Fascist DP’s participate in attack on Montreal rally Padlock police fail to knuckles on their victims. Ne- halt peace crusade By FRANK ARNOLD | jacks in their pockets, waiting | want Peace.” Thousands of citi- | Student Christian Movement pub- for “trouble.” Some = distance —MONTREAL : e. < i: 1 a agons were The right to speak out against AWAY (; AOUT Ee DAUROL WAS ODS drawn up. war has, in the past few weeks, | r Suddenly, two young men, become the issue in an intense : Struggle between Quebec’s pro- | flanked’ by groups of veterans : and workers, Sressive peace forces and a pro- Vincial police bent on enforcing | through the crowd and proceed- ed to address the people. They the government’s edict to black made their way Sut all anti-war protests. - rally called by the Recently, when some 500 people gathered here to attend a peace Montreal were Gui Caron, LPP provincial secretary, and Len Starkey, LPP provincial organizer, both war veterans. |groes in the crowd were singled ‘out for attack. A middle-aged Ne- gro woman was clubbed to the ground. An Italian shoemaker, standing in the doorway of his store, was struck in the stomach, hustled into the patrol wagon. Caron and Starkey were arrest- ed, charged with “causing a meet- ing.” Norman Nerenberg, Nation- al Federation of Labor Youth leader, was blackjacked and taken zens viewed the demonstration, applauded the courage and con- viction of the marchers. They reached Rachel Street. There po- lice attacked. This time a troop of 15 horsed cops rode into the crowd swinging sticks and whips. But, despite the 12 arrests, the multiple beatings and clubbings, the victory that night went to the men and women who want peace for Canada and the world. Next } \lished a leaflet which echoed the |sentiments of thousands: “We are |not Communists but we don’t think women and old men | Should be beaten indiscriminately |by Canadian police! We do feel jthat the right of free assembly | Should be -recognized here as in ‘other western democratic na. ions. ue? One of the results of the un- Council for World Peace they found the Carpenters’ hall cor- doned off by a hundred police, the doors to the hall locked and the meeting “cancelled.” Angered by the police gag, the Crowd remained outside the hall, men and: women, talking among themselves in groups. On a near- As Caron declared, “They de- to the cells while still bleeding clare the Atlantic pact is for profusely. : |folding peace campaign has been Quebecers woke to the cold realiz. |t@ force Duplessis to show him- morning tens of thousands of peace, but they won’t even let us speak for peace,’ banners pro- claiming “Pas de guerre — No more war” were unfurled. The police waited until Caron concluded with a plea to his au- dience to “go home and work for In the space of a few minutes the temper of the crowd changed. In the face of the police terrorism they grew militant. Forming up spontaneously, they started a march up the Main singing “Soli- |ation that the government was |self in the center of the war ‘betraying the country into war LCOmR: along with St. Laurent, land would stop at nothing, in- prow. and Coldwell. It has re- | cluding open fascist terrorism, to’ | V@#led to Quebec’s millions, in a keep the truth from reaching the |©W, Clear way, that the Labor- | public. | Progressive Party is the only | |party actively fighting in this by corner were other tight sroups, fascist DP’s with black- peace.” Then they struck, swing- ing blackjacks, using brass darity Forever” and chanting in unison, “No War Pacts’ — | On McGill campus a group of province against conscription and “We | CCF students and members of the jWwar, | Invite BudaBrown to civil rights rally Commenting on the reported anti-Communist tirade of Park Board Commissioner Mrs. Buda Brown, and her attempt to bar the use of parks for progressive rallies, Jack Phillips, secretary of the Committee to Defeat the LaCroix Bill has sent the following statement to the board: Report hits gov t| neglect of aged | By MAURICE RUSH | How do British Columbia’s older citizens live today? The answer to this question is given in a report published last month by the ancouver Housing Association and the Committee on the Care of the ged, which present a sharp indictment of present government policies. on its opening page the report i ate “Many old people are living . er shocking conditions in Van- hi SPORTS JACKETS from $19.50 Postage Prepaid on all Mail Orders 45 East Hastings, Vancouver, B.C. — We have your clothes for PASI ER SUITS from $42.50 TOP COATS from $35 SPORT SHIRTS from $4.50 DRESS SHIRTS $4 to $6 { CREAN AND STETSON HATS A PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 15, 1949 — PAGE 7