~~ Toronto council expels on ‘guilt by association’ By MEL COLBY TORONTO Police-state rule in Toronto Trades and Labor Council (AFL) advanced another stage last week when the witch- hunting executive expelled 12 more delegates on the grounds that they were munist sympathizers”. This made a total of 15 who have been expelled in two meet- ings with the executive making it plain the list would be added to from week to week in an at- tempt to eliminate all opposition to pro-war right-wing policy. The purge took place at a coun- cil meeting from which the press was barred. This was done, not in order to protect the names of the 12 delegates expelled, but because council president William Jenoves feared any public airing of an op- position viewpoint. At the first meeting of the coun- cil immediately following the con- vention Jenoves dictatorially re-' fused to permit debate or protest around the expulsion of the first BRITISH DILEMMA U.S. trade with Eastern Europe shows increase LONDON Just at the time when the U.S. gevernment has forced the British government to jeopardise its trade with the Soviet Union and the Peo- ples Democracies by violating its trade agreements, it is announced from Washington that the exports from the United’States to the So- viet Union and Eastern European countries rose sharply in July this year. There was a rise of 47 percent over the previous monthly average while the imports to the United States from these countries were 13 percent above the previous month- ly average. While the U.S. actually increases its trade with the Soviet Union and _ the People’s Democracies, Britain’s trade is seriously threatened as the result of the unilateral decision of the British government to cut the export of capital goods to Poland. Warning the British people of the dangers of this policy, the Daily Worker recently pointed out that breaking off of trade relations with Poland could deprive the British people of more than 100 million dozens of eggs, 150 tons of bacon, (a supply sufficient for five months) and timber for 170,000 houses. New China can't spend $9 million in credit WASHINGTON New China shipped $12 million worth of goods to the U.S. in July while Chiang Kai-shek’s Formosa |. shipped only $100,000, according to U.S. foreign trade figures released by the government, The U.S., on the contrary, shipped $2,600,000 worth of supplies to Formosa and sold only $3 million worth to China. Formosa’s imports, largely arms, are paid for by mainly U.S. tax dol- lars appropriated by Congress. New China could not spend its $9 million July profit for needed U.S. machinery due to “cold war” re- strictions on exports to that coun- try imposed by the commerce de- partment, “suspected” of being “Communists” or “Com- three. This time he allowed a minimum of discussion, mostly in the form of questions, but quickly gagged delegates who really wanted to pursue the subject of democracy within the council. It was learned after the meet- ing was over that only one of six speakers supported the expulsions, the other five either opposing it outright or questioning it, asking particularly what appeal would be allowed, Jenoves ruled there could be no appeal before council. At least one non-Communist, Norman Kelly of the Bartenders’ Union, was among those expelled. The thought control executive found Kelly “guilty by association.” Kel- ly challenged the executive to pro- duce charges and evidence and wanted to know if previous criti- cism of right-wing policy on his part had anything to do with his expulsion. At the post-convention meeting where the first three delegates were expelled, Kelly challenged th undemocratic procedure’ as “insane”, Kelly headed the list of those expelled at the second meeting. The minimum of floor opinion Jenoves allowed was continually in- terrupted by gavel pounding and by rulings which squelched discus- sion when the subject became too embarrassing to the executive. Jenoves even threatened physical action against one of the 12 expelled when Robert Hunt (Hotel and Res- taurant Employees Union) deman- ded a right to speak from the floor. Hunt, an elderly man and a First World War man held his ground, challenged the lack of democracy within the council and refused to be intimidated by burly floor guards. ,He took his seat only after voicing his opinion in no uncertain terms. “This is still a free country even if you don’t know it,” was Hunt’s final challenge. to Jenoves before taking his seat. The executive’s action in expel- ling 12 more delegates, and in threatening that.more expulsions were to:come, makes it clear that the top brass intends to try and stifle all opposition. Expulsion based on “guilt by association” en- dangers the rights of every dele- gate because it means that those who stand up and speak against undemocratic procedure can be ac- eused of being “Communists” or “Communist sympathizers,” be placed ‘on the purge list and un- seated at the whim of the execu- tive. Every remark made by Jenoves in connection with the expulsions points to the fact that the execu- tive is using the expulsions as an intimidatory measure against all council delegates. ~ The fight, however, has only be- gun, both in the trades council and in the local unions. ! : One local, the Consumers’ Gas Company Local of the Interna- tional Chemical Workers Union, has already repudiated the coun- cil’s action in expelling Reginald Wright, a founder the the Gas local and its president. Full con- fidence was voted in Wright by a three to one vote and the so- called “Communist” charges thrown out by the membership. The council executive will un- doubtedly receive more rebuffs as the issue of expelled delégates comes before local union member- ship meetings, That’s where the fight on policy will really take place, from down below on the floor of union membership meetings; that’s where the fight can be won and the dictatorial policy of trades councils and the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada reversed. ‘Will you sign for peace?’ Dr. James Endicott, chairman, and Miss Mary Jennison, secretary of the Canadian Peace Congress, are shown collecting signatures to the world peace petition on a Toronto street. Endicott's peace appeal- ‘Stop this butchery now’ By MARK FRANK TORONTO '“The time has come to stop this monstrous butchery in the colonial world,” de- clared Dr. James G. Endicott, Canadian Peace Congress chairman, to an International Peace Day rally which directed public attention to the World ‘Peace Congress’ new pro- posals to stop the race to war and reiterated the demand for recognition of the People’s Republic of China. To an audience of 2,000 gathered in Toronto’s Massey Hall on Octo- ber 1, he spoke with intense passion of “the huge and steady torrent of western high explosives, jellied gas- oline, rocket bombs and machine- gun bullets being poured on the heads of the Asiatic peoples and their villages, all the way from Si- berian border to Malaya.” World revulsion and in parti- cular-a rising wave of hatred of the people of Asia for this “whole- sale butchery” is fast developing, said Dr. Endicott. To meet the present horror of destruction the Stockholm Appeal against the A-bomb “the greatest single appeal in history for world peace” will have rallied the con- science and imagination of nearly 500 million people, or half the adults of the whole. world by the time the Second World Peace Congress meets next ‘month in Britain, the _speaker' said, i “T sincerely believe it stopped ihe use of the A-bomb in the colonial wars now raging,’ he added. Although it has proven the great- est single instrument for peace in the political field, “a new chal- lenge” had arisen since the last Canadian Peace Congress, held in May. “Since then huge new arma- ment programs have been launched in the western world” and the in- ternational situation had worsened considerably, That is why a new appeal by the Prague meeting of the World Peace Congress was made necessary to stop the race to death. The meeting paid tribute to the first anniversary of the People’s, Republic of China, approving two resolutions, one to External Af- fairs Minister Pearson calling on him “to take immediate steps to recognize the People’s Republic of | China, to vote to seat this gov- ernment in the Security Council and to establish normal trade at once for the benefit of both coun- tries.” The second motion to UN Sec- retary General Trygve Lie called On him “to seat at once the proper de facto government of China so that the present dangerous situa- tion in the Far East may be medi- ated without any deplorable en- larging of the conflict.” Dr. Endicott believed it was “a disgrace” to Canada’s own inde-) pendence that she did not imme- diately recognize the People’s Re- pubile . In a review of one year’s achieve- ments of the new China, he said: “Floods have been controlled, fa- mine abolished, railways restored and financial order restored after ten years of chaos. Just imagine, when: Chiang Kai-shek departed | for Formosa with all the gold and securities his whole gang could possibly steal, the’ inflation had reached 80,000,000 times pre-war. In one short year the government has unified the currency, reduced the and will further greatly reduce that figure in the coming year. “It has fully demonstrated the claims that it is honest, efficient and working for the welfare of the people. It has a full right to take part in the councils of the nations: and to have its full share in decid- ing what is for the agohniy of both China and Asia.” He believed that China’ should play “a major role” in the affairs: of Asia, on the basis of its great record of achievement for its peo- ple. “So long as China is absent from, the UN, all decisions of the Secur- ity Council for the General Assem- bly are null and void insofar as the People’s Republic of China is concerned,” declared Dr. Endicott. China could not consider herself bound to these decisions so long as she was excluded from the council of nations, inflation from 80,000,000 to 31,000 Mine-Mill beats Steel raiders in vote at Inco PORT COLBORNE The raiding Steelworkers’ leader- ship received another stinging re-" buff here when the membership of the Inco refinery local of the Inter- national Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers voted down attempts of the raiders to “take over” the un- ion, The vote, conducted by Ontario Labor Relations Board, saw more than 90 percent of the membership cast ballots and the Steel raiders defeated by a majority of 157.* Repudiation of the Steel leader- ship by Mine-Mill members clim- axed a raid of two years duration during which two votes have been conducted, both being won by Mine Mill. The most recent vote result- ed from a raid starting some months ago during which Steel un- ion director C. H. Millard has pour- down the drain in the vain effort to’ smash the Port Colborne refin- fery local, Millard, at a time when the Steel union was signing a wage cut con- tract at Stelco, and when negotia- tions were underway at all basic steel plants, turned the attention of more than a score of organizers to the already pcehetons Mine-Mill locales: Estimates are that the Steel leadership has wasted more than a quarter of million dollar dues in the effort to smash Mine-Mill locals at Port Colborne and Trail. _ Among the Steel rank-and-file there is growing dissatisfaction over the huge waste of funds and energy, growing demands that raid- ing cease, that the unorganized be organized and that a real. effort be made to get wages raised immedi- ed tens of thousands of dollars PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 18, 1950 — PAGE 2 ately in the steel industry.