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fire in home:

Nettie Rigby,

Little Annette (Nettie) Rigby, +
-year-old daughter of William Rig-
by, research and educational di-

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Captain forced to free
hunger-striking seaman

The sordid story of a modern Captain Bligh was revealed in
Vancouver this week when a court order forced Captain Nikolas Ad-
amis to release a young British subject whom he had held prisoner
aboard the Panamanian ship S.S. Azeuro during the long voyage from

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rector for the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union, died
last Saturday night as a result of
a fire, believed to have started
from an overheated stove, which
gutted the family’s home at 28
South Nanaimo street here.

When the tragedy, occured, Mrs.
Julia Rigby and an older daughter,
13-year-old Maxine, were Christmas
shopping just a few blocks away.

Around 8 p.m., Bill Rigby, who
was reading in the living-room,
heard the fire crackling in the kit-
chen, He found clothing hung on
a rack ablaze and flames creeping
up the wall around the stovepipe
hole. He snatched at the burning
clothing and managed to beat out
the fire, but when he found his
efforts to douse the blaze in the
wall were unavailing he rushed to
the phone to call the fire depart-
ment, at the same time shouting
to William Spracklaar, a roomer
upstairs, to bring the child down.

Tragically, Spracklaar did not
hear Rigby’s shout. Unaware that
the little girl was asleep in an
adjoining room, he rushed down-
stairs as soon- as he smelled the
smoke. s ;

‘Wiremen responded to the call
within three minutes and had to
restrain Rigby from going up-
stairs because the fire was al-
ready raging through the upper
storey, although only a small blaze
was apparent in the kitchen.

Fire Lieutenaht J. M. McWil-
liams reached the child and
brought her body through a win-
dow. She had been asleep and was
overcome by smoke before the
flames touched her cot. \

Offers to assist the grief-stricken
family in replacing furniture and
personal effects lost in the fire,

~ and messages of condolence have

come from a wide circle of friends
in the labor movement, from neigh-
bors, union members and members
of the LPP. ie '

- Among those sending messages
were Tim Buck, LPP national
leader, and Nigel Morgan, on be-
half of the LPP provincial com-
mittee.

The funeral was held privately
this week.

Gets acclamation

Sam Walsh (above), populan
labow school trustee, has ‘been
given an acclamation for his
1950 tesm on Toronto Board of
Education. He represents Tor-
onto’s Ward 4, and failure of
Tory reactionaries to nominate
against him is regarded as
strengthening the position of
Ald, Norman Freed in his bid
to top the aldermanic poll in
Ward 4 this year.

JOBLESS —

said one delegate. “Groups which
allegedly. worked on the jobless
question before, but in reality did
little or nothing, now find it neces-
sary to stir themselves.”

‘

Two meetings will be held in the
next week to discuss unemploy-
ment. Following the mass dele-
gation to city hall, Mayor Charles
Thompson announced that city,
provincial and federal representa-
tives will hold a joint meeting.
Vancouver's representatives will be
Ald. George Miller and J. Cham-
bers, city social services adminis-
trator. ‘In addition, Mayor Thomp-
son will also contact all local MP’s
during the Christmas holidays.

Trade union, Canadian Legion,
city and provincial officials will dis-
cuss the city’s jobless crisis at a
meeting in the Labor Temple on
December 28. Legion officials have
been demanding action by the au-
thorities to prevent mass unemploy-
ment and a return to the Hungry
Thirties, while the TLC Labor-Ve-
terans group has recently begun

to function again after a long per- | ¢

iod of inactivity.

With thousands of loggers flock-

more than 30,000 unemployed in
Vancouver at the present time, and
the figure is growing rapidly. It
ig estimated that the total num-
ber of unemployed across Canada

has reached the 250,000 mark.

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Japan to Canada.

The freed seaman, George Gary-
fallos, sought to have the ship de-
tained at Port Elevator No, 1 un-

anti-Soviet picture

At least one of the pictures
used by the Vancouver Sun to
iWustrate U.S. Lieut. General
Walter Bedell Smith’s syndicated

“On arrival in Japan, the cap-
tain refused to sanction a trans-
fer. I. went ashore and the ship
| sailed without me. I then reported
lto the U.S. military authorities,

til he and ‘two shipmates could | who allowed me to go to Kobe. In series on the Soviet Union was

collect more than $1,400 in back
pay which’ the captain had re-
fused to give them, but the ship
sailed just before a deputy sheriff
arrived with a warrant.

Imprisoned by Captain Adamis
when the ship reached port here,
young Garyfallos went on a hun-
ger strike for several days. Fin-
ally he managed to smuggle a mes-
sage ashore to Jack Rockendal,
West Coast Seamen’s Union organ-
izer, who contacted labor lawyer
John Stanton and secured the
court order releasing the seamen.

Garyfallos’ story, told in passable
English and corraborated by his
shipmates, Emmanuel Katsivelakis
and Nicholas Zacharias, is as fol-
lows: :

“T am of. Greek origin, but I was
born in Egypt and am a British
subject by birth.

“J signed the ship’s articles in
Egypt approximately seven months
ago, for wages of 28 pounds a
month, The ship voyaged from
Egypt to various ports in India
and Japan. While en route to Cal-
cutta, Captain Adamis cut my
wages to £22 a month. I asked for
repatriation or a transfer to an-
other ship, which was promised
me. .

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Season's Greetings
To All My Friends —

from

Anne Wilmot

Kobe I tried to join another ship, as phony as the series itself.

but as Captain Adamis had my A letter, received by the Pa-
passport and papers, I was unable| cific Tribune this week from
to secure a job, The Greek consul} Charlie Procunier, a Port Alber-
at Kobe placed me in the United} ni reader, points out that a pic-
Seamen’s Hostel for two months.| ture purporting to show a group
of Russians in the “Society of

“When the S.S. Azeuro returned| the Godless’ published in the No-
to Japan on a subsequent voyage| vember 29 issue is, as he states,
in November, 1949, I was put back! “an outright forgery.”

aboard. For refusing to work, I a :
was imprisoned until the ship I refer you to the 1936 supple-
canrhed: Waencoliver when © waste! of the Book of Knowledge,
forbidden to go ashore or have page 60, and there you will find
visitors. So I went on a hunger this same picture illustrating “a
strike, for I knew that. unless ar- article on the Soviet Union's
campaign to wipe out the illiter-
acy which was the heritage of
Tsarism. The people shown are
actually adults going to school.
Only a capitalist paper could

rangements were made for me to
leave the ship I would continue
to be imprisoned aboard ship and
might. never be returned home to
Egypt. Y

“Thanks to the help of the West| secution.’ The Vancouver Sun is
Coast Seamen’s Union and John not the first paper to stoop to
Stanton, I am now free, But I am” such forgeries, and I believe they
determined to fight for the back| should be exposed wherever they
wages owing to me and two ship-| are spotted.” ;
mates who are in the same fix.”

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