“What do you think ‘Mackenzie King will do, for us next.” Indian adopting epidemic. Large numbers of reserve in the summer, one of stated. n : . ~ Indians rap North Van Council “NORTH VANCOUVER—Responsibility for the shockingly imadequate sanitary and water facilities provided the 26-acre Squamish Indian settlement here has been placed at the door of North Vancouver City. Im a brief issued by the Squamish Council this week, city authorities were charged with “a coldly indifferert” attitude “towards sanitation improvements for the Indian village.” Council spokesmen this week refused to grant water and impre the grounds that this was a re- affairs department. “The city’s sewerage outlet drains through the center of the Indian settlement, creating the danger of a possible serious The Squamish Indian Council’s brief pointed out the fol- “Fhrough the years, efforts were made to obtain sewerage rats “form a carpet” on the the Indians is reported to have Victoria unions back strikers VICTORIA, B.C.—Trade union- ists here were unanimous in ex- pressing their disapproval of tne new Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (Bill 39) at a joint meeting of executive members of all CCL unions held on Wednes- day of last week. Full ‘support of striking laundry workers in Nanaimo was pledged by all lo- cals. Dick Jones, president of D1- vision 234, CBRE, stated that “the girls in Nanaimo are in the front line of the battle against Bill 39. They are displaying the militancy and courage that must act as an inspiration for the en- tire labor movement in British Columbia. It is up to all of us to get right behind them to make sure that they uren’t the first casualties in our fight against this vicious anti-labor bill.” Decision was made by the unions represented at the meet- ing to sponsor a rally in Bea- con Hill Park this coming Sun- day, July 6, at whcih labor speakers from CCL and AFL unions, including representatives from the Nanaimo Laundry Union, as well as speakers from the LPP and the CCF, have been invited to take the plat- form. The meeting will protest the anti-labor clauses of Bill 39 and demonstrate labor’s support of the Nanaimo strikers. Roy Mezger, executive member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, charged that shipyard management was already taking advantage of Bill 39 by discrim- inating against employees. He stated that workers, who were sick or injured were being locked out of the yard. “Workers are afraid to take their annual holiday because of their fear of being tocked - out upon their return,” he declared. —~- Dock workers win pact Dock workers employed at Van- couver Barge Transportation Com- Pany here won a 10-cent. hourly wage increase last week, with signing of an agreement with International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO), Lo- cal §01. Signing of the new con- tract averted strike action by the workers, Ed Wennerlow, inter- national representative, stated. + jdo not move until Technocracy : disputes Scott’s claims By JIM BULLER Comfortably sprawled across a soft, overstuffed lounge chair in his Vancouver Hotel suite after his arrival here, Howard Scott, lanky, 57-year In the course of a one-hour interview Scott did not once di- rectly answer any of the ques- tiens put to him on the struc- ture, size, financial sources and purposes of Technocracy, but in- dulged in evasive generalizations. While his three full-time lieu- tenants, travelling with him on the Pacific coast tour bustled in and out of the suite, obeying his requests with a “Yes, Chief,” and “Right away, Chief,’ Scott held forth on the evils of the ‘price system’, voting in elections, Fran- co Spain, the Soviet Union, Juan Peron, Henry Wallace, and the Taft-Hartley Bill. Technocracy, he claimed, “is the only group that proposes an alternative to the ‘price system.” “We are merely an educational body,” he said. People in the mass some foice moves them. Technocracy ‘will pass out of existence with the end of the price system.” The Soviet Union he dismissed “as another country operating under the price system, with the power in the hands of the state.” Scott denied that Technocracy was subsidized by wealthy con- tributors, asserting that the org- anization’s six dollar annual mem- bership dues was its only source of finances, and he refused to divulge membership figures on the ground that it would be “ag breach of policy.” But parked outside the Van- couver Hotel was a huge radio and communications van, a truck bearing powerful search- light equipment, and scores of automobiles bearing loudspeak- ers, all painted a light gray and bearing special serial numbers, as though they were part of a military contingent. 2 This imposing ‘motorcade’ with all of its neo-fascist trappings, was itself a challenge to Scott's claim that Technocracy had only motorcade’ old director-in-chief of Tech- nocracy Incorporated, sipped a cocktail and presented news- papermen with his organization’s formula for curing the eco- nomic ills of the North American continent. an educational purpose, divorced — from all ideas of seizing political power. If the cars were the prop erty of the individual drivers, how could these people afford to travel thousands of miles up thé Pacific Coast on a worker's wage? Wasn’t that huge radio communi cations van, carrying the most up-to-date equipment for short wave broadcasts, and the massive searchlight somewhat expensive to be owned by a group financed solely on the nominal dues pay-. ments of its membership? A CoD- — servative estimate of its: vost — would be $50,000. Although claiming ed to the Truman “impractical”, Scott proposed 3 — scheme very similar to the pres ent policy of the Truman admin- — istration in building a North Ath — erican bloc. Scott proposed 2% — economic federation of the coun- — tries on the North American con- tinent. He stated that “the Unit-— ed States is the world’s strongest. nation from the standpoint of technological development,” but said that the USSR “has the — largest concentration of natural resources of any world power. — He thought that the only way the U.S. could surpass the Soviet Union in natural resources would be to promote this ‘federation’ Despite Scott’s verbal . exhibi- tion, the newspapermen were — far from impressed. In. 2: one-hour interview, he had taken us only in circles. As W®: walked down the carpeted halls — of the Vancouver Hotel, after. leaving Scott’s luxurious suit®_ one of the reporters remarked: “There’s something phony about Pea. this whole setup.” On ? score we all agreed. to be oppos doctrine isis Style Value connection and garbage collection services from the City of North Vancouver, but the city authorities, for reasons best known to themselves, have always been coldly indifferent to- Court frees tenth man Oualienl wards sanitation improvements for the Indian village.” x for notices appearing in ‘this column. No notices will be It’s a help to the brain. Extra is pushing out the hair with knowledge. You look better— need less brain.. Urko Antonuk, 1} Dance, Clinton Hall— 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is available for ~ rent, HAstings 3277. i WHAT’S DOING Dance— Open Air Dance. Every Satur- day night, 9 to 12, at Swedish Park (North. end of Second Narrows Bridge). Grand Picnic— Swedish Park, Sunday, July 6. - Program, games, sports, under the auspices of the Canada-Fin- land Aid Committee, Vancouver Branch. Transportation from . Cassiar and Hastings, 11.15 a.m. Basket. Picnic— Sunday, July 13, Brighton Pool (Windermer and McGill Speakers on People’s Coalition at 3:30 p.m. Auspices Hastings ‘East Neighborhood Council. - Free ice cream for Children. In- formation, phone FAir. 3847R. of ‘espionage’ TORONTO—Harold originally charged in the Appeal. He munitions and supply, and on October 11, 1946, sentenced to five years imprison- ment for allegedly participating in a spy ring, under the cover name ‘Gray.’ Previously Gerson refused to testify at the trial of Fred Rose, former M.P. now serving six years in prison on similar charges arising from the governments ‘espionage’ ‘investigation. For re- fusing to testify, he.was charged with contempt of court and sent- ence& to three months in jail in Montreal. aoe The court which heard the Ger- son appeal consisted of Chief Justice R. S. Roberston and Jus- tices R. E. Laidlaw and J. B. Aylesworth. All agreed in the judgment. j Here is the disposition of the 18 persons originally charged as aeresult of the spy ring investi- gations. — EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 charges S. Gerson, one of the 18 persons much been acquitted of charges publicized ‘espionage’ trials by the Ontario Court of is the tenth of those placed on trial to be so freed. Gerson, a former employee of the department of was named by the royal commission was Ten acquitted: Harold S. Ger-| son, Henry Harris, Eric Adams, Agatha Chapman, Fred Poland, Israel Halperin, Dr. David Shu- gar, M, S. Nightingale, Scott Ben- ning and William Pappin. Seven convicted and sentenced to prison terms: Fred Rose, Ed- ward Mazerall, Gordon Lunan, Emma Woikin, Kathleen Willsher, Durnford Smith. Always at the Home. of UNION MADE CLOTHING — and Friendly Service | Established For~ Over 40 Years vd PIC Sunday, July 6 Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Grand Annual Provincial SPORTS — CONCERT — GAMES Meals Will Be Served On Grounds CONFEDERATION PARK (NORTH BURNABY) | NIC 1 pet: