vial heart of the province — the

down to defeat, although the com-

- woods.

“was: Salsberg

this year than in 1948, though
the voters’ list was about 3,000
smaller.

- only one wage“ increase—a measly
80 cents a day last year. The cost

- coal camps.

now behind that of many _ other

every year.
mood—there is no doubt of that.

- Practically every delegate carried
a mandate from his local union

each other.
union leaders,
- enough.

a significant part was played by
The Lamp, the industrial paper of

for a new agreement (the old one

“the miners. But a firm stand by
the policy committee, backed by

: stantial increase.

CCF wiped out

drops 19

in Ontario vote,

seaus

TORONTO

With 790,000 votes, only 49 percent ee the 1,626,439 votes cast,
the Tory party of Premier Leslie Frost won 79 seats in the 90-seat

Ontario legislature in last week’s elections.

leader Walter Thompson, dropped

The Liberals, under defeated

from 19 to seven seats in the next

legislature and the CCF suffered a catastrophic defeat, losing 19 of 21

seats.

J. B. Salsberg, LPP standard-
bearer in St. Andrew, will be the
only labor voice from the indust-

Toronto and Yorks—in the new
House. A. A. MacLeod LPP On-
tario leader in Bellwoods, went"

bined vote in Bellwoods—CCF and
LPP—was greater than the Tory
Ukrainian nationalist victor John
Yaremko. Salsberg’s majority over
the Tory Herman was about 1,500;
MacLeod lost by 2,100 in Bell-

The unofficial vote in St. Andrew
(LPP) 5,164; Her-
man (Tory) 3,854; Green (Lib.)
2,183; Resnick (CCF) 1,854;. Ma-
honey (Ind.) 387. There were about
4,500 fewer votes cast in the riding

In Bellwoods, the vote ran: Ya-
remko (Tory) 5,481; Gould (Lib.)
5,132; MacLeod (LPP) 3,299; Gor-
don (CCF) 2,438. The vote in
Bellwoods was some 3,500 less than

in 1948, but here too, the list}
was smaller. |

CCF leader E. B. Jolliffe dropped
about 6,000 votes in York South
over his 19 fgure, to lose by
about 900 to the Tory Beech. Mil-
lard in York West lost votes when
he was defeated by the Tory Bran-
don.

Tommy Thomas in Ontario rid-
ing, which includes the industrial
centre of Oshawa, defeated Liberal
leader Thomson. Thomas — had
made a public statement favoring
a negotiated peace through big
power negotiations, but on the eve
of the election, following a visit to
Oshawa of CCF leader Jolliffe, he
repudiated the statement. On thé
basis of his earlier statement, the
LPP in Oshawa had _ backed
Thomas’ re-election.

Other LPP candidates fared as

follows: In York. South, Norman
Penner, 877; Windsor-Walkerville,
Cyril Prince, 842; Welland, Peter
Boychuk, 841; in Cochrane South,
Joe Billings, 854.

In all but Cochrane South, where

‘CCF candidate W. J. Grummett.

was elected, Tory candidates were
returned.

UMWA convention
prepares to fight

for wage increase

By BEN SWANKEY

CALGARY:

While the decisions of the wage scale convention of District 18,
United Mine Workers of America, held in Calgary last week, have
not been made public, it is clear from the talk going around mining
camps that the miners are going after a substantial increase.

Nothing less than that would satisfy the rank and hg of the union

today. Since 1948 the miners got

of living which has gone up every-
where is particularly high in the
: The result has been
a steadily deteriorating standard
of living for miners and their
families. And their wage rates are

groups of organized workers who
have been winning wage increases

The miners are in a fighting

to demand a wage boost. The
miners are. determined to get a
substantial increase and are pre-
pared to fight for it.

Their bargaining position has
been greatly strengthened by the
fact that there is a shortage of
miners at present. In fact, the
operators are “stealing” men from
Contrary to the pre-
dictions of the operators and some
oil and gas have
not destroyed the market for coal.
The demand for coal is higher than
ever and it can’t be produced fast

In rallying the miners in the
fight for a substantial wage hike,

the Miners Clubs of the Labor-
Progressive party. Its circulation
which has already reached the 2000
mark is growing steadily.

It is understood that negotiations

expires on February 16) will prob-
ably begin some time in December.
The coal operators will of course
try to beat down the demands of

the rank and file, can win te sub-

LDR demands
Franco free —
jailed strikers

TORONTO
Immediate freedom for Lopez
Raimundo and his 33 associates,
now iacing death before Franco’s
tribunals in Spain, is demanded in
a protest message to the United
Nations and the Spanish govern-
ment by Thomas C. Roberts, exeeu-
tive secretary of the League for
Democratic Rights.

Raimundo is one of the Barce-
lona 34, seized last spring for lead-
ing the great Barcelona strikes
against the high cost of living.

Roberts likened the attack’ on
the 34 with that of the Montreal
city police against the women’s
delegation appearing recently at
Montreal city hall protesting the
rise in the cost of meat.

Mde. Danielle Dionne, one of
the women, a mother, was arrest-
ed on charges of “disturbing the
peace,” and faces
of three months. Her case is being
taken up across Canada by the
Congress of Canadian Women
chapters.

The World Federation ‘of Demo-
cratic Youth, sponsors of the pro-
test action on behalf of the
Barcelona 34, urges messages to
the United Nations in Paris; and
to Lopez Raimundo at the Refor-
matorio de Adultos, Departmento
Celular, Ocana (Toledo), Spain.

imprisonment |:

Holds seat 7

J. B. Salsberg, LPP MPP for
Toronto-St. Andrew, retained his
seat in the Ontario elections last
week despite a Tory sweep and
the running of a CCF spite-

candidate in his riding, which he
has held since 1948.

Salsberg wins,

will continue
unity struggle

TORONTO

Given an ovation from a’ hall
packed with election workers, A.
A. MacLeod, Ontario LPP leader,
who was defeated by the Tory
Yaremko in Bellwoods, said the
defeat was but “a detour on the
road to victory”.

““As far as we are concerned,”
he said, “we will carry on the
fight for labor unity as we have
never fought before,’ confident
that we are absolutely correct.”

MacLeod said that in the next
legislature, J. B. Salsberg, MPP-
St. Andrew, will be the real leader
of the opposition. The conclusion
must be drawn, he said, that the
splitting, red-baiting, anti-unity
role of the CCF leadership “had
cheated the labor movement out
of labor’s seats in the legislature.”

He thanked his election work-
ers who, under the leadership of
manager Oscar Kogan, had work-
ed so splendidly. ;

J. B. Salsberg, victor in St.
Andrew, told the cheering audi-
ence that not only the LPP, but
Toronto and all Ontario had lost
when A. A. MacLeod went down
to defeag. But, he added: “I have
every confidence we will stage a
rapid comeback. The people ‘will
quickly realize that Yaremko does
not represent them, but the war-
mongers. There will be a turn
away from him before long.”

He said the importance of the
fight for unity was illustrated in
Bellwoods where the combined
LPP and CCF vote would have
defeated the Tory and held the
seat for Labor. “We must carry on
the fight for unity—in the legis-
lature, in the unions. everywhere.”

unity for

and the people’s needs, Tim Buck,

“They will recognize that our pro-
posals for labor unity were correct.
The job now is to talk to every
CCF member, every worker, on the

need to build this labor unity for
peace, on the need to achieve a
five-power pact of peace to ensure
that the needs of the peaple are
won.”

The election itself is a part of
our struggle for unity and peace
he said. |“Our struggle and growth
is hinged to the growth of the
working class, the historic class
that will be the ruling class in a
socialist society. Ours is the party
of history, because we are, the
party of the working class,” he
told the cheering audience.

He urged them, “desipite the
fact that*you are tired and have
worked magnificently in the past
weeks”, to make sure of the re-
election of labor civic candidates
in the December 3 Toronto election
—naming Norman Freed, for alder-
man in Ward 4, Charles Sims for
alderman. in .Ward 5, Stewart
Smith for Board of Control, Dewar
Ferguson, alderman Ward 6, Trus-
tee Edna Ryerson, Board of Edu-
cation, Ward 5, Bob Laxer, Board
of Education, Ward 4, Stan Thorn-
ley, Board of Education Ward 6,
Marg Popoff, councillor Ward 2,
York Township and Jimmy Wal-
lace, councillor in Long Brancls.

“If we make sure that those
who didn’t vote on: November 22
get out and vote Dec. 3, the job
can be done and the voice of labor
can be returned to city council,”
| he declared. \

Significant gains have beén made
during the course of the election
campaign in the struggle for labor
unity in the province and the. re-
election of J. B. Salsberg was a
tremendous victory and a great
tribute to the work of the party,
Buck said.

Buck was sharply critical of the
role of the CCF leadership in the
campaign. |“The CCF leadership,
| which had rejected, our appeals
for labor unity around single can-
didate taking a stand for peace,
undermined the confidence of the
‘working class. The CCF leaders,
along with the Liberals, offered no
real alternative program to that
put forward by the Tories.”

Imagine, he said, what a turn-
out of voters there would have
been if the Nov. 22 election had
been a plebiscite on the issue of

neace or war.

election rally held here November 22.
will learn the lesson of the cataclysmic defeat of the CCF,” he said.

CCF rejection of

peace

caused Tory win

TORONTO

The big task aed for the: Labor-Progressive party and the-labor
movement in Ontario is to step up struggle to win labor unity for peace

LPP national Jeader, told a post-
“Many thousands of workers

SSSSSSSSOGGSSGSSSSSSOSS.

Canadian Corps calls
Meyer release ‘insulf
fo our armed forces’

TORONTO
Release of Kurt Meyer, Nazi
war criminal, “under any cir-
cumstances,” would be a direct
insult to present. or past mem-
bers of the Canadian armed
forces, stated a resolution passed
this week by the executive of
‘the. dominion command of the
Canadian Corps Association.
_ The action was taken follow-
ing nublication of a. Canadian
Press dispatch from Germany
which revealed that Mever, the
murderer of Canadian prisoners-
of-war, has been allowed “leave”
to visit his family from the
West German prison where he
is ostensibly serving life impris-

syne ee
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Salsherg is
voice of labor
says Morris

“ “TORONTO

“J. B. Salsberg is the only Labor
MPP from the heart of industrial
Canada, the Greater Toronto area,”
said Leslie Morris, Ontario Labor-
Progressive party campaign man-
ager to an election night rally here
last week.

“In 1948, the ccr won 11 seats,
the LPP two and the Tories four
in the Toronto area. Now, because
of right-wing labor splitting, the
Tories have grabbed 16 seats, the
CCF have lost them all and the
LPP has the only labor seat. What
a ruin for CCF labor policy, what
a vindication of LPP unity policy!

“There is a new mood arising,
but it still has to be united and
organized. CCF’ers will ask why
were we wined out and only, Sals-
berg elected?’

“We will give the answer—it
will not be hard to do it. Unity
came late in a number of seats
like Hamilton East and was not
strong enough to win. But condi-

tions for winning it will improve
ranidlv from now on.”

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