i) i, Hg rene, Vancolver British Columb Ceaerber 3. concedes UBCM demands STORY ON BACK PAGE PRICE TEN CENTS ] eee Did NPA mayor know of graft? Dealing with alleged payoffs by Vancouver gamblers to Police Chief Walter Mulligan, Magistrate Gordon W. Scott, city prosecutor in 1949, told the Tupper Com- mission last Friday that Det.Sgt. Len Cuthbert had confided to him that Mulligan as- sured Cuthbert that he (Mulligan) had Victoria and the 1nayor—NPA Mayor Charles Thompson—behind him if he got into any trouble. (Thompson has already given evidence, but Mayor Fred Hume, head of the police com- mission, has not been called on to take the stand at the probe, although this has been demanded by Effie Jones, president of Civic Reform As- s : as Seas : sociation.) A M . s Meera Gace Orr, a member 0 e police commis- —McCarth yite question sion, recalled that in Febru- has Canadian Western Pipe Mills Ltd., a German firm which ary, 1952, when it was dis- located in Port Moody, includes a McCarthyite question in covered that narcotics were Pho “pplication for employment form (see story on page three). being smuggled into jail, Mul- Shows Mayor Joseph Gockeln (left) of Dusseldorf with ligan sent his written resigna- ut Orban of Jersey City, president of Kurt Orban Co. Inc., at tion to the commission. At the wehing of the Port Moody plant. Gockeln is a former board‘ time, he said, the chief was e riled because he wanted to fire €r of the parent firm in West Germany. Schools or guns issue how confronts nation By LESLIE MORRIS The cold war began in 1947. In the eight years since then, the St. Laurent gov- ernment has spent just under eight billion dollars directly on armaments and military LPP letter to federal-provincial meet will be published in our next issue upkeep—$7,909 million to be exact. And this apart from heavy indirect costs. In 1954, 38 percent of the total federal expenditures, or $1728 million, went for war purposes. ‘And to make’ matters worse this huge sum was spent not to strengthen Canada’s independent and sovereign military establish- ment, but in effect was spent to make Can- ada a lance-corporal in the huge U.S. war machine. The time has come to reduce this crip pling drain of our economic life-blood and to spend the money on the things the people want. It: would also help to cut down our dependence on the USS. The Geneva Conference of the Four Power makes this step realistic and practi- Continued on page 7 See REDUCE ARMS vag “Why don’t we reduce this huge arms burden SPend the money on education ... . 2” ’ an officer in question, but there was “some difference of op- inion” between the commission and Mulligan. Orr’s testimony was given af- ter a letter from Chief Mulli- gan charging a plot to smear him had been entered as evi- dence at the hearing. Orr spent a good deal of his time on the stand attack- ing the top officers of the Police Federal Union for “trying to interfere with management” Asked about charges of fa- voritism, Orr said that ““men were promoted above men which the chief had previous- ly spoken of very poorly ... There is no doubt that people get promoted over the heads of other people . . . There just isn’t room at the top for every- one ... That is none of the un- Continued on back page See PROBE EX-MAYOR THOMPSON Did he back Chief? Morgan rebukes Campney Defense Minister Ralph Campney was sharply rebuk- ed this week by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, for his statement that Canadians are apathetic towards their govern- ment and should not be lulled by Soviet overtures to end the cold war. Campney, in a_ speech to Vancouver Board of Trade’s advertising and sales bureau last week, said: “I am some- times filled with a feeling of utter. discouragement at the apathy of our people today in respect of how they are gov- erned.” He urged people not to “reach out too eagerly” to grasp what he termed Soviet “blandishments” and said that Canada must maintain her armed strength. Speaking in East Vancouver on Tuesday this week, Morgan retorted: “It’s not the people who. are apathetic towards their govern- ment. It’s the Liberal govern- ment at Ottawa which has be- Continued on back page See SPECIAL SESSION 48,000 peace signatures Total number of signatures collected in B.C. to the World Appeal Against Preparations for Atomic War now stands at 47- 776, B. C. Peace Council announced this week. \ “We expect the total to soar well over 50,000 this Satur- day (September 24) when a mass street canvass will be held,” said Ray Gardner, chairman, B.C. Peace Council. “Every signature helps bring the day closer when the nations will be forced to destroy all stocks of atomic weapons and ban their manufacture.” Meanwhile, the council is also preparing for the Canadian Forum on Peace to be held November 5-6 in Toronto. Gardner has been named to represent the council. ee ee ee ee ee