Seek return of Mulligan iga B.C. Even if it means reopening the Vancouver police probe, Attorney-General Robert Bonner should appeal to ex-Chief Walter Mulligan to return to Canada to give evidence, Arthur Turner (CCF, pear: Pe said in the legis: lature this week. Mulligan had been expected a appear as a star witness, but in- stead was allowed to flee to the United States, said Turner. “Mulligan should be asked to come back to clear his own name and those of his associates,” he continued. “If he refuses, then he and all others responsible will have to share in that black page of Vancouver’s history.” Turner placed the blame for the unhealthy state of affairs in Vancouver police force squarely on the Non-Partisan Association, which controls Vancouver City Council, whose mayor is head of the police commission. In Vancouver this, week, Maurice Rush, Vancouver LPP secretary, called for resignation of the Vancouver Police Commis- sion on grounds that its members knew last November ex-Chief Walter Mulligan was planning to leave the country before testify- ing at the Tupper probe but did ‘nothing to stop him. Drawing attention to a recent statement by former police com- mission member Magistrate Oscar Orr that “many people knew he (Mulligan) had. applied for a isa...I left November 14 and I knew about it then, “Rush said the police can have no confidence in a police commission which has]. so completely failed in its public responsibility. Rush sharply criticised Attorney General Robert Bonner for failing to act. “Tf he were eae carrying | out his functions,” said Rush, “he would ask for the resignation of the police commission following Magistrate Orr’s admission. “The attorney general’s silence ,only confirms the charge I made in a recent letter to him that: high law-enforcement officers had no serious intention of stopping Mulligan from leaving the ‘coun- try, and that he must share the responsibility along with the Vancouver Police Commission for the absence of the key witness from the probe.” Concerts please Island audiences A successful concert series at five Vancouver Island centres has been staged by the Youth Talent Tour over the past two weekends. At each of the five centres — Victoria, Lake Cowi- chan, Nanaimo, Port Alberni and Cumberland — capacity audiences turned out to hear the 32 young artists in the group. The group, which was brought together and sponsored by the national youth paper, Champion, was composed of the Kozbar dance group of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, the Young Chinese Canadian troupe and the Vancouver Youth Singers. The Youth Talent Tour will open a Fraser Valley series next month with a‘concert at the Royal Columbian Theatre, New West- minster, on March 4. JOHN McCUISH McCuish gets. 15-year gag Charging that he had violated sections of the union constitution, a “trial committee” of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electri- cal Workers (AFL), Local 213, has found lineman and veteran trade unionist John McCuish “guilty.” In keeping with such a verdict, the IBEW “jurors” sentenced Mc- Cuish to 15 years suspension from other privileges, without voice or vote in all local union affairs. The only “privilege” accorded McCuish is that he will be allow- ed to hold his job in the electrical industry, provided he pays his union, dues and keeps’ silent. Known in the logging camps and mills throughout the prov- ince as a militant worker and pioneer union builder for the past 35 years, McCuish was one of those who worked to establish union organization in the logging camps and one of the founding members of the present IWA. Among IBEW members John McCuish is highly respected as a staunch fighter for the union’s membership. The © “kangaroo trial” and 15-year sentence sub- stantiates the charges McCuish made in an affidavit recently that certain international ‘union representatives, their appointed local union’ officers and the RCMP were working hand-in- hand to eliminate militant work- ers from the union. ‘An IBEW union official told the Pacific Tribune: “They were out to get McCuish. They wanted to get him out of the chairmanship of the Line- men’s unit of the IBEW, and they certainly wanted to get him off the union wage negotiating com- mittee where he was a stumbling block to their sellout policies. So they gave him a constitutional ‘kangaroo trial’, and a 15-year gag sentence.” The Pacific Tribune is inform- ed that John McCuish will enter an appeal against the trumped- up charges and “sentence.” all union activities, offices or Massey Hall filled to capacity Robeson gets ovation on return to Toronto after five-year bar By JOHN STEWART TORONTO As Paul Robeson entered the great stage of Massey Hall, Toronto’s biggest music centre, last Saturday night, the audience that filled every one of the 2,800 seats stood in the kind of ovation reserved only for great artists. Then the hush as he spoke — that deep and vibrant voice that has not been heard outside his own’ land for five long years — simply and briefly as he always does, expressing his thanks for the welcome back, reading the words of O Canada. And with that, he sang. The voice that is known to so many millions of people throughout the world has lost none of its richness — in a Bach Chorale or a. reading from Shakespeare; in that powerful Negro spiritual Go Down Death, or Moussorgsky. Through his songs he told of love and of struggle; of peace and of freedom; of life and of death. The spirituals of his own people; the Seng of Peace (Hymn to Joy) of Beethoven’s Ninth in an arrangement by Heifetz; songs for the children — Schubert’s Cradle ‘Song, Moussorgsky’s Polly Go To Sleep and as an encore’ the ever-loved Curly Headed Baby. There was Dvorak and a Canadidn folk song Un Canadian Errant; Earl Robson’s What is America to Me and Jerome Kern’s 0’! Man River. And the encores, Water Boy and — of course — Joe Hill. At the end, a dramatic reading from Othello and from Neruda’s Let the Rail Splitter Awake, on the occasion of Lincoln’s_ birth- day. Then the few words every one seemed to be waiting for: He had but one purpose in life, he said “To fight for my people that they shall walk this earth as free as any man” — whether it be in America, in Africa, in Honduras or wherever they may bé. And a quick reference that lent his support to the recent | saying: banning in Toronto public schools of the white chauvinist children’s book Little Blaek Sambo which had aroused such controversy. To the ringing applause, the rhymic hand-clapping, the whis- tles and cheers, the tall lean figure—thinner than we knew him before since his recent illness — walked with those familiar quick steps off stage. Robeson also over scheduled to appear on CBC _TV during this week. He is, as he said*in an earlier | statement to the press, “up and doing.” He added: “I am glad to be back in full stride to take my place in that great people’s movement to which I have dedi- cated my life as an artist and a citizen.” One thing missing from Rob- ~ eson’s concert was his accom- |panist for so many years, Law- was heard by, other-thousands in Toronto dur-'| ing a 15-minute radio broadcast’ station CKEY ‘and was rence Brown. Alan Booth ac- companied this time; and though there were some moments of un- cetainly, he made up for it in an ,excellent solo group which in- |cluded Kabalevsky, Guarnieri and Seen Turner assails BCE natural gas con rel: VICTORIA, B.C. Distribution of natural gas in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Should be in the hands of B.C. Power Commission, Arthur Turner (CCF, Vancouver East) told the House Monday this week, in 2 speech denouncing the Soveraments decision to grant distribution rights to the B.C. Electric. Charging that the BCE has a “stranglehold” on lower Vancou- ver Island, Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Turner made a strong plea for extending power and gas distribution rights of the B.C. Power Commission. “Why is the B.C. Electiic al- lowed to hold: the cream of the business?” asked Turner. (Earlier in the budget debate, Tony Gargrave (CCF, Mackenzie) said the Social Credit party in B.C. had “sold its soul” for cam- paign funds and made a deal with the BCE on the. matter of public and private power. He ‘}estimated that the Socreds had spent $300,000 in campaign funds since 1952.) Turner said that in small com- munities. served by the Power Commission there were Power Commission — Electrici ity , at Cost.” If: electricity can be sold at cost by the BCPC, then “why can’t the Power Commission serve the whole province?” Turner wanted to know. signs : “Served. by the B.C. | Labor backs i peace motion Delegates to Vancouver Labor | Council (CCL) this week gave unanimous support to a motion calling for world disarmament and the weapons. ~ banning of nuclear The action was in support “of a CCF motion on the Order Paper in the legislature calling for world disarmament throuey the United Nations. (A large delegation sponsored by B.C. 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