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Radiation: unseen killer

by Malcom MacEwen
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A Vancouver scientist has added his name to the growing list of sciéntists through-
out the world who are demanding a halt to further nuclear tests because of the already
apparent and still unknown dangers of radiation to humanity.
Foulkes, professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, and his warn-
ing was contained in an article written for a Toronto chemical journal.

Exact tests that could show the
dangers of radistion to mankind,

e che said, could not be made “in
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current problem.”

Even slight radioactive fall-

stage protest...) 2232

could have a long-range , “build-

Between 400 and 500 members of Local 213, United o get oe eee js agen

A It is clear that there is no

Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL-TLC) walked off <.r. jevel of radiation that is

their jobs and held an unscheduled meeting Wednesday morn- eyoid of possible harmful ef-
ing this week at Electrical Hall, 111 Dunsmuir, to protest fects.”

against the firing of expelled former business agent George In the same journal, Dr. Fred-

Gee from his job as a B.C. Electric lineman under the union’s erick Soddy, co-discoverer of

TIST ASKS
END TO NUCLEAR TESTS

He is Dr. James G. °

closed shop agreement with the company.

Overriding union officials’ pro-
tests that the meeting was “‘il-
legal” the workers vigorously
condemned the “loss of liveli-
hood’* of their former business
agent, who had played a leading
role in winning the present clos-
ed shop agreement.

It is understood that a union
delegation will meet with Local
213 executive iater this week to
discuss ‘the issue.

Charges against Gee and 22
fellow unionists were laid some
time ago on order of the union’s
international office in. Washing-
ton, D.C. The other members
were convicted and suspended
for terms ranging from 10 to 15
years. They can remain on jobs
and must continue paying union
dues, but are deprived of the
right to attend meetings or take
part in union affairs.

Gee was expelled and returh-
ed to the job he had been given
leave of absence from many
years ago when he became:a full-
time union official. But after
working half a day; he was dis-
charged under fhe union’s closed
shop agreement with the BCE.

Gee announced that he intends

to fight his expulsion “right down
the line.”

GEORGE GEE
Hired, then fired.

atomic energy with the late Lord
Ernest Rutherford, repeated his
earlier warning that nuclear test
explosions ‘fare fouling the air
with radioactivity,” declaring,
“It is nonsense to say they are
harmless.”

Dr. Soddy eabled a plea to his
Canadian colleagues from ‘his
laboratory at Brighton, England:

“| beg Canadian scientists to
demand a moraterium forbidding
the further mass liberation of
atomic energy. Even so-called
peaceful applications pollute the
atmosphere and may change
climates, endangering the econ-
omy of neighboring nations.”

(Under a banner headline,
“Radiation Danger Alarms Sci-
entists,” the Pacific Tribune pub-
lished Dr. Soddy’s statement and
supporting statements by other
scientists in its March 25 issue).

Dr .Foulkes said that A and
H-bomb tests had already affect-
ed cattle, which had been found
to have developed abnormal
amounts of radivactive iodine in
their thyroid glands.

He also voiced a fear which
has been widely expressed in
Japan, that fish in the Pacific
Ocean might ,be contaminated
and transmit radioactivity to
people who ate them.

A report issued recently by
the Federation of All-Japan Wo-
men’s organizations and carried
by the Pacific Tribune in its April
8 issue, said:

“The source of this radioactiv-
ity is not from the radioactive

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