Drive launched for city swimming pool A protest meeting held in Pender Auditorium on Friday last week launched a battle for the building of a swimming pool at a central Vancouver site and elected a 15-man executive to press the issue. A delegation will appear before the finance com- mittee at city hall this coming Tuesday, October 27, to present their case. Organized by the Citizens Committee for a Central Vancouver Swimming Pool, the meeting quickly got down to business and passed a resolution protesting FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1953 Continued GUIANA gressive party had done nothing to warrant the accusations made against it. Vira was speaking to a dele- gation from the London branch of the Caribbean Labor Congress, headed by its president, Ranji Chandisingh, and the Federation of Indian Students’ Societies. The influential Hindustan Times has denounced the British government’s action as “cruiser diplomacy,” stating: “To suppress the rising tide of colonialism in a colonial territory by dubbing it as communism has become the stock trick of im- perialists, which will convince no one. It is to be realized that the only permanent solution is to end colonial despotism in any form and provide for full demo- cratic freedom for the people.” Meanwhile, in London, the Churchill government is striving desperately to justify its actions to the British people. r This week the government iis- sued a White Paper which did no more than embellish the fictiti- ous charges of a “Communist plot” to seize power in British Guiana which provided the gov- ernment with its pretext for sus- pending the constitution, remov- ing the elected government from office and landing troops to en- force the state of “emergency” declared by Governor Sir Alfred Savage. The White Paper made the fantastic claim that Dr. Cheddi Jagan and his wife had attended a meeting at which “a plan to set fire to business properties and the residences of prominent Europeans” in Georgetown had been proposed in the event of British action against the PPP government. (The PPP answer has been to call for a general strike and boy- cott, in which the only violence has been that used by police in raids on PPP offices and homes.) The British order-in-council suspending the British Guiana constitution must “be submitted to the British parliament before it becomes effective. Although Clement Attlee and other British Labor leaders have confined themselves to cautious promises to demand a full ex- planation, many Labor MP’s-are rallying to support of the grow- ing protest movement. One, Miss Jennie Lee, called last weekend for a “tidal wave of popular anger” to sweep away the Conservative government. She appealed to “every Liberal, every Socialist, every Commun- ist,” to join together to that end. She termed the “emergency” rule imposed on British Guiana “a dictatorship of money, a class dictatorship, a color dictator- ship, a gunboat dictatorship.” : l Sry WILLIAM KARDASH, MLA He asked... PREMIER D. L. CAMPBELL - for special session on wheat Asks special session William Kardash, Labor-Pro- gressive MLA, has called on Premier D. L. Campbell to call a special session of the Manitoba legislature to deal with the ser- ious situation facing wheat farm- ers. He proposed sale of wheat to Britain for sterling, cash ad- vances for wheat stored, aid in building farm granaries. - colony. “the lack of leadership shown by city coun- cil and parks board in permitting the British Empire Games pool to be built at University of British Columbia, in the face of public opinion and official commitments to the contrary.” The resolution went on to - State: “It is our opinion that the high-handed and arbitrary fash- ion in which commitments to build the pool at Riley Park were brushed aside reflect adversely en the competency and integrit; of the city council and the Board of Park Commissioners. “This meeting, recognizing that the need for a central pool in Vancouver will not be solved by the building of a pool at UBC, pledges to carry on the fight for a central pool in Vancouver, suit- able for teaching .non-swimmers life saving and all branches of acquatics, and for public recre- - ation. “We call upon the city council _ and the Board of Parks Commis- sioners to fulfill their commit- ments to the citizens of Vancou- ver to provide a central swim- ming pool.” Percy Norman, well - known swimming coach, was elected chairman of the new committee set up. Alex Gordon of United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union was elected vice-chairman, and Jack Kelly, Canadian Ama- teur Swimming Association, was elected secretary. Sobel! seeks new trial This photograph of Helen and Morton Sobell, husband an was taken before the scientist was arrested. d wife: 0 Morton Sobelly stoutly declares his innocence, was condemned to a living 4¢# ith 30 years in Alcatraz following his conviction as a co-defe Helen Sobell is speaking ¢ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. ndan ght! hroug a the United States in behalf of her husband, and an appeal is the courts. Students re-establilaa LPP club on campus Formation of a Labor-Progres- sive party club at University of British Columbia was announced this week, bringing the number of campus political clubs to five. Archie McGugan, who contest- ed a Victoria seat as an LPP candidate in the recent provin- cial elections, presented the pro- posed constitution of the new club to the Literary and Scientific Executive on Thursday last week. It has to be officially sanctioned by the student council. McGugan said the LPP club Every way to Britain barred, Jagan finds LONDON Every way of reaching Britain to appeal removal of his govern- ment from office has been bar- red to Dr. Cheddi Jagan of Brit- ish Guiana. Trinidad has refused to allow him to pass through that British The U.S. has denied him a transit visa. Neighboring Sur- inam won’t allow him to enter. But John Carter, whose “Unit- ed, Democratic party” polled 5,- 000 votes to the 77,000 of the PPP, is experiencing no such difficulties in his proposed trip to Britain. Clement Attlee, British Labor Hidden U.S. hand in ritish Guiana action LONDON The Eisenhower administra- tion of the U.S. is as deeply in- volved in the British suppression of British Guiana’s elected gov- ernment as the Churchill gov- ernment itself. First, there is the U.S. fin- ancial and political interest in neighboring Venezuela, whose great oil and mineral resources swell the profits of U.S. corpo- rations. The U.S. fears that suc- cess of the progressive move- ment in British Guiana may strengthen the democratic move- ment in Venezuela, now ruth- lessly suppressed. Second, there is the tremend- ous stake in British Guiana held by the Aluminum Company of Canada, which controls the baux- ite resources of the British col- ony and is itself controlled by U.S. capital. These factors are seen here as having much to do with the sec- ret orders - in - council rushed through by the British govern- ment. leader, appealed to by Jagan, cabled: “Regret impossible to in- tervene.” hopes to bring to the bea a speakers all national LPP © additio?® who visit the Coast. stu the club will St anleh qin groups for students inter’ LPP policies. in The LPP club will fight 4 creased government aid Y versity students, McGUse atss cated. “Students are sr ae in debt,” he said. ‘Th h fist ment is not giving enous cial aid.” as McGugan, 21, was born oh gow, Scotland, and came" gy ish Columbia in 1947. uated from Victoria His ; cot and Victoria College and d has ye pleted his third yea! a 0 where he is taking thé of course in physics. Betwee? * terms McGugan works in try and is a member of boilermakers’ union. Truth about British Guiana Sunday, 8 p.m. Hastings Auditorium HAL GRIFFIN Associate Editor of the PACIFIC TRIBUNE Hear .- a Oct. 25 Lower Hall pag PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 23, 1953 —