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Bo A request that Attorney-General Robert
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€mens’ coffin at funeral last Friday. In fore-

Stound is Rev, J. Ivan Moore, who conducted the
ceremony.

ONS DEMANDING

the people of British Columbia because of the
jury's decision which completely exonerated
those responsible for events leading up to the
death of Clemens’ was unanimously apptoved
by the 111 delegates attending the ninth an
nual convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor
in Vancouver last weekend.

The emergency resolution, as passed, read:
‘Whereas, one Clarence Clemens, a long-

shoreman in the city of Vancouver was so badly
beaten when being placed under arrest in June,
1952, that said beating resulted in paralysis mak-
ing it impossible for the said Clarence Clemens
to speak or move his limbs one week after the
injury, and

‘Whereas, the said Clarence Clemens died
on December 24, 1952, from the injuries so sus

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