Christian Movement in
College; and played a
ole in defeating fifth
etivities among Japan-
ts led by. Shubite Higa-
5 had as its objective
ivement of students in
ionist position. Organ-

n Wictoria campus, and
5piginal member of the
‘Youth Gouncil.
urgh has been “through
and has a history that
the era of freight and
as. He joined the Relief
Union and there gained
srounding in trade union
As executive member
‘CG. Teacher’s federation
istrumental in affiliating
7; to the Trades and La-
jxess of Canada.
'4n the Rural Teachers
Jion, he has fought with
lanization. for improved
kichers: salaries and con-
What exist today.
4’ Mickleburgh has come
dard way in the workers’
and is ideally suited to
: this northwestern con-

}> CANDIDATE
JR VAN. EAST ~

_-woodworkers of British
} have been: organized,
| ritchett, Labor Progres-
didate for Vancoover-
. been part of their union
3 Coming to Canada as
| 0y, son of a Birmingham
2 gardener, Harold Prit-
Jed in Port Moody where
ds schooling- and worked
cst mill.

i} yell-known and popular
'z, new President of Dis-
1 of the International
tkers of America, has
» the loggers’ unions
im a number of isolated
i shting under almost im-
] conditions to better the
_lot until today when he
f resident of one of the
| mions in Canada.

stt has been  pilloried
Wiklisted for his union ac-
he has been attacked
as a “dangerous” char-
the logging operators
dlls he was instrumental
izing, but through it all,
conviction of the justice
}atness of the workers’
s.caused him to fight on.
union history that goes

ede

47 more, Pritchett has be-
Fecognized as a fighting
fi In every campaign for
onditions, in every strug-
} retognition, in all of the
of the organized: wood-
4} of the west coast, both

\ROLD PRITCHETT

Ganadian Student As-.

nost as long as the log-

eer a-. period of twenty~

~

in Ganada and the -USA;s Prit-
chett*has taken some part.

Pritchett’s union activities are
not isolated to the logging un-
ions. Among other posts, he was
8 years an executive member of
the Vancouver Labor Council, is
a member of the Vancouver Citi-
zens’ © Rehabilitation | Council,
Secretary-Treasurer of the BC-
Federation of Labor, and a mem-
ber of the Government-Labor
Committee. Pritchett has served
trade unions in an executive. ca-
pacity for the greater portion of
the time that he has been con-
nected with the trade union
movement.

It is not unusual then that this
man, who has taken such an act-
ive part in the development of
the trade union movement, has
been nominated as ‘a candidate
for government office. Harold
Pritchett will take into govern-
ment the value of his years of
executive experience in the trade
union movement. A candidate
who richly deserves the support
of the electorate of Vancouver
East on the basis of his past
record. :

@ LPP CANDIDATE
FOR VAN. CENTRE

Born in Northumberland, son
of a coal-miner, Leading Seaman
Jimmy Thompson has been iden-
tified with the people’s movement

from childhood. His parents mov- —

ed from England to the coal-
mining area of the South and
there Jimmy, living in a south-
ern company town, first learned
of the struggle for existence that
is the worker’s everyday lot.
While Jimmy was still a child,
has’ family moved to Vancouver,
and here he got his schooling and
his experience as an active mem-
ber in the trade union and pro-
gressive movement. .
Leading Seaman Jimmy
Thompson has a sailing history
that goes -back to his fifteenth
year, when he -first boarded a
ship and went to sea. While a
sailor in the merchant marine he
learned at first hand that the
security and-well being of work-
ing men and women in all walks
of life depends upon organiza-

tion and ,upon planning closely *

identified with. all forces of pro-
gress.

He is now .a member of the
RCNVR, on leave, and has been

a member of the Navy since 1942. -

Jimmy Thompson, as. Labor
Progressive Candidate for Van-
couver-Centre, is a vital force of
youth and energy in politics. His
responsibility, foresight, and ex-

perience -in dealing with work- .-

L/S JIMMY THOMPSON

_ PAGE 13 — P.A. MAGAZINE SECTION

RERS FOR B.C.

ers’ problems as a member of
both AFL and CIO trade unions
make him worthy of bearing the
responsibility of working for the
people’s interests at Ottawa.

He is the only candidate in
Vaneouver-Centre with a trade
union background, and the only
eandidate with a first hand in-
terest and knowledge of rehabili-
tation problems of service men
and women.

Thompson is a popular figure
in the trade -union movement,
where hundreds .of members re-
gard him with the affection and
respect earned by years of able
and honest leadership, and for
his sincere regard for workers’
problems.

@ LPP CANDIDATE
FOR NEW WEST.

In seventeen years, as a news-
paperman, on assignments: that
have ranged from the Arctic to
the Tropics, Harold Griffin, LPP
candidate for New Westminster,

_has not been content to merely

report “ political and economic
trends, but has taken an active
part in the movements of: which
these developments are a part,
evident in his book “Alaska and
the Canadian Northwest”: which
received international acclaim.
Born .in Devon, orphaned at

' the age of five after his father

was killed in World War I, he
was brought up by a foster fam-
ily in London. There he first ent-
ered the newspaper game, work-
ing as a junior reporter on su-
burban weeklies and pursuing his
education at night school. While
on Fleet Street,. London’s news-
paper centre, Griffin worked as a

HAROLD GRIFFIN

reporter then as editor of the
Central News Agency, and com-
pleted his education at London
University.

Coming to Canada, he worked
cn newspapers from coast to
coast, finding time to spend a
year in Northern British Colum-
bia and the Yukon as a miner.
_ As a member of the CCF, Grif-
fin edited the old Commonwealth
and finally left that party when
ke found that its isolationism
and refusal to join.with other
progressive forces could not sat-
isfy him.

He is widely known for articles
exposing Japanese penetration,
and his articles were republished
in Canada and the. USA, reprint-
ed in Pravda in Moscow and in
Chinese newspapers. Through
his articles the issue was raised
in the House of Commons.

Griffin edited the People’s Ad-

rd

vocate and The Advocate, succes-
sors to the B.C. Worker’s News,
and played a part in struggles
of the unemployed, in the Span-

‘ish Aid campaign, in the fight to

boycott Japanese_goods, and in
the campaign to boycott the ship-
ment of war materials to Japan.
He fought Japanese economic
infiltration and espionage in B.C.,
realizing that war with Japan
was soon to come. He was editor
of “The People” from 1942 until
he resigned in 1944 to devote his
full time to his political cam-
paign.

© LPP CANDIDATE
FOR NANAIMO

Geotge Greenwell is the des-
cendant of the pioneer families
of Nanaimo, and was born in
He carries

Extension in- 1916.

with him the fighting traditions
of the coal-mining district where
he received his early training.

During the “hungry thirties”
Greenwell worked .in the coal
mines, actively participating in
the organization of union and
unemployed workers, and at the
same time struggled to obtain a
formal education after winning
a scholarship to the University
of B.C. ;

After receiving his teacher’s
certificate, Greenwell taught
school in many points of the
province, including Pender Island
end Saanich for seven years.

Never relaxing his efforts to
better. the working conditions of
his fellow workers, he joined the
BC Teachers Federation and be-
eame Secretary of the Rural
Teachers’ Association from 1942
to 1943. As a member of the
Federation he was a leader in
the move to affiliate that body to
the trade union movement. This
event was accomplished and be-
came historical as the first and
cnly trade union teachers’ organ-
ization in Canada.

He was later instructor in Co-
operatives and Credit Unions for
the Extension Department of the
UBC and is particularly well-
known for his work in the BC
Fishermen’s Co-operative move-
ment.

Following his honourable dis-
charge from the Royal Canadian
Airforce, Greenwell returned to
the field of co-operatives, and is
at present making a considerable
contribution to that movement as
Assistant Manager of the Kyu-
quot Troliers Co-operative Asso-
ciation.

This candidate’s long record of
leadership in many fields, togeth-
er with his popularity in his con-

LT. AUSTIN DELANY

stituency, makes George Green-
well, Labor-Progressive candi-
date for Nanaimo, the logical
choice .for the electors’ of his
constituency.

e@ LPP CANDIDATE
FOR VAN. NORTH

When Austin Delany went into
France on the evening of D-Day,
went into the greatest water-
borne invasion in the history of
human warfare, he was complet-
ing a pattern that had its begin-
nings in his high school years at
Kitsilano High School,

Lieut. Austin Delany, Labor
Progressive candidate for Van-
couver-North, might be termed
a case history of the pathway
followed by Canadian manhood
in the lean years and the years
of war. In his school years, dur-
ing the growth of fascism, De-
lany as a leader among the stu-
dents recognized the danger of
fascism’s threat to world peace
and security and worked end-
lessly among the youth organiz-
ing them into a concerted move
against the forces of reaction. As
editor of school papers, member
of debating teams, and active
member of the. Youth. Council,
and other progressive movements
of youth, Delany was constantly
alert against fascism’s insidious
poison.

Before enlisting, this popular
young soldier worked in Burrard
Shipyards, where he was a shop
steward in the Boilermakers
Union and was later appointed
secretary of the Joint Shipyard
Conference. :

When 14,000 troops tumbled
cut of the droning troop-carrying
planes over Germany, in the
greatest airborne invasion of the
war, Delany was among ‘them.
Behind the German lines these
courageous fighters for freedom
won every objective in less than
two hours. The bitter fighting
against crack Nazi troops em-
bittered Delany and made even
firmer his resolve that fascism
must be completely wiped from
the face of the earth by this war.

Delany commanded a group
of the hardy paratroops and was
wounded while leading his troops
against an enemy strongpoint.

This courageous product of the
youth and trade union movement
vichly deserves to represent the
people of his constituency in the
coming parliament.

Delany will carry the same
courageous resolve into the house
of parliament that has stood him
in such good stead in the years
in which he has fought so sin-
cerely for freedom and democ-
racy.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1945.

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