Six peace
supporters
set example

Two more tmp peace
workers, Mrs. Elva Black and Mrs.
Kay Gardner, have joined the
select group of city cahvassers who
have collected a thousand or more
signatures to the World Peace Ap-
peal ‘Against Atomic War.

B.C. Peace council announced
that Mrs. Black and Mrs. Gardner
passed the thousand mark during
a special canvass last Saturday in

honor of the four-power confer-|%

ence.

Four other Vancouver peace
workers, Mrs. Freda Hickie, Anton
Muzihenko, Mrs. Dora Palmer and
Mrs. Minnie Searle — had prev-
iously gathered more than a thou-
sand signatures each.

Total number of signatures to
the World Appeal collected in
British Columbia stood at 40,503
on July 18.

More than 2,600 signatures were
collected last Saturday as four
Vancouver teams, representing the
four great powers, took part in a
signature competition.

The council is planning two
more canvasses for signatures,
on July 29 and August 6.

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Continued from pagel.

confidence in Police Chief Walter
Mulligan and the police adminis- |

‘| tration. He was supported by the’

NPA, whose president, John Duns-
muir, lauded the police adminis-'
tration at the NPA nominating
meeting last November. The police
commission rejected outright all
proposals for a public inquiry.

Why did Mayor Hume, the NPA

and police commission defend
the police administration in face
of the charges of corruption and

mismanagement even at that
time?
x * *

It’s clear from all that has hap-
pened that unsavory party politics
are the motivating force in the
current police situation.

The running of a modern police
force is big business.. In 1955
Vancouver’s police force will cost
its taxpayers nearly $4 million.
Imagine what this could mean to
the financial supporters of politi-
cal parties in terms of contracts
and other handouts.

The political parties of big busi-
ness have found that influence in
the police department is important
to their political machines in more
ways than one. Over the years
Vancouver’s police administration
has been the scene of a political
fight between contending parties
for control and influence.

In 1947 when Mayor “Gerry”
McGeer made Walter Mulligan
police chief the Liberal party was
riding high in provincial and civic
politics. The changes brought about
by McGeer placed’ the police de-

partment under the thumb of the
Phere

Since then the political forties
of the Liberal party have declined.
In provincial politics it suffered

{disastrous setbacks, losing control

in Victoria.
In Vancouver civic politics the

BEHIND POLICE SCANDAL

positions through the NPA mach-
ine. But in last year’s civic elec-
tions the Tories nudged them out
of the majority on the all-NPA
council. :

Now the’ present’ police expos-
ure is being used by Tories and
Socreds to break Liberal control
of the police administration in
Vancouver and to weaken the still-
powerful Liberal machine in Van-
couver.

The present struggle was fore-
shadowed last November when the
main attack against’ the police ad-
ministration was led by two Tory
aldermen, Orr and Cornett, while
the Liberals on the council, includ-
ing Mayor Hume, defended. the
police administration.

The fact will not be lost on
the public that the main politi-
cal personalities named at the
inquiry, Mayor Hume, former at-
torney general Gordon Wismer,
Trades Council secretary R. K.
Gervin, are all prominent Lib-
erals.

The fact too, that a Conservative
was named to head the inquiry by
the Social Credit government, is
also not without significance. |

x * *

The public’s main, concern is
that the inquiry should ‘be thor-
ough. Nothing must be covered
up. Those who have broken the
law should be prosecuted, but such
prosecutions should not’ be used to
provide a scapegoat in order to
prevent full exposure of those re-.
sponsible for the corruption.

The people want the facts no
matter how high up the guilty
parties may be.

The people expect an airing of
all matters pertaining to the police
department including all financial
transactions. They want the answ-
ers to these questions:

@ ‘Have certain criminal ele-

Liberals fought to hold on to their

om
tion because they had too much

certain people?

@ Have crimina
Vancouver been donating iat
political party or civic nO
group in return for favors: ina

@ Why did one townie: evel
pany get the police comtrar” et
though others submitted

2
Who has been getting te
contract for police cars and C0
ment — and why?

@ How have contracts aris
clothes, food, buildings, 4
ings, ete. been let and to WwW ws
On one thing is essen iy
present three-man poll er a
appointed pale com in
must go, In its place 4
larger commission: a "reeset
with the majority of ifs 5
~elected by and held ory
for their actions to the
electorate. ;

1 elements in

for

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city band leader, and pee
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at the 14th Annual Labor
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