IWA Wash. parley blasts McCarthyism, backs Korean peace BY WILL PARRY ‘ EVERETT, Wash. Unanimous adoption of the officers’ joint report was the positive highlight ‘Of the first annual convention of CIO International Wood workers Western Washington District 23 here. Woy ‘ In endorsing the report delegates placed themselves on record 1 support of the forthcoming strike ballot in Northwest regional negotl: ations, as well as for good faith by all parties in Korean peace talks an! a program of independent political action by labor. . The convention also: treasurer Walter Belka, igi \ BEATRICE FERNEYHOUGH HAROLD GRIFFIN CONSTANCE MARKS e Voted to declare. vacant the scored labor's “tremendous 5 i Ballot A Ballot B Ballot C , office of district first vice presi- a FRO moment.” the Feram LPP didates in Vancouver-Point Gre Gee, held-by Keng noted, “there is the prospect Pent on »: © Called for repeal of the Smith, | establishing a peace. The: PF : tunit lost bY In Vancouver-Point Grey, the city’s largest constituency with 80,000 voters, the three Labor- eee aoe acelin e rie at | or . . > * . S' : Q e Progressive candidates (above) are taking the LPP program for peace, trade and jobs into what has and Washington state “little Me- the other upon the acceptane ‘ long been regarded as an old-line party stronghoid. Bratt waitte, ane ebicted aM of. any prescribed condition es Carthyism-McCarranism.” | a prerequisite to —neg® “a tions... . \¢ ar h h @ Reaffirmed its stand for the + ous’ I A ou sts Lars en. ure mt en six-hour day, but turned down the : Set Gclenstes ae 1 of del Hiat| s¥ seCORte r » oe proposal of many delegates tha Nc aave iatsn pala which 32 it b d as the top d di : warned: ‘Bosses will|@emowmce mth Siete oe es aaa e @ Took no action, beyond adop- | with “having peace throughout the i he officers’ , in re- ” i 9 |SIMEATETS sara "10" carent “negotiations, |“ | 1c our O cers which have been stymied from the NEW YORK | outset by employer refusal to bar- A S k am ne sty gain. EVERETT. Wash A leading U.S. churchman has —: | | | , Wash. FERRETS : - : The office of first vice-president of CIO International Woodwork- called a x. ositive alates Praha perry ee hip for politica Tl 1 ers District 23 to which Karly Larsen, now on trial under a Smith assault” on congressional “smear-| | 100 rs ai TS 5 pd “gg i Act indictment, was elected by referendum membership ballot last | ers” who are attacking Christian) ¢ 34, administration and warn ri oner s year, was declared vacant at the district’s first annual convention here. | leaders through “abuse” of inves-| that “when the government is D § It District president James Fadling declared the office vacant after dele- | tigatory powers. inai it Sa wg Se ns { gates, voting their membership strength on a roll-call ballot, had = , Pecinsayhedt ls i he pg 8 NEW yo | adopted a resolution requiring Larsen’s ouster 7,185 to 2,816. The Very Rev. James A. Pike, together and start to fight like Declaring that “the clear a Twenty-nine delegates voted for dean of the Cathedral of St. John| hell or you won't have anything | present danger to our count ¢ the Divine, one of the world’s larg-| left.” McCarthyism,” Dr. Edw tint est Protestant Episcopal Churches, oes ; Barsky, chairman of the Na! for Citing a pending measure to sell Committee to Win Amnesty 4 said the church had been in re- treat because of “fear of reprisals” ae Se per ae poe Smith Act Victims, announe : & petition campaign for Pr uly the resolution, 15 against. Grounds advanced in the resolu- tion, submitted by IWA Aberdeen Local 23-2, were that Larsen’s as- serted membership in the Com- munist party from 1933 to 1946 permanently debarred him from holding office in the union. \ The resolution cited article sev- 1 en, section three, of the IWA con- j stitution, which stated that “any j member accepting membership in j : the Communist, Fascist or Nazi party shall be expelled from the IWA and is permanently debarred and the confusion bred by the | that “big business is runing this ws threat of world communism. government. What they intend ride month—June # ; ; to do in the next four years is| ~ i wi) “Let the church rise to its re- | frightening.’- He urged intensi- Barsky said on June 4 S Su sponsibilities to bring a critique fied political action to “upset the | be two years since the uti on unrighteous conditions in our Republican majority in House and | preme Court upheld const! onvic’ land, and we will demonstrate Senate” in 1954. ality of the Smith Act a0C © jeat : : tion of 11 Communist P yor that there is a healthy ferment Another convention speaker, | or. This, he said, gave the oe? that is by no means communistic ClO regional director Ray At- i ittees the e kinson, charged that Senator Sat ise Se over 0) BRS “sate: . A : from holding office in the IWA.” Joseph McCarthy and his co- | |; aaa] parties: ; h “u F rights of all politica The constitutional provision was The churchman devoted his ser-| horts “are out to establish noth- e ost {0 mon to the threatened House un-| ing more or less in my opinion Campaigning for ampt “ness adopted in the 1941 international ‘ ; on! p than fascism in the United | free labor and political prretoo convention. American Activities Committee | ¢. F Ut : : . : — eo otgee tates,” and that Eisenhower | is “a good old Americal ©, poh Peete gee Lae investigation of communism in re-| wants “to turn everything over | Barsky said. He recalled moet ae oe ligion. He referred specifically to | to big money and big business.” | ular movement that won of : from office to the IWA interna- : ack Ridley -@ Beemer 0 d scores tional executive board. “Not ern LARSEN attacks on Bishop G. Bromley Ox-/ addresses of both Hartung and | £0 Eugene V. = Palme? rail 7 Vigorous opposition to the BE ek. a -wingers but right- | nam of the Methodist church and | Atkinson were free of red-baiting. | Victims of the 1920 Pa e days i : Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of “ id in UY age ouster move was voiced by a p sf ied!" popdeb eet huthe: atiade “sy What the people di oolidé number of delegates. Giles Evans | been a member of th .+ | the Protestant Episcopal church. : A . i ding and ge of Sedro-Woolley Local 23-75 | party “before this ee ee i ‘ president James Fadling, vice i ae a nen ee pisend™ sald ndvgiiin ak tha tersbven | aie aher it wagereoniset when | Joe offensive against | Presidents Karly Larsen and | they can do in would mean “The Smith Act can | it was perfectly legal to he a| Re accusers, Pike said “we wil Brighton Irwin, and secretary-| Era’,” Baty olde be used by employers and their | member without losing any privil-| thus se surround our brethren stoolpigeons to finger people to | eges or rights.” who are being smeared — like ae a ae ty Poa, £ — ko: SS ‘if this (the | Bishops Oxnam and Sherrill — : “The bosses will pick your of-| resolution) goes through, then a : ‘ ficers,’ Evans warned. number of offices will be declar- Se = nian Bena if yi \ Larsen himself, in urging defeat | ed vacant. Not just left-wingers, | of the resolution, stated he had | but right wingers, too.” they try to smear us all they x : will be made ridiculous in the Se public eye.” : T U Ny E J In Washingto, D.C., last Sunday 5 j 4 | he «é another churchman charged that WEN \ Wi AR in j Bs Senator Joseph McCarthy “to a : : Haff great extent” is ruling the United , (| | vis States and charged that no major and ige 019 af sa) foreign policy proposal could be ' aI. « offered without McCarthy’s ap- PROVINCIAL LEADER \ bie ain . FRIENDLY LABOR PROGRESSIV Rev. A. Powell Davies, min- 33 ae f ister of All Souls’ Unitarian “PARTY. meen ear Church, declared: “It is no long- NERY sty er a question of whether the senator from Wisconsin will FINAL ELECTION BROADCAST : : - some day rule the United States. . To a great extent he is ruling a 45 EAST HAST CKWX, Saturday, June 6, 7.45 p.m. aj sit already. The secretary of T Sum: me 4 | ; ; state might well be called his co ; U R” : cog e (McCarthy’s) administrative as- DS Pa VANCOUVE sistant.” GF i pA PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 29, 1953 — Phy