island

scene

_ By V. VICTOR

THE WAR OF NERVES: The
dusky skinned natives penetrated
several blocks of the southern
outskirts of the city to a section
of a few business buildings, The
reason for these three subver-
sives to enter the suburbs was
not apparent for an opposing
patrol of eight or ten well
equipped soldiers came into view
a:block away,

The defenders had all new
equipment which included an anti-
tank rifle, several tommy guns,
a couple of grenade launchers,
and each had hand guns in hol-
sters at their sides,

When the three native infil-
trators caught sight of the other
patrol they started a hasty re-
treat, darting from doorway to
doorway and post to post in
order to avoid being caught in
the almost continuous Thompson
machine gun fire which became
heavier each time a native made
a run from one protection to
another,

The sharp skirmish ended as
suddenly as it started when the
three scaled a four foot rock wall
and vanished more quickly than
they appeared, It was then the
patrol leader was heard to say to
his men in general, “That’s the
last we'll see of those yellow
commies,”

All this took place on Boxing
Day, twenty-four hours after
celebrating the birth of the man
of Peace and Goodwill, and it
didn’t happen in Vietnam, or the
Dominican Republic, nor any
place where the Yanks are en-
forcing their style of democratic
rule,

It all happened in the South
end af Nanaimo,

The defending patrol was a
group. of young boys andthe arms
were realistic toys which had
been bought in local toy depart-
ments,

The dusky skinned natives were
three little Indian lads who ap-
peared to enjoy the whole fiasco
ag much as anyone for they re-
turned a few minutes later and
made plans with the other boys
for further skirmishes,

The seriousness of the affair
is the glorification of war created

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by these so-called toys for young-
sters, To an old soldier their
military tactics were exemplary,
Some of these toys have a small
training manual of army drill
and military manoeuvres en-
closed and games that may be
played army style,

It will be difficult to blame
the youth of ten years hence
when they show desire to have
real military action with a sup-
posed enemy of freedom, It
seems odd that all these toys
regardless: of where they are
made are replicas of American
weapons,

* KOK ie

HIGHWAY HEADACHE: Ac-
cording to a recent news release
there is to be several more
supermarkets and an enclosed
shopping mall built in downtown
Nanaimo,

While it is gratifying to live
in an area that is expanding by
leaps and bounds it will take
more than planned buildings to
solve the traffic problem of the
Hub City. Every new building
that attracts more downtown
business adds to the bottleneck

‘at Commercial and Terminal
Avenue,

None of the exponents of: ex-
pansion propound a solution to
the problem, yet they all agree
something must be done and soon,
Thirty years ago the same issue
was discussed but the downtown
businessmen wouldn’t allow the
highway department to bypass
the city for fear of a loss of
business,

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A FISH TALE: Last week a
Conservation. Officer, (game
warden), approached an Indian
chap: who was fishing the Nan-
aimo River for foed for home
consumption, .

A bit of argument ensued as to
“the Indian’s right to fish off
season, Few people are in doubt
now as to this right since the
SuprenregOourt decision last Fall,
but the Conservation Officer
seemed to have his doubts for
a while,

The odd part is that the Indian
fellow is the same man who fought
the case through the Canadian
Courts and he says he would do
it again if fishing rights are in
doubt, :

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IN LIBERATED SOUTH VIETNAM. These young girls are
busily sewing uniforms for the People’s Army of South.
Vietnam's National Liberation Front. While the U.S. mili-

tary machine has to haul all its requirements thousands

OBITUARIES

Al Bahr

On Christmas eve in Victoria’s
Gorge Hospital, a pioneer Sea-
man’s organizer of B,C, and the
Pacific Northwest “crossed the
bar” in his 72nd year: Elsworthy
Bahr, known to scores of hund-
reds of seamen and longshore-
men during the hectic organizing
days of the 30’s and 40’s as just
plain Al,

With Digger Smith, Jimmy
Thompson and others, Al Bahr
pioneered the building of the old
Inland Boatmen’s Union, fore-
runmer of the West Coast Sea-
men’s Union, and as a waterfront
organizer played an active part in

the longshore struggies of the -

30’s for union organization;
-gtruggles.in which the historic
names of “Salone, Emery and
Brown” are inseparable,

More than once Al Bahr was
escorted back across the border
to B,C. by U.S, security guards,
since the powerful U.S. Shipping
Federation, ‘like its B,C. coun-

. ““ferpart, opposed every and all

attempts to organize seamen and
longshoremen, with every scab,
goon -and policeman they could
muster,

As a seaman and waterfront
organizer Al Bahr experienced
all the hazards of those early
‘days: long hitch-hikes because

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of the lack of the wherewithal for
transportation; often long
stretches between meals or

sleep, and sometimes violence

and bloodshed at the hands of
shipping federation goons, com-
pany and municipal police,

All those things that went into
the pioneer work of building the
waterfront unions, which today
are often taken for granted, Al
Bahr gave with steadfast courage
and devotion,

Removed from activity for a
number of years because of ill-
ness and infirmities, there are
many young men in our water-
front unions ef today to whom
the name of Al Bahr may mean.
very little; but to the old-
timers ofhis generation who were
his union buddies in those hard
years, the passing of this de-
yoted Communist seaman and
pioneer trade unionist will be
mourned, and his memory sal-
uted as ‘one of their own,’

Tom Ostle

One of Nanaimo’s well-known
veteran coal miners, Thomas
Ostle, passed away last week
following a long illness,

For many years an active
member of the Nanaimo Local,
United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica, Tom Ostle served as vice-

of miles, the people of liberated areas look after all the
needs of the NLF forces. This “factory” started with fivé
workers and three sewing machines, not too long ago.

ae

—Hsinhua News Photo

Marxist, Yale
Prof., student
visit Vietnam

Herbert Aptheker, director o
the American Institute for Marx-
ist Studies, Staughten Lynd,
assistant professor of history
at Yale University, and Thomas
Hayden, a founder of the Students
for a Democratic Society, aré
visiting North Vietnam on a fact
finding mission,

Aptheker will write reports |
for the U.S, Worker on his trip,
while Prof, Lynd has been asked
by Viet Report, a monthly pub=
lished in New York, to “clarify
the peace terms of the National
Liberation Front and North Viet-

Hayden has stated that he is
going as an individual and not
as a representative of SDS,

president of his local and for a
number of years as Union check-
weighman, Ostle also served”
as an executive member of the
British Columbia Federation of
Labor in its early years, Be-
fore the infirmities ef age and
ill-health slowed down his labor
activities Tom Ostle was an
ardent booster and supporter of
the Pacific Tribune and other
progressive labor papers,

He is survived by his wife,
two sons and two daughters, all
resident in his home city,

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