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Subscription Drive
vews and Standings

pAR FRIENDS:
| This is the day we’ve all
mS: time—a new s

one of our star drive workers, Bill Pur-
interviews with

rere send 2S you see by our
May lt wave, and be in every sense
he word an adyocate for the Tights and welllbeiience all
adians, not only here on the Pacific but right across Canada!

# I had hoped to be able to greet the new paper in this col-

: F readers, but the drive
y stands at only a little over the first thousand, so you see

Fairview is still leading the parade and is the first Hees
the 100 mark with 104 subseriptions to date. Purvis is

mi ace new readers and were contacted right on the job. In
4 the experience of many driye workers is that this is the

s; productive field one can work in, and now that we have a

yew paper to display we urge that every worker in industry

= himself with several copies and really concentrate on get-
- hew readers among his’ fellow-workers on the job.

Hastings Fast is still maintaining second place and has
ged in 715 subseriptions, 14 of these secured by P. Fiori. But
de is quite a gap between Hastings Bast and the next commit-
.e-South Vancouver with 56, and then comes Burrard Hast
= 51 and West End with 50. Among city drive workers who
~@ cendering a good account of themselves are Perey Budd of
Gard East with 18 on his score card and William Hreherchuk
ast End who has turned in 17 new subs, 16 of which were
Hine year too!”
jAmong the outside committees, Prince Rupert Club is high-
Beith 45 subs, and Skeena Constituency is still far in the lead
487 subs. Bruce Mickleburgh is still busy. and sent in sev-
@emore this week, his personal score is now 34, so he is hard
pie heels of Bill Purvis. Positions of the other constituencies
| not changed a great deal since last acceuntinge. Comox-
#801 has 47; New Westminster 37, and 12 of these are from
¥eendustrious Vesterbacks at Aldergrove. Victoria has 2814
ji the North Victoria Glub; Kamloops has 25, nine from GC.
gmeace, who reports that there will be
#3: from Notch Hill.
(e Vargaret Black asks me to remind city press drive workers
j@eche tickets for the drive dance on December 1 are now in
lation, and also to announce that the amount of ticket
in each branch will be credited to their Federal election
Rey campaign.
==) lany copies of “Sabotage” have already been mailed, and
| are going out every day, so if your copy hasn’t arrived yet
| be along shortly. -
set’S Speed up the drive friends—I am just waiting for
reek that I can tell you we’ve put 500 new names on the
md if you feel as enthusiastic about. the “Pacific Advocate”
» do here in the office I feel sure that I will be able to do so
2 November is much older. So till next week,
: Yours sincerely,

GRACE GREENWOOD.

Enis

more yery shortly, and.

man with his 35, and Al Grinkus next with 21, nearly all of -

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PublicPower

The resolution also urges
Prmier Hart to “proceed imme
diately, by expropriation if
necessary, to secure the most
rapid development of the Bridge
River hydro-electric project.”
This project, the resolution
States, has ample potential
power available within easy ac-
cess of the Vancouver area,
“which the BCE monopoly has
failed to bring into production
before or during the war,” there-
by causing a shortage of power
which “puts a sharp limitation
on the production of war ma-
terials and makes very difficult
the expansion of peacetime pro-

duction.”
Municipal ownership of the
BCER transportation system

was also called for by the mem-
bers in another resolution which
cited the benefits of such a move
as proved by other Ganadian
cities.

Fergus McKean, LPP provin-
cial leader, who delivered the
main report at the meet, vigor-
ously attacked the opposition of
reactionaries to the public own-
ership move. He accused these
elements of blinding themselves
to the benefits that would accrue
to the province, out of a desire
to hang on to their profits and
out of fear that public owner-
ship in this field would be set-
ting a precedent.

“This is nonsense,” McKean
declared. “British Columbia
needs public ownership of power
in order to solve the problem of
the present shortage, as well as
for reclamation and irrigation,
rural electrification, flood con-
trol, a planned development of
available resources, and not
least, cheaper electricity for
household users. °

“Private ownership is incap-
able of carying out these respon-
sibilities. The record of public
ownership in other provinces in
Canada is a guarantee that this
is the only method of solving this
key question of our economy.”

McKean also sharply attacked
the CCF for taking no stand on
the question. They are opposed
to Hart doing the job, he declar-
ed; because they want no one but
themselves to be acclaimed as
champions of public ownership.
As q result they have weakened
the campaign to serve the in-
terests of the people now.

The LPP leader called for a
major public campaign to smash
the maneuverings of the BCER
and reaction and to translate
the demands of the vast majority.

into action.

BH. McKEAN -
Provincial
leader IL. PP

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8 P.M.

(DOWNSTAIRS)
339 West Pender

OUTTA USUNEAUS APU AT TTT

PUBLIC MEETING

“Public Ownership of the
B. C. Electric’”

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9th

Boilermakers Hail

Saturday, November 4, 1944 — Page 7

Patents were deported

During the occupation of his home town, Volodya’s ©
to Germany. The youngster,
driven out into the cold, was crippled by badly frozen feet.

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tive support of the CCE, was
not only lacking in Toronto, but
an instance of it in the TLG
ranks was sharply condemned by
formal resolution. The resolu-
tion adopted condemned former
vice-president Paul Fournier of
Montreal for threatening to
launch. a campaign against
“Communistie elements” in the
Montreal Trades and labor
Council. This stand was another
confirmation of the unity of the
delegates as well as of Ben-
gough’s- statement that the TLG

“stood squarely for national
unity.”
Fournier’s redbaitinge was

paralleled by his opposition on
the convention floor to coopera-
tion with other labor organiza-
tions. This splitting attitude was
rejected by the delegates, who
adopted a resolution urging such
collaboration and instructing the
executive to give serious study
to the possibility of establishing
one trade union center in Canada.

A startling contrast which
symbolizes the unity of the TLG
convention on the one hand and
the disunity at the CCL meet
was provided in the election of

TLC Convention

officers. Whereas the GGL elec-
tions were bitterly fought out,
and the results disclosed a heavy
vote for those who contested
seats against the reelected offi-
cials, in a proportion of two to
three, TLC delegates reelected
their president, Perey Bengough,
secretary-treasurer, Pat Sulli-
yan, and two of the vice-presi-
dents by acclamation.

Among the many constructive
resolutions adopted in ‘Toronto
was a reaffirmation of the “no-
strike” pledge, adopted without
discussion. QOther resolutions ap-
proved family allowances, called
for a postwar 40-hour week at
present earnings, favored in-
come tax exemptions starting at
$2400 for married persons and
$1000 for single.

The problem of securing full
employment was considered and
a forward-looking proposal was
made that the government set up
a national planning commission
on which labor would be repre-
sented.

The convention marked the
Diamond Jubilee of a national
trade union movement in Can-
ada.

A Program of Political Comment

An interpretation of Wecal,

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