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progressive publications of the
present and the future.
Let’s get organized in the
publishing business; let’s get
united! The London ‘Daily
Worker” has given us the lead.
We could get thousands of
shareholders among the work-
ers of brain and muscle in
‘Eee: Canada, who would invest from
Penclude Gur $5.00 to $555.00 or maybe even
Esme is op- a $1,000 in such a wonderful
4 enterprise to make our country
a better place to live and work
in.

about the

| vith the Pro-

= Co., or, and : :
Publishers I’m ready and anxious to put
cooperative $25.00 into this, immediately.

Sincerely.
Gerald M. J. Delaney
1034 Colville Rd.
Esquimalt, B.C.

that would
|. the “Cana-
-e “National
and all other

or Political Action

| Jnion movement has entered Civic poli-
ir. Disgusted with the failure of the non-
Ftonsored city councils of Vancouver to
| ie burning problems facing the citizens,
(s—two from each labor council—will con-
_anic vacancies.

a started by the Vancouver and New West-
' and Labaer Council, was supported by
' ongress of Labor Council and it has been
-: councils will cooperate.

st time in a civic election campaign Labor
oO support a United slate of candidates.

endous step forward. A definite move to-
cal action by the trade union movement.
‘d be supported by all progressives rallying
de union candidates.

-=ct the action of CCF trade unionists, led
er, MLA, in the Vancouver Labor Coun-

lored.

vised’ CCF delegates openly at the meet-
-)minations and to oppose trade union par-
> politics, and further went on to insult the
t and the trades union movement in gen-
that union members are not fitted for
lack understanding of the philosophy of
-ement, such as understood by a political

_ statement Turner betrayed his own abys-
»f the trade union movement—its history

“on Turner’s advice, 29 CCF delegates duti-
their votes against nominees of the coun-
-:legates voted in favor.

sting to note, however, especially in view
referense to referendum votes, that the 29
senting for the most part small steel and
-ocals speak in the name of (certainty not
00 workers, whilst among the delegates
‘ipation are those from the IWA_ which
“s close to ten times that number—the
nd Shipyard Unions — the Hard-rock
y about eighty-five percent of the workers
the Council.

‘CCF follow up their adamant refusal to
_ the trade union movement in the Fed-
incial elections with insult and further
disruption in the civic contest.

Union Movement of this province must
f from those individuals who, masquer-
lestionable trade union membership, carry
: Partisan policies into Labor’s meetings.

L all progressives must rally around the
<andidates with a determined and united
efeat the non-partisan candidates-and give
nm Civic affairs.—

— PACIFIC ADVOCATE

Seamen’‘s Arrests

Editor P.A.:

The arrest and fmprisonment
of Seamen on their status of
employees for failing to agree
with theiz employers, savors of
the days of the Russian Czars
when it was a normal rule to
banish trade unionists to isola-
tion in icy Siberia. It is re-
ported in the press that 21 sea-
men have been convicted of
conspiring “to impede the voy-
ages” of two Park ships and
that they are now out on bail
awaiting sentence.

As to the charge of “imped-
ing” surély if a sailor has cause
to complain of a captain’s in-
human or indecent treatment
the logical place to complain is
when the ship is in port rather
than endanger safety by argu-

ment on the high seas. To deny

the right to make protest when
the ship is safely in harbor is
to take from the seamen every
democratic means by which to
prevent injustice by shipowners
who are astute enough to hire
the services of an unscrupulous
hard-boiled skipper to boost
profits. The question is: when
can a seaman make just pro-
test if he be punished for so
doing when his ship is in har-
bor?

John MacKenzie

Change of Heart

Editor, P.A.: :
.Upon glancing through a

paper recently I noticed an

item in which it was reported
that M. J. Coldwell, leader of
the CCF and arch-exponent of
the social-democrat brand of
socialism ir this country,

_ speaking to a public meeting in

Toronto, had branded the up-
rising of the Indonesian people
as unlawful and stated that
the British Army had every
right to assist in crushing their
bid for freedom from colonial
oppression.

If one can remember back
a few short months, one will
recall that the loudest in
his criticisms of British colon-
jal policy in India was Mr.
Coldwell, and in this province
will remember sounding speech-
es from CCF spokesmen at
rallies called in this city in sup-
port of the plea for Indian free-
dom. Assuming that Mr. Cold-
well and his disciples are not
experts at double-talk and de-
ceit, it is difficult to reconcile
their views on the question of
India to their views on Indo-
nesia.

Knowing the CCF leaders
and the nature of their “hon-

esty,” one has every right to.

assume that were the Indian
people to rise against British
oppression and slavery the CCF
would conveniently forget their
starry-eyed concern with the
problems of the Indian people
and justify the use of British
arms to crush a people’s upris-
ing with similar twaddle about
the nature of the Indian lead-
ers and the “lawlessness” of
the uprising. For Mr. Coldwell’s
appraisal of the Indonesian up-
rising can no more be reconciled
than would such views on In-
dia.

James Partridge.

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Ford Company of Canada

QuE wave of sympathy and its concrete expression, for the striking

workers of the Ford plant at Windsor, would undoubtedly be greater
if the facts behind the organization of the Ford Motér Company of
Canada were more widely known.

To spread that: knowledge, I am therefore introducing a guest ecol-
ummnist here this week, Mr. Wallace Ronald Campbell, whose connection
with that grasping corporation you will learn as this column proceeds.
This interview. as we may call it. is-an extract from the minutes of the
Federal Parliamentary Committee Investigating the Economic Condi-
tions of the Farmers; Ottawa, April 26, 1923.

- Mr. Wallace Ronald Campbell is on the stand giving evidence under
oath. ,

Question: What position do you occupy in the Ford Motor Com-
pany of Canada? Answer: Vice-President and treasurer.

Q. Are you the chief executive officer? A. Yes, in Canada,

Q. When was the company formed? <A. In 1903, my predecessor,
Gordon MacGregor, conceived the idea of establishing a Ford company
in Canada. He approcched the Ford people, who were smal] at that
time, and an arrangement was made whereby a company was to be
established in Canada, as was done, with a nominal capital of $125,000.
Fifty-one per cent of that stock was assigned to stockholders of the
Ford Motor Company, Detroit. At that time the Detroit company had
Some seven shareholders. This, stock was given to them without mone-
tary cost, and for which the Detroit company assigned to the Cana-
dian company, rights to supply the Canadian territory and the British

Empire, with the exception of the British Isles which territory we still
serve exclusively.

eg What amount of your money was furnished by Canadian inter-
ests ?

A. Forty nine per cent of the $125,000, some $63,000, not strictly
Canadian for subscriptions were taken at large, quite a number of them
from the States.

Q. What is your company capitalized at now?
dollars.

Q. How much dividends have you paid on that . .. in the whole
period? A. $10,000,000 in cash and about $6,000,000 in stock.

Q. How was the capital increased to the present amount? <A. By
earnings. There was never any fresh money taken in.

Mr. Sales then proceeded to question Mr. Campbell and we have the
following dialogue. Q.I suppose you saw this article about election time
in one of the Toronto papers, that $125,000 had grown to $30,000,000
in 17 years? You invested and got the money back 73 times. Is that
true? A.I would have to look at it.. I never saw the news item before.

Q. I want to find out if there is any truth in it? A. This statement,

A. Seven million

' No. 89, shows the facts as to our present worth.

Q. What is your present worth? A. Our present worth, July 31, 1922:
surplus, $12,500,000; capital, $7,000,006. About $20,000,000.

Q. And you paid $10,000,000 in that time? A. Since 1905, yes.

. The day previously, R. J. Deachman, a Calgary newspaperman,
giving evidence before the committee, stated, “Every investor who
bought 10 shares (of Canadian Ford stock) in 1907 for $1,060 has re-
ceived in cash and dividends this far, $22,810 and has 560 shares of
stock worth $227,220, making a total profit of $310,010 on an in-
vestment ef $1,000.

In another part of his evidence Campbell stated that the average

wage of the Canadian Ford worker was 75 cents per hour.

That finishes with Campbell; we take over from here ioursjelves.
Campbell’s data relates to the 17 years before 1923. In the 23 years
since, the same or perhaps a greater rate of profit, in spite of the lean
and hungry thirties, has “accrued” to the Ford Motor Company of
Canada and every penny of it was donated to the Ford octupus by the
workers in the Ford plants. With the exception of the original $63,000,
the total capital, dividends, cash bonuses and share allotment, $70,000,-
000 or more, were the earnings of the workers exploited by the Ford
Canadian Company during those years, and of which they were robbed.

Henry Ford’s Detroit company got more than half the total, a part
of which went to equip Hitler for launching us into the most horrible
calamity, natural or man-made, that ever hit this old world.

Are the Ford strikers justified in demanding union security? I leave
it to the reader.

The Press Drive

N another part of the paper you can read about the progress of the

press drive. You will see from the report that our column is not doing
so well this time. We are asked to raise 60 subscriptions and $100
in cash donations. We are a long way short of that.

Marx once wrote in a letter to one of his fellow workers, “It is
money we need.” That is our great need too. If we could get the money
like the Ford outfit, which, of course, is unthinkable, we would not need
to make appeals for sustaining funds, but that is not the way it happens.

The P.A. belongs to its readers. No advertisers dictate its
policies. Its editorial line is not determined by the Ford Company,
the C.P.R., the BCCollectric, the CMA, or the Federation of B.C. In-
dustries, nor by the profit motive.

These people would rather put it out of business, since it stands

for progress, to which they are opposed.

In the past our column has made a creditable showing in the drives,
as they became necessary. In the face of the prevailing conditions of
today, we should even do better. So, if you want our column to hold
aS end up, rustle a sub. or get a donation and send them to OV Bill at

~this office. ;

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1945

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