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i Chief Justice Farris in a con-
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CHIEF JUSTICE FARRIS

Ald. Proctor seeks:
Public inquiry into
beating of Clemens

tay Or Fred Hume, head of
Sion ancouver police ¢ommis-
feng} Was very much on the de-
When a Tuesday this week
broy (plderman Archie Proctor
aga Wt the Clarence Clemens
ittee fore city ‘finance com-
‘imp and demanded that an
the cal inquiry” be held on
ley leged ‘beating of the mid-
by ‘a Negro longshoreman

on ° city cops July 19.
hang t® police ‘have this well in
“The Snapped Mayor Hume.
Buy watter is out of order.”
b eH ‘Ald. Proctor refused ‘to
thay paced. He 'told aldermen
Gene € ‘had visited Clemens in
day, *@l Hospital earlier in the
“ed described his condition.
threa Is In a private room, has
Sta Special nurses, and five
Saig doctors are on this case,”
taineg 114 Proctor. “I ascer-
S the ‘hospital ‘has an in-
Condiegg = chart on the man’s
Yaken ot, When ‘he was first
to let to hospital, They refused
Wouy d Mme see it, saying they
SUbpoe Make it public only if
feet ‘Clemens is stili
ang Y2¢d from the neck down

tq Mable to talk.”

My hens is before the courts,
ve to rule it out of or-

der,” said Ald. George C. Mil-
ler, chairman of ‘the finance
committee. 2

“No one should have gone
up to the hospital ito get evid-
ence,” complained Mayor Hume.
“The police are ‘handling the
case.”

“Chief Mulligan has said he
will welcome a probe if only
‘to clear the officers,” interject-
ed Ald. Halford Wilson.

“The police should have no
part in this inquiry,” respond-
ed Ald. Proctor. “They are ‘in-
volved in the case, so the in-
quiry should be carried out by
an impartial group.”

When the committee refused

to endorse ‘the demand for a’

public (probe, Ald. ‘Proctor said
lhe would ‘take his fight for an

inquiry to the police commis-

sion. “I have some questions
to ask them,” ‘he said.
The demand for a public in-

-quiry was first raised by ‘the

League for Democratic Rights
after the story on the beating
of Clemens appeared in , the
Pacific Tribune some weeks
ago. It has now been taken
up by many ‘trade unions and
eifizens’. groups.

Premier protests

SHIPPING 0

10 JAPAN

ORE

SHOCKS BL.

‘Are our national interests ito (be betrayed, our
security | endangered, ‘our natural resources
squandered, in order to rearm a former enemy?
Why shouldn’t we develop our own steel industry
and provide jobs for our own workers?

In one form or another, these questions are
being asked by the people of British Columbia
following disclosure that iron ore mined at Texada
Island is already being shipped under federal
(permit to Japan — a Japan in which war crim-
finals are ‘being released to plot new wars and ‘the
democratic liberties of the people, regained after
1945, are again being suppressed.

Further disclosure that Japanese interests,
now closely linked to Wall Street as 'the result of
intricate deals arranged during the American oc-
cupation, are negotiating to purchase one million
tons of B.C. iron ore from ‘the Quatsino Mining
‘Company, thas aroused public opinion in this prov-

ince. This is reflected in the protest sent to Ot-
tawa by Premier W. A. C. Besnett and echoed
this week in Vancouver City Council.

B.C. residents remember that scrap iron
shipped from B.C. ports, copper mined in B.C.
‘mines, went into the war materials used against
the Chinese people. And ultimately, they were
used against Canadians at Hongkong. ;

Already B.C. iron ore, returning ito Canada in
the form of processed steel, is being used more
subtly against Canadians — to rob them of the
jobs they might have if that steel were manufac-
tured in this province. And the prospect of a
B.C. steel industry thas been held out by every
B.C; government since ‘Confederation although
the promise has still 'to be kept.

Tt is ‘time 'the people demanded an accounting

from Ottawa and compelled fulfilment of the
promise. ;