Hoodlum Gangs Terrorising Vancouver
(11 a.m.) . OTTAWA, March 30. The Vancouver, British Columbia, police are mobilising a special force to deal with more than a dozen gangs of “mechanised” young hoodlums who are terrorising the city. TIA youths use jeeps, jalopies and taxi? in what the police have described as "mayhem lor the sake of mayhem.” The youths disorganise the teen-age dances by picking fights and beating up girls and their ' boy friends, but they do not steal or loot.
One social worker says that hooliganism is so' well organised that he believes an organisation is at the back of it, trying to undermine Canadian law and order. Civic officials have set up a sevenman committee to try to find a solution to the problem. The youths wear a distinctive dress of wide pants, cut in the “Dutch” drape. Girls attached to the gangs wear similar outfits. The pants measure up to 36 inches across the knee and narrow abruptly around the ankles.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23217, 31 March 1950, Page 5
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