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Page 8 — Saturday, November 25% 1944

Eastern Labor Leader
Tours British Columbia

Sponsored by the Workers’ Educational Association, a
series of meetings featuring the well known eastern labor
leader Robert Haddow, have been arranged for British Colum-
bia trade unionists at several points in the province.

Haddow, grand lodge repre-
Sentative of the International
Association of Machinists in the
Montreal area is the man who
won the respect and admiration
of Canadian unionists when he
organized the large aircraft
plants in Vickers, Noorduyn and
Fairchild at a time when organ-
izing in Quebec was most diffi-
eult.

His views: on postwar perspec-
tives for aircraft have been com-
piled in booklet form and pro-
vide the basis for policies ac-
cepted and now being fought
for by the trade unions in the
aircraft industry.

FO ADDRESS CONFERENCE

Claude Donald of the WEA an-
‘hounces that Haddow will give
the keynote address at a reha-

bilitation and reconstruction con-
ference on Sunday, December 10
in the Vancouver Hotel and will
also speak at an open meeting in
the city on December 13: A ten-
tative itinerary has been arranged
to cover the following places at
which Haddow will speak: Mich-
el, December 4; Kimberley, De-
cember 5; Trail, December 6;
Hedley, December 8; Copper
Mountain, December 9; New
Westminster and Vancouver “on
December 10. He will speak at
several Vancouver Island points
on December 11 and 12, return-
ing for a meeting in Vancouver
next day. Haddow will be in Vic-
toria on December 14 and at
Brittania on December 15. Ar-

Tanfements haye also been made |

for a trip to Seattle.

. Continued from Page 1

Civic Elections

portiun of the citizenry, but
earlier this year the CCE con-
trived to sabotage, through with-
drawal and direct attack the
only practical organized steps
being taken to achieve results.
Programs are poor substitutes
for action.

Especially unfortunate is the
possibility that labor’s repre-
sentation on city council, which
might have been achieved on an
adequate scale this year, will
suffer from the beclouding of
issues and the partisan conflict
which has been generated.

_ PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE

Gandidacy of John McPeake
‘for city council provides the
voters with the opportunity of
electing one candidate whose
stand on civic issues is clear and
constructive, in program and in
record of leadership. McPeake’s
election will ensure that the
yoice of the people for im-
mediate ‘action, without regard

to partisan considerations will

be heard strongly and effectively
in the coming crucial months.

In other departments of civic
administration, the Parks and
School Boards, the confusion in-
herent in the present “slate” ap-
proach will probably have less
effect due more to past record
of these departments than to
intention of aspirants for office.

Entry of John Goss into the
Parks Board contest, at the re-
quest of friends, is a welcome
move for Vancouverites who are
well acquainted with the tre-
mendous contribution this well-
known cultural leader has made
to the city’s development in this
sphere.

Effie Jones, active participant
in civie social and educational
issues affecting the lives of
thousands of Vancouver chil-
dren, will merit the support of
progressives for the undoubted
drive and energy she will be able
to put into School Board activi-

ties.

Continued from Page 1

Public

for public ownership of the BCE.

“Shipyard workers have a very

keen interest in seeing the prov-
ince take over this monopoly and
develop our hydro resources,” he
stated. “The problem of em-
ployment for shipyard workers
after the war is intimately bound
up with the expansion of other
industries in B.C. It is quite
obvious we shall not have such
expansion without adequate: pow-
er, and record of power devel-
opment on the North American
continent shows that public own-

an adequate and planned pro-
gram.”

The importance of public own-
ership, of utilities was stressed

ership is the only way to ensure:

Ownership Of BCE

also by Tom MecHwen, LPP pro-
vincial organizer, and Hilgin Rud-
dell, LPP city secretary. Mc-
Ewen, who has just returned
from the Yukon where he is fed-
eral labor candidate, saw the

move as needing the utmost pub-|

lic support to counter the strong
propaganda and maneuvers of
reaction.

“There is no doubt,” he said,
“that there are powerful groups
whose influence extends directly
into the provincial cabinet who
fear public ownership of power

because of their resentment of

any inroads on their antiquated
conceptions of ‘free enterprise.’

“The people of B.C. must join

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together in one mighty demai.
overriding timidity, greed 4
narrow self-interest, and com)
the progressive elements in t
government to move boldly j

the overall public interest.”

Ruddell said that the Vanec
ver LPP was pressing for cj
action to participate in the mo
by municipal ownership of t!
BCER transportation 4

Syste
He eriticized Mayor Cornett
the latter’s continued obstructi:
cf such a move and felt that £
coming civie elections would pr’
vide the opportunity for remc.

ing Cornett from the city h:

and thereby. enabling a new le:
to be given by Vancouver ei
council. :

YOU.

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