Mac-Pap | appeals from jail TORONTO Veterans of the Mackenzie-Papi- neau Battalion are being urged to write to Irving Weissman, an Am- erican worker who served with Canada’s famous battalion in the}. Spanish War. Weissman is one of the Pittsburgh victims of a Smith Act frameup. He is now in the Allegheny County Jail, Ross Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His request for letters came to the Canadian Tribune in a letter from prison last week. It is a mov- ing document and says: “The August 31 Tribune came to us in jail and I read your story of our Pittsburgh Smith Act frame- up. I could not refrain from writ- ing you, especially as I served al- most all the time I was in Spain with Canada’s Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion and had many Canadian friends from whom I would like to hear. “Five of ‘us are in this jail, Steve Nelson, Ben Careathers, Bill Al- bertson, Jim Dolsen and myself. We have filed notice of appeal and are fighting to get our bail reduced. “We had the highest bail under the Smith Act — $20,000 on each of us. Now the federal judge has doubled it — $40,000. In Steve Nelson’s case bail is set at $60,000. “Nelson and Dolsen face excep- tional situations. Nelson is 50. He has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. This is a death sentence. Unless reversed by an aroused people it may stand. Dolsen is 68. His sentence too can be 20 years. “In his statement before sen- tencing us the judge declared that we had shown no repent- ance, that we had said we would continue to devote our lives to the people’s cause and that we were agitators of extreme intel- ligence. You see: intelligence has to be imprisoned! “J would like my old Canadian friends to write me.” Canadians get low wage on U.S. job GLACE BAY, N.S. Wages of 85 and 90 cents an hour are to be paid 100 workers being recruited in Cape Breton for work on a U.S. war project in Labrador. The men will be per- mitted to work overtime in order to earn a living wage. Hiring of men began at the time when Dosco, after shutting down its IB mine in Cape Breton and throwing 1,200 miners out of work, announced that it was tak- ing some 20 men back. Excuse for the shutdown was the ‘‘need for mechanization,” which unionists claim was a cover- up for inefficient management of the mine. “Everything in Flowers" FROM .. EARL SYKES 656 E. Hastings St. PA. $855 Vancouver, B.C, & — Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Discount to hk all Tribune Read- rw ers. Bring this ad “= with you 752 Granville St. a MRS. FEL DORLAND Canadians on visit to USSR MONTREAL A delegation of seven, repre- senting the Canadian - Soviet Friendship Society, left from Dor- val airport on Friday. last: week for a three-week visit to the Soviet Union. They will be guests of the USSR Society for Cultural Rela- tions with Foreign Countries. Members of the delegation are: Mrs. F. Dorland, Vancouver; Mrs. E. Ashworth, ‘Edmonton; Mrs. R. McCutcheon, Monfreal; Mrs. M. Spaulding, Toronto; Leo Clavir, Toronto; Major R. Lafond, L’An- nonciation, Quebec; P. Pauk, To- ronto. : They will join Dyson Carter, president of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society, and Mrs. Car- ter who have been touring the USSR for six weeks. On their re- turn home the delegation will re- port to Canadian audiences and organizations on the impressions they gathered in the USSR. Labor mourns Bert Pines The progressive labor move- ment of British Columbia lost an- other veteran worker this week in the death of Bert Pines at Shaugh- nessy Military Hospital on Sep- tember 9. He had been in ill health for some considerable time. Emigrating to Canada at the turn of the century, Bert Pines worked in logging camps, mines and on the fishing grounds. He was a veteran of the First World War, serving with the Canadian Expeditionary forces in France throughout the entire war. For the past 18 years Bert Pines had taken an active interest in the labor press and he was an ar- dent supporter of the Pacific Tribune. In the labor press fin- ancial and circulation campaigns he always ranked as an outstand- ing press builder, and periodical- ly, when his health permitted, served as a salesman. Bert Pines was a foundation member of the Labor-Progressive party and an active worker in its Grandview. club. Funeral ‘services will be con- ducted at Roselawn Funeral Chapel, 1096 East Broadway (Broadway and Commercial) this Friday, September 11, at 11 a.m. ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. UNION HOUSE labor is a partisan movement and therefore negates the uniting of all sections of the labor movement in the political field; “And, whereas results indicate the abject failure of this policy; “Therefore be it resolved that in order to unite and broaden the scope of action of political action of the Canadian labor movement, this convention adopts a policy of non-partisan, independent political action.” This vital resolution clearly in- dicates that there is a lot of soul- searching and discussion at the grass roots of the labor movement over the results of the recent fed- eral elections. The Ford resolu- tion indicates that a new grass roots groundswell is rising, reject- ing the bankrupt policies of the right-wing CCF and demanding united labor political action. This is a heartening develop- ment. It is to be hoped that the CCL convention will endorse the Ford resolution. This is the way along which 1,300,000 Canadian workers now organized in the trade unions could bring their powerful weight to bear in the fight for new national policies, to defend and improve living stand- ards, to restore Canadian indepen- dence, to buttress peace and de- mocracy. Labor political action, pointed to in the Ford resolution, can greatly enhance the leading role of labor in the gathering fight to Put Canada First. This demand for independent labor political action is not new. The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada first advocated this poli- cy at its 1920 convention. The Communist party of Canada pro- posed it as a policy of labor at its inaugural 1922 convention. For over 30 years the Commun- ist movement has © consistently worked for policies that would unit all sections of the Canadian labor movement for political ac- tion. Ten years ago the CCL conven- tion endorsed the CCF as ‘“‘the poli- tical arm of labor.” Ten years is a long time, enough to test a poli- cy. S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 PENDER AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA. 9481 PACIFIC ROOFING Company Limited CE 2733 | 2509 West Broadway : N. Bitz B. Kostyk SESS ORD BNENE Independent political action urged on CCL by Auto local, CCF tie ‘abject failure’ By WILLIAM KASHTAN A political bombshell in the form of a resolution on labor political action has been sent by UAW Local 200 to the 13th annual convention of the Canadian Congress of Labor which opens 000 Montreal this coming Monday, September 14. ‘The United Auto Workers union local, representing + 10) ‘Ford workers, forwarded the following resolution: arm of “Whereas the political action program of the CCL endorsing the CCF as the political am in The Gallup Poll on the 1953 federal elections estimates the CCF got 17 percent of the labor vote, less than the Tory labor vote, far less than the Liberal labor vote. The elections showed that the CCF is not the “political arm of labor.” Why is this? , Labor needs a true political alternative to the Liberal and Tory parties of big business. But the CCF, under the Coldwell- Millard leadership, has become more and more a shadow of the Liberal party. Inside and outside of parliament the CCF right wing has supported the St. Laurent and Drew policies which have economically, political- ly and militarily subordinated Can- ada to U.S. imperialism. _ The record is there: NATO, Ger- man rearmament, Korea war, Bill 93. The Ford workers and thous- ands more are drawing conclu- sions. The fact that this resolution comes from the Ford-UAW local is very important. The Ford local has pioneered successfully on many big issues. The UAW leadership, in past years, has concentrated on active support of the CCF in the elections, But the Ford resolution challenges this whole policy. Behind . the Ford resolution | stands the question: How can the interests of Can- ada’s working class and its allies, the farmer and urban middle class, be advanced today? ing Rather than being a um or force the CCF has been @ pa for. division, for narrowing a the scope of independent Ja” political action. The rightWT CCF has made the broadest tyPé independent political actio?” possible. What is the solution? First adoption of clear-cut. policies fight for labor unity and the national and social interests % Ganadian people. With ee broadest policy of the CCL ing its part in the fight for inclusive, united labor. around a program that wou all sections of labor and ¢0 elections at all levels—federal, vincial and municipal. _ This would mark a bis at for labor. That’s where the erul resolution points. This would ne make labor a mighty force ratio tional affairs. The Ford res? arts indicates that labor at © © oy roots is pondering this big Find tion and that the time is bs ae for such a course of politi¢ tion and advance. i) be This Ford resolution trade given careful thought by a unionists who understand nomic there can be no lasting &C ies improvement unless it . ed by independent labo action which curbs mo strengthens the working the nation’s political life- CLASSIFIED _ A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Tuesday noon of the week of publication. NOTICES POSTAGE STAMPS wanted. Don- ate your used postage stamps, any country, including Canada, particularly values above 5c and perforated OHMS. Stamps should not be torn or mutilated and are best left on paper, with perfor- ations not cut into in trimming. Resale proceeds go to Pacific Tribune sustaining fund. 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