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A slight, balding schoolteacher last week spoke for the consciences of all British
Columbians. The voice of Arnold Webster, CCF Opposition leader, throbbed across a
hushed and unusally attentive legislature as he denounced: the ‘‘evil menace”
hydrogen bomb and called for an end of U.S..H-bomb tests in the Pacific. _
The speech was the finest of the current‘session. Webster, normally a quiet. and
somewhat diffident speaker, rose} 77777
to oraterical heights in a passion:

ate plea to ‘‘call off the experimen-
tal explosions and halt this mad-

hess.” 3

it is no longer a military or
‘ scientific question, but now if is

@ political and moral question,” ,

Webster said. “Our survival is
involved,” he argued, pressing
for international control of atom-
ic energy.

Webster’s speech came the day
after the visit to the capital of a
peace lobby sponsored by the B.C.
Peace Council which asked all mem-
bers to protest against American
H-bomb experiments in the Pacific

islands.

“The situation is increasingly
disturbing to all thinking people,”
“T am not one
who panics easily, but anyone with

stated Webster.

a vestige of sense is disturbed.”

“We must develop a state of con-
There is a place
for righteous indignation—it is the
only way to meet apathy, indiffer-
ence, resignation and calm accept-

trolled anger.

ance.”

Webster called for renewed
talks on the subject of atomic
energy. “Let’s keep the states-
men talking,” he pleaded. “It is
better than firing bullets and
dropping bombs. :

“There is a virtue in intelligent
men talking far into the night so
long as war is put off. We must
stop talking about the inevitability

of war.

“It makes me angry fo some-
one to say we must fight some
day,” cried the CCF leader.
“Only a stupid man talks about
the inevitability of war.

“Look at our children—come ‘to
our schools and see the fine young

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of +the

ARNOLD WEBSTER
“Halt this madness.” '

boys and girls like those in the
gallery today,” he told the House,
pointing to a group of Oak Bay
Junior High School students who
were listening to the debate. ©

He referred to the alarm among
the people of the British Isles whom
he called “the steadiest in a storm.”

“Still they have become very very
anxious over the development of
atomic weapons for war.”

Webster quoted newspaper re-
ports of the comments of scientists
on the devastation that could be
caused by the hydrogen bomb.

“Tt is almost unthinkable that I
should stand here and read things
like this,” he exclaimed.

‘In this matter of the hydrogen
bomb is involved all that we de-
scribe as civilization. This is what
is at stake.

“What I can do, by the grace ve
God, I will do,” he declared, wind-
ing up with a plea for the legisla-
ture to raise its voice on this over-
shadowing threat. :

Webster’s plea was received

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‘tack in which he was joined by

‘grave, and Turner.

proval from all sides of the House.

Provincial Secretary ‘Wesley
Black said that “it is appreciated
by all in this House.” ;

Liberal. Leader Arthur Laing
spoke of the leader of the Oppo-
sition’s “notable service ~ to the
people of B.C. in bringing to the
public attention the danger of tech-
niques and sciences we have, if
there is no brotherhood.”

Tom Uphill (Labor, Fernie) said
that Webster should be given great
credit for the courageous manner
in which he had raised the ques-
tion. © :

“Tf we all have courage and con-
demn the H-bomb, it will thave an
effect,’ he argued. “The trouble

what you really think, you are call-
ed a Commie.” :
Referring to the Vienna Peace
Conference, which he attended in
1952, Uphill said, “I saw more -
real Christianity there in a day
than anywhere else in a month.”
Bert Price (Socred, Vancouver-
Burrard) joined in commending
Webster. “The feelings expressed
by the Honorable Leader of the
Opposition are not confined to one
side of the House, but are shared
by people in all walks of life.”

Certification
of unions hit

VICTORIA, B.C.

Questions raised by Leo Nimsick
(CCF, Cranbrook) .about alleged ir-
regularities in the certifying of
unions for Kitimat operations of
the Aluminum Company of Canada
touched a sore spot in the Socred
government. :

The CCF member asked whether
any complaints had been received
about the certifying by the Labor
Relations Board of three AFL
unions which did not have a single
member in the Alcan operations at
the time.

Labor Minister Lyle Wicks evad-
ed the question, saying “I really
don’t know.” ; :

Nimsick then produced a copy
of a letter from the B.C. District

of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
which complained to the minister
that the AFL Aluminum Workers
and two other unions had been im-
properly certified. 5

Wicks argued that he had no
responsibility for decisions of the
Labor Relations Board.

Nimsick continued to prod for an
answer, during an hour-long at-

CCFers- Howard, Strachan, - Gar-
‘Both Premier Bennett* and At-
torney-General Bonner tried to
furn -the assault aside, but Wicks
was finally forced to promise that
he would obtain the answers from
the Labor Relations Board. ©-

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: Joe Louis, one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all
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back income tax. Although not broke, the Brown Bomber hasn‘t very
much left of the estimated $4,300,000 he earned in the ring and

from exhibition tours, radio and
sional just 20 years ago. Photo

television since he turned profes:
above showing Louis at the peak

of his career, knocking out Max Schmeling in one round at Yankee

Stadium on June 22, 1938,

Bert White's

SPORTLIGHT

AYBE you think you're an all-

round sportsman, but have
you ever tried chuan shu or wu
Shu? Boy, you just ain’t been

around, that’s all. Why, the
Chinese were practising these
sports when your ancestors, and
mine, were eating acorns.

The eurrent issue of People’s
China carried a feature article on
the traditional national sports of
that country, including wrestling,
archery, horsemanship,
sword fencing, weight-lifting, and
the afore-mentioned wu shu and
chuan shu.

Are you getting curious about
these two sports. All right, here’s
the gen:

Chuan shu means “shadow-
boxing.” But the name “shadow:
boxing” gives a very inadequate
idea of these performances, says
our Chinese correspondent.

“Ancient Chinese boxing is a

highly effective means of self-

defense in which legs as well as
arms are used. Its forms some-
what resemble French boxing.
One form is the Prototype of Ja-
Panese Jiupitsu. It may be said
that chuan shu adapts the move-
ments of ancient Chinese boxing
to the needs of calisthenics and
art, and in their rich Variety,
there is varying stress on either
of these two elements. Today
there are several hundred styles
of chuan shu.

in a typical performance, a
student from the Northeast, Chen
Chuan-jiu, - gives a> dexterous
chuan shu performance. He uses
the various chuan:shu movements
—thrusts. _parries, kieks, side-

steps, leaps, in a lively dance pat-:~

tern of attack and defense, re-
treat and triumph over his imag-

jinary. opponent. Every movement

is replete with grace and perfect
control of all his limbs... .

“A 76-year-old herdsman of the
Hui people, Miao Tze-lung, in his
wu shu performance, kicked his
heels with youthful exuberance as
high as his head. He took up this
form of wu shu when he was 20
and has continued to practise it
daily up to the present.” et

‘Several other sports of the na-
tional minorities were: featured
at the All-China Traditional Na-
tional Sports Festival held re
cently in Tientsin. Says the re-

‘port in People’s China:

“Korean girls from the Korean
Autonomous Region in the North-
east demonstrated trick jumps on

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 9, 1954 — PAGE 2

short-.

a see-saw. Steeke, an Uighur
from  Sinkiang, demonstrated
roap-walking on a rope stretched
at am angle of 45 degrees from 4
mast 22 metres high to the
ground. He is the only man if
China now who can do this feat.

With the greatest of ease he ca.

perform ‘various movements 0B
the rope such as walking blind-
folded, jumping and standing.

“Steeke said in an interview:
‘My father taught me the tech-
nique of this and he learned it
from my grandfather. It was @
family secret. But today such

_ things should no longer pass down

in only a single family. Yl teach
anyone who wishes to learn. Such
Hones belong now to all the peo-
ple.’ :

“No less than 11 nationalities
were represented at the Festival
—Hans, Mongolians, Huis, Uig-
hurs, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Tatars,

Tais, Mianos, Koreans and Mat-
chus.” :

Wrestling and weight-lifting in
China are entirely different from
such sports as practised in Cat-
ada. For example:

“In Chinese wrestling the pat-
ticipants fight three rounds of
three minutes each. Regulations
Stipulate that a round is won by
simply flooring one’s opponent:
The person who scores two.rounds
out of three is the winner of the
bout. Wrestlers wear trousers
and short-sleeved jackets held by
a belt around the waist. Only grip-
Ping of the opponent’s hands oF
arms, jacket or belt is allowed.
Should both fall to the canvas,
the wrestler who falls uppermost
is the winner. — x

“Weight-lifting is performed
with oblong stone blocks of vari-
Gus sizes into which a handle is
carved. The game requires not
merely lifting the weights but per-
forming Various skilful acts with
them. For instance, the blocks
of stone are thrown into the aif

and adroitly caught on the tips of —

the weight-lifter’s fingers oF
knuckles as they fall. An exper:
ienced sportsman can handle
10-kilogramme stone block as if

. were playing with a rubber —

ball:

“One performer rolls a pike
weighing 60 kilogrammes around
his body or twirls it on his back
or chest. ‘This is ended with 2
tableau. in which the lifter holds
the pike and four men besides
on his shoulders and thighs.”

x