"pe Mine-Mill Sepee ALL ITA TA i | a Drew’s attack on draws scathing retort REGINA _ Progressive Conservative leader George Drew’s attack on Cana- dian miners who are members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers drew sharp retorts from Mine-Mill leaders attending a session of the union’s Canadian council here last week. Commenting on Drew’s threat to outlaw ‘communist activities” if his party comes to power Aug- ust 10, B.C. regional director Harvey Murphy suggested thati “Drew should let the courts de- Cide who or what is subversive.” “What about. Drew’s assertion hat your union is in a position to tie up the whole of Canadian uran- lum production?” a reporter ask- €d Nels Thibault of Sudbury, Mine- Mill chairman in Eastern Canada. “Drew’‘s ignominious reference to the patriotism of the miners IS a disgrace to Canada,” answer- ed Thibault. “Drew never dared do any red-baiting when he was i Sudbury, or any other of the Mining centres. He was too afraid of losing workers’ votes.’” When a reporter told Harvey Murphy that Drew had said Mine- Mill-was headed by “a man named urphy” who had been “trained in Oscow” the B.C. union leader Pointed out that he does not head € union, but is an organizer in One place. Then he added: “George Drew and | were in Urope at the same time. When € went to see Hitler, | visited Oscow,.”” The Mine-Mill Canadian council Meeting was attended by council President Ken Smith of Vancou- Ver; council secretary M. Solski of udbury; and council members L. €ssmer, Medicine Hat; R. Michel, jclgary; W. Longridge, interna- tonal representative, Calgary; J. es, Yellowknife; D. Gold, Kim- Recy Harvey Murphy, regional rector, Vancouver; M. Kopinak, Se Colborne; Ray Stevenson, mebury; and Nels Thibault, board €mber District 8, Sudbury. pyenase Powers, member of Dis- oe 7, from ‘San Francisco, also €nded the council meeting. mee session dealt with a reso- a fon from the 500-member lo- a Union in Beaverlodge mining 8, protesting against propos- ae €xemption of that mining €a from the provisions of the »askatchewan hours of work leg- islaty : * ation. Council announced: it teosed any attempt to deprive ri it Miners of their statutory 4 ts under the hours of work Genre called upon the Saskat- teal government to resist the Ure of a “handful of mining Spe off . . | rators” to subvert provincial ®gislation, issue the following statement on Mine-Mill’s position on the strike of gold miners in Timmins: “This council is deeply concern- ed with this strike forced on the fold workers by their employers and recognizes it as a continuation of the Mine-Mill workers long- drawn struggle with the gold op- erators for decent wages, safety provisions, welfare and union security. Our members stand pre- pared, as they did two years ago in the Hollinger mine strike, to lend every support; moral and fin- ancial, to the gold miners to assure the winning of their legitimate demands. . . . Regardless of the fact that in the last few years the miners have been’ divided and weakened through raiding activi- ties, the gold workers’ demands can be won by the united action of all unions in the strike area and the full support of labor across Canada.” Ruling aids U.S. company Action by Mr. Justice Wood this week in refusing to lift the ban on picketing of the trans-provincial pipeline job at Hope by the truck- drivers’ union has roused the ire of many trade unionists in this city. The strike, which began July 7 when 14 truckers walked’ off the job and set up an “informative picket” to acquaint labor with their demand for retroactive pay, came under discussion at a meet- ing of the Building Trades Coun- cil on Tuesday. Justice Wood gave the union the right to appeal his decision up- holding the picketing ban, but the appeal court doesn’t sit for an- other 30 days. “It seems that the courts favor U.S. companies over Canadian workers,” one unionist commented. (The Comstock Com- pany, a U.S. outfit, is handling the job.) : Nahin The firm has hired 14 scabs to, replace the striking truckers, and the unions concerned (engineers, truckers and a_ section of the plumbers) will meet to decide on yi : Nels Thibault was instructed to FARMER-LABOR PICNIC MUSHBURGERS — CRACKED CRAB — REFRESHMENTS SPEAKER: LEO BRADY BEAR CREEK.PARK King George Highway — 2 mile North of Drive-in Theatre Sunday, August 2 IN EVENT OF RAIN — KENNEDY HALL the policy to be adopted. MRS. TILLIE BELANGER She called for an end to the chauvinistic campaign against the Doukhobors. Liberal, Guinness plans same BURNABY, B.C. Charge that his Liberal opponent, Cc. G. Bastedo, is fostering a scheme promoted by the multi- million Guinness interests was made this week by Alex Kucher, LPP candidate for Burnaby-Coquit- lam. “Bastedo’s proposal for dam- ming Burrard Inlet with a cause- way at the Second Narrows and converting it into a huge fresh water lake is precisely the scheme favored by the Guinness _inter- ests,” he said. “What Bastedo doesn’t say is that this would give the Guin- ness interests a complete mono- poly on toll traffic between Van- couver and the North Shore and enable them to impose tolls on hundreds of small boat owners for whom upper Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm provides a natural pleasure ground. “Bastedo talks about drawing in- dustry to the area and in the same breath says the scheme would pro- vide unlimited space for beaches, boating, parks and other recrea- tional facilities. “Burnaby is a sorry example of this policy. The people of Burn- aby have only one small beach re- served for them—and that as the result of vigorous protest. The rest of the Burnaby watérfront along Burrard Inlet has been handed to the big oil companies. “The ‘unlimited facilities’ for recreation already exist along In- dian Arm. They should be pre- served for this and future genera- tions—not handed to a monopoly.” Ss. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 N. F.L. Y. MIDSUMMER | YOUTH DANCE RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME - 600 Campbell Ave. Saturday, Aug. 1 - 9-12 DANCING - ORCHESTRA Ernie King FLOOR SHOW with JANET DAY EVERYBODY WELCOME hits hate developed cooperative enterprises on a large scale.” Mrs. Belanger demanded that the government listen to the real grievances of the Doukhobors and called for an end to the “ly- ing campaign which seeks to whip up chauvinistic. hatred of the Doukhobors.” Mike Hlookoff, speaking in Rus- sian, introduced Mrs. Belanger and outlined briefly the LPP fed- eral election platform. “Like the Doukhobors, the LPP stands for peace; in fact, the party’s whole program is built around the cen- tral issue gf peace,” said Hlook- off, while members of the audience nodded in approval. The speaker went on to say that “reactionary forces in this country are using the Doukhobor question to divert public inter- ‘est from the real issues of the day, using the Doukhobors for this sinister purpose in the same manner that Hitler used the Jews.” Hlookeff showed the crowd a copy of the Pacific Tribune and Tillie Belanger wins Doukhobor support; campaign NELSON, B.C. Invited by the Spiritual Community of Christ to explain ‘her party’s platform, Mrs. Tillie Belanger, LPP candidate for Kootenay West, addressed a meeting of 200 Doukhobors at Brilliant last week. Lauding the Doukhobors as “an industrious people who helped settle the West” the speaker praised their communities “which have recalled that PT editor Tom Mc- Ewen had written “a very under- standing” article on the Doukho- bors in a recent issue. (After the meeting, several copies of the Pacific Tribune were sold.) Thanking chairman Fred Kal- makoff of Shoreacres for the op- portunity afforded Mrs. Belanger to speak at the meeting, LPP elec- tion committee spokesman W. C. Muir told the audience that “the LPP has a record of continually fighting for peace—and while we find other parties coming forward at this time and giving lip service to peace, examination of their re- cords show they’ stand for war.” The meeting took a collection after singing the closing ritual in typical Doukhobor harmony and $28.47 was turned over to the Bel- anger election fund. Everyone was invited to attend a picnic at Tagum on August 2 and hear Mrs. Belanger and A. A. MacLeod elaborate on the LPP program. The picnic starts at 1 p.m. and there will be various games and other entertainment. concern and hurt it gave them.” One of the first persons to by the ratepayers’ action. “Race discrimination is a poison generated by the mentality of a Hitler,” said Seibert. ‘The parlia- ment of Canada should enact a Bill of Rights which would guarantee equal, rights and treatment to all citizens, regardless of racial origin, creed or color.” On behalf of the East Indian community, Kuldeep Singh, secre- tary of the Victoria Sikh Temple, issued a statement demanding a public retraction and saying, in part: “There should be na discrimina- tion regarding color or racial back- ground in the sale of property. “We were born British sub- jects and have fought under the British flag. We deeply regret the action of these people, who, by their actions, contributed no- thing to the brotherhood of man- kind.” On behalf of himself and 31 other property owners, F. W. Stev- ens on Saturday last week gave the newspapers a statement ex- pressing “deep regret” and mak- ing ‘full apologies.” “The ratepayers have no racial discrimination against the East In- dians whatsoever and our only concern was that property might be used in this area for parking trucks and woodyards,” his state- ment read. Seibert said this week that “it is the duty of every democratic citizen to guard the rights of all citizens, and to be vigilant at all PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 31, 1953 — PAGE 7 Sponsors. of racist petition in Victoria compelled to apologize VICTORIA, B.C. A petition circulated by 32 ratepayers objecting to East Indians purchasing property in the Fort and Elford district aroused such a storm of protest here last week that the group has been compelled to make “full apologies to .the community of East Indians for the object to the petition was Tom Seibert, LPP candidate for Victoria, who stated he was’ ‘appalled’ TOM SEIBERT times to detect and fight against every manifestation of racial dis- crimination.” United {alee PICNIC. SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 CONFEDERATION PARK 4600 EAST HASTINGS NORTH BURNABY