VT a | Workers end cannery discrs mination STORY ON BACK PAGE pa Ags MEM CEES ie ver, British Columbia, September 3, 1954 i Wy) Wayhien, DRAMA AIAG eee A These picketers were part of the 200 from. © marched before the federal parliament bur Eeneing an all-Canadian Seaway. The demon N awarm response from Ottawa citizens. SC cracks whip Ontario and Quebec idings on August 20 stration and leaflets on Freedomites This fall the thorny Doukhobor problem appeared likely to announcement by drive to enfor ther Sons of Freedom centres *xplode into a new crisis, following ter Ray Williston of an all-out attendance in Krestova, Glade and o 'n the Slocan Valley. A committee will be set up than police roundups of non-at- Education ce school Rejection by the French Na- tional Assembly of the US. sponsored plan for a European Defense Community with a re- armed Nazi-led West Germany at its head has opened the way for the settlement of the problems of Europe on the basis of negotia- tions among the European pow- ers themselves. pony to investigate the sale of tending children. lg PLO oukhobor lands seized by, the What it mean : The Assémbly in Paris turned y RCMP. embark on wholesale own the European army. treaty Previncial government during the depression. The committee will priser methods of resale of the ®nds to Doukhobors now living °n them. ° This latest move makes it ap- og that the Socreds are start- <§ on the same sorry path of re- fession and coercion that was 'tied by previous governments ‘nd failed. ‘ In 1952 the Doukhobor Re- ‘ feos Committee made a report advancing some solutions of the : *roblem. The ‘committee’s re- ‘ommendations leave some room or dispute but in any case the povernment has done virtually a to put into. effect any Das, its constructive recommenda- : Ns and has adopted only the €ctions urging coercion. , may well be that the report’s €as on education would not be *€eeptable to the Sons of Free ‘ened But their approach is cer- tainly far more likely to succeed searches children can story of one» Siding who wro Tribune. One day when wife were away, Welfare force home, looking for a ren who was alone state of nervous The screen door ‘hrough it an letting them in. Multiply this action by a hu the new government n eans. for delingquen be seen by a P man and a woman from f d their way into his ‘bsentee child- poth he and his 14 RCMP officers lainclothes- the Child They frightened a teenage girl in the house and not feeling well, almost into a collapse. was kind of police ndred times and vou get a clear picture of what ‘ order really t school from the father in Perry’s te to the Pacific locked hen the knocked so they proke Hn % d unhooked the latch and stampeded into the house to berate the girl for not py a vote of 319 to 264 after- a fierce debate in which all parties jn the Chamber of Deputies, with the sole exception of the Com- munists, split ranks over a spectre of a re-armed Germany. The Communist party which has been at the head of a pro- ‘cnged struggle embracing wide sections of the French people to defeat the plan, stood solidly in opposition to the ratification of the treaty. The action of the deputies fol- lowed the failure of Premier week before to get U.S. support treaty in an effort to get Assem- bly approval. The French legis- lators in voting to end debate on the controversial treaty over- rode'a plea by Mendes-France for more time to conduct further negotiations on changes. Pressure of the people of France and of Europe who fear a / 7 Mendes-France at Brussels the © for his proposals to modify the resurgence of German militar- ism was undoubtely the key fac- tor in deciding French politicians to break with Washington and vote EDC down. A gigantic cam- paign against the plan which grew ‘in intensity in the past - weeks tipped the balance against the European Army. Reaction of U.S. spokesmen to the defeat shows that they intend to go ahead anyway with plans to put guns in the hands of the’ unrepentant Wehrmacht veter- ans. But they will not find it easy without the cooperation of France and Britain. The rgad has now been open- ed for the settlement of the knotty problem of a divided Ger- many and its attendant tensions. Basis of the negotiations will like- ly be the proposal of the Soviet Union made after the - Geneva tslks for an all-inclusive Euro- pean security treaty. Harnessing power for peace atomic Page 9 How B.C. celebrated - Labor Day 50 years ago Page 10