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JUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1945

Strike
Aid
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Leader Will Rall

In Labor’s Struggle
curity And Progress

News was received in. Vancouver this week from the Regional Director
of the United Automobile Workers of America,
Auslane, Chairman of the National Windsor-Ford Strike Committee, and

Wm. Sivell,

advising that Alex Mc-

representative of Local 200, U.A-.W.A., Windsor, Ontario, will

arrive in Vancouver Friday, on-their first stop in a tour which will cover the
province. The tour will be part of the campaign to bring the issues of the

“2s everywhere, as

-cking class people

in every country,
e in the outcome
“nt struggle of the
“people to wrest
“1 from the Dutch,”
ybeson, chairman of
‘on African Affairs,
1g on latest devel-
‘ae Netherlands Fast

cy over fascism will
, said, “only if im-
‘viped out along with
e masses of people
‘1 -order their own
of existing and la-
-e profit of alien rul-
ovivileged minority.
_the Indonesians are
. Their fight is that
‘ssed peoples.”

appreciation of this
a pointed out, which
idable action of west
oremen and Austra-
«ers refusing to load
upplies for breaking
an revolt. -
de unions here and
iould follow the lead
these longshoremen
ie workers, he said,
‘orld Federation of
S, recently establish-
e€ used as an instru-
lited labor action in
his and other strug-
onial peoples which
eaeine, in sharpness.
> liberation struggles
, Asia and India, but
strikes and labor un-
erla, French Camer-
her sections of Af-
dence of the colonial
atience with the old
regime. .
Sed it as his opinion
aS needed on the part
fevernment officials
the order to remove
United States lend
ils being used in the
rush the Indonesian
inese revolts. “Our
Should not merely
licy of non-interven-
id, “but should ac-
it the restoration of
“any other imperial-
far East.

Indians and co-

Paris voters wait in line as a woman casts her first vote in a national election, the first

French national election since 1936. Election results upset all predictions,

munists a plurality of the votes.

giving Com-

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Crystal Poo! Racial Discrimination
Is Parks Board Responsibility

The Vancouver Parks Board this week informed P.A. that its
regarding swimming privileges in the Crystal Pool will be maintained.
ance of the prejudicial attitude of the Board

in permitting Chinese,

“Jim Crow” policy
The mainten-
Japanese, East

Indians and Negroes to use the facilities of the Pool only on segregated days is a fur-
ther evidence of the reactionary and anti-democratic nature of Board officials.

Yellowknife LPP Scores
Mine Boss Appointees

The Yellowknife,

NWT, Labor-Progressive Party Club

has written to the Prime Minister protesting the appointment
of a local magistrate and three representatives of the northern
mining interests to the governing board of the Northwest

Territories.

The letter to the Prime Min-
ister states: “The chairman of
the local board of trustees, an
appointee, is also the local mag-
istrate. Public opinion has it that
this individual should have no
right to a seat on the local board
of trustees either as an appoin-
tee or the privilege of running
for election to this board. The

other three appointes represent
large mining companies.”

The communication points out
that the four appointed members
comprise a majority, and states
that they should have to seek

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See YELLOWENIFE

The mest recent occurrence
of discrimination at the Crystal
Pool was reported in the daily
press, and in the columns of
this paper, recently, when Chi-
nese members of the King Ed-
ward High School swimming
team were refused entry because
of racial bias. While a report
‘was given of the occurence in
the daily press, it is understood
that Parks Board officials were
in contact with the Vancouver
daily newspapers to “lay off”
the item.

The excuse given to justify
the Board’s action, according to a
spokesman, was, “When we first
opened the pool there were no
restrictions, but parents of chil-
dren using the pool objected.

(Gottinnad on Page 8)
See DISCRIMINATION

Ford Strike situation to the
people of this province, and
to raise funds for the strikers
fighting for union security.

Word was received this

week of a number of storm

in the strike situation.
Reports are widely circulated
throughout the Windsor area
that the Ontario government is
preparing to send Provincial Po-
lice into Windsor, either to in-
timidate the workers or smash
the strike. The report is strength-

signals

ened by the fact that the Ford —

Motor Company, astute experts
of the gentle art of strike break-
ing, have withdrawn watchmen
from Ford plants, thus paving
the way for the company to de-
mand “protecting of property.’
The strikers are protesting that
from the attitude expressed by
the Ford company, property
tights are taking precedence
over human rights, and are urg-
ing that wires be sent to On-
tario Attorney-General Blackwell
protesting any interference by
Provincial Police to the detri-
ment of organized labor.

Following the Windsor civic
government decision to withdraw
relief payments to strikers and
their families, an efficient sys-
tem of relief is being operated
by the union. Thousands of
strikes are receiving sufficient
support to enable them to con-
tinue the fight to a finish. Mean-
while, the labor movement across
Canada, realizing that the strike
is laying the foundation of fu-
ture labor relations in this coun-
try are sending financial sup-
port to enable the striking wor-
kers to continue their battle
against the provocation of the
Ford Company.

MORALE HIGH

Union leaders estimate that at
least $25,000 a week is required
to keep the strike in full swing.
The number of people affected
by the strike, including the 11,-

000 striking Ford workers, has.

soared to between 30 and 40
thousand. The union assures or-
ganized labor across Canada
that the morale of the strikers
is high, and urges continued fi-
nancial support to help them to

stick it out until victory is
achieved.
The ‘British Columbia Wind-

sor Ford Strike Committee has
reported scheduled meetings for
Alex McAuslane and Wm. Siv-
ell at many points. On Friday,
November 2, mass rally will be
held at the Boilermakers’ Hall,
8389 West Pender Street, at 8
p.m. Lake Cowichan is planning
a mass rally on Sunday, Novem-

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