Yellowknife .. . “almost a ghost town.” - Monopolies strangle _ development of north YELLOWKENIFE, NWT Strong protests against high ‘transportation and consequent high living costs in this and other north- €™ mining centres are being voic- €d here. The charge is made that Renopoly interests are strangling ee ement of the Mackenzie Dis- Ct, “It is about time the citizens of Yellowknife and the North got together to combat this unfair dis- _ “inination which is retarding the €velopment of the North,” states 4 letter written to the News of the Orth, Yellowknife weekly. The letter continues: , aL have been a resident of Yel- Owknife off and on for the past years and have just returned _ 4tter being outside for five months, ing OE | ZENITH CAFE “105 E. Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. | UNION HOUSE and it appears that Yellowknife is almost a ghost town. “T do not agree with some of the expressed opinions that the de- pressed conditions in the gold mar- ket are altogether responsible, as there are many other minerals in this vast area. “If costs were comparable to other parts of Canada we would still have prospecting and bush work going on in the field. After all, this is what makes. a mining camp. “Now we have another vicious monopoly, Imperial Oil, boosting the price of fuel oil for the peo- ple of Yellowknife. “We hear of the oil they are finding in Western Canada (the heritage of the people), but it does not appear as if the ordin- ary citizen gets a great deal of benefit, only to pay higher prices and throw thousands of men out of work in the coal mines. “This is supposed to be a free country. Let’s try to keep it so in spite of the greed of some big business monopolies.” es Gates Open 11 a.m. a GALA MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL by Scandinavian Central Committee - SWEDISH PARK | JUNE 27 — Good program ineludes Sture Kallman’s d EVERYBODY WELCOME ae Program 1:30 p.m. aring slack wire act! ip itt Wanna, RYALL AUUC PROVINCIAL — PICNIC SUNDAY JUNE 20, Ip:m. at the - Ewen Avenue, Queensborough, New Westminster ImIEUE PARK poeceaue @ SPORTS @ REFRESHMENTS | @ GAMES e ENTERTAINMENT ; e@e GOOD EATS @ Buses will leave AUUC Hall, 805 E. Pender, 12:30 p.m. In case of rain, Picnic will be held at AUUC Hall, 805 E. Pender = = BURUBUEURIIBUEL: i tiny MAW N a manenaueinnetielauMile Bill 7 passes Senate, goes back to House ‘ OTTAWA With only minor changes made by the Senate Banking and Commerce commit- tee, Bill 7 has passed third reading in the Senate and now goes back to the House of Commons. Code—some at the request of the US. It was announced this week that the new Code will be proclaimed on January 1, 1955. It is. estimated it will take several months to get the new Code processed through all the legal technicalities involv- ed. ' The Senators altered oniy three clauses; leaving the anti-labor and thought-control sections as they were forced through the House of Commons. Only those sections changed by the Senate may now be de- bated again in the House. They are the Riot Act clause, in which some minor improvement was made; the restoration of the habeas corpus section to its pre- sent form, permitting appeal to any judge; and the clause gov- erning contempt cases. A major debate in the House may take place around the Riot Act section. Stanley Knowles ((CCF-Winnipeg North). has listed a number of questions seeking information as to the use of the Riot Act since the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Knowles led the opposition to the anti-labor sections and fore- ed some concessions from the gov- ernment. Senator Salter Hayden, chairman of the Senate committee, said on third reading: pei! “Although this bill may be pass- ed and become law, I am not too hopeful that no further amend- ments to the Code will be requir- ed from year to year. We may think that certain sections are per- fect, but in actual practice... defects or weaknesses in drafting are often revealed.” A brief presented to the Senate committee by the Mine-Mill union summed up labor’s case against the bill. 3 It declared that “the law should be particularly careful to maintain as fair a balance as possible be- tween employers and employees so as to allow them to settle their problems by discussion and mutual concessions on the basis of equal bargaining power.” « | This right is already severely restricted, the brief points out, and “would become even more restricted, to the point almost of extinction, under the present bill.” > It submitted that sections 52, 365 and 372 “the saving clauses notwithstanding, are restrictive and repressive of labor’s rights.” It warned also “that Canada is not immune to what is taking place in other countries. We are all too familiar with McCarthyism and the repression of free speech and’ thought... .” It was not unreason- able to think “that the very dis- cussion of Bill 7 with its clauses relating to treason, Sedition, sabo- tage, mischief, criminal breach of contract and so on... would tend to produce or aggravate such an atmosphere.” : In urging the Senate Committee to amend the bill, the Mine-Mill declared: “1+ may be useful to recall. the last period of economic depres- sion through which we passed, _namely the Hungry Thirties. During those years, until 1935, Section 98 was on the statute books.” This section had helped nothing and popular resentment had forced its withdrawal. It received third reading on June 10. Thus the government has finally succeeded in over-riding the wide opposition espeiially from labor, to the sweeping re . a > Campaign pressive laws to be included in the new Criminal to amend Code will continue | TORONTO The battle against Bill 7 revis- ing the Criminal Code is far from over, Thomas C. Roberts, national secretary of the League for Demo- cratic Rights, stated here this week. “The battle will go on to amend LABOR BRIEFS “Although certain sections of the trade-union movement were originally fooled by their mis- leaders into supporting the six-day shopping week, there has been a growing realization that the elim- ination of the five-day shopping week would be a backward step,” says the current issue of Union Newsbulletin, published by Van- couver Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers. The union urges its members to vote “Yes” on the $2,000,000 sewer bylaw and “No” on the six- day shopping week, sale of air- port and sale of Larwill park. * * * “You might warn any unemploy- ed workers who are rustling. for jobs not to head north to United Keno Hill mine at Mayo, Yukon Territory,” a miner from that area said this week. “Tf they do go, they’d better take along a pup tent and a few snares to catch rabbits,” he continued. “The mine won’t give job rustlers a- scrap of food, and believe me, it’s a tough country to be broke in. If you spend your last few bucks get- ting there, there just isn’t any way to get out. What’s more, jobs are mighty scarce.” ; * x * Four pickets, members of the Citizens Gas Protest Committee, walked up and down in front of the Hamilton Apartments, Victoria Drive and Powell, on Monday this week, protesting a city council threat of a gas shutoff unless the owner installs gas safety devices in the building. Seems that the-owner had asked authorities for a guarantee that the safety devices would really work, |- but couldn't get anyone to give any single device an official okay. (Three cases on record show that. safety devices failed to work). The picket signs read: “City Council threatens gas _ shutoff”; “Pensioners and workers penaliz- ed”; “Safety devices unsafe”; and “Lives. before profits.” x * x Forty-five charges for alleged failure to dish out holiday pay have been lodged against West- Min Woodcraft Co. Ltd. 1286 Kingsway, a subsidiary of Indus- trial Radio-electric Enterprise Ltd. x x x It appears 'that all those stories about policemen’s big feet are true. Many Vancouver cops have been unable to squeeze their tootsies into the new spring shoe issue and ‘the supplier is having to place a special order for large sizes, PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 18, 1954 — PAGE 7 the sections to which the labor movement took such strong: ob- jection and which endanger labor’s right to strike and picket and puts criticism of government policy un- der the heading of sedition,” Rob- erts said. bom “At the same time. we will step up our national. campaign for a Declaration of Rights, now needed more than ever to. protect the hard-won civil rights of Canadians.” Doctors back fluoridation “Unreserved” endorsation of fluoridation was given this week by the Canadian Medical Asseeia- tion, meeting in convention at Hotel Vancouver. Experiments over an extended period have demonstrated beyond all-doubt that fluoridation of com- munity. water supplies reduces tooth decay. and has no harmf effects on body tissue. ‘y (Vancouver City Council has de- bated the fluoridation issue at length, but has failed to follow the lead of a growing number’ of cities and towns in Canada and the United States which have adopted fluoridation with beneficial effects.) ee i mie CCW states stand . Provincial council of the Con- gress of Canadian Women at its June meeting studied arguments for and against the six-day shop- ping week and. unanimously decid- — ed to support a continuation of Wednesday. closing. ‘HUB HUMOR ‘ é J “Didn't you see that stop sign back there?” if you’re looking for quality made Men’s and Young Men’s Clothes see us. We sell ‘em with FREE CREDIT and you save as much as 10%. 45 EAST HASTINGS