Negotiate for:peace, no war with China, city meeting demands “Truman’s threat to use the atom bomb is the act of a desperate man leading a gang of desperate Wall Street war- mongers, but the people of the world can prevent a. third world war from breaking out by unitedly dentanding that the U.S. negotiate peacefully with China to end the crisis in Korea.” declared. Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, to a meeting of 600 people in Pender Auditorium last Sunday night. VIOLA BIANCO “Children come first” Vi Bianco makes hid for trustee Scoring Vancouver school board’s laxity in questions concerning the health of school children, Mrs, Viola Bianco, mother of a 12-year old boy, became a late entry in the Decem_ ber 13 municipal elections, filing her nomination paper. last Tuesday. Running for school board as an independent labor candidate, Mrs. Bianco is campaigning for a cafe- teria program to supply all schools with adequate equipment to provide hot lunches to children. “Tf school board members had our children’s health and education as their main concern they would be protesting *strongly the increase in the price of milk. Everyone knows consumption of milk has dropped alarmingly since the price was boosted,” she declared. : A peaoritas| unanimously en- dorsed by the meeting, wasesent to Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, condemning President Truman’s threat to drop the atom bomb and declaring: “We demand that you dissociate the Canadian people from the im- moral statements and actions of the United States government. We de- mand that Canada refrain from joining with the United States in naming China ag an aggressor in Korea. We say there must be no war with China. We say there must be an end to the war in Korea. We propose that Canada recognize the People’s government as the on- ly legal government in China and the representatives of that govern_ ment on the Security Council as positive steps to halt the war in Korea and restore peace in the world.” In his opening remarks to the meeting chairman Tom McEwen paid tribute to the late Harry Asson, veteran worker for the B.C. labor moyement who died last week in Victoria, and the audience stood | in silence for one minute. Morgan spoke on the Korean war situation in Victoria on Tues- day this week and will address a public meeting in Nanaimo this coming Sunday, December 10, Admit China fo UN, Says Chinese Canadian “You have our whole hearted support in your appeal for peace with the Chinese government to settle the Korean conflict. .. Instead of fighting the millions pf Chinese we must become friends,” says a statement addressed to External signature of Mor Cheolin, director, Vancouver Chinese Publicity Bur- eau, The statement urged that Canada support admission of People’s China to the UN, A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. WHAT’S DOING? DANCE—Modern and Old-time Music, at Clinton Hall, 2605 E. Pen- 12. Music by VIKINGS Orchestra. Hall for rent — Phone HA. 3277. SOCIAL AND DANCE, Saturday, Dec. 9, 8:30 p.m., at Clinton Hall, 2605 E. Pender. NFLY Conven- tion Social. Gul Caron Quebec LPP leader’ guest® of®* honor. Everybody welcome. ANNUAL XMAS BAZAAR, Sat- -urday, Dec. 9 at 4830 Hudson St. at 2 pm. Novelties, Home Cooking, Baby Wear, Preserves and Tea. 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PT Dixieland Trio — Available for dances and socials, “Assure a suc- cessful evening.” Quality tops, rates reasonable, Call MA. 5288 for booking. “TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN THE TRIBUNE” that Canada demand the seating of | American priseners in Korea camps from which only peace will stricken by their “saturation” bombing, long lines of Once again, as American interventionist armies retreat south through a Korean countryside prisoners like these march dejectedly to prison release them. *4 of -Mine-Mill, held in Pende Declaring that the conspiracy to destroy Mine-Mill “was but part of an overall conspiracy to destroy all militant unionism,’’ the report pointed. to the raiding of United Electrical Workers and more re- cently, the campaign to split Van_ Affairs Minister Pearson over the | couver Civic Employees’ Union. “Preparations for war, with its inflation, higher taxes and lower living standards demand a subser- vient labor movement,” the report continues. “Thus the role that the monopoly interests and their agents in government play in this whole: conspiracy, is’ veny evident. The tie-up between big business, the government and the hierarchy of organized labor in this terrible plot to divide, weaken and wreck labor is revealed when one sees the ulti- mate aim, and the lng range plan to take over or smash Mine-Mill is but part of the whole picture.” Union officers paig tribute to the help given Mine-Mill in the fight to repulse the raiders. “The support we received from such important unions as the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the vast majority of AFL unions in the province, the Pulp and Sulphite Workers, Civic Employees, Carpenters and Join- ers, and such CCL unions as the. Marine Workers, Longshoremen, United Mine Workers and even steel locals themselves, proved de- cisive in our victory over steel.” r Auditorium this week. Mine-Mill reports raiders beaten, wage | gains made in 1950 — 7 « . ; ° sy: ~ kta “Our membership’ all ‘across Canada rallied to defeat the raiding Steelworkers in Trail and Port Colborne, and in spite of all this disruption went on to secure un- exampled. gains,’ declared the officers’ report to the eighth annual district convention I ea) p > \ Ww position of the excess profits tax. “We oppose the establishment of any wage freeze or manpower controls, as steps to reduce the workers’ standard of living in the interests of greater profits.” On the question of subsidies, the report said: “The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union urges upon the em- ployers and the municipal and pro_ vincial governments to join with us in a demand on the federal govern- ment, that federal policy in regard to the gold mines be reviewed, and the conditions provided whereby these mines can continue in opera_ tion, ; “Phe fixed price for gold enforced by the world monetary fund and the refusal of the American gov- ernment to allow Canadian parlia- ment to continue the subsidy pro- gram at 1949 levels in face of rising ‘costs, will have the effect of destroy- ing a section of the gold mining industry in Canada, and is not in the interests of Canadian economy, and certainly means the creating of ghost towns where many of the gold mines. are located. “The interest of Canadians is being sacrificed, and the servile acceptance by the Canadian gov- ernment of the dictates from Washington’s monetary fund is an insult to the sovereignty of the Canadian ptople.” The, Mine-Mill report called on the labor movement ‘to unite and launch a concerted national wage drive. F “We refuse to accept the insidious Canadian Manufacturers’ Associa- tion propaganda, being spread within the labor movement by mis-_ leaders of labor, that wages cause high prices. We will place the blame for high prices where .it be- longs, on the greedy profit-grabbing corporations who are taking ad- vantage of the program for war. “We demand that St. Laurent place the tax burdén of the govern_ ment’s war program on the should- ers of big business, which profits from such a program, by the im- . | North Van candidate Candidates for alderman in North Vancouver is G.S. (Ger- | ry) Creech (above), 43 year old earpenter, who is running on the Civic Labor Association slate with Damon Eisenman. A trade unionist for 20 years, Creech is an active member of the Ma- rine Workers and Boilermakers Union and his community ef- forts have made him familiar with the problems of working people on the ‘North Shore. Alta. Mine-Mill registers gains CALGARY Thirty. delegates representing 1/500 Alberta workers, met in the annual provincial Mine-Mil] confer- ence here November 25-26 to ham- mer out a program of action for 1951 on such issues as wages, legis_ lation and peace, { Highlighting the programs were demands for the provincial govern- ment to enact legislation for a $1 hourly minimum wage and a 40- hour week, and a pledge to fight for a Canadian Bill of Rights. A report by international repre- sentative Bill Longridge showed that Mine-Mill membership in Al- berta had resisted all AFL and CCL attempts at raiding, and had won $2,500,000 in additional earnings since 1945. In 1950 some locals re- ported an increase in annual earn- |ings of $650 per member. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 8, 1950 — PAGE 6