LPP contesting 9 Alberta seats ‘EDMONTON A Drumheller Valley coal miner who has worked in the Alberta pits for 20 years and now finds himself without work as a result of the Manning government’s anti-Canadian policies is one of nine Labor-Progressive candidates contesting seats in the Albert election on June 29. He is Art Roberts, LPP stand- ard bearer in Calgary. : Other LPP candidates are: Ben Swankey, LPP provincial leader, who is standing for Pinch- er Creek-Crows Nest Pass; Tony Lezanski, Drumheller; William In West Berlin, Harold Pritchett (right) found many stores displaying luxury goods beyond Harasym, Edmonton; E. P. Tay- t . . . ue te N of most West Berlin residents, thousands of whom are unemployed. In East-Berlin there lor, Wainwright; John P. Hoca- resi, n© such displays, but the stores had ample stocks of food ‘and other necessities and East Berlin luk, Vermilion; Dan Gamache, ‘den ‘el with full employment, had the money to buy them. At left is shown Berlin’s famous Unter SicRebls< brerkMavicle, ed en, water; John Hary, Athabasca. 8.C. unionist spent monn in GDR : ; Under the slogan, “Keep Alberta) . Canadian,” the Labor-Progressive party’s 10-point provincial pro- : Pritchett | i m pressed b gram calls for legislation to pre- vent further.loss of Canadian own- ’ : ership and control of Alberta re- ast rr Ss sources to U.S. capital and pro- erman prog & poses measures to industrialize the By BERT WHYTE Jean Pritchett, “my plastic over- many in the not too distant future.|PTOvince and create 25,000 new o ormula for crashing the “Iron|shoes created a minor sensation./ After leaving Germany, the jobs in petro-chemical, steel, coal a4 ain” and entering Eastern|It seems this item hasn't yet found! Pritchetts visited Paris (“A beauti-| byproducts, pulp, paper and good } j aCe: is simple—you just buy|its way to either East or West Ber-|ful city on the surface, but under-| byproducts industries. and wacy_ticket in West Berlin! lin.” neath, the conditions of the work- rps nee : Tide east right under it. x * * ers are terrible”) and then toured ee ge a Oe inc? Reta oriichet Romer | P TRE Pritchetts did not spend all eae oi pte ‘ : hensive health insurance Plan, a jen ional president of Interna. |\tHeir. time in Berlin. By car and saw ae OUSE . W, La se subsidized. low - rental housing Ona} Reece y0r ante bus they toured a large section of|born, in Harborne, a suburb o plan, a provincial Bill of Rights, Who pa. Cdworkers of America, Democratic Republic,| Birmingham,” said Harold. “I met Be hae : alter as returned to Vancouver ee pe ene factories and|my old headmaster, now 84, and he full democratic rights for Native BEN SWANKEY Pincher Creek-Crows Nest tu ih Peet tour of Europe, |; took me around the school and|Indians, including economic aid, a), €rnati € attended an in- ; . the town. It doesn’t seem to have! genuine labor code, a new deal for builgn nal conference of wood and; As a woodworker, Pritchett was chanwed: a Sisat aa eincs 1 Ian § Berlin? materials workers in East|interested in production meunous farmers based on lifting of present in sawmills and plywood plants. there 42 years ago. 5 trade restrictions nd i “We were in Glasgow on May 5 ons, and increased = ehey ro, sy an deras Day, but rain interfered with the} ld age pensions of $65 at 65 years from aaa barring visitors us technically, Ae i ction parades. One banner we noticed|of age without a means test. DUblie i German Democratic Re-| When the round o ae Can-|read: ‘The Communist unit of the! Ate kaa : ing ptt we hit two Iron Cur-| trips began to wear down the a Rolls-Royce factory.’ There were no| ~7© Pusat o phages Canaq, ©" We arrived back in|adian visitors, their hosts ee Rolls-Royces in the parade, how-| thriving coal industry is reflected tounaia, 22° at Gander in New-|them away on Easter weekend i ever.” in Art Roberts’ personal story as reap Nd and another at Mon-|a trade union summer camp a In Britain the Canadian Pacific| he told it in a recent oS ae Bie Srval airport,” said Pritch-| Bad Buckow. ; F Railway is still trying to entice ces : \ ficial, Ustome and immigration} “It was mighty cold,” said Jean,| workers to emigrate to Canada. : : oe ly gave us the works.”|“but we went fishing anyway, and/pritchett pulled out an advertise-| “I am a victim of the Manning Wion ptt attended the trade| got caught in an out-of-season snQw-| ment from the London Post of May |sellout policy. I have worked only t Bey 4s an observer. When! storm.” 15. It read: ' |a few shifts in the last 60 days. I TONY LEZANSKI “Stag Uded, he and his wife ac-) «Catch any fish?” I asked. “CANADA — Experienced farm|have been compelled to leave the _ Drumheller ilding ‘y Invitation from the} «Katza fish,” said Harold. “That’s| workers wanted: a job and -ac-| lovely valley that has been my the Gar Orkers Union to visit what our companion called them}|comodation arranged before leav-jhome. for an Democratic Republic —meaning they were so small]ing; excellent opportunities farm a ; to Spen Onth—the first Canadians they could only be fed to the ecat.”| purchase. Helpful advice given in But I have not come to Cal- Raster moet length of time inj —[n both East and West Berlin the| personal interviews. Write or call| ary to whine — I refuse to re- .* askeq yimany, Pitchetts found a strong desire for|E. A. Barber, Canadian Pacific|treat — I have come here to fight : y. him the ineyitable ques-) peace. With the exception of the| Railway, 159 St. Vincent Street,|the U.S. invasion. I have beeome a N com East and West Ber-|Nazi military leaders who are now| Glasgow.” candidate in this election so that Lo hase - trying to create a new Wehrmacht} “No wonder,” commented Prit- |I may call on you to fight with me, Tamm tN Berlin the shops are|in Western Germany, the German! chett, “that so many workers’ |against thé sellout of Alberta.” hy 800 with expensive Ameri- people have had their ‘fill of war.| from Britain get a jolt when : haven: S — but many workers They reject militarism, and look| they arrive here and find tens - "Splieg, Money to buy them,” he| forward to a united, peaceful Ger-| of thousands of unemployed.” a loymen, rg plenty of un- ee ¢ a if j ' Iron Wife, Jean, and I found no . Like hundreds of other coal min- ers, Roberts, father of two chil- dren, is faced with the necessity of uprooting his home and family te, a living 3 nd we saw workers Ca nai ai and moving to the city in search oe they Patt ain Se, of a job. Forty years ago the coal A ‘ ; %, q j ] - Unem & Onin we. ReNina he industry was Alberta’s main in dustry giving jobs to thousands. Now. it is in a state of decay as a result of the Social Credit govern- ment’s policy. “Mp] Moar, 1 ent, A great building hall 7 Underway, and people oor ih Ace two hours voluntary ay © evenings, helping to the rubble left by the Over 20 million tons of U-S. coal are dumped on the Canadian mar- ket every year and the US. coal barons expect to increase the ART ROBERTS amount shortly, Roberts charged. ~ Calgary ® vic: Who ge a shovel operator Ment, 5 1 one of the new apart- is abouy Stalinallee, His rent z ‘4 month—he earns Be "Mth. For this rent he For several years the LPP has Z kixen® Shiicoms. olivine rconn been advocating that U.S. coal be| West German shipyards jem ‘ with a frigidaire, bath- barred entry into Canada while EO : Matin, «Vator service, central g ’ miners were out of work; that steps build Soviet trawlers a be taken to step-up the coal by- e a telephone. : : 2g Booeund food was). plentitil products industry which would LONDON 88a ae though teabebuberahd | t open new jobs and keep miners items a stil] ratione a.) These | : working; and that Peace River iron} The first of 24 ocean trawlers - wagertment © ought off ration at See ete ee eave td start) being built for the Soviet Union a~steel industry to provide jobs) for upwards of 10,000 people. by Western Germany under a $45 million contract was launched at y a S ke ] A Onjy “Ad ey Pt us busy every Not only has the Manning gov- | Kiel last week. every : ‘yada Bast One. nist evening. There is Win Benj, eat club operating in | prs Lh ak ” hess eee At the same time, speaking at the® and ¢p oUt restaurants serve ad ici : ‘| Lowes the first acts ere isidansing§ At the pro-U.S. policies, said Roberts, |Lowestolf, England, when the firs but “it has transformed this | of 20 trawlers under a $17 million great province of ours into a | contract was launched, V. A. Kam- filling station for the oil barons |ensky,\head of the Soviet trade "& noti de Chari ced a number of the Wing ue Chaplin Pictures were Mev crowa : ss i “Mine-mili aes salt = LY : ‘ $ of the U.S. . . . exporting our | delegation, said Britain had taken Boy arth. ; é German workers stage an impressive demonstration for peace jobs to the U.S. and importing |up Soviet trade offers only “to an < went.” said in East Berlin. unemployment to Canada.” insignificant degree.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 24, 1955 — PAGE 3