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Island progressive elected

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.

Ratepayers of Lake Cowichan ‘School District 66
turned out in force for the annual school board meeting
here on Wednesday last week to elect Mrs. Jean Carlson

as school trustee.

Mrs. Carlson, who is pledged to work for imple-
mentation of a progressive program, defeated J. Allan,
local bank manager, by a decisive vote of 102 to 39. The
vote was announced following the meeting.

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WHO OWNS LABRADOR?

Canadians being

screened by FBI

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sts only

security for Canada

Canada would be in the centre of the battlefield should an H-bomb war start —

and logically should be the first country to welcome t
urther tests of nuclear weapons provided the U.S. and Br
Yet Defense Minister Ralph Campney, while admit

he Soviet Union's offer to suspend
d Britain will do the same.

ting to an audience of 900

UBC students Monday this week that our three radar lines — Distant Early Warning,

Mid-Canada and Pine Tree —
real by nine CF-100 intercep-
on Squadrons, could not. hope
th Stop an atomic attack, never-
€less persisted in advancing
on cutworn cold war line that
ae only hope for peace is to
a €t aggression with the threat
retaliation.”
And the Vancouver Sun, in a
Sit of front page articles this
ek, took the position that the
Ople have “no choice” in de-
Tmining the issue of H-bomb
ay or world peace, and our
“hy hope for survival is
Tough civil defense.”
For the Canadian people, the

most important part of the an-
nouncement of the Soviet He
bomb test, described. as having
a power of several million tons
of TNT, was the declaration by
the Soviet government that it
“has stood and does stand for
the prohibition of atomic and
thermo-nuclear weapons” and
for the exclusively peaceful use
of atomic energy.

In a dramatic broadcast beam-
ed to North America on Tues-
day, a Moscow commentator
made this Soviet offer:

“The USSR suggests that
countries which possess nuclear,

weapons pledge to discontinue
their testing. We are ready to
do so right here and now if
other powers possessing such
weapons agree to do the same.”

Here was an opportunity for
Canada to take the lead in urg-
ing the United States and Bri-
tain to accept this offer and
banish the threat of atomic war.

Instead, we witness the sorry
spectacle of Defense Minister
Campney, pursuing the hope-
less policy of “strength before
agreement,” calling for “faster

Continued on back page
See H-TESTS

MONTREAL

Canadian citizens applying for jobs in a Canadian city
have to go through a thorough FBI investigation, and sub-
mit to fingerprinting by the U.S. secret police.

Young Canadian girls working as waitresses are forced
to sign a racist pledge not to fraternize with Negroes.

Canadian workers employed
by a U.S. company are compell-
ed to work 60 hours a week, at
below standard wages while
Americans working on the same
project enjoy privileges denied
to Canadian employees.

These facts were given to the
Pacific Tribune by a French-
Canadian worker of Montreal,
recently returned from Labra-
dor, where he was employed for
three months by Drake and
Merritt Company, biggest con-
tractors at the U.S. base in Lab-
rador.

Here is his own story:

The geography maps say that
Labrador belongs to Canada. In
school we are taught that Lab-

rador is part of Canada. But it
is difficult’ to believe it, when
you are there.

I went to work at the huge
U.S. base in Labrador three
months ago. On arriving, I first
had to pass through the offices
of the FBI in Goose Bay, a Can-
adian city. Here I was, a Can-
adian citizen, working in my
own country, having my picture
taken by the FBI, being finger-
printed. like a criminal. I had
to tell my whole life history to
an FBI agent, who took down
all my statements, including, to
be sure, the assurance that I
was completely ignorant of poli-

Continued on back page
See U. S. BASE

Jail deaths hit
by Effie Jones

The case of a man falsely arrested on a drunk charge
who died in city jail November 15 of an overdose of barbitur-
ates after he was left lying unattended on a cold floor for al-
most three hours, drew a strong comment this week from
Effie Jones, independent aldermanic candidate in the coming

civic elections.

“Responsibility lies not only
with jail officials, but with the
Non-Partisan Association which
rules Vancouver’s city council,”
said Mrs. Jones. “NPA alder-
men have turned a deaf ear in
the past to requests that com-
petent medical help be on duty
at all times at the police sta-
tion, and that a few hospital
beds be installed in the jail.

“In the case of this latest
victim of neglect, James Conly,

evidence given at the inquest.

shows that the police matron,
who is a registered nurse, was
off duty at the time and the
police woman who replaced her

was not qualified to examine ’

or treat ill persons.”

Conly was arrested on a
drunk charge, and was laid
out on the floor in a cell in
block four. At the inquest a
constable testified that Con-
ly “appeared to be all right”
when “checked” at midnight
and 1 am. but was found dead
shortly after 2 a.m.

Dr. T. R. Harmon, city path-
ologist, testified there was no
alcohol in Conley’s blood.

“This is not the first death of
this kind that has taken place
in Vancouver city jail,” said
Mrs. Jones. “Our NPA Mayor
Fred Hume is head of the police
commission, but has done
nothing on previous occasiosn

to prevent repetition of such
tragedies Nothing will be done,
I suppose, until citizens go to the
polls and turn out the present

To speak in city

Mrs. Helen Sobell, wife of
Morton Sobel, young U.S.
scientist now serving a 30-year
term in Aleatraz on the same
type of framed evidence that

sent Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

to the electric chair, will speak
at Pender Auditorium here this
coming Sunday, December 4, at
8 p.m. A nation-wide campaign
is underway to win her hus-
band’s release.

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