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City stand
On racism
protested

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ings of a storm of pro-
test

against Vancouver City
Suncil’s license and claims com-

Mittee for its rejection of a clause
to ban racial discrimination were
fard this week. The commit-

tee’s Tuling is under sharp at-
fack by Civic Unity Council
(an Organization attended by
Mout 100 representatives of
labor, - church, business and
other Sroups at its last meeting’
on January 29), the Joint Labor
Smmittee Against Racial Dis-

“mination, and the newly
ermed Negro Citizens League
Which Was Organized as an out-
me of the Clemens case. In
aa of this public protest, city
Neil decided Monday. this

Week to hold final roval
Of the ans ee

In @ statement to the Pacific

Rune, Effie Jones called upon

Continued on page 6
See BYLAW

U.S. pla
evokes

BC, CHINESE SPURN
ANG’S. APPEAL

n to spread war
hostility, alarm

The great majority of Van-
couver’s 20,000 Chinese share
the alarm of their fellow Cana-
dians over President Eisenhow-
er’s message to the U.S. Con-
gress foreshadowing air and
naval: attacks on the mainland
of People’s China and exten-
sion of the war in Korea.

(See edtorial on page 5 and
statement by Tim Buck, LPP na-
tional leader, on back page.)

The widespread feeling
among Canadians generally that
their government should disas-
sociate itself from Eisenhower’s
statement and take the initiative
in moves to bring about a cease-
fire in Korea finds its reflection
in the Chinese Canadian com-
munity here. But Chinese Can-
adians in Vancouver, Victoria,
Prnce Rupert and other prov-

Continued on back page
See CHIANG

® “Do you not feel the shock
and anger we felt when these pic-
tures arrived in our office. Do
not the forlorn figures of three
lovely children . . . move you?
Does not the anguish of the
mother twist your insides . . .?”
This is what the Canadian Trib-
une’s editors wrote in an open
memorandum to External Affairs
Minister Lester B. Pearson asking
if this, as a government spokes-
man had said, was not the time for
a cease-fire in: Korea, “When is
the time?” (See also picture on
back page.)

What ‘dela

ying Clemens transcript?

SEE STORY ON PAGE 7