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“1 am going to sue the B.C. Electric on the fare issue,” Effie
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: that it would press for lower fares in order to force the BCE to return
by Steve Murdock $480,000 unlawfully collected from transit riders.
“This money belongs to the people,” said Mrs. Jones. “The

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Fasting for
our children’

NELSON, B.C.
Some 40 Sons of Freedom
members in Krestova and
more than a dozen in Grand
Forks are now in their third
week of a hunger strike in
protest- against the govern-
ment’s action in seizing their
- children and holding them in
a New Denver welfare home
and hospital.
Some of the fasting moth
ers are reported in very weak

condition but they refuse to.
end their voluntary fast until
their ‘children are returned to
them.

The children were seized in a
series of RCMP and police raids
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* See STRIKE

Forum on Padlock Law

Quebec’s notorious Padlock
Law will be the subject of a
Panel discussion in Pender
Auditorium this Friday, April 1,
at 8 p.m.

Speakers will be Rod Young,
former CCF MP for Vancouver
Centre; Stan Wilcox, president,
Street Railwaymen’s Union; and

Do a delegation to Victoria to plead for release of their children from New Denver in January, Harold Dean, barrister. Dr. J.

1954, and “Shik bead igs Bhat Minister H. L. Campbell in his office (above) when their request was refused, A later appeal Blumes will act as moderator of

,..'torney-General Robert Bonner was also rejected, and in recent months RCMP have raided more Sons of Freedom villages, the forum, which is held under

Stizing School-age children and removing them to New Denver. Now the mothers are in the third week of a.protest hunger strike the auspices of League for Demo-
“med at forcing authorities to return some 75 children to their parents. cratic Rights.

ONES TO SUE
BEER ON FARE ISSUE