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Vol. 6 No. 17 Vancouver, B.C., April 25, 1947 SS Five Cents

BUYERS’ STRIKE PLANNED

Labor leads protest against prices

A packed protest meeting sponsored by Van-
Couver Labor Council this:week called on the pub-
lic to demonstrate against soaring living costs and
for re-imposition of price controls by participating
in a one-day consumers’ strike, A resolution setting
May 2 as the day for the proposed strike was en-
thusiastically endorsed by the meetinig, which urged trade
unions, housewives’, pensioners’, and other organizations
throughout the province to organize and advertise the dem-
©nStration in their localities.

The meeting was informed by Mrs. Marjorie Croy, chair-
Man of the Women’s Price Control Committee here, that the

Ousewives Consumers Association, national organization
With headquarters at Winnipeg, was organizing a month-long
buyers’ strike in Manitoba and urging organizations in other
Provinces to initiate similar strikes. Mrs. Croy said the
Women’s Price Control Committee, representing 25 organ-
lations, would announce its plans after its next meeting.

Mrs. Marjorie Croy and’ Mrs. Mona Morgan, Vancou-
ver women who recently interviewed cabinet ministers and
M.P.’s as members of a delegation of twelve sent to Ottawa
to lobby against removal of price controls, were two of the

(Continued on Page 8 — See PRICES)

Press distortions of
shipyard strike scored

Charges were heard this week that Vancouver
daily newspapers have ‘grossly abused their func-
tion of informing the public” by distorting the facts
and misrepresenting the issue in the strike of CCL
Workers at Yarrows shipyard, Victoria, as Vancou-
ver Labor Council (CCL) unanimously pledged sup-

Port to Marine Workers Union members involved and voted
to declare all Yarrows materials ‘hot’.

“Since the beginning of the dispute the daily papers
ave never carried our story, although we have given them
all the facts and asked that they be given at least as much
Prominence as the misleading statements made by certain
AFL officials in which red-baiting has been the domindnt

(Continued on Page 8 — See YARROWS)

Anti-union plot exposed

e) These pictures tell the

story of a plot to wreck
British Columbia’s biggest
union. They were taken by
Ernie Dalskog, IWA_ inter-
national _ representative,
when union officers, on whose
instructions young Don Mc-
Allister, executive member
of IWA Local 1-80, had
been acting, decided they
would furnish the final irre-
futable evidence they need-
ed to expose the plot. That
plot was no less than an at-
tempt by: certain logging op-
erators to replace present
IWA leaders with more. ‘lib-
eral-minded’ men who might
be expected to follow opera-
tors’ policies, and it involved
Stuart Research, Ltd., oper-
ators’ spokesman, and the
RCMP, which was reported

to have “people working in .

the industry.” Don McAllis-
ter was the man Thomas J.
Noble, personnel manager
for Bloedel, Stewart and
Welch, Ltd., tried to enlist
as a spy against his own
union.

eS Top picture shows Noble,

bribe money in hand,
meeting McAllister in a ceme-
tery at Alberni,

Middle picture shows
Noble walking dejected-
ly to his car after Dalskog
and other IWA members
who had arranged with Mc-
Allister to witness ‘the meet-

ing, photographed him in the
act.

@ In the bottom picture

McAllister is shown re-
ceiving the congratulations
of Walter Yates, president
of IWA Local 1-85, and
Mike Praisley, executive
member.

(See Story, Page 3)

U.S. career diplomats said ‘Russian-haters’

.

MOSCOW — Charging that
Career diplomats had made
his job impossible because
they have built their repu-
tations and careers on
Russian-haters,” Armond D.
Willis, director of the United
States Information Service
here, has left for Washington

report and resign.”
illis said the U.S. Infor-
mation Service “was design-

ed to find a way to build
American-Russian friendship.”
But the foreign service offic-
ers surrounding Ambassador
Wallace Bedell Smith, he
claimed, had blocked every
attempt he made to improve
exchange of information be-
tween the two countries and
to strengthen cultural rela-
tions.

Willis added that his de-

cision. to resign had been
forced by an effort to trans-
fer him from the Moscow
post to one in Budapest.
The career diplomats, he
declared “have built their
reputations and careers on
being MRussian-haters. Our
operation was designed to find
a way to build American-Rus-
sian friendship. That imperils
everything they stand for.”