First time on picket line

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The majority of the 140 striking employees o
Resistance at Toronto are women and most of them are on the
picket line for the first time in their lives.

Members of the

Unnited Electrical Workers, they struck because the company

rejected a conciliation board wage award.

Island cavalcade wins
support for public gas

A. motor cavalcade organized by the Labor-Progressive
castle constituency last Saturday, demanding construction of

from the Peace River to Vancouver Island. Ba
policy of handing over B.C. natural resources t
for development of B.C. industries to

Speaker at cavalcade stops was
Mrs. Myrtle Bergren, LPP provin-
cial candidate for Cowichan-New-
castle. The cavalcade visited Lake
Cowichan, Duncan, Chemainus and
Ladysmith.

Strong support was ‘given the
‘participants, who petitioned on
the streets in each locality for sig-
natures to a petition urging the
government to utilize provincial
gas and hydro power for the peo-
ple’s benefit.

Busy weekend shoppers enthusi-
astically signed their names to the
petition. ‘Just give me a chance
to put my name down against this
Social Credit government’s policy
of handing over this province to
the United States!” was a common
reaction.

Many who signed spoke indig-
nantly against Forest Management
licenses, through which huge acre-

ages of our rich forests are given

Working behind Canadian front

Yanks grab Seaway contracts

TORONTO

Are giant U.S. construction corporations moving into Canada behind “Canadian front”
companies to grab up a billion dollars worth of Seaway and pipeline contracts? 3

Take the case of the first major contract let for the St. Lawrence Power Projeit coffer
dam) awarded to Mannix-Raymond of Montreal. An investigation of this company shows that
behind it is a network of three of the biggest U.S. firms — Morrison-Knudsen, Raymond Con-

crete Pipe Company and Bechtel of San Francisco.

The Canadian part of this com-
pany is Mannix Ltd., of Calgary,
linked with Mannix-Raymond of
Montreal.

Mannix-Raymond gave the first
order for steel for the Seaway cof-

fer dam to Westfalenhuette A.G.|

- of Germany — 12,000 tons of sheet
piling. The order was given through
a Canadian subsidiary of a New
York firm, Manufacturers Steel
Company. Stirling, vice-president
of Mannix, said the deal to buy
German steel was cleared with the
federal government.

Then on November 5 it was an-
nounced that the Germany com-
pany no longer had the contract.

In the meantime, however, Ot-

tawa had received a barrage of
‘protests against buying German
steel from Canadian labor leaders
and business men, protesting the
loss in Canadian jobs and business.
A new order was placed for the
steel. \ \
Algoma Steel Corporation of
Sault Ste Marie was tossed a 25
percent order, but U.S. Bethlehem
Steel got the three-quarters.
Investigation of Mannix re-
veals that a huge U.S. octopus
has already had its tentacles on
construction of the Trans-Can-
ada gas pipe line, the Trans-
Mountain pipeline, and is now

reaching out for the St. Lawrence

Alberta takes action
against crime comics

EDMONTON | tribution* to retailers.

Should a

Meeting in the second session of distributor release any that are
a conference called by the Alberta banned by the committee, the at-

attorney general’s department,
delegates of more than 40 organiza-
tions agreed to establish a prov-
ince-wide committee which will
“study and investigate all crime
and other objectionable comic
books and salacious magazines and
recommend effective action to pre-
vent their sale and distribution in
the province.”

The call for action against the
pernicious influence of crime com-
ics has brought together social and
welfare organizations, church
groups, librarians, cultural organ-
izations such as the Association
of United Ukrainian Canadians,
and other organizations, among
them the Labor-Progressive party.

The conference indicated that
when participating organizations
have submitted the names of re-
» commended persons, the supervis-
ory committee will start work
early in December.

A small working committee will
review comic books and magazines
before they are released for dis-

‘torney general’s department will

prosecute under the Criminal Code.
This assurance has been given to
the committee. :

The conference endorsed a reso-
lution passed by the Calgary Coun-
cil of Child and Family Welfare
asking the federal government to
ban all crime and other obnoxious
literature as well as plates that
may now be imported from the
U.S. for the purpose of printing
the books in Canada. The provin-
‘cial government will send the reso-
lution to Ottawa adding its own
endorsement.

Delegates appealed to the pro-
vincial government to improve the
content and facilities of children’s
libraries, as well as more facili-
ties for training qualified child-|
ren’s librarians. They appealed to
Canadian authors, poets and oth:
ers to take up the challenge and
produce works that would win
youth and children away from the
influence of imported. U.S. “cul-
ture.”

Seaway and power construction.

A search of the records shows
that in 1952 Mannix Ltd. acquired
two new directors. They are H. W.
Morrison and J. B. Bonney of
Boisse, Idaho. — :

H. W. Morrison is chairman and
president of the Morrison-Knudsen
Company, J. B. Bonny is its vice-
president and general manager.

Morrison-Knudsen is a construc-
tion giant which, through its sub-
sidiaries, has been doing a busi-
ness of about $300 million a year.

sidiaries in Canada, including H.
K. Ferguson Company which is do-
ing surveys for the Trans-Canada
gas pipeline. :

Other Canadian subsidiaries in-
clude Morrison-Knudsen of Can-
ada, Northern Construction Com-
pany and J. W. Stewart, Ltd., Van-
couver, Stuart-Cameron and Com-

pany, Vancouver, and B.C. Interna-
tional Engineering Company. .

Assault on salesman
brings $20 ‘damages

Eddy Yat Chu, street paper
salesman, was awarded $20
damages by Magistrate Gordon
Scott. in a theft case brought
against Mah Sing, 702 East Pender
Street, and heard in city court
Tuesday this week. —

Alex Macdonald, defense coun-
sel, was chided by the magistrate
for attempting to inject the politi-
cal content of the stolen papers
into the case, in an effort to justify
the assault. .

Magistrate Scott ordered Mah
Sing to pay $20 damages to Yat
Chu, and bound him in security of

$250 to keep the peace for one
year. howe

It has at least half a dozen sub-|:

provide jobs here,

nners on the cars
a the United States,

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.
party toured Cowichan-New-
a publicly-owned gas pipeline
protested the government’s
and sloganized the need

to U.S. monopoly interests for one
cent per acre per year.

The’ cavaleade marked the be-
ginning of a campaign to collect
thousands. of signatures in this
area for the LPP petition.

This Saturday, November 27,
when Nanaimo celebrates the
centennial of the Princess Royal
pioneers, another cavalcade will
_be held in that city.

* * x

A 10-car cavalcade toured Van-
couver last Saturday urging the
piping of Peace River gas to the
city under public ownership.

Maurice Rush, independent ald-
ermanic candidate in the December
8 civie elections, reported that par-
ticipants in the cavalcade secured
more than 2,000 signatures to a
petition demanding that the pro-
Vince’s natural gas and water re-

(sources are developed under Can-

adian control.

“Some 6,000 signatures have
been collected to date,” said Rush.

When. the legislature meets in
January the LPP hopes to present
100,000 signatures to the govern-
ment. :

SS

MAURICE RUSH

LABOR
BRIEFS

Western Bridge laid off a num-
ber of workers this week, and the
working force is now reduced to
about 100 men. Employees with

‘}as high as 13 years service with
‘the company have been thrown

onto the streets.

Burrard Dry Dock is expected
to lay off quite a few men soon.
Work thas been ‘stopped on two
navy crane lighters and one de-
stroyer escort.

* * *

One hundred Canadian . bush
workers recruited in Edmonton,
Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Fort Wil-
liam and points further east have
signed three-year contracts with a
New Zealand logging company and
will leave for that country this
winter. Their pay: $45 to $50 for
a 40-hour week.

fe * ~

A strike of 40 electrical work-
ers employed by the city may be
called any day now, following city
council’s rejection of the union’s
bid for a ninth statutory holiday
and a three percent wage hike
next year. The men, members of
International Brotherhood of Elee-
trical Workers, voted. earlier in
favor of strike action.

. x * *

Odeon and Famous Players
top brass got nasty, so the now
world-famous movie, Salt of the
Earth, produced by Mine-Mill,
will not be shown in Trail.

Cominco workers, however,
will be able to see the Picture
by driving to Castlegar, where
the film will play at the Castle
theatre December 15-16.

x * *

Strike of 500 workers at Cana-
dian Canners plants in Vancouver,
Penticton, Kelowna, Mission City
and Ashcroft is now in its fifth
week,

~ VANCOUVER

’ at Russian People’s Home

Dec. 1948 ANNIVERSARY Dec. 1954

Universal Declaration of
Human Rights

This Anniversary Will Be Marked By
TESTIMONIAL DINNER FOR HAROLD DEAN

Vancouver Lawyer
FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO CIVIL LIBERTIES

Sunday, December 5, at 6 p.m.
Tickets $1.50 each — For Reservations Phone
PA. 5831
oe 8
PUBLIC CONCERT

Featuring

LITTLE FOLK. SINGERS

8 :
Friday, December 10, at 8 p.m.
COLLECTION
Auspices: Vancouver Branch, League For Democratic Rights.

— 600 Campbell Avenue

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