BENGOUGH QUESTIONS CNR ROLE —OTTAWApier;” he said. “No claim of self- President Perey Bengough of | Preservation ‘appears to be pos- the Trades and Labor Congress sible.” this week denounced the shoot- ing of Canadian Seamen’s Un- |strikebreakers were brought to ion pickets by “trigger-happy |the CNS ship aboard a CNR strike-breakers” at Halifax and demanded a full judiciary in-/| irrested for the shooting were quiry into the act of violence. “The shooting becomes all the CNR train for Montreal when more despicable when it is real- | they were picked up. ized that the shots were alleged- ly fired from the deck of a Can-|jiont of these actions, only an adian National Steamships ves-| open government investigation sel upon union pickets on the!could clear the Seeks mre of shooting Bengough pointed out that the rain from Montreal, Five men allowed to leave the vessel and were about to board another Bengough declared that in the government- owned CNS from complicity in the shooting and an attempt to assist the guilty ones to ‘es- cape. He suggested that “the part of the CNR in this affair may not be above reproach.” “While it is to be expected that those who did the shooting will be brought to justice,” said Bengough, “it is extremely im- portant that a full judicial in- quiry be held into this whole af- fair in order that the public may know that government owned enterprises are not aiding any persons in escaping from the law.” LPP names Vi Bianco for Vancouver East A woman who states. that “like most housewives and mo- thers, I am concerned about all the war talk and realize the need for women to make their voices heard in the _ fight for peace and = security for their families,” will be the Labor. Progressive party’s candidate in ‘Vancouver East provincial con- stituency in the election expected this summer. She is Mrs. Vi Bianco, who has | been associated with the labor and progressive movement in this city since she became active ir the labor youth movement in the thirties. .She served for a time during the war years as editor of the Fisherman and lat- terly has taken a leading part in the work of the Outside Civic Employees’ women’s auxiliary. Mrs. Bianco was nominated last Monday at a meeting held in Renfrew Community Hall at which Nigel Morgan, LPP provin- ¢ial leader and candidaté in Al berni, was the main speaker. Chairman was Mrs. Helen Mathe- son, Is your name on this list of PT sub-getters for April? GREATER VANCOUVER M. Terawa, Niilo Makela .... Fred Smith, Civic Workers .. Roy Lawryniuk, East End 1.. Judy Power, Norquay........ George Pavich, Georgia ..... Jim Beynon, Civic Workers .. Frank Politano, Grandview .. Dulce Smith, Fairview ...... PROVINCE Betty Lillquist, Ladysmith 4 Annie Johnson, Sointula .... 4 Harry Asson, Victoria ,.....- 3 Connie Hudson, Victoria .... ; 3 3 6 ee Hilda Loveng, Grassy Plains. . Cc. R. Johnson, Vernon ...... Sam Homenchuk, Vernon .... MM ee ce ee Re ee tk Seamen The World Federation of Trade Unions has pledged full support to the CSU for their affiliates. Dockers of London and Liverpool walked off struck vessels. (This week 14,000 London dockers went -on strike, completely immobilizing the great port.) Some 35 East Coast ships are now tied up in half a dozen countries, and 55 more, still at sea, will be halted whenever they touch a union port. Canadian and world labor is solidly behind the striking seamen. The shocking shooting affray at Halifax, which has already resulted ‘in the arrest—on a charge of at- tempted murder—of one SIU strike- breaker, has roused the anger of decent-minded Canadians from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. “This strike is not only an at- tempt to smash the CSU but an attempt by the Frank Halls and the phonies to grab control of the labor movement in Canada, on be- half of the bosses,” declared Harry Davis, CSU president. “If this situ- ation is allowed to continue, then not one trade union is safe, The law of the jungle will be in force.” West Coast CSU members, active- ly supporting their East Coast brothers, are operating round-the- clock picket lineg on ‘the two east- ern vessels tied up in Vancouver. Crew of the SS Seaside, tied up at Terminal Pier, allowed Deputy Sheriff John Tuttle aboard Monday night to serve a “get off the ship” Supreme Court injunction but were still “sitting tight” at Pacific Tri- bune press time. Striking crew members of SS Riverside are “bedded down” at CSU headquarters, and with other union members maintain a 24-hour picket at Lapointe Pier. Another clash was provoked at 8 a.m. Tuesday when police escort- eda scab SIU crew from SIU offices on Hamilton street to the immigra- tion building. A CSU picket ‘line , quickly formed and a few SIU /men decided to reconsider their actions. The remainder of the fink crew were taken by launch to the Riverside, where the fracas be- tween CSU pickets and police oc- curred. As the CSU pickets charged police lines in an attempt to get on the dock and stop the SIU strike-breakers, who were clamber- ing hastily up a Jacob’s ladder to the ship, scores. of club-swinging cops swung into action. Two pick- ets, Charlie Ohr and Hugh Kelly, suffered head cuts. Other seamen were roughed’ up as_ the police held back the union seamen. he Riverside was cut loose and towed to midstream by a tug. There she lies, crippled by a dam- aged propellor. i On Wednesday a defense depart- ment spokesman at Ottawa de- clared in an intimidatory. state- ment that “several thousand” ac- tive force troops are “available” to quell ‘any “violence” which local police cannot cope with. The spokesman said army units in the Engineers Training Center at Chilliwack, plus units of: the Strathcona Horse at Calgary, could be dispatched. He added that other forces such as navy and air force or even army reserve units might be used. IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of a Wite ‘and Mother ANNIE ROGOWSKI who passed away April 16, 1948. Peacefully sleeping, resting at last, The world’s troubles and trials are past. In silence she suffered, in patience she bore, Till God called her home to suffer no more, Lovingly remembered by her Husband MIKE and Daughter AMELIA Board’s decision on Goss opposed by CCF members Shaping their decision to the American pattern of persecution, Non- Partisan members of Vancouver park board this week voted to bar John Goss, ittternationally known Vancouver baritone and one of this country’s most eminent singing instructors, from teaching at the B.C. Institute of Music and Drama which serves as a studio for the board’s Theater Under the Stars. By their instruction to Glyndwr Jones, institute principal, to “re- frain” from signing a contract to, implement a verbal agreement with Goss, Non-Partisan park commis- sioners made a mockery of their perennial election boast of keeping politics out of civic affairs. They barred Goss, not on the merits of his musical abilities, which none of them is competent to judge, but because his political beliefs are, opposed to their own. But, as Arnold Webster, CCF member, pointed out, “Some mem-, bers of the board do not realize} that deeper issues of civil liberties | are involved.” Webster and Tom| Alsbury, the other CCF member, opposed the decision, but were voted down 5-2 at an open meeting following a session closed to the press at which the issue was de- bated. Board chairman Bert Emery claimed that the decision was com- pelled by the “considerable critic- ism from citizens about allowing Goss on the staff’ and he felt it would be “bad public relations” to fulfil the institute’s agreement with Goss. Musical and art circles in the city, however, are disturbed by the far-reaching implications of the board’s action which, in effect, places political conformity above all qualifications for appointment. They are concerned too, for the “bad public relations” internation- ally for Vancouver as a result of the decision. It is reported that Vancouver Civil Liberties Union js considering the issue with a view to challeng- ing the board’s position. Many members are said to be alarmed at what they consider to be al developing threat to civil liberties first evidenced by the B.C. Bar Association’s refusal to admit grad- uate law student Gordon Mar- tin because of his LPP mem- bership, Although Goss. has stated he is not an LPP mem- ber, he has publicly supported the LPP in its fight for peace; and it was because of his left-wing sym- pathies that he was forced by US. immigration authorities to leave the U.S. where he went re- cently to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace; Vancouver park board’s action is seen as a direct continuation of this persecution for’ political be- liefs, Public criticism, which has al- ready been aroused by the board’s decision, over protest of its CCF members, to hand its popular Theater Under the Stars to a pri- vate company after this season, is expected to come from progres- sive cultural organizations, trade unions and other bodies. Informed of the board's decision, John Goss stated: “It is am act of political and cultural stupidity. “When the park board con- cludes its witch hunt, Vancouver will be a cultural desert unless my professional colleagues, with all those concerned with freedom of political and cultural thought, determine to put. an end to this dangerous nonsense before it is too late. “T am not suprised. This is part of a campaign of prosecu- tion for opinion which is becom- ing a pattern of professional iife on this continent. “The U.S. state department, in its drive for war has long ten- tacles — and Vancouver park board is not beyond its reach. ‘Tt is interesting to speculate what kind of teachers the B.C. Institute, or for that matter any of our educational institutes, will recruit when no man may speak his mind.” Meet to complete May Day plans A final May Day conference at Pender: Auditorium on April 20 will complete preparations for Van- couver’s 1949 celebration, it was announced this week by Bill Stew- art, committee secretary. Trade union, CCF and LPP speakers have been invited to ad- dress the rally in Stanley Park. One of the leading speakers will be James Thompson, Pacific Coast vice-president of the fighting Cans adian Seamen’s Union. /men ......at— 324 W. Hastings St. UNION MEN! For your own good and welfcre, support Trade Unionism by demand- ing the Union Label in Clothes, created by Vancouver Union Crafts- THE OLD ESTABLISHED CUSTOM - MADE CLOTHES EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY UNION MADE wr RELIABLE FIRM of Vancouver, B.C. ya PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 15, 1949 — PAGE 1? -