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Vol. 6. No. 34 Vancouver, B.C., August 22, 1947 ee ee Five Cents

PICKETS HALT WORK
ON DUTCH SHIP IN PORT

Attack on Indonesians protested

Following the example of waterfront unions in
Australia, India and in The Netherlands itself, sea-
men and shipyard workers here this week took swift
{ction to demonstrate their support of Indonesian
republicans in their struggle against Dutch im-
Perialism when the Dutch freighter Madoera arriv-

Ed in Port.
Members of the Seaferer’s International Union
(AFL), Suiting their action to a recent union state-

oe that all Dutch ships
ing here would be picket-
Re Placed a Picket line at
Urrard Drydock, where the
porns Was undergoing re-
S, and members of ‘the
arine Workers and Boiler-
Industrial Union
« Tefused to cross it.
on = eee against working
stro utch ships is pretty
in ng among our members
aaah of the Dutch govern-
7,5 action in Indonesia,”
liam White, Boilermakers’
President, said,
© won’t cross a picket
but we don’t want the
Closed down. We gave
ad ance that work on the
era would be halted and

line,
yard
assur

th . .

ae SIU told us that if this

Wo done the picket line

Nd be withdrawn.” WILLIAM WHITE

Dected piher Dutch ships ex- “Sentiment against working

trade t0 dock here pour, Dutch ships is pretty strong.”
Union tL

Newal leaders see a re

of the protest.
(coancouver aes
Sharp} at its last meeting
gregh” denounced Dutch ag-
< eo in Indonesia, declar-
donesi/ ™pathy with the In-
on oa Republic and called
freeze p Ing government to
a utch credits in Can-
and halt all shipments
Materials,

out ue leaders here point
eman “ although the truce
tion sd by the United Na-
Nether, now in effect, the
the eae government used
ent 10d following establish-
lic ¢ oa the Indonesia Repub-
arm, , Wd up its stocks of
Patch “U4 war materials, dis-
ang troop reinforcements
Campa Pare for its recent
Siang §N against the Indone-
Many D argoes carried by
fron, ~Utch ships are taken

Stockpiles in areas

Continued on Page 8)
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Council

Do you know any one wha
has seen a ‘flying saucer’
lately? If you do, advise him
to see an optometrist, or bet-
ter still, a phsychiatrist. It’s
a strange thing, but only a
short time ago the sky ap-
peared to be full of winged
crockery variously described
as anything from a_  dipso-
maniac’s delight to a secret
weapon devised by the Rus-
sians. It was—literally—made
to order and the irresponsible

it.

Now the FBI and the U.S.
Fourth Air Force have in-
vestigated and satisfied them-

daily press made the most of_

selves that there are not, and
never were, any such things
as ‘flying saucers’. The in-
quiry has been closed into
what Major George Sander,
public relations officer at Mc-
Chord Field, termed “the big-
gest hoax ever perpetrated,”
as a result of which two U.S.
army fliers seeking the phan-
tom discs lost their lives.
Why was the inquiry so dis-
creetly closed? Perhaps it led
too close to certain individ-
uals in Congress and closely
connected circles who seized
on stories of strange lumin-
ous objects seen over Fin-
land and Sweden last year

Probe into ‘flying saucers’ closed

and recognized the value of
such a fraud in the U.S. and
Canada to their campaign to
whip up hysteria against the
Soviet Union.

In fact, Orville Wright, the
airplane inventor, bluntly said
as much when he charged
that “the ‘flying saucer’ craze
is more propaganda for war
to stir up people and excite
them to believe that a foreign
Power has designs on this
nation.”

How did the Vancouver Sun
treat the result of this in-
quiry after front-paging the
hoax? You guessed it. In an
18-line item on an inside page.

Strike called at
city steel plants

Pickets of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO) were preparing to
establish lines outside five hold-out Vancouver plants as the Pacific Tribune
went to press this week and Pen Baskin, the union’s international representa-
tive here, stated that ‘if the companies. make any last-minute offer it will

(Continued on Page 8 — See STEEL)

The Roosevelt Story

@ Here you see the late

Franklin D. Roosevelt,
laughing heartily, at the
1932 Democratic convention
where he won his first presi-
dential nomination. Stand-
ing by him are his son,
James Roosevelt, William
Gibbs McAdoo and James
Farley, whose sour story
telling of his break with
Roosevelt has recently been
featured in Collier’s, lending
strength to the forces which
are out to destroy the Roose-
velt tradition. At right, the
late great humorist, Will
xogers, entertains. The
scene is from the feature
Semi-documentary film, The
Roosevelt Story, which will
bring FDR to life on the
screen.