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

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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

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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

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BRUCE MICKLE
SATURDAY