1950 FRIDAY, MARCH 31, RAPPED BY LPP PARLEY Steve Canyon strip, “Yankee gutter comic’ Delegates to the LPP. provincial convention last weekend unani- mously pass€d a resolution condemning the: VANCOUVER SUN’S using of a “comic” strip which, for sheer pornography and slander, could not be surpassed by the most lurid sex “comic” book. The strip — a section of which is produced here — is called “Steve Canyon”, a creation of Milt Caniff and the Hearst Newspaper syndicate. ‘Gutter artist Caniff portrays Chinese People’s Army soldiers — men who have freed their land from the evil and corrupt Chiang Kai-Shek regime — as rapists of orphan girls. DAILY STAR: Wed. March s. 1950 _ STEVE CANYC The LPP convention resolution called upon B.C. citizens to direct protests to the SUN against the use of this obscene “comic” strip. Letters to the editor of the SUN protesting against this “culture of _ the cold war” could have the effect of removing such Yankee garbage from the pages of a Canadian daily newspaper. Every decent citizen is urged to join in the campaign to outlaw and ban from Canadian papers such filthy drawings as the Steve Canyon strip! strip is removed. Write or telephone the SUN and keep it up until] the Mine-Mill auxiliary backs women’s rights “We must have happy, secure homes,” —ROSSLAND, B.C. Viola Bianco, delegate to the Congress of Canadian Women, told a public meeting sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary, 131, of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Work: ers, here this week. “A Bill of Rights for women . embodying the right to mother- hood, right to security, right to equality, right to individual deve- lopment, and the right to peace, was enthusiastically adopted at the Congress,” Mrs, Bianco said. “Severe unemployment this win- ter has caused many to ponder on the right to livelihood,” the spea- ker went on. “Even when women are working they are very often subjected to the humiliation and indignity of working for less pay than men doing the same work beside them. “The women of Canada repre- sented by the 300 delegates at the Congress resolved that this injus- tice should be once and for all done away with by legislation en- acted by our federal government. The discrimination against mar- ried women working in civil ser- vice was also severely condemned. “What right to motherhood did we have during the hungry thir- ties?” asked Mrs. Bianco. “We must see that jobs at decent wages “are kept up so mothers will not have to worry about how to feed and clothe the babies ~~ bring into the world.” She told of the restrictions in housing accomodation when there are children and scored a policy of “no children allowed” which has become general throughout Cana- da. fz Mine-Mil on pay TRAIL, B.C: Trail, Kimberley and Alberta ‘ Nitrogen locals of Mine-Mill open negotiations for new wage contracts with Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company for new wage contracts on April 4. At the same time, Sudbury and Port Colborne begin negotiations with Internation- al Nickel Company. The double negotiations represent some 18,- 000 employees of the two gian corporations. In a desperate attempt to’ dis- rupt negotiations, confuse the situ- ation, and prevent Mine-Mill from winning wage increases in 1950, the Steel raiders at Trail are at- tempting to rush Labor -Relations Board certification hearings, which " are tentatively set for April 6. Trail and Kimberley locals of | bargaining hike for 18,000 in B.C., Ontario centers Mine-Mill are demanding across-. the-board wage increases of 17 cents an hour, 10 statutory holi- days with pay (instead of the pre- sent six), and the 40-hour week with overtime (in place of the pre- sent 42-hour week). Some 5,500 men will be affected by the nego- tiations. Sneak raid of C. H. Millard’s steel union began to misfire as soon as the smelter workers at Trail learned the facts and had time to think things out. Ottawa violates UN charter by | germ war plan TORONTO “We express the revulsion of all peace-loving Canadians to the development by the government of methods of bacteriological warfare as: revealed by the published agenda of a military conference held in Ottawa during March 15-17,’ the Canadian Peace Congress has told Padlocking of Jewish center hit by CCL Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) this week unanimously passed a Fur and Leather resolution condemning Premier Duplessis’ padlock- ing of United Jewish People’s Order halls in Montreal. Move to have council protest Steel raiding at Trail was sidetracked Bill White, Boiler- makers, put forward a resolution “condemning raiding by any orga- nizations.” George Mitchell, IWA, slyly avoided the issue by moving an amendment calling for no rai- ding “within the CCL or CIO”, which carried 35-19. Council executive tried to avoid bringing forward a resolution from Division 59, CBRE, recommending by CCF’ers. - that only persons with at least one year’s membership in a CCL un- ion could hold official positions. The executive knew delegates would take this as referring to appointment of Bert Gargrave, CCF, MLA, who was defeated in last year’s elections and promptly added to the CCL payroll as an organizer. Bill White forced the question into the open and the resolution was endorsed. CBRE delegate Dick Henhan emphasized that the resolution “wag not intended to refer to anyone in particular.” Spanish War vet dies in Victoria VICTORIA, B.C. British Columbia’s labor move- ment lost one of its pioneer fight- ers in the death here this week of Shand Robertson. Former member of the Commu- nist party and a charter member of the Labor-Progressive party, Robertson went to Spain in 1937 and fought with the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion against Fran- co’s fascists. He was wounded in that struggle. During World War II Robertson worked in Victoria shipyards and helped build the Boilermakers Union. Later he became a sea- man, and walked picket lines in Victoria and Vancouver during the great CSU strike last sum- mer, LIBERALS PREPARING POLICE STATE LEGISLATION ‘Security’ if civil rights ignored, RCMP view By MARK FRANK —OTTAWA. Amendments to the Official Sec- . rets Act 1939 brought down by the government this session may well herald the beginning of a series of “anti-communist” meas- ures designed to blot out all civil liberties, according to reports cur- rent here. . Pinned down by Tory member Donald Fleming of Toronto, who it is well known, has been given the task of leading a witch-hunt in the civil service, Justice Minis- ter Stuart Garson reported that the matter of so-called “anti-espio- nage” legislation is “under consi- deration”’. Later in the same week, while addressing sessions of the Profes- sional Institute of the Civil. Ser- vice of Canada, External Affairs Minister L. B. Pearson spoke of the need for “exceptional action to restrict the liberties of those preaching “treason”, observing that the situation in Canada was “manageable.” When it is recalled that Pearson in a recent radio broadcast, urged on the Tories that ‘‘we should be united” in such actions, the grow- ing danger of repressive legisla- tion is underscored, Camouflaging his remarks on that occasion about the need for avoiding the hysteria of a witch hunt, Pearson in essence calls for Section 98 legislation. His empha- sis on the “no witch hunt” theme © is meant to delude citizens who still believe that the Liberal gov- ernment is genuinely concerned about the security of Canada and that projected measures do not re- present ominous steps towards fas- cism. Reports of Official Secrets Act legislation stirred unofficial pub- licists for the RCMP Special Branch into renewed activity. One of them quotes a high: au- thority on the relation between civil liberties. and “security” as believing “If existing civil liber- ties could be ignored, there would be little difficulty in pro- viding a condition of almost ta- tal security’. What is clear from this is that the security referred to is nothing more or less than the “total security” of a fascist state apparatus. Bulk of the responsibility for such “security” lies with the RC- MP Special Branch, continues the writer. He reports an increase in the activity of this branch in Prime Minister St. Laurent, Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Pearson and Defense Minister Brooke Clax- ton in protest wires. ‘We point out that the production of bacte- riological weapons for the mass slaughter of civilian populations contravenes the UN charter out- lawing genocide, to which Cana- da is a signatory. “We demand that the govern- ment destroy forthwith all stocks of toxins and poisons for the mass extermination of humans, live stock and food crops. We have alerted the peace movements. of 69 countries to the Canadian gov- ernment’s hideous threat against the security of the peoples of all countries.” In the conference at _ Ottawa, Canada’s experts laid their sec- rets before representatives of Washington and London. It also discussed “chemical, Arctic, psy- chological and other forms of warfare.” Canadian Press coolly reported the mass murder plans in boastful terms: “Canada’s quiet, important and largely unpublicized work on germ warfare at _the chemical warfare experimental base near Suffield, Alta., is responsible for some of the papers. It is work that has taken her into the fore- front of that particular field.” almost all its fields and responsi- bilities. (In Victoria this week, Attorney General Gordon Wismer, defend- ing the Coalition government’s proposal to turn policing of the province over to the RCMP against CCF opposition, advanced as a reason, “You.can assume in these days the question of natio- nal security is looming large on ‘the horizon and we can do nothing better than fall in line with na- tional policy.” The enabling legislation intro- duced in the legislature has bee? under strong attack from many parts of the province and Wismer was forced to acknowledge the protest when he attempted to. dis- miss popular fear of police state contro] by the RCMP as “non- sense’’.) PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 31, 1950 — PAGE 12 _