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LPP CANDIDATE KNOWS WHAT SALES TAX MEANS

‘Good housewife needed at
Victoria,” says Vi Bianco

IBIT’s ACTION the people want,
+++” Viola Bianco said, her eyes
lighting up, “... well!” — and
this reporter understood how it
Was that. this cheerful, energetic
young housewife who has been
nominated in Vancouver East to
“arry the LPP banner in the pro-
Vineial election could canvass
More than 150 homes in a day in
the Fraserview area to make sure
She was fully informed of the way

Which Central Mortgage and
Housing Corporation are literally
bulldozing” people into accepting
federal expropriation of their
Homes: 'The dictatorial methods
Of that company are a disgrace to
7 democracy,” she declared.

he aturally, I wanted to know
Saul many of her 34 years Mrs.
18NCo had Spent in the labor
ctvement and when she first be-
me interested. That seemed to
amuse Mrs. Bianco,
‘Why, 1 grew up in a socialist
oe She said. “My father was
; Best. active member of the
‘ eee naod of Trainmen at
Wwagh a Manitoba, where he
jae On the CPR. His name,
anwell, is on a wire in the

records at Brandon, conveying
the greetings of the railway
workers to the strikers in the
1919 ‘Winnipeg general strike. I’m
proud of that—so are all of us
in the family.

“We had clubs and debating so-
cieties in high school at Brandon,
and I used to argue on the side

VIOLA BIANCO -

NEW NIELSEN PAMPHLET

Women’s fight for peace

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others figh
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mil and democratic liberty.”
hus briefly, Edna Ryerson, in
thon evord to Dorise Nielsen’s
dog ‘el and human word picture
mien © story unfolded by the wo-
i of all nations: who gathered
Udapest in December 1948,
Up the purpose of 1} e Dem-
¢ Federation Peace Con-

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chet Dorise Nielsen does in
80 wi of her new pamphlet
tke ion Women for Peace, is to
‘a5 Cduce into your own sitting
™ the living, breathing women
Ne are already committed to ac-
Soft for peace. You hear their
flush and varied voices, see the
Shes °f their cheeks, and become
oxi © of the intense feeling,
ice Out of experience, with
ee te they back up their consid-
for Understanding of the need
Women’s action for peace.
ane Women who tell the story
elon, * and fair, tall and short,
eat or halting in their pres-
a ations,
Slag for a cooperative and
ne fU! World in which families
evan flourish and all may work
iva Confidence in the future, and
Th ut fear in the present.
€S€ women come from all the
Untries of the world — from

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UR COMMITTEE stands for peace; cooperation with all
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en and women; for all measures and social services that pro-
improve the welfare of mother and child, and for the fullest

America, Europe and Asia, and
from Africa, They come from oc-
cupied Germany, from the Soviet
Union, from revolutionary China,
and from the western democra-
cies. For them none of the bar-
riers built by conflicting trade
interests or opposing political
ideologies are insurmountable.
The flesh and blood reality of
people striving to find a path to
a human way of life commands

their thoughts and dominates,
their feeling.
: * * res

READING this pamphlet, the
thoughtful person finds thé Ber-
lin crisis and the vaunted “air-
lift’ becoming a shabby piece of
theatrical‘ treachery to coopera-
tion and mutual understanding.
Reading this pamphlet, the in-

formed person is impressed by’

the fact that the failures of the
United Nations must be explain-
ed by a lack of will to peace in the
governments who feel themselves
obliged to find channels other
than this single body through
which to pursue their special
other-than-human aims and in-
terests. ;

War, one feels confident, is not
inSpired by the human heart, but
by a competitive system that sets
job-hunter against job-hunter,
tradesman against tradesman, in-
dustry against industry, monopoly
against monopoly, nation against
nation in the unlovely race for
profits. For the women of the
world, it. is clear, profit-making
has little interest—they seek, and
they are confident they can at-
tain, mutual international under-
standing that will make all future
wars impossible.

Read this pamphlet, and feel
a& new hope, a new determination
to fight, rise within you.

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+ HASTINGS ST.
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ye STANTON & MUNRO
Barristers and Solicitors.

501 HOLDEN BUILDING
VANCOUVER, B.C.

Marine 5746

of labor and the Socialist Party,”
Mrs. Bianco continued. When the
Cooperative Commonwealth
Youth Movement formed in our
high school, I became an execu-
tive member and took part in
oratory contests, which were a
popular part of our program.”
* * *

IN 1936 Mrs. Bianco, then still
Viola Hanwell, came out to Van-
couver.

By then her instinct for action
and for getting out among the
people had brought her toward
the Communist movement.

“Like myself, many of the
young people in the CCYM were
critical of the reluctance of most
of the CCF leaders to get out and

~ fight for the unemployed. And we

could see how their red-baiting
kept the people divided and hin-
dered the fight.

Her eyes twinkled. “Our ques
tions certainly embarrassed some
of the ‘respectable’ CCF leaders,”
she added.

Viola Bianco, then, was one of
those troublesome “elements”
which the working class produces
—people with honest convictions
who can neither be intimidated
nor bought over. She moved
among those CCF’ers, most of
whom were expelled during the
various “purges” of the thirties,
because they stood for working
class unity and confidence in the
ability of the working class to
achieve a new, broader socialist
democracy.

The fight of the Spanish people
for the life of their republic was
not “just a bit of foreign news”
to Viola.

Her remark, “I was one of three
girls given public awards by Dr.
Norman Bethune for-our work in
raising funds for Spanish or-
phans,” afforded a measure of
the work she did in the Spanish
Aid campaign.

* * *

For several years Mrs. Bianco
worked as a stenographer in
trade union offices, and during
the war she was editor of The
Fisherman.

“I know the capacity of the
workers for organization and ad-
ministration, and I know too, that
what I learned in those years will
really help me as a member of
the legislature. Representing the
working people at Victoria is not
just a matter of voicing the peo-
ple's demands. It’s also a matter
of organizing to make those de-
mands effective.”

Now, as a member of the Par-
ent-Teacher Association, the B.C.
Housewives’ Consumer Associa-
tion, the Women’s Council for
Peace Action, Mrs. Bianco plays
a busy part in community and
civic affairs, :

“We find time to do the things
we want to do,” she said, “and I
want to help improve the world
my boy is growing up in. I want
to see the resources of my city
and province used for the people’s
welfare. I want to see my family.
and every family more secure,
better housed, more confident of
the future,

“Harold Winch supports the
Atlantic pact, which means
spending millions for war. I am
for peace, and in my opinion that
mé€ans spending for peace the
things. the working people need
to live securely. That’s why I’m
running in Vancouver East.”

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+%, |Next to Castle Hotel

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: A. Smith, Mer.

Singer sewn up

These 18 month-old youngsters are helping their daddies picket
the huge Singer Sewing Machine plant at Elizabeth, NJ. Strike
was called by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
(CIO) to protest the “inhuman pace” set up the speedup system.

We
impressed by the Canadian
men behind prison bars because they dared to fight

I explained as best one can to a
six and a three-year-old just what
a strike is and what it means to
people. They became ‘very sympa-
thetic When I told them that the
strikers’ children wouldn't have

any pennies to buy candy or ice
cream until the strike was won.

So this morning we decided to
call on all the neighbors in the
block and ask them for donations
of food for the strikers and their
families. Little John pulled his
wagon along to collect the vari-
ous items we hoped to get and
Katy and I knocked on doors.

It took-us an hour to cover both
sides of one block, and do you
know, NOT ONE housewife turn-
ed us down! We came home load-
ed with preserves, soup, veg-
etables, staples, and canned fish
and meat. The youngsters could
hardly wait to unload before go-
ing on to the next block, but we
had to put off another trip that
day because of the thunder storm.
However, there will be two proud
kids helping Daddy unload the
groceries at the Canadian Sea-
men’s Union hall at 53 Powell
Street tomorrow morning, and
the seamen will know there are
lots of housewives backing their
struggle.

x * *

FROM MY experience I have
learned that many of us who can
“never get away from home be-
cause .of the little ones” still have

an opportunity to do something .

in support of the seamen. Just
put the baby in the buggy and
call on a few neighbors.

Frankly, I found that the wom-
en we visited appreciated the
chance to do something for the
CSU boys. As one woman said:
“My husband is a street car con-
ductor. If the seamen lose their

| battle, it means our family will

suffer in the long run. I know
enough about trade unionism to
realize that a defeat of one union
encourages the bosses to attack
others.”

TODAY I TRIED a little experiment with Katy and John.
had all been in the May Day parade and the ‘kids were quite
Seamen's Union float, which showed sea-

for their rights.

Of course, you'll meet some

housewives who don’t understand
the meaning of the strike as
clearly as this woman. Some are
sympathetic but confused by the
stories in the daily papers. Others
know nothing about the strike
and the issues have to be explain-
ed to them. But in most cases I’m
sure you'll find a wonderful re-

sponse, similar to the one I re-
ceived,

The only person who turned me
down was the corner storekeeper.
“I can’t afford to take sides,” was
his excuse. And this is the same
storekeeper who is always asking
his customers why they go down-
town, where prices are lower, to
buy from the big stores “that are
squeezing us little fellows out of
business.” I told him that if he
wanted the working people to
support him, he couldn’t afford
not to take sides.

I know that many groups and
organizations are collecting can-
ned food for the CSU men, but
knowing also what it takes to
feed by small family, I can ap-
preciate how much is needed to
feed several hundred men three
times a day. So I intend to keep
right on collecting food and hope
that many PT readers will do
likewise.

Some of the union seamen now
jailed in England wrote to the
union office. They never said one
word about their own sufferings
and hardships, but they were
worrled about their families g®-
ting enough to eat. The CSU has
that responsibility, along with al}
the others, and you and I can cer.
tainly do our bit to heln solve
this particular problem.—B.G.

Brother's Bakery
Specializing in
Sweet & Sour Rye Breads

342 E. HASTINGS ST.
PA. 8419

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