_ election.

British terror in Africa

So many thousands‘ of Africans have been arrested in the British colonial regime’s terror campaign

to crush all democratic and labor

being confined in barbed

opposition in Kenya that jails are

filled to capacity and hundreds are

wire concentration camps. (See report on page 4.)' At the southern end of the

continent, in the Union of South Africa, Malan’s white supremacy laws are designed to maintain condi-.

tions such as those imposed on

farm laborers in the Transvaal (right) where they are herded from jail-

like compounds to work in the fields under the lash of white overseers.

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War veteran candidate for
North Van District Council

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.
A Second World War veteran and
leading trade unionist this week
entered the contest for council in
the District of North Vancouver.
He is Ivan Birchard, of Seymour
Heights, for many years a resident
in the municipality.

In a_ statement issued to the
press, Birchard outlines the issues
which have impelled him to seek
He states:

“J have decided to contest a seat
on the District of N orth Vancouver
council in the forthcoming munici-
pal election ‘as an Independent can-
didate.

“Those who are elected will face
problems without precedent. Their
terms of office will be during the
decisive period when the questions
of peace or war, of a major change
in Canada’s trade policies or an e€co-
nomie crisis: with consequent un-
employment and serious financial

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problems for our municipality, will
come before them.

. “In this situation dur municipal
council cannot ignore senior gov-
ernments’ policies, nor dismiss these
matters as outside its jurisdiction,
but must make representation to
the proper senior governments on
issues vitally affecting the munici-
pality.

“Federal government expendit-
ures for armaments have accentu-
ated an inflationary situation to the
point that municipalities face in-
creasing. difficulty in providing
funds to meet necessary services
without increasing property taxes
to an unbearable extent.

“Even if there were no threats
of crisis and consequent unemploy-
ment, our municipalities are com-
pelled to seek some more direct
assistance from senior governments
to finance schools, hospitals, social
welfare, etc., but with the very real
danger of depression we must be
prepared now to prevent hardship
for our people and bankruptcy for
our municipality.

“Representation must be made to
provincial and federal governments
to plan public works projects which
canbe put into effect in time to
prevent suffering by our residents
and to protect municipal finances.

“I am particularly interested in
the following:

@ Finding a solution to the
problem of providing more healthy
outlets for our young people, by
provision of greater recreation fac-

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to real estate companies and land
sharks, a form of taxation which
would discourage speculative hold-
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and so reduce the tax burden upon

municipal homeowners and small
businessmen.

.“If elected to council I shall give
my support to measures directed
toward proyiding the greatest pos-
sible services to the people of the
municipality in accordance with the
financial possibilities.”

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Film opens in city

‘Limelight’ greatest
Chaplin production

By CHARLES WATT
‘Charlie Chaplin’s new film, Lime-

light, now showing here, represents:

the finest accomplishment of the
world’s most talented film actor
and producer. With this picture
Chaplin has written a magnificent
poem to the spirit and dignity of
man. At atime when moral degen-
eracy and artistic prostitution are
prevalent in Western culture, Chap-
lin restates the profound truth that
man can triumph over all difficul-
ties. $ ay .

Chaplin is forever in step with
the times. During the Great De-
pression he created the lovable little
tramp who embodied the yearnings
of working people everywhttre and
fought and triumphed over adver-
sity. When fascism emerged as a
world threat, Chaplin mocked the
posturing and pretenses of Hitler
and Mussolini with the superb. sat-
ire of The Great Dictator.

In these post-war years, as a
perverted Hollywood culture has
carried the ideology of U.S. im-
perialism wherever American films
are shown, Chaplin has risen to the
challenge, first with a stirring cry
against war in his film, Monsieur
Vedoux, and now with Limelight.
This latest picture is the logical
continuation of his work for hum-
anity, carrying a vital message of
hope to those who may weaken and
falter in the struggle for a better
life. :

Many of those in Vancouver who
have already seen Limelight have
been a little shocked to find a new

Chaplin instead of the Chaplin they,
remembered from earlier films and
expected to see again. Part of
Chaplin’s genius is that he changes
his approach to his films to conform
with the changing needs the films
are intended to serve. Limelight
is a fresh verification of this con- |
cept.

The film at times appears maud-~
lin, but Chaplin invariably retrieves —
the situation with a flick of his.
hands or a twist of his body or;
more decisively, with a beautiful
little speech.

The process work in the film, aS
in all Chaplin films, is poor, but
such minor technical faults are
erased by the content and acting:
Limelight was made on Chaplin’s
lot in Hollywood and Chaplin never
went off the lot during the entire
production—all, ‘Chaplin films have
ridiculously small production bud-
gets compared to most Hollywood
major run pictures.

The acting is superb throughout.
Claire Bloom, the ‘new film discov~
ery, makes a dynamic debut with |
Chaplin’s son, Sydney. Buster
Keaton is uproariously funny in his
brief appearance with Chaplin if
a stage skit.

The music, written by Chaplin

‘himself, has a haunting quality and

the ballet sequences leave little to
be desired. Chaplin, incidentally;
did the choreography for Meliss®
Hayden and Egelevsky.

Limelight is Chaplin at his finest
and film art at its best.

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