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French Foreign Legion troops
have been flown to Casablanca and
tanks and armored care have been
rought into action to crush up-
risings.. of,. the. native.. peoples
against their foreign oppressors.

urder last week of a native labor
fader stirred Arab demonstrations

Iceland labor

Ousts Right -

REYKJAVIK
There ‘was ‘a dramatic show=
down between the rank-and-file
and the right-wing leadership of
Celand’s Social Democratic party
When Stefan Johann Stefansson,
Party leader, failed to win re-elec-
tion at the party’s congress here
ast week. Several other leaders,
all Supporters of Stefansson’s U.S.-
Me policies, were also defeated
i he Party’s new leader is Han-
nibal Valdimarsson, one of the
leaders of the general strike in
. © Capital which involves 30 un-
tons in a fight for wage and
other demands.
the Icelandic trade unions, at
clr recent tongress, unanimous-
Y demanded that U.S. occupation
Tops be confined to their bases.

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Tanks used against Arabs

cera a

against French rule, and some 50
persons, including leight Europ--
eans, were killed during street
fighting. The French military
command has ordered a large-scale
evacuation of French and other
European. residents... from.. Casa-
blanca.

Beggars must
be losers

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Commonwealth
Conference

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Effie Jones gets 17,000 for council
Progressives poll huge civic vote

Defeat of CCF mayoralty aspir-
“nt Tom Alsbury by Mayor Fred
ti ume in Wednesday’s civic elec-
‘on here is regarded as a victory
Y labor and progressive circles
SNerally, It was the working class
4st. End vote, on which Alsbury
ad. banked heavily, that gave
rec a surprisingly strong vote

from then on the issue was
‘ver in doubt.

‘ Final figures were Hume, 30,-
47; Alsbury, 25,545; Irwin, 9,670;
Toctor, 7,297.

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A Vancouver ‘workers don’t like
ebiry, is the way one trade

pion voter summed it up. “Better

ve a man like Fred Hume, an
emp

lover, whose workers are all

under union contracts, than a un-
ion raider like Tom Alsbury, whose
wrecking activities are a threat to
organized labor.”

Independent aldermanic candi-
date Effie Jones ran sixth in a
field of 15 candidates, finishing
ahead of all four CCF nominees
and tripling her 1951 vote. The
tremendous East End _ support
shown for Mrs. Jones, plus a fine
vote rolled up in other parts of the
city, demonstrated that her cam-
paign to rid city hall of Tory-Lib-
eral NPA politicians had caught
the public imagination, and that
she has become the real voice of
all progressive citizens fighting for
civie reform.

The four aldermen elected were
Earle Adams (NPA), 35,805; Birt
Showler (NPA), 30,859; Sydney
Bowman (NPA), 30,646; and T.
F. Orr (NPA), 30,326. Then came
Theresa Galloway (Ind.), 17,503;
Effie Jones (Ind.), 17,139; Victor
Forster |(CCF), 17,133; Magnus
Eliason (CCF), 15,437; Norman
Hill (CCF), 14,589; Lyle Wilcox

(CCF), 11,492; F. G. Woodward ©

,Cind.), 8,457; Albert Dunn (Ind.),
8,120; Arthur Riley (Ind.), 6,951;
and A. Driedger (Ind.), 3,372.
NPA candidates won all five
school board seats but progressive
candidates polled impressive votes,
with Dr. Joseph Blumes running a
strong sixth, a tribute to his con-

sistent campaign on the milk issue.

Elected to school board were
Anne Angus, 47,159; John Hender-
son, 44,389; Jessie Hollis, 42,526;
Milt Owen, 40,061; and Lorne Ag-
gett, 34,000.

Progressive candidates register-
ed these fine votes: Joseph Blumes,
28,540; Agnes Isobel Murphy, 24,-
616; Rosemary Fergusson, 21,624;
Elgin Ruddell, 15,880; and David
Rutka, 7,480.

Arnold Webster, only successful
CCF candidate won re-election at
the head of the park board ballot
with 42,301 votes. The other three
seats were won by NPA candidates
Buda Brown, Robert Maitland and
Fred Taylor.

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The three bylaws (works, PNE
development and BEG stadium)
all passed with huge majorities.

Out of a total of 172,026 citizens
eligible to vote only 73,523 went
to the polls. This 42.5 percent
who voted compares with 41 per-
cent who voted last year.

“Naturally, I-am heartened by
the tremendous support I receiy-
ed,” Effie Jonés told the Pacific
Tribune this week. “It shows that
voters want a change at the city
hall and are determined to get it.
I am convinced that next year we
can sweep the NPA clique out of
office — and I hope to be one of
the sweepers.”