Court clears seamen
who ‘feared for lives’

Seven seamen, natives of British Somaliland, were cleared in Van-
couver Police Court this week on charges that they had refused to
return to their ship, the Harpalycus, when ordered by the captain.

The men, victims of racial chauvinism on the trip here, said they

refused to return to the ship because they feared for their lives.

The

ship left near midnight Tuesday from Lapointe Pier without them.

The seamen were charged under
Section 253 of the Canada Ship-
ping Act which deals with failure
to go aboard when ordered by the
captain.

One of the men, Noor Frah, who
‘had been on the vessel more than
five years, told how one of their
number had to be left in a Japan-
ese hospital after he received a
head gash in a fight with white sea-
men, “They didn’t like us just
because of our color,” the said.

Gov’t gives jobless
figure as 300,000

OTTAWA

Federal labor department re-

ported this’ week that 298,575 per-| |

sons were looking for work through
the National Employment Service
at November 18, an increase of 32
532 over 1953.

More than 35,000 are registered
with NES in B.C. and the actual
number of unemployed is unof-
ficially estimated to be more than
50,000.

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Dear Reader: .

Our New Year’s Eve dance and
smorgasbord at the Fishermen’s
Hall this year promises to be bet-
ter than ever—but we can’t make
it bigger, because the hall only
holds 200 people, and we refuse
to sell more than that number of

tickets. .So, if you intend to at-
tend, take my
tip and get your
tickets now —
either at the
Pacific Tribune

office or the
People’s Co-op-
erative Book-
store
Last year
© there was such
stampede for

food at midnight that we’ve de-
cided to handle the smorgasbord
differently this time. Each table
will be piled high with food all
evening—cold cuts, salads, pickles
ete. :

People from out of town who
plan to be at the big celebration—
which is one of the best “family”
affairs of the year—should drop

me a line and tickets will be re-
served for them at the door.

Tom McEwen, just back from a
three-month visit to the Soviet
Union, will be on hand to greet
PT readers.

And speaking of New Year’s eve,
how about sending a sub for 1955
to a friend as a New Year’s gift?

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Morgan sends
greetings to
LPP members

Greetings to mmbers and sup-
porters of the Labor-Progressive
by Nigel
this

party were extended
Morgan, provincial leader,
week. His message read:

“The members of our executive
join me in wishing you all a happy
festive season and new successes
in 1955 in creating a powerful de-
mocratic national front which will
be able to prevent Canada’s in-
volvment in the rearmament of
Germany, turn back the threat of
depression now hanging over our
land, and in freeing our country
of U.S. domination, transform it
into an independent, democratic
nation which can take its place in
the great camp of people’s demo-
cracy and socialism.

“May the New Year bring new
successes for the cause of peace,
democracy, national independence
and socialism.”

No placards

Pickets at
Windsor “haven’t been carrying
placards,” according to the To-
ronto Globe and Mail. To dis-
prove that statement, Same Lore,
. member of United Auto Work-

ers’ Local 200, displays placards
used in the strike.

Ford plants

Probe BCE

facilities

Effie Jones demands

Demand for a full probe of B.C.
Electric technical facilities by Van-
couver City Council and the Public
Utilities Commission was voiced
by Effie Jones following a power
blackout in Shaughnessy district
on Tuesday this week.

Mrs. Jones said this latest power
blackout coming as it did immedi-
ately after the city-wide blackout
on Thursday last week and assur-
ances at that time from the B.C.
Electric that it would not happen
again, was warning that something
was wrong. : :

In a letter to council’s utilities
committee, Mrs. Jones said:

“The company is required to
provide adequate service under its
franchise, which it is not doing.
The city council should satisfy it-

self and the public as to the rea-
sons for the repeated blackouts
with its inconvenience and heavy

losses for the people and business.”

Conscription
call scored
by Endicott

TORONTO
“The people of Canada will

again defeat the demand for con-
scription of the Canadian Corps As-
sociation,” Steve Endicott, secre-
tary of the National Federation of
Labor Youth, declared here in
commenting on a resolution adopt-
ed by the recent convention of the
Canadian Corps calling for com-
pulsory military service.

Endicott pointed out that the
youth of both English-speaking and
French Canada had repeatedly
voiced their opposition to conscrip-
tion.

“Canadian vouth are eager to
keep Canadian soil free of foreign
troops,” he said, “but they have no
interest in being trained to fight
on foreign soil side by side with a
revived West German army.

“The Canadian Corps is not
speaking for veterans when it calls

for conscription. Veterans are
against the revival of the same
German militarism they have twice .
fought against, as they are against
conscription of Canadian youth as
part of the scheme of the USS.
militarists to launch a new provo-
cation in Europe.

“Canada’s youth proved their
worth in fighting German militar-
ism in two past wars. They will
show their mettle again by thwart-
ing the plans of the U.S. brass-hats
and their Canadian spokesmen to
make them serve beside and even °
under Kurt Meyer and other mur-
derers of Canadians.”

Loggers local

will seek

across - board pay boost

International Woodworkers of
America “loggers’ local’ 1-71 will
make an across-the-board wage in-
crease its primary demand in forth-
coming contract negotiations, and

will set up a five million dollar
strike fund.

This was decided by 63 delegates

at the local’s annual convention
here Monday.

Delegates commented bitterly on
the fact that loggers, who received
no increase this year, in fact took
a cut in pay through higher board
costs. At the same time the lum-
ber industry hit an all-time produc-
tion, sales and profit peak.

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any country, including Canada,
particularly values above 5c and

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OHMS or G. Stamps should
not be torn or mutilated and are
best left on paper, with perfor-
ations not cut into in trimming.
Resale proceeds go to Pacific
Tribune sustaining fund.

COMING EVENTS—CITY

DEC. 28 LOGGERS’ BALL —

Tuesday, December 28,
9 p.m. Hastings Auditorium, 828
E. Hastings St.

DEC. 31 PACIFIC TRIBUNE

NEW YEAR‘’S EVE
CABARET DANCE—Friday, Dec.
31, Fishermen’s Hall, 138 E. Cor-
dova. Good Orchestra — Favors —
Smorgasbord. Single Ticket $2.
Double Ticket $3.50 at Suite 6-426
Main St. MArine 5288. ;

JAN.

ing Sunday, January 9, Pender
Auditorium, 8 p.m. Speakers, Bert
Whyte and Maurice Rush, Second
World War veterans.

NO ARMS FOR THE

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JAN 15 TURKEY BANQUET

‘ in honor of TOM Mc-
EWEN, recently returned from
Soviet Union. Hastings Auditorium,
Lower Hall, 828 E, Hastings St.,
6.30 p.m. Admission $1.25. Tickets
at City Office LPP, Room 7, 9 E.

Hastings and Pacific Tribune, Suite
6, 426 Main St.

AN « KEEP THIS DATE
JAN. 2 OPEN — PUBLIC

MEETING — Pender Auditorium,
Speaker, Tom McEwen.

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