student foc rides ‘Taxi drivers give U.S. university town shocked by Canadian girl who spied for FBI This is a univeristy town, serene on its face. By JOSEPH NORTH ANN ARBOR, Mich. The stately homes of the professors stand behind smooth green lawns and flowering shrubbery. You get there on Michigan’s super-highways that pass big sprawling automobile factories that are like industrial empires. : I came to the great university of Michigan to get some notion of the campus climate where the students today wear buttons stamped with the green feather that signifies their opposition to the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. ; 1 had read of that strange case recently, on this campus, where Miss Daphne Price, a pretty, 19-year-old Canadian stu- dent here, had, on her own free will, notified the public that she had been an informer for the FBI and against her best friends. Tt was a chilling story, one that is so reminiscent of the days of Hitler’s Third Reich. Yes, what is transpiring behind the ivy and in the classrooms where once Plato and Lavoisier and Goethe and Shakespeare reigned? Is Judas the new statuary on the pedestal? Miss Price had been an FBI jn- formant (as McCarthy tenderly uses the term) against a student with whom she had been the clos- est of friends, Ed Schaffer, a leader of progressives on the campus and Second World War veteran, who will be a Ph.D. soon. I found Schaffer in his little basement -apartment where he and two other young men. live on next to nothing, cooking their own meals, subsisting like im- poverished students have immem- orially lived, watchful of every copper so they can get the learn- ing they want. . Schaffer is a stocky young man with a round face and quick alert eyes behind his spectacles, who - drove a taxicab here during the summer. Last Christmas he had met the young woman, whose photograph he showed me and that she had given him. Their friendship had flourished through the winter un- til April 1 when she came to him and said somberly that she had a confession to make. When she told him he asked if this was an April Fool joke. No, she said, she was deadly serious, she had been informing on him to a Casper J. H. Kast and a J. Ray Coghlin, Hoover’s men assigned to keep a Hawkshaw eye on univer- sity life, here where there are so many students from. foreign lands. _ She had been meeting the FBI men furtively, on street corners in the dark, in their cars, and in their office. : She said she told them that the talk was the talk of students, of philosophy, of art, of culture, of politics, and she had come to be- lieve that much of it was unortho- dox she saw nothing in it that was subversive. : ' She told Shaffer that she had come to understand much more, to understand the meaning of pro- gressive ideas. Was there any way she could atone? She had become en- meshed in this network because she was foreign-born in these United States that was once a haven for the foreign-born, and Kardash will contest Winnipeg mayoralty . William A Kardash, MLA, was WINNIPEG the unanimous choice of a nominat- ing meeting of the Labor Election Committee to contest the mayoralty in this city next October. His name heads a strong team of Labor _ Election Committee candidates nominated to contest council and school board positions, with special emphasis placed on the battle to regain the Ward 3 aldermanic seat for- merly held by progressives. W. C. Ross will be the Labor Election Committee’s candidate for council in Ward 8, with Kosti- Kostaniuk as his running mate in the same ward. In Ward 2 the Labor Election Committee’s nominee for council will be W. G. Gilbey, and the can- didate ‘for school trustee in the same ward will be Roland Penner. Mark Magna Carta Day Magna Carta Day will be com- -memorated here June 15 at a gar- den party to be held at 4022 Perry} Street. John Stanton, local bar- rister, will speak, and’ Fraser Wil- son will give a chalk talk. There} ig will be musie and refreshments, and a collection will be taken to| assist the work of the League for} - Democratic Rights. e W. A. KARDASH, MLA Refused rooms, denied restaurant tables in northern towns she feared that some harm might befall her and her family because she had gone out with a Progressive student. Her faculty adviser had proposed that she go to the FBI with her story. - x % Sor. I talked to other students here and I found they were overwhelm- ingly opposed to something they regarded so grossly immoral that it was hard to believe it could have happened in their beloved land: . : Listen to Miss Alice B. Silver, who is associate editor of the stu- dent newspaper, the Michigan Daily, a very professional journal, perhaps the best of any in the na- tion’s universities. Miss Silver wrote: ; = “Let no one think that it is just the Communists or the Com- munist ‘fronters’. who are afraid. Who is the judge of what the FB! will be interested in? ... So what is the answer. Do we shut up and play it safe? No. Americans have the right to speak, meet and write on any subject they please within bounds of the law.” : Too many similar expressions were printed in the college daily to recount here: they came from professors and campus leaders, like Prof. Arthur Carr, of the English department who said: “We begin to wonder what the FBI is doing, whom they are watching and why.” The reverberations go far be- yond the campus. As 1 mentioned, young Schaf- fer had been a taxi driver in Ann Arbor: It is impossible for him to walk down tthe street today without a cab pulling up before him and the driver invites him in to take him to his destination and refuses payment. The elderly Irishwoman who is the cashier in the supermarket where Schaffer buys his potatoes, carrots and vegetables had said to him: “I do not know what your ideas are, nor do I know your polities. That is your business. But when I hear that a teen-age girl friend of yours is gotten by the FBI to in- form against you that is my busi- ness. It is something ungodly. I could not believe such things can happen here.” Yes, they are happening here, but what is exhilerating is that they are being challenged ;once the Am- erican, with his heritage of demo- cracy, learns what i$ happening, he is not loathe to express his hor- ror and his opposition. On that, the .|college professor here at Ann Ar- bor, and the taxi-driver, are broth- ers under the skin. ; Oil coats Burrard Inlet to protect harbor waters. é As though tarred with a gigantic brush, the shoreline of Bur- rard Inlet is coated with heavy fuel oil spilled from an upset barge ai loco. The oil threatens to ruin beaches as it did two vears ag° _ when ‘this picture was taken after a barge spilled its load at the Second Narows Bridge. Already pleasure boat owners are com : plaining and demanding that more stringent measures be enforced _ Compensation for fishermen pledged “Tf the industry and the fisher- men cannot work out a solution themselves in connection with com- pensation coverage for the fisher- men, the government will act to give them coverage,’ Labor Min- ister Lyle Wicks promises in a let- ter received by United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union. The UFAWU had written the la- bor minister following refusal of the Vancouver Fish Exchange to consider payment of compensation assessments for the halibut fleet. , Native Indians demand discrimi Attorney-General Robert © Bon- ner, who promised to “look into the question fully” following a barrage of. complaints against Burns Lake stipendary magistrate L. G. Saul for declaring that “In- dians will be kept out of beer par- lors in Burns Lake,” has failed thus far to state whether or not a probe has been held. Saul made his remarks, at the recent convention of B.C. Magis- trates held in Hotel Vancouver. When his right to forbid Indians to enter a beer parlor was ques- tioned, the Vancouver Province quoted him as replying: dicting them one at a time or all at once?” A. J. Scow, business agent for the Native Brotherhood of B.C., issued a statement charging Saul with “acting as a legislator rather than a judge.” Scow pointed out that “if the case is allowed to stand, it would establish a precedent hitherto un- known in the mechanics of British justice. Its application’ could have no limits; why, it could even apply to other minority groups such as “What’s the difference of inter- | - Irishmen.” © Native Voice publisher Maisie A. Hurley said: — _ “There are about 2,250 Indians in the Burns Lake area and only about 50 of them cause any trouble they all be of a few? “The Indians should have the same rights as other people. If they break the law, they should be Punished. But they shouldn’t be punished before they break the law.” punished for the deeds with their drinking. Why should |. Andy Paull of North Vancouver nation end wrote Attorney-General Bonner de- manding that Saul be fired for his statement, “When I was in Burns Lake,” said Paull, “I saw that Indians who Went into restaurants were only. served at the counter, They could- n’t eat their meals at tables. : “In the theatres, they’re herded into a corner like a bunch of dogs. “In Smithers, when the Indians come down to sell their furs, they can’t get a room. : “Racial discrimination up there is rampant, and something should be done about it.” PACIFIC. TRIBUNE — JUNE 11, 1954 — PAGE 19 4 } Denial of mail rights threatens U.S. press By ROB F. HALL “WASHINGTON Hearings on the St. George bill to suppress progressive U.S. pub- lications by, depriving them of their mailing rights were to open here this week. A sub-committee of the U.S. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, presided over by Mrs. Katherine St. Georg? (Rep. N.Y.), author of the bill, is conducting the hearings. The sweeping terms of the St- George bill provide that entries as second class mail, permits . for bulk mailing or third class — ‘mail and “other postage rates at less than cost” shall be denied to publications, books, other printed matter and films which contain material “advocating political or other doctrines con- trary to the best interests of the United States. The bill says it is “prima facie evidence” that the publication } subversive if its name was liste in the House un-American One mittee’s “Guide to Subversive 7. ganizations and Publications” wae ed May 14, 1951. Other conclusiv® evidence would be appearance 0? :-|the Attorney General’s list oF ? |finding by the Subversive ActlV ties Control Board. Mrs. St. George sybmitted ' Congress a list of publications taken from the un-American CO™ mittee “guide” which she ne e would automatically lose thé second class mailing privilege ~~ her bill were adopted. The list included: d The Daily People’s Worl Daily Worker, Honolulu Recor’, Jewish Life, Lawyers Guild Re- view, Masses & Mainstrear Morning Freiheit, New Wor s Review, Our World and Polit! cal Affairs. : Other publications which od St. George said might be cover Negro weekly, and People’s Voie® Helena, Mont. . yrs. .