lron workers Doukhobor women convicted

represented

by Minshall

the Iron Work-

be represented

97 of

ers ee n will

at the royal commission hear-
ings to investigate the causes
of the Second Narrows Bridge
June 17 by Lieut.-

Minshall, former

Bridge executive
engineer.

Dominion

and consultant
Local 97 had re-
Bennett gov-
royal com-
Justice - Sher-
Col. Minshall

one of the

Previously,
quested of the
ernment and its

Chief

Lett, that

wood
be selected as com-
mission’s panel of engineering

since the Iron Work-

experts,
ers Union membership had the
lence” in_ his

conf

“utmost

-onsulting and

er. This

re-

quest was refu

use a.

ent effort how-
Workers Union,
rs were among
in the Second Nar-
have the

won
choice of a
attend the
union’s repre-

o have its

evnitant o
consultant eng

ineer
as the
Hearings opened, this

hearing:

sentative.

week.

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VICTORIA, B.C.—Three Doukhobor women, Tiny Esovolof, Ann Barisoff and Nastai
Barrisoff, were found guilty of assault in a Victoria court this week and given a six-months

suspended sentence.

The assault charges arose
out of an interview between
the Doukhobor mothers
charged and a number of other
Doukhobor parents, with Ruby
McKay, Provincial Child Wel-
fare superintendent, in the
latter’s ofice on June 27.
The Doukhobor delegation
had gone to the Child Welfare
department to plead permis-
sion for the return home of
their children from the New
Denver school during the holi-

day season.

In the interview. between the

Doukhobor parents with Miss
McKay, as brought out at the

cross-examination
by defense lawyer Harold
Dean of Vancouver, Miss Mc-
Kay admitted that during her
interview with the Doukhobor
mothers she may have. told
them that she herself — felt
“there is no length to which I
would not go for my child.”
Dean described such a state-
ment in such. circumstances
“a form of provocation.”

trial under

The court charges arose out
of a fracas which ultimately
developed in the Child Wel-
fare office, in which the Douk-

hobor mothers are alleged to
have “ripped” the superin-
tendent’s clothing.

The Bennett
“solution” to
problem of
of Sons of Freedom
has been to seize and hold
them in the New Denver
school which many individuals
and organizations other than
the Sons of Freedom them-
selves have described as vir-
tual “concentration camp.”
Meantime the Doukhobor
people of Kootenay, Grand
Forks and Hilliers communi-
ties have forwarded a lengthy
letter to Premier Bennett and
Attorney-General Robert Bon-
ner, protesting the continued
separation of Doukhobor child-
ren from their parents, sharp-
ly criticizing the unsympathetic
attitude of the Child Welfare
department and its superin-
tendent to their parental
and advising the gov-
that “all such at-
(to deprive them of
their children) will be met
with continued resistance.”
The letter is signed by a
representative group of twelve
Doukhobors.

government’s
the long-stand-
the education
children

ing

pleas,
ernment
tempts

A. wire fence separates
children, even for the holidays.

Doukhobor parents from their

Bus drivers!
voting on |
board award |

Following a long period
negotiations on Street |
waymen’s Union demands
wage increases, a coneilial’
board report tabled this i
recommends a 12 percent off
increase covering 4 twory
contract.

«too Te?
The advisory committee ©

resenting the 2,100
workers in Divisions
and 134 of the SRU aaa
mending acceptance ¢ an

on the board’s award wi
place this Friday.

Aside from the
across the board,
limit of service for
week annual holiday wit
has been reduced from
eight years.

Te

The. wage hike will give m
drivers an hourly ™ eat

$2.09% an hour the first ie

and $2.20 an hour the § sect

4s
So far the B.C. proc
refused to say whether 9 st
it will accept the awal si
a Public Utilities Commis”
hearing in June Br pert iso"
president A. Bruce oul
hinted that his compan ny pe
have to consider “inet ast

fares” if wages were ine! ee

This would indicate * that ol
BCER will accept the © ont
ation board’s recomme itl
tions, then in keeping ‘0
traditional BCER pollorrs att
ceed to cash in on the ise
increase by further appe root?
the PUC for a fare 1, i6
just as it is now doing xt
current campaign for ine
ed electricity rates-

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