B.C. LUMBER WORKER

March 19, 1953

Social Credit League, J.
“Perdue, speaking to a Socred
meeting here recently, describ-
ed the Venezuelan government
as the most advanced Social
Credit government in the world
and the finest government he
had seen,

Venezuela, a north-coast South
American republic, has a govern-
ment set up as the result of a
military coup in November, 1948,
which overthrew the democratic-
ally-elected administration.

Mr. Perdue, who has recently
returned from Venezuela after
serving seven years as an engi-
neer, said the government there
was the most advanced Social
Credit government in the world.
There are no taxes, he said, and
the government did not believe in
first giving you money and then
taking it back.

CCL Unions Critical

Mr, Perdue’s statement was

CCL EXPOSES _
SOCRED RAVE

_ NELSON, B.C. (CPA)—The | industrial federations. All their,
President of the British Colum- | leaders were persecuted, jailed,’

‘and banished. At the break of
1951, the oil and refinery work-
ers decided upon mass action.
They claimed revision of their
expiring contract, insisting upon
wage adjustments.

Unionists Jailed
“The Junta intervened by ar

led this action. They are still in
jail awaiting trial, Among them

of the Oilworkers’ Federation.”

There are now over 4000 politi-
eal prisoners in Venezuela in con-
ditions kept secret.

The ICFTU reports the case of
Salomon

the Caracas municipal council.
Recently he was taken to hospi:
tal with his arms and legs dislo-
cated and his eardrums perfor-
ated as a result of his imprison-

resting the trade unionists who |

are Perez Salina, President of the ,
Venezuelan Workers’ Confedera-:
tion, and Luis Tovar, President |

Meze, a trade union}
leader and a former member of |
|

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vigorously criticized this week by | ment.

Secretary George Home of the
B.C. Federation of Labor, who
said in a statement to CCL
Union: “This Social Credit state-
ment is not one that can be
treated lightly or ignored . . .
When lesser members of the So-
cial Credit party have made
statements which have been
found objectionable by the pub-
lic, they have resigned.

The Federation Secretary
quoted from the Nelson News
report of Mr. Perdue’s speech,
which read in part: “Commun-
ism had started to work and
continued until 1948, when a
revolution broke out, and a
military government was set
up. This,” said Perdue, “was
the finest government he had
ever seen.” Home warned CCL
unionists that in this state-
ment the Social Credit Presi-
dent was approving of a mili-
tary dictatorship.

ICFTU Condemns

Recently the ICFTU condemn:
ed the Venezuelan coup in the
following terms: “The dictator
ship has only contempt and dis-
dain for the people and their will,
as registered in the elections of |
November 80th, 1952. It has re-
fused to heed the will of the de-
cisive majority of the people.
“The ICFTU condemns this
outrageous crime against democ-
racy in Venezuela.”

In another statement which
specifies the crimes against labor
charged to the military dictator- | democracy.
ship of Venezuela, the ICFTU)|

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again states: “In March, 1949,
by a simple decree, the Junta
Militar dissolved the Venezuelan
Workers’ Confederation—and all

“I got two orders on my first
day as a salesman.”

“What did they order?”

“Get out and stay out!”

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is April 2nd. Deadline for ad copy is March 26th and for news copy
March 27th.

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DISTRICT OFFICERS:

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Stuart M, Hodgson
. Fred Fieber
jcorge H. Mitchell
‘William’ N. Gray

Address all communications to
GEORGE H, MITCHELL, Secretary-Treasurer

45 Kingsway - Phone FAirmont 8807-8
Vancouver, B.C.

ceived communications from
various persons asking infor-
mation on the following mat-
ters:

Information regarding
missing relatives; the for-
warding of tax exemption
forms for union dues; and
other items of job informa-
tion.

On a number of occasions,
too numerous to mention, the
addresses given by the cor-
respondents have been illeg-
ible.

I would request that in
future, on all such communi-
cations, the names and ad-
dresses of the persons re-
questing information he
printed in block letters to
ayoid all possibility of mis-

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direction.
ee gpmintire ese. A, epeucer GEORGE MITCHELL,
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B.C. Lumber Worker.

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More Wives At Work

OTTAWA (CPA) — The 1951
census showed that there were
more than four times as many
married women in Canada’s labor
force in 1951 as there had been
ten years previously.

More Working

The Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics has announced that in 1951
348,961 wives were going out to

work against only 85,633 in 1941.

This 401 percent jump in the

number of working wives is out

of all proportion to the increase

in the number of marired women

(33.5 percent) and all the in-

crease in the total number of .
working women (40 percent),

which took place during the same

period.

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