City labor assails arming of vessels Strong condenination of Great Lakes steamship com- panies arming officers for violence against striking ‘seamen was voted unanimously by Vancouver Trades and, Labor Council this week following a report by James THompson, Canadian Seamen’s Union vice-president. The action was preciPitated by! Canada Steamship Lines’ announce- | ment its ships would get tear gas guns, shotguns and revolvers. the move meant “civil war,” but Justice Minister Ilsley, although seamen stand in imminent danger of murder, calmly announced that he government was studying the tter and that questions of Dom- jurisdiction were “Plenty of tear gas equipment is} being issued to the boats and the | t steam hoses are being doubled fore | ma and aft,’ the company’s operating | inion-provincial manager, Capt. N. J. Reoch, has: involved. cone angey Rea Cornwall, Ontario.| (apt, teamsters have decided to e making no, bones about this.| refuse to move the line’s cargoes Any Commie rats who come aboard ‘once the weapons are used.) our boats will get what they're; looking for ... captains and first} The council also endorsed a Trade Union Research Bureau mates will be armed with shotguns and revolvers in addition to tear gas weapons.” |prief opposing BCElectric fare in- | creases and heard a report that the 4 | legi iv itt ill study t Thompson told the council the | epatogmicag eas path pe Boer seamen will defeat the company) ..ceived.” move. | (The CSU executive in Toronto is considering spreading the strike, and Trades Congress Sec- retary J. W. Buckley has de- manded the government take ever and operate the companies through a controller. (Clarence Gillis (CCF, Cape Br ton South) declared in the House | Sam Shearer (Brotherhood of | Railway Carmen) announced his j union has rejected a 7-cent final | offer after months of negotiations | for 35 cents@and will announce re- | sult of a-strike vote June 23. “We }only got 16 cents during the war | including the cost of living bonus,” e-|he said, “and our wages now run ‘from: 72 cents to $1.05.” THE PENDER BOWLING ALLEYS FIVE AND 10 PINS Open Noon Till Midnight — Monday to Saturday Open and League Play Invited 889 West Pender Street == Deliver them to any of =the following addresses: 115 East 2nd Avenue 6 East 2nd Avenue 501 Industrial Avenue 1445 Powell Street 1040 Hamilton Street 755 Homer Street Cor. 11 Ave. & Vine St. , or TAtlow 2753 Phone flarea until JAMES THOMPSON coal. min of uttering a-de land of Yugoslav was ordered on p commission in Engla ial. Bail was renewe Justice Manson warned that as feeling is apt to run high on this trial he will not tolerate public comment while it is pending. Any infraction of this ruling, he declar- ed, would be viewed seriously and those guilty charged with contempt ia when the nd to be :| of court. At this point Stanton rose and brandished a copy of the Nanaimo Free Preys, dated June 3, and drew his worship’s attention to an edi- torial which Stanton claimed com- mented on the case in such a way as to influence public opinion, The Defend Nanaimo Labor Com- mittee, organized on- instructions of a mass meeting of 700 citizens to combat the red-baiting anti-labor drive sparked by Mayor George Muir, is in charge of the defence of Vitkovich and is setting up ma- chinery to raise defence funds and fight the big business campaign. Funds for the defence are needed at once and may be addressed to Archie Lewis, Union Hall, Nanai- mo, B.C. Fare hike opposed —VICTORIA, B.C. Victoria Labor Council has. gone on record as opposing fare boosts sought by the BCElectric in this: public hearings have at which all facts and figures relevant to fare structure are bared to the public, and until a plebiscite has been held. ence tet been held anson says he public comment in Nanai With Mr. Justice A. M. er, was adjourned till th famatory libel against lea of John Stanton, d at $1,000. MORGAN ON FLOOD ISSUES Must compel gov‘t action “The LPP welcomes the announcement of a special session of the legislature for July 7 to act on the flood crisis,” Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, stated this week. “But announcement of a special session and the very vague and totally inadequate pledges of federal and provincial assist- ance to date will not satisfy the need for decisive action to solve the fload victims’ problems,” he said. “Agreemeht between federal and provincial authorities to divide equally the costs of emergency relief measures and share on a 75-25 basis costs of pumping and dyke renewal is nothing but a mere beginning. Government responsibility doesn’t end with rehabilitation. “What about full compensation for the wrecked homes and buildings, lost stock and ruined crops? And what about the flooded areas outside the Fraser on which Ottawa’s offers do he hed and on which “Boss” Johnson remains conspicuously silent? “Twenty-four days have passed since the flood crisis struck and yet this Tory-Liberal government, whose supporters repre- sent every one of the 12 worst flooded ridings, obviously is still tring to weasel its way out of assumption of its responsibility and moral obligation. “A militant, united movement of labor farmer forces is needed today as never before to come to the aid of the flood victims and compel the government -to reimburse every legitimate flood loss, “Qne hundred percent compensation can and must be paid by the government and plans must be started now for the com- mencement of the long ramge work necessary for flood cntrol and prevention of a recurrence, possibly next year, of the same avoidable disuster.” ‘Il tolerate no mo case —NANAIMO, B.C. ng, the trial of Marko Vitkovich, Nanaimo Vitkovich pleaded not guilty to a charge Dr. Mladen Guinio-Zorkin, who renounced his home- people’s government came to power. Adjournment defence counsel, to permit evidence being taken by a read at the trial. Manson presidi e fall assizes. present ‘ B.C. youth delegates leave on ‘peace train’ to Europe Ten young people have left Vancouver to board a “Peace Train” that will pick up passengers across this_.continent and on the other side of the Atlantic till it rolfs through the “Tron Curtain” Goebbels invented to bring a message of youth of Europe. NNN Salsberg to speak Word was received at press time that J. B. Salsberg, nation- ally known labor spokesman, who has been re-elected with a record majority as LPP member of the Ontario legislature, will arrive in Vancouver next week, In addition to his other engagemetns he will be guest of honor ata special ban- quet in Hotel Georgia ballroom, Friday, June 25 at 5:30 p.nt., where trade union leaders and shop stewards will have an op- portunity of hearing and meet- ing him. The same night at 8 p.m., he will address a public meeting sponsored by thé Vancouver Com- | peace and friendship to the Over one hundred young Canad- ians will be aboard the train as it steams into the devastated areas of Europe where they will share for the summer the work of recon- struction, tangible token of the good wishes thousands of Canadian young * people are sending with their delegates. _ Delegates from this province in- clude Dick Allen (Student Christian Movement), Robin Denton (Inter- national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers), Gerry Kennedy (International Woodworkers — of America), Donald Greenwell (Van- couver Island Labor Council and United Mine Workers, Nanaimo), Karl Ketola (Finnish Youth Organ- jization) and Jackie Robson , (Na- tional Federation of Labor Youth). Travelling as observers are Aud- : rey and Elsie Brandon from North mittee of the LPP at Hotel Van- Vancouver and Marjorie Kinsey and| couver. Coalition sc By KEN GIBSON _-POWELL RIVER, B.C. A mass meeting in Dwight Hall nere went on record by @ vote of 400 to 2, “as opposing the granting of forest management licenses un- der the present legislation, and in granting of such a li- s Products Ltd.” The ed to Premier Minister E. T. particular the cense to Evan resolution was direct Johnson and Forests Kenney. Dick Georgeson from Victoria. {NNT heme rouses Powell River Kenney sent a wire claiming in- ability to attend and his deputy minister, C. D. Orchard, also fail- ed to appear. Orchard is charged locally with attempts to intimidate local opera- tors to clear the way for the Ame- rican-owned Evans company to get a perpetual monopoly grant of 58,- 000 acres of forest, forcing local operators out of business. Murray Mouat, president of the Powell Rived local of the Pulp and Sulphite Workers’ Union (AFL), ac- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 18, ‘ ted as chairman of the meeting. . Speakers opposing the license in- cluded L. S. Eckardt, spokesman for the local operators’ Action Com- mittee, A. Smith, president of the Truck Loggers’ Association, and Herbert Gargrave, local CCF MLA. The CCF, LPP, Liberals and Con- servatives are now opposing the li- cenge in Powell River, but the Lib- eral-Tory government is persisting in efforts to steal this valuable for- est tract from the people for the American outfit. 1948—PAGE 12