Mrs. Doris Lougheed, a ringleader in the V
publicly admitted that she was one of those
Victoria. Mrs. Lougheed made her statement

national executive member, discuss
Nettled by a challenge from

McCarthy to the city, Mrs. Lough-
eed rose from her seat.

“T have the honor,” she said amid
a roar of protest from the audi-
ence.

“You ‘should be thoroughly
ashamed of yourselves,” retorted
MacLeod, a former member ‘of the
Ontario legislature, “The people of |
Canada want no part of McCarthy.”

fi
i

business executives sho

; McCarthy that a secret organiza-

Speedy Recovery Unlikely,
Business Leaders Warned

J of C Editor Finds Only ‘Second Korea’ Could
Bring Duplication of 1950 Pattern for Upswing

Special to Journal of Commerce

_ MILWAUKKE, April 19.—Despite many similarities between the
Current business decline and the inventory recession of 1948-1949,
not rely: on # repetition of the quick recov-f
setback, Dr. H. E. -Luedicke, Editor of§:
id here today. ; : 4

Doris Lougheed boasts
she invited McCarthy

the danger
MacLeod to a

ictoria Library “Board ouster of John Marshall, has
who invited U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy to speak in
at. a public meeting called to -hear A. A. MacLeod, LPP
of McCarthyism posed by the revised Criminal Code.

group of pro-McCarthy hécklers to say who invited

VICTORIA, B.C.

“The Pacific Tribune charged at
the time the invitation was sent to

tion calling itself the Canadian
Anti-Communist League was be-
hind the move, and named Mrs.
Lougheed as one of those respon-
sible. This charge has now been
publicly confirmed.

Mrs. Lougheed also brazened out

‘Normal for whom’?

To Vancouver Alderman
Earle G. Adams unemploy-
ment is a god thing. To On-
fario Labor Minister Daley
606,000 unemployed Cana-
dians is “normal.” And the
New York Journal of Com-
merce sees only a “tragic”
war in Indochina lifting the
U.S. out of a developing econ-
omic crisis whose effects are
shown in unemployment in
Canada, tied by the St. Lau-
rent government to U.S. poli-
cies.

| her part in the dismissal of John
Marshall, bookmobile director, from
Victoria Public Library.

When MacLeod cited the Mar-
shall case as an example of Mc-
Carthyism she flounced out into

the aisle. “Ill take a bow,” she
announced. “I’m very proud to

do so.”

“Enlightened opinion has al?
ready repudiated those who have
crucified Marshall,“ MacLeod

commented. “When the next
election comes around, ! predict
the people of Victoria will deal
‘with those who are responsible.”

The others who joined Mrs.
Lougheed’ and her husband in sup-
port of Senator McCarthy were a
mixed lot indeed.

‘Prominent among the handful
who tried unsuccessfully to prevent
the other 75 in the audience from
hearing the speaker were:

@ Frank Partridge, profession-
al red-baiter and campaign man-

couver citizens a few years ago.

ager for former Conservative lead-
er Herbert Anscomb when he was |
defeated in Oak Bay in the 1952
general election.

@ Lloyd Jermain, prominent
Jaycee and business partner of
Archie Gibbs, present Liberal MLA
for Oak Bay. :

@ R. Barclay SRaw, one-time
vice-president of the Victoria So-
creds and now an official. of the
Chamber of Commerce.

@ Some assorted members of

the Catholic Youth Organization, |

Court condemns
in SIU blacklist case

Mr. Justice F. T. Collins declared in a Superior Court judgment here that Hal Banks,

director, and the Canadian

powers” in establishing a Do Not Ship (DNS) list that effectively blacklists se

and the SIU. *

The DNS list has been Banks’
chief weapon in stifling rank-and-
file opposition to his policies of
collaboration with the shipowners.
More than 2,000 seamen have been
Placed on the DNS list since ‘the
Canadian government foisted Banks
and the SIU upon Canadian seamen
~ during the 1949 CSU shipping
strike.

__ Banks, who is a U.S. citizen, was
recently the subject of a debate in
the House of Commons when his
- appointment as a Canadian repre-

sentative.to an ILO Conference in
_ Geneva was questioned,

It has been established that
Banks has a record of court con-
victions in the United States, and
has been indicted twice in Canada,
once for smuggling cigarettes and
once charged with intimidating a
member of his union by waving a
_ gun under his nose.

The Superior Court judgment
has been welcomed by many rank-
and-file seamen .who have been
blacklisted, and it appears likely
that new actions will be taken out

against Banks and the SIU.

In the preliminary hearing Banks
_ had denied that Droeger’s name
was on the DNS list, but during

°

Banks

‘

MONTREAL
Canadian

Droeger

the trial he admitted it was. Mr.
Justice Collins commented at one
point: “The court cannot accept
the evidence of Banks in this con-
nection under the circumstances.”

Part of Banks’ defense was testi-
mony by SIU officials that Droeger
was a “troublemaker.”

_ Droeger testified that immedi-
ately prior to being placed on
the DNS list in April of 1952 he |
asked at a union meeting in Hali-
fax, how Banks got the job, and
where the union’s money was go-
ing. He suggested a bona fide
Canadian union for Canadian
seamen.

Part of ‘the judgment reported

that“; <a. McLaughlin, the busi-
hess agent of the union, testified
that plaintiff (roeger) was first
hired by him as a member of the
crew of the Dufferin Bell. He
said that immediately the plaintiff

Started to suggest changes in the
ship . . . which would have cost
$30,000 to $40,000....

eeuhe Dufferin Bell sank about
SIX weeks thereafter (off Cape
Breton) but the cause of the sink-

ing was not disclosed to the court|M

: + . (which could not) determine
whether there was any relationship
between conditions complained of
by him and the cause of the sink-
ing of the vessel.”

‘Former enemies treated
better than own veterans’

“Some of our former enemies
now in Canada are being treated
better than our own veterans.”

This is the charge made this
week by Col. John Wise, executive
director of the Disabled Veterans
Association, in pressing veterans’
demands that “burned out” pen-
sions be increased at this session
of parliament. 4

“The government will spend

with a lavish -hand to bring dis-
placed persons to this country and
to try to make them into good
Canadians,” said Wise, “but it
seems to care little or nothing

about the men who were, and are,
good Canadians and became physi-
cal wrecks because they were wil-
ling to give their futures that Can-
ada might live.” :

-| attempt to explain

tion.”.

ple have
world

menace has been met and there is

no reason why we should think to-
day’s threats

cessfully.”

Heakes has
statement

House of Commons by Home Sec-
retary sir David

public air raid shel
H-bomb.

let on Civil
makes the

that if an atom bomb—not a hy-
drogen bomb but an atom bomb

of the outmoded Nagasaki variety,
with ;

David Maxwell Fyfe
Public shelters against H-bombs.

This was the private A-bomb shelter offered to wealthy Van-

But British Home Secretary Sit

says the government won‘t attempt to build j

A-bomb? You have

two-fifths of second

Civil defense officials In: BiG:
were bubbling over with enthusi-
asm although a little short on
Practical ideas this week. They
got their cue on both scores from

F, y- Heakes, Civil Defense co-
ordinator. :

“Now that the initial hysteria
touched off by reports of the. H-
bomb has Passed,” said Heakes,
“there is a danger we will revert
back to complacent normal _liv-
ing.” ,
_Just how the great majority of
citizens who want peace ‘and secur-
ity can revert back to “complacent
normal living” until atomic weap-
ons have been outlawed by interna-
tional agreement Heakes did not

Another Civil] Defense official,
Mrs. F. Stead, public relations of-
ficer and women’s organizer, fol-
lowed this up at a Kiwassa

Mother’s Day luncheon in Hotel
Vancouver.

“People became hysterical when
the first A-bomb fell on Hiroshima,
and they’re not calm yet,” she
said. “We want to capitalize on
this public interest and turn it
from hysteria into active prepara-

In view of

ublished
the Tah kaee Shed reports of

destructive power,
Ts. Stead’s optimism was superb.
“Since gunfire was invented peo-

thought the end of the
Was at hand. But each new

cannot be handled suc-
Apparently neither she nor
yet read the written
given in the British

; Maxwell Fyfe
that it is impossible to give the

ters against the
But a British government pamph-

Defense Just published
heartening disclosure

an explosive power equal to

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 14, 1954 — PAGE 2

Nove

20,000 tons of TNT—explodes #
your vicinity you have exactly one
fifth of a second in which to take
“evasive action.”

Provided you are over half #
mile from the centre of the e*
plosion and you can make a one
fifth of a second dash behind 2
brick wall you may be able t?
avoid 90 percent of the explosions —
heat. Zs

“Any action which takes one and
a half seconds is not likely to bé
very effective, as nine-tenths of the
heat will already have been give?
out,” the pamphlet adds.

Up to two miles from the centre
of the explosion is the danger are?-

So to avoid burns, the pamphlet
suggests that you put on a pair 0 —
woollen or leather gloves. “and #
woollen or treated cotton Bal&
clava for the face” — all in the
space of one-fifth of a second.

In a three-second period after
the initial explosion an amouP
of heat equivalent to burning 2°
500 tons of coal would be genet
ated. \ ‘

The authors seem to have Coe
pletely disregarded the fact tha
nobody will know where or whe?
the A-bomb would be dropped
event of war. x

Remove all paper, textiles, UP
holstery and other combustible
materials from the danger sa
they suggest. But who know
where the danger area will be?

Mask off any part of a window
that gives a view of the sky, whitf
wash the windows, paint them, Pil
boards over them. Diagrams +
you how to do it. at

Curtains should be treated with
a solution of boric acid and bora*-

Sheets treated with the sai
solution or with polyvinyl chlor}
should be placed over chairs, bed
and wallpaper to prevent radiatl
from setting them ablaze. if

But for those who live only ba
a mile from the explosion eve? —
these flimsy devices will be of a
value. For’ in the half-mile dang,
area there is only death and tot@
destruction. ~