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^arurdav. .April 28, 1945
Anlndeindent Weekly for Canadian soil apane s e Ori
copy
Settlers Enjoy
Indicate Gnost 1 own Schools ^ukon
j Albertans Win Two Point
Harmonious Relations
To Be Maintained Indefinitely With Occidental Neighbors Boost In Beet Contract
From the far northern regions
The continuance of the present in
°t
Dawson, Vukon Territory comes
terior housing
N. Y. TIMES PAYS
settlement
Minimum Yield Guarantee Raised to 8 Tons
hool
the report 01 Mr. S, Harada that
system was indicated in application
the twenty-six I
no
high tribute
■ ±orms which distributed am ono- teaBonus up 25c; Tonnage Contract Turned Down
sanseis
are
going
about
their
unit.'
: chers and individuals
for i
task with no discrimination dir
TO NISEI GTs
LE1HBR1DGE, Alta.— Two points of a three-point proposal seeking
teaching in the interior towns.
ected toward them.
highei
labor cash contract submit.ed by the evacuee sugar beet workers
The indication is that schools for
NEW YORK — The New York
There are 12 first generation, 10 early last month has been approved by the Southern Alberta Sugar Beet
children
of
Times, leading New York newspaper,
repatriate families and
second generation and 4 thiro Grower’s Association.
paid high tribute to the Nisei Ameri- maintenance cases will be maint. ined
generation.
can ; oldiers in an editorial Action in i desPite any changes in government
All Isseis and Niseis who art- nt the tonnage contract was turned ping will commence. If the worker
Italy on April 11, declaring “on the policy which might occur.
working are members of the C.C.F. down. The boost of the cash contraci does not report back by September
record, none surpasses them in loyal- i MALES TO
ACCEPTED
end also of the local mining- union. guarantee up to a new high of $35 20, the contract automatically is
the position which has been closed
ty, devotion or courage.”
The people are working in close per acre on a ten ton basis was also broken and the hoKback of $4.50 per
“No soldiers we have sent abroad to males up to this time will now be
'ived to the grower,
harmony with the occidentals and rejected
have a more distinguished record open to them.
This
However if the grower has orders
cash contract allows
there are no signs of any friction,
The appl Hon also states th~t
than thes
the Tinies said
a minimum yield of ‘8 tons per : from the sugar company but does not
writes
the
correspondent.
applicants •wno are accented for tea- I
The newspaper declared ' that Ge
ms and a j commence harvesting before Septem
Cultivation of the fertile lands
eral Mark AV. Clark was using hing- positions wiH be required to
bonus
of
$1.50
for
each
addit iona! ber 2d, good weather conditions preare underway and the correspon‘•'battle-tried Nisei, as Americans of attend the annual Sumpier School in
ton
over
the
ten
ton
per
acre pro ; vailing, the contiact may be declared
aent states that vegetables grow
Japanese ancestry call themselves” in -Jew Denver from July 23 to August
duct
ion
level
; cancelled and the worker free to seek
well in the region, especially
the forefront of the Fifth Army’s new 17 inclusive.
For thinnine
i other employment.
inch
rows
tomatoes
which
seem
adapted
to
The intention of the applicant,
drive up the Ligurian coast.
grow in that type of soil.
:
Also noted in the contract is that
nethm- he ()1. siie intend to return j
i ing $4.50 per measured acre, ami for ' in
Continued the editorial:
event that
handwork is
to Japan or to
Canada
is
I
weedings
$3.00
per
measured
:
not
done
with sufficient rapidity, the
“More than 17,600 have been in asked.
“For pulling, topping and piling grower may appeal to the Agrieulducted into the Army. The men of the
Deadline for submission of the j
into
piles from 300 to 600 lbs, or tureal Superintendent or Fieldman to
famous 100th Battalion are typical. application forms is May 6.
loading
the beets as topped into low either of whom authority is delegated
They were originally' Hawaiian vol
wagons or trucks not to exceed ap to decide .whether the employment of
unteers but heavy losses brought re
proximately 4 feet in height, $15.00 i additional help is necessary and to
placements from many sections. D"s- Preparations for School
Second Beet Payment
ner acre on a yield of 10 tons per permit the engagement of other help
tinguished Service Medals are com
RAYMOND, Alta.—Cheques are in acre, and over 10 tons, a bonus ar. ■ to do the work in question as cheap
monplace. Private Jesse Hirato won Made for Midway Residents
the mails for southern Alberta sugar the rate of $1.50 for each additional ■ as existing conditions warrant.
his by seizing a shovel when his rifle
MIDWAY, B. C. — An influx of beet growers covering the second ton per acre, and under .10 tons per I
The grower is authorized through
jammed, charging an enemy nest and
acre, a deduction at the rate of $1.30
transferees
fi'om
Kaslo
has
necessi
subsequent
payment
for
1944
beet
capturing its occupants armed with
per ton shall be made for each ion. . the contract to deduct the amount
a machine-pistol, rifle and grenades. tated the renovation of the school deliveries. The payment is 50 cents provided that there shall be no deduc ; paid such additional labor from the
building here and ft is expected that a ton on 337,000 tons.
account of the contractor. .
“Most of the Nisei want to fight in classes tvill be ready for a number
tion on a yield below 8 tons per
The
-initial
payment
was
$7.75
a
All tools for handwork except beet
.the Pacific. They believe that, raised j of elementary grade pupils next
acre.” the contract specifies
ton, the first payment 75 cents and
forks is to be furnished by the
in the institutions of democracy, the- I month.
PAY HOLDBACK
am better soldiers than Japanese of I
Tt is expected that two teachers. 50 cents the second payment making
A sum of $4.50 per acre is to be ’ worker.
a total of $9 a ton to date.
withheld from the worker from pavThe Agricultural Superintendent or
from K^o and another from
ments due under this contract for Fieldman or the Sugar Company are
agery and hate But they do not differ : Greenwood, will be assigned to edu- “California Is Grateful”
thinning as a guarantee of faithful j designated as arbitrator to settle dism appearance from our Pacific enemy ; cate the children. Text books are
anlTld n’Vlte attemPtsJ at ejiemy being sent from the Kootenav Lake
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Lieut. Gov. Performance of the contract. How j pute arising from misunderstanding
infiltration. Some are used as inter School in Kaslo.
Frederick Houser told, seven Ameri ever, with the consent of the grower, provisions of the contract, decision of
preters and specialists but they have
can
veterans of Japanese ancestry, oil the contractor may hire other labor whom is final.
High school students in Midway are
seen combat service chiefly in Italy transported daily to high schools in of whom have been decorated for to complete the work to fulfill his HOUSING PROVIDED
contract.
and France.
The contract states that housing,
Greenwood while a few are boarding valor in overseas combat, that “Cali
Pavment
is
to
be
made
with
the
equipped
with cooking stove will be
fornia
is
grateful
for
the
services
A HARDER FIGHT
1 in Greenwood while completing their
comuletion
of
the
respective
class
of
provided
by
the growers and where
you
have
rendered.
”
“Thus far "'they have won every courses.
work
specified
as
thinning,
hoeing
necessary,
conveyance
of food supfight they have been in. But their
The seven Nisei soldiers were in
Upwards of 100 residents, mostly
and
weeding.
I
plies,
suitable
water
for
culinary purhardest fight is sti’l ahead and may from Kaslo are now housed at this troduced in the State Senate on
As
soon
as
all
preliminary
work
to
|
poses,
transportation
of
the workers
outlast the war. It is the fight against centre. The old hotel has been re April 16.
harvesting'
is
completed
in
August.
}
and
baggage
to
and
from
station to
prejudice roused by color of skin and novated and equipped to accommodate
the
worker
is
not
required
to
report
farm.
The
houses
may
he
occupied
slant of eye. It is easy to admire several families. There are also a Seek Wider 'Circulation
back
to
work
until
not
later
than
during
the
beet
work
and
thirty
them while they are still in uniform. J number of houses which have been
September
10
when
pulling
and
topthereafter.
“It would be kinder to remember ' rented privately to transferee fam
and reward them when the battle is ilies, the Grand Forks Gazette re
VICTORIA, B. C.—The Richmond
over.”
ported.
Antzus Maclnnis Elaborates Speech
Branch of the Japanese Repatriation
League have sent Victoria City Coun
Lethbridge Remains Adamant:
cil a copv of a petition, which they
say has been signed by 90 per cent
of residents of that municipality,
TORONTO, Ont.—Angus Maclnnis,
asking the Dominion Governmen to ti , t •
a
• f
C.C.F. member for Vancouver East,
ensure that no member of the JapaLicence Case Again.
said here that Prime iMinister Mac
YSeJ^Ce be Pe™ittP.d t0 Iive in B-cKIRKLAND, Ont. — Teck township kenzie King should follow up his pro
le CP reported April 23.
council April 19 withheld decision in
posal of August 4 last that Orientals
LETHBRIDGE, Alta.—The question of permitting evacuees into the
be
dispersed across Canada, reported
The^Richmond
letter
asks
that
the
the
case
of
James
Tosako,
a
Japanescity of Lethbridge to accept employment was again under discussion
the
Canadian Press April 19.
City
Council
aid
in
circulating
a
simnational
who
applied
for
a
license
to
Mond2Y> with four Ministers, members of the United Church in South
“
All restrictions against loyal
ilar
petition
in
Victoria
or
turn
it
operate
a restaurant in Kirkland
ern Alberta appearing before the council on behalf of the Japanese Cana
Japanese
should be removed,” he
over to other organizations such as Lake. A former Toronto hotel chef
dians, but the council remained adamant in their stand.
said, “except that they should not
the Chamber of Commerce or a rate- Tosako came to Canada at the age
Ministers appearing before
the
be allowed to return to British Col
payes body.
I of 12,' reported the Toronto Star.
council were Rev. E. L. Garvin of the members of the United Church said
umbia until after the war.”
city, who said he spoke as “the Rev. Mutchmor, and added that “we
He was elaborating on a speech he
unanimous voice of the Lethbridge feel we have a very decided respon
made at a public meeting here.
Ministerial Association,” Rev. H. A. sibility” to speak for them.
Loyal Japanese should be permitted
Mutchmor of Southminister United
to settle anywhere in Canada without
He declared that if evacuees were
• VANCOUVER, B. C.—Trek east disadvantages or prejudices, he added.
Church here; Rev. H. B. Marston, uermitted to work in the rural areas,
United Church minister at Magrath
ward of Japanese wishing to remain After the war, B.C. should be pre
he saw no reason why they should Head Office to Approve
and Raymond and Rev. Walter Ward, not be allowed into the city. He said
in Canada after the war is under way pared to take her share.
United Church minister at Barons, that it exerted an intolerable condi
—a number of Japanese are moving
“The Japanese problem before the
reported the Lethbridge Herald.
to employment east of the Rocky war,” he said, “was essentially a Bri
tion on them and forced the evacuees
KASLO, B. C.—Applications for
URGE FAIR PLAY
Mountains every day, the Vancouver tish Columbia problem, but now it is
to spend a great part of the year in !
permanent stay in this city will be
Province reports.
a Dominion problem and should be
Explaining; “ I have a great love idleness. He added that Japanese J
taken by the B.C. Security Com
handled
as one.”
No
difficulty
has
been
encountered
ror fair play and-justice” and speak- Canadians were law-abiding and gave j
mission office here it was revealed
j
in
placing
them
in
mg a
'member of the Christian good account of themselves.
since
this week.
body".
. , Rev. Mutchmor felt there
p a n e s e Placement Commission
Rev. Garvin pointed out that the 1
It was stated that all applica
, Would Discriminate Jews
should be no racial discrimination of situation concerning the evacuees has j
through
the co-operation
.Na
tions
be sent to Vancouve
Japanese beyond the requirements of changed during the past three years, j
head office for approval. Permis ional Selective Service, has “ a large i More Than Jaoanese
i
^ar security. Among the evacuees in He explained that the federal labor I
sion to stay will depend on the reserve of employment” for them.
.
•
SEATTLE, Wash.—John L. Former,
southern Alberta are Canadian-born department has asked churches to
applicants ability to independently MANY JOBS OPEN
Kent
newspaper publisher, declared
: of Japanese
assist in resettlement
:
support himself or his family.
T. B. Pickersgill, Commissioner of April 19 that
numerous letters
Canadians across the Dominion and
that com received by him from servicemen, the
KASLO, B. C. — Following the Japanese Placement
Repatriate All—Anscomb
stand
<
declared
tthat the council
in Winni- ; majority of those writing favor recompletion of egregation through mission placement offic
changed.
Fort
signing
William,
ito.
Mon- l turn of the Japanese to their West
repatri
‘
voluntary
ED?,IONTON, Alta. — Municipal
Rev. Ward explained that what was
ation oi
trea] end Lethbridge have on file se
Minister H. Anscomb of the B. C.
; Coast homes and businesses.
council was to amen 5
left for
in Jumin southern • eral hundred jobs on fam
Government, said in an interview desires or
Speaking at a mass
meeting
ement to permit Japanese to i
Ontario, one familv to Montreal : bering and other essential employ- attended by an estimated 700 persons,
here Thursdav, “As far as I am conloyment facilities in Leth- ;
and another to Vernon, B. C., this ment for Japan ise.
cerned the Japanese in British Col
Fornier asserted he was just as wor
irin^
the
months
when
they
,
week.
i
Largest number of requests fm ried about the Jewish and Negro
umbia are going back to their homeon beet work, and I
Only other movement from this ) Japanese labor comes from Ontario minority problems as that of the
— nd and we will provide the boats to are not required
advantage
of edu- j
allowed to take
centre this week was six fam-Tes currently in the grin of ? sever? ■ Japanese, saying that “Kent businesstake them there.”
here,
transferred to the Slocan City : labor shortage, says the report. Hous- ; men would go down the line on a
He said any attempt to resettle cational facilities that they are butt“
They
just
feel
area.
This contingent left Wednes ; ing shortage in larger e fern cities program against
Japanese in B.C. would be vigorou
Jews faster
... it’s a probing
against
the
wall
day
morning
on a special chartered ris proving a problem in relocating the J than they would against the Japa
?esi
and “it would best for all
(Please Turn to Page 2)
bus.
i Japanese.
•* nese.”
concerned, to deport them all.
Four United Church Ministers Appeal
To Council To Lift Ban On Evacuees
Housing Problem Slows Relocation
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Settlers Enjoy
Indicate Gnost 1 own Schools ^ukon
j Albertans Win Two Point
Harmonious Relations
To Be Maintained Indefinitely With Occidental Neighbors Boost In Beet Contract
From the far northern regions
The continuance of the present in
°t
Dawson, Vukon Territory comes
terior housing
N. Y. TIMES PAYS
settlement
Minimum Yield Guarantee Raised to 8 Tons
hool
the report 01 Mr. S, Harada that
system was indicated in application
the twenty-six I
no
high tribute
■ ±orms which distributed am ono- teaBonus up 25c; Tonnage Contract Turned Down
sanseis
are
going
about
their
unit.'
: chers and individuals
for i
task with no discrimination dir
TO NISEI GTs
LE1HBR1DGE, Alta.— Two points of a three-point proposal seeking
teaching in the interior towns.
ected toward them.
highei
labor cash contract submit.ed by the evacuee sugar beet workers
The indication is that schools for
NEW YORK — The New York
There are 12 first generation, 10 early last month has been approved by the Southern Alberta Sugar Beet
children
of
Times, leading New York newspaper,
repatriate families and
second generation and 4 thiro Grower’s Association.
paid high tribute to the Nisei Ameri- maintenance cases will be maint. ined
generation.
can ; oldiers in an editorial Action in i desPite any changes in government
All Isseis and Niseis who art- nt the tonnage contract was turned ping will commence. If the worker
Italy on April 11, declaring “on the policy which might occur.
working are members of the C.C.F. down. The boost of the cash contraci does not report back by September
record, none surpasses them in loyal- i MALES TO
ACCEPTED
end also of the local mining- union. guarantee up to a new high of $35 20, the contract automatically is
the position which has been closed
ty, devotion or courage.”
The people are working in close per acre on a ten ton basis was also broken and the hoKback of $4.50 per
“No soldiers we have sent abroad to males up to this time will now be
'ived to the grower,
harmony with the occidentals and rejected
have a more distinguished record open to them.
This
However if the grower has orders
cash contract allows
there are no signs of any friction,
The appl Hon also states th~t
than thes
the Tinies said
a minimum yield of ‘8 tons per : from the sugar company but does not
writes
the
correspondent.
applicants •wno are accented for tea- I
The newspaper declared ' that Ge
ms and a j commence harvesting before Septem
Cultivation of the fertile lands
eral Mark AV. Clark was using hing- positions wiH be required to
bonus
of
$1.50
for
each
addit iona! ber 2d, good weather conditions preare underway and the correspon‘•'battle-tried Nisei, as Americans of attend the annual Sumpier School in
ton
over
the
ten
ton
per
acre pro ; vailing, the contiact may be declared
aent states that vegetables grow
Japanese ancestry call themselves” in -Jew Denver from July 23 to August
duct
ion
level
; cancelled and the worker free to seek
well in the region, especially
the forefront of the Fifth Army’s new 17 inclusive.
For thinnine
i other employment.
inch
rows
tomatoes
which
seem
adapted
to
The intention of the applicant,
drive up the Ligurian coast.
grow in that type of soil.
:
Also noted in the contract is that
nethm- he ()1. siie intend to return j
i ing $4.50 per measured acre, ami for ' in
Continued the editorial:
event that
handwork is
to Japan or to
Canada
is
I
weedings
$3.00
per
measured
:
not
done
with sufficient rapidity, the
“More than 17,600 have been in asked.
“For pulling, topping and piling grower may appeal to the Agrieulducted into the Army. The men of the
Deadline for submission of the j
into
piles from 300 to 600 lbs, or tureal Superintendent or Fieldman to
famous 100th Battalion are typical. application forms is May 6.
loading
the beets as topped into low either of whom authority is delegated
They were originally' Hawaiian vol
wagons or trucks not to exceed ap to decide .whether the employment of
unteers but heavy losses brought re
proximately 4 feet in height, $15.00 i additional help is necessary and to
placements from many sections. D"s- Preparations for School
Second Beet Payment
ner acre on a yield of 10 tons per permit the engagement of other help
tinguished Service Medals are com
RAYMOND, Alta.—Cheques are in acre, and over 10 tons, a bonus ar. ■ to do the work in question as cheap
monplace. Private Jesse Hirato won Made for Midway Residents
the mails for southern Alberta sugar the rate of $1.50 for each additional ■ as existing conditions warrant.
his by seizing a shovel when his rifle
MIDWAY, B. C. — An influx of beet growers covering the second ton per acre, and under .10 tons per I
The grower is authorized through
jammed, charging an enemy nest and
acre, a deduction at the rate of $1.30
transferees
fi'om
Kaslo
has
necessi
subsequent
payment
for
1944
beet
capturing its occupants armed with
per ton shall be made for each ion. . the contract to deduct the amount
a machine-pistol, rifle and grenades. tated the renovation of the school deliveries. The payment is 50 cents provided that there shall be no deduc ; paid such additional labor from the
building here and ft is expected that a ton on 337,000 tons.
account of the contractor. .
“Most of the Nisei want to fight in classes tvill be ready for a number
tion on a yield below 8 tons per
The
-initial
payment
was
$7.75
a
All tools for handwork except beet
.the Pacific. They believe that, raised j of elementary grade pupils next
acre.” the contract specifies
ton, the first payment 75 cents and
forks is to be furnished by the
in the institutions of democracy, the- I month.
PAY HOLDBACK
am better soldiers than Japanese of I
Tt is expected that two teachers. 50 cents the second payment making
A sum of $4.50 per acre is to be ’ worker.
a total of $9 a ton to date.
withheld from the worker from pavThe Agricultural Superintendent or
from K^o and another from
ments due under this contract for Fieldman or the Sugar Company are
agery and hate But they do not differ : Greenwood, will be assigned to edu- “California Is Grateful”
thinning as a guarantee of faithful j designated as arbitrator to settle dism appearance from our Pacific enemy ; cate the children. Text books are
anlTld n’Vlte attemPtsJ at ejiemy being sent from the Kootenav Lake
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Lieut. Gov. Performance of the contract. How j pute arising from misunderstanding
infiltration. Some are used as inter School in Kaslo.
Frederick Houser told, seven Ameri ever, with the consent of the grower, provisions of the contract, decision of
preters and specialists but they have
can
veterans of Japanese ancestry, oil the contractor may hire other labor whom is final.
High school students in Midway are
seen combat service chiefly in Italy transported daily to high schools in of whom have been decorated for to complete the work to fulfill his HOUSING PROVIDED
contract.
and France.
The contract states that housing,
Greenwood while a few are boarding valor in overseas combat, that “Cali
Pavment
is
to
be
made
with
the
equipped
with cooking stove will be
fornia
is
grateful
for
the
services
A HARDER FIGHT
1 in Greenwood while completing their
comuletion
of
the
respective
class
of
provided
by
the growers and where
you
have
rendered.
”
“Thus far "'they have won every courses.
work
specified
as
thinning,
hoeing
necessary,
conveyance
of food supfight they have been in. But their
The seven Nisei soldiers were in
Upwards of 100 residents, mostly
and
weeding.
I
plies,
suitable
water
for
culinary purhardest fight is sti’l ahead and may from Kaslo are now housed at this troduced in the State Senate on
As
soon
as
all
preliminary
work
to
|
poses,
transportation
of
the workers
outlast the war. It is the fight against centre. The old hotel has been re April 16.
harvesting'
is
completed
in
August.
}
and
baggage
to
and
from
station to
prejudice roused by color of skin and novated and equipped to accommodate
the
worker
is
not
required
to
report
farm.
The
houses
may
he
occupied
slant of eye. It is easy to admire several families. There are also a Seek Wider 'Circulation
back
to
work
until
not
later
than
during
the
beet
work
and
thirty
them while they are still in uniform. J number of houses which have been
September
10
when
pulling
and
topthereafter.
“It would be kinder to remember ' rented privately to transferee fam
and reward them when the battle is ilies, the Grand Forks Gazette re
VICTORIA, B. C.—The Richmond
over.”
ported.
Antzus Maclnnis Elaborates Speech
Branch of the Japanese Repatriation
League have sent Victoria City Coun
Lethbridge Remains Adamant:
cil a copv of a petition, which they
say has been signed by 90 per cent
of residents of that municipality,
TORONTO, Ont.—Angus Maclnnis,
asking the Dominion Governmen to ti , t •
a
• f
C.C.F. member for Vancouver East,
ensure that no member of the JapaLicence Case Again.
said here that Prime iMinister Mac
YSeJ^Ce be Pe™ittP.d t0 Iive in B-cKIRKLAND, Ont. — Teck township kenzie King should follow up his pro
le CP reported April 23.
council April 19 withheld decision in
posal of August 4 last that Orientals
LETHBRIDGE, Alta.—The question of permitting evacuees into the
be
dispersed across Canada, reported
The^Richmond
letter
asks
that
the
the
case
of
James
Tosako,
a
Japanescity of Lethbridge to accept employment was again under discussion
the
Canadian Press April 19.
City
Council
aid
in
circulating
a
simnational
who
applied
for
a
license
to
Mond2Y> with four Ministers, members of the United Church in South
“
All restrictions against loyal
ilar
petition
in
Victoria
or
turn
it
operate
a restaurant in Kirkland
ern Alberta appearing before the council on behalf of the Japanese Cana
Japanese
should be removed,” he
over to other organizations such as Lake. A former Toronto hotel chef
dians, but the council remained adamant in their stand.
said, “except that they should not
the Chamber of Commerce or a rate- Tosako came to Canada at the age
Ministers appearing before
the
be allowed to return to British Col
payes body.
I of 12,' reported the Toronto Star.
council were Rev. E. L. Garvin of the members of the United Church said
umbia until after the war.”
city, who said he spoke as “the Rev. Mutchmor, and added that “we
He was elaborating on a speech he
unanimous voice of the Lethbridge feel we have a very decided respon
made at a public meeting here.
Ministerial Association,” Rev. H. A. sibility” to speak for them.
Loyal Japanese should be permitted
Mutchmor of Southminister United
to settle anywhere in Canada without
He declared that if evacuees were
• VANCOUVER, B. C.—Trek east disadvantages or prejudices, he added.
Church here; Rev. H. B. Marston, uermitted to work in the rural areas,
United Church minister at Magrath
ward of Japanese wishing to remain After the war, B.C. should be pre
he saw no reason why they should Head Office to Approve
and Raymond and Rev. Walter Ward, not be allowed into the city. He said
in Canada after the war is under way pared to take her share.
United Church minister at Barons, that it exerted an intolerable condi
—a number of Japanese are moving
“The Japanese problem before the
reported the Lethbridge Herald.
to employment east of the Rocky war,” he said, “was essentially a Bri
tion on them and forced the evacuees
KASLO, B. C.—Applications for
URGE FAIR PLAY
Mountains every day, the Vancouver tish Columbia problem, but now it is
to spend a great part of the year in !
permanent stay in this city will be
Province reports.
a Dominion problem and should be
Explaining; “ I have a great love idleness. He added that Japanese J
taken by the B.C. Security Com
handled
as one.”
No
difficulty
has
been
encountered
ror fair play and-justice” and speak- Canadians were law-abiding and gave j
mission office here it was revealed
j
in
placing
them
in
mg a
'member of the Christian good account of themselves.
since
this week.
body".
. , Rev. Mutchmor felt there
p a n e s e Placement Commission
Rev. Garvin pointed out that the 1
It was stated that all applica
, Would Discriminate Jews
should be no racial discrimination of situation concerning the evacuees has j
through
the co-operation
.Na
tions
be sent to Vancouve
Japanese beyond the requirements of changed during the past three years, j
head office for approval. Permis ional Selective Service, has “ a large i More Than Jaoanese
i
^ar security. Among the evacuees in He explained that the federal labor I
sion to stay will depend on the reserve of employment” for them.
.
•
SEATTLE, Wash.—John L. Former,
southern Alberta are Canadian-born department has asked churches to
applicants ability to independently MANY JOBS OPEN
Kent
newspaper publisher, declared
: of Japanese
assist in resettlement
:
support himself or his family.
T. B. Pickersgill, Commissioner of April 19 that
numerous letters
Canadians across the Dominion and
that com received by him from servicemen, the
KASLO, B. C. — Following the Japanese Placement
Repatriate All—Anscomb
stand
<
declared
tthat the council
in Winni- ; majority of those writing favor recompletion of egregation through mission placement offic
changed.
Fort
signing
William,
ito.
Mon- l turn of the Japanese to their West
repatri
‘
voluntary
ED?,IONTON, Alta. — Municipal
Rev. Ward explained that what was
ation oi
trea] end Lethbridge have on file se
Minister H. Anscomb of the B. C.
; Coast homes and businesses.
council was to amen 5
left for
in Jumin southern • eral hundred jobs on fam
Government, said in an interview desires or
Speaking at a mass
meeting
ement to permit Japanese to i
Ontario, one familv to Montreal : bering and other essential employ- attended by an estimated 700 persons,
here Thursdav, “As far as I am conloyment facilities in Leth- ;
and another to Vernon, B. C., this ment for Japan ise.
cerned the Japanese in British Col
Fornier asserted he was just as wor
irin^
the
months
when
they
,
week.
i
Largest number of requests fm ried about the Jewish and Negro
umbia are going back to their homeon beet work, and I
Only other movement from this ) Japanese labor comes from Ontario minority problems as that of the
— nd and we will provide the boats to are not required
advantage
of edu- j
allowed to take
centre this week was six fam-Tes currently in the grin of ? sever? ■ Japanese, saying that “Kent businesstake them there.”
here,
transferred to the Slocan City : labor shortage, says the report. Hous- ; men would go down the line on a
He said any attempt to resettle cational facilities that they are butt“
They
just
feel
area.
This contingent left Wednes ; ing shortage in larger e fern cities program against
Japanese in B.C. would be vigorou
Jews faster
... it’s a probing
against
the
wall
day
morning
on a special chartered ris proving a problem in relocating the J than they would against the Japa
?esi
and “it would best for all
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bus.
i Japanese.
•* nese.”
concerned, to deport them all.
Four United Church Ministers Appeal
To Council To Lift Ban On Evacuees
Housing Problem Slows Relocation
o
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i Ken Tsujiura Heads Coaldale YM WB A
{ Italian Front In News
Recent combat exploits of Ameri
cin troops of Japanese ancestry oCOAL-DALE, Alta. — The annual ♦:
442nd Infantry' Regiment have
i
LEAION CREEK, B.C.—Celebrating I
inaugural
Y.AIAV.B.A. was held in the
put
the
war
in
Italy
bad
on the
their second anniversary, the Lemon £
Buddhism at Bussei Meet
Coaldale
Community
Hall on April 14
front
pages,.
Thomas
L.
Stol
, noted
Creek School is holding a. concert
i
at
S:00
p.m.
President,
Ken Tsujiura
SLOCAN. —- Keynotes throughout
..othis weekend on a two night run. All nationally7 syndicated columnist tor
;
stressed
the
need
for
a
greater
effort
the
United
Feature
Syndicate,
report
the discussions at the third bi-annual ' students are participating with the
j
and
co-operation
among
all
members
j
PICTURE BUTTE
Buddhist Sunday School Teachers i first night presentation alreaidy com- ed rrom the Italian front in a column
■ril
16
bv
the
Chicago
i
and
resmeRt
s
of
south
Alberta
and
carried
on
Convention, nenl in Slocan on March ; pleted .yesterday. The final perfor
i the loth held no fears for 250 fr^d'
ke Tribute and other 1 mOre So the ^ed
^ea ter activity i and members of the Picture Bii^
ms. “pointed to the Nisei’s faith in i mance will be run off tonight.
reports
the
Pacific
Pacific 1'■ 1x1 sPort and literary fields.
Canada and Buddhism” reports the
; Chinooks when they7 gathered "-'Our genial vice-presidents, Shi- Koepke s Hall for the "raffle
con- j Citizen.
April issue of “Light of the Bussei”, j cert
4ux.1t
in which all the student: will
Air. Stokes declared that until the i geru Alizuno nad Lily Okahashi also and dance.
Elm6 S'0^ Y°Ung BUddWSt । Palate is to be held next Friday I
voiced the needs of interest and
Americans of the 442nd
Smooth music supplied bv
nd Saturday y the Pine Crescent
participation
in community affairs.
I now back from France, distinguished
“Nobleford Rhythm Tones”' the
Discussion at the convention cen
School here.
The Chairman, T. Horii introduced
was
tred on three topics.
isei 2nd Post- I The teacher; and students are.com themse res as usual, the war in Italy the remaining members of the staff
reluctantly halted long enough for
war Problems”, led by Sakaye Kawa , Pleting last minute arrangements for virtually had slipped out of the news- who comprise this year’s directing
the raffle draw and refreshments
papers
bata and Kiyoshi Tabata
The lucky winners were:
Nisei and j the gala affair.
; staff, as follows:
;Tt mas stalemated
Present Circumstances,”
he reported j
guided bv
1.
Silver plate,
Toshio Shimomura and Yas YamaAlfred Birch,
KASLO, B. C.—The Kootenay Lake from Italy, “with little but
Fumiye Maeda and Hideo Inamoto
local j smta, Japanese and English
Shaughnessy;
2.
Pen
School
bid
farewell
this
morning
to
secreand .pencil set
action along the front/’
and “Nisei mid Physical Education
4 taries respectively; T. Horii, chair- Howard Finley. Picture Butte; .3’
Ml by 1 ae Hamakawa and Takeshi another teacher, Aliss Sue Matsugu
i man; Mitsuru Tanaka, and Inis Breakfast tray, Aliss Y. Okabe. PiCMatsuba. General chairman for the who left for Clarkson, Ont.
Nomura, treasurers; Alary7 Okahashi. ture Butte; 4
Many7 of the pupils have also been fk amort ton Man Offers
Gray’s Beauty
conference discussion was Alinoru
Isamu Miyagi and Akira Terashima,
. Merle Ockerman. c’o
relocating to other centres during the
Uchida.
auditors: Push Alatsumiya and Airs' Western Grocery7, Lethbridge; 5 C”u
Over 150 delegates from Rose past few weeks so that now the
8- . Goshinmon,
sports convenors; and. saucer, Eddy Kimura.'’ Iron
bery, New Denver. Lemon Creek attendance is just over the 100 mark.
A letter has been received by Th a Seiwa Oyama and Fujiye Sakamoto, Springs; 6. Cigarette holder, E. Kadoand Slocan attended the convention,
New Canadian by J. L. Williamson of social convenors; Sally7 Narukami and naga, Nobleford; 7. Ash tray. BiU
says the report.
Edmonton,. who offers a proposition Alasao Alatsui, dramatic convenors.
Nakatsuru, Picture Butte.
Chairman at the Conference Ser
io have a number of Japanese Cana
After
the
introduction,
Dick
Alizuno
S. Scarf, Y. Ito, Picture Butte; 9.
vice, Machiye Ikari, extended the of Returned Misisionary
dians settle west of Edmonton.
to^ over as master of ceremonies. Pyrex Set, Noboru Yahiro; Picture
ficial welcome to visiting delegates,
REGINA, Sask. — The R e g i n a
The area is a mixed farmim
Midi many vocals and numerous Butte, 10. Stationery, Jimmy Wo^
while the main speakers. Rev, R.’ Niseis’ Club gathered at the home of
tnct
where
settlers
have
been
i
games, the night was spent with Picture Butte; 11. Photo album;
Hiiahaia and Rev. T. Tsuji, stressed Air. H. Takashiba for their meeting
their attention largely7 to stock rais- much hilarity and enthusiasm. Our Claude Quam Jr. Nobleford; 12. Cud
the responsibility7 which lav upon the for the month of April. Special guest
ing. The land is very productive al club song was introduced by Dick and saucer, Airs. Alice Foster ' Pic
teachers who take on active part in at this meeting was Aliss L. Bard.
though part of it is covered with Alizuno, lyrical composer and through ture Butte; 13. Cake Pyrex’ dis*
spiritual education of hundreds of
Aliss Bard had spent 20 y'ears in poplar and a certain amount of clear out the intermissions, the song was
George Oshiro, Coaldale; 14. Pyrex
children.
Japan, returning to Canada in 1937 ing required. The location is good and being hummed and sung by many of
set, K. Konno,- Picture Butte: 15.
m
^ev. i. ivatatsu or Lemon Creek She gave a very interesting talk on
the members.
Wallet, Miss H. A. Tanizawa, Lemon
was heard in an enlightening lecture her -work there and spoke highly of there are roads and schools nearby.
The
property
7
includes
about
2000
In closing, from hilarity to deeper Creek, B.C.
on Buddhism.
Rev. Kag-awa.
acres situate in 2 blocks about 3 miles thoughts, our new president stressed
The Picture Butte Chinooks sin
Plans were later discussed for a apart and it is particularly well- thejmed of the study of problems
SOMETHING NEW
cerely
thank everyone for making the
social, to be held on April 28, at th
located for a small number of farmers contenting the Nisei problems here
Air. and Airs. Eddy Sakamoto of Nomura residence.
evening
a huge success. Special
who wish to be near together and to after, with lectures and
discussions
Slocan, B. C. became the proud par
friends from Raymond,
work together, says Air. Williamson. oh ered by the Reverends Kawamura
laber, Coaldale and Iron Springs.
ents of a baby girl recently.
I 1 Anyone interested should contact and Ikuta.
Discussion Keynotes Poi
To Nisei Faith in Canada,
4
First Jewish Judge
In Canada Appointed
J’ L- Wi-Uiamson, 208
Building, Edmonton, Alta.
Agency
We thank Mr. E. Oseki and Air. T.
active
i omuia for the generous donations j part in activities with the^ MM
received, commemorating their wed- .classes here is May Shimbashi. She
> and we wish them
tnem many
many vears
years was one of two attendants attendhw
ihe'Zrto’i e31’1’1”'35 throughout the newly crowned queen at ft!
the years
reais to come.
annual goId a„d
, b
— Y. I. April 10.
1ORONTO, Ont.—Samuel Factor,
© We wish to extend our sincere •_>2 year old Russian-born Jew, became
thanks to the host of friends of Kaslo the first of Canada’s 170,000 Jews to
lor tnen- many acts of kindnesses receive a judicial appointment, this
and courtesies during our stay in this
centre,
Judge Factor
thank
has served in
you to 11 the
the
Firs t Great
rrom Page 1
who
came
to
and also in the SAKAMOTO-KONO
see us If SO
present war
’dron Leader in
upon our depart
was
th
1 A
ario. Our now
6 as Hideko Kono
of
the
Ontario
-Sheridan Nurse
marriage vows with Air.
:
Mnrkson, Ont
County of York
lem that needs our most serious conKi taro Sakamoto on April 3. Rev.
Three local organizations sent their
a nd Mrs
Matsugu.
mdeiation/’ Rev. Msrston told the
Ikuta
officiated.
views
to the council in written comhumo and Yoshiko
council quoting examples of barriers munications.
Poor Weath
Bcishakunins
were
Air.
*
*
ys
and Airs. v hich : re placed before Niseis who
a he Quota. Club advised the council
nd
Air.
0.
Kinoshita.
me
to
ei Seeding
ai e qualified for specialist fobs.
that
it had gone record as “recomour
friend
, .
I'1 Lemon Creek for
.:Jhe+ dxstnct was .indulging in “pos- ' mending to’ theTetVbrid^e'citv
LETHBRIDGE
AIKS.
WAKI
SAKA
At
OTO
Alta.—Poor
courtesies and kindness.
co unextended to
s.bq too much racial discrimination” .
°
।
is del
us durin
cil
that
Canadian
Japanese
be
t lie past two and a half th ur condition
o
acfuneral kev. Ward stated.
sugar
year residen
corded
the
rights
of
other
Cane
Lethbridge
Herald
services
were
held
for
Airs,
at that centre. Also to
Wari
citizens in the city'- of Lethbridge
express thanks to all who came to reports.
feakamoto on April 20 who passed
Pointing out that evacuees in
bid us goodbye to the
I* armors are slowly7 starting work away following a heart attack on
;
The Lethbridge Aledical Sot
; ,
rus upon our
southern Alberta could have remained i recommended
on the land although only7 a sprink April 18.
departunv to Hamilton. Ont.
to the council “that
in inteiior British Columbia on a gov Japanese eve cnee girls be allowed to
T- Wirase and family ling of seeding has been done. The o F"n^ral ^'^ces were held at the j ernment dole., ^e^
Alutchmor
de- accept
weather remains too cold and fields L'Y »“• Reverends S. Ikuta ; dared that the evacuee
who came
. t work as domestics in the city
Abbie Alurase
are too wet to be worked.
fin^l r ites " amura
«’e. to southern Alberta are “the most of Lethbridge.”
Contracting' of beet acreage is
Supporting the council was the
_______ 2! enterprising of the Japanese.”
HELP WANTED
about completed with 90 per cent of
Lethbridge Eagles Aerie, No. 2100,
the acreage signed up. Between 30.000
urging that all evacuee labor be kept
• ' A POSITION is open for an
and o 1.000 acres will be seeded. Seed :
out of the city7 and “holding them to
perienced tailor in aa tailorins :ind
■'nd fertilizer are on the ground and
the
agreement as arranged'’for them
dry-cleaning establishment in'vegas
soon
as
weather
conditions
are
on
leaving
British Columbia/’
reville, Alta. Nisei preferred, Pay
favorable, drilling will commence.
A
few
weeks
3go the Lethbridge
will be in salary or piece work.
Growers will not worry7 about beet
Trades
and
Labor
Council the Cana
Steady work. Living quarters are
LONDON, Ont. — With Roy Sic dian Legion and the Army7 and Navy
Seeding
providing
they
7
can
get
going
available.
laskan Old Timer
around Alay* 20. said the report.
ilian and George Ide in rare form, Veterans supported the council stand.
For further information contact
both spilling the maples for over 700
The labor outlook for this season
*
*
Mr. George. Kuwata. Vegreville.
*
three game aggregate scores, the
j
is
favorable
with
prisoners-of-war
Tney
were brought to southern
Alberta.
Dumbells outbowled the Jinxes in
I labor assured if needed.
HUNT,> Idaho..—A 76
Alberta primarily to work on farms
IV year
v Cell UIU
old xssei
Issei 11
All
explorer, interpreter and pioneer of 7- 5 Straight games to win the 1944- and especially7 for work on sugar beet
Hyman Five Pin Bowling League farms,” Aid. J. A. Jardine said. He
Alaska left two weeks ago from the
Championship
on March 31.
°
Hunt, Idaho, relocation centre to redeclared that if they7 were permitted
8 THE NEW CANADIAN
turn to his former home# in Beaver. ! Showing poor form, the Jinxes into the city, they would all leave the
Alaska, according to the Alinidoka trailed throughout the entire three tt™1 Toi* the city. Once in the city,
Please find enclosed $.
Irrigator.
gaines and did not offer much com hey7 refuse to go back to the farm,
, for which (
T^ae report stated that it was petition for the high-riding Dumbells. Past experience shows, he said.
• Renew my subscription to The New Canadian
doubtful whether Frank Yasuda, rc- ,,Th.e hi-hI>' 'outed Jinxes who led I
Racial discrimination never entered
• Enter my subscription to The New Canadian
Lui hoc, would be 2ble to s?et trsns hie league throughout most of the 1 j^e discussions of the “Japanese prob
(Please check.)
esson went under an average of 130 lem”, Aiderman Castles said. He
porta^on to Alaska immediately due ; ^-^^T
usy
cannery
season.
He
is
j
PP^d
5 Per game, losing out" 10^2 to reieired back to the depression year?
UTT 5 I
transportation facilities in : So7 in the first game; 1013 to 883 in when many people moved into the
i the second and 1043 to 927 in the city from tne district and sought- citv
H
Prior • o the outbreak of the war. J Lurd game.
| relief which aggravated the" unemYasuda travelled throughout the bin- ; _ ^FoL Sageman with a three game | Ployment situation. The chief interest
of Alaska as an interpreter ■ “Y 261—223» total 767. naced the i ox the council is to guard against an
for the explorers of the Smithsonian ; winners supported bv Geoi
t:ndu^ °T Japanese into Lethbridge
It
cute. As a result of his manv ex : whose 214—215—.9275 ' barelv tipned ; • lc‘q ^Wbt result with them becomtier
§
an Alaskan mountain is r^e "^0 mark with 704.
i mg charges of the city, he said.
n his honor.
i
He added that not a single anmi*
cation
has been, received bv
newspaper
reported.
Add re:
Jack Fouler
ci] ±rom a citizen seeking
ion
Ernie AVhite
140-166-153
59 ! uo employ an evacuee
to the A ukon region near his
a maid.
Frank Ebata
i Recalling the rece:
houeck Takemura
—?0I 'oyer Japanese maids workhm ii
te
George Ebata
220-139-17
:^y’, 5Iayor Shackleford declared
857 SS3 92
h
NCOUVER. B. C.—Srudv o
L-e.. Lad no authority to com
Former Addre
W DUMBELLS
“. p^ey slid into the city
2-83-261-223—767
making
applicat
F. J. Rolston. AI.L.A
Roy Hikida
1S6-143-161
—
490
■im rose
Only a mi nori
•n
warn
George Ide
Subscription Rate: 40c per month
214-215
__ -^
lub at trie
i
to
employ
but t
Barin Yoshida
82 for six months. 84 per year in advance
1^1-154-513 i mayor fel evacuee;
lillan.
that
the
majority
re
221-163-230—614
aru. bne urged women to b
mained silent “as they had confidence
1042 1G13 1043 3098 in the actions
of the city council."
Fast Rolling Dumbells Crush Jinxes
To Become London Five-Pin Titlists
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. it
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o o o
i Ken Tsujiura Heads Coaldale YM WB A
{ Italian Front In News
Recent combat exploits of Ameri
cin troops of Japanese ancestry oCOAL-DALE, Alta. — The annual ♦:
442nd Infantry' Regiment have
i
LEAION CREEK, B.C.—Celebrating I
inaugural
Y.AIAV.B.A. was held in the
put
the
war
in
Italy
bad
on the
their second anniversary, the Lemon £
Buddhism at Bussei Meet
Coaldale
Community
Hall on April 14
front
pages,.
Thomas
L.
Stol
, noted
Creek School is holding a. concert
i
at
S:00
p.m.
President,
Ken Tsujiura
SLOCAN. —- Keynotes throughout
..othis weekend on a two night run. All nationally7 syndicated columnist tor
;
stressed
the
need
for
a
greater
effort
the
United
Feature
Syndicate,
report
the discussions at the third bi-annual ' students are participating with the
j
and
co-operation
among
all
members
j
PICTURE BUTTE
Buddhist Sunday School Teachers i first night presentation alreaidy com- ed rrom the Italian front in a column
■ril
16
bv
the
Chicago
i
and
resmeRt
s
of
south
Alberta
and
carried
on
Convention, nenl in Slocan on March ; pleted .yesterday. The final perfor
i the loth held no fears for 250 fr^d'
ke Tribute and other 1 mOre So the ^ed
^ea ter activity i and members of the Picture Bii^
ms. “pointed to the Nisei’s faith in i mance will be run off tonight.
reports
the
Pacific
Pacific 1'■ 1x1 sPort and literary fields.
Canada and Buddhism” reports the
; Chinooks when they7 gathered "-'Our genial vice-presidents, Shi- Koepke s Hall for the "raffle
con- j Citizen.
April issue of “Light of the Bussei”, j cert
4ux.1t
in which all the student: will
Air. Stokes declared that until the i geru Alizuno nad Lily Okahashi also and dance.
Elm6 S'0^ Y°Ung BUddWSt । Palate is to be held next Friday I
voiced the needs of interest and
Americans of the 442nd
Smooth music supplied bv
nd Saturday y the Pine Crescent
participation
in community affairs.
I now back from France, distinguished
“Nobleford Rhythm Tones”' the
Discussion at the convention cen
School here.
The Chairman, T. Horii introduced
was
tred on three topics.
isei 2nd Post- I The teacher; and students are.com themse res as usual, the war in Italy the remaining members of the staff
reluctantly halted long enough for
war Problems”, led by Sakaye Kawa , Pleting last minute arrangements for virtually had slipped out of the news- who comprise this year’s directing
the raffle draw and refreshments
papers
bata and Kiyoshi Tabata
The lucky winners were:
Nisei and j the gala affair.
; staff, as follows:
;Tt mas stalemated
Present Circumstances,”
he reported j
guided bv
1.
Silver plate,
Toshio Shimomura and Yas YamaAlfred Birch,
KASLO, B. C.—The Kootenay Lake from Italy, “with little but
Fumiye Maeda and Hideo Inamoto
local j smta, Japanese and English
Shaughnessy;
2.
Pen
School
bid
farewell
this
morning
to
secreand .pencil set
action along the front/’
and “Nisei mid Physical Education
4 taries respectively; T. Horii, chair- Howard Finley. Picture Butte; .3’
Ml by 1 ae Hamakawa and Takeshi another teacher, Aliss Sue Matsugu
i man; Mitsuru Tanaka, and Inis Breakfast tray, Aliss Y. Okabe. PiCMatsuba. General chairman for the who left for Clarkson, Ont.
Nomura, treasurers; Alary7 Okahashi. ture Butte; 4
Many7 of the pupils have also been fk amort ton Man Offers
Gray’s Beauty
conference discussion was Alinoru
Isamu Miyagi and Akira Terashima,
. Merle Ockerman. c’o
relocating to other centres during the
Uchida.
auditors: Push Alatsumiya and Airs' Western Grocery7, Lethbridge; 5 C”u
Over 150 delegates from Rose past few weeks so that now the
8- . Goshinmon,
sports convenors; and. saucer, Eddy Kimura.'’ Iron
bery, New Denver. Lemon Creek attendance is just over the 100 mark.
A letter has been received by Th a Seiwa Oyama and Fujiye Sakamoto, Springs; 6. Cigarette holder, E. Kadoand Slocan attended the convention,
New Canadian by J. L. Williamson of social convenors; Sally7 Narukami and naga, Nobleford; 7. Ash tray. BiU
says the report.
Edmonton,. who offers a proposition Alasao Alatsui, dramatic convenors.
Nakatsuru, Picture Butte.
Chairman at the Conference Ser
io have a number of Japanese Cana
After
the
introduction,
Dick
Alizuno
S. Scarf, Y. Ito, Picture Butte; 9.
vice, Machiye Ikari, extended the of Returned Misisionary
dians settle west of Edmonton.
to^ over as master of ceremonies. Pyrex Set, Noboru Yahiro; Picture
ficial welcome to visiting delegates,
REGINA, Sask. — The R e g i n a
The area is a mixed farmim
Midi many vocals and numerous Butte, 10. Stationery, Jimmy Wo^
while the main speakers. Rev, R.’ Niseis’ Club gathered at the home of
tnct
where
settlers
have
been
i
games, the night was spent with Picture Butte; 11. Photo album;
Hiiahaia and Rev. T. Tsuji, stressed Air. H. Takashiba for their meeting
their attention largely7 to stock rais- much hilarity and enthusiasm. Our Claude Quam Jr. Nobleford; 12. Cud
the responsibility7 which lav upon the for the month of April. Special guest
ing. The land is very productive al club song was introduced by Dick and saucer, Airs. Alice Foster ' Pic
teachers who take on active part in at this meeting was Aliss L. Bard.
though part of it is covered with Alizuno, lyrical composer and through ture Butte; 13. Cake Pyrex’ dis*
spiritual education of hundreds of
Aliss Bard had spent 20 y'ears in poplar and a certain amount of clear out the intermissions, the song was
George Oshiro, Coaldale; 14. Pyrex
children.
Japan, returning to Canada in 1937 ing required. The location is good and being hummed and sung by many of
set, K. Konno,- Picture Butte: 15.
m
^ev. i. ivatatsu or Lemon Creek She gave a very interesting talk on
the members.
Wallet, Miss H. A. Tanizawa, Lemon
was heard in an enlightening lecture her -work there and spoke highly of there are roads and schools nearby.
The
property
7
includes
about
2000
In closing, from hilarity to deeper Creek, B.C.
on Buddhism.
Rev. Kag-awa.
acres situate in 2 blocks about 3 miles thoughts, our new president stressed
The Picture Butte Chinooks sin
Plans were later discussed for a apart and it is particularly well- thejmed of the study of problems
SOMETHING NEW
cerely
thank everyone for making the
social, to be held on April 28, at th
located for a small number of farmers contenting the Nisei problems here
Air. and Airs. Eddy Sakamoto of Nomura residence.
evening
a huge success. Special
who wish to be near together and to after, with lectures and
discussions
Slocan, B. C. became the proud par
friends from Raymond,
work together, says Air. Williamson. oh ered by the Reverends Kawamura
laber, Coaldale and Iron Springs.
ents of a baby girl recently.
I 1 Anyone interested should contact and Ikuta.
Discussion Keynotes Poi
To Nisei Faith in Canada,
4
First Jewish Judge
In Canada Appointed
J’ L- Wi-Uiamson, 208
Building, Edmonton, Alta.
Agency
We thank Mr. E. Oseki and Air. T.
active
i omuia for the generous donations j part in activities with the^ MM
received, commemorating their wed- .classes here is May Shimbashi. She
> and we wish them
tnem many
many vears
years was one of two attendants attendhw
ihe'Zrto’i e31’1’1”'35 throughout the newly crowned queen at ft!
the years
reais to come.
annual goId a„d
, b
— Y. I. April 10.
1ORONTO, Ont.—Samuel Factor,
© We wish to extend our sincere •_>2 year old Russian-born Jew, became
thanks to the host of friends of Kaslo the first of Canada’s 170,000 Jews to
lor tnen- many acts of kindnesses receive a judicial appointment, this
and courtesies during our stay in this
centre,
Judge Factor
thank
has served in
you to 11 the
the
Firs t Great
rrom Page 1
who
came
to
and also in the SAKAMOTO-KONO
see us If SO
present war
’dron Leader in
upon our depart
was
th
1 A
ario. Our now
6 as Hideko Kono
of
the
Ontario
-Sheridan Nurse
marriage vows with Air.
:
Mnrkson, Ont
County of York
lem that needs our most serious conKi taro Sakamoto on April 3. Rev.
Three local organizations sent their
a nd Mrs
Matsugu.
mdeiation/’ Rev. Msrston told the
Ikuta
officiated.
views
to the council in written comhumo and Yoshiko
council quoting examples of barriers munications.
Poor Weath
Bcishakunins
were
Air.
*
*
ys
and Airs. v hich : re placed before Niseis who
a he Quota. Club advised the council
nd
Air.
0.
Kinoshita.
me
to
ei Seeding
ai e qualified for specialist fobs.
that
it had gone record as “recomour
friend
, .
I'1 Lemon Creek for
.:Jhe+ dxstnct was .indulging in “pos- ' mending to’ theTetVbrid^e'citv
LETHBRIDGE
AIKS.
WAKI
SAKA
At
OTO
Alta.—Poor
courtesies and kindness.
co unextended to
s.bq too much racial discrimination” .
°
।
is del
us durin
cil
that
Canadian
Japanese
be
t lie past two and a half th ur condition
o
acfuneral kev. Ward stated.
sugar
year residen
corded
the
rights
of
other
Cane
Lethbridge
Herald
services
were
held
for
Airs,
at that centre. Also to
Wari
citizens in the city'- of Lethbridge
express thanks to all who came to reports.
feakamoto on April 20 who passed
Pointing out that evacuees in
bid us goodbye to the
I* armors are slowly7 starting work away following a heart attack on
;
The Lethbridge Aledical Sot
; ,
rus upon our
southern Alberta could have remained i recommended
on the land although only7 a sprink April 18.
departunv to Hamilton. Ont.
to the council “that
in inteiior British Columbia on a gov Japanese eve cnee girls be allowed to
T- Wirase and family ling of seeding has been done. The o F"n^ral ^'^ces were held at the j ernment dole., ^e^
Alutchmor
de- accept
weather remains too cold and fields L'Y »“• Reverends S. Ikuta ; dared that the evacuee
who came
. t work as domestics in the city
Abbie Alurase
are too wet to be worked.
fin^l r ites " amura
«’e. to southern Alberta are “the most of Lethbridge.”
Contracting' of beet acreage is
Supporting the council was the
_______ 2! enterprising of the Japanese.”
HELP WANTED
about completed with 90 per cent of
Lethbridge Eagles Aerie, No. 2100,
the acreage signed up. Between 30.000
urging that all evacuee labor be kept
• ' A POSITION is open for an
and o 1.000 acres will be seeded. Seed :
out of the city7 and “holding them to
perienced tailor in aa tailorins :ind
■'nd fertilizer are on the ground and
the
agreement as arranged'’for them
dry-cleaning establishment in'vegas
soon
as
weather
conditions
are
on
leaving
British Columbia/’
reville, Alta. Nisei preferred, Pay
favorable, drilling will commence.
A
few
weeks
3go the Lethbridge
will be in salary or piece work.
Growers will not worry7 about beet
Trades
and
Labor
Council the Cana
Steady work. Living quarters are
LONDON, Ont. — With Roy Sic dian Legion and the Army7 and Navy
Seeding
providing
they
7
can
get
going
available.
laskan Old Timer
around Alay* 20. said the report.
ilian and George Ide in rare form, Veterans supported the council stand.
For further information contact
both spilling the maples for over 700
The labor outlook for this season
*
*
Mr. George. Kuwata. Vegreville.
*
three game aggregate scores, the
j
is
favorable
with
prisoners-of-war
Tney
were brought to southern
Alberta.
Dumbells outbowled the Jinxes in
I labor assured if needed.
HUNT,> Idaho..—A 76
Alberta primarily to work on farms
IV year
v Cell UIU
old xssei
Issei 11
All
explorer, interpreter and pioneer of 7- 5 Straight games to win the 1944- and especially7 for work on sugar beet
Hyman Five Pin Bowling League farms,” Aid. J. A. Jardine said. He
Alaska left two weeks ago from the
Championship
on March 31.
°
Hunt, Idaho, relocation centre to redeclared that if they7 were permitted
8 THE NEW CANADIAN
turn to his former home# in Beaver. ! Showing poor form, the Jinxes into the city, they would all leave the
Alaska, according to the Alinidoka trailed throughout the entire three tt™1 Toi* the city. Once in the city,
Please find enclosed $.
Irrigator.
gaines and did not offer much com hey7 refuse to go back to the farm,
, for which (
T^ae report stated that it was petition for the high-riding Dumbells. Past experience shows, he said.
• Renew my subscription to The New Canadian
doubtful whether Frank Yasuda, rc- ,,Th.e hi-hI>' 'outed Jinxes who led I
Racial discrimination never entered
• Enter my subscription to The New Canadian
Lui hoc, would be 2ble to s?et trsns hie league throughout most of the 1 j^e discussions of the “Japanese prob
(Please check.)
esson went under an average of 130 lem”, Aiderman Castles said. He
porta^on to Alaska immediately due ; ^-^^T
usy
cannery
season.
He
is
j
PP^d
5 Per game, losing out" 10^2 to reieired back to the depression year?
UTT 5 I
transportation facilities in : So7 in the first game; 1013 to 883 in when many people moved into the
i the second and 1043 to 927 in the city from tne district and sought- citv
H
Prior • o the outbreak of the war. J Lurd game.
| relief which aggravated the" unemYasuda travelled throughout the bin- ; _ ^FoL Sageman with a three game | Ployment situation. The chief interest
of Alaska as an interpreter ■ “Y 261—223» total 767. naced the i ox the council is to guard against an
for the explorers of the Smithsonian ; winners supported bv Geoi
t:ndu^ °T Japanese into Lethbridge
It
cute. As a result of his manv ex : whose 214—215—.9275 ' barelv tipned ; • lc‘q ^Wbt result with them becomtier
§
an Alaskan mountain is r^e "^0 mark with 704.
i mg charges of the city, he said.
n his honor.
i
He added that not a single anmi*
cation
has been, received bv
newspaper
reported.
Add re:
Jack Fouler
ci] ±rom a citizen seeking
ion
Ernie AVhite
140-166-153
59 ! uo employ an evacuee
to the A ukon region near his
a maid.
Frank Ebata
i Recalling the rece:
houeck Takemura
—?0I 'oyer Japanese maids workhm ii
te
George Ebata
220-139-17
:^y’, 5Iayor Shackleford declared
857 SS3 92
h
NCOUVER. B. C.—Srudv o
L-e.. Lad no authority to com
Former Addre
W DUMBELLS
“. p^ey slid into the city
2-83-261-223—767
making
applicat
F. J. Rolston. AI.L.A
Roy Hikida
1S6-143-161
—
490
■im rose
Only a mi nori
•n
warn
George Ide
Subscription Rate: 40c per month
214-215
__ -^
lub at trie
i
to
employ
but t
Barin Yoshida
82 for six months. 84 per year in advance
1^1-154-513 i mayor fel evacuee;
lillan.
that
the
majority
re
221-163-230—614
aru. bne urged women to b
mained silent “as they had confidence
1042 1G13 1043 3098 in the actions
of the city council."
Fast Rolling Dumbells Crush Jinxes
To Become London Five-Pin Titlists
I
Page 3
A PROMISE
THAT HAS
j^nd of PromfSe . . . That’s what they call
our Canada in the older lands of the world.
Ask anyone who has travelled. Or ask a
soldier back from overseas. Heil tell you
hov their eyes light up, how hungry they
are to know more about this great young
country. For to millions of war-weary
peoples, Canada is the stuff of which dreams
relations with other peoples and other
governments . . . with its own people .
Canada has kept its promises.
k ou can count on it continuing to
do so.
are made . . . where dreams come true.
Cmaaa backed, by its wealth and its
people will keep its promise to repay you
for every dollar you invest in Victory
That's what our fathers thought. And
because they did, we are what we are—
Canadians.
Bonds. And its promise to pay you $3 each
year for every $100 you lend.
Thanks to them, our heritage is great
Few countries can rival Canada today in
mineral wealth, forest resources, farm
lands, water power, and all the other things
^at ^££ Canada. Yes, Canada is rich—but
not just in material things. She is rich
in her sons and daughters, her fine
schools and colleges, her public health, her
opportunities.
And thanks to all these things, Canada
has always fulfilled its obligations. In its
Because Canada must fight to protect
^^ ^iugs tnat are Canada, we of Canada
are again investing in Victory Bonds to the
very utmost of our ability. We will put the
Eighth Victory Loan over the top” just as
we have all preceding Victory Loans.
This is your opportunity to make your
dollars sexve Canada ... and serve yourself.
Because in serving you will be saving for
the increased opportunities that will be
yours in the bright future of this Land of
Promise . . . Canada!
~
Invest in the Best—
BUY VICTORY SONOS
8-65
NATIONAL WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE
THAT HAS
j^nd of PromfSe . . . That’s what they call
our Canada in the older lands of the world.
Ask anyone who has travelled. Or ask a
soldier back from overseas. Heil tell you
hov their eyes light up, how hungry they
are to know more about this great young
country. For to millions of war-weary
peoples, Canada is the stuff of which dreams
relations with other peoples and other
governments . . . with its own people .
Canada has kept its promises.
k ou can count on it continuing to
do so.
are made . . . where dreams come true.
Cmaaa backed, by its wealth and its
people will keep its promise to repay you
for every dollar you invest in Victory
That's what our fathers thought. And
because they did, we are what we are—
Canadians.
Bonds. And its promise to pay you $3 each
year for every $100 you lend.
Thanks to them, our heritage is great
Few countries can rival Canada today in
mineral wealth, forest resources, farm
lands, water power, and all the other things
^at ^££ Canada. Yes, Canada is rich—but
not just in material things. She is rich
in her sons and daughters, her fine
schools and colleges, her public health, her
opportunities.
And thanks to all these things, Canada
has always fulfilled its obligations. In its
Because Canada must fight to protect
^^ ^iugs tnat are Canada, we of Canada
are again investing in Victory Bonds to the
very utmost of our ability. We will put the
Eighth Victory Loan over the top” just as
we have all preceding Victory Loans.
This is your opportunity to make your
dollars sexve Canada ... and serve yourself.
Because in serving you will be saving for
the increased opportunities that will be
yours in the bright future of this Land of
Promise . . . Canada!
~
Invest in the Best—
BUY VICTORY SONOS
8-65
NATIONAL WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE
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Page 7
nminauon Ag-ainst Niseis
(Letter to the Editor, London Free Pre
1 odav
April 11. 1945.)
I am writing this letter soon
true morb
after reading in the magazine
The plan " e are tola. a
woman
"Newsweek” the account of oar
ter view oy means of our• leuera
:
to
me
cupped
her hand in her
Government’s plans for the dis
police, eve y Japanese .over it
vw
;
pocket
in
ner
voluminous
skirt
posal of our Japanese minority.
irritated because i hud not
ye_rs ola, and to place b fore him
of
indecision.
The
and brought out apples winch sue
amily had
The decisions taken regarding rhe
well. But the fresh invigeraung
the fohowing alternatives
<‘itied io go e.ist, J had
smilingly
gave me.
future of these unfortunate people
com dawn ear Svon refreshed me ns
atwn to Japan with compensation
but
still
1
wanted
to
tuoop
and
plant. .Reach into the
to
were given more conspicious notice
I set about making breakfast.
xor ios:^ property; or resettlement
mem
off.
];
would
be
the
las
bag.
Stoop
and
plant. Mechanically
time
in tliis weekly, and in its com
“Mommy, picase come home
outside British Columbia with free
1
woulu
see
them
for
some
we
went
about
our
task.
hue.
panion “Time”, than they appear
early,” my daughter clung to me
iiansportarion and some iimnda!
It
is
not
an
easy
task. It is back
1 wired V: mot
to have received in our own daily
preparations to leave
assistance. Shou.d either of these
breaking
toil.
ing
permit
press. There seems to be some
It ooms
the house to tne farm
1
Courses seem unacceptable to the
During the morning when it is
all permits for
through
thing of a shamefaced silence
began working yesterda;
individual in question he will be
cooller,
the work is easy, but in the
Nelson are i ued from Vancouver
across Canada with regard to the
.lodged disloyal to Canada.
“Ies child, I wi
home
afternoon, the pace visibly slack
now. It is a lot of red tape, but
Government’s proposal, and it is
early.” J assured her. “Now when
, .there is something dreadfully
ens.
Krom above the sun beats
I
got
my
permit
without
mucn
my hope that this letter will be an
you come home after school,
familiar about this proposed mode
down mercilessily. Heat rays re
trouble.
interpretation of what many of my
of procedure and it is‘ not necesgood girl and mommy will be home
flected from the ground strikes the
AT THE GUARD HOUSE
fellow citizens may feel more in
early.”
baH to turn back very far in our
face.
The soles of the feet are hot
articulately.
There were four other passen1 straddled mv bicycle and
memories to verify the resem
a ad uncomfoi table. Conversation
gei> a man, a woman ami her two
Let us for a moment consider
waved goodbye and as 1 rode down
blance. It was just such a tech
trails off and the movements of
chiluren
besio.es
myself
on
the
what these people are like those
tiie road, turned around to :ook
nique the Nazis developed in their
the workers get sluggish.
mail bus going into Nelson.
lives are to be so drastically dealt
Pack and saw my daughter
dealings with the Jews. The un
At three o'clock the first diverThe mail bus is a battered look
with. Previous to the war I had no
standing at the doorway, follow
happy victim was asked to give up
sion camo. Faraway can ! the
ing Ford which carries the mail
acquaintance whatever with Japa
ing me with her eyes.
his wealth and profession and to
e of the east bound train,
between
Kado and Nelson.
nese; but like most Canadian com
It was still before S o’clock, but
live in segregation, wearing some
Everyone stopped in their work
munities, the one in which I live
about 20 people were all ready
.-cbout ten minutes out of Kaslo
humiliating symbol of his race, or
and cocked their heads to listen
has received a number of them,
all vehicles are stopped for permit
there for work.
leave
tlie
country
altogether.
and as the train rumbled by, waved
and of this number five young men
inspection of any Japanese passen
It was a picturesque scene. The
Should he retuse or even protest,
tneir hands at the passing loco
have come to be well known to me.
gers.
A
R.C.M.P.
guard
in
brown
Doukhobor
women were all dresseu
it v as a case of disloyalty to the
motive and four coaches.
uniform stopped the car and asked
I should perhaps remark that my
in their traditional drosses, loose
Fuehrer with consequences which
As the sound of the train died
for
my
permit.
work is the teaching of youngerbroad
skirts which almost reached
need not be described.
away in the east, 1 gazed after it
down to their ankles and with
men in an institution of higher
The driver turned to the woman
with bright unseeing eyes. Perhaps
Our Government has no inten
peasant
aprons tied in front.
education so that I have come to
and said: “Where's your permit ?
there was a relocee heading east
tion of going so far as the con
know and judge a good many
“Daburubotoram”, I greeted the
Nou gotta have a travel permit to
ward . . . perhaps ... I dragged my
centration camp, with its torture
Women.
young characters in the course of
get
through
acre
you
know.
”
self
back to work.
and mass executions, but although
years.
“
Ohayo
”
,
they
returned
the
com
Twenty
acres
were
almost
it does not bear comparison with
The woman evidently
didn’t
Let ine say without hesitation,
pliment in their quaint accent in
finished. In the distance, the trac
the Nazis in the matter of eru.eltv
know anything about it for she
cheerful camaraderie.
that I have never met five boys
tor which was going up and down
or physical brutality, its proposals
began to get flustered. The driver
Soon the truck came loaded with
more well-bred, more upright and
the rows covering the planted
winked at me.
are the equal of theirs in a certain
onion bulbs which
to
trustworthy nor more thoroughly
onions
could he heard. The steady
insane logic and in hypocrisy.
"Wheres your liquor permit, or
planted in rows and rows of neatly, burring of the motor growing
Canadian in outlook and opinions
Here is an innocent minority, never
iuentilication card? Hand that in
dug shallow channels.
that these Japanese. Furthermore,
fainter as it reached the far end
convicted (on the admission of the
insteac.,” he said solemnly.
The still cool morning was filled
the slighter acquaintance I have
of the field and increasing in volGovernment itself) of a single-act
But
when
tire
unsuspecting
with
the noise of conversation of
ume
as it. came i
had with other members of their
of sabotage or ill-will during the
where
woman frantically begun to search
thirty
as we
took up
we
were
working.
race has not been such to lead me
-enrire war, a minority which is
in her purse for her identification,
positions io commence planting.
Five o’clock and quitting time. I
to think these lads can be any ex
refused permission to enter our
the driver burst out laughing and
We
lined
up
across
the
field,
one
straigtbened
my we a ry,
ception to the majority, and if
armed forces, which is not allowed ' said:
person
on
a
i
w
1
cyan
plant
back and let the
there are even no more than a few
breeze
to apply even for work in war
ing. Stoop and plank Poach into
"Hint s ror Japs only. Japanese
thousand or a few hundred com
plants, which cannot therefore in
the bag. Stoop and pl nt. Each
I mean,” he said looking apologe
Tired back.
parable to these, the thought of
legs and
any conceivable
dem onstrate
tried
to outdo the other a: wc bobtically
in
my
direction.
arms
were
forgotten
as
I
mounted
the treatment our Government
its patriotism except bv patiently
bed down the line.
my
bicycle
to
go
homo.
’
Tin
Scotch,
”
she
said
in
a
hurt
plans for them should fill every
and courageously enduring the
It was only yesterday morning
voice.
‘Turntshai — suyomra — good
Canadian citizen with indignation
hardship and humiliation which
when I had started work icre and
bye,
”-a wave of the hand and I
and) shame.
I wondered exactly how she felt.
the war lias brought to it. . . and
the other workers seemed hostile
left
the other workers.
Let me briefly set down the pro
now these unfortunate peop-e are
because thex had been told that wc
Home
again, home after a long
posals whereby our country’s lea
to be offered two bitter a’ternain Nelson a nd found a
were speedy workers.
day
’
s
worn,
ft was comforting and
ders hope to rid themselves of an
tives: Deportation to a land many
RCMP Constable waiting at the
It is true that I did not have
restful
and
my
daughter, eager to
unwanted minority, and we can
bus stop, r.nd had my permit ex
of them have never seen, or settle-’
much, trouble in outdoing them, but
see
me
home
rushed
up to welcome
amined.
then attempt to consider the just
merit in a strange and Hostile
to keep harmonious relations with
me
with
open
arms.
ice of these decisions and their
neighborhood.
After supper I scouted around
the others, I slowed down and kept
And settled down in a comfort
bemuse T wr.a
p :ce with them.
able
chair in the Ust. waning light *
told a day never posses without
Perhaps they understood my
after supper, 1 listened to my child
some evacuee tra ’oiling through
These alternatives are cruel
desire to co-operate with them,
the continuation of a traditional
singing songs sho learned in
Nelson.
enough, but it is the third which
policy. The contemplation of it, in
for today everybody was friendly.
school. It was good to be home.
It wrs too late for shopping so
should make any just man writhe:
all its bitter details, must make
I
checked in at the Savoy Hwei
If any of these unfortunates ven
melancholy thinking for every
because
the bus station is right
ture to express dissatisfaction, or
citizen who considers himself a
across
the
street ami looked over
wish to return to the countryside
Christian or a liberal. Where such
By ‘ Brasso”
the
hotel
register
for any familiar
a policy will lead us it is disturpor to which has been his home
SCENE:
End
of
the
Boulevard,
other' words, plain ‘emo’ ”.
names and found none.
ing to consider, for the principles
since birth, he is thereby to prove
Tash
me,
B.
C.
Scout (with relief): “Oh. Thank
To kill time I went to the Civic
implied in its terms are evil and
himself guilty of disloyalty to his
THEME:
Scout
“
Test
Hike
”
you
sir.”
theatre and sat through an enjoy
explosive and it is not easy to Con
country.
TIME:
Sunday,
11:30
a.m.
Scoutmaster:
“Tut-tut my boy,
able movie in which Dick Haymes
trol the fanaticism and blind pasWe shall look in vain for any
“
Lights!
Camera!
Action!
when
I
was
your
age, etc., etc.,”
croons a lot of old Irish song’s. It
sion which they will encourage.
acceptable or reasonable motive in
“Patrols for-r-w-wa-ar-r-rd M-aScou (without relief): “Thank
wrs
the
first
movie
which
I
had
The Chinese, the Jew, or the
this detestable plan, and if such
r-r-r-eh!”
you sir
seen in three months where 1
Negro, particularly if he chance to
reasoning as can be traced in it
“
Tramp,
tramp,
tramp
—
“
MerAnother
Sir. Will you
didn't have to sit and see the film
live in the most bigoted and blood
were followed through consistent
rily we hike along,, wlk along,
taste my meat and spud please?”
cut
off
in
the
middle
of
a
scene
thirsty of our provinces, may well
ly, we can quickly see to what ex
skip along. Merrily we hop along
“Cr-a-a-a-a-ack! Cr-u-u-u-nch!”
and have the lights flash on. L en
look about him with fear and mis
tremes we would be driven. There
the Tashme-Princeton Trail!”
Scoutmaster’: “Say! What is
joyed
it
all
the
more
for
it.
giving after this news of the fate
is absolutely no more reason for
Scoutmaster: “That’s the stuff
this? This potato is hard as stone.
Coming
out
of
the
theatre,
I
that lies in store for the Japanese.
an attack on the Japanese minor
boys; left, left, pick up your dogs
In fact, it is stone.”
bumped into Ken and Kimi. They
Well, a letter to a newspaper is
ity in Canada than there would be
and left! Patrols ha-a-a-lt!”
Scout (dejectedly): “Oh! the
were
in
from
Greenwood
and
it
a very feeble gesture in support
for an attack on the German, Hun
Scouts:
“
Oh-h-h-h-h!
Whew!
”
‘
emo
’ and the stone looked so alike
was good to see them because they
of a people in such dire need of
garian or Itailan minorities; and
Scoutmaster:
“
When
I
was
your
in
the
embers, I guess I brought
were former Kasloites.
help. I have written it under comjust as much justification for it as
age,
etc.,
etc.,
etc.
”
you
a
stone
instead.”
M e went over to the hotel where
pulsion of my conscience as a
there would be for an attack on
Scouts:
“
Groan!
”
Four
Hours
Later:
they were staying and rehashed
Christian, remembering for what
the Jews or Chinese. But Cana
Scoutmaster:
“
Well,
let
’
s
see
Scoutmaster:
“Well boys, it is
old times and talked about how
centuries, and in how many parts
dians of German or Italian or
you
make
a
roaring
fire
in
a
hurry,
time
to
go
home.
”
things were now.
of the world men of my religion
Hungarian descent are not treated
so
get
those
meat
and
‘
murphies
’
Scouts:
“
We
’
re
very hungry
They seemed dissatisfied with
were oppressed and made to suffer
cooking.
”
with suspicion and hatred because
sir!
”
life in Greenwood. Nothing to do
without cause: and it would to God
the nations from which they take
Scout
(mystified):
“Murphy?
Scoutmaster (surprised): “Why
they said. They missed old friends
there were some way of having its
their origin are now or have been
Why
that
’
s
a
man
’
s
name
sir.”
what’s the matter? Didn’t you
most of all.
message reach the mind and heart
at war with us; and this ines
Scout master: “My dear boy, a
bring enough to'eat ”
LEMON
CREEK
of
every
Canadian.
We
are
des
‘
murphy
’ is another name for an
capable fact leads us to the shame
Crestfallen Scouts: “We did sir.
Talk of the sign-up for repatri
froying at home the only worth
Trish Delight,” spud, potato: in
ful conclusion which every honest
Only you ate them all.”
ation was everywhere. - Feelings
while thing for which our soktiers
man must come to regarding ibis
Finally.
T
going would be just
were
ouite high against any fam
hard in
bewildered.
are
fighting
abroad,
business: The war with Japan i>
ily- relocating to the east. I was
Japan
but
“
shoganai, dosuru koto
sincere
wish
Then I was directed to a booth
must
also
express
the
not the cause of this final biow a^
glad
that
our
family
mo
nai
.
leavi
ng
can
’
t
be
helper!.
those
of
my
fekow
citizens
marked
with a series of numbers
the Japanese in Canada,it o
soon.
there
’s nothing else to do,” he said.
which
corresponded
to my regis
merely the pretext for it. Tne
Many
were
undecided.
Their
de
them;
and
I
tration
number.
re
come
to
know
may
reason is that the Japanese
cision would be made at the last
Got back to Kaslo on Wednes
The procedure for signing repat
feel sure they will meet young
a small minority, at once cat
minute
when
they
were
asked
to
day
morning
and
went
to
the
and
women
as
reserving
as
riation
papers was simple.
men
and unprotected, of a race and
make
a
choice. Others were defi
Kaslo
Hotel
'where they were
five
whom
chance
has
put
in
“What do you intend to do?”
color which is assumed to be
nitely going to repatriate, a very
carrying on the registration for
asked
the constable.
ferior to our own, arm j’
ror
“voluntary repatriation”.
small minority it seemed, had de
young men
“Go east.”
because of this supposed imei
The R.C.M.Police were resplen
cided to pack up and leave for the
atives of a
He clipped a card on to a couple
e
ity, has been driven into an ecocast.
dent
in their bright scarlet uni
dligent grouts ox peopie
of forms and scrawled across it
nomic position where it c.-mp
Met a men who said he was
forms. They looked very official.
lite of the most dis“wishes to go east”. He looked up
unfavorably with the suppes
going to repatriate and because he
and <iegrauing condtBefore I went into one of the
and asked: “Have you seen Mr.
superior race.
ed their dignity
is a good friend of mine, asked for
three booms made up of B.C.S.C.
Roberts or Mr. Aydon.” I answered
have
Persecution is no new thing
Hicrc is no one
his reason.
blankets, I talked to W.O. Roberts
in affirmative.
these unhappy people; p--L-/““
them
well
who
“
I
want
to
stay
but
I
have
too
and
Fred
Aydon.
Theywere
busi
“Well, that’s all.”
to
comtr^
nation, segregation, exclusion xiom
many children, I am not very
would not feel honored by their
nesslike and didn’t waste much
“Don’t I have to sign anything?”
public office and the Higher P---^
strong physical!y and worft be
time. They- rattled off a list of em
friendship.
“Not unless you want to go to
fessions, have been their
REV. A. DURAND
able to support my family," he
ployment opportunities in south
Japan.”
British Columbia for many a^t;.
said. He said he realized that the
ern Ontario which left me slightly
London. Ont..
That was all.
This last stroke represents simpiy
5 -
(Letter to the Editor, London Free Pre
1 odav
April 11. 1945.)
I am writing this letter soon
true morb
after reading in the magazine
The plan " e are tola. a
woman
"Newsweek” the account of oar
ter view oy means of our• leuera
:
to
me
cupped
her hand in her
Government’s plans for the dis
police, eve y Japanese .over it
vw
;
in
ner
voluminous
skirt
posal of our Japanese minority.
irritated because i hud not
ye_rs ola, and to place b fore him
of
indecision.
The
and brought out apples winch sue
amily had
The decisions taken regarding rhe
well. But the fresh invigeraung
the fohowing alternatives
<‘itied io go e.ist, J had
smilingly
gave me.
future of these unfortunate people
com dawn ear Svon refreshed me ns
atwn to Japan with compensation
but
still
1
wanted
to
tuoop
and
plant. .Reach into the
to
were given more conspicious notice
I set about making breakfast.
xor ios:^ property; or resettlement
mem
off.
];
would
be
the
las
bag.
Stoop
and
plant. Mechanically
time
in tliis weekly, and in its com
“Mommy, picase come home
outside British Columbia with free
1
woulu
see
them
for
some
we
went
about
our
task.
hue.
panion “Time”, than they appear
early,” my daughter clung to me
iiansportarion and some iimnda!
It
is
not
an
easy
task. It is back
1 wired V: mot
to have received in our own daily
preparations to leave
assistance. Shou.d either of these
breaking
toil.
ing
permit
press. There seems to be some
It ooms
the house to tne farm
1
Courses seem unacceptable to the
During the morning when it is
all permits for
through
thing of a shamefaced silence
began working yesterda;
individual in question he will be
cooller,
the work is easy, but in the
Nelson are i ued from Vancouver
across Canada with regard to the
.lodged disloyal to Canada.
“Ies child, I wi
home
afternoon, the pace visibly slack
now. It is a lot of red tape, but
Government’s proposal, and it is
early.” J assured her. “Now when
, .there is something dreadfully
ens.
Krom above the sun beats
I
got
my
permit
without
mucn
my hope that this letter will be an
you come home after school,
familiar about this proposed mode
down mercilessily. Heat rays re
trouble.
interpretation of what many of my
of procedure and it is‘ not necesgood girl and mommy will be home
flected from the ground strikes the
AT THE GUARD HOUSE
fellow citizens may feel more in
early.”
baH to turn back very far in our
face.
The soles of the feet are hot
articulately.
There were four other passen1 straddled mv bicycle and
memories to verify the resem
a ad uncomfoi table. Conversation
gei> a man, a woman ami her two
Let us for a moment consider
waved goodbye and as 1 rode down
blance. It was just such a tech
trails off and the movements of
chiluren
besio.es
myself
on
the
what these people are like those
tiie road, turned around to :ook
nique the Nazis developed in their
the workers get sluggish.
mail bus going into Nelson.
lives are to be so drastically dealt
Pack and saw my daughter
dealings with the Jews. The un
At three o'clock the first diverThe mail bus is a battered look
with. Previous to the war I had no
standing at the doorway, follow
happy victim was asked to give up
sion camo. Faraway can ! the
ing Ford which carries the mail
acquaintance whatever with Japa
ing me with her eyes.
his wealth and profession and to
e of the east bound train,
between
Kado and Nelson.
nese; but like most Canadian com
It was still before S o’clock, but
live in segregation, wearing some
Everyone stopped in their work
munities, the one in which I live
about 20 people were all ready
.-cbout ten minutes out of Kaslo
humiliating symbol of his race, or
and cocked their heads to listen
has received a number of them,
all vehicles are stopped for permit
there for work.
leave
tlie
country
altogether.
and as the train rumbled by, waved
and of this number five young men
inspection of any Japanese passen
It was a picturesque scene. The
Should he retuse or even protest,
tneir hands at the passing loco
have come to be well known to me.
gers.
A
R.C.M.P.
guard
in
brown
Doukhobor
women were all dresseu
it v as a case of disloyalty to the
motive and four coaches.
uniform stopped the car and asked
I should perhaps remark that my
in their traditional drosses, loose
Fuehrer with consequences which
As the sound of the train died
for
my
permit.
work is the teaching of youngerbroad
skirts which almost reached
need not be described.
away in the east, 1 gazed after it
down to their ankles and with
men in an institution of higher
The driver turned to the woman
with bright unseeing eyes. Perhaps
Our Government has no inten
peasant
aprons tied in front.
education so that I have come to
and said: “Where's your permit ?
there was a relocee heading east
tion of going so far as the con
know and judge a good many
“Daburubotoram”, I greeted the
Nou gotta have a travel permit to
ward . . . perhaps ... I dragged my
centration camp, with its torture
Women.
young characters in the course of
get
through
acre
you
know.
”
self
back to work.
and mass executions, but although
years.
“
Ohayo
”
,
they
returned
the
com
Twenty
acres
were
almost
it does not bear comparison with
The woman evidently
didn’t
Let ine say without hesitation,
pliment in their quaint accent in
finished. In the distance, the trac
the Nazis in the matter of eru.eltv
know anything about it for she
cheerful camaraderie.
that I have never met five boys
tor which was going up and down
or physical brutality, its proposals
began to get flustered. The driver
Soon the truck came loaded with
more well-bred, more upright and
the rows covering the planted
winked at me.
are the equal of theirs in a certain
onion bulbs which
to
trustworthy nor more thoroughly
onions
could he heard. The steady
insane logic and in hypocrisy.
"Wheres your liquor permit, or
planted in rows and rows of neatly, burring of the motor growing
Canadian in outlook and opinions
Here is an innocent minority, never
iuentilication card? Hand that in
dug shallow channels.
that these Japanese. Furthermore,
fainter as it reached the far end
convicted (on the admission of the
insteac.,” he said solemnly.
The still cool morning was filled
the slighter acquaintance I have
of the field and increasing in volGovernment itself) of a single-act
But
when
tire
unsuspecting
with
the noise of conversation of
ume
as it. came i
had with other members of their
of sabotage or ill-will during the
where
woman frantically begun to search
thirty
as we
took up
we
were
working.
race has not been such to lead me
-enrire war, a minority which is
in her purse for her identification,
positions io commence planting.
Five o’clock and quitting time. I
to think these lads can be any ex
refused permission to enter our
the driver burst out laughing and
We
lined
up
across
the
field,
one
straigtbened
my we a ry,
ception to the majority, and if
armed forces, which is not allowed ' said:
person
on
a
i
w
1
cyan
plant
back and let the
there are even no more than a few
breeze
to apply even for work in war
ing. Stoop and plank Poach into
"Hint s ror Japs only. Japanese
thousand or a few hundred com
plants, which cannot therefore in
the bag. Stoop and pl nt. Each
I mean,” he said looking apologe
Tired back.
parable to these, the thought of
legs and
any conceivable
dem onstrate
tried
to outdo the other a: wc bobtically
in
my
direction.
arms
were
forgotten
as
I
mounted
the treatment our Government
its patriotism except bv patiently
bed down the line.
my
bicycle
to
go
homo.
’
Tin
Scotch,
”
she
said
in
a
hurt
plans for them should fill every
and courageously enduring the
It was only yesterday morning
voice.
‘Turntshai — suyomra — good
Canadian citizen with indignation
hardship and humiliation which
when I had started work icre and
bye,
”-a wave of the hand and I
and) shame.
I wondered exactly how she felt.
the war lias brought to it. . . and
the other workers seemed hostile
left
the other workers.
Let me briefly set down the pro
now these unfortunate peop-e are
because thex had been told that wc
Home
again, home after a long
posals whereby our country’s lea
to be offered two bitter a’ternain Nelson a nd found a
were speedy workers.
day
’
s
worn,
ft was comforting and
ders hope to rid themselves of an
tives: Deportation to a land many
RCMP Constable waiting at the
It is true that I did not have
restful
and
my
daughter, eager to
unwanted minority, and we can
bus stop, r.nd had my permit ex
of them have never seen, or settle-’
much, trouble in outdoing them, but
see
me
home
rushed
up to welcome
amined.
then attempt to consider the just
merit in a strange and Hostile
to keep harmonious relations with
me
with
open
arms.
ice of these decisions and their
neighborhood.
After supper I scouted around
the others, I slowed down and kept
And settled down in a comfort
bemuse T wr.a
p :ce with them.
able
chair in the Ust. waning light *
told a day never posses without
Perhaps they understood my
after supper, 1 listened to my child
some evacuee tra ’oiling through
These alternatives are cruel
desire to co-operate with them,
the continuation of a traditional
singing songs sho learned in
Nelson.
enough, but it is the third which
policy. The contemplation of it, in
for today everybody was friendly.
school. It was good to be home.
It wrs too late for shopping so
should make any just man writhe:
all its bitter details, must make
I
checked in at the Savoy Hwei
If any of these unfortunates ven
melancholy thinking for every
because
the bus station is right
ture to express dissatisfaction, or
citizen who considers himself a
across
the
street ami looked over
wish to return to the countryside
Christian or a liberal. Where such
By ‘ Brasso”
the
hotel
register
for any familiar
a policy will lead us it is disturpor to which has been his home
SCENE:
End
of
the
Boulevard,
other' words, plain ‘emo’ ”.
names and found none.
ing to consider, for the principles
since birth, he is thereby to prove
Tash
me,
B.
C.
Scout (with relief): “Oh. Thank
To kill time I went to the Civic
implied in its terms are evil and
himself guilty of disloyalty to his
THEME:
Scout
“
Test
Hike
”
you
sir.”
theatre and sat through an enjoy
explosive and it is not easy to Con
country.
TIME:
Sunday,
11:30
a.m.
Scoutmaster:
“Tut-tut my boy,
able movie in which Dick Haymes
trol the fanaticism and blind pasWe shall look in vain for any
“
Lights!
Camera!
Action!
when
I
was
your
age, etc., etc.,”
croons a lot of old Irish song’s. It
sion which they will encourage.
acceptable or reasonable motive in
“Patrols for-r-w-wa-ar-r-rd M-aScou (without relief): “Thank
wrs
the
first
movie
which
I
had
The Chinese, the Jew, or the
this detestable plan, and if such
r-r-r-eh!”
you sir
seen in three months where 1
Negro, particularly if he chance to
reasoning as can be traced in it
“
Tramp,
tramp,
tramp
—
“
MerAnother
Sir. Will you
didn't have to sit and see the film
live in the most bigoted and blood
were followed through consistent
rily we hike along,, wlk along,
taste my meat and spud please?”
cut
off
in
the
middle
of
a
scene
thirsty of our provinces, may well
ly, we can quickly see to what ex
skip along. Merrily we hop along
“Cr-a-a-a-a-ack! Cr-u-u-u-nch!”
and have the lights flash on. L en
look about him with fear and mis
tremes we would be driven. There
the Tashme-Princeton Trail!”
Scoutmaster’: “Say! What is
joyed
it
all
the
more
for
it.
giving after this news of the fate
is absolutely no more reason for
Scoutmaster: “That’s the stuff
this? This potato is hard as stone.
Coming
out
of
the
theatre,
I
that lies in store for the Japanese.
an attack on the Japanese minor
boys; left, left, pick up your dogs
In fact, it is stone.”
bumped into Ken and Kimi. They
Well, a letter to a newspaper is
ity in Canada than there would be
and left! Patrols ha-a-a-lt!”
Scout (dejectedly): “Oh! the
were
in
from
Greenwood
and
it
a very feeble gesture in support
for an attack on the German, Hun
Scouts:
“
Oh-h-h-h-h!
Whew!
”
‘
emo
’ and the stone looked so alike
was good to see them because they
of a people in such dire need of
garian or Itailan minorities; and
Scoutmaster:
“
When
I
was
your
in
the
embers, I guess I brought
were former Kasloites.
help. I have written it under comjust as much justification for it as
age,
etc.,
etc.,
etc.
”
you
a
stone
instead.”
M e went over to the hotel where
pulsion of my conscience as a
there would be for an attack on
Scouts:
“
Groan!
”
Four
Hours
Later:
they were staying and rehashed
Christian, remembering for what
the Jews or Chinese. But Cana
Scoutmaster:
“
Well,
let
’
s
see
Scoutmaster:
“Well boys, it is
old times and talked about how
centuries, and in how many parts
dians of German or Italian or
you
make
a
roaring
fire
in
a
hurry,
time
to
go
home.
”
things were now.
of the world men of my religion
Hungarian descent are not treated
so
get
those
meat
and
‘
murphies
’
Scouts:
“
We
’
re
very hungry
They seemed dissatisfied with
were oppressed and made to suffer
cooking.
”
with suspicion and hatred because
sir!
”
life in Greenwood. Nothing to do
without cause: and it would to God
the nations from which they take
Scout
(mystified):
“Murphy?
Scoutmaster (surprised): “Why
they said. They missed old friends
there were some way of having its
their origin are now or have been
Why
that
’
s
a
man
’
s
name
sir.”
what’s the matter? Didn’t you
most of all.
message reach the mind and heart
at war with us; and this ines
Scout master: “My dear boy, a
bring enough to'eat ”
LEMON
CREEK
of
every
Canadian.
We
are
des
‘
murphy
’ is another name for an
capable fact leads us to the shame
Crestfallen Scouts: “We did sir.
Talk of the sign-up for repatri
froying at home the only worth
Trish Delight,” spud, potato: in
ful conclusion which every honest
Only you ate them all.”
ation was everywhere. - Feelings
while thing for which our soktiers
man must come to regarding ibis
Finally.
T
going would be just
were
ouite high against any fam
hard in
bewildered.
are
fighting
abroad,
business: The war with Japan i>
ily- relocating to the east. I was
Japan
but
“
shoganai, dosuru koto
sincere
wish
Then I was directed to a booth
must
also
express
the
not the cause of this final biow a^
glad
that
our
family
mo
nai
.
leavi
ng
can
’
t
be
helper!.
those
of
my
fekow
citizens
marked
with a series of numbers
the Japanese in Canada,it o
soon.
there
’s nothing else to do,” he said.
which
corresponded
to my regis
merely the pretext for it. Tne
Many
were
undecided.
Their
de
them;
and
I
tration
number.
re
come
to
know
may
reason is that the Japanese
cision would be made at the last
Got back to Kaslo on Wednes
The procedure for signing repat
feel sure they will meet young
a small minority, at once cat
minute
when
they
were
asked
to
day
morning
and
went
to
the
and
women
as
reserving
as
riation
papers was simple.
men
and unprotected, of a race and
make
a
choice. Others were defi
Kaslo
Hotel
'where they were
five
whom
chance
has
put
in
“What do you intend to do?”
color which is assumed to be
nitely going to repatriate, a very
carrying on the registration for
asked
the constable.
ferior to our own, arm j’
ror
“voluntary repatriation”.
small minority it seemed, had de
young men
“Go east.”
because of this supposed imei
The R.C.M.Police were resplen
cided to pack up and leave for the
atives of a
He clipped a card on to a couple
e
ity, has been driven into an ecocast.
dent
in their bright scarlet uni
dligent grouts ox peopie
of forms and scrawled across it
nomic position where it c.-mp
Met a men who said he was
forms. They looked very official.
lite of the most dis“wishes to go east”. He looked up
unfavorably with the suppes
going to repatriate and because he
and <iegrauing condtBefore I went into one of the
and asked: “Have you seen Mr.
superior race.
ed their dignity
is a good friend of mine, asked for
three booms made up of B.C.S.C.
Roberts or Mr. Aydon.” I answered
have
Persecution is no new thing
Hicrc is no one
his reason.
blankets, I talked to W.O. Roberts
in affirmative.
these unhappy people; p--L-/““
them
well
who
“
I
want
to
stay
but
I
have
too
and
Fred
Aydon.
Theywere
busi
“Well, that’s all.”
to
comtr^
nation, segregation, exclusion xiom
many children, I am not very
would not feel honored by their
nesslike and didn’t waste much
“Don’t I have to sign anything?”
public office and the Higher P---^
strong physical!y and worft be
time. They- rattled off a list of em
friendship.
“Not unless you want to go to
fessions, have been their
REV. A. DURAND
able to support my family," he
ployment opportunities in south
Japan.”
British Columbia for many a^t;.
said. He said he realized that the
ern Ontario which left me slightly
London. Ont..
That was all.
This last stroke represents simpiy
5 -
Page 8
jfe
3®
Page 8
a
strangely enough the Government
which only recently asked evac
^AIuees to move eastward from BiiP. O. Drawer A
Kasio, B. C.
tisn
Columbia “as evidence of tneir
An Independent Weekly Organ Published as a Medium of
aes^re to oe good Canadians” is me
Expression Among the People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
it
same Government which last year
Tom Shoyama
supped a measure through Parkacould start by letting us have the
The Need to Think
Editor & Publisher
ment
to
rob
them
of
their
demo
very important democratic right of
Takaichi Umezuki
Japanese Section Editor
Editor, The New Canadian:
cratic right to vote.
casting a badot on election ciav.
Rates: 40c per Month
S2.00 for Six Months in Advance
I
must
congratulate
you
on
your
Another
line He might try is the
No less important is the need to
forthright
editorials
in
The
New
right
to
purchase property ana
establish the basic right of free
Canadian.
I
was
especially
pleased
operate
businesses
and to * travel
dom of movement—within British
with
the
one
on
“
The
Return
to
freely on the same basis as the
Columbia as well as the other
Japan.”
rest of the population.
provinces. To suggest any longer
Insofar as it is represented by the Federation of
The young people who are being
that regulations circumscribing tae
There is also the matter of pro
appealed
to by their elders to re
free
movement
of
Japanese
Cana
I.abor and the Lethbridge Tracies and Labor Council,
perty and chattels being sold in
turn to Japan are in no position
dians are required for military
most cases at a small fraction of
organized labor in Alberta has been in the forefront of
to know the facts. Possibly, many - their value,
security is stupid in the extreme.
These might be reopposition to the peaceful resettlement of Japanese
of the older people are thinking of
It descends to its worst degree
evaluated or returned with full
a dream Japan of their yout*.
when a citizen finds it necessary
Canadian evacuees in that province. The Federal itself
compensation for losses where the
rather
than of a postwar Japan.
to
applyto
officials
in
Vancouver
owner should so desire. He might
has urged that all evacuees be removdd from the province
before he may legally travel over
.Have they thought of the finan
also take a suggestion from the
at the war's end. And recently the Labor Council
fifty miles in this province. And
cial and economic condition the - Americans and abolish
the West
V
it is a mockery of our democratic
announced in response to a request from the Lethbridge
country will be in ? Have they
Coast prohibited area. Then, too,
process when these travel regula
thought of an embittered people
City Council that it supported that body’s efforts to dis
if He is really in a receptive mood,
tions are used as a means through
ready to “take it out” on anyone
I would go on to suggest that all
criminate against Japanese Canadians seeking employ
which any municipal politicians,
with the taint of America on
forms of fascist, racial discrimiment within Lethbridge.
by7 protesting loudly enough, may
them ?
nation be made a criminal offense
set
up
some
form
of
holybarrier
Many
of
us
are
ashamed
of
our
subject to penal servitude and that
In their recent public statement, the Labor Council
around their own bailiwick.
country's attitude toward innocent
persons charged with this offense
agieed that the permanent residence of Japanese Cana
The campaign must be pushed,
people, yet, none of them have
bear the onus of proving them
dians was a matter for dominion-provincial decision. But
too, for freedom of economic
suffered bodily injury in this
selves not .guilty.
opportunity,
patricularly
where
country. They have not starved.
^ argued that wages paid to evacuee domestic workers
_ If you find, Mr. Editor, that the
that freedom is curtailed by dis
You,
yourself are a symbol of the
lines of communication with trie
in Lethbridge were “below standard”. And it believes
criminatory
government
edict.
fact that one may attack officials
Divine are not very efficient from
that conditions ot slave labor”, which might be estab
Here the most flagrant instance is
in this country and “get away
wartime
inability to get replace
the federal' order which prevents
with it.”
lished in the city through the employment of evacuees,
ment in equipment you might put
Japanese Canadians from purchas
If they are honest, I don’t think
will be detrimental to other workers forced to take such
in a bid for a higher priority. This
ing and leasing land. The abuse of
they will claim that such a thing
business
of
the
Government’s
jobs when the normal peacetime situation is restored.
licensing power by local officials
would be permitted in Japan.
treatment of her residents of Jap
is equally important to evacuees
I he \ ie\\ point of the Labor Council is out-dated. It
Don’t misunderstand me. I con
anese ancestry and the develop
seeking to re-establish themselves
sider free speech as a prerogative
belongs to the mistaken idea that any group of workers
ment
of racism in Canada Is
in eastern cities. Until economic
of a citizen even in wartime ex
twitching the conscience of a
pan permanently protect their own interests1 by establishopportunity is freely
granted,
cept insofar as it may give mili
large and growing section of her
there can be no hope for secure
^I^tF'niseh es as a special class, sheltered from the comtary information to the enemv. It
citizens.
Academic
circles and
i esettlement throughout the counis just one of the freedoms these
F^’()n of other workers. Such special privilege is posparticularly the social scientists
dy> despite the claim of place
young people take for granted and
all over the continent are observ
siole only through the restriction and oppression of com
ment officials that an abundance
would not realize until they were
ing the developments with misgiv
of work is available. It is, in the
peting workers, whether it be upon a basis of race, of
.gone.
;
ings. A number of them in their
main,
work
that
no
one
else
wants
lehgion, or skill. It was in the defeat of this reactionary
Congratulations once more.
published
articles have not spared
to do, because everyone else has
EDNA
B.
DAVIDSON
words
in
their condemnations of
the great and Powcrful industrial unions of the
the opportunity to do something
Greenwood, B. C.
official
policy.
Even amongst the
better.
L.l.U. forged ahead during the past fifteen years. It is
ordinary folk, the reaction to the
There are, moreover, a whole
Some Suggestions
these same unions that in the United States have taken
latest Government orders, as I
series of unjust discriminations
found it around here, was: “What
an active lead in urging an end to discrimination and
Editor, The New Canadian:
invoked
since
the
evacuation,
the
hell is the Government trying
restriction against American workers of Japanese
against and only against—Japa
I have read with groat interest
to do ? ’ I don’t understand it.” I
the letter from the Rev. H. J.
ancestry.
nese Canadians. There is the
don’t either, until I’m reminded
Armitage in your issue of April
matter of the arbitrary sale of
that
there is an election coming
On the record it should be obvious to organized
7. It is certainly reassuring to our
property at prices far below exist
early
this summer.
labor in Alberta that Japanese Canadian evacuees will
Canadian population of Japanese
ing market levels. Ecuality in
KUNIO HIDAKA
education—despite British Colum
ancestry to know that one of their
not willingly accept a lower standard of wages or condiKingston,
Ontario.
bia’s minister of education—does
members and especially a person
tions ol slave labor. The steady rise in wages paid! to
who controls an organ of public
not exist in this province, and is.
Creative Leader
sugar beet workers—to a new record high in Alberta
subject to special provision in
opinion is enjoying that privileged
position.
Alberta. Special restrictions still
Ipstory-is the indubitable proof of this fact. But what
... I am glad The New Cana
apply in the consumption of liquor,
However,
I
see
no
reason
why
dian
stands for more than the
organized labor in Alberta needs to recognize is that their
in game hunting and fishing, in
he should retain all this divine dir
sectional interests of your part
attitude is responsible for creating just those “conditions
telegraph and telephone commu
ection himself; I would like him
icular group. To be interested in
nication. Everywhere in the coun
6i slave labor which thev riottfnllv
to pass on at least a fraction of it
the total life of the Dominion and
try,
Japanese
Canadians
are
to our nation’s public seiwants like
actively taking responsibility for
singled out to have their mail
T. B. Pickersgill and the Hon.
the welfare of all, puts you in the
rigidly examined by postal censors.
evacuee workers in Alberta shall be tied to Axed farms
Humphrey Mitchell. Maybe we can
forefront with the creative leaderEverywhere in the country, citithen get a few of our racist laws
ship of the country.
in the sugar beet industry only is bad enough.But it is
zens of Japanese descent, even of
changed
or
abolished.
Can
’
t
you
do
We have met several of the
macA much worse when such workers are also prevented
the third generation, must be
a little diverting along this line,
Nisei
returning to the Pacific
iiom improving their status by discriminatory barriers
‘‘mugged and fingerprinted as no
Mr. Editor ?
Coast and have joined with groups
other citizens must. Everywhere in
which would shut them out from other jobs. The strength
In case the Divine Director is In
welcoming them and seeking to re
the nation they are subiect to the
need
of
a
bit
of
prompting,
1
habilitate
them into normal life.
of organized labor does not not lie in 'creating divisions
arbitrary decree of the Minister of
niight
very
humbly
suggest
that
DONALD MacMILLAN
between, workers, penalizing some in the doubtful hope
Labor and the whim of bureau
with an election coming on He
San Francisco, Calif.
cratic
officials
administering
such
ot benehtting others. It can lie only in the unity that is
decrees.
created when less fortunate groups of workers are helped
Surveyed in such a manner, the
to raise themselves and their bargaining power against
magnitude of the task thus con
employers to tht standard and level of the strono'er
fronting us is almost overwhelm
(Ihe Pacific Citizen)
of battle. Although British Colum
ing. If we choose to remain here
groups.
Prime Minister King’s admis
bian interests have been successful
in Canada, we do so not in silent
in
keeping the Nisei Canucks out
sion
to
the
House
of
Commons
in
Oiganized ^apr
J^’erta has a unique opportunity
acceptance of all these disabilities
of
uniform (except for a handful
Ottawa last week that Canadians
We do so with a ringing protest
in this situation of proving its own progressiveness.
who
were in the Canadian Army
of Japanese ancestry are being re
that democratic country must pro
before Pearl Harbor and who have
gress toward the correction of its
cruited for specific roles in the
distinguished themselves in ac
faults. And we believe that a large
war effort of the British Common
tion), the request from Great Bri
percentage of Canadians will join
wealth is the first indication that
tain for qualified Japanese Cana
with
us
in
our
fight
to
establish
a
Canada-s reservoir of Japanese
J he current program ot distinguishing Canadians
dians seems to have broken the
more workable democracy in our
Canadian talent is being utilized in
log-jam of conflict which has kept
ipanese origin who definitely decide to remain in
country.
the prosecution of the war in the
the Canadian Nisei out of this
aa should have at least one merit. That will be to
Pacific.
var. The interest of ’Western Can
Opposition of British Columbia
ide the conditions which make for more united effort
Postwar Reconstruction
adian politicians in preventing the
politicians has prevented the use
Japanese
Canadians from serving
,ne
necessau to achieve full citizenship
There were no fancy curlicues in
ox Japanese Canadian manpower
in
the
Army
has been one based
the postwar picture that Recon
A' ■
duu that such a campaign has verv concrete.
in the war which is now grinding
on
a
desire
to maintain that
struction Minister Clarence De
)“>lc °
It will have the svmpathv and support
to a close in Europe. The’ war in
minority in its status quo of
catur Howe painted for Parliament
the Pacific has yet to be won and
o. a host ot fair-minded people throughout the eountrv.
second class citizenship.
last week. Conservatively com
Canadian citizens of Japanese an
posed. the Liberal Government’s
but every Japanese Canadian must share aetivelv in the
The American offensive in the
cestry have indicated their eager
economic canvas looked like a
Pacific has been enhanced by the
ness to serve Canada on the field
vote-catcher.
presence or trained specialists of
new-found neighbours, and second, to give any organized
Japanese
ancestry, many thou
It re-elected June 11. the Gov
rares, and by Ioans from Governaction his moral and financial support.
*
°
sands
of
whom
are now in action.
ment lendin
ernment would have no truck with
agencies. Wartime
In the China-Burma-India theatre.
rac.icalism. Said cheery, aggressive
A letter to the editor published in this issue outlines
anti-inflation controls would be
Min ier Howe: the emphasis of
GI reports have indicated that
kept only for ‘‘a smoother, more
rapid transition to a prosperous
some of these Nisei specialists
ans would be on the unfetudded in a survev of th
were ‘loaned” to the British Army
operation of free enterprise,
peacetime economy
uno the record that the Japanese
me raxes would be eliminated
Two of the specific aims:
Americans
have made in service
or at least reduced as soon as
r About 4.600.000 jobs after the
British
arms may have con
possible, to prowl de plenty of op'war (compared with 3,693,000 at
era! election coming on. one of the most pressing needs is
ceivably
influenced
London’s recent
porxumtv for private profit. The^e
to wipe out the principle of the infamous Bill 13.5 which
would be no splurge on public
request for the services of Japan^ 50.000 new housing units in the
6i.e Canadians, most of whom are
works. Private investment would
first full year after V-E day.
last year deprived evacuees of the federal tranche
be encouraged by low interest
s.u^ isolated from direct participa
—Time Magazine
tion in the war effort.
Org-anized Labor in Alberta
Nisei Canadians in the Service
Objectives to be Attained
3®
Page 8
a
strangely enough the Government
which only recently asked evac
^AIuees to move eastward from BiiP. O. Drawer A
Kasio, B. C.
tisn
Columbia “as evidence of tneir
An Independent Weekly Organ Published as a Medium of
aes^re to oe good Canadians” is me
Expression Among the People of Japanese Origin in Canada.
it
same Government which last year
Tom Shoyama
supped a measure through Parkacould start by letting us have the
The Need to Think
Editor & Publisher
ment
to
rob
them
of
their
demo
very important democratic right of
Takaichi Umezuki
Japanese Section Editor
Editor, The New Canadian:
cratic right to vote.
casting a badot on election ciav.
Rates: 40c per Month
S2.00 for Six Months in Advance
I
must
congratulate
you
on
your
Another
line He might try is the
No less important is the need to
forthright
editorials
in
The
New
right
to
purchase property ana
establish the basic right of free
Canadian.
I
was
especially
pleased
operate
businesses
and to * travel
dom of movement—within British
with
the
one
on
“
The
Return
to
freely on the same basis as the
Columbia as well as the other
Japan.”
rest of the population.
provinces. To suggest any longer
Insofar as it is represented by the Federation of
The young people who are being
that regulations circumscribing tae
There is also the matter of pro
appealed
to by their elders to re
free
movement
of
Japanese
Cana
I.abor and the Lethbridge Tracies and Labor Council,
perty and chattels being sold in
turn to Japan are in no position
dians are required for military
most cases at a small fraction of
organized labor in Alberta has been in the forefront of
to know the facts. Possibly, many - their value,
security is stupid in the extreme.
These might be reopposition to the peaceful resettlement of Japanese
of the older people are thinking of
It descends to its worst degree
evaluated or returned with full
a dream Japan of their yout*.
when a citizen finds it necessary
Canadian evacuees in that province. The Federal itself
compensation for losses where the
rather
than of a postwar Japan.
to
applyto
officials
in
Vancouver
owner should so desire. He might
has urged that all evacuees be removdd from the province
before he may legally travel over
.Have they thought of the finan
also take a suggestion from the
at the war's end. And recently the Labor Council
fifty miles in this province. And
cial and economic condition the - Americans and abolish
the West
V
it is a mockery of our democratic
announced in response to a request from the Lethbridge
country will be in ? Have they
Coast prohibited area. Then, too,
process when these travel regula
thought of an embittered people
City Council that it supported that body’s efforts to dis
if He is really in a receptive mood,
tions are used as a means through
ready to “take it out” on anyone
I would go on to suggest that all
criminate against Japanese Canadians seeking employ
which any municipal politicians,
with the taint of America on
forms of fascist, racial discrimiment within Lethbridge.
by7 protesting loudly enough, may
them ?
nation be made a criminal offense
set
up
some
form
of
holybarrier
Many
of
us
are
ashamed
of
our
subject to penal servitude and that
In their recent public statement, the Labor Council
around their own bailiwick.
country's attitude toward innocent
persons charged with this offense
agieed that the permanent residence of Japanese Cana
The campaign must be pushed,
people, yet, none of them have
bear the onus of proving them
dians was a matter for dominion-provincial decision. But
too, for freedom of economic
suffered bodily injury in this
selves not .guilty.
opportunity,
patricularly
where
country. They have not starved.
^ argued that wages paid to evacuee domestic workers
_ If you find, Mr. Editor, that the
that freedom is curtailed by dis
You,
yourself are a symbol of the
lines of communication with trie
in Lethbridge were “below standard”. And it believes
criminatory
government
edict.
fact that one may attack officials
Divine are not very efficient from
that conditions ot slave labor”, which might be estab
Here the most flagrant instance is
in this country and “get away
wartime
inability to get replace
the federal' order which prevents
with it.”
lished in the city through the employment of evacuees,
ment in equipment you might put
Japanese Canadians from purchas
If they are honest, I don’t think
will be detrimental to other workers forced to take such
in a bid for a higher priority. This
ing and leasing land. The abuse of
they will claim that such a thing
business
of
the
Government’s
jobs when the normal peacetime situation is restored.
licensing power by local officials
would be permitted in Japan.
treatment of her residents of Jap
is equally important to evacuees
I he \ ie\\ point of the Labor Council is out-dated. It
Don’t misunderstand me. I con
anese ancestry and the develop
seeking to re-establish themselves
sider free speech as a prerogative
belongs to the mistaken idea that any group of workers
ment
of racism in Canada Is
in eastern cities. Until economic
of a citizen even in wartime ex
twitching the conscience of a
pan permanently protect their own interests1 by establishopportunity is freely
granted,
cept insofar as it may give mili
large and growing section of her
there can be no hope for secure
^I^tF'niseh es as a special class, sheltered from the comtary information to the enemv. It
citizens.
Academic
circles and
i esettlement throughout the counis just one of the freedoms these
F^’()n of other workers. Such special privilege is posparticularly the social scientists
dy> despite the claim of place
young people take for granted and
all over the continent are observ
siole only through the restriction and oppression of com
ment officials that an abundance
would not realize until they were
ing the developments with misgiv
of work is available. It is, in the
peting workers, whether it be upon a basis of race, of
.gone.
;
ings. A number of them in their
main,
work
that
no
one
else
wants
lehgion, or skill. It was in the defeat of this reactionary
Congratulations once more.
published
articles have not spared
to do, because everyone else has
EDNA
B.
DAVIDSON
words
in
their condemnations of
the great and Powcrful industrial unions of the
the opportunity to do something
Greenwood, B. C.
official
policy.
Even amongst the
better.
L.l.U. forged ahead during the past fifteen years. It is
ordinary folk, the reaction to the
There are, moreover, a whole
Some Suggestions
these same unions that in the United States have taken
latest Government orders, as I
series of unjust discriminations
found it around here, was: “What
an active lead in urging an end to discrimination and
Editor, The New Canadian:
invoked
since
the
evacuation,
the
hell is the Government trying
restriction against American workers of Japanese
against and only against—Japa
I have read with groat interest
to do ? ’ I don’t understand it.” I
the letter from the Rev. H. J.
ancestry.
nese Canadians. There is the
don’t either, until I’m reminded
Armitage in your issue of April
matter of the arbitrary sale of
that
there is an election coming
On the record it should be obvious to organized
7. It is certainly reassuring to our
property at prices far below exist
early
this summer.
labor in Alberta that Japanese Canadian evacuees will
Canadian population of Japanese
ing market levels. Ecuality in
KUNIO HIDAKA
education—despite British Colum
ancestry to know that one of their
not willingly accept a lower standard of wages or condiKingston,
Ontario.
bia’s minister of education—does
members and especially a person
tions ol slave labor. The steady rise in wages paid! to
who controls an organ of public
not exist in this province, and is.
Creative Leader
sugar beet workers—to a new record high in Alberta
subject to special provision in
opinion is enjoying that privileged
position.
Alberta. Special restrictions still
Ipstory-is the indubitable proof of this fact. But what
... I am glad The New Cana
apply in the consumption of liquor,
However,
I
see
no
reason
why
dian
stands for more than the
organized labor in Alberta needs to recognize is that their
in game hunting and fishing, in
he should retain all this divine dir
sectional interests of your part
attitude is responsible for creating just those “conditions
telegraph and telephone commu
ection himself; I would like him
icular group. To be interested in
nication. Everywhere in the coun
6i slave labor which thev riottfnllv
to pass on at least a fraction of it
the total life of the Dominion and
try,
Japanese
Canadians
are
to our nation’s public seiwants like
actively taking responsibility for
singled out to have their mail
T. B. Pickersgill and the Hon.
the welfare of all, puts you in the
rigidly examined by postal censors.
evacuee workers in Alberta shall be tied to Axed farms
Humphrey Mitchell. Maybe we can
forefront with the creative leaderEverywhere in the country, citithen get a few of our racist laws
ship of the country.
in the sugar beet industry only is bad enough.But it is
zens of Japanese descent, even of
changed
or
abolished.
Can
’
t
you
do
We have met several of the
macA much worse when such workers are also prevented
the third generation, must be
a little diverting along this line,
Nisei
returning to the Pacific
iiom improving their status by discriminatory barriers
‘‘mugged and fingerprinted as no
Mr. Editor ?
Coast and have joined with groups
other citizens must. Everywhere in
which would shut them out from other jobs. The strength
In case the Divine Director is In
welcoming them and seeking to re
the nation they are subiect to the
need
of
a
bit
of
prompting,
1
habilitate
them into normal life.
of organized labor does not not lie in 'creating divisions
arbitrary decree of the Minister of
niight
very
humbly
suggest
that
DONALD MacMILLAN
between, workers, penalizing some in the doubtful hope
Labor and the whim of bureau
with an election coming on He
San Francisco, Calif.
cratic
officials
administering
such
ot benehtting others. It can lie only in the unity that is
decrees.
created when less fortunate groups of workers are helped
Surveyed in such a manner, the
to raise themselves and their bargaining power against
magnitude of the task thus con
employers to tht standard and level of the strono'er
fronting us is almost overwhelm
(Ihe Pacific Citizen)
of battle. Although British Colum
ing. If we choose to remain here
groups.
Prime Minister King’s admis
bian interests have been successful
in Canada, we do so not in silent
in
keeping the Nisei Canucks out
sion
to
the
House
of
Commons
in
Oiganized ^apr
J^’erta has a unique opportunity
acceptance of all these disabilities
of
uniform (except for a handful
Ottawa last week that Canadians
We do so with a ringing protest
in this situation of proving its own progressiveness.
who
were in the Canadian Army
of Japanese ancestry are being re
that democratic country must pro
before Pearl Harbor and who have
gress toward the correction of its
cruited for specific roles in the
distinguished themselves in ac
faults. And we believe that a large
war effort of the British Common
tion), the request from Great Bri
percentage of Canadians will join
wealth is the first indication that
tain for qualified Japanese Cana
with
us
in
our
fight
to
establish
a
Canada-s reservoir of Japanese
J he current program ot distinguishing Canadians
dians seems to have broken the
more workable democracy in our
Canadian talent is being utilized in
log-jam of conflict which has kept
ipanese origin who definitely decide to remain in
country.
the prosecution of the war in the
the Canadian Nisei out of this
aa should have at least one merit. That will be to
Pacific.
var. The interest of ’Western Can
Opposition of British Columbia
ide the conditions which make for more united effort
Postwar Reconstruction
adian politicians in preventing the
politicians has prevented the use
Japanese
Canadians from serving
,ne
necessau to achieve full citizenship
There were no fancy curlicues in
ox Japanese Canadian manpower
in
the
Army
has been one based
the postwar picture that Recon
A' ■
duu that such a campaign has verv concrete.
in the war which is now grinding
on
a
desire
to maintain that
struction Minister Clarence De
)“>lc °
It will have the svmpathv and support
to a close in Europe. The’ war in
minority in its status quo of
catur Howe painted for Parliament
the Pacific has yet to be won and
o. a host ot fair-minded people throughout the eountrv.
second class citizenship.
last week. Conservatively com
Canadian citizens of Japanese an
posed. the Liberal Government’s
but every Japanese Canadian must share aetivelv in the
The American offensive in the
cestry have indicated their eager
economic canvas looked like a
Pacific has been enhanced by the
ness to serve Canada on the field
vote-catcher.
presence or trained specialists of
new-found neighbours, and second, to give any organized
Japanese
ancestry, many thou
It re-elected June 11. the Gov
rares, and by Ioans from Governaction his moral and financial support.
*
°
sands
of
whom
are now in action.
ment lendin
ernment would have no truck with
agencies. Wartime
In the China-Burma-India theatre.
rac.icalism. Said cheery, aggressive
A letter to the editor published in this issue outlines
anti-inflation controls would be
Min ier Howe: the emphasis of
GI reports have indicated that
kept only for ‘‘a smoother, more
rapid transition to a prosperous
some of these Nisei specialists
ans would be on the unfetudded in a survev of th
were ‘loaned” to the British Army
operation of free enterprise,
peacetime economy
uno the record that the Japanese
me raxes would be eliminated
Two of the specific aims:
Americans
have made in service
or at least reduced as soon as
r About 4.600.000 jobs after the
British
arms may have con
possible, to prowl de plenty of op'war (compared with 3,693,000 at
era! election coming on. one of the most pressing needs is
ceivably
influenced
London’s recent
porxumtv for private profit. The^e
to wipe out the principle of the infamous Bill 13.5 which
would be no splurge on public
request for the services of Japan^ 50.000 new housing units in the
6i.e Canadians, most of whom are
works. Private investment would
first full year after V-E day.
last year deprived evacuees of the federal tranche
be encouraged by low interest
s.u^ isolated from direct participa
—Time Magazine
tion in the war effort.
Org-anized Labor in Alberta
Nisei Canadians in the Service
Objectives to be Attained