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ITH a passion and _ patriotic wnanimity
Canadians of all parties and classes are
Condemning and rejecting the sinister attempts
of U.S. McCarthyism to blackmail Canada’s
S0vernment and implicate External Affairs
‘Minister Lester B. Pearson in a phoney spy

Vancouver, British Columbia, November 27, 1953

witchhunt.
and across the nation public opinion declares
that McCarthyism must be fought and rejected.

The cup of national indignation and wrath
against U.S. interference in Canada’s affairs is
running over.

fight and reject McCarthyism’

Inside and outside of parliament

It is a healthy proof of the

virility of Canadian democracy that our people,
with one voice tell the U.S. McCarthyites to
keep their ugly snouts out of Canada.

In this situation the advice of Tim Buck,

national leader of the Labor-Progressive party,
Continued on page 7 — See McCARTHYISM

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Folk Singers tour province
Following their successful
Thursday this week, the combined group of the UJPO Folk
Singers and New Dance Theatre of Toronto, now touring Brit-
‘sh Columbia, will give a concert at Port Alberni this Saturday,

lt was reported this week that no more invitations were
available for the concert to be given at Park Theatre here this

The group will complete its tour with a concert at Trail on

appearance at Ndnaimo on

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“arson target of witch-hunters

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of Us 'nsulting attacks upon Canada unequalled since the days

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SMear c_enifest Destiny,” the McCarthyites are now attempting to
and | pret External Affairs Minister Lester B, Pearson (above)
hung. ( mail the St. Laurent government into abetting their witch-

®€ stories on this Page.)

Effie demands council

Candidate Effie
Freq Sat Week called on Mayor
*eeting “ “ convene a special

Neouver City Coun-
"estore mand that B.c, Electric
Mequate wUSit cuts and “provide
Calleg « S€rvice to the public as
‘ ADpeari in the franchise.”
Nis Week WS, 8t city hall Monday

Tones “°K with

eeg a delegation, Mrs.
Has the transit

3% Sery; in a report on
ed yet?” When in-

Not that the committee had
nN any case the

ig Qain mittee would not
Jonber 9 Until after the De.
Neg Clvie elections, Mrs

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TT to cot to ask

Mayo
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Pecial coun-
natty of o¢t action,
Bd Jone, Mother candidate

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m the aldermanic

race caused Mrs. Jones to com-
ment that “this cheap political
trick will boomerang.” She con-
tinued:

“Our surnames are the same,
but there all similarity ends.
George Jones, a bus driver for
the B.C. Electric, has stated that
he doesn’t want to be confused
with me, for he likes the B.C.
Electric.

“I am sure the voters of Van-
couver won‘t confuse us on De-
cember 9. They'll know the dif-
ference between this ‘B.C. Elec-
tric Jones’ and Effie Jones—and
they‘ll mark their ballots for me,
because when | am elected I'll
make the B.C. Electric live up to
its agreement to provide adequate
transit service,”

Continued on back page
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CANADIAN

VERSION OF
McCARTHYISM

OTTAWA

Now before the House of Commons is a bill which,
in many of its clauses, embodies the essence of the very
McCarthyism which all Canada is now up in arms against
as a result of last week’s insulting attacks from Washing-
ton on Canada’s Lester B. Pearson.

Bill 7, introduced by Justice Minister Garson, is only
slightly modified from the anti-labor, anti-democratic amend-
fhenits to the Criminal Code in Bill 93, the withdrawal of
which was forced upon the government last spring in the
face of a nationwide storm of protest. /

That same national protest is being called upon once
again by the League for Democratic Rights, the leaders of

which were in Ottawa last week, Thomas C. Roberts,
Continued on back page — See BILL 7

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Book Festival will
be held this weekend

A varied program is promised
for the third annual Book Festival
sponsored by the People’s Coop-
erative Bookstore here. High-
lights of the festival, to be held
in Pender Auditorium this Friday
evening and Saturday afternoon,
will be a symposium on censor-
ship, a skit and puppet show, folk
dancing, and exhibits of Indian
and Eskimo art.

On Saturday also, from 11 a.m.
through the day, Congress of
Canadian Women is holding its
annual bazaar and tea in Pender
Auditorium.

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