oh AL Wt th || Canadians among delegates at the Berlin Youth Festival. THE SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE —— Bend an ear while I sound off for a few moments on the great preparations for the coming World Youth Festival for Peace and Friendship in Bucharest, Rumania, and the lack of preparations for the British Empire Games in Vancouver, B.C. This year’s World Youth Festival will be even bigger and better than the tliree previous ones, Prague (1947), Budapest (1949) and Berlin (1951). Some 100 delegates will go from Canada, four of them from B.C. according to present plans. They will meet young people attending; from all over the world, representing every shade of political and religious belief and every sports interest imaginable. : Biggest job of the Bucharest youth is to complete a_ sports stadium to seat 80,000 people for the opening of the festival on August 2. They Say it will be finished on time. - And here at home, how goes it with preparations for the 1954 British Empire Games? It does not go at all well. Although the people of Vancouver won a great victory in forcing authorities to shift the BEG swimming pool site from UBC to a central city location, general work on the games is lagging badly, and publicity is almost non-existent. aN One year is a very short time in which to build a stadium at Exhibition Park, a pool, and make the other preparations for the holding of the games. It is high time our BEG officials began to cut the- mustard! * * * The gamblers are calling Yanks and Dodgers to meet again in the 1953 World Series. It must be recognized that the gamblers usually are right, nevertheless, I’m predicting a subway series between’ the Yanks and Giants. Here’s what my crystal ball tells me: American League teams to finish in this order: New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Washington, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis. National League: New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh. * * * Probably you don’t care, but followers of table tennis are all lathered up over an international debate on what’s wrong with the game from a spectator standpoint. The majority school has reached, the conclusion that offensive play (in place of stone-walling, or wait- ing for an opponent to make an error) would revitalize the sport. For some reason, table tennis addicts blow a gasket whenever anyone refers to their favorite sport as “ping-pong.” They swear it is orfe of the most exciting and strenuous indoor forms of recreation, and strictly not for the muscle-bound. In an effort to cut down on dull, defensive play, which is seriously hurting attendance figures at international matches, a time limit of 20 minutes per game has been set, and this may even be reduced to 15 minutes. The Swaything Cup is to table tennis what the Stanley Cup is to hockey. Present holder: Hungary. - SM Te TT TR — LPP candidates will fight gag-rule policy, says Morris TORONTO “Every Labor-Progressive party federal candidate will fight tooth and nail against the gag-rule policy that is beginning to assert itself in the election campaign through the arbitrary denial to them of the use of schools, public halls and radio stations,” Leslie Morris, national LPP federal election manager, declared last week. “We will carry this issue to the people of every riding where.we have candidates. We will fight for equality before the electorate until the principle of freedom of speech and assembly is won,” he added. ‘Toronto Parkdale riding LPP members have now followed the lead of York South in opening a door-to-door petition urging that Toronto Board of Education recon- sider its ban on LPP candidates. Refusal of North York Board of Education to permit use of the C. B. Parsons school for a nom- ination meeting of the LPP York Centre Constituency Committee was also scored in a letter to the press written by David Kashtan recently. It was the third such applica- _tion turned down in recent weeks. Terming the action “a flagrant abuse of the civil rights of the people,” Kashtan declar- ed it would mean citizens would be compelled to hear only those “whose political platform con- forms to the views held by the board.” “This action,” Kashtan wrote, “denies freedom of assembly to a recognized political party. The right to hold public meetings is a fundamental part of our parlia- mentary system. The people have the Sovereign right to decide to whom they wish to listen. The Labor-Progressive party has a pro- portionate right to the use of as- sembly accommodation.” Stewart Smith, LPP Greenwood candidate, has just forwarded an application for use of a school in his riding for an election meeting. “We intend to press for the right to present our views to the elec- torate on an equal basis with the candidates of all) political parties,” Smith said. On March 19, three Toronto Board of Education trustees join- ed with Trustee Mrs. Edna Ryer- son to urge rescinding of a five- year-old decision of the board bar- ring schools to the LPP, following appearance of a delegation led by Stewart Smith. “Toronto and York Township boards of education are the only two school boards in the Domin- ion of Canada that limit freedom of assembly,” charged Mrs. Mar- gery Ferguson, LPP York East federal nominee, in ‘the noon hour LPP radio series “Put Can- ada First’ over CKFH recently. “Why should the Liberals and Tories be allowed the school to present their platform and not the Labor-Progressive party? Are the old line parties afraid? ... Tf they are not afraid why not en- courage the greatest public debate and discussion so that everyone will be in possession of the facts and then decide who they want to support and vote for,” the LPP spokesman declared. Committee to fix pool site City site for the British Empire Games swimming pool will prob- ably be decided after next Mon- day’s meeting of Vancouver Park Board sports committee. The board this week asked the sports committee to make a final deci- sion. If the money bylaw for roofing the pool, which goes before citi- zens next December, is defeated, the board won’t build a roof, it was decided. “That not our concern,” said chairman Arnold Webster. The Citizens Committee for a Greater Vancouver Swimming Pool, which played a major role in forcing city council to re- verse a previous decision and locate the pool in the city, rather than at UBC, has announced that it will campaign for a “Yes” vote on the money bylaw. Jobless worker charges police manhandled him Victor Redman, 1120 Barclay, an unemployed worker, visited the Pacific Tribune office last week to charge that he was manhandled by Vancouver city police a year ARO, 23: ‘TJ was arrested on March 1, 1952,” said Redman. “On March 3 I paid a fine, then went up to see Mayor Fred Hume, who look- ed at the bruises on my back and promptly called in Chief Con- stable Walter Mulligan and order- ed an investigation. But the so- called investigation was a farce.” Redman produced a newspaper picture and clipping from the Vancouver Province of March 15, 1952. The clipping quoted Chief Mulligan as saying Redman’s in- juries resulted from “resistance to arrest.” . The Province story said, in part: “Mr. Redman appeared with his arm in a sling, but explained his injury as a ‘severe sprain.’ “He admitted he was drunk at the time of the alleged assault on a downtown street. ... “Redman declared a friend was taking him home about 11 p.m. when two policemen ‘put me down on the sidewalk, handcuffed me and dragged me 100 feet on my back’ to the patrol wagon.” Redman told the Pacific Tribune that police twisted the handcuffs on his wrists while dragging him to the wagon, and kicked him. “In the wagon I was knocked out and came to in a police cell,” he said. “TJ do not deny that I was drunk at the time,’ Redman continued. “But that was no excuse for the brutal treatment I received. I decided to plead guilty to a ‘drunk and disorderly’ charge and pay the fine, hoping to get a full investi- gation of the matter later. But no real investigation was ever | held.” Clemens transcript tion, I want to point out that the word appears to have been use here in the sense that white Pe ple, yellow people, or red skins are frequently to be found in com 1 mon usage. I am sure you WY . recognize that in such usage, 2? matter of policy or discriminatio? or want of courtesy is involved. ‘In his reply Attornew-Gener@! Bonner falls into the chauvit istic error of equating Negr? with color — white, yellow oF red — and thus denies the Negroes definition as a peoples but treats them instead in 2 racial sense, on the basis ° color. “While Bonner’s staff did not prepare the ,transcript, the i torney-general should certa! oo take up the matter with CorD®, Whitebread and his staff her said Mrs. ‘Curtis. i ZENITH CAFE 105 BE. 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