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Atrocities documented

This is just one scene from a documentary film depicting Am-
erican atrocities in Korea which has been sent to the United Na-
tions. The picture shows an American-trained, American com-
manded member of Rhee’s South Korean police cutting the ropes
used to bind’a North Korean civilian who has just been executed.

Supreme Court
says restrictive
covenant illegal

Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa this week ruled:
illegal a restrictive covenant prohibiting. sale of property

to Jews .

Negroes, Semitics or “colored races’—but racial

chauvinists in Vancouver openly boast they will find ways

to ignore the ruling.

Registrar H. L. Robinson--of
Vancouver Land Registry Office
stated immediately that a com-
parable ruling became part of B.C.
common law in January, 1911, and
has never been challenged in
court. *

“In court,” sneer the §race-
haters. “That’s a good one. We
don’t have to go to court because
we have other ways of freezing
out anyone we don’t like.”

Though illegal, restrictive
covenants as to “race” exist
in Shaughnessy Heights, cer-
tain areag between Forty-first
and Cambie and Twenty-
third and Arbutus, Capilano
Highlands, Westmount and
Briitsh Properties,

British Properties Ltd. bars
“africans, Asiatices, or those of
African descent, except servants.”

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An official who was afraid to
let his name be -published told a
Daily Province reporter there were
restrictions in the area his corp-
eration controlled. ‘We exclude
aliens, Asiatics and Negroes and
we discourage Jews,” he cohceded.

Informed of the Supreme
Court decision, this individual
retorted: “If that’s illegal, all
we can do is refuse to sell.
Va just say the land was al-
ready sold.”)

Formation of a Vancouver Joint
Labor Committee to Combat
Racial Discrimination took place
not long ago when Trades and
Labor Congress and Canadian
Congress of Labor unions fol-
lowed a pattern already set by
similar groups of labor in Win-
nipeg, Toronto and Montreal.

Attitude of Vancouver “big
shots” in the areas mentioned a-
bove shows that the labor com-
mittee hag a job to do in fighting
the racial chauvinists heading lo-
eal real estate corporations.

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Costly British drive
in Malaya collapses,
commander recalled

SINGAPORE

Budget estimates brought down
by the British government of Ma-
laya provide an additional $22
million (Straits, approgimately 8
million Canadian dollars—for the
campaign against the Malayan
People’s Liberation Army. This
is part of a total war expenditure

“og $158 million (Straits). Estimat-

ed deficit by the end of 1951 is $73
million (Straits).

Announcement of the increased
war expenditures follows collapse
of the latest British military cam-
paign in Malaya and recall of the
British commander, General H.
Briggs, to London.

Further

Document exposes
attempts to bar |
peace delegates

PRAGUE

evidence that U.S., British and French governments were determined as

early as last August to impede the holding of the second World Peace Congress is now
available in the form of a document which has just reached the Prague office of Tele-

press.

The document was issued by the Allied

Transport

Council, in which Britain,

France and the U.S. are represented, at a time when it was generally expected ‘that the
second World Peace Congress would ‘be held in Warsaw—that-is, prior to the announce-

ment from the Prague meeting of the Bureau of

Congress would be held Britain.

The document. clearly demon-
strates that U.S., Britain and
French authorities intended to
prevent as many delegates as pos-
sible from getting to Warsaw, by
refusing permission for transit
visas through Western Germany.

The document is addressed as
follows: “For Britain: Herford
BAOR 15 CTB 260, For United
States: Herford APO 750 United
States forces (via SMS) telephone

Herford 2941 extension 24, For
France; 51084 BPM 515.”
The document reads: “To all

authorities and all agencies of
Allied High Commission granting
permits or approving granting of
permits, ‘

“Re: World Congress of Partis-
ans of Peace:

“Firstly: It has become known
that on October 15 or 16 approx-
imately, a World Congress of Pan.
tisans of Peace will be held.

“Secondly: Allied High Commis-
sion has issued directives that no
person applying for entry or tran.
sit permit in order to attend this
Congress should be granted such
permit.

“Therefore all persons applying
for entry or transit permits dur-
ing period between receipt of this
letter and end of October are to
be especially and severely check-
ed, and all persons known to be
going or having intention of go-
ing to Warsaw are to be refused
entry or transit permits.

“Thirdly: This. letter should be
read in references to letter num-
ber CTB 26022/June 22, 1950, with
special reference to’ paragraph
five. :

“For Allied Transport Council
Deputy Director Foreign Section,
signed J. J. Hilligan. ~

Exposure of this latest behind-
the-scenes document follows hard
on last. week’s sensational dis-
closures (Pacific Tribune, Novem-
ber 17, showing that Prime Min-
ister Attlee of Britain, under
terms of the Atlantic war pact.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

Delegates

its willingness, on terms of equal.
ity, to help produce a common
program for all people, regardless
of other opinions, but who agree
that negotiations and compromise

can always replace war if the will
to peace is imposed on govern-
ments.

Seven commissions will report
on the final day of the Congress.
A world appeal for peace embody-
ing a common program for all
countries and for all people, and a
charter for peace to be directed to
the United Nations is now under
consideration. Other committions
will report on definitions of ag-
gression and war propaganda, and
ithe need for economic and cultur_
al relations between countries,
and the means of broadening the

base of the organized peace move-
ment.

Here are people of all lands,
creeds, religious and political be-
liefs in a mighty aspiration of the
people’s will for peace.

Dr. James Endicott, chairman
of the Canadian Peace Congress,
endorsed the five-point proposals
forming the basis of the Congress
call, and in the name of the Can-
adian delegation issued a ‘declar-
ation demanding an end to the
present foreign policy of the St.
Laurent government and demand-
ed a new policy on the rejection
of atomic weapons and all arms
of mass destruction.

Endicott said acceptance of the
fact that it was quite possible for
two différent social systems to
live together in peaceful coexist.

World

Peace Committee that the

Shipyard untons win
15-cent wage victory

Vancouver's 400 striking shipyard workers went back
to work last week after winning a 15-cents-an-hour wage

boost, but staged a short

“sitdown”

in the yards until

Pacific Drydock management agreed to holiday pay for
three statutory holidays, as prov vided for in previous nego-

tiations.

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To speak in city

Gui L. Caron (above) who has
just returned from a three-month
tour of Europe and the Soviet
Union, will speak at a public
meeting in (Pender Auditorium
on December 10, under the'aus-
pices of the Youth Press Commit-
tee, Caron, a war veteran, won
the Polish Cross of Bravery
(epuivalent to the MC) at the age
of 23, while serving as an artillery
lieutenant with the Canadian
army in France.

ence was the only road to national
survival, especially for a country
geographicaly situated as Canada
is,

Jean-Jules Richard of Montreal,
French-Canadian author impress.
ed the Congress when he pledged
support to the peace movement on
behalf of his people and declared
that the people of Quebec would
reserve the right to make their
own decisions on the issues of
peace and war,

Mrs, Rae, Luckock, eosident of
the Congress of Canadian Women,

‘and Wilfred Duffield, trade union

delegate from Oshawa, spoke over
the weekend at Krakow and Stet-
tin, respectively, to thousands of
Polish people and conveyed the

warm desire for peace and friend__

ship that is shared by the Can-
adian and Polish people.

The one-month strike resulted
in a real gain for the members of
nine unions involved. As their
yards remained idle week after

week, with contract’ orders piling

up, thé ‘firms raised their origin-
al 6-cent offer to 9, 11, 13 and
finally 15 cents.

The unions had _ originally

sought a 20-cent hike, but recom-

mended acceptance of the final

15-cent offer plus holiday pay
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CONCESSIONS pense"

Member volunteers
$250 fo aid union

Vancouver Civic Employees’
Union this/week launched a cam-
paign to get voluntary assessment
from all members to carry for-
ward the battle for union rights
and defeat the splitting activities

- of TLC vice-president Carl Berg.

Before the campaign got under-
way, William Burke, a rank-and-
file union member, handed the
union a cheque for $250, saying:
“This ig a loan, to be repaid at
the union’s convenience. I am
behind my union 100 per cent in
this fight,”

from 72 lands at peace congress

The 23 \Canadians here will

never forget the smiling faces of ,

children against the background
of -devastated Warsaw where
800,000 people died at the hands
of Hitler Nazis. Nor will they
forget the new Warsaw which is
arising ‘as an eternal symbol of
man’s hope for lasting peace.

This week the Congress will
issue a ringing call to all peoples
to make certain that “peace will
triumph over the warmongers” as
the slogan has it which is display-
ed on the houses and buildings of
Warsaw.

While the Yankee-dominated
UN supervises the invasion of
Korea, this gathering of repre-
sentatives of the majority of
mankind are making the real and
lasting: decisions which will de-
termine the future. ”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 24, 1950 — PAGE 12

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