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s-Herald

Here is photographic evidence of how the
Vancouver News-Herald cooks up a provoca-
tive war sensation in its own offices.

he News Herald’s “pink” edition hit the
streets Monday evening with this headline
stretched. 34 inches deep across the front
page: B.C. SHIPPING MENACED BY
POWERFUL RUSS MINES. The News-
Herald backed the headline by printing im-
mediately below it the two photographs

shown with caption lower left. Nothing like
photographs to prove a story!

But where did the News-Herald editors
get the photographs? ‘They lifted them from
last month’s Western Fisheries, where they
had been published as shown with caption
left center.

This was an attempt to pull a fake on the
public. The mine in the picture was a
Japanese mine, long ago. sunk by» the navy,
which had been pulled up in a trawl. The
Royal Canadian Navy, U.S. Navy, and U.S.
coastguard have stated flatly all mines sighted
off the West Coast since the war have been
Japanese.

Contrast that .with the News-Herald
story: “Russian mines, triggered by delicate
detonating lapparatus, are menacing B.C.
coastal shipping, fishermen arriving here
from the west coast of Vancouver Island
report.’ ;

Homer Stevens, secretary of the United
Fishermen ahd Allied Workers’ Union, says:
“You can’t find a single fisherman on the
waterfront who will substantiate the News-
Herald story.”

Continued on back page
SEE—NEWS-HERALD

National
emergency

Percy Bengough, Trades and Labor
Congress president, this week is con-
vening a huge conference in Ottawa of
TLC and CCL unions from coast to
coast. He has branded the Great Lakes
situation a “national emergency” and
says the government “is cloaked with
plenty of powers” to deal with it and
bring the strike to “a successful con-
clusion.” The entire Canadian labor
movement continues to barrage Prime
Minister King and his “labor” minister
with the single demand that the govern-
ment act to settle the strike of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union on the basis
of the Brockington-McNish reperts—

: which declared the two shipping com- -
~-panies involved were breaking the law
by refusing to negotiate with the CSU.

The fuure of every union is at stake.

(See pages 8 and 12)