Dollars -
can be
weapons foo!

“WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—(BUP)—The hydro-
gen super-bomb, capable of destroying whole cities in)
a flash with blast and fire, has now joined America’s
arsenal of atomic weapons.” (News item, Vancouver
Sun.) : :

* * *

“According to United Nations’ statistics, world
industrial output is falling. The trend is so general
throughout the free world that economic observers
are beginning to wonder whether the long-awaited
post-war recession has not already begun.

“The decline in world production, excluding the
Soviet Union, was almost three percent during the +
first six months of this year. This has occurred at
a time when most countries are engaged on rearma-
ment. . . .” (Editorial, .News-Herald, Nov. 18.)

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Tuts is the road along which monopoly capital
would drag the Canadian people. It is the road
of mass destruction of mankind as devised by
the madmen of Wall Street. The road of economic
disaster and terrible depression. The road of
poisoned minds and cultural debasement spewed,
forth by Hollywood and monopoly publishing
houses and radio. The Canadian people, in com-
pany with progressive mankind the world over,
will not take this road of their own accord. The
people are searching for an alternative road.
The Labor-Progressive Party says: “National
security can be maintained only by negotiated
peace and step-by-step and controlled disarma-
ment. The Labor-Progressive Party calls on all
Canadians to fight for the national security of
Canada, to keep our country free, strong and in-
dependent, subject to no foreign power, and liv-
ing in friendly and equal association with all
éountries who respect our national sovereignty.”
'—(From the LPP draft national program, Can-
adian Independence and People’s Democracy)
That is the road to peace, friendship with all
peoples, trade and economic security, happiness
and wellbeing of Canadians. It is the road that
the people want to travel. The Labor-Progressive
Party has set itself the task of winning the Can-

You can help by distributing the LPP program
to your neighbors and workmates. You can help
by explaining the program to your friends. You
can help by working for the election of LPP
candidates in the coming federal elections. —

You can help to raise the $10,000 Thirty
Years Anniversary Fund so urgently needed to
bring the LPP program before the people.

A supporter in Vancouver has collected over

$200 since the Drive began. Another supporter
in Langley, who read our appeal for funds went
out and collected $55 from his neighbors in a
couple of evenings.

Will you follow the examples of these two
supporters ?

The Anniversary Fund now stands
at $2,721.06

This means that $7,278.96
~ must be raised to reach the
$10,000 objective

THIS ADVERTISEMENT INSERTED BY

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ROOM 503, FORD BUILDING, VANCOUVER, Bic.

B.C.-YUKON COMMITTEE, LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY

cucumbers, squash, apricots and
peaches were allowed to rot on the
ground to be fed to pigs and to be

ing board?”

Stating that over four tons of
squash lies rotting on the ground
on his own farm in Osoyoos, Klein
pledged he would open up the fight
against U.S. “dumping” when he
gets to the legislature.

‘Why don’t Gunderson and Ken-
yon speak up on this vital issue?”
he asked. “They say it is a federal
matter. Well, just try to truck a
load of tomatoes or prunes to Van-
couver and you'll be stopped * at
Hope by the B.C. marketing board.
Try to go to the prairies and you'll
be stopped at ‘Creston.

“Why can’t the government
take the same steps at the U.S.’
border and politely but firmly tell
the Americans that so long as
British Columbia’s own agricul-
tural produce remains unsold
there are no U.S. substitutes go-
ing to be allowed in.

“What .we farmers and workers
need in the legislature is someone
who speaks our language, and un-
derstands our problems from ex-
perience, and who will speak up
boldly and forcibly for our welfare.
Unless there is a quick reversal of
policy the farmers of this rich and
beautiful valley are going to be
ruined.” :

Klein

sharply criticized Social

‘Credit BOHIS. policies. particularly

the dollar-a-day co-insurance charge.

“What the people of British
Columbia want and what I’m go-
ing to fight for in Victoria is an
end to co-insurance entirely. the
rollback of BCHIS rates to. their
former level, and efficient admin-
‘istration with provision of the
services people are paying for but
often can’t get when they need it.

“We can have these things, and
protection against doctors’ bills as
well, through the development of
an all-inclusive health insurance
plan which should be paid for, in
part at least, by increasing the
present Forest Management License
rental which is less than one and
a half cents per acre per year and
by taxing those big profit-makers
who are using up the rich natural!
resources of our province.”

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Wage boost
at Britannia

BRITANNIA MINES, B.C.

An increase of four percent in
wage rates across the board, with
other features of the present agree-
ment ‘remaining unchanged, has
been won in an agreement between
Local 668, Mine-Mill and the Brit-
annia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd.
(Howe Sound Company).

The proposals are now before
B.M.&S. directors in New York, the
local management having ~accepted
them. :

The agreement is regarded as a
distinct victory for the copper min-
ers, since management had demand-
ed wage cuts and many unfavorable
revisions of the existing contract.

Negotiations at Copper Mountain,
with the Granby Consolidated
(Phelps-Dodge) are expected: to be
resumed this coming week.

dumped by the government market- |.

Klein demands gov t action
to halt dumping of American
fruits, vegetables in B.C.

KEREMEOS, B.C.

Joseph Klein, Farmer-Labor candidate in Similkameen riding in the November 24 byelection,
this week lashed out at the government’s failure to take action to protect B.C. fruit and vegetable
farmers and halt the dumping of U.S. goods on the Canadian market.

“T was shocked to learn that for the first six months of this year the government permitted
the importation of more than $56 million worth of fruit and vegetables from the United States,”
Klein told farmers at a meeting in the Legion Hall here.
is to be accounted for by bananas, oranges and lemons. Is it any wonder than tons of prunes, tomatoes,

“Only a small proportion of this amount

Continued
Kemano

“Then on April 7 or 8 this year
an Italian immigrant named Pas-
samai was killed, also at Horetzy
Creek. He was an inexperienced
miner, new on the job, and the
motorman whose muck car hit him
and ran over him in the tunnel
was inexperienced, too. So was
the ‘cherry picker operator’ whose

operations contributed to the -acci-

dent.

“An inquest jury, made up of
three miners and three other work-
ers, brought in a verdict of ‘gross
negligence’ against the company
and ‘carelessness on the part of the
motorman.’ Yet the victim’s bro-
ther got billed for part of the fun-
eral expenses—and after the ver-
dict was brought in R. E. Davis,
the general tunnel superintendent,
threatened to fire one of the miners
on the jury.

“This summer an injured Germ-
an immigrant was being taken out
in the ‘basket’ (a kind of stretcher)
and somehow fell out. He landed
on his head, suffered concussion of
the brain, and died. Why wasn’t
he strapped in the stretcher?

“Many accidents are directly
caused by the company’s lack of
concern over safe working condi-
tions. For instance, at one of the
twice-monthly safety meetings of
miners, arranged by the company,
the miners demanded that the ac-
cess tunnel, some 1,500 feet long,
be scaled from start to finish. Three
men spent two and one-half shifts
on the job, but Morrison-Knudsen
refused to provide a scaling mach-
ine. So the whole matter was then
forgotten.

“Early in January this year in

One esction of the tunnel a bad
piece of loose, weighing perhaps a
ton, fell and narrowly missed a man.
A miner told the shift boss: “Tf that
guy had been killed, I would have
charged you, the walking boss and
the tunnel superintendent — with!
criminal negligence.’
_“Morrison-Knudsen is a ruth-
ess Yankee outfit. On May 24,
1952, the miners’ uni tive
from Horetzy Creek proceeded to
Camp Five to complain about
safety in that tunnel. The men
did not want to continue working
under a Yankee walking boss
named ‘Whitey’ Martin, and sign-
ed a petition to that effect, What
happened? The whole shift of
30 men got fired. -

“In protest, the miners closed
down the tunnel. The Yankee pro-
Ject manager, A. 0, Strandberg,
had company police ‘arrest’ three
men who were immediately flown
out by plane. During this operation
the RCMP stood by.”

“How many Yankees are at Ke-
mano?” T asked.

“Too: many!” '

(Last May Morrison-Knudsen
claimed, in a letter to Howard
Green, MP, which was forwarded
to the Building Trades Council in
Vancouver, that only 116 U.S. citiz
zens were employed in a total labor
force of 6,100 at Kemano.)

Miners scoff at Morrison-Knud-
sen figures on the number of

|\Louis Riel

LPP honor

memory of

WINNIPEG

Leaders of the LPP and Na-
tional Federation of Labor Youth >

laid wreaths at the graveside of
Leuis Riel on Sunday, November _

16, the 67th anniversary of the

great Canadian patriot’s execu-

tion at Regina. The memorial
tribute took place in St. Boni-
face Cathedral grounds where the
body of Riel lies buried today.
William Kardash, MLA, re-
ferred to Riel as the founder of
Manitoba and Roland Penner, for
the NFLY, expressed the hope
that “this will mark the begin-
ning of an annual pilgrimage to
the man who dedicated his life,
and finally surrendered it, in the
cause of freedom and justice on
these plains.” 4
Among those attending the
memorial service were Ald. Jacob
Penner, LPP provincial chairman,
and M. J. Sago, LPP organizer.

Yankees employed. “They’re all
over the place, and all hold down
good jobs,” I was told. ;

Arrogance of the Yankee invad-
ers is another sore spot with Can-
adian workers. One quoted an Am-
erican area manager as Saying, con-
temptuously: “This is just another
foreign job to us. The only dif-
ference as far as we're concerned
is that you foreigners speak Eng-
lish.” .

Because of the high accident rate,
and the overbearing attitude of —
Yankee bosses, the Kemano pro-
ject has become known as “a 60-
day camp.” The labor turnover
is terrific; any worker who sticks

at. his job for more than three _

months automatically becomes a
“veteran.” Unless working and
safety conditions improve drastic- _
ally, Kemano will become a “three
shift outfit—one coming, one work-
ing and one going.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 21, 1952 — PAGE 7