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VOL. 11, No#5

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Robeson. Immigration
barred: scandal bared

1 CAME T0
CANAD!
WITH 700
“NAZI DP'S'

E CENTS

protests
flood U.S.

consulate |

U.S. Immigration authorities at Blaine, Wash., stopped Paul
Robeson from crossing the border into Canada on Thursday after-
noon this week.

The world-famous American singer was informed that Wash-
ington considered his scheduled visit to Vanceuver, where he was
to sing for a special convention session of the International Union
of Mine-Mill and Smelter Workers this Friday night, was against
“the best interests” of American-Canadian relations.

(Word that Robeson had been barred at the border was received
when this edition of the Pacific Tribune was already on the press.
Presses were stopped and the front page made over, with only
scant information immediately available.) i

Radio news reports of the United States’ refusal te allow one
of its best known citizens to leave its borders—Robeson’s passport
has already been cancelled—brought a storm of protests from
Vancouver organizations and individual citizens directed to the
U.S. Consulate here.

“The pretext for stopping Robeson given by the U.S. Immigra-
tion is an insult, to a man whose whole life has been devoted to
furthering the interests of the working people of both countries,”
declared Harvey Murphy, Mine-Mill’s Western regional director
who led a union delegation to the U.S. consulate to protest the
action.

It is expected that the Denman Auditorium meeting at which
Robeson was to have sung will be held as a protest rally.

’ \ .
By B. M.

.

Last December I spent eight days at. sea with about 700 Canadian-
bound DP’s. .It was not a pleasant trip. If these 700 Germans, Poles and
Latvians were representative of most of the 130,000 immigrants who came
to Canada in the first nine months of last year, organized labor in Canada,
and Canadian people generally, face a serious menace not only to their
living standards but to their civil liberties as well.

It is one thing to know about the activities of strikebreaking hood-
lums who have been pouring into Canada at the rate of over 14000 per
month since January, 1951. It is another thing to be crowded in with them
in mid-Atlantic. _ Nazis and neo-fascists at close quarters are a repulsive lot
and their undesirability is brought hone with pretty shocking impact.

The ship, a Greek Line boat under Panamanian registry’ (enough
said!) had loaded up first at Bremerhaven, then Southampton and finally
Cherbourg. Apart from the 700 DP’s, there were about 50 French and

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