Strike leader shot

James Price of the National Farm Labor Union (AFL) lies in
@ pool of blood after being wounded in the head. Price has been
leading a strike for the past seven months
Kern County Central Labor Council
capture of the “person or persons” who fired nine bullets point blank
at Price as he was sitting in a chair at a striker’s home.

at Bakersfield, California.
has oftered a $5,000 reward for

Anti-fascist war hero in dock ~
at Nanaimo on libel charges

NANAIMO, B.C.—Working men and women crowded the tiny police court here Tues-
day and Wednesday as Marko Vitkovich, coal miner, stood in the dock and was committed
for trial at the Spring Assizes, June 14. The crime with which he is charged, on instruc-
tions of Attorney-General Gordon Wismer, is defamatory libel uttered in the issuing of a
leaflet charging that Dr. Mladen Guinio is a fascist and a traitor to his country.

Vitkovich is a miner at White,
Rapids Mine. He is a member of
the Council of South Slavs and
has be-n a member of the United
Mine Workers of America since
coming here from Saskatchewan
two years ago. He served five years
with the Canadian Army, seeing
action in France, Holland and Bel-
gium, and holds a special citation
for bravery from Field Marshal
Bernard Montgomery.

Atmosphere at the trial was
tense. The court room was Packed
and spectators overflowing from
the few scattered chairs available
were told by police that if they
wanted seats, “you can, of course,
bring your own.”

Ed Webb, president of Nanaimo
UMWA local, told this Pacific Tri-
bune reporter he felt the charge
constituted a direct attack on Na-
maimo labor and consequently, he
said, labor was “solidly behind Vit-
kovich.”

Officially representing Local 1-80,
International Woodworkers of Am-
erica, Business Agent J. Atkinson

Unity at polls aids CCF upset
of old-line parties in Yale

Voters of Yale federal riding repudiated old-line party governments this week with a

for Owen L. Jones, CCF candidate in. this w t
the country were being revised=as_ the
ime vote of 12,325 as compared to 7,614

thumping upset victory

Political estimates in many quarters across
CCF took this traditionally Tory seat by a press-tl

for Tory candidate W. A. C. Ben-
nett, who lost his South Okanagan
seat in the legislature to run, and
7,184 for Liberal-standard-bearer E.
J. Chambers.

Jones received the official back-
ing of labor and the LPP for his
campaign,

“The vote indicated a very rapid
mass breakaway from the old-line
Parti¢s,” Nigel Morgan, provincial
leader of the LPP stated in com-

eek’s byelection.

menting on the results.

“This breakaway is the result of
drestic raids on the people’s liv-
ing standards through the auster-
ity program, which wrecked the
Okanagan’s British apple market,
through the freight rates increase,
through the sales tax, and through
repressive labor legislation at Ot-
tawa and Vitoria.

“Bound up with al] these issues
is the burning issue of peace, with

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the voters “increasingly uneasy
over federal policies leading this
country towards disastrous war.

“The turning out of the Tories
and election of the CCF candidate
in Yale vindicates the LPP’s pro-
posal to the people to unite at
the polls behind the election of a
CCF government. because it shows
what can be done on a national
scale in seats that were similarly
regarded as old - line party strong-
holds,” Morgan concluded.

In addition to Morgan, Maurice
Rush, LPP provincial organizer,
and Minerva Miller, LPP provin-
cial educational director. toured
Yale constituency in support of
Jones. The LPP carried on public
work aimed at concentrating on
turning out the left-wing vote.

Political Action Committee of
Copper Mountain Miners’ Union,
Local 649, carried on a strong cam-
paign for Jones, including large
advertisements calling for all min-
ers to vote CCF because “the CCF
supports trade unions, the CCF
supported your proposed changes
to the Metalliferous Mines Act, the
CCF opposed Bill 87 in your inter-
ests. the CCF opposes the infam-
ous LaCroix Bill.”

Ukrainians convene

The Association of United Uk-
rainian Canadians has announced
its fourth annual cenvention will
convene this weekend, June 5 and

ditions 60 delegates are expected
ciation

will be held Sunday evening in the
Pender Auditorium to which the
public is invited,

Business sessions, to which the
public is invited, will be held at
the Ukrainian Hall, 605 E. Pender
Street.

Central theme of the convention
will be cultural work and the pro-
grams of the growing number of
branches among Canadian - born

6, as scheduled, Despite flood con-

from the 21 branches of the asso-
in British Columbia. A

special concert of Ukrainian talent |

from Duncan. was interested in the
fact that Zorkin admittedly knew
Bob Morrison, red-baiting radio
spokesman for Stuart Research
Agency, the lumber operators’ of-
ficial representative,

Also present at the trial was Jim
Saxby, official representative of the
Island Labor Council, Al Dewhurst,
for the Island Region of the Labor-
Progressive Party, and several wo-
men from the various trade union
auxiliaries.

re * *

' Explaining in detail his experi-
ences during the war, though very
hazy and uncertain as to definite
dates and names, Guinio Zorkin ad-
mitted on the witness stand that
bhe had toured Canada and the Un-
ited States pretty freely since May,
1946, despite the fact that he “was
aman without a country”, owing al-
legiance to no particular govern-
ment. He openly renounced his
Yugoslavian citizenship when Mar- |
shal Tito formed his government}
even though this government was
recognized by the Allies.

Zorkin revealed that he was pro-!

vided by the British Home Office ,
with an identity eard carrying a’
United States visa which enabled

him to travel back and forth across

also served on the Allied War
Crimes commission through the
Yugoslav Embassy, providing in-
formation on Italian war crimin-
als in Yugoslavia.

At one point, John Stanton, de-
fense counsel charged Magistrate
Lionel Beever-Potts with refusing to
allow him proper cross-examination
when Zorkin refused to answer
questions as to his present conneéc-
tions. .and correspondence with
friends in Yugoslavia, Zorkin de-
clared that a certain person now in
Yugoslavia whose name he refused
to divulge would be shot if he be-
came known, but he would not
substiantiate this statement.

He told the court he had joined
the Canadian Croatian Peasant So-
ciety on coming to Canada and had
supported himself since then by lec-
tures for which he received $50 to
$100, and articles in newspapers
and magazines such as MacLean’s,
Readers’ Digest and the Croatian
Voice.

His main theme, he said, “was
purely educational” to explain the
“dangers of communism,” which he
considered a bigger menace today
than fascism or Nazism—“although
to outlaw the communist party
would be the biggest mistake ever
made.” a r

“ The Croatian Peasant Society in
Canada, Zorkin declared, carried on

the border without any trouble. He |

‘just an educational fight against
Communism—nothing whatever to
Go with polities.”

Asked by John Stanton as to
whcther he wrote about the wea-
ther when he corresponded with
Yugoslavia, Zorkin ‘smirked and
said. “Yes, of course.”

Declaring that he had testified
before ths Committee of the Can-
adian Senate as the representative
of the Croatian” Peasant Society
on the Brief on Communist Organ-
ization, Zorkin said he had told
them of communists in Canada try-
ing to send back Yugoslav com-
munists to their own country” to
carry on fifth-column work”. He
also testified before the U.S. House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
tices “exposing Yugoslav’ commun-
ist fifth-column work”.

Relating that he came to Cedar,
B.C., in October, 1947, where his
English finance awaited him, Zor-
king expressed the desire to stay
in Nanaimo.

He admitted having been intro-
duced to Mayor George Muir by a
mutual friend and said Mujr had
been chairman at two meetings at
which he spoke on “the menace

‘of communism”.

Zorkin also admitted to knowing
John Hiladun very well, and to hav-
ing met Bob Morrison on several
occasions.

Public lecture on

A striking similarity between ar-
guments used by the ruling class

was demonstrated by Maurice
Rush, LPP provincial organizer, in
a lecture entitled, “The Communist

Vancouver’s Pender Auditorium
last Sunday. Rush quoted from a
French republican newspaper pub-
lished in 1848 which said, “Com-
munists are not to be feared ...
All that is required is the general

tions.” :

He said that it is quite true
if capitalism were able to provide
and maintain high living standards
for all people there would be no
need for communism, but that cap-
italism by its very nature is un-
able to do this.

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of public lectures ‘on Marxism be-
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