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‘Police state’

Obscured from public knowlédge by scant press notices, glossed over by officials with pious declarations about the ‘‘need to defend de~

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election rights charged in Quebec

mocracy from communism,” the outrageous stifling of democratic practices has finally burst into full view.

On July 16, Mme. Therese Casgrain, Quebec CCF leader wired Justice Minister Garson and Premier Duplessi
“their own police censorship over the matter contained in (CCF election) literature.”

municipalies were exercising

high license fees were being charged for the posting of placards and the distribution of ci
_ much as $10 for each person distributing circulars.”

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FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1953

MAURICE RUSH

ERNEST LAWRIE

‘After peace in Korea--what?’

Rush, Lawrie to speak

at Swedish

“What Lies Ahead After Peace
in Korea?” will be the subject
discussed by Labor-Progressive
federal candidates Maurice Rush
(Vancouver East) and Ernest
Lawrie (Vancouver Centre) at an
election rally this coming Sun-
day, July. 26, 8 p.m. at the Swed-
ish Hall, Clarke and Hastings.

Mothers and children in_Van-
couver East constituency will

‘ stage a public demonstration for

peace this Saturday, c arrying
placards through the streets call-
ing for‘an immediate armistice
in Korea: - wat

" “Harold Winch is making dem-

Hall meet

agogic appeals to the peace lov-

ing voters of Vancouver East—,

appeals which are in direct con-
tradiction to statements being
by his national leader, M. J.
Coldwell,” Maurice Rush charg-
ed at a meeting in Clinton Hall
on Sunday night.

“While Winch tells us we
should spend less on armaments
and more on feeding the under-
nourished peoples of the world,
Coldwell tells us that no matter
which party forms the next gov-
ernment, the heavy burden of
armaments will remain with us
for many years,” said Rush.

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Earlier, the repeated violation
of the Labor-Progressive party’s
election rights elicited no com-
ment from the Quebec CCF,
Mme. Casgrain spoke up only af-

‘ter her party was informed by

the Montreal municipal admin-
istration the CCF was free to dis-
tribute a leaflet announcing a
public meeting, because the pol-
ice said they had no objection
to granting such permission.
Police generosity in allowing
the CCF to carry on legal elec-
tion work was explained in the
Montreal Gazette on July 16 as
having been occasioned by a
“favorable report” from the head
of Montreal’s anti -subversive
squad, Capt. L. Champagne.

On July 17 the Ottawa Citizen
carried a sharp expose by South-
am News Service reporter John
Bird under a front-page head-
line: “Sees ‘Police State’ in Mon-
treal.” A sub-head read, “Stun-
nd by political censorship,” term-
ed Quebec legislation that per-
mits police to censor literature
that is to be distributed in the
streets “a horrendous” law. Of
the police he said “. . . politically
they know nothing whatever,
they are truly. and by profession
innocent, not to say stupid.”

He pointed out that this law
was being used politically “for
the first time.in this federal
election of 1953 ... and oh so
nicely.”

“T happen not to be a social-
ist,’ Bird declared. “‘But I am
madder than ten wet hens at this
Quebec attack on political liber-
ties.”

Of the Liberals whom he con-
tacted, he said, (they) might be
mad with Duplessis, but no, they
were smooth as silk. They have
professional purveyors of cam-
paign literature, and each one
pays a $10 license fee to distri-
bute the same. “They are all set
with their $10 fee for political
freedom.” :

“All this goes on in. Canada,”

Bird wrote, “but we don’t seem-
to hear much about it. ... The.

crude hard inescapable fact is
that Canada is not being told
about what really goes on in
Quebec province, and goes on in
our name as Canadians, though
we blink at it, and don’t know
about if.

“Tt is about time we did find

-out what is being done in the

name of Canadian democracy.”

This report, along with the
Montreal municipal administra-
tion’s admission that it is the
police who determine who may
distribute, and what material
may be distributed, confirmed re-
peated, LPP charges that election

Civic Workers
Slade, Stewart

Business agent Don Guise and
president Ed Smith of Vancou-
ver Civic Employees Union, Out-
side Workers, visited the picket

line at Slade and Stewart on

Tuesday this week and handed
over a cheque for $234.80 as “a
first instalment” on their union’s

pledge of support to the strik-
ers.

The money was collected from

rights are being flouted in Que-
bec.

The admission follows a long
and still growing list of harrass-
ments, intimidation and arrests
of LPP election workers in Que-
bec. +

A few examples. LPP candi-
date in Lafontaine, Gabrielle
Dionne was arrested for distri-
buting her election leaflets. In
the neighboring constituency of
Hochelaga, LPP campaign man-
ager Mel Doig was arrested,
along with another LPP election
worker on a similar charge. In
Hull LPP candidate Ernest Ger-
vais was arrested along with his
wife, while driving through the
streets of the city in a truck
and charged with distributing
without a permit.

The Montreal Protestant
School Board has refused school
halls for LPP election meetings.
Violating CBC regulations, radio
station CFCF has refused to sell
radio time to LPP candidates.

IWA loeal sponsors

all- party

meeting at Forum

British Columbia’s _ biggest
union local — Local 1-217, Inter-
national Woodworkers of Amer-
ica — is staging what it expects
will be the biggest political
meeting of the federal election
campaign at Exhibition Forum
on July 30, 8 p.m.

Candidates from five political
parties—LPP, CCF, Social Credit,
Liberal and Conservative — will
be given an equal time allotment

to present their respective pro-—

grams and opinions and, in ad-
dition, five minutes for a rebuttal
period.

Speakers will be:
Rush, LPP candidate in Vancou-
ver East; Harold Winch, CCF,
Vancouver East; Peer Paynter,
Social Credit, Vancouver Bur-
rard; Elmore Philpott, Liberal,
Vancouver. South; and Arthur
MacArthur, Progressive Conser-
ative, Coast Capilano.

“We expect more than 5,000
people. to attend this election
rally,” said S. M. Hodgson, Local
1-217. secretary. “Invitations
have been sent to more than 500
trade unions, organizations and
service clubs to send representa-
tives.” d

donate to
strikers

civic workers on jobs in all parts
of the city by the union’s job
stewards. “When our men heard
of the fine battle CIO Wholesale
and Retail union members were
putting up against this American-
owned. outfit, they dug deep in
their pockets for donations,”
stewards reported.

Strikers from Slade and Stew-
art have now been pounding
picket lines for seven weeks.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 24, 1953 — PAGE

s, asserting that some Quebec”
Mme. Casgrain declared that”
rculars, and that some muncipalities were demanding ®

Maurice |

‘MONTREAL

.

Particularly flagrant was the |
behavior of Quebec police in the —
Outremount byelection. Polic@ —
invaded the home of L. Crotealy
Liberal member of the Executivé
Committee of Montreal’s CilY
Council .and demanded thé
names of all people there.

~ Quebec LPP leader Gui Caro
declares that “the open and flag
rant dictatorship of the old line
parties, Liberal and Conservativ®
only widens, more quickly :§
gulf that separates the old pa
ties from all citizens who :
concerned with liberty, peace and
security.
“Repulsing the old parties wh?
are sold to the American trusts
rallying around the forces °

sanity in the nation, around the” f
Labor-Progressive party cand
dates, the electorate will impos’ |

its democratic rights, the inde
spensable barometer of all PI
gress, and of the interest of th
people.” ;

electiot

The IWA letter stresses be
the union “will not exert %

pressure in an attempt to swe
the political opinion of the
dividual” but emphasizes tha
“it is at such public debates
the general public will be
lightened on the policies
various programs of the poli 4
cal parties participating in *
federal election.”

“don THE AIR

SID ZLOTNIK
Vancouver Burrard

Monday, July 27, 9.15 PM

HOMER STEVENS
Burnaby-Richmond

Tuesday, July 28, 9.15 pm

MAURICE RUSH
Vancouver East © Fs
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Wednesday, July 29, 9.15 P

ALEX KUCHER
Burnaby-Coquitlam ~ FF, .
Monday, August 3, 9.15 P*

GORDON ELDER

Vancouver South of
Tuesday, August 4, 9.15 Po « —

MAURICE RUSH
Vancouver East at ;

Wednesday, August 5, 9.15 Pea

MONA MORGAN
Vancouver-Kingsw8Y

Thursday, August 6, 1.15 pam

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