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Africans defy Malanazis

hint, More than 8,000 Africans — Africans, Indians and Colored —
Saati been arrested since the campaign of resistamce to the pro-
4 St Malan government’s racial segregation laws was launched
°Months ago. The Africans shown here have locked themselves
4 railway car marked “For Europeans Only,” one of the many

Police ‘assure’
Inquiry into
Clemens case

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Promise
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Residents
of Trail

Seek probe

TRAIL, B.C.
reiqe*tition signed by 88 Trail
May “nts. has been sent to
Dubie Hume demanding full
© investigation ,into the
Ne, "8 of Clarence Clemens,
Aah longshoreman, by two
f, °uver policemen.
W enforcement officers of
Use Canadian city are not to
Cam, 1Y unnecessary force in
the ng out their duties,” says
<: Uetition. “It would be dis-
lary Ul if Canada, and particu-
Wong C., were to acquire the
of ey ide infamous reputation
breath, U.S. regarding the mis-
De», “Rt of the colored peo-

amy te Petition was endorsed
Trai “cial gathering held in
Neeng August 28, at which a
of Tog smerican, Fred Whitney
scrim Angeles, spoke on racial
ination in the U.S.

“Members of the Joint Labor Council’s committee to combat
discrimination have met with police officials and were
d a full public inquiry into the Clarence Clemens case as
as Clemens is well enough to testify,” secretary Jim Bury.
Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) Tuesday this week.

hen Bury added however, that the committee. had found
Sing evidence” and that “the charges so far have not been

completely substantiated by
facts’? he roused the ire of dele”
gate Bill Stewart of the Marine
Workers Union.

“Clemens has been lying in
a semi-paralysed condition in
General Hospital for about six
weeks, while thé two policemen
who beat him up are back on
the beat,’’ said Stewart. cht
didn’t expect an. attempt: ‘would
be made here to shelter the
police.’”’

President George Mitchell
jumped up and demanded that
Stewart retract his last state.
ment,

“T’ll. retract the statement,”
said Stewart, ‘“‘but don’t forget
that the police in this case
would welcome any chance to
push suspicion from them-
selves.”

‘Clemens, 52-year-old ‘Negro
longshoreman, was allegedly
the victim of a brutal beating
by two Vancouver policemen in
a back alkey near the New Sta-
tion cafe July 19. He was
charged with “assaulting an of-
ficer’’ and later released on $50
bail. Since that time he has.
been hospitalized and his con-
dition is still serious.

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