i ee ee * Twenty-five Do jai fine. at Nelson, chose jail rather than pay of their children, held by the government at a New Doukhobor m or mothers, some of whom are — VOL. 15, No. 19 PRICE 10 CENTS VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MAY U1, 1956 wn above being escorted into court 5 on charges arising out of their demonstration for return Denver detention home. others protesting children’s seizure go to jail NELSON, B.C. Twenty-five Doukho bor women who were each fined $15 or 10 days in jail on charges of “disturbing the peace” last week have. refused to pay the fines and are now serving their sen- tences. The women were af- ‘rested after they had allegedly attacked Emmett Gulley, whom they héld partly responsible for the seizure of their children by Police. _ The 75 children are being held at a school in nearby New Denver, and the provincial government has announced they will not be returned to their homes until the’ Freedomite parents agree to send them to public schools. The Sons of Freedom sect of the Doukhobors opposes the . teaching of militarism in schools and says its adherents will re- fuse, on religious grounds, to allow their children to attend government schools “as long as war is glorified in teaching of history.” : “Byidently someone has been misguiding you regarding Gul- ley,” Magistrate R. S. Nelson told the Freedomite women be- fore sentencing them. Recently the Sons of Freedom published a pamphlet blaming Gulley, a Quaker and secretary of thé Doukhobor consultative committee, for his support of © the authorities who seized their children. ‘In Victoria the half-yearly meeting of the northwestern body of Quakers passed a reso- lution of support for Gulley- but not unanimously. The Quakers no longer support him officially or financially, and a minority strongly opposes his action. : Gulley is now a paid advisor on Doukhobor affairs for the provincial government. | juggles sports issue Bylaw up for action Monday — This coming Monday the question of Sunday sports will be raised in Vancouver City Council — and there are strong indications that a majority of the Non-Partisan As sociation aldermen will attempt to shelve the issue for months by asking the provincial cabinet to make reference to the Court of Appeal for a test of validity of a proposed bylaw. Mayor Fred Hume urged coun- cil this week to pass a bylaw authorizing Sunday sports “and let the chips fall where they may.” Council instructed corporation counsel Russell K. Baker to draft a bylaw for Monday’s meeting, but intimated that it will shy away from passing it. Despite plebiscite endorsation of Sunday sports by Vancouver citizens last December, the NPA- dominated council seems deter- mined to stall indefinitely. Mayor Hume proposed quick passage of the bylaw, which would force those who oppose Sunday sports to bring court action. : “It’s no good sneaking around the back: door and saying that we haven’t any Sunday sport — we have it now,” said the mayor. “Look at our municipal golf courses and the Crystal Pool which operate on Sundays. Let’s take some action to put the people’s wishes into effect.” Baker said he had discussed the question with several peo- ple who believed that such a bylaw would stand up in the courts. But council wants to hedge on the issue, and the only thing which might force it to recon- sider would be the appearance al the Monday council meeting of a number of citizens’ delega- tions demanding positive action on Sunday sports. Province takes up fight Panhandle issue arousing B.C. The Vancouver Daily Province, in a story splashed over the front page of its May 9 issue under the headline ‘Alaska Panhandle is strangling B.C.,’’ has taken up an issue the Pacific Tribune first raised three years ago. © An article, “‘Alaska Panhandle: Injustice to Canada,’ written for the 1953 Canada Day edition of the Pacific Trib- une by Hal Griffin, associate editor, posed many of the ques- tions raised by Doug Collins in the Province this week. “The Alaskan- Panhandle is strangling northern B.C. and the Yukon,” Collins wrote. “In office, ship and mine the verdict is unanimous on the freak of power-politics that de- - prived B.C. of half of its natural coastline and gave it to the United States. “The Panhandle won't let Canadians get from one part of Canada to another without hav- ing to go through U.S. customs. “At best it’s a nuisance and at worst a threat to the develop- ment of the northwest, “Once upon a time it didn’t matter. But it matters now.” Noting that the Panhandle “has been a major factor in stop- ping development of Frobisher Ventures’ vast power scheme on the Taku River,” Collins said “it’s obvious that a tremendous behind-the-scenes power play has been going on’ with control of the huge power resources and mineral wealth of northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory as the issue at stake. “The Americans,” he asserted, “want smelters to operate on ‘Panhandle land with Canadian power.” Following External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson’s ob- servation in the House of Com- mons — “The Panhandle should have been ours in thefirst place” —in reporting that the St. Lau- rent government was “consider- ing” approaches to the Eisen- hower administration on the question of Canadian corridors through the Panhandle, Ottawa is now reported to be making unofficial overtures to Wash- ington. Collins reported: “The Americans have set the stage for negotiations. “Alaska Governor B. Frank Heintzleman — recently back from the U.S. capital — gave the Province a strong hint that his country might be prepared to make a deal on a give-and- take basis. “He said in a telephone inter- view from Juneau that the ced- Continued on back page See PANHANDLE * Tim Buck, LPP national leader who has just re- turned from a visit to the Soviet Union, where he attended the historic 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist party, will speak at a public meeting in Vancouver on June 1.