Return to beat of cop accused in assault on Negro ‘provocation! i Le 7 : . i ii MLN Bl mM ANU AE anit i 1: HA ease By On I ! nD ME: i FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1952 ment this week. “The hated co-insurance penalty must be removed completely,” Morgan declared. Constable Dan Brown, one of the two Vancouver policemen who, it is alleged, gave a terrible beating to Negro longshoreman Clarence Clemens of July 19, has been returned to his Main Street district beat in a move, which Clemens’ friends say, “has all the earmarks of an act of provocation.’ Clemens, fighting for his life in Wancouver General Hospital, appease to be winning that battle and is expected to press Eanes against the police offic Drop co- insurance entirely is united demand of labor; Socred changes inadequate “Premier W. A. C. Bennett’s announcement of a cut ~-in hospital insurance rates and co- insurance charges is a move in the right direction, but it falls far short of what the people want and what they have a right to expect,” said Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, in a press: state- “The fact that BCHIS showed a profit of $3 million for 1951, while. reporine 445,000 registrants, shows that the rates could have been reduced twice the amount they were.’ Fascists in Que. linked with Nazis QUEBEC CITY Quebec fascists are more and more linking up with the Euro- pean neo-Nazi movement, a study of latest fascist /publications shows. In the new fascist publication Le Democrat (believed to be edited by Adrien Arcand, pre- war fascist leader in Quebec), various articles in the April-May 1952 issue have been boldly “lifted’’ from such fascist publi- _ ¢ations as Die Hiche (South Af- pica) and Nation Europa, The latter paper is the most: important of the neo-Nazi monthlies and is published in Coburg and continues the fas- cist-line once mooted by Musso- lini’s Europa Nazione, The Feb- ruary 1952 issue contained an article by Col. Charles A, Lind- bergh, who was supposed to have ‘renounced fascism after Pearl Harbor. An agent of this neo- - Nazi sheet is Otto Skorzeny, a leading Nazi, who travels be- tween Madrid and Bonn with the _ blessing of the U.S. government. The latest issue of Le Demo- erat carries all kinds of fascist DP articles, ‘da from Bonn, racist filth from th Africa and little Canadian * neo-Nazi propagan-~ Morgan condemned a Socred proposal to put BCHIS ona “vol- untary” basis, recalling that the proposal for a “voluntary” scheme was first advanced by the Conservatives. 7 “To make the scheme ‘volun- tary’ while leaving rates at their: present exorbitant level is simp- ly a cunning way of dumping ‘hospital insurance entirely,” he said. “It is a way of getting around the desire of the voters to have the rates cut back to their former level and have co- insurance thrown out complete- ly.” Harold Winch, CCF provincial leader, attacked the Socred al- teration to IBCHIS this week as “straight political trickery.’ He contended that the scheme can pay its way without co-insurance charges. Several prominent trade union officials voiced strong objections to the Socred alterations. “While the $3 reduction in rates is a step forwafd, the dol lar-a-day co-insurance plan should not have been introduc- ed,”’ said Sam Jenkins, vice-pres- ident, Marine Workers and Boil- ermakers. “I believe that co- imsurance could havé been drop- ped altogether.”’ “T heartily agree with a re- duction in the premiums, but I would also welcome the aboli- tion of co-insurance,’’? comment- ed Donald Guise, business agent, Vancouver’ Civic Employees Un ion, Outside Workers. “Premiums should be lower than they are now,” said Jack Brierly, Fur and Leather Work- ers. “The $1 daily rate hits ere ———0r10——=0r9 The LONG and = Wher—he triad to onll pono Suit that Bane me? Chonge seer store, ag bem, el wp THE NUST : ES E. — . _ the SHORT of it is . . : The HUB has sold Union-Made Men’s Wear and extended friendly ser- vice for over 50 years. - ~ Vancouver, B.C. 20000 ho : | - PREMIER W. A. C. BENNETT ‘His announcement fell far short hardest thosa who are least able to pay—the workers who have to spend a long period in hos- pital.” Orville Braaten, Pulp and Sul- phite 'Workers, pointed out that while $35 was the maximum co- insurance charge under the for- mer system, a worker forced to spend a year in hospital would now be charged $365. — Carpenters to discuss offer | A contractors’ wage offer of ‘a dime an hour increase will be discussed by striking carpenters in major iB.C, centres within the next few days. The strike and lockout, now entering its third month, began when employers in B.C. formed a “united front’? to hold wages at last year’s levels and in some cases reduce them, ; Labor Relations Board made two attempts to settle the strike but on both occasions the Gen- eral ‘Contractors Association turned thumbs down on the pro- posals, which included lower board rates in addition to a 10- cent hike. Finding the strikers standing solid at the end of two months on picket lines, the contractors this week made their first offer, a dime boost and no change in board and room rates. Bob Strachan, president of the carpenters’ council, said the car- penters would consider the pro- posal. Clemens’ ers when he recovers. “Action of the police Fenink: ment in returning Constable Brown to this beat looks like an attempt to stir up trouble,” a friend of Clemens told the Pa- cific Tribune this week. ‘‘When Clarence is able to talk again he’ll seek justice legally, in the eourts: I’m sure of that.’ No sooner had last week’s is- sue of the Pacific Tribune hit the streets than there was a rush for copies on the part of white and Negro friends. The Vancouver Sun, which had been given full details on how Clemens had been beaten up by two cops in a back alley, reneged on a reporter’s promise to run the story. : The Pacific Tribune headline, “Negro held in hospital; beaten by city cops,’’ produced immedi- ate repercussions in the police department too. ‘After your paper came out there were de- tectives everywhere in the dis- trict,’ several of Clemens’ friends told a PT reporter. ‘“They called on most of the people mentioned in your story, hung around the railway station in- quiring for certain™ porters and went looking for one of the eye witnesses. Some of them tried to give the impression that they were opposed to the use of police violence and were in sympathy with your campaign to (put am end to it.” Eric Forsythe, bartender at the Stratford Hotel, who is secre- tary-treasurer of an informal committee established to assist Clemens’ in paying hospital ex- penses and preparing his case, said that many people are con- tributing to the financial fund, and asked the Pacific Tribund to publish this partial list of donors: Dolores Dingman, Hilda C, Hope, Ed Lipscombe, Jennie May Lipscombe, Dan Montague, T. and Bobby Beans, Frank, Jack Bowden, Tex, Julia Reed and friends, Williams, R. J. Smith, > ‘Babe Powell, Maurice. Myra Jones and Clemens was Eiipgae taken up an alley and severely beaten by two policemen at 2.05 a.m. July 19, then taken to the police station and charged with as- saulting an officer. After be ing released on $50 bail he re- _ Mained at home in a semi-para- lysed condition for several days, then was rushed to hospital, where he remained unconscious for some time. Chief Constable Walter Mulli- gan, in a statement to a Van couver Sun reporter following the Pacific Tribune’s story on the case, said he was conducting “full investigations” into the al- leged beatings of Clarence Clem- ens and an ex-provincial police- man, Roy Thomas. The latter declared in court that he was beaten by two officers who ar- rested him on a drunk charge at Davie and Granville about a month ago. The chief said he would not countenance “excessive force’ by officers in making arrests, PACIFIC TRIBUNE ‘mark: Continued Jim Crow I wish you could have een the face of a young white WO | ‘man who had ‘been ‘beaten un hysterical, ‘because she found in ‘the company of 4 Negro man. Her story wo! shock any citizen aware of a citizen’s civil rights. There are too many such oc currences every day for me cite them all, but the evening — an officer (not in uniform) stalked into a Negro cafe and ‘bullied, cursed and threaten the personnel, stays with me. This happened in ‘the former Country ‘Club at 247 (Georgia (where a laundry 1 now situated) last year and J ‘was ‘there at the time. The caffe proprietors reported the officer and the snivelling apoligy that followed the next day made me rather ill. | imagine that a police officer can atone for ‘this vicious behav with a mere, “I’m so sorry.” I would like to mention mae of the intolerant attitudes Pp! tised by ignorant and pel people. ‘A friend of mine, Thelma States, was taking ™ eight-year-old daughter Sharon” downtown shopping with he when she overheard this | “T's things like that make you wonder what (che world is coming to.” My Swedish ‘friend had bee? ‘taken for the mother of @ ~ gro child. She is married to a Neg?® Will she have ‘to suffer, th unjust indignaties when children are born? Is ‘inter-marriage a crime? K ‘Should the parents of differ, copised ent racial origins be desP y and persecuted ‘because the, love and marry each other, pel respective of the color of th ‘skins? “How can we believe that free dom and justice for all ae dians exist, when so many fl rant examples of racial a ination are practised daily, © heeded ‘and ‘untried? When the rights of decent ple are thwarted, when ' ive plea for justice against igus is callously ignored, when people have to seek protects from persecution at the ha now of ‘their ‘so-called protectors ders will we determine the defen ro of our liberty and freedom ° its desecrators? ced Discrimination is practi freely in Vancouver, whites sn ing given preference in ou! employment, rentals @ some cases admittance 10 Pl lic places. I believe that organized © air ert and protest ‘by all decent, * minded Canadians, is the ca way to end racial discriminatio”” — AUGUST 15, 1952 — PAGE * re. x To