iP a acl | a G ’ Vy dedebedebebbeb le telall Vol. 7, No. 20 Five Cents" Vancouver, B.C., Friday, May 14, 1948 Now is the time to speak out for peace. The working people of Canada have no- thing to gain from a Third World War if it should come, neither the young men who must fight it nor the civilians, old and young, who will perish if the horrors of atomic warfare are loosed ‘pon Canadian cities: : For the people peace and civil liberties are indivisible. The curtailment of democratic rights under cover of the present war hysteria is a warning that war will fasten the draconian measures of the police state upon Canada. Only the profiteers, the monopolists follow- Speak out for peace ing in the wake of American imperialism, hope to gain by their desperate drive to war. ‘The people have everything to lose. The “cold war” is not of their making or by their desire. That is why they will welcome Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov’s statement this week that “the Soviet Union agrees with the United States wishes to improve relations and the pro- posal to begin discussion. The Soviet govern- ment expresses the hope that it will be possible to find means of removing existing differences and establish between our countries good re- lations corresonding both to the interests of our peoples and the strengthening of universal peace.” That is why the people must now insist that the King government use its considerable influence in international relations to support such discussions and promote the amicable settlement of differences. hysteria and the. propaganda of the “cold war” are inconipatible with peace and friendly re- lations: that is why they must now insist that And since war. Continued on page 12 SEE PEACE Miners ‘anirounced this week that her Palestine mandate Friday at midnight, the new Jewish ‘state to be 16 prepared to defend itself by force of arms d American inspired Arab forays and the threats ‘intervention by Egypt. - announcement on Wednesday left the UN only plan offered by the U.S. as a main’ Palestine as a police state indefinitely, is, Ler sayas ahd France, and block creation of in- Jewish and Arab states. The U.S. which, refused to partition “because it might involve use of force, would Pe istuse ittle girl to shows a Jewish woman carrying her 1 mn pais under Arab fire in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem. s be committed to use of force,if necessary, to enforce - = Labor this week hailed the setting of a fresh pace for the 1948 wage movement through the 17-cent victory scored by the Trail and Kimberley locals of the Interna- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO), while the IWA continued to negotiate for 35 cents. Locals 651 (Kimberley) and 480 (Trail), won the following settlement from the giant Consolidated Mining and Smelting Corpora- tion: : @ 123 cents an hour across.the board. @ This boost is retroactive to March 1, so that each continuing employee will get $1 a day for three months back, to be paid in a lump sum the first pay day in June. @ Increase in shift differentials from 3 to 4 cents for afternoon shift and from 5 to 8 cents for night shift. (Both the mines and smelter operate constantly on a shift _ basis.) fin 17-cent wage hoist Total of these three at over 17 cents an hour. In addition the union won a change in the vacation-with-pay plan making employees eligible for two weeks’ vacation after two years instead of five as formerly. This affects 500 employees this year and over 1,000 in 1949, comprising a quarter of the staff and in- cluding all returned ex-service men. The cash benefit from this concession brings the total hourly gain considerably closer to 20 cents. Terms of the settlement were officially announced in Trail in a joint statement signed by the company and by R. C. Billingsley (president of Trail 480) and J. Byrne (presi- dent of Kimberley local 651). “This victory was won by the united pay boosts ayerages unions at Trail and Kimberley,” Harvey Murphy, chairman of the joint union negotiating committee, emphasized in a Continued on page 12 SEE WAGE VICTORY LPP campaigns for CCF in Yale Possibility of defeat of the old-line par- ties in the forthcoming Yale byelection June 1 through emergence of united labor and farm vote behind CCF Ses ae O. L. Jones is indicated in reports reaching the Pacific Tribune from that constituency. While Yale is traditionally a Tory stronghold feeling against the old line parties has heightened through resentmént at the Liberal-Tory provincial sales tax and Liberal- Tory acceptance at Ottawa of the 21 percent freight rate increase. The latter is a hard blow at Okanagan farmers: : Industrial communities such as Copper Mountain in the south end of the constitu- ency are hostile to the present governments as a result of restrictive labor legislation stemming from both national and provincial capitals. These factors are leading to a re-group- ing of political opinion. Should such trends crystallize at the polls behind the CGF can- didate an upset will be in the cards. Maurice Rush, LLP provincial organ- izer, returning from a thousand-mile tour through the constituency, announced, “The LPP will do all in its power to ensure ‘the election of O.\L. Jones.” ? “Nigel Morgan, our provincial leader, and Minerva Miller, our provincial education di- rector, will also tour the constituency to help in this campaign.” : “Markets are a key issue up there and the old-line parties are attacking the Okan- agan Valley on two fronts. First, their sup- port of the Abbott program is eliminating the British market..The American market is a very unstable substitute. “Second, the freight rate boost will raise the cost of marketing the apple crop by a million dollars. This brings the limit of suc- cessful competition with eastern apples much farther to the west.” “We have party clubs throughout the constituency that are pledged to get out the left-wing vote and their campaign is already well under way.”