ay 8 | Zz. | r ie, fp g J aia yh thes % mec NL ees att | i } } bh ber be Se hoo. Vol. 6, No. 27 . Vancouver, B.C., July 4, 1947 SS Five Cents * * * * Miners, loggers support strikers United aber action @ Here, demonstrating the united support organized labor and _ labor political parties are giving to the Striking laundry workers now facing charges under the ICA Act (Bill 39), are some of those who took their place on the picket . line in Nanaimo on Thurs- day of last week. Standing between the two girls hold- ing the banner is Percy Lawson, UMWA secretary. Behind him are Nigel Mor- gan, LPP provincial leader, Alex McAuslane, CCL first vice - president; -Harold Winch, CCF provincial lead- er; Herbert Gargrave, CCF MLA for Mackenzie. To the right, behind three of the girls, is Sam Guthrie, CCF MLA .for .Cowichan -New- castle. NANAIMO, B.C.—Re- flecting labor’s attitude to Bill 39 and general public support for the Nanaimo laundry workers charged under its anti - labor clauses, some 2,000 coal min- ers, loggers and sawmill workers staged a one-day work ‘holiday’ on Wednesday this week, as the trial of the strikers opened at Eagles’ Hall here. The 500 coal miners at Ca- nadian Collieries, outside Na- naimo were all away from their jobs Wednesday in the Sympathy action, and all log- ging camps and _ sawmills from Parksville to Ladysmith were reported shut down. In the largest demonstra- tion in Nanaimo’s long and militant labor history, 600 loggers, miners and fishermen paraded through the streets, Singing ‘Hold the Fort’ and other union- songs. The mar- chers joined the picket line in front of the Imperial Laun- dry, which is closed down, A crowd of 250 townsfolk jammed the Eagles’ Hall as the trial began Wednesday, while a larger group remain- ed outside, unable to gain entrance, There was never any doubt that the sympa- thies of the spectators were with the striking girls who Canada-US will conduct thew maneuvers in Arctic =--= page 8 most repressive labor legisla- , tion in the history of the Molotov blasts Bevin proposals as Paris couference winds up PARIS—The menacing shadow of the Truman ‘Doctrine lay across the foreign ministers’ conference “fre from its inception, dooming it to the failure 'N which it ended Wednesday unless Ernest Bevin Britain and Georges Bidauit of France withdrew &ir proposals which would, in effect, have imposed : Merican political domination as the price of economic aid. “ther Bevin nor Bidault were prepared to make essential changes in their plan for coordinating the economies of Puropean countries through the special organization they Wanted to create, and Foreign Minister Molotov refused » ‘ommit the Soviet Union to their scheme. This was the Continued on page 8—See PARIS At a packed meeting in the Nanaimo Mineworkers’ Hall, Wednesday afternoon, a tele- gram was drafted and dis- patched to Premier Hart in Continued on Page 8 See NANAIMO Griffin to report on Nanaimo in next issue Because the Dominion Day holiday fell on a Tuesday, necessitating a rear- rangement of our printing schedules, and in order to maintain our normal Wednesday night deadline and get the paper to outlying parts of the province by the weekend, we have had to drop our regular feature section for this issue. In our next issue, however, the feature section will carry an on-the-spot report of what is happening in Nanaimo by Hal Griffin, Pacific Tribune staff writer. : This is one issue you won’t want to miss. And it will be a good opportunity to introduce the Pacific Tribune to new readers, helping us to get our 1,500 new subscribers by Labor Day. Order your extra copies today.