_tion day.”

SOOO OSES

Burnaby backs Ball against
CE--public enemy number one

The fight of longsuffermg Burnaby citizens against the’ BCElectric is crystallizing this year around
Improvement Association’s candidate for council. Ball,

lor for the old Ward 7, and in his almost success-
impeachable record of fighting the big power-

Big vote for

the campaign of Harry Ball, Bumaby Municipal Ir
in his day-to-day activities, in several terms as council
ful 1947 campaign for the reeveship, has rolled up an uni

transit monopoly which has be-
come Burnaby public enemy num-
ber one.

Tearing up solemn promises, the
BCE has increased fares 100 per-
cent in most areas, made good on
none of the improvements pledged,
actually cut some services, and
erected unsightly and dangerous
towers on Boundary Road against
the expressed wishes of the people.

With fresh fare increases threat-
ened, ‘Ball proposes that Burnaby
start its own transit system. “It
ean be done for as low as $60,000,”
he says, and produces a stack of
statistics to prove it.

He also points to West Vancou-
ver: “They’re proud of their muni-
cipal transit system there. With a
quarter of our population, and de-
spite bridge tolls of $25,000 a year,
they get good service with their
own buses and make a substantial
profit.”

He is also championing a hospi-
tal, roads and sewer program.

The association is urging the vot-
ers to elect Mrs. Elizabeth Brewer
to the school board, and re-elect
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson.

HARRY BALL

Labor candidates enter
Island municipal contests

Labor candidates in Island
residents to get a new deal from
trations.

centers are sparking the fight of
a number of Island civic adminis-

Notable among these contests is the aldermanic campaign of Archie

Lewis in Nanaimo, city made noto-
rious by its anti-labor mayor,
George Muir. ‘
_ Lewis, parks commissioner and
President of Woodworkers’ Indus-
trial] Union of Canada Local 81, is
campaigning for tax reform and
needed civic improvements. He
polled over 500 votes in 1947,

_ Officialdom of the Canadian
Congress of Labor and Internation-
al Woodworkers of America have
come to the rescue of the Muir
gang in view of the threat posed by
Lewis. They are demanding that
CCL unions leave the Nanaimo
Joint Labor Council for its move
to back Lewis and for accepting
delegates from Lewis’ union. Lewis
backers are working hard to win
the votes needed to give labor a
voice on city council—‘Conroy
can’t upset the secret ballot on elec-

Seat on Alberni city council is be-
ing sought by Mike Praisley, well-
known logger and world champion
high climber for 1946. Praisley is
vice-president of WIUC Loca] 85
and proposes improved streets, side-
walks and covered drains.

Initial 1948 civic victory was scor-
ed at Lake Cowichan, where Archie
Greenwell was re-elected at the an-
nual ratepayers’ meeting by a vote
of 64 to 43.

Greenwell defeated Roy Scott,
behind whose candidacy right-wing
CCF’ers joined hands with the lo-
cal Chamber of Commerce in an ef-

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T (Special to The Daily Province.)
NANAIMO, May 29, — Alder-
pol man George Muir Monday night
t urged the City Council to strike "
un. all Communists off the relief
rolls, characterizing them as
Bll: “worse than the Nazis.” On his ;
te suggestion, all Nanaimo’s re-’
for sources, including the new Arena, "¢

¢ city and asserted that the mines

be are full of “hunks and aliens,” »
Kee, While “our own’men” are on. the
to, relief rolls. °
nt crusades for commtnisy

True to form

Evidence of the anti-labor char-
acter of interests bein challeng-
ed by Nanaimo aldermanic can-
didate Archie Lewis is seen in
the above episode from the his-
tory of the present mayor, George
Muir, who this year has played a
union-busting game for Canadian
Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd.

fort to dump Greenwell off the
board.

Greenwell, a member of the LPP,
has a long record of activity in the
labor movement.

HONOR ROLL

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woods strike

—CRANBROOK, B.C.
Woodworkers in the Cranbrook

to back the Woodworkers’ Indus-
trial Union of Canada in its stand
for a wage increase of 13 cents or
11 percent (the amount granted
coast loggers this summer under
leadership of present WIUC offi-
cers).

Their action spurns unauthorized
efforts of IWA officers to effect
an 8-cent sell-out.

A ballot conducted by WIUC
Local 405 shows the following re-
sults; In favor of continuing ef-
forts to win coast award, 90.1 per-
cent; in favor of strike action if
necessary to enforce this stand,
84.16 percent.

Unable to discover any support-
ers in the Cranbrook area, the TWA
has imported CCL organizer Peter
Burkosha from Calgary in an effort
to disrupt the Interior wage fight.

WIUC is expected to appeal the
six months’ hard labor sentences
doled out in Hope police court to
Bert Laing, Glen Ritchie and
Frank Traun, pickets in the G and
F lockout, and the indefinite sen-
tences to Industrial School handed
to two other pickets for alleged
“juvenile delinquency.”

area .have voted overwhelmingly |

ing was sponsored by the “Friends

Remember the Nine’?

These are the nine Canadian labor leaders arrested on in-
structions of Prime Minister “Iron Heel” Bennett in 1931 and
sentenced to five years in Kingston penitentiary. Ontario At-
torney-General Price boasted that a death blow had been struck
at Communism, but the Canadian people compelled the release of
the prisoners in 1934 after an attempt had been made to murder
Tim Buck (right above). The same police state forces are again at
work in North America. This time their aims are larger, They
seek domestic fascism to unleash a war of world conquest. Twelve
leaders of the Communist Party of the United States face a frame-
up trial on charges of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. govern-
ment through “force and violence.” The trial has attracted world-
wide attention. Tom McEwen (second from left, above) editor
of the Pacific Tribune, will outline the issues involved at a public
meeting in Vancouver’s Hastings Auditorium this Sunday, 8 p.m.

‘Friends of Free Spain’.
ask break with Franco

A Vancouver public meeting this week cabled Hon. L. B. Pear-
son, delegate to the UN Assembly in Paris, demanding that he
“Snitiate action to implement the intention of the UN’s December 1946
resolution respecting Franco Spain, and to secure a clean economic and
diplomatic break with Franco’s government.”

Chaired by H, A. Poole, the meet-

John Goss, famous singer noted

of Free Spain Week” to back Can-|for his championing of the peo-

ada’s “Free Spain Week’ spokes-
men in Paris.

An additional cable to UN sec-
retary Trygvie Lie pointed out that
while the UN’s 1946 resolution pro-
vided for “further action”, any
change in Spain had been “for the
worse.” It again stressed the need
for economic and diplomatic breaks

with Franco.

ple’s cause, warned that the United
States was moving to get bases in
Spain which it sees as an “anti-
communist” ally, but predicted the

day was not far away when the
Spanish people would be able to
break their chains.

A program of Spanish music and
films was presented.

Canuck ships

—OTTAWA
A demand for federal action
against certain shipping companies
who are “disrupting and liquidat-
ing” Canada’s merchant marine was
made in a brief presented to the
Canadian Maritime Commission by
the Canadian Seamen’s Union.
The brief referred to the actions
of some companies who, the CSU
charges, are removing Canadian of-
ficers and crews from vessels in Un-
ited Kingdom ports and replacing
them with cheap labor hired under
foreign articles. The brief stated
that nine ships have already dis-
placed Canadians and engaged sea-
men of other countries at lower
wages and poorer working condi-
tions.

Bushworkers face
layoffs in East

—PORT ARTHUR
Bush work is difficult to get and
layoffs are imminent, with pros-
pects of general unemployment at
the Lakehead reaching a new post-
war low, said Jack Quinn, Lumber
and Sawmill Workers’ Union offi-
cial, at a meeting of young people.
“Red-baiting is a money-making
proposition for industry,” said
Quinn, “because it could not sell
war propaganda and pile up war
materials without the aid of the
red - baiter.”

council 3,000 signatures to a peti-
tion against curtailment. Council
agreed to meet in committee with
the association to discuss a brief.
the labor group is preparing. ~*
Faced with ferry service cuts
which many citizens feel are the re-
sult of BCElectric pressure aimed
at eventual abolishing of the ferry

system and compelling all commut-
ers to use BCE buses, the associa-

Fisenman, Hall campaign takes
Norvan ferry fight to electorate

North Vancouver’s Civic Labor Association is carrying its fight against sabotage of the municipal
ferry system to the polls. It has entered two aldermanic candidates in the December 16 civic elections,

Damon Eisenman and James Hall. p
Both have been in the forefront of the ferry fight, which this week saw the Association lay before

Hit sales of

(1) Restoration of former ferry
schedule.

(2) Modern, faster ferries,
(3) No fare increases.

Its candidates are also pledged
to seek an end to BCE transit mon-
opoly by substituting a publicly-
owned system,

They want a new Second Nar-
rows Bridge, tax reform and demo-

tion proposes:

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