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\ ' Vancouver, British Columbia, June 13, 1952 >

CCF sweeps
Saskatchewan,
wins 42 seats

REGINA
neegskatchewan voters on Wed-
Lib ay this week repudiated
oa cold war trade policies
pevent the CCF ‘government
. remier T. C. Douglas back

a third term of office.

eee CCF, by winning 10 seats
mM the Liberals and taking
‘i ae Regina seat, increased
Vn representation in the

jJegislature from 381 to 42 and
cut the Liberal Opposition from
19 to 11, Neither the Social
Crediters, with 24 candidates,
nor the Conservatives with
eight, elected a single member.

Both CCF and Liberals in-

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creased their total vote over’
1948, but Social Crediters and
Conservatives lost heavily.

Vancouver Labor
Council calls for

UN probe of Koje

ate Viancouver Labor
his ey (CCL) went on record
er ae in support of a United
fer ns iMvestigation into treat-
Oe : prisoners of war on
Shing ee and ‘sent this re-
ee ion to the Canadian
ae SS of Labor for action,
fae, ne the resolution,
enkin Workers’ delegate Sam
hat elma his conviction
Rice 8 on Kole were driven
+ aise against American
trade Aa “The U.S. treated
a wnionists that way in the
market strike, so I believe

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hh doing it, all right,” -he
sy Fort Ord, California this
army & 24-year-old American
Sait” bean Dean Chase of
ins ake City, was ordered to
With, court martial trial for

Ng General Mark ‘Clark to

tell him he had committed a
“repugnant and disgraceful act”
in repudiating the agreement
under which Koje POW’s releas-
ed Col, Francis T. Dodd, former
camp commander.

(“Koje is a name whose in-
famy will now echo through the
pages of history in company
with Dachau, Nordhausen, Bu-
chenwald, et al,’’ Chase wrote.
“Your action is among the most
repugnant and disgraceful acts
to be committed in the name of
nationalism and militarism
against the decency of man.’’)

@ Protests are ringing around
the world against U.S. actions
at Koje. Here is a picture
of compound.76 taken before
it was stormed by U.S. troops
this week.

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HARGE GOVT
MPLOTERS
FORGING
STRIKES

More than 60,000 workers in
woodworking, construction and
fishing industries in British Col-
umbia may be forced to take
strike action in the next fort-
night unless employees (who are
following a government-approv-
ed line) abandon their present
adament attitude which shuts
the door to honest across-the-
table bargaining on the question
of much-needed wage increases.

Some 32,000 loggers and mill-
workers, members of the power-
ful International Woodworkers
of America, have voted over-
whelmingly against acceptance
of the lumber barons’ ‘“‘status
quo”’ offer in a wnion-conducted
strike ballot and are prepared
to “pull the pin’ at midnight
June 14, when the present con-
tract expires. [WA leaders are
pressing Labor Relations Board
fOr: cx government-supervised
strike vote this Friday.

Threat of a lockout against
all carpenters by the General

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Contractors’ Association, follow-
ing a walkout of carpenters at
the $3,000,000 BCElectric sub-
station job on Burrard and at a
Port Mellon pulp mill expansion
brought a charge from cCar-
penters that the employers’ ac-
tion is “an attempt to force a
general strike.’’ Unless the con-
tractors back down, carpenters
wil] take up their challenge. An
“J1th hour” meeting between
carpenters and major building
contractors was scheduled to
take place Thursday this week
at Pacific Tribune press time.

About 6,000 salmon fishermen
will strike June 22 unless they
are granted demands for new
fish prices . Operators have
given no indication that they will
reopen bargaining.

Other strikes shaping up as a
result of bosses’ 1952 “‘no wage
increase” attitude, which has

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