ctims aember of the party’s cen- ommuibee: Pee Sundarayya, arrested for a May Day .. Sundarayya is alsa secretary of the All-India | Sabha (Peasant Union). ler ‘his guidance, last year embership of this organ- 4 inereased from 100,000 000. Now he is jailed and been refused newspapers, bedding and spectacles. interviews, _Cawnpore, the biggest 2 centre in* the United nees, S. S. Yusuf and San- Chandra Kapoor, president seeretary of the Textile ers’ Union and Ashok Bose, cary of the Tannery Woork- Union, have been arrested. IOUT TRIAL. - sse three outstanding Com- st labor leaders have been sed without ‘trial, after we through a big anti-pro- ing drive. yananda Ghowdhury, Com- st leader in.a key industrial of Caleutta, who headed an. tion for greater cost-of-liv- sllowanees for the workers jailed for a May Day speech cefused bail. 2 ‘> Communist paper Peo- War, in ‘its English, Urdu editions, has ‘ed from the United . The Government’s “for this is said ‘to be. “written for the paper by idra Singh. been Prov- an ar- ick in 1930, Singh, as the x of a detachment of Garh- ‘soldiers, refuséd to give the - to fire on an. unarmed d. ‘Kean Speaks " , LPP Youth meeting of the Ginger Good- Club youth club of the La- Progressive “Party, will hold ecial open meeting at Grand- : Labor-Progressive Club, on day, July 9, at 8:00...Fergus ‘ean, Provincial Leader of: the , williaddress the meeting ‘on subject “The Role of a Marx- Party.” i ae. Ginger. Goodwin Club is 4 composed of younger mem- of the Labor-Progressive ty and it isshoped' that a num- ‘of clubs of similar nature will “ormed throughout the city in | near future. The clubs will bine social and educational vities » designed to. attract ng peoples = «oy as -E 3 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE Hindu: “reas ia Communists Of By A. S. R. CHARI OMBAY, India—During the ‘ment has been waging an offensive against the Com- st Party throughout the country. lerror e ea = past month the Indian In his article in People’s War he wrote: “In 1930 I refused to fire on our unarmed people. To defend that people today I want to take up arms again. I want ta rouse the youth of Garhwal and the whole country for. the defence of our Motherland.” This article was reprinted by many papers, but neither the Bombay authorities, where Peo- ple’s War is published, nor the Central Government took any action against these papers. All these arrests and orders have come because the Commun- ist press and and leaders have been foremost in opposing the bureaucratic bungling corrup- tion and black-marketeering. The lower officials fear the Communists because they expose their corruption and fight’ their hoarding friends. These officials send false reports to higher-ups, and the latter gladly sanction prosecutions. The Indian nationalist press— the Bombay Chronicle, Sentinel, ete., have severely condemned the action of the United Prov- inees Government. To fight reactionary attacks on the rork for reconversion,- urgently needed. L. to R-: Baldwin; Hillman and Benson. a strong Natl. Citizens’ NCPAC Asst. Chairman C. B. Soviet Union and PAC is Rap Council Stall On Proposed Civic Center Permission by city authorities for erection of a concrete structure building on a part of the site chosen for the ‘pro- posed Civic Center has raised a question ‘as to whether the Vancouver City Council’s expressed opposition has succeeded in shelving the scheme, at least temporarily. : Attention was drawn to the matter at the regular meeting of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council when Delegate Sam Shearer expressed the opinion that the construction now going on at the west side of Beatty Street between Pender Miners Protest CM&S Action In Stopping Bonus Payment The Trail and Kimberley locals of the International Un- ion of Mine, Mill & Smélterworkers moved this week to fight the action of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co., which discontinued its share bonus plan as of May 8. The share bonus plan was first put! into effect around 1925, at that time any employee who had been in the employ of the company for three or more years on January | or July 1, re- ceived one share of company stock. This plan later developed into a two-year arrangement effective every January and July 16:as.a result of the company splitting its original share into five shares. It was then that each two years’ service quali- fied an employee for one new share. A further development took place when the company decided to pay $40 cash in lieu of a share, and for the past four years the employees of the com- pany received, if they had two years service on the _ specified dates, a sum of $40: * Mr. Blaylock wrote a letter to all employees on September 7; 1944, stating that this share bonus would be discontinued at the end of hostilities in Europe. On June 23, employees of the Consolidated who normally would \ have qualified for share bonus, received only $20 as the result of the implementation of Blay- lock’s threat to discontinue pay- ment. In an editorial published in the B.C. District News, organ of the Initernational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, it is stat- ed. ‘The latest action of :the Consolidated Mining and Smelt- ing Company at Trail offers fur- ther and conclusive proof that the bonus system is one of the chief repressive tools of the mine eperators. “The share bonus, one of the institutions at It is into long standing Trail is being withdrawn. not necessary here to. go the history of the share bonus, but a few words of explanation might be in order.” / The editorial then traces the history of the share bonus plan, and points out that the share benus plan withdrawal in fact represents a reduction in earn- ings, “as does the. withdrawal of any of the other benuses when the company sees fit to cancel them.” “The Trail local has declared a dispute on the share bonus question, but whatever way the bonus dispute is settled, the union has declared war on the bonus system, and will fight to. see that this evil is replaced by a stabilized wage for workers in the hard rock mining industry.” and Dunsmuir ‘“‘seemed some- what ridiculous” in view of the Civic Center proposals. “Byveryone is asking the same question,”: replied Council Presi- dent Birt Showler. “Putting a building there seems silly to everyone except our city alder- ment. It would appear they have no intention of endorsing or assisting m the proposed proj- ect.” Discussion on the matter arose out of a letter from Ald. H. L. Corey which in effect denied the soundness of the scheme and asserted that a recent trades council resolution urging its im- plementation had overlooked the possible interference of the cen- ter with a proposed ‘distributor’ street suggested by City Engin- eer Brakenridge which would run through the center site. “The building of a civic cen- ter would interfere greatly “with the distributor street project and we are holding the matter up un- til the city engineer and Mr. Bartholomew, the town planning consultant, can get together,” Alderman Corey wrote council. Denying that the special com- mittee appointed by the trades council some week ago .to study the matter had ignored the pro- posed distributor street, , Coun- cil Secretary R. Ki:Gervin: em- phasized that Brakenridge’s sug- gested traffic artery could be built in another direction with- out interfering -with the Civic Center. “The City Council’s attitude on this, as on ‘housing, is entirely ri- diculous. It would appear that they sim- ply lack the initiative to pro- ceed in any forward direction.” The trades council will send three delegates to a proposed, meeting under auspices of the National Film Board at which improvements in the services of the Trade Union Film Circuit will be discussed. It is understood that representatives of other la- bor groups, including the CCL Vaneouver Labor Couneil, will also be present. Rivet Scale Controversy ls Settled The impasse that has existed between the Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union Local No. 1, and the B.C. Shipbuilders Federation with regard to the price to be paid for rivets driven on transport ferries at present under construction in Vancouver yards, moved closer to solution this week with the announce- ment that agreement had been reached on a price-list, subject to ratification by the union mem- bership. The announcement cli- maxed .a situation. which has caused a slowdown in the ship- building industry for a period of ever two months, and was. in- itiated by the rejection by the shipbuilders of a rivet price-list in Victoria. Although the prices agreed on are not those originally submit- ted by the union, the gains in the new list more than balance the concessions that were made in order to facilitate proceedings and commence work with as little further delay as possible. As the price-list now stands, the union feels that the acceptance of the list by the shipbuilders repre- sents a victory in the dispute, and a gain over the original list submitted. The list will come before a special meeting of rivetters, who will consider. the price-list, a general meeting will vote on prices, and if ratified, the com- pany and union will make a joint application to the War Labor Board for acceptance. It is felt that the board will consider the application favorably, and there is every possibility that the prices will become effective through- out the industry in Vancouver as soon as the board notifies the company and union of its deci sion. The recent government crisis in Norway has been resdlved by the formation of a Cabinet in which every major party, from right to left, is represented with the Labor Party holding the ma- jority. — Two Communist members are included in the new Cabinet, which is clear recognition of the important role this party played in the resistance movement. The seating of the communist mem- bers had the full support of the Labor Party. The new Prime Minister, Einar Gerhardsen, Labor member, is still a member of the Roadwork- ers Union. At the time of the German invasion he was the mayor of Oslo, Norway’s capital city. - Shortly after the entry of the German army into Norway, Ger- hardsen was arrested for “illegal” activtiy. He spent the next four years in German con- centration camps. ‘Three other members of the new Cabinet were confined in Germzn prison camps. : The two Communist Cabinet members are Labor Minister Strand Johansen the Consulta- tive Minister. Mrs. Kristen Han- steem whose special field is children’s and women’s welfare. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1945.