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VOL. Il. No. 34

Prepare for world meet

Endicott calls
for support |
In peace drive

By PIERRE GELINAS Ny

TORONTO

4 A call to the Canadian people to rally around and participate
in the preparation of the Congress of the Peoples for Peace to be
held in Vienna next December, was issued last weekend following a
two-day meeting of the National Council of the Canadian Peace Con-

§ress,
Endicott, greeted the holding of
& Congress of the Peoples ‘for
Peace, declaring it ‘can become
~~and must become if ithe trend
of events towards war is to be
Teversed—the rallying point of
all the different and new cur-
Tents of opinions for peace in
Canada and across the world.”

Expressing the hope that all
the religious, social and political
8Toups concerned with the threat
Of war will find their own ways
of Participating in the Congress
On their own terms, the Péace
Council pledged itself to help
the development of public dis-
CUssion and the bringing forward
Of all ideas for peace by increas-
ng its popularization of the Can-
adian Peace Pledge together with
the’ resolutions of _the Berlin
Meeting of ithe World Peace
Council. :

“The support for the Congress
°f the Peoples for Peace, the
“ampaign around the Peace
ledge and the Berlin resolutions
“a be developed by each local

UNcil in its own fashion,”’ said
“'. Endicott, ‘constitutes the

The National Council, under the chairmanship of Dr, James

three central points of a four--
month plan, from September to
the end of the year.”

DR. JAMES ENDICOTT

Arising out of the discussions

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UNIONS. URGE
PUBLIC PROBE
IN BEATING
OF CLEMENS

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Vancouver trade unions, the League for Democratic Rights, citizens’ com-

mittees and individuals are taking up the cudgels for Clarence Clemens, Negro
'longshoreman who suffered a bad beating at the hands of two police officers last aa. Pa
month. Clemens is making slow but steady improvement in General Hospital te Lt
~ and is expected to launch legal proceedings against his attackers within the next

on the.recent Berlin resolutions
dealing with the prolongation of
the Korean war, the division and
militarization of Germany, the
rearmament of Japan and the
waging of bacteriological war-

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fare in Asia, the Council decided
to discuss those dangerous de-
velopments with the Canadian
government, and members of the
House of Commons: in Ottawa
shortly after the opening of the
Fall session in November.

Two central notes dominated
the discussions. One was the
gravity and urgency of the situa-
tion. In his’ opening address,
Dr. Endicott urged the Council
to examine the process by: which
many peace-loving people had
been deceived by those who pre-
pare for war under peace slo-
gans and present rearmament
preparations as an unavoidable
defense against aggression.

Stating that ‘‘this is our cen-
tral problem, and there is no
simple or easy answer to it,” Dr.
Endicott added that ‘Wwe will
not work out the’answer success-
fully unless we ourselves go to
work on it with a clear and de-
termined faith in the peace move-

\

ment.”’

He said that “‘many supporters —

of the peaca movement do not

‘vet fully believe in the possibili-

ty, necessity and desirability of
the co-existence of different so-
cial and economic systems... .
Continued on back page
See ENDICOTT

fortnight.

A membership meetings , of
Marine Workers and Boilermak-
ers Union at Pender Auditorium
Monday this week, passed a reso-
lution demanding a public in-
vestigation into the case. The
resolution will be forwarded to
Mayor Fred Hume, head of the
Police Commission,

The Fur and Leather Workers
Union and the Pulp and Sulphite
Union will discuss the case at
union meetings within the next
few days.
denounced the ‘“‘brutal tactics”
of the police and will recommend
that a public inquiry be held.

Fred Collins, chairman of the
League for Democratic Rights,
told the Pacific Tribune that the
LDR has been conducting its
own investigation and is convinc-
ed that Glemens was the victim
of ‘‘a sadistic beating at the
hands of Constable Dan Brown
and another officer.’’ Collins
said his organization will demand
the suspension of Brown from
the police force, pending a pub-
lic inquiry. *

Rey. J. Ivan Moore, of Foun-
dation Chapel African Methodist

Union officials have .

Episcopal Church, spoke to his
congregation about the Clemens

case at Sunday services this

week. Rev. Moore previously
had attempted to see Chief Con-
stable Mulligan, but Mulligan
failed to keep an appointment
with the delegation.

Several charges by citizens of
alleged beating at the hands of
city detectives and policemen
caused Chief Walter Mulligan to
make a statement this week re-
affirming his ‘‘every faith’’ in
the Vancouver Police Depart-
ment,

“T have every faith in my de-
partment,’” the News-Herald
quoted Mulligan as saying. “‘Any-
one brought into custody will
receive the same treatment from
my force as I demand of it —
courtesy and sympathy. Any
hint of alleged brutality will be
investigated by me personally.”

Regarding several claims of
alleged abuse by police which
have been aired in the press re-
cently, Mulligan declared they
had been ‘thoroughly inyesti-
gated’’ and that he had “found
no cause for disciplining the of-
ficers concerned.”’

A group, of Negro citizens are
circulating a petition demanding
the immediate dismissal of Con-
stable Dan Brown from thé force,
because of this behavior towards
Negroes. The petition is being
signed by individuals who claim
they have suffered unjustly at
Brown’s hands. *

Publication of Clemens’ story
in the Pacific Tribune has arous-
ed interest in the: case outside
of Vancouver. Bartender Eric
Forsythe of the Stratford Hotel,
who is acting as treasurers of a
citizens’ committee set up to win

justice for Clemens, reports that

donations ‘have been. received
from Pacific Tribune readers in
Winnipeg, Saanichton and Se-
attle since the story first appear-
ed in this paper.

“Clemens is improving slow-
ly,’’ said Forsythe, who visits
him frequently in General Hos-
pital. ‘‘He is now able to talk
and recognize his friends, and

we’re sure he'll pull through.”

Clemens was beaten up in a
back alley near the New Station
eafe on July 19, and has been in
fhospital for almost a month.