ALAN CLAPP @ LPP CANDIDATE FOR YALE As a veteran of the war of 1914-18, where he served with the Gloucestershire Regiment, a trade unionist of long standing, and an outstanding leader in community affairs, Alan Clapp, Labor Progressive candidate for Yale constituency in the federal elections, continues a career of . keen interest and diligent effort in the progressive movement. Alan Clapp has had consider- able experience and background in community activities in his constituency, and has for years been an active leader in the po- litical movement. Expelled from the CCF,. whose standard he bore in the last provincial elections, because of his demands for unity with other progressive forces, he is another of the increasing number who have realized through experience the vital need in the coming government for a democratic coalition. A long trade union history, which goes back over ten years when he was president of the B.C. Telephone Workers Federa- tion, has stood Clapp in good stead in his campaigning for better conditions for ‘workers and lent a broad understanding to the requirements of the farm- ers. Now a member of the Grand Forks Rehabilitation Council, and secretary of the Grand Forks Board of Trade, Clapp finds time to assist in working out com- munity problems, and in assist- ing discharged servicemen to make the adjustment to civilian life. Alan Clapp, as LPP candidate for the federal riding of Yale, deserves the support of the people of that area, his record indicates that he will truly rep- resent the needs of the people. @ LPP CANDIDATE FOR KAMLOOPS In the lean years for the farm- ers of the hill country of British Columbia and Alberta, Henry Codd watched with bitterness as prize stock, pure bred strains of cattle representing years of care- ful breeding by the ranchers and farmers, sold for pennies. The harsh lessons ‘of the depression years when the haunting shad- ews of foreclosure and sale hung over the heads of the struggling farmers of the interior are deep- ly ingrained in the memory of this farmer. As President of the Farmers’ Institute at Notch Hill for the past eight years, Codd has watch- ed the growing prosperity of the farmers brought about by the demands of the war and in- ereased production and recorded it as an indication of the type of future that this country is capable of offering to the farm- ers. His knowledge of national and international affairs has raised him to a position of lead- ership among the rural people of the interior. Henry Codd served four years with the Canadian Army in the first World War, and bears the scars of two wounds. Following the war he came back and settled in. Alberta where he farmed under the Soldier Settle- ment Board for eight years from 1920 until 1930. A farm special- ist and breeder of pure strain HENRY CODD cattle, Codd is an example of the model farmer, and has a keen understanding of the special problems confronting the farm workers and farmers. His knowl- edge of their needs and require- ments. and his experience. as a farmer have enabled him to -ac- quire qualification as a spokes- man in Ottawa for the people of his constituency. \ Henry Codd has very realistic ideas about rural electrification, training facilities, rehabilitation, youth, and the disposal of farm produce through government marketing boards. He realizes fully the measures that are es- sential to modernize and improve facilities for improved farming. As Labor ~Progressive Candi- date for Kamloops federal con- stituency, Henry Codd has all the necessary qualifications to represent his constituency in the House of Commons at Ottawa. @ LPP. CANDIDATE FOR VICTORIA Garry Culhane is no newcomer ' to the ranks of the progressive movement. For generations his family- has produced in his own words, “At least two in every generation who were exiled, jail- ed, horsewhipped or hanged for revolutionary activities.” The revolutionary tradition in the field of progressive politics and trade union activities has been more than manifest in this mem- ber of the Culhane clan. Son of an Irish judge Garry Culhane has been intimately as- sociated with the progressive movement. ever since he left home to seek his fortunes in the world. He has worked his way across the Atlantic twice on tramp steamers, worked in struc- tural steel on the waterfronts of Montreal, and lent his knowledge. and energy to the progressive movement for many years. As Secretary of the Shipyard General Workers Federation, a PAGE 12 — P.A. MAGAZINE! SECTION LPP STANDAR _ of the mining barons, and now federated body of the shipyard trade unions of B.C., Culhane is a well-known figure in trade union circles. Election to this position of trust and leadership in one of the nation’s largest union bodies came as a logical climax to a career of diligent ef- fort in the interests of organized labor. E In 1934, while in Montréal, Culhane worked unceasingly in the progressive movement, and two years later in a city in which calumny and lies were dissemin- ated about the revolutionary struggle of the Spanish Republi- cans by the pro-fascist forces, Culhane was active in the move- ment to send aid to the forces of freedom fighting in Spain. Culhane was active following this period in organizing the re- tail employees of a large Mont- real department store and on be- ing fired for his union work sold vacuum cleaners from door to coor finding an outlet for his progressive tendencies in the League for Peace and Democracy and the Youth Council. Arrested under the Defence of Canada Regulations in 1940, Cul- hane was released after forcing action for a trial by a one-man hunger strike and:-following a protest by the Government of Eire. . Afte¥ coming to Vancouver, he worked as a ship’s fitter in North Burrard Yard, and moving to Victoria became a loftsman and was elected President of Boiler- makers Local No. 2. Garry Culhane, as LPP candi- date for Victoria, carries into GARRY CULHANE e the federal campaign, a_ spirit and forcefulness that indicates a real understanding of and will- ingness to work for the interests of the people. @ LPP CANDIDATE ~ FOR EAST KOOTENAY For over twenty years a fight- er for the miners in the Koot- enays, Harvey Murphy, Inter- national Representative of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, has be- come identified with all of the gains achieved through collective bargaining in the mining em- pires. . Murphy’s name is a household word through the Crow’s -Nest Pass area and the whole lower southeast corner of British Co- lumbia. This candidate recog- nizes the untold wealth that lies unrealized in the wooded hills and rich narrow valleys of the mountain country. His diligent work and wun- ceasing effort has helped im- measurably in breaking the grip that the unions are organized he is resolved that the miners and millworkers of the Kootenays may look forward to an era of plenty commensurate with the wealth of the part of the country in which they live. Murphy is unremitting in his attitude toward the exploitation of the country’s resources by the CPR empire and its subsidiaries. He is determined that the miners will realize the fruits of their effort in improved housing, elim- ination of company towns and substitution of planned housing projects, improvement of moun- tain roads, full realization of the wealth of the Kootenays, better compensation -regulations, and the benefits to be achieved from labor partnership in government. As Labor Progressive Candi- date for East Kootenay, Harvey Murphy has the backing. of the organized mine and millworkers of the Kootenays and the support of the woodworkers of the in- terior, who have been consider- ably aided by Murphy’s organiz- ing efforts among the miners. A candidate who represents a forward looking section of the workers, and who has support in ene of the most politically aware sections of the country. @ LPP CANDIDATE FOR VANCOUVER BURRARD British Columbias’ only wo- man candidate. This courageous woman has for years been identi- fied with the struggles of the people. In 1934 she and her hus- band and small family tried homesteading in the swampy wastes of Northern Saskatche- wan, and after a year of hard slugging against relentless na- ture, was forced to give up the homesteading project. At one time Provincial Organ- izer for the CCF, Minerva Cooper left that party when she found that their policies were not in line with the needs of the people. Later she was identified with the small farmers of the prairies in theirs fight for government assistance, organizing 200 meet- ings and 380 conferences. Went te Ottawa on the famous ‘‘One- Way Campaign” as spokesman, which campaign resulted in- the increasing of grants to small farmers of the prairies. Game to Vancouver early in 1943, and became closely identi- fied with the. struggle for better housing and improved play- ground facilities for children. Largely through Minerva ‘Coop- ers’ campaigning, a fact recog- HARVEY MURPHY MINERVA cog nized by the nurses 2) Vancouver General Hc campaign for better q the staff of the hospitf in success. ~ : Now as Labor Candidate in Vancouv # she is staunchly fightig proved housing facili erly staffed and super §, grounds, increased ol€ sions, minimum wag«@ for hospital attendant } ing of help to worke } their own homes, a § kousing project. 4 A candidate who, by kas proven that she t§& sents the interests of ers. s @ LPP CANDIL FOR SKEEN, From the progres: | Movement, Bruce [I § has risen through ea: and sincere struggle tJ ef leadership in circles. : Nominated at a pur ' in Prince Rupert, as = & gressive candidate f Mickleburgh bears tk for the sprawling no stituency that numb §, its electors people wi stantly struggling rigors of nature. Repr'§ area that abounds in: forests, fish and mine & ing the industrial. °& province’s northland, § a sleeping giant of! wealth. : Mickleburgh is a the depression years. & the harsh .years of - | eked out an existence {ff bowling alleys and sir collecting an armful f ships which saw hir ® college. For two years 6 q BRUCE MICKLE SATURDAY