mmber 2 at 540 Gore

in the City of Van-
thinese Canadian fam-
evicted. Under heavy
trd, Sheriff Keill and
fistants” smashed in
‘ff this humble home,
ussaulted those who
-- way, and proceeded
‘ie household effects

sidewalk. It was a

er day with a steady
i rain. Joy Chen, a
‘ar old daughter of
‘was confined to bed
ee of pneumonia. Joy
Pcemoniously loaded
©etcher, conveyed to
-<, and from there to
E1ey ward of a Van-
> ital, where she was
authority” bickered
© she should be in the
* ward, in a regular
-d, or out on the
che time of writing
= till in the ‘“emer-
| d, a fact in itself
“ucive to rapid con-

=

' mbers of the Chen
-e served with the
-rmed forces in the
-war theatres.. The
ifamily have worked
nars, getting a few
“niture together to
“scent home; putting
dred dollars into a
_p their children de-
ical talent. which
_joy to their parents
sir fellow workers...
_was pushed -out
'2k yard in th driz-
as the — sheriff's
vere not up to the
aeded.-to throw. it
'' front door.)

? at education for Ca-
» to stand and watch
-aadian and his fam-
-c with his poor be-
Sirown out onto the
_ drizzling November
ally for those lads
came back from
om England, Ger-:
y, Russia from
‘-spean center where
' of bestial war had
-m Hong Kong and
ast, where Japanese
eft its impress.

ropean city;—in let
‘ichester or Coventry,
‘ Paris, Kharkov or
' where they saw
sligging among _ the
-eir home—to dig out
' or a few remnants
‘“e, which marks civ-
E’s eonecept of home
of the savage—yes
eould understand

n Vancouver they
ew angle. Here they
‘anadian-Chinese fam-
E had [put everything
into the struggle for
er Fascism—who had
rd for the victory of
ve land—whose com-
were in this war
ilitary aggression and
even years before the
S——a little family be-
fully thrown out into
t, without a roof to
em from the elements

a court of appeal to
mem from the lawless
nt of so-called law.
November 2 at 540
mue, in the eviction of
family, a few hundred

Build Homes - - - Stop Evictions

Canadians saw the foul face of
Fascism rising like a hideous

spectre on a Vancouver street.

Following representations by

a delegation of Vancouver citi-
zens to the City Hall, the Mayor
undertook to have the furniture
safely stored, and provide a
shelter for the evicted family.

The facilities provided for
removing the furniture and
the lack of concern shown pro-
vides the best barometer for
the need of cleaning out the

city hall and electing repre-
sentatives who will face their
responsibilities to the citi-
-zens of Vancouver; a duty
Mayor Cornett and his fellow
councillors did not live up to
on November 2 on the Chen
eviction. :

@
N the crime wave which has

swept Vancouver in recent

months, the citizenry have
been regaled by . pronounce-
ments from various official

By T. McEwen, LPP Provincial Chairman

quarters, from the attonmey-
general’s department doaw'n,
that the city is inadequately

policed because of lack of men
and so on.

It might be in order to ask
why it was possible to find a
force of twenty or more police
to supervise the throwing of a
out on the

Vancouver family

street? The answer was given
by folice themselves in the ar-

rest of W. Greenwood during

Mrs. Chen and her family were first evicted last July. At that time pickets and the Anti-
Eviction Committee were successful in stopping the eviction. This time a sheriff and

two plug uglies under the protection of law threw the family onto the streets.

above picture was taken at the time of the first eviction.

Big Three

Republic Steel Corporation of
the United States. These people
are laying down a line that is
dangerous .to the peace of
Europe. The people of the
Soviet Union and their repre-
sentatives say, “At Potsdam we
made a certain agreement and
you have to live up to it.” I do
not have to base my remarks
merely on this statement; I have
here the charge made by Sen-
ator Kilgour of the United
States. He is the head of the
military subcommittee investi-
gating German industry. He
says that unless something
drastic is done in Germany, she
will be able to produce more
war material than they produced
in 1939.

These are the decisive issues.
Agreements have been made by
the Big Three. Those agree-
ments must be lived up to. If
those agreements are lived up
to, it will be possible for them
to get together again and to

— Escric ADVOCATE

s

come to a positive decision re-
garding future policy. All is not
lost. There were difficulties in
the past. It will be remembered
that there was the Polish issue;
there was the question of the
San Francisco conference, and
many other issues. 'They reach-
ed agreements because we can-
not afford war, War would not
merely be the problem of try-
ing to save civilization; it will
be the utter destruction of civ-
ilization. There has to be agree-
ment.

The Prime Minister Mr.
Mackenzie King) went over-
seas; he spoke to President
Truman; he saw Prime Minister
Attlee. I should say the best
thing that could happen would
be for the Prime Minister to
proceed to Moscow to see Gen-
eralissimo Stalin in order to
help to play a role in cementing
the unity of the big three. That
would be the finest role for
Canada to play, and,I do hope

nity

The
that the Prime Minister will
find it possible to make that
visit.

Before leaving for overseas
the Prime Minister said that
the world today had changed;
that it is not any more what it
was before. That was a very
important statement. It means
that we, as a young and vigor-
ous nation must recognize those
changes. We as an independent
sovereign state, a neighbor of
the United States and of the
Soviet Union, as a member of
the commonwealth of nations,
can play a unifying role. Recog-
nizing the changes that have
taken place in Eruope, we
should play a role of cementing,
that unity and help those new
nations that have come to the
fore, and help the general pro-
gressive development of* the
world. Only in that manner will
Canada be playing a progressive
and decisive role at the present
stage in the world’s history.

e

the course of the. evic-
tion. Greenwood’s indig-
nation boiled over at the out.
rage against the Chen family
and his remarks in réply to the
insolent provocations of a
drunken Sheriff and his scabby
assistants resulted in Green-
wood’s arrest.

Had the Vancouver police
Getail done their duty as
guardians of the rights and
sanctity of the citizen—Sher-
iff Weill and his assistants
were the persons whe should
have been placed under arrest
—for violence against per-
sons and property, for pro-
vocative insolence to Wan-
eouver citizens, and for
drunkenness on the part of
publie officials.

According to many eyewit-
nesses at the scene of the evic-
tion, the Sheriff was drunk at
the time of the eviction.

In the eyes of Vancouver citi-
zens, the Attorney-General De-
partment is not enhanced by
drunken behavior of its repre-
sentative in carrying through
a shameful act of eviction.

The canadian people who wit-
nessed this outrage are -law-
abiding people; they donot like
violence.. With millions of their
fellow men and women, they
hope that the war’s end may
mark the end of violence.

The eviction of the Chen
family was a provocation, to
violence by those in author-
ity. When an _ individual
clothed with authority replies
to a working mother pleading
for the safety of the health
and life of her child by say-
ing,—“I don’t give a G—D—
if you all perish’, then, con-
stituted authority ceases to

- Warrant respect; -and-it-is the
task of the people, through
their trade unions and other
organizations to establish au-
thority based on justice and
humanity.

Mx appeal to the people of

Vancouver, and first and
foremost the labor movement,
is to see that the disgraceful
eviction of the Chen Family is
the last of its kind in Vaneou-
ver. We whose sons fought and
died for the ideals of freedom
and a better world, believe
deeply in these ideals.

We believe in them so deep-
ly that we insist that means
other than evictions must be
found to settle the problems
of landlord-tenant relations
in occupancy of property.

We know the problems of the
peace will be dificult; that the
isue of providing homes in con-
formity with the numbers need-
ed will face our governments
and our people ‘with tasks that
can only be solved with the full-
est cooperation between gov-
ernments, management and la-
bor. :

We state now and without.
reservation or equivocation,
that we will not permit them
to be solved on the pattern
of the Chen eviction. Tiat
was a disgrace to Vancouver-
A mockery to Canada’s dead,
and an outrage against decent
Canadian citizenship.
Vancouver owes an apology

and reparations to a little fam-
ily who have served their city
and adopted land well and faith-
fuly. Vancouver citizens owe a
storm of protest to those in au-

- thority who permitted this law-

less outrage-to be perpetrated
against decent, law-abiding
citizens.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1945