Score treatment
of Doukhobors

TRAIL, B.C.

West Kootenay Area Committee of the Labor-Progressive party
has written to Attorney-General Robert Bonner condemning the gov-
ernment’s methods of handling Sons of Freedom Doukhobors.

Students hear Griffin
speak on British Guiana

“Tf this were 1837, in our own
country, where would your sym-
pathies lie: with the Reformers or
the Family Compact and British
colonial rule?” Hal Griffin, Pacific
Tribune associate editor, posed
this question for some 70 students
at a meeting held last Monday on
UBC campus under LPP Students
Club auspices. This, responsible
self-government or British colonial
rule, was the real issue in British
Guiana, he said.

| “The governmenf’s action in
| handing over the Doukhobor prob-
jlem to the RCMP, which resulted
in the forcible rémoval of a large
group of the Sons of Freedom to
Vancouver, removal of the chil-
dren from the care of their par-
ents, and the prosecution of these
people in a strange community, be-
fore an obviously biased magis-
trate, is a grave attack on the civil
rights of Canadians,” the letter
Said.oy

Such methods “show. a growing
tendency towards a police state,”
the LPP charged, urging the gov-
ernment to reconsider the prece-
dent it had established and also
“the severity of the judgment

Contests school board

Mrs. Agnes Murphy (above),
who polled more than 24,000

last year, will again be an inde-

pendent candidate for Vancouver

against a religious minority,”

School Board.

Former city unionist returns home

"Il got out of Malanland’

By BERT WHYTE

An ex-coal miner and ex-shipyard
worker who emigrated to South
Africa in February, 1951, is mow
back in Vancouver with only one
thought in mind—“to get my wife
and daughter out of Malan’s coun-
try as soon as I can earn the money
for their fares.”

Anthony Forresta, member of the
Marine Workers’ Union here for
10 years and before that a United
Mine Workers’ member for 17
years in Alberta, has nothing but
bitter memories of the period in
which he worked: for low wages,
under intolerable conditions, in
“Malanland.”

Bad as working conditions are
for a white man in South Africa,
they are a hundred times worse for
Negroes. Yet it was a Negro who
saved Forresta’s life when he was
bitten by a deadly snake one night
on the streets of Durban.

But let Forresta tell his own
story to you, just as he told it to
me:

“My wife was left some property
in South Africa, and doctors advis-
ed her that the climate there would
be good for her health, so we pulled
up stakes and set out.

“My first job was in Durban as a
boilermaker. I got free board and
the equivalent of 42 cents an hour.
After that I worked at Bloemfontein
in the Free State (they should call
it a Slave State) putting new boil-
ers in a power station. They had
‘qualified’ government fitters on the

job who couldn’t even read a blue-
print.
* ‘Something about conditions
over there. Every place you go
you have to report to the police.
You have to keep reporting every
week. If you want to take a car
ride to the next town, you have

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get there.

“When that job folded up the
same outfit (Dominion Combustion
Company) sent me to Pinetown, in
Natal, seven miles out of Durban.|
Later I was given my time. |

“I worked as a pipefitter for £40,
a month at Port Shepston, 107
miles from Durban. Here I was in|
charge of 75 Negroes. My ‘head|
boy’ got 12 shillings a week, half a
loaf of bread a day, and a cupfull
of mush once a week. My ‘second
boy’ got 8 shillings, half a loaf of
bread and no mush. The rest got
7 shillings, bread and no mush.

“Sometimes we had to work Sat-
urdays and Sundays, at double time
for whites, straight time for
Negroes.

. “After the pipeline was in, I got
a job in Durban. That’s when the
snake bit me. I was walking ahead
of my Negro workers, marking off
a place to dig a ditch — this was
in the city, mind you — —when I
stepped on the night adder, which
put in its fangs above my left
ankle.

“One of the Negro workers tore
off my shirt, grabbed a stick and
make a tourniquet on my leg, then
cut my leg with his knife to let the
poison out. He saved my life, al-
though within 24 hours my leg was
paralyzed and I had to spend four
months in hospital. One doctor
wanted to amputate but my wife
wouldn’t let him. Another doctor
numbed me, plunged the bad leg
in boiling water.”

Forresta had other stories to
tell, many of them. One’ dealt
with the time Premier Malan
visited Durban and police clear-
ed all traffic off the street and
lined it with guards. The par-
ade safely over, Malan stated he

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hadn‘t needed such protection,
because “the’ people love me.”

Finally’ Forresta decided he had
“had enough” of Malan’s South
Africa and got out. “My ambition
now,” he says, “is to get a job and

‘save enough money to bring back

my wife and 15-year-old daughter.”

LABOR

BRIEFS

Three leading trade unionists,
Don Guise of Vancouver, Jeff Amy
of New Westminster and Elgin
“Scotty” Neish of Victoria have
thrown their hats in the alder-
manic rings of their respective

cities.

* * *

Don Guise, popular business
agent of Vancouver Civic Em-
ployees Union, Outside Workers,
was prevailed upon to contest an
aldermanic seat in Vancouver’s
coming civic election, December 9,
after both labor councils had de-
cided not to run candidates. “I
feel that labor must have a voice
in running the affairs of the city,”
he said.

x * *

RCAF veteran Jeff Amy, secre-
tary of the Alaska Pine Sub-local
of the IWA, is making his first
bid for an aldermanic post in New
Westminster. He is the son of
School Trustee Mrs. P. Amy, who
is seeking reelection. Amy has the
official backing of the Civic Labor
Election Committee.

* * *

Elgin Neish, president of Vic-

toria local of United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union, is
labor’s candidate for alderman in
the capital.

“The labor viewpoint finds no
expression in the present city coun-
cil although there are many issues
of vital concern to the working
people of Victoria,” said Neish, in
announcing his decision to run.

Attention all
city readers
Dear Reader: a

VANCOUVER is still lagging be
hind the provincial points in
subs obtained during 1953 and city
press. clubs have a big job to 40
between now and the end of De
cember.

Here are the figures, paper sale
credits not included. First figuré
shown is annual quota pledged,
second figure in brackets is actu@
number of subs turned in: :

Advance, 60 (37); A. E. Smith,
6C (40); Building Trades, 40 (11);
Dry Dock, 50 (59); East End, 40
(17); Electrical, 80 (50); Forest
Products, 50 (36); Georgia,
(24); Grandview, 160 (100); Hast
ings East, 40 (22); Kitsilano, Lu
(121);

Little Mountain, 75 (62); Mob
erley, 50 (35); Niilo Makelo,
(31); Norquay, 70 (58); Olgin, 25
(24); Philip Halperin, 45 (36);

Point Grey, 35 (86); Ship and
Steel, 50 (31);
Strathcona, 50 (22); Victory

Square, 150 (59); Watel aa
(14); West End, 140 (81); Woot
Products, 50 (25); Capitol Hill
.85 (52); South Burnaby, 50 (110)
Vancouver Heights, 60 (35)i
NFLY, 30 (27).

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