Canadian Army chief in Europe

Visit of Lieut. General Charles Foulkes, Canadian Chief of the general staff, to Europe is linked

with Canada’s war-inciting foreign policy as recently
Foulkes (facing camera, right front),. seen here with Prince Bernhard of the
Canadian ambassador te the Netherlands (center) at a com-

Louis St. Laurent.
Netherlands (left)

and Pierre Dupuy,

enunciated

by External Affairs Minister

memorative ceremony in Holland, is one of three Canadian chiefs of staff. now in Europe report-
ing on military aspects of the projected “Atlantic Union.”

Jobs, education seen as needs
by new socialist youth body

“Socialism is the property of the youth,’
Federation
transform itself into a socialist organization of membership clubs.
British Columbia’s turn to set up the new provincial organization

decision of the National

Publisher dies

* Death of J. E. Atkinson, own-
er of the Toronto Star, removes
one of Canada’s few remaining
liberal publishers. Atkinson
willed the Toronto Star and
Toronto Star Weekly to a
foundation, the Atkinson Chari-
table Foundation, which will de-
vote their profits to religious,
educational and charitable pur-
Poses in Ontario.

Wasa bhe: 4

of Labor Youth at its

Pender Auditorium here.
It was a singing convention—
the kind of singing that goes with
marching feet, the kind that
moves society forward. There
were old songs, pointing back to
the earliest days of working class
struggle, relating the milestones

in the march of labor. The
were new songs, some pointing

in

seorn at war-mongers and profit-;

reflecting an

grabbers, others :
confidence in @&

eagerness and
socialist future.

“Ours will be singing clubs,”
said one delegate, and the con-
vention left little doubt that they
would. .

Delegates of the fledgeling organ-
ization came from Rossland, the
‘Fraser Valley, Victoria, Duncan,
Port Alberni, Burnaby and Van-
couver, They applauded = secre-
tary Glyn Thomas’ report in which
he challenged the Young Liberals’
eall for compulsory military train-
ing for young men and women
from 18 to 21,

“Phe Liberals and Tories are
ganging up to promote a war
which has nothing to do with
the interests of Canadian youth,”
Thomas charged. “This convention
will build an organization to help
B.C, youth throw policies of this
kind back in their teeth.”

Cutting through the red-baiting
and war propaganda designed to

Youth meet scores gov't for
treatment of Native Indians

“In many schools conducted for native Indian children
by church missions, children are obliged to work four hours

a day in order to get four hours’ tuition,”
National Federation of Labor

provincial convention here last weekend.

delegate charged at the

“Phey are also prevented from
visiting their parents at weekends
and in general are treated as in-
mates of reform schools. The
buildings are in a bad state of
repair and the food served is in-
sufficient to ensure the health of
the children.”

A convention resolution demand-
ed that the education of Native

a Native Indian
Youth

children be placed on the same
basis as that of other young Can-
adians, that Natives be enfranchis-
ed. that Natives receive the same
social security benefits as other
Canadians, that all discrimination
against Natives be removed, and
that aboriginal rights be safe-

guarded.

There ,

ubilant cry that greeted the
recent Toronto convention to
Last weekend it was
in a two-day convention

hide the youth question, the re-
port set forth the needs of youth
as;

_@ Guarantee of a job, with-
out having to join the army to
get one.

@ Subsidized university and
‘technical training for all young
people with the talent and ap-
titudes for such courses.

@ An apprentices’ charter to
guarantee unbroken apprentice-
ship, adequate training, decent
wages, and jobs when articles
fulfilled.

@ A capital™ program to ex-
pand educational facilities, es-
pecially in rural communities.

@ A physical-fitnmess program
initiated by a federal appropria-
tion of $25,000,000.

@ Community youth centers
for -cultural, social and athletic
activities.

@ Low rental housing,

grants to newlyweds of
terest-free loans of $500.

and
in-

The report stated old-line party
governments preferred war and de-
pression to such a program. It
called for election of a CCF gov
ernment.

A provincial council of fourteen
was set up, with Homer Stevens,
1947 Beaver Brigade captain, as
chairman; Dennic Arsenault, vice-

secretary; Grace Stevens, treas-
urer; Brita Mickleburgh, educa-
tional director. —

Council splurges
on fake disasters

Move of Vancouver City Council
to set up a new equivalent of the
wartime ARP to “cope with any
disaster” was termed “part of the
ideological preparation for
this week by Elgin Ruddell, Van-
couver Director of the LPP.

“T can think of lots better things
to spend the taxpayers’ money on
than that and in any event the chief
disaster around here is the hous-
ing crisis. Why doesn’t the council
get busy on that?”

”

TLC resolution echoes
Chamber of Commerce line

An “anti-communist” resolution taking a position almost
identigal with that on trade unionism adopted by the Cana-
dian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation and Vancouver Board of Trade won hotly-contested
acceptance at Tuesday's meeting of Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council,

The move completely disregarded “What will be the next step?”

Trades Congress President Percy
Bengough’s recent warning to del-
egates that red-baiting is the boss-

George Miller, president of the Un-
ited Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers’ Union, wanted to know.

chairman; Glyn Thomas, executive -

es’ weapon for union-smashing.
Lead-off spokesman for the exe-

Motion to table, made by Pat
Ryan of .the Building Service
cutive, which sponsored the reso- Workers, was lost 59-60 on Ger-
lution, was Tom Alsbury, press com- vin’s count, and the resolu ion la-
mittee chairman and Past provin- ter carried 72 to 49.
cial president of the CCF, and was| The resolution’s preambli stated
instrumental at the meeting in lead-| that communists seek to gaim con-
ing the, great majority of CCF’ers/trol of unions to use them for
to vote for the resolution, thus se- | violent overthrow of “the free de-
curing its adoption. | velopment of the Canadian way of
The resolution constituted Sec-| life’ and enslavement of the Can-
retary R. K. Gervin’s threatened|adian people. It stated that reac-
answer to intensive criticism in two tionary employers were using the
previous meetings of the executive’s|fact that communists “dominate”
role during the period of legisla- | some unions to create a _ hosti
tive consideration of the anti-labor | public attitude towards labor
Bill 87. jas to put over anti-labor legisla-

“This resolution is necessary,” | tion.

Gervin told the council, “to stop! Action proposed by
the obstructionism of a minority.” | tion was for removing those “evils
He defined “obstructionism’ as ma-|in our economy which provide fer-
king amendments to executive pro-| tile soil for communist agitation,”
posals, “uncalled-for criticism”, and opposition to restrictive measures
TLC affiliates acting contrary to. against unions, co-operation with

the resolu-

what he termed council decisions.| “all organizations in Canada in
Jack Phillips of the Civic Em- | building and strengthening a gen-
ployees (Outside Workers’ Un- | uine democratic ..way of life,”

“whole-hearted cooperation of la-
bor and management ... for the
purpose of eliminating industrial
strife . . . and the elimination of
lany factors: which tend to weaken
our social solidarity and retard
progress.”

Copies of the resolution are to
be sent to all affiliates and to the
| Trades and Labor Congress of Can-
ada.

ion told the council the resolu-
tion contained the same charges
invented by shipping operators
- to cover their assault on the Can-
adian Seamen’s Union on the
Great Lakes, and James Thomp-
son, CSU vice-president, cited the
similarity between the preamble
of the resolution and the position
of the Chamber of Commerce
and Board of Trade.

Deliver them to any of
the following addresses:

115 East 2nd Avenue
6 East 2nd Avenue
501 Industrial Avenue
1445 Powell Street
1040 Hamilton Street
755 Homer Street
Cor.11 Ave. & Vine St.

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