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TRAIL WORKERS STAND
BY MINE-MILL UNION

Premie: Stalin in Moscow at the recent celebraticns honoring thé Soviet leader on his 70th birthday.

At left is Soviet deputy Kaganovich, at right Walter Ubr
Moscow he stated: “I have come for several weeks.”

preferred to speculate.

icht of East Germany. When Mao arrived in
Canadian dailies

ignored this statement,

Sino-Soviet treaty
aids world peace

Canadian daily papers, which
or the past two months have
been indulging ‘in hopeful specula-
tion that the lengthy visit to Mos-
cow of Chinese President Mao
se-tung indicated differences be-
tween the USSR and the Chinese
eople’s Republic, this week
Were contradicting each other in
their interpretations of the new
30-year Sino-Soviet. mutual as-
sistance treaty.

he treaty signed this week
after direct negotiations between
tesident Mao Tse-tung and So-
viet Premier Joseph Stalin was
hailed by Soviet and Chinese
Press as an event of world histor-
l¢ significance.

Provisions of the
anounced, are:

1.—A 30-year alliance where-
by each country pledges full mili-
tary aid to the other should either
country find itself at war with
apan “‘or any other country
which directly or indirectly would
unite with Japan in acts of ag-
Sression,””

treaty, as

2.—Agreement by the USSR
to return to the Chinese People’s
Republic by 1952, or earlier if

a peace treaty with Japan is con-

cluded, the naval base at Port
Arthur and the Changchun

Continued on page 7
See TREATY

TRAIL. - B.C.

“Charlie Millard’s United Steel Workers paid the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor $50,000 for jurisdiction at Trail, but we're not for
sale. We're a tough union and we'll take them on,’’ declared Harvey
Murphy, regional director of the International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers Union, on the day that 86 members resigned
from Local 480 to join the raiding Steel group.

Just one week after the splitters made their union-wrecking move,
they have become aware of how tough the Mine-Mill union is. Plans
to lead Trail and Kimberley smelter workers and miners into the phony
Steel Workers’ “‘Mine and Smelter Workers’ Division” backfired when
more than 500 union men voted with only one dissenting vote to expel
the splinter group and stick with Mine-Mill. Simultaneously, Kimberley
Local 651 inserted a large advertisement in the Trail Times condemning
CCL policy in Trail. and stating bluntly:““We are not taking any
action to secede to United Steel Workers. We ask all Trail workers to
do the same.”

A packed meeting of Mine-Mill members in Kimberley voted to
stand solidly with the miners’ union, and promised to give a hot recep-
tion to any Steel organizers who attempt to raid their local. “Up with
Mine-Mill and down with the Steal” is the popular slogan on miners’
lips.

John Gordon, Mine-Mill international representative, met with
officials of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, who told him
the company was continuing to recognize Local 480 as bargaining
agent and that it was posting notices on all bulletin boards to that effect.

At a jam-packed Mine-Mill meeting in Legion Hall, Al King was
elected president of Local 480 to lead the battle against the renegade
splitters who had deserted their union posts. Other officers elected were:
FE. L. Walker, vice-president; J. A. MacDonald, financial secretary;
G. Carter, recording secretary; Cliff McMartin, warden; Dan Dosen,
conductor: and Trustees M. Walsh, F. Pearson and H. N. Smith.

James Byrne, MP for Kootenay East, delayed his departure for
Ottawa in order te address a union meeting Tuesday night and declare
his full support for Mine-Mill.

At the meeting, attended by more than 500 miners, it was an-
nounced that several shop stewards who “went over” to Steel are now
asking for reinstatement in Mine-Mill. It was decided that each applica-
tion should go before union members of the department in which the
applicant worked.

Kimberley Local 651, at its-own expense, has sent Bob Eccleston,
its recording secretary, to work with the new Trail executive in fighting

Continued on page 7—See MINE - MILL

COALITION’S LEGISLATION PROGRAM _EVADES REAL ISSUES

Speech ignores plight of jobless

By HAL GRIFFIN

On the same day the Commun-
ity Chest and Council in Van-
couver was preparing its state-
ment that private welfare agen-
cies were unable to cope with
the “extremely acute” unemploy-
ment situation, describing the
distress of “men and women with
children, with no income and no
food” as being “beyond endur-
ance,” the 22nd British Columbia
legislature opened at Victoria
without any mention of the un-
employment crisis in the speech
from the throne.

Public accounts tabled by Fin-
Minister Herbert Anscomb

ance
whopping provincial

showed @

revenue for the fiscal year of

$92,000,910, including $14,335,119
filched from the people’s pockets
in eight months’ operation of the
highly unpopular sales tax, But
there was no indication from the
Coalition government that it in-
tends to use any of this money
to give the unemployed any
measure of the “social security”
for which the sales tax is sup-
posedly applied.

What the throne speech did
forecast was legislation to change
administrative procedure in the
Hospital Insurance Service, op-
eration of which has aroused
a protest such as even this Tory-
Liberal government cannot ig-
nore, and undertaking of a three-
way housing project involving
federal, provincial and municipal

which introduced enabling legis-
lation at the last session, for giv-
ing Native Indians the vote. And
later, .from .the .CCF .benches
where Frank Calder, member for
Atlin and first Native Indian to
sit in a Canadian parliament,
took his seat, Harold Winch
served notive that he wants the
status of Native Indians clearly
defined, pointing to restrictions
which make Calder “a full citi-
zen on the floor of the house,
Two Native Indian chiefs, Wil- but not outside it.”
liam Scow, president of the Na-
tive Brotherhood of B.C., and = general, (he throws: speces
Frank Assu, president of the was notable far more for its
N ef omissions than its statement of
North American Brotherhood, ur a characteristic of the
appeared before the bar of the ale cei
House to thank the assembly,
and of course, the government

governments,

The government also promised
legislation to establish closer liai-
son with Native Indians on all
matters coming within provincial
jurisdiction. In this respect the
public was given a_ neat little
display of the struggle between
the government and the CCF for
the Native Indian vote, which is
decisive in some up-country con-
stituencies.

Continued on page 7
See HOUSE