yaa TT Te gy McEwen! : tint on THE lady, on her own admission, has : ae been “aching for a week’ to write / ec her very special columns, but, _ -daving more difficulty in convincing her- a than her readers that she didn’t ie Ow what she “was talking about,” @ecided to write “how I .FEEL (her ‘mphasis) about it” rather than on what _ Httle she knows. ‘ oe is May we observe here that posterity 7 perl have lost absolutely nothing had : oy kept her “feelings” locked up _ With other family jewels. Taking up the cudgels for Syngman Ay Rhee and General Douglas “Home-by- ihe istmas” MacArthur, Penny Wise of Lal Vancouver Sun in her “shopping : Bae column of April 25 FEELS very eG i y about the danger of peace in Ko- (fa. The lady Weeps for the plight of > Si es South Korean ruling clique = y d it be left without the protection if ankee planes and guns and napalm es “This whole Korean war,” says 7anyworth, “has been a disgrace to l& democracies involved ever since €neral MacArthur was refused permis- Sion to pursue the foe. The foolishness . Toft PPing short at the 38th parallel is Ing short of political suicide.” gernose are pretty strong “feelings” “ota lady who says she FEELS, but * a No indication of it in the blurbs sie sent back from South Korea on her eect there last year. We seem to re- : that ‘her “feelings” were more for a bargains she picked up from war- ‘“ticken people than for the victims of —?apalm bombs. \ _, Penny just doesn’t like the growing ose” of peace in Korea nohow. rs erto,.: she says, “it has been cus- a ‘ary in a war for the winning side _. Win something; to not only kick the Se out of its country, but to take over i a land of the aggressors as well, and eee them for doing what they ‘ what ty Peace talks aren’t good enough; oes 1s needed is an unconditional sur- €nder . . . or else.” Boi Sor else” puts Pennyworth’s the ngs” into a neat package, neat as tail ae containers of lipstick and an lish she periodically recommends Ousewives, harassed with cost-of- li ae budgets to keep Penny’s war go- 4 . HEN oe a whole world of decent human- ae come Opes and prays that peace may 2 Arona: to war-ravaged Korea and the Stay > that all of mankind’s problems Lae can be settled around a con- , “e table;, that reason may ‘prevail Send brute force, the Van- ., _9Un‘s “shopping guide” bemoans 4 act that world opinion deprived the oa all of Asia, Pe - blog Rhy’s windup to this particular d-and-thunder “shopping guide” CTE Tih UU alone long enough it will resolve itself. m3 nist MacArthur of setting the torch — it does lead to World War III . . . maybe Britain will be smart enough. this time to catch onto the knack. of waiting a couple of years until it gets well. under Way.” Some “feelings,” soft as the heart of a hard-boiled tory banker. In a sane society people with such “feelings” are confined to a mental institution, gener- ally for two prime reasons—to safeguard the community, and help restore the per- son to. normal mental and physical ‘health. While the labor movement of the ‘province waits patiently for Socred At- torney-General Robert Bonner to begin his promised study of the coroner’s in- quisition which whitewashed the “un- natural” death of Clarence Clemens, Negro longshoreman, and which could serve to open up the whole question of the far too frequent deaths in our city jail, a few words of what the Kiwanis - Club of Richmond thought of Oakalla Prison on their recent visit there, might not come amiss. “This tour,” said Kiwanis spokesmen, “was a revelation . .. four men in a cell designed for one . . . a foul smell in the kitchen and plenty of cockroaches . . a useless sterilizer, consisting of a piece of sheet iron with a gunny sack on top, and. an old chain-drive ventila- tion system in the cell blocks was in- operable, so that men sleep in there without ventilations of any kind.” The Kiwanis-also noted the “shortage of staff? which makes it impossible to give the people incarcerated there the necessary fresh air and exercise conduc- tive to normal health. What the Kiwanis saw is old stuff. For years delegations of business men, welfare workers and other groups have been going out to look over Oakalla Prison, and their “reports” are pretty unanimous in detailed. condemnation. But nothing is done about it. Which — reminds us that a prison commission of scme sort or other annually condemns ‘the Toronto bastille known as the Don Jail as being unfit for habitation. To our knowledge commissions have been turning in the condemnatory reports for the past, 20 years at least. But nothing is done about it. The general idea being (and the late and unlamented Mackenzie King in his’ spookier moments was an ardent advo- cate of this idea) that if an evil is left Perhaps that is what Attorney-Gen- eral Bonner is thinking in his long sil- ence on the Clemens case—that if it is. left long enough it will be forgotten _. at least until the next “unnatural death” happens at the city jail. In our opinion the best way to head off that “next unnatural death” is to investigate and take action on the who, how and why of the Clemens death as the best ~ method of forestalling a similar occur- ance. ae On the hustings for votes Bonne ' might be asked to outline what a per- ' 1 son’s past “prison record” has to do with determining the cause of his” death. We are sure the answer to that will be much more difficult than ex- plaining the Douglas Theory of Social Gly sancth . — xis a dilly. “And if, for instance, Credit. . a it é x \ One Year $3.00 i Australia, United States _ One Year $4.00 . . and all Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Departmen Pacific TRIBUNE — Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor Subscription Rates: Canada and British Commonwealth countries wt (except Australia) Six Months $1.60 other countries Six Months $2.50 t, Vancouver 4, B.C. t, Ottawa . The people win a victory Bea of a parliamentary (and public) debate on his Liberal govy- _ernment’s proposed amendments to the Criminal Code (Bill 93) Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent has stated that this contentious legisla- tion won’t be proceeded with at this session. . St. Laurent is quoted as saying that to proceed with Bill 93 at this time “‘wouldn’t be in the public interest.’’ What he really meant, despite insistence from Washington that Bill 93 be pushed thr that it wouldn’t be, in the interests of the Liberal oe ie election so close, to ram Bill 93 down the throats of the Canadian ple at this time. The will is there, but the desire is softened by the need of votes! The blocking of Bill 93 is a great victory for organized labor and all the forces of progress. Great sections of th despite the efforts of the Cushings, Bengoughs, Makes i Sache. alds to whitewash the infamous clauses of Bill 93, saw its inherent dangers and made their position clear to the St. Laurent government and its special parliamentary committee. The Catholic unions of Quebec also added their mass voice to the protest against Bill 93. However, the victory in having Bill 93 set aside this session Anust not be regarded as finally won. During the coming federal elec tions every candidate, regardless of party, must position on the antilabor and ee cae ue Bill ee i hesitate or equivocate on this basic issue must be sent into political oblivion, and men and women sent to Otttawa in their stead who will stand as defenders of Canadian independence and rights. _ A growing vigilance and unity of labor and th i -coming months will win an amended Criminal Code eet with Canadian needs and standards, and will assure that relegated to history. Bill 93 is What the Canadian people need mo i espe ed suppression of rights and. liberties as Sea idl on a Canadian Bill of Rights consolidating the democratic ecdoms de possess, and making it a crime against the state and the people foe any clique or cabal to attempt depriving the people of these rights _ Bill 93 has been delayed by the mass efforts of th i people, and time won for the greater effort that can ne oie of its vicious anti-democratic features. opportunity to answer the Liberal __ The people now have the politicians who attempted to put it over by building a great people’s coalition for progress, peace and — democracy in the federal elections. ACK in the years when the great Liberal betrayal of the people’s hopes for a brave new post-war world was just getting under way, the BC electric monopoly octopus had its eye . on a valuable piece of public property in Vancouver—Larwell Park, the old Cambie Street Grounds. - political machine hitting on all eight in the NPA-dominated city council, the _ BCElecric obtained a “ten-year fran- chise” on this central site, one of the : very -few such parks remaining in downtown Vancouver. — The forerunner of this pay RE the Pacific Advocate, declared then that the giving of Larwell Park to the BC —— government, to carry out the will of _ Eléctric was a land steal of the most - barefaced kind, that the “ten-year fran- chise” (belied by the bus depot struc- ture erected) was a sheer blind, and that a popular central athletic park had gone into the maw of British Col- umbia’s monopoly for keeps: ‘This “franchise” which took Lar- well Park from Vancouver citizens is* - now up for discussion again in city “council, and the BCElectric octopus with characteristic brazenness, meets the situation with a veiled threat — veither renew or we move. — If the city council wants to defend the people’s interests, and particularly the recreational and athletic need of * With its : well Park. = . Popular deal or BCE steal? Vancouver's young people, it has =e courses open in dealing with the Lar- — _ well Park “franchise”: One is to renew the fAcchias for a im maximum of five years and only on the _ strict understanding that the BCElec- — tric will purchase for Vancouver a centrally located property suitable for — an athletic park, of equal value to Lar- : Failing, that, council must reject re- newal of the franchise, charge a month- _ ly rental for the bus depot property _ and begin immediately and in earnest, _ in collaborating with the provincial the people of Greater Vancouver by bringing the transit and power hold- : ings of the BCElectric under public — ownership, The proposal of some NPA alder — men to “sell” Larwell Park at a bargain price to the BCElectric is not only a — violation of the original agreement e leasing this sports ground but totally evades the issue of replacing a central public property. ee Somewhere along the line the land _ grabs, the price-gouging of the BC — Electric has to be halted, and the re- turn of Larwell Park to the people is as good an issue as any to have a show- -down on. s . hc PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 8, 1953 — PAGE 5