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LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.

Ratepayers of Lake Cowichan ‘School District 66 turned out in force for the annual school board meeting here on Wednesday last week to elect Mrs. Jean Carlson

as school trustee.

Mrs. Carlson, who is pledged to work for imple- mentation of a progressive program, defeated J. Allan, local bank manager, by a decisive vote of 102 to 39. The vote was announced following the meeting.

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WHO OWNS LABRADOR?

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Canada would be in the centre of the battlefield should an H-bomb war start —

and logically should be the first country to welcome t urther tests of nuclear weapons provided the U.S. and Br Yet Defense Minister Ralph Campney, while admit

he Soviet Union's offer to suspend d Britain will do the same.

ting to an audience of 900

UBC students Monday this week that our three radar lines — Distant Early Warning,

Mid-Canada and Pine Tree — real by nine CF-100 intercep- on Squadrons, could not. hope th Stop an atomic attack, never- €less persisted in advancing on cutworn cold war line that ae only hope for peace is to a €t aggression with the threat retaliation.” And the Vancouver Sun, in a Sit of front page articles this ek, took the position that the Ople have “no choice” in de- Tmining the issue of H-bomb ay or world peace, and our “hy hope for survival is Tough civil defense.” For the Canadian people, the

most important part of the an- nouncement of the Soviet He bomb test, described. as having a power of several million tons of TNT, was the declaration by the Soviet government that it “has stood and does stand for the prohibition of atomic and thermo-nuclear weapons” and for the exclusively peaceful use of atomic energy.

In a dramatic broadcast beam- ed to North America on Tues- day, a Moscow commentator made this Soviet offer:

“The USSR suggests that countries which possess nuclear,

weapons pledge to discontinue their testing. We are ready to do so right here and now if other powers possessing such weapons agree to do the same.”

Here was an opportunity for Canada to take the lead in urg- ing the United States and Bri- tain to accept this offer and banish the threat of atomic war.

Instead, we witness the sorry spectacle of Defense Minister Campney, pursuing the hope- less policy of “strength before agreement,” calling for “faster

Continued on back page See H-TESTS

MONTREAL

Canadian citizens applying for jobs in a Canadian city have to go through a thorough FBI investigation, and sub- mit to fingerprinting by the U.S. secret police.

Young Canadian girls working as waitresses are forced to sign a racist pledge not to fraternize with Negroes.

Canadian workers employed by a U.S. company are compell- ed to work 60 hours a week, at below standard wages while Americans working on the same project enjoy privileges denied to Canadian employees.

These facts were given to the Pacific Tribune by a French- Canadian worker of Montreal, recently returned from Labra- dor, where he was employed for three months by Drake and Merritt Company, biggest con- tractors at the U.S. base in Lab- rador.

Here is his own story:

The geography maps say that Labrador belongs to Canada. In school we are taught that Lab-

rador is part of Canada. But it is difficult’ to believe it, when you are there.

I went to work at the huge U.S. base in Labrador three months ago. On arriving, I first had to pass through the offices of the FBI in Goose Bay, a Can- adian city. Here I was, a Can- adian citizen, working in my own country, having my picture taken by the FBI, being finger- printed. like a criminal. I had to tell my whole life history to an FBI agent, who took down all my statements, including, to be sure, the assurance that I was completely ignorant of poli-

Continued on back page See U. S. BASE

Jail deaths hit by Effie Jones

The case of a man falsely arrested on a drunk charge who died in city jail November 15 of an overdose of barbitur- ates after he was left lying unattended on a cold floor for al- most three hours, drew a strong comment this week from Effie Jones, independent aldermanic candidate in the coming

civic elections.

“Responsibility lies not only with jail officials, but with the Non-Partisan Association which rules Vancouver’s city council,” said Mrs. Jones. “NPA alder- men have turned a deaf ear in the past to requests that com- petent medical help be on duty at all times at the police sta- tion, and that a few hospital beds be installed in the jail.

“In the case of this latest victim of neglect, James Conly,

evidence given at the inquest.

shows that the police matron, who is a registered nurse, was off duty at the time and the police woman who replaced her

was not qualified to examine ’

or treat ill persons.”

Conly was arrested on a drunk charge, and was laid out on the floor in a cell in block four. At the inquest a constable testified that Con- ly “appeared to be all right” when “checked” at midnight and 1 am. but was found dead shortly after 2 a.m.

Dr. T. R. Harmon, city path- ologist, testified there was no alcohol in Conley’s blood.

“This is not the first death of this kind that has taken place in Vancouver city jail,” said Mrs. Jones. “Our NPA Mayor Fred Hume is head of the police commission, but has done nothing on previous occasiosn

to prevent repetition of such tragedies Nothing will be done, I suppose, until citizens go to the polls and turn out the present

To speak in city

Mrs. Helen Sobell, wife of Morton Sobel, young U.S. scientist now serving a 30-year term in Aleatraz on the same type of framed evidence that

sent Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

to the electric chair, will speak at Pender Auditorium here this coming Sunday, December 4, at 8 p.m. A nation-wide campaign is underway to win her hus- band’s release.

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