attached “no blame” to
the police force because no injury
was “visible” when Berge was ar-

rested.

Sales can
mean subs

Public interest in the Clemens
case resulted in an extra 600 Pacific
Tribunes being sold on street cor-
ners last week, and the number of
subs increased to

“Club of the Week” is South Bur-
naby, with 6 subs, followed by Na-
naimo, 3; Natal, 3; Electrical, 2;
Fernie, 2; Moberley, 2; Kitsilano, -
2; Philp Halperin, 2; Strathcona, 2;
Trail, 2, and Victoria, 2. =
We need more sub salesmen and
more street salesmen. Press clubs
are urged to discuss how their mem-

and other materials needed.

bers can take part in the drive to

boost PT circulation in 1953.
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