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Saturday July li, 19*4,
Eastern Relocees Planning for PermanenrStay in~New Homes
Montreal Worker.
Tours Ghost Towns
KASLO, B. 0.�Japanese? Canadian evacuees who moved to Eastern Canadian cities are steadily settling down hu.irew homes, and many Are, now looking forward- to the future- in hopes of permanent residence far
from'the Pacific Coast,' Mrs. P.as.v Powles of the Montreal" Sponsoring Committee] told a large audience here Wednesday.
Mrs.. Powles, who spent twenty-four years in. Japan as a missionary before returning to Canada "in 15)30, addressed the audience in fluent Jap-
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SEATTLE, Waahi�Esther Sen* mou, 20-v�?�r' old Quaker firi, who plans to; marry. (Jordan, Hirabaya-shi, well-known Japan?-* American youth, this sutJimt-r, said U*t Wednesday'the discrimination HMy to^ confront her would be\**e�8ief to take' than toot to marry,him at all/
The AP toH the *tory, relating that" MiSs Sehflvae1^ daughter of a � University of Washington faculty member', was back at her work at the Y.W.C.A., after spending a week in Spokane, where she an'd the Nisei youth were issued a marriage licence,
Cordon Hiraba> ashi became naliotnUy-known, when he wilfully violated U.S. curfew and evacuation orders tp tost their legality's
artese. Earlier in the day, she Imd j Qu*�Hy sowing a prison term when spoken to the school chililWn in l^i-J 'he U.S. Supremo Court Upheld a
VANCOUVER COUNCIL DEFERS ACTION ON EXILE RESOLUTION
; Vi VANCOUVER � A resolution de-;ferring temporarily-a -re-deftnitioiuof tbe stand'-or? the Japanese question pending -development was passed Tuesday by the city council. In 1942, the city council indicated to the Dominion Government* - it might be agreeable to return to the cousUil' area of B.C. of a quota of Canadian born Japanese k of- proven loyalty if those born.in Japan were repatriated. . The postponement wa,s accepted by Mayor Cornett, who stated that he woulcl press his original demand at the end of the waf said a CP report. �The Mayor and Aid. Q. C. Miller who had recently returned froirMlt ttip"across Canada, testified -that-all the provinces which they had visited last month were unwilling1 to retain within their boundaries, any Japanese who had relocated to that province after Pca>l Harbor. - .
Aid. Miller urged total repatriation in view of the fact that none of the provinces desire the Japanese. Aid. Miller was the chairman of the subcommittee which drafted the 1042 resolution. . nidn against the relocation of Japan- ithis ycar (jac t<) shortage of laborers
Suggested eastern hostility and � {esc in Montreal. But now, requests ' Jlow \V(irliing on t]lc highway it was natural "hankering'' for the coast will I for Japanese workers come pouiing ,<lisclosc(1 by j M Wardle, Director drive the Japanese back to former j1"^ the committee office, she said. {)f Surveys and Engineering in the homes, Mayor Cornett told the ] NISKIS PIONKERS Department of Mi HIM July 9.
council - -"-- --_______-,- - - - T*1? -^is?i.sJll the, eastern Cities are t Qnjy ST Japanese are atjvork on
Mayor Cornett said he was hopefuUthe pioneers, and are laying the thp Hope .end and 13S on the Prince-
Franchise Protest fie veals �Wide Democratic Interest Iii Equal Nisei Citizenship
BY STAVF WRITER
Whatever the final oiUcmiie 'of (he cuiW>t struggUr to ; fpreserveIthe, fundamental iVan.cljjsc x>gl\! ft�rvCanudiaixciti; jxens of Japanese (leSeent^thc UelwtV it'has'already aroused j has given us spine of the, most inteve.sling newspaper reading since'tho dark days of Pearl Haibor u,nd "evacuation. .
It-has revealed1 that dVmocnllic influences, though they may appear submerged at times in tho clamor of racist forces,-are by no means nonexistent-in Canada. Neither are they necessarily silent, when the 'prow cation arousing them to action is vital enough. ' � . �
Certainly', in the past month,
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The favorable impression cast by the -hard-working Japanese Cana- _ diaps is leading to increasing demand for more employees by employers in Montreal. The Nisei Sponsoring Committee's job was to find suitable employment
decision holding him guilty of the cur.fe\v infraction. Recently ho declined to fill out a i?olectivc- Service form, on the grounds that it was of a discriminatory nature, an-1 was again arrested on a Federal indictment.
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Labor Lack Holds Up Hope-Princeton Highway
for the Niseis, which \\as veiy difl'i-j VANCOUVKH __The Hope-Prince-
cult two years ago with public o(pi- ile)n
pi0jecj cannot bo linished
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oral forces have demonstrated the j tion against any group of Ha keenest interest. And newspaper ; citizens."
editorial opinion has been an cvi- -' Four days later The Free Press de-denl testimony of the strength of voted its lead editorial to the same democratic belief in the nation. subject, The language of its editorial,
.The-editorial campaign in defence ,"Slop_ JUxdal Discrimination" i�. as of civil rights.for all Canadian oiti- striking us its view is elear-sigh'ted, "" M?ns has been sparked by tho Win- /'SHOCKING ANU KKVOt/TlNG"
nrpeg Free. .Press, freely recogjii/.t^ ' ".....We are cither building a
as one of Canada's groatest dailies, democracy in Canada on terms of
Its inloiest and open support of- tho .equality of citizenship, or we are slid'
sanctity of Canadian citizenship is jng into the dark agi< in winch Uor-
provintf an' inspiring encouragement many has been submerged, WTiere no
to every liberal-thinking person in man is the equal of another before
;he country. the law unless he has the stamp "of
The Free Pi ess which under its approval of a ruling caste. The latter
new editors, (iraiit Dexter aiul alternative, is unthinkable. W$ aJCr
Buice Hutchison, is carrying on in building the other kind of democracy;,
the best traditions of liberalism of its our youth is fighting and dying for it,
ilntc great editor,�curly took an un- and our national resources are being
'qualified si a ml on the matter.. thrown into the struggle with a reck-
' In^an editorial xirticle.on June 1!), lessness wholly in keeping with the
'entitled '"Election" Act" Outrage" . Uie~'�eriousripss' of the* issue. IJTis f or "that"-
Winnipeg daily urged that action be reason shocking and revolting for all
takiMi '�� the'Senate to nullify the d�s- decent Canadians to learn that some
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TA^T^-B C.-�Thei taft 'roadcamp | on the Reyeistoke^Sicambus road pi"o-ject closed down- early -this^ monthv
1 enfranchisement section of JttU J35. apparently nameless clique of mem-[It would "seriously impair, the work j>ers of Pai1iamen(: spugrit - to widen ;i6f.r:'reseu'len\d^
was apt fo become liappy-gb-luclcy, j ^ : Vj ;* R ff 1' ri dians" anc giVe Provinciat-_ l.pgisla* - the l:iw was Doing Mmpos0df in^ so; im- ;
leavine evervthihg via to tlie .Isseis ,T.aniOUS rtawaiian Battalion lurcs: a whollj1^ imwarranted power to ;ppirtant a.:field: as ihat of th^: frah^
first Issisi immigrant to Canada. �ny more men.
During the pre-waivdays:, the Nisei 1 '
ject closet do^n;:early^this month, but ^^
TherVvxere apprbxijiiately.-thirty men,.\&*W ^ ^5seis n�x>T?-coi^donce and.1 , ;.., -^r^^ n^ ^\,^
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and slaughters ii\ the^ east that them j Japanese: Americin^ 100th Infantry
was noting to worry abaut.in� iega.nl t Hattalipn ^which "has been frghtjjVg
to their welfare; : -At present ; there � bnljiarity'5; in�.':'th> Italian^campaign
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Rule On XJ.S. Coast Exclusion
exclude cMixens.:.of any rac_iul group ; chi^e.> ^ Inequality 'moreoVerr/on ; the>; j front the. federal,';fr-aiichise,; %\yar;ne'(l:'j very ground wlncj^ frorri the b^ginr>i jthc.feditorial;/article; ;; .: ,;.';. �; Ii^ijig ;'of the Nazi -:ait(| Fascist tyrari-" -
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J can" (her wbrH \rT\h*;;fq; �turejSma'Ve��progre^ and remainT.at pcaice^^V " " '����� '' �: "/v: /,;; . : ~ /-J'We/.b'f^tKe'; C.C.F. believe' ^ ^ 7va"nb1^�!TnbT"psrm}!ater^^
to^ent4eT4he}r borders, th^ri, by mutual '�: irrarigjem'ent and" understand -jng, agrt*aiittnt3: should W- reaChc-d. '.Otherwise1,' loyal and 1.2w-abr<iirJgI'cl.i-7.er.r>. of whatever race, creed jor col^r
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form l .The; %hole;-jpiif'rrble.iih'; should b� j .seek ':,a. worl< j '�-'_ .;h: \vjnph .our ch ilUrert -'ex"i?!^ittj^^-;.and:..^
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'In :outiinl�i^ the CC-F: posi war �;zer.r,;'.p^ wiiat ever race, creed ior color 1 vJris; iiiV-OSi^ell torched..ifenv.tbo.^>io^)d:'.l^';-air�>nl��i full rights :of our 5ubj>."i of the: war ah4:.r^c!a]";mVnorr -:b;nrriojrr citizenship.? ; .- -:
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fubj?.^ of the:.^�r ah<i':.r?c!a]";mVnorr lit-.' in Canaria. He :*A:d when the v.-ar vrith Gerrriar.y wss over. - they :� 'r�.-]v.aif!*d .a ~*l2ea*o!e Vjof to undf-r-. :ake-:In' the Pacific,'-This was-'mad.'--
WINCH ASKS Pf)UCY
PKXTICTCM?; B.C.�Haro!d Wircn, C.CF. leader In the B-.-'.Cv.-Leiji'Utjr*;--
^�; Interesting: itself- stijl further in Uhe jTiatter :thc ; Free: Prcis: late -last �' wc^k threw .further light on t he. "hack-'ground andt irn.plicati^ns-'of ".Sc�tip'n. �">; :tht- .fJtPf'nfrm'nchisemeni-claiG'se. . -". ��'�-�'. : \Vritmg :irorn: ptta^a.; 'Grant D^x-,U:r tn::*tJ the pasSige. oi Biil i?*~t �thri>u^h the fio^se of Common?. . ^ . ".., ...-here :> -th� .>"*orj- to \inf- .extent/that it is knoirii:. .
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