All Visitors Kept Under Constant Surveillance By FERGUS McKEAN Labor Candidate in Hast Kootenay Federal Constituency atory articles extolling the beauty and These pen pictures, written by Jack that the people of Trail and Kimberley thropic policy of the Consolidated TRAIL, BC. — Contained in the magazine section of the Vancouver Sun recently were laud-| prosperity of the cities of Trail and Kimberiey. Meek, financial editor of the Sun, convey the impression | are living prosperous, healthy lives due to the philan-_ Mining and Smelting company, under the paternal guidance} of President S. G Blaylock. => ‘ Meek claims Trail has rightfully | policeman demanaing to now | the economic, social and political | Earned the title “The Garden City | your business there, you board of the interior.” This may be good publicity for the CMS, but it cer tainiy is net in accordance with the facts. Approachins Trail by highway you become aware of the Geadly fumes from the smelter some 1d Miles before reaching the city. The hilis and mountains on either side of the Columbia river are practic- ally void of vegetation and as your car nears Trail the death-dealing character of the sulphur-dioxide | as belching from the huge smelter Stacks becomes more obvious. | The highway skirts the smelter, | situated in the municipality of Tadanac. Down the river, hidden from view, are the costly homes of the salaried officials. You pass one, two and sometimes three special CMS policemen, ail of whom write down your license number. You round a turn and the highway Grops down towards the city of Trail below. Right at the turn is a glass enclosed “sentry Box” manned day and night by Ta- daganac municipal police. Here again Ikeen eyes note your license num ber of the car. If for any reasons their suspicions are aroused it is a simple matter to phone the Trail police, who may then halt your ear a little farther on and demand fo know your business in Yrail. Weedless to say union organizers are not welcome in Trail. Arriving in this city of 12,000 by train you are spared this re— peated police surveillance. You are only surveyed once upon alight ing from the train, unless suspi- cions are aroused. But wait, you have not left Trail yet. Tf you Should conclude your business in Trail without being accosted by a your train to depart. You are no sooner seated than a young lady sweetly inferms you she is the @rail Times’ social re- porter, desirous of writing up your visit for her paper. “Your name, please?” This is followed by “Where are you from?” Then in rapid succession, “How long have you been in Trail? What is your business here?. Whom did you stay with while here?” Having secured all the informa-— tion required your interrogator passes on to the next victim of this system of legalized espionage. Ac- cordine to the workmen of Trail, the Limes is just another adjunct of the far-flung holdings of that industrial octopus of the Kooten- ays, the CMS, and constitutes an- other means of maintaining the all- embracing demination of the com- pany. RADIO CENSORSHIP The radio station at Trail, al- though a part of the Canadian Broadcasting system, is also resgu- lated in its choice of programs by the GMS. Speeches by labor leaders are cut if coming over the network and entirely barred locally. The industrial empire of the CGMS is not, however, governed by them alone but fhrough a system of interlocking directorates a much greater influence is exercised. The West Kootenay Light and Power Company is a ©MS subsidiary, but the CMS itself is a subsidiary of the CPR. These three monopolies between them controlling electrical power, transportation and the basic in- Gustry of the area, metal mining and smelting, dominate not only SA al LABOR DAY GREETINGS TO = ee THE ADVOCATE .— “The champion of the cause of BC. Iuabor” ... —- SALMON PURSE SEINERS’ UNION LOCAL 141 Affiliated to Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and Vancouver Trades and Labor Council from the pad bed pad bad eed Pee [y<#o