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VOL. 19, NO. 8

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VANCOUVER, B.C.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960

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protested

Police intimidation

hy youth

_ A strong protest against attempted police intimid-
ation of youthful peace paraders is being filed with the

- Vancouver police commission and Mayor Alsbury by the}

Socialist Youth League following a parade on downtown

Streets Friday, Feb. 19.

About 20 teenagers. mostly
high school students, walked
quietly through the downtown
shopping area carrying pla-
cards calling for peace, dis-
armament and an end to nuc-
lear tests, when they were
Sudddenly stopped by a police
car at Cambie and Hastings.

Producing their black books
the police began interrogating
the young marchers. The inier-
Togation lasted an hour. Beri
Johnson, SYL chairman, was
detained for half an hour dur-
in which questions such as:
“Whai's your racial origin?”
and “Are you a Canadian citi-
zen?” were asked. Johnson
Said he was threatened by po-

| lice that if he didn’t answer

he would be jailed for vag-
rancy.

The young people, undaunt-
ed by this arrogant action of
the police, continued their par-

Unions to boycott
S. African goods

The executive council of
the American Federation of

Labour and Congress of In- |.

dustrial Organizations has urg-
ed its 13,500,000 members to
Sguth African

- goods,
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ade for another hour and were
cheered by people on the street
who gathered while the police
were on the scene.

Will fight again’
says Kurt Meyer

Kurt. Meyer, the Nazi gen-
eral who ordered the murder’
of Canadian war prisoners
told the Toronto Telegram in
an exclusive interview that he
was sure he’d fight in a third
world war.

“Td still be the youngest of
them if I went back,” he boast-
ed. ‘Where can they get gen-
erals — unless they take the
criminals?”

Meyer, who was sentenced
to death for his crimes and
was later sent back to Germ-
any and released, now heads
an organization of 900, se
former SS men. —

The Canadian Peace Con-
gress has protested the public-
ity being given to the Nazi
views of Meyer by the Tele-
gram. In a sharply worded
statement, Dr. James Endicott
said the Nazi revival empha-

omic arms for Germany and
| general disarmament.

‘} benefits: until work is found,

sizes the need to prohibit at- |”
Some of the 600 unemployed lined up at Franciscan Sisters Mission at 385 Cordova

diate debate.”

Not content~ with the
gov vernment’s complacency,
Canadians are demanding
immediate action on the jobs
crisis.

~

Following up their mass
meeting of jobless last week,
the Unemployed. Workers Ac-
tion ‘Committee . announced
they have asked for a meeting
with Vancouver city council
next Tuesday.

Their brief is expected to
demand action on a city, pro-
vincial and federal level for
jobs, unemployment insurance

and a moratorium on debts to
prevent evictions and seizures.

The Unemployed Workers
Action Committee are calling
on unemployed to back up

LESS CRISIS GROWS—
DEMANDED NOW |

Demand for an emergency session 1 of parliament to deal with
the grave unemployment crisis has been turned down by the
government on the grounds there was “‘no urgency for an imme-

The demand arose, following announcement in the House by
Minister of Labor Starr that there were 788,000 registered for work
on January 28. This was a 35 percent jump in five weeks.

} their delegation next Tuesday.

Also expressing concern
over unemployment was a
meeting of 9 Burnaby ratepay-
er organizations, Sat. Feb. 20,
which demanded the Federal
government assume full res-
ponsibility for unemployment,
an immediate public works
program, increased trade with
all countries, insurance pay-
ments for all unemployed and
an immediate 50 percent cut
in arms ,to make available
funds to tackle the jobs crisis.

As the PT went to press it
was learned that 300 more men
will be laid off in Burrard
shipyards during the next
three weeks, underlining the
need for emergency action.

(See Editorial, Pg. 4)

Nigel Morgan, Commun
called for larger, municipal]

have gone up by $57 million.

“Increase. civic grants’

Clinton Hall, Vancouver, Sunday.

“Welcome as the homeowner grant is,” he said, “‘i
is not a substitute for the problems facing aa
palities.”” He pointed out that the homeowner grant will
total $13 million this year whereas municipal taxes will

“We need a complete revision of revenues,” he said,
with more money going to the municipalities.

Morgan

ist Party provincial leader,
grants at a-meeting in

U.S. stand false
says Can. scientist

A Canadian scientist has
charged the U.S. Atomic En-
ergy Commission with ‘“delib-
erate and serious distortions”
in its public statements.

The charge was made by Dr.
J. Gordon Kaplan of Dalhousie
University, speaking to the
Winnipeg Non-Nuclear Club.
He referred to the claim of the
AEC that its “small” under-
ground” shot of Sept. 19, 1958,
could not be detected more
than 250 miles away. ‘The fact
of the matter,” said Kaplan,
“perfectly well known to the
AEC was that the blast was de-
tected by Seismologists in To-
ronto, Japan, Alaska, Rome,
and many other stations.’

“Was not the purpose of this
lie to show that a ban on nu-
clear testing was not feasible,
due to difficulty in detecting
such underground tests?”

Dr. Kaplan said 90,000 peo-
ple in Hiroshima are still
being treated for the effects of
the atomic bomb dropped 15

years ago.

Street last Monday. Unemployed lines are growing everywhere.

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