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PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

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Canadian-Soviet Friendship

"THE Provincial conference of the National Council for
: Canadian-Soviet friendship is an event of primary im-

portance to the people of this province.

This Council is to be congratulated on the splendid work
it has done in promoting understanding and friendship be-

tween our country and the USSR.

In these troublous times,
are whipping up anti-Soviet
close neighbor and ally,
Soviet friendship council in bringing harmonious relation-
ships. and promoting world peace and progress cannot be
underestimated.

Promotion of friendly economic relations is of utmost
importance to the Port
bulk of trade with the USSR would logically move.

Currently the
paign to collect signatures for a greeting to the people of the

Canada’s most outstanding poet.
want to add their names to this list.
done to see that this campaign is an overwhelming success.

Of especial interest to trade unionists will be the panel on
Labor and Soviet trade unions, wi,th Edwin S. Smith of New
York lately returned from This panel will
convene in the Mayfair room of the Hotel Vancouver, Satur-
day afternoon, November 24 at 2 p.m.

On Sunday the 25th at 8 P-m., a public rally for the
Soviet Embassy will be held in the Orpheum Theatre. ;

The tremendous importance of these events warrant sup-
port from all sections of the people.

This weekend should be made an outstanding demon-
stration of friendship with our Soviet allies.

Tory Gang-up

REMIER HART will be accompanied by Attorney-Gen-
eral Maitland on his trip to participate in the Dominion-
Provincial parley. Tory reaction will weigh heavily in

the B.C. Coalition contribution.

The spectre of Toryism hangs ominously over the con-

ference. With Drew throttling Ontario and Duplessis Quebec,

in his report
“the strategic
for re-alloca-

Since the first parley, B.C. elections have strengthened the
hand of the Tories. Utterances of Hart on the parley, be-
traying Tory pressure in the protection of monopoly interests
under the guise of guarding provincial rights, emphasizes the
danger of B.C. lining up with Quebec and Ontario to torpedo
the parley.

Unless the progressive forces and
movement take vigorous steps to make

We urge our readers to discuss the issues, study the pro-
posals, bring pressure to bear by letter, wire and resolutions
to the B.C. provincial and federal] members of parliament and
to Premier Hart and Mackenzie King.

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when the enemies of world peace
propaganda and maligning our
the part played by the Canadian-

This Weekk 1 wise! moran

RECENTLY in Hansard, the record of the Fed-

eral House of Commons, there appeared a Bill
No. 15, known as “An Act to confer certain
powers upon the Governor in Council during the
National Emergency following the War’. A
harmless looking: title indeed, but an examination
of its contents will reveal in Section 8, Clause G
@ principle even more vi-
cious and undemocratic than
was contained in the notori-
ous “Section 98” of Lord
“Iron Heel” Bennett’s time.

The Magna Carta has been
recognized as a fundamenta}
of British law and justice
Since the year 1215. In See.
tion 39 this great charter of
mans rights states “No free
man shall be taken or im-
prisoned or dispossessed or
outlawed or banished, or in
any way injured... except
by the legal judgment of his
peers, or by the law of the land.”

Yet, under this proposed Bill 15 which has al-_
ready received first reading in our Parliament,
you or any other citizen of Canada could have
your citizenship cancelled and could be sent into
exile without trial and: without even being charg-
ed with any breach of Canadian law.

Was there any feature of the Notorious Seec-
tion 98 that was worse than that?

Bill 15 places arbitrary and unlimited powers
in the hands of the Governor-in-Council to issue
‘ORDERS WITH THE FORCE OF LAW”, re-
lating amongst other items
those listed in Section 3, Clause G as follows “Cg)

must have such authority;
be lost sight of that it is very different for Parli-

Ar ound Town by Cynthia Carter

QNE day last°week—the day Little Carl’s father

stays home and plays nursemaid—TI visited
the local offices of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, to find out what the CBC was doing
for Birtish Columbia. I had a rough idea that the
director worked with one eye at least on public
service, but with the usual inquisitiveness of a
newspaper columnist, I had to see it with my own °
eyes. And I did.

I talked to Roy Dunlop, one of those nice-looking
men whose Seemingly jinex-
haustable energy is respon-
sible for the CBC’s reputa-
tion for young ideas and
When I ar-

which he
talk to me.

I asked all the laymen’s
stock questions: How do the
transcriptions work? Who
slams the door in the mys-
tery plays? How do all the
Programs manage to end ex-
actly on time? And where did the singing com-
mercials come from ?

Vancouver Playhouse show was being aired (“be-
ing aired” is how we people in the know put it).

I was very much interested. The play was a
pretty little thing called “Mother Goose Goes to
Hollywood”. Mother Goose was a nice-looking,
matronly woman with grey hair. A pretty girl in
a red blouse switched with ease

around in a

z a duck pond
in the park

splashed over the airways!

questions to ask Roy Dunlop—different ques-
tions this time—and he supplied the answer.

in-Council to. be able to ach
by an Order-in-Council, te
which have been adopted dy :
and which are not even subj\-
debate. : se

FURTHERMORE Parliame
such powers under Bil] 9;
Citizenship Act, Section ig.
government to cancel citizen
.ete., after due investigation
Viously thus overrule Bill _
clearly unlimited powers ey¢
could effect the status of
Such dangerous arbitrary |=
given to the government to
word: civil liberties will be
sham and a delusion.
Under such conditions no
what their religious faith, p
cultural or fraternal affif 2
feel free. As a well-known eg)
couver Sun stated this week, :
ever proposed such an outrag;
decent Canadian should comm:
of it for one moment. It shor
with a bang that can be hez.
from coast to coast. Otherwise
bigot proposing the deportat
speaking Canadians to Brane

[FE is imperative that this elay
3, Clause G. be amended So

citizen shall have his rights te

or revoked without a proper, ¢_

hearing—without the due Prac

ing complied with. ~ ae
Wires and letters

of protest
on Ottawa and particularly Pr A
‘Minister of Justice St. Laure: ©
lumbia members of Parliamen |
ganization, every citizen in fac |
cry before it is too late. Tt mi
to become law—You can help
NOW.

VES, he told me, about ninei i
CBC’s Vancouver output is 4
the program I had just seen. A |
effort made to supply the typi
teners want. ;
For example, he told me ak }
* Forum series, dedicated to th :
democracy work. Each Tuese: -
Forum goes on the air with th.
cussing a subject of national +:
throughout the country group: |
in neighborhoods, churches, scl S
the broadeast and go on to ex:
themselves. Study bulletins, }
ground inforamtion, questions
for discussion are sent out ¢
broadeasts, Later, the groups r}
opinions, and Foruni findings ar /
the air each week. At the end ¢
are analyzed on a national basis
study groups, government offici: -
ganizations. In this way, feels th |
of the country finds out what >
thinking and doing. (If you’re ii”
way, send enquiries to Citizen’s . %
Office, 198 College Street, Toroi: i
I asked next about women’s pr! J
grinned, as,
“We have programs of every ty 4
subject, to interest every Canad! 7]
said. : ae
He gave me a partial list. If;
enjoy them, keep the list handy.
are on the air at 1.18 pm.
All winter on Tuesday’s, 1
offers consumer information for |
Every Wednesday, “Women i
talks by women holding public”
parts of Canada on duties of w
Thursday, beginning January
Live’ series on careers of wome
standing social reform. Beginn
“Bridges to ePace” series on cont
dian women can make in buil

And on Mondays, beginning —
News and Views” on subjects
women.

The CBC suggests that wom
listening circles. Get a group
women together, chose a Girl Li
obtain supplementary reading Dj}
men’s Interests”, Box 500, Toro

You may not like all you hear,
disagree with some of it, but yc
ers group a profitable experience.
sometime?

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