Block rezoning,

 Florance

Dorland

runs for council

Five minutes after Vancouver City Council had rejected applica-
tions by Kitsilano homeowner groups to have two large areas rezoned
from one-family to two-family dwelling districts, Mrs. Florence Dorland,
president of the General Gordon Homeowners Association, was nomi-

nated to contest an aldermanic seat

Leader of one of the Kitsilano
delegations which filled No. 1 com-
mittee room at the zoning hear-
ings Friday afternoon last week,
Mrs. Dorland had presented facts
and figures to council members
proving that residents of the areas
favored rezoning.

When the first rejection motion
earried 3-2 on an aldermanic vote
and the second 3-2, Mayor Fred

“Hume casting the chairman’s de-
ciding ballot on a tie vote affecting
the area represented by Mrs. Dor-
land, members of both delegations
left the committee room but con-
tinued their discussions in’ the cor-
ridors.

“Will you run for an aldermanic
seat so that we can carry on our
fight inside council?” a member
of one delegation asked Mrs. Dor-
land. “We must get rid of the

Non-Partisan gang and’ elect peo-|,

ple who will pay attention to the
demands of the people.”

“Yes, T’ll run,” said Mrs. Dor-
land, and promptly walked down
the hall to the city clerk’s office
and took out nomination papers.

“I’m running as an independ-
ent candidate,” she told reporters.
“T will fight for a housing pro-
gram and for rezoning in those
areas where the majority of
homeowners desire it. I will also
campaign for a return to the
ward system, so that residents

in the coming civic elections.

FLORENCE DORLAND

in given districts will have dir-
ect representation at city hall.”

Mrs. Dorland is a member of
West End Community Council.
As president of General Gordon
Homeowners Association she has
led several large delegations to
city hall this year on the rezoning
issue.

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Unions ask for
strengthening
of ICA clauses

Strengthening of certain sections
of the Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Act dealing with juris-
diction in order to “stop the at-
tempted raiding by. craft unions
of industrial unions’ was called
for in a brief presented before the
ICA Act Inquiry Board recently.

The brief was presented by the
United Fishermen and _ Allied
Workers, the IWA and the Inter-
national Pulp, Sulphite and Paper
Mill Workers. It also reeeived the
support of Mine-Mill.

Reviewing the reasons for the
growth of industrial unions in B.C.,
the brief stated:

“The fact>of the matter is, or-
ganization of the basic industries
was impossible on a craft basis,
and the emergence of the indus-
trial form of organization greatly
strengthened the bargaining power
of labor whether craft or indus-
trial, since only by this type of
union was it possible to organize
many thousands of craftsmen who
could not be protected by unions
in their crafts.

“Conversely, any attempt made
by craft unions to invade industrial
union jurisdiction and to set up
craft units, as is well known to
the general membership of the
Industrial unions, can lead only
to a weakening of the industrial
unions without any long term in-
crease in the strength of the craft
unions. The general trade union
movement suffers by such action.

“Our main purpose in appearing
before this parliamentary com-
mittee is to request clarification
and strengthening of those sections
of the ICA Act pertaining to juris-
diction which will serve to stop
the attempted raiding by craft
unions of industrial unions and
each of the unions concerned in
this brief can give examples of
such irresponsible activity.”

Rogge, renegade |

peace leader, now
gov t stoolpipeon

By ABNER BERRY

ne

WASHINGTON

O. John Rogge, former assistant attomey general and renegade
Progressive party leader who long posed as an advocate of peace, today
is the U.S. government’s star stoolpigeon witness in its attempt to jail

the noted Negro leader, Dr. W. E.

B. DuBois, and four associates for

their campaign against war and the atom bomb.

Dr. DuBois, Kyrle Elkin, Abbott
Simon, Miss Sylvia Soloff and Mrs.
Elizabeth Moes went on trial last
week in U.S. district court here on
charges of failure to register ;with
the government as “foreign
agents.” The charges are based
on their’ work with the now de-
funct Peace Information Centre,
which headed up the nationwide
campaign for signatures to the
Stockholm peace pledge calling for
outlawing of the atomic bomb.

In outlining the government’s
case, F. (Kirk Maddrix, special
assistant to the attorney general,
revealed that it is based on the
fact that a number of world peace
conferences were held in Europe
between 1949 and last February,
when the fiive were indicted. The
government maintained that the
defendants were active in most of
these peace gatherings, that the
Soviet Union “agreed” with them
on “banning the atom bomb,” and
that all of them had circulated
the Stockholm pledge.

In testifying, Rogge, now an of~
ficial U.S. agent for the Tito re-
gime of Yugoslavia, said he had
attended “every so-called peace
mreeting to which I have been in-
vited” since 1948. ;

Asked to describe the 1949 Paris
Peace Congress, Rogge said that
“France, Italy, Great Britain, the
Soviet Union and the United States
had the largest delegations,” and
proceeded to name a list of US.
citizens who attended.

On defense attorney Vito Marc-
antonia’s objection, Judge Matthew
F. McGuire .had to admonish the
witness that “these persons are
not on trial here.” ;

With Rogge on the stand, Mad-
drix sought to introduce as evi-
dence some 20 copies of the mag-
azine published-by the World Com-
mittee of Peace Partisans, In
Defense of Peace. .

Judge McGuire: reserved; his de-
cision on admitting. the magazines

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Padlock Law repeal,
Garson amendments,
fopic af LDR rally

Repeal of Quebec’s padlock
law, reneal.of the Garson amend-
ments and enactment of a Bill
fo Rights for Canada will be
discussed by three speakers at
‘a League for Democratic Rights
rally in Pender Auditorium on
Sunday, November 25, at 8 p.m.

Speakers will be William Stew-
art and Alex Dorland, delegates
to the recent LDR conference in
Toronto, and William Harashym
of the Association of United
Ukrainian Canadians.

Several concert numbers will
round out the program.

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as evidence until defense counsel
had examined them.

Maddrix and Rogge then pre-
sented to the court a written sum-
mary of a Peace Information
Centre meeting allegedly held in
the home of: a New York ‘friend
of Rogge’s on May 11, 1950.

Rogge said he had tried to
steer the PIC to reject the Stock-
holm pledge. although he had
participated in the conference
two months earlier which had
drafted the nledge.

His role of stoolpigeon was made
clearer when he admitted having
presented to the Soviet govern-
ment, before the Stockholm peace
conference, a plan for abolition of
atomic weapons. He sought on
the stand to make the Soviet gov-
ernment’s agreement with this pro-
posal seemy like proof that the
Stockholm pledge was dictated by
the Soviet Union.

tion,”

who ‘was unable to attend the
Vienna meeting due to pressure
of work preparatory to the peace
mission to Ottawa.

Describing the work of Cana-
da’s peace movement, Mickle-
burgh declared: “Canada is two
nations finding a new fraternal
unity in the common. struggle
against war.” s

Greeting World Peace Council
proposals for disarmament, he de-
clared that peace-loving Canadians
fear the threat that their country
could become an atomic no-man’s
land if a third world war was not
prevented. “Our government
would truly serve Canada if it
were to invite the Big Five powers
to meet in Ottawa and negotiate
a world settlement,” he said.

Speaking on world trade, he
pointed out that Canada was one
of the greatest industrial and trad-
ing nations, every third Canadian
dollar being a trade dollar, earned

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‘Majority of Canadians
want peace’ Mickleburgh
tells Vienna meeting |

VIENNA

“The work of peace-loving Canadians for a five-power pact of peace convincingly proves that
the majority of our people hunger for action to bring the nations together in peaceful trade and coopera-
Btuce Mickleburgh, delegate of the Canadian Peace Congress, reported to the World Peace
Council, which met here November | to 6.-

Mickleburgh took the place of James Endico't, Canadian’ member of the World Peace Council

in foreign trade. The first fruit

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BRUCE MICKLEBURGH

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

of Washington’s trade policies had
been the loss of Canada’s favor-
able balance of trade. Canada had
been driven out of her traditional
markets by present U.S. policy
which was the reversal of what
President F. D. Roosevelt had pro-
claimed during the war to defend
democracy against Hitlerism.

“Now 63 percent of our imports’
come from the US. and 65 per-
cent of our exports go to the
USS.,” he-_said. Quoting the secre-
tary of the Exporters’ Association,
he said: “Altogether too many Can-
adian products are shipped abroad,
are fabricated, sent back into Can-
ada and sold to ourselves at high
prices.”

“The growing concern over the:
difficult economic problems facing
Canada and the burdens of rearm-
ament make it imperative that the
peace movement take its appeal
for disarmament and trade to every
Canadian,” Mickleburgh said.

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