it breakup Montreal peace gathering Protest won their release Freed from prison recently as the result of nationwide labor protest, four of the “famous five” Canadian seamen whr were wounded last summer by a Canada Steamship Lines officer during the Lake strike are shown here outside the Toronto office of the Canadian Seamen’s Union being cheered by fellow members of the union, ' Police massed to Swinging nightsticks wildly, —MONTREAL 150 police charged into a peace demonstration on St. “Lawrence Boulevard ~ on Tuesday “this week, |’ sending four citizens to hospital “and arresting 12 persons in a crowd of 1000 which had gathered to hear speakers discuss the war danger. Action of the city police, undoubt- edly under orders from provincial Premier. Maurice Duplessis, was a clear demonstration of the fact that the very word “peace” has become subversive in Quebec. The club-swinging and the ar- rests, flagrant violations of demo- eartic rights and civil liberties, is the latest of a long line of out- rages and abuses. perpetrated against the people by the Duples- sis regime. i Gui Caron, provincial LPP lead- er and Second World War veter-/[ an, was one of the first arrested. He was charged with "creating a disturbance”’ and released on $100 bail. Other citizens arrested include Giles Ledoux, John Dirhosoff, Ed- die Zacken, Norman Nerenberg, Len Starkey, Saul Rosenbloom, Paul Patigan, Harold Cutworth and Gerald Tellier. » Nerenberg, a leader of the Na- tional Federation of Labor Youth, recently spoke to a packed meet- ing in Pender Auditorium, Van- couver, while on a cross-country peace tour following his return from Europe, where he had been a delegate to the World Youth Con- gress in Prague. ‘ The meeting was to have been held in the Carpenters’ and Join- ers’ Union Hall, under the auspices of the Montreal Council for World Peace. Scheduled speakers includ- ed Caron and Harry Binder, LPP candidate in Cartier riding in the next federal election. Pressuré from Duplessis forces and fear of the notorious Pad- lock Law intimidated the union officers, who withdrew permis- Sion to use the hall at the last GUI CARON minute. Hundreds of people gath- ered outside, and speakers pro- ceeded to hold a street meeting. The crowd was quiet and orderly, until at a signal from a police lieu- tenant, a mob of constables drove into the gathering, savagely swinging their clubs, tearing down banners, in a determined attempt to break up the rally. During the melee Sgt. John Boyezum, head of the city police “anti-subversive squad”, suffered a severe cut to his lip and had to be removed to hospital. Lieut. J. Champagne of the muni- cipal “anti-subversive” squad smug- ly -told reporters that events had developed “in the expected manner.” Police reporters declared that the planned nmeassing of 150 police to attack the peaceful gathering was an “unprecedented action.” - Peace Cartier, and Gui Caron, LPP Que- bec leader, would be among the speakers. Massing of 150 police and their subsequent unprovoked at- tack on an orderly peace demon- stration outside the hall indicated that the affair had been carefully planned in advance, a fact admit- ted by Lieut. J. Champagne of Montreal subversive squad when he remarked that events had “de- veloped in the expected manner.” (See story on back page.) e@ Robert H. Carlin, Canadian di- riector, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers (CIO), is the latest addi- tion to a lengthening list of pro- gressie trade union leaders bar- red at the border by U.S. im- migration officials. Shaping of U.S. immigration policies to in- fiuence Canadian union affairs was pointed up by the fact that “Pat Conroy, CCL secretary- treasurer, left Detroit on the same plane as Carlin and was -allowed to cross the border without hindrance. Carlin pub- licly wondered if this was be- cause Conroy, who gave tacit support to the government’s deportation of Reid Robinson, Mine-Mill international vice- president, "some months ago, ‘lives closer to Parliament Hill than I do.” This is how the people’s rights to speak and work for peace are being hampered and restricted. You can help to defeat this at- tack on your right, your future, by: —Writing to your MP demanding that he take a stand against the LaCroix Bill and urging your union or other organization to voice its protest. —Seeing that your neighbors, those with whom you work, learn the real meaning of the Atlantic pact. Get them to subscribe to the Pacific Tribune. Give them a copy of Tim Bucks pamphlet, | Suicide Pact. — —By taking an active part in the work of the peace movement. Goss Stanton rocked the audience when he broke off his speech to observe: “JT see there is a representative of the United States state department here taking notes.” From all parts of the hall came cries of “Throw him out.” Stanton, however, continued his speech without identifying the man. : (A. W.. Klieforth. U.S. consul general in Vancouver, later denied that his consulate had had a repre- sentative at the meeting, but his denial left unexplained the source of the voluminous information on thousands of Canadian citizens in the files of the U.S. immigration department.) Goss charged that the methods of questioning him used by US. immigration officials following his arrest during the»conference ban- quet in New York “smacked of fascism.” “They were most polite about the whole thing,” he explained, “but the very politeness only concealed the viciousness of methods they have borrowed from the Nazis.” He stated that the U.S. immigra- tion “had a great deal of informa- | tion about me, a Canadian citizen, whose politics surely are not the business of a so-called friendly gov- ernment. So, at one time, the Nazis also had a fat dossier on me and my efforts to combat fascism, on such matters as my activities to help the brave people of Spain. “The U.S. officials who question- ed me were equally concerned over my associations with the Labor- Progressive party and the labor movement both in Canada and the United States. I told them I was not a member of the LPP but I had every sympathy with its fight for pedce and would continue to support it by my singing and writ- ing.” John Stanton told the audience that wherever he had gone in Eng- land he had found a determined opposition to British involvement in war preparations and a wide- spread suspicion of American motives. “Like the Russians. the British people are trying to repair the de- vastation of the last war. They know what war is and they want peace above everything else,” he = Young exposes pact ‘opposition’ by war proposal CCF’ political brasshats whipped their MP’s into line at Ottawa this week to vote solidly for the Atlantic “‘Suicide’’ pact, but it took all the power of the Coldwell machine to silence the inner-party | opposition. » Trotskyites Rod Young (Vancou- ver Center) and Harry Archibald (Skeena) were publicly vocal on the question, but their phoney opposi- tion didn’t seriously disturb Cold- well, who allowed them to “take a walk” when the vote was taken in| the House. Young later revealed his true position when he rose dur- ing debate to propose government help in developing B.C.’s coal re- sources on the ground that “in any war, the value would be obvious.” Real opposition to the Atlantic pact came from several CCF mem- bers who, in chucus, heatedly ar- gued against Coldwell’s complete eapitulation to St. Laurent-Drew policies which are direct reflections of the wishes of Wall Street. Coldwell and hs lieutenants didn’t hestate to bludgeon down their hesitant followers. Threats of ex- pulsion were hurled against mem- bers who questioned the political wisdom of the hierarchy. The opposition was silenced. The boys trooped into the House and voted as directed. But the matter doesn’t end there. Privately many CCF members ex- press considerable disquiet over the direction~ in which Coldwell is leading the party. As one MP’ com- mented bitterly in a “don’t quote me” discussion: “Pearson and his pact returning from Europe remind me of Chamberlain | with a'! , piece of paper. It is no more de- fensible than the Munich deal. Yet we were forced to vote for it or be expelled from the CCF.” Rumblings of discontent are coming from down below in CCF ranks, and Coldwell and his top brass are desperately seeking to prevent the opposition from becom- ing a major handicap to the policy they have embarked upon. In Winnipeg Wilbert Doneleyko, MLA (CCF-Manitoba-St. Clements) spoke on a CCF broadcast over station CKRC and kicked over the party traces. On the Atlantic pact he said: _ “With the adoption of this pact big business is all set for the third and final stage, which is their only and ultimate objective; namely, war with all its profits, expansion of power, and the con- tinuation. of. the. dog-eat-dog system.” A few weeks ago the Ontario CCYM council refused to endorse the Atlantic pact. At UBC this week, student CCF’ers voiced strong opposition to the pact. British Columbia provincial coun- cil of the CCF voted 38 to 2 against endorsing the pact last November 13 and the issue is expected to touch off a stormy debate at the forthcoming B.C. convention of the party. NORM THORNE 21 Years’ Service Province, and I worked there Montreal moved bought the paper. Southams took over. my job. ference table in good faith.” PAS FST MA BN ey ey i ie eS Uy ei 1 HAVE BEEN ON THE PICKET LINE AROUND THE DAILY PROVINCE FOR 32 MONTHS “Until I was forced on the picket line by the Southam Co, in June, 1946, I had worked in the composing room of the Dails Province for 21 years. “I contributed my fair share to the building of the into Vancouver with their millions and There never was any trouble until the “Southams rewarded my lifetime of service with 32 months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, sued members of my union for damages in the Supreme Court and imported individuals from all over Canada to take “I am still’ on the picket line with my fellow I.T.U. printers. We will be there until the Southam Co. will abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the con- 1 ASK YOUR SUPPORT é Si) wee WW LTO PRINTER’ long before the Southams of stated. X PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 1, 1949 — PAGE 12 t