1 ly ARE NES Sug Se eet

on ‘Bloody Sunday’

By STEVE BRODIE
(Sixth of Series)

A proclamation was read,
Ordering us to depart to our
pa: aS we were now declared
ae an unlawful assembly.
ailure to depart would mean
pecible eviction. I immediately
pevorted to Major Hill that we
tal €ven more anxious to avoid
Bee to property and to
\ Bcives than he was, so being
ag declared unlawful, we plac-
Pep ecives under arrest. To
te € certain that there could be
men understanding, I asked the
Biaee they now willingly sub-
a Ae to arrest. They shook the
a ie with a loud “Yes.” I
th 0 Hill and said ‘‘Sir, we are
“Th your prisoners.’’ He replied
mien no orders about arrest,”
ae I gave him a short
ae ik on the law, reminding
‘a a being only policeman,
That, no legal right to punish.
ae assured him, was the
a 1on of our courts, and asked
In that he do his lawful duty,
Preece us under arrest. I
any nl © march with the men to
uP ace he would designate
Mabist would await trial by
asked Re When he refused, I
ne he same of City Police
ad Grundy. His only
oe Was, “We are here to
th you moving when you hit

€ street. There will be no.

arrests

a next ten minutes were
son Singing our marching
Ge with mild cat-calling, and
x e Stions as to the use to
Bien Police might put their
who ane ff sergeant Wilson,
fae 1s day swears he saw no
the Aaa force used, threw
a bomb. Up until that mo-
days aye had lived for thirty
cents w at building without five
ty. No orth of damage to proper-
kas, a as the lobby filled with
Durig angements were made to
ae € air by eliminating
tee thousand dollars

Wo
helped a Plate glass, which
cloug & dissipate that choking

by the poem both ends of the lob-
with CMP attacked, equipped
Whips . Masks and plying their
Rotor; Joyful abandon like the
Th : US Cossacks.
Redver® general melee, Jim
Was ai Slipped to the floor, and
two “a Mediately pounced on by
Was kig anada’s Finest.’’ He
Savage] €d about the head so
Was kn Y, that one of his eyes
tle Mj Ocked out. His buddy, Lit-
him ‘Sa So named to distinguish
had M Big Mike, as they both
took . —Pronounceable names,
Redvers “ere Pounding as he led
Mistake Out. He then made the
Stable Of asking a city con-
: = call an ambulance. The
his ja St him a slash which laid
® ¢ pen two inches.
Bray elie! that scar to his
the hill 4ge 22. That grave is on
©verlooking Dieppe.

Young Mike joined us at age
17, when the relief department in
the Nelson district told him his
share of the family relief was
now cut off. In order to leave the
entire $13.50 per month to his
widowed mother and two kid
sisters, he had to leave home.
The cost to the government of
Canada to maintain his grave is
now more annually, than his
family received altogether for
three years. ‘This doubtless will
be explained away by inflation.

Once I wass recognized, I
received some special attention
by the eviction crew, and was
subjected to a further attack
after I was dragged from the
building. The beating was finally
stopped when a sergeant noticed
a movie news reel being made.
One of the reasons my suit
against the Crown was never
brought to trial was that, on ex-
amination for discovery, in
answer to the Crown Counsel’s
question, ‘“‘Do you mean to say
you will take the stand and ac-
cuse the police of unneccessary
beating?’’, my reply was, ‘“‘I in-
tend to say and prove by
newspaper pictures, that it was
attempted murder.”’

It was a citizen who placed me -

in his car and took me to St.
Paul’s. The police were not call-
ing ambulances that day, which
ended for me at about 6 a.m. I
did not know anything more until
I woke almost 24 hours later, to
find that surprisingly I was not
under arrest.

No one was ever arrested for
his part in the month long oc-
cupation of public buildings. Any
court hearing would have shown
who was responsible for these il-
legal attacks, with. resulting
damage to people and property.

Professor Margaret. Ormsby,
in her history of B.C. charges me
with inciting to. riot and at-
tacking police. Morley’s history
of Vancouver suggests the same.
The Crown, however, has never
allowed any discussion of the
true story, so obviously no
charges could ever be laid.

While in hospital I was visited
by Professor Sedgewick of the
University of B.C. and two other
members of the Civil Liberties
Union, who asked if I would
agree to a suit against the Crown
being entered on my behalf. To
my surprise a writ was granted
within ten days, and then I learn-
ed the reason for this gracious
gesture. (Cont'd. next week)

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Trail returns to work united

TRAIL — Some 2700 workers
at Cominco in Trail, members of
the United Steel Workers of
America, voted 76.7% to return
to work following the appoint-
ment of county court judge D.E.
McTaggart as special officer in

the dispute that closed down the |

operation last week. McTaggart
has been invested by the provin-

cial labor department with broad —

powers to settle the dispute.

Workers began booking off
sick, Thursday, March 7 after
the company refused to settle a
grievance involving riggers do-
ing pipefitters work and by
Thursday of the following week,
only a handful of men were still
on the job.

Several meetings were held
during the week with the local
union outlining three demands:
1) that pipefitters be placed on
the job; 2) no company reprisals
for the action taken by the men
and 3) clear demarcation lines to
be established for the tradesmen
in the contract. Despite the in-

tervention of deputy associate:

labor minister Jim Kinnaird,
however, the dispute was not
resolved.

The men on the hill regard the
adamant stand by the company
as a provocation aimed at
deepening the internal dif-
ficulties within Steel and
weakening the union’s bargain-
ing position in upcoming
negotiations.

Following the rejection by the
Labor Relations Board of a cer-

CPR TAKEOVER

Cont'd. from pg. 3

companies are being used as a
ransom against Canadian farm
incomes and workers’ jobs is
government intervention in the
operation and control of this
country’s transportation ser-
vices, nationalization of the
Canadian Pacific Railway and
radical overhaul of the transport
policies of the federal govern-
ment. Unless decisive steps are
taken and taken without delay,
the consequences could be dis-
astrous.”’

Wheat Board reports set the
short-fall of railway ears on the
west coast between January 7
and March 8 at 18,722 cars. The
CNR was 5,412 short of its objec-
tive with the CPR 13,310 short on
its objective.

ANNOUNCEMENT — Social

scheduled for Saturday,
March 23rd, 600 Campbell
Ave. postponed until further
notice. Sorry. Canada-
U.S.S.R. Society.

tification application by the
Canadian Workers Union, the
Canadian Association of In-
dustrial Mechanical and Allied
Workers (CAIMAW) chartered
these Trail workers who were in
the CWU and agitation for a
Canadian breakaway continues.
And the company has sought, at
every opportunity, to strengthen
its own position in the situation.

In the latest action, the com-
pany hoped to pit the tradesmen
against the operators but were
met with complete unity among
all the men. Even an attempt to

refuse to begin setting up
meetings on contract talks
before the dispute was settled
failed when the bargaining com-
mittee would not be coerced into
such a position.

The Steelworkers in Trail are
aiming for a substantial increase
this year with demands for $1.25
an hour wage hike, a cost of liv-
ing allowance, shift premiums
and pensions after 30 years ser-
vice, and say they ‘“‘will not be
tricked into side issues and splits
between operators and
tradesmen.”’

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