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Pebruary..23, 1240

Page Four

From War

Demanded

Petition From Sask.
Town Hits Sending
Of Troops Overseas

ELFROS, Sask. — Having
unanimously endorsed a
resolution protesting against
sending Canadian soldiers
overseas without consulting
the people, Elfros-Emerald
Ratepayers Association is
now circulating a petition re-
questing parliament to with-
draw Canada from the war
forthwith.

The resolution, copies of which
have been forwarded to Prime Min-
ister King and to Conservative
Opposition Leader Manion, reads:

“Whereas: After discussing the
question of conscription and be-
ing firmly convinced that by far
the greatest majority of Cana-
dian people are against taking
part in foreign wars; therefore,
be it

“Resolved: That we protest the
sending of Canadian boys to the
war without consulting the peo-
ple directly on that question; al-
se we protest the condition of un-
employment, squalor, and, in
general, the lack of opportunity
which in many Cases compel
young men to enlist; and be it
further

“Resolved: That we citizen-
members of the Elfros-Emerald
Ratepayers and Citizens’ Associ-
ation in meeting assembled in-
Struct our executive to forward
the above resolution to the lead-
ers of each of the Canadian poli-
tical parties.”

The petition now being circulat-
ed, which also received the unani-
mous endorsation of the meeting,
reads:

“To the Members of the House
of Commons of Canada in Par-
liament assembled:

“As the records show, the peo-
ple of Canada are against our
nation taking part in foreign
wars, as forcibly shown by the
Support given to the Liberal goy-
ernment in the 19385 elections,
pledged: as they were not to in-
volye Canada in war without the
consent of the people and of par-
liament.

*Therefore, we, the undersign-
ed, protest the way they have
now involved our country in war,
which has already resulted in the
imprisonment of many members
of the working class who are
against war, and will eventually
result in conscription and the
total blackout of democracy if
this policy is not reversed,

“Therefore we request parlia-
ment and whatever government
may be formed to withdraw from
the war forthwith.”

Defense
Organized

TORONTO, Ont. Formation
of a Union Defense Committee to
cooperate with other democratic
groups in meeting attacks upon the
trade union movement represented
by arrest of Charles Millard, sec-
tary of the Canadian Committee for
Industrial Organization, was an-
nounced this week.

The committee launcher an ap-
appeal for funds to aid in defend-
ing Millard and other attacks on
industrial democracy, appealed for
mobilization of dollars to fight “a
desperate attack by the political
agents of big finance in their ef-
forts to blackout union activity by
their vicious and unrestrained mis-
use of the Defence of Canada Reg-
ulations.”

Millard’s trial is expected to re-
sume at Timmins on Feb. 27. He is
charged with making statements
‘true or false’ considered prejudi-
cial to recruiting.

Chairman of the Union Defense
Gommittee is €. §. Jackson, inter-
national vice-president of the
United Electrical Radio and Ma-
chine Workers’ union, R. K. Steele,
of SWOC is secretary and Harry

ishermen Incensed By A

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and maladministration levelled

election in Vancouver Center.
engineering the affair, Dan Martin,
Ted Burnett, Joshua Gorrie and Al-
fred Barrett, completed the pro-
cession.

Around the hall, weaving in
and out among the astonished
dancers, they paraded. Someone
greeted Ald. Wilson exuberantly,
slapped him heartily on the back
and, all unaware, the alderman
completed the parade with an
anti-war sticker on his back.
From the platform Martin intro-
duced the politicians. Mackenzie,
too old a politician to ignore the
unmistakable disapproval of a large
section of his audience, cut his re-
marks short, confined himself to
trite hopes that a good time would
be had by all. Ald. Wilson promised
that he would soon have ‘good
news’ for fishermen in connection
with construction of the much-pub-
licized False Creek fish dock. Then
the two politicians participated in
a drawing for prizes, Dan Martin
reminded the dancers to ‘vote right’
on election day, and the procession
withdrew to a private room down-
stairs reserved for the occasion.
This week rank-and-file mem-
bers of the union were express-
ing their indignation at what is
considered a blatant attempt by
a section of the PCFU leadership
to tie the union to the Liberal
machine and transform it into a
political football
Several members interviewed by
the Advocate declared themselves
to be disgusted with what they con-

Sider a betrayal of their interests.
Some claimed that Joshua Gor-

Charge Busi

In negotiations for the fish dock
conducted in the name of the Van-
couver local of the PCFU the local
has already been committed to a
$60 monthly rental for the site. And
while the obligation was contracted
by the Vancouver local, the entire
union becomes liable, it is claimed.
Despite this, the district executive
has refused to interfere, taking the
position that it is not concerned.

Ted Burnett, Josh Gorrie and
Dan Martin, members of the com-
Mittee in charge of negotiations
for the Vancouver local, are not
actually engaged in fishing and
two of them, it is charged, have
no business in the union. Burnett
is not a fishermen but a fish dealer,
who, it is alleged, will receive a
monopoly in the sale of fish if and
when the dock is built. He is re-
ported to have put up a $10,000
bond on behalf of the union as a
Guarantee of good faith in securing
the site from the city council.

Gorrie is not a fisherman either,
but a fish buyer, who works closely
with Burnett. Martin acted as a
trouble-shooter between the union
and the boss-canners on the grounds
during the past season, was paid
$125 a month by the boss canners
in agreement with the union.

It is alleged that the dock es-
tablishment, when built, will not
belong to the union but to the
Imperial Oil company, which is
reported to have tentatively.
agreed to build a $40,000 building
to include the fish market conces-
sion, controlled by Burnett, meet-
ing rooms and a gasoline boat
service station, in return for a
monopoly on sales of oil and gaso-
line,

The tie-up between the union
and the Liberal and Conservative
parties was engineered by the com-
mittee through Ald, Wilson, repre-
senting the Conservative party,
who arranged for the site, and Hon.

paper Guild, treasurer.

Ian Mackenzie, who was respon-
sible for having the federal govern-

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Vote’ Catching Rally
For lan Mackenzie

A chorus of boos greeted Hon. lan Mackenzie, recently trans-
ferred from the ministry of defense following charges of graft

against him, when he was in-

troduced at a dance sponsored by Pacific Coast Fishermen’s
union in Hastings auditorium here Wednesday of last week.
Despite efforts of a committee in charge, headed by Dan
Martin, master of ceremonies, to utilize the occasion for vote-
catching, dancers failed to respond to the ballyhoo, greeted the
Liberal candidate for Vancouver Center with derision.
Preceded by two pipers, Mackenzie entered-the hall te the
strains of a Scotch march. With him was Ald. Halford Wilson,
defeated Conservative candidate in last year’s provincial by-

The committee responsible for
rie, acting on behalf of the com-
mittee, received $70 from the Lib-
eral party for a block of dance tick-
ets purchased.

@pinion was general that the
open attempt to foist Ian Macken-
zie on the membership was the
logical culmination of a policy of
class collaboration, political in-
trigue and red-baiting carried out
by dominant sections of the PCFU
leadership on the district executive
and the Vancouver local over a con-
siderable period.

It was felt that the PCFU is
rapidly being transformed from the
militant union it once was, when
it led several struggles to better
fishermen’s conditions and estab-
lish unity of all fishermen, into a
political tool of the politicians, sim-
ilar to the BCFPA of New Westmin-
ster, regarded by militant fisher-
men as dominated by Tom Reid,
MP, and the Liberal party to serve
as a splitting medium in blocking
united action of gillnetters and
seiners.

One PCFU member declared that
the union is dominated by two
groups, one working in close co-
operation with Liberal and Con-
servative parties to secure the False
Greek fish dock, on which members
of this group will have a monopoly
concession in the sale of fish, the
other desirous of preventing any
cooperation with seiners and of
transforming the union into a co-
operative. Policies of both groups,
if successful, he pointed out, will
have disastrous results for gillnet
fishermen.

ness Tie

ment dredge the approach, it is
reported.

Qne fishermen this week ex-
pressed the view that if the dock is
secured it will be of doubtful bene-
fit to bona-fide fishermen who will
be saddled with an obligation of
$50 per month rental to the city,
while the union will be tied to the
Liberal and Conservative political
machines. Instead, benefits will go
to the oil company and Burnett
through their respective monopolies.

The group within the PCFU
headed by President Sabin and
Secretary Vic Hill, it is charged,
is following a policy contrary to all
trade union concepts in opposing
the securing of price agreements
with canners on the ground that
fishermen’s interests can best be
served through taking advantage
of competition between buyers.
This group is also conducting a
campaign in opposition to unity
and cooperation with purse seiners
has made little effort to carry out
decisions of the PCFU convention
for adjusting of dues payments and
formation of a fishermen’s council
to unite all BC fishermen through
informing the membership of issues
involved.

Behind the current red-baiting
campaign against Communists and
others who demand a militant poli-
cy in the interests of rank-and-file
members stand Sabin and Hill.
They are aided by Jim Law, an
individual who is not a fisherman
but a salesman for a fishermen’s
supply house. Law, it is charged,
has been in contact with the police
in an attempt to secure information
about certain unlon members, and
works closely with the BC Packers.

It is also charged that one mem-
ber of the PCFU executive who
opposed the policies of Sabin and
Hill has been forced to resign be-
cause of threats,

Many union members are con-
fident that when the member-
ship as a whole learns the true
situation within the union, a
strong demand will be made to
convoke another convention in
order to replace the present lead-
ership by others who will follow
a policy directed at uniting all
fishermen, halting attempts to
tie the union to the Liberal and
Conservative machines and re-
storing the union’s former pres-
tige.

Ask Ban Lifted

ERIKSDALE, Man. — A resolu-
tion calling upon the federal gov-
ernment to lift the ban on the
Clarion and Clarte, “both popular
working class papers,’ and to or-
der the immediate release of Doug-
las Stewart, business manager of
the Clarion, sentenced to two years
imprisonment under the War Mea-
sures Act, was endorsed by a rec-
ent meeting of farmers here.

AFL Order
To Council

Under Fire

Demand For Ousting
Of Communists Will
Ge To Union Locals

Orders from the American
Federation of Labor executive
council to purge all known
Communists and their sympa-
‘thizers from national and inter-
national unions, all state and
city central labor councils in
Canada and the United States
led to a lengthy, and at times,
acrimonious debate at Tues-
day’s semi-monthly meeting of
the Vancouver Trades and Labor
council and ended only when dele-
gates representing 26 local unions,
dissatisfied with a decision to table
the question, called for a referen-
dum vote to be taken among mem-
ber unions,

Leading the attack at the behest
of AFL President William Green
was Secretary P. R. Bengough, who,
while reporting the council execu-
tive’s recommendation of non-con-
currence, stated that both he and
Dan Macpherson, Sheet Metal
Workers delegate, had registered
their opposition.

At the previous meeting abruptly
adjourned by President Jamieson,
Bengough had unsuccessfully at-
tempted to read an editorial from
the Congress Journal asserting that
the Gommunist party had changed
its tactics to attack leading trade
unionists. At Tuesdays meeting
the editorial was read by the secre-
tary. Communications allegedly
coming from Swedish and Polish
trade unionists were referred to,
to give greater credence to the ne-
cessity for the anti-Communist ‘cru-
sade,’

Bengough wanted the council to
keep in step with other central
labor councils throughout the coun-
try, which, he asserted, had taken
similar action.

A ready and willing supporter
was Birt Showler, Teamsters’ Joint
Council, long a friend of reaction.
He declared: “We don’t take Com-
munists into our trade unions and
when we find them we soon expel
them.” Jn favoring a roll call vote
he stated, “Let's find these dele-
gates and expel them.”

HITS WITCH-HUNT.

However, Don Maxwell, Retail
Clerks’ union, took a different view
of the situation and stated that
this was a dangerous move. “I am
a definite sympathizer with the
Communist party in many instances
and opposed to others. We may find
ourselves as heresy hunters burn-
ing witches at the stake. Let’s be
democratic and sensible.”

“This is not the first communi-
cation on this matter we have re-
ceived from the AFL over a period
of years, and it’s very strange they
have never been brought up be-
fore,” stated Delegate C. M. Stew-
art, executive member and Street
Railwaymen’s delegate.

“It's the first one that I’ve seen
since I have been in office,” inter-
jected President Jamieson.

“It brings no flush of shame to
my face to be branded a Commu-
nist,” continued Stewart. ‘“Secre-
tary Bengough told- you the tactics
of the Communist party had
changed. Certainly they have
changed as conditions changed.
When he told you about the united
front tactics disrupting the French
trade union movement he did not
tell you the truth. The united front
was responsible for drawing thou-
sands into the movement,

“Ym not here representing the
Communist party, but am a repre-
sentative of Division 101, the largest
single trade union movement in the
city and these members are not
Communists, but they have honored
me for many years by sending me
here as their delegate,” Stewart de-
clared.

‘SAME OLD GAME.’

Delegate Ashton, Civic Employ-
ees, stated there were many things
the Communist party advocated
which he favored. “They favor
peace and I’m for peace. The trade
union movement is the most demo-
cratic organization we have. It
does not bar anyone because of
race, creed, color, religious or po-
litical beliefs,» he declared.

“Ts the same old game carried
on by reactionaries,” stated Print-
ing Pressmen’s delegate J. Maley,
‘Gt js not aimed at the Communists
but all sympathizers who do not
agree with the reactionaries.”

“We can’t vote on that,” ex-
claimed Birt Showler, “we came
here from the Teamsters’ unions
to vote on certain proposals.”

“Tg this council run by Team-
sters,” asked a delegate at the back
of the hall, which was greeted by a
noisy demonstration supporting the
questioner.

President Jamieson found himself
in a quandary trying to iron out
Tom Holland’s demand for a show-

‘ing of 20 percent of the unions de-

sirous of a referendum vote, but
on Holland’s insistence he took a
vote, found 26 unions favoring the
referendum. According t o the
constitution this must be taken

ctions Of PCFU Leadership

lution as ‘twaddle’

The letter, signed by President
Dick Gorman, recalled that the
Young Democratic clubs here had
endorsed similar resolutions.

“We hope you did not consider
them as ‘twaddle,’ for we meant
them very seriously. Qur repeated
declarations against any invalve-
ment in the war, including the his-
torically dangerous loans to bellig-
erents, were not intended to be
meaningless simply because one
nation or another came to be con-
sidered very unpopular,” the Youngs
Democrats declared.

“We cannot feel that a moral
situation is sufficiently clear to
permit intervention for Finland
when other champions of her cause
include such doubtful friends of

democracy as Messrs. Chamber-

Young Democrats Score
President For Remark

SEATTLE, Wash. — Young Democrats of King County,
Wash., are opposed to loans to Finland’s White Guards and
have forwarded a communication tc President Roosevelt sharply
criticizing his reference to the American Youth Congress reso-

lain, Daladier, Mussolini and Fran-
co.

“We -hope that you will con-
sider our sincere wish that loans
to Finland and other belligerents
in the European war be not ap-
proved, that America remain com-
pletely neutral in the conflict and
that we be safeguarded from the
danger of participation.”

Reeruit Jobless

SEATTLE,Wash. — Hungry and
ragged men on Seattle’s skidroad
are being urged to join Manner
heim’s Finnish White Guard army,
it was charged here by Byrd Kelso,
chairman of Local i, Workers Al-
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