Page Two

THE ADVOCATE

Main War
Act Charge

Dismissed

Decision On Other
Counts Deferred In
Trial At Edmonton

EDMONTON, Alta. — Ap-
pearing for the eighth time in
police court here to answer
charges laid under section 39A
of the War Measures act, Alex
Young was dismissed on the
main charge, namely, “posses-
sion of anti-war leaflets pre-
paratory for distribution.” He
was remanded for a week for
sentence on three other charges
also under the same section.

While the crown has failed com-
pletely to adduce any evidence
against Young, as a result of which
Magistrate A. I. Miller had no al-
ternative but to dismiss the case
on the main count, yet decision on
Minor charges was unaccountably
withheld.

Dismissal of the case on the
Iain charge is regarded here as
victory for labor and a blow to the
War Measures act. It is a clear
indication to the coming session of
parliament that the Canadian peo-
ple want repeal of this uneconstitu-
tional measure which sweeps away
all the democratic rights and cival
liberties of the people.

In the past few weeks the CLDL .

has conducted a vigorous campaign
to bring to the attention of the peo-
ple the urgency of the struggle tc
repeal the War Measures act and
to block the institution of a fasc-
ist dictatorship in Canada. Public
meetings have been held, resolu-
tions of protest sent to provincial
and federal governments.

Young's case is sharply bringing
out the terrorist methods used by
the police in raiding homes, seiz-
ing materials and spiriting peo-
ple to jail on mere suspicion,
‘keeping them in custody for days
before any charges are laid. At
least 12 raids of this kind have al-
ready taken place in Edmonton
and various country points in
Worthern Alberta.

Surrey Workers’
Member Dies

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC. —
Funeral services for Burgess F.
McCloskey, 59, who died suddenly
at his South Westminster home last
Thursday from a heart attack,
were held Monday from S. Bowell
and Sons funeral home here. The
Canadian Legion was in charge of
funeral arrangements and members
ef the New Westminster branch
acted as pallbearers.

McCloskey was born in Iowa 59
years ago and during the world war
of 1914-18 served overseas with the
72nd Highlanders of Canada. He
was well known in unemployed and
ex-servicemen’s organizations in
Vancouver, where he resided before
moving to South Westminster.

We was a member of local 2, Sur-
rey Workers and Farmers Associa-
tion and an active booster for the
labor press,

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Stelco Workers Ask
For Conciliation Board

HAMILTON, Ont.—(CUNS)—Application was made this
week to Labor Minister N. L. McLarty, for a Dominion concili-
ation board to mediate the grievances of 800 employees of the
Steel Company of Canada, members of SWOC, lodge 1005, Ald.
Harry Hunter, assistant SWOC regional director announced. J.
L. Cohen, K.C. has been nominated aS representative of the

union on the board.

Workers in the Canada Works
plant of Stelco yoted overwhelm-
ingly to strike several weeks ago.
Since then a number of men active
in the union have been discharged.

The company also made prepar-
ations to hold another election for
a company union council which re-
signed a month ago when efforts
to settle grievances and obtain
changes in wage Classifications
and conditions proved fruitless.
Foremen carried around petitions

to individual workers hinting
strongly that they should sign for
a new elsction.

The board will investigate
charges of intimidation of men
working in the Canada Works

section of the plant and the dis-
missal of a number of them for
union activity. Wages, hours and
working conditions, grievance pro-
cedure and seniority conditions will
be reviewed.

700 New Brunswick
Millworkers Strike

ST. JOHN, NB.—Union leaders after a unanimous vote, have
declared a strike at the Milltown, NB, cotton mill, one of the

largest in Canada.

There was not a dissenting voice and all of

the 700 union members quietly walked out of the plant, after the

Canadian Cottons, Ltd.,

America, refused to negotiate.

Operating extra time and with
increased staff because of war con-
tracts, Milltown mill has been pro-
ducing big profits for the combine
since the outbreak of war. The

company, however, refused to con-
sider workers’ requests for in-
ereased wages and shorter hours,
and recognition of the union as
the bargaining unit.

The requests were submitted last
Feb. 19, but instead of granting

one of the biggest textile combines in

them or agreeing to negotiate, the
company asked for a secret ballot
to determine the
agency,

The 100 percent strike vote of

the local, recently organized as No.
100, United Textile Workers union,
affiliated to New Brunswick Fed-
eration of Labor and Canadian
Trades and Labor Congress, follow-
ed.

bargaining

Clerks Supported In
Army-Navy Dispute

Supporting Retail Clerks’ union in its efforts to unionize
Army and Navy department store and obtain reinstatement of
seven clerks fired for union activity, a delegation from Inter-

national Woodworkers,

Inland Boatmen,

Fishermen’s and

Miners’ unions this week informed the management that they
disapproved of its anti-labor open shop practices.

It is expected that prosecution of
the store management under sec-
tion 502A of the Criminal Code of
Ganada, the clause giving workers
the right to join a union, will be
proceeded with next week.

On complaint of the management,
a police officer was stationed at
the store’s entrance to keep labor
newspaper vendors away from the
premises because contents were in-
juring the store’s trade. Several
salesmen were told to move on as
their presence was alleged to re-
semble a picket line.

Wage increases for 350 members
of Retail Clerks union, local 279,
were included in agreements re-

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Wew Westminster and Victoria, Sec-
retary Don Maxwell told the Ad-
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Under the agreement in effect
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employees, part-time workers to
store managers, are covered by an
improved employment schedule, de-
tails of which like the wage in-
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out elaborating on these points.

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May Day

RCMPolice followed the parade ail
along the route of march.
‘DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS?

At the Lumberman’s Arch meet-
ing, an audience of some 6000
people heard James Litterick,
Communist MLA, of Winnipes, de-
clare that “workers in mines, mills
and factories across Canada are
not in support of this war. They
@re moving in a direction of being
opposed to this war.”

Declared Litterick: “We have
been told this war is against Hit-
ierism, to maintain democracy and
safeguard the peace of the
world, but when you look
around there is not a shred of
truth in those statements. If they
were true, workers would not be
discussing these questions, and
why in heaven’s name are they not
allowed to express themselves.
What more proof do you want?”

Scoring big business protests
over taxation, Litterick declared
that “our protests can have effect
if we join our trade unions and
political parties that will struggle
against the iniquities of this war.”
He urged the audience to be on
guard to see that their press was
not blacked out entirely.

“May Day, 1940, should be
made the starting point for
greater struggles to defend our
democratic rights, prevent a
blackout of our press and really
fight against Hitlerism in Can-
ada,” he concluded.

HQUALITY OF SACRIFICE,

Fergus McKean, provincial sec-
retary of the Communist party,
asked if it were not strange “that
the people who not long ago lauded
fascism now are the very ones de-
manding its destruction.”

Scoring big business and its
slogan of ‘equality of sacrifice’ for
prosecution of the war McKean de-
clared that the financial pages of
the daily press showed that the big
corporations were making greater
profits now than in the whole
period since the last war.

He contracted this with the gov-
ernment’s policy of slashing relief,
which, he said, was having dis-
astrous effect on the unemployed.

Dealing with the problems of or-
ganized labor, McKean declared
that the program of big business
was being carried out in the ranks
of labor by, the top leadership of
the AFL, “which can only weaken
the unions and render their
Struggles ineffective.”

Scoring the stand taken by Presi-
dent E. A. Jamieson of Vancouver
Trades and Labor council, as de-
signed to divide and weaken organ-
ized labor, McKean said the Com-
munist party would continue its
policy of striving to unify and
strengthen the unions.

“The Communist party,” Mc-
Kean said in conclusion, “will
continue its struggle to bring
about an end to this war and will
work for the establishment of
socialism in Canada.”

MUST NOT SURRENDER.

Grant MacNeil, speaking for the

GCF, stated the present was a time

for plain speaking on practical
matters. Labor, he submitted,
should not “surrender to wartime

hysteria.”

The CCF provincial organizer de-
nounced the War Measures act,
stating:

“For centuries we have enjoyed
the rights to Habeas Corpus but
under the War Measures act,
passed by order-in-council—not by
parliament—even this right has
been taken away.”

Declaring himself in opposition
te conscription MacNeil warned
that “as the war spreads attempts
to introduce conscription will fol-
low as surely as day follows
night.”

“War settles nothing. War gains
nothing for the workers but death
and taxation, wooden legs and

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Victoria Group Sees
Contradiction In Aid
To Japan’s Aggression

VICTORIA, BC. — Acting
upon renewal by Granby Con-
solidated Mining and Smelting
company of its contract with
Japan, Victoria Embargo and
Boyeott council decided at a
Special meeting last week to
gather all possible facts as to
the shipment of Canadian war
materials to Japan at the pres-
ent time and to give these full
publicity.

Protest was expressed at the ac-
tion of the federal government in

allowing Granby Consolidated to
renew its contract after regulations
purporting to prohibit the shipment
of war materials to aggressor na-
tions had been made public. Can-
ada’s action in aiding aggression in
Asia while assertedly fighting to
end it in Europe was strongly criti-
cized,

The council decided to donate $40
to the Committee for Medical Aid
to China to assist raising of funds
for purchase of an X-Ray ma-
chine for the international peace
hospital. The organization, it was
decided, will continue to function,
as it is felt that from time to time
issues arise upon which the coun-
cil can take action,

widows,” he declared in urging the
audience to take a lesson from those
who struggled in the last war.

WOULD ‘STRIKEBREAK’

Mayor Telford brought forth a
good round of applause as he an-
nounced that for the first time in
his life he had been a strikebreaker,
“and damned glad of it,” and said
gasoline would soon be coming
across the line to end the oil com-
panies’ sitdown.

Unemployment was branded ‘Gan-
ada’s number one enemy’ by the
mayor.

Nigel Morgan, youthful repre
sentative of International Wood-
workers’ union, cited the efforts
of his own organization in secur-
ing higher wages to offset higher
living costs as on example that
“organized labor must follow if
its living standards are not to be
reduced to the level of those in
countries where the trade unions
have been destroyed.”

Mrs. Hartley also made a brief
Speech in behalf of the House
wives’ League, stressing the need
for organization of women to safe-
guard living standards.

CONSCRIPTION OPPOSED.
Resolutions opposing introduc-
tion of conscription, demanding
repeal of the War Measures act
and demanding revision of fed-
eral government policies on pub-
lic works projects and unemploy-
ment were unanimously adopted.

Presiding over the meeting was
James Thompson of the Inland
Boatmen’s union, who read sreet-
ings from John McPeake, Trail and
district organizer of smeltermen’s
union, that “the threat to civil lib-
erties and the disruptive action of
so-called labor, leaders must be pro-
tested strongly on this historic day
with vigilance and unity as the
watchword.”

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to the province that passed the law,
With the admonition that the War
Measures Act might have to be inz
voked,

“So far so good. But such events |
are strangely reminiscent of what
occurred in Ottawa at the outbreak |
of the war.

“After declaring war, our governe
ment set a 546 percent limit on
profits from war contracts. The
Hon. Norman Rogers had to con-
fess some time later that he was
faced with a sitdown strike of Ga-
nadian manufacturers, that not 4 ©
Single contract could be implement -
ed unless the ante were raised, and ~
the regulations had to be removed,

“Tt take this opportunity at this
crisis to straighten out the ideas of
some of the people who questioned
by loyalty to my country, and my
attitude toward war.

PROFITABLE PATRIOTISM.’

‘J hate war, feeling that it is
not a solution for the fundamen-
tal evils that beset society. But |
if we are at war, we should all
be in it ,every last man of us. The
Canadian people have backed:
their government to the limit
the last election. It is they w!
will have to send their sons ove
seas, and upon whom the heavy |
burden of taxation is slowly bear
ing down. Meanwhile certain”
industrialists, and the oil mon-
opoly are reaping the rich re
wards of ‘profitable patriotism,”

“At the very first sacrifice of
profits they are called upon to
make they cry out. I believe I am
consistent in claiming that I would
be disloyal to my country if T al
lowed this attitude to go unchal-
lenged,

“This is either a whole war, or
not a war.

“And if it is a whole war I am
in it with every loyal son of |
Canada,

“Yes, citizens: To me this is more
than a gas war. As lone as I hold
my present position as Mayor of
Vancouver, and as one of its rep-
resentatives at Victoria, I am go-
ing to do my best to see to it that
every Man jack of us makes his
proper sacrifice to our war effort

“At the present juncture it is
almost incredible to me that the of }
monopoly cannot make the sacri-
fice to national stability that our,
government has called upon it_ wt
do. If the petroleum companies
find it impossible to deliver oil and
gasoline to this city at the costs
Set by the province, then they must |
do what every citizen is obliged to |
do, get down to brass tacks and
find more economical ways of doing
business.

“T can show them -how it can he
done in our own city as an example:
to begin with. Only by such means
Can our country become strong
enough to bear the burden of war,
It must be all or none. Let us see
what are the true colors of those
who are selling huge quantities of
oil to governments of the world. j

urge them to begin by obeying ts
law of the land.”

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Empire Cafe
160 West Hastings St.

Melrose Cafe
716 W. Hastings St. 4

Province Cafe
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Douglas Cafe
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Paris Cafe
438 West Pender St.

Palace Cafe
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