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U.S. intervention looms

Increasing U.S. intervention in Indochina, where French colonial
troops have suffered more than 100,000 casualties in six years of
bitter fighting against Vietnamese People’s Army, is seen following
the recent visit General De Lattre De Tassigny to Washington. Here
the French high commissioner and commander-in-chief in Indochina
is seen on his arrival in Washington being greeted by General J.
Lawton Collins (left), U.S. Army chief of staff, and French ambassa-

dor Henri Bonnet.

Unity for peace--
LPP proposal to

CCF in Ontario

TORONTO.

“Ontario can have eee only if. an end is put to the drive
to war and replaced by a drive to peace through a pact of peace be-

tween the five great powers, world trade and disarmament,”

declares

the Labor-Progressive party in its Ontario election appeal to the three
million people who are called upon to vote, November 22.

Leslie Morris, Ontario LPP election campaign manager, in issu-
ing the appeal to the press, declared that ‘his party intends to make this
campaign the strongest and biggest it has ever carried through. The
appeal emphasizes a 7-point platform of Ontario’s people’s needs, and
proves how labor-farmer unity in action could give the people the
jobs, homes, social improvements and, above all, the peace they crave

and fight for.

The LPP offers the hand of unity to the CCF declaring, “‘the
LPP will support any CCF or labor candidate who declared his oppo-

sition to the war program, and
takes a public stand for world
peace through an agreement be-
tween the great powers. We are
prepared, on this basis, to nego-
tiate with the CCF or any CCF
oer labor candidate in constitu-
encies where both our parties are
punning, in order to unite for the
defeat of capitalist perky candi-
dates.”

This, stresses the LPP, would
achieve unity for peace, would
open the doors to the great change
of policy which alone could change
the drift.to war into lasting peace.

A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Sals-
berg will contest the Bellwoods
and St. Andrew seats they have
held for labor and peace since
4948. The “‘Bellwoods and St. An-
drew nominating conventions will
be held on this coming Tuesday,
October 16. Morris told the
Tribune that within a few days
the LPP election committee will
give news of further nominating
conventions. Plans call for the
running of LPP candidates in
other Toronto-York ridings, in
Hamilton, Windsor ana the other
main industrial centres of the
province.

Fur Workers win
wage increases

Vancouver Fur Workers ‘Union,
Local 197, has concluded a one-
year contract with the Furriers
Guild, covering 16 city shops. -«

Main gains it the agreement
are: cents
hourly to workers earning the
minimum wage, and 10 cents to

an increase of 12%

those earning above minimum;
‘two weeks vacation after two
years; a reclassification of work-
ers which will boost some
workers’ wages an additional five

cents per hour.

Negotiations were carried on
by union president Tom Winters,
vice-president Betty Craig, secre-
tary Hazel Trigg and George
Haidel, assisted by district repre-

sentative Jack Brierley.

‘to prove that he is wrong.

Prove Buck wrong,
students challenge

UBC on fee hoist

The $30 fee increase slapped on students this: year has University of British Columbia campus

“buzzing with ugly rumors and nasty questions”

according to a front-page editorial in The Ubyssey.

Last week the paper reported a speech made made by Tim Buck, Labor-Progressive party national

leader, to the annual conference of LPP university students.

Buck charged that fee increases were direct-

ly connected with the economic policy of the federal government, aimed: at turning this country into a
source of, raw material for the United States and a market for its goods.
“In a raw material economy, there is little room or need for trained workers and for professional

UNIONISTS ‘COMMUNIST SPIES’

Mine-Mill protests
teacher's red-baiting

men and women,”. Buck is quoted
as saying. “In such an economy
there is.no future for our youth.
The Canadian government can-
not provide the youth with op-
portunities for careers and jobs.”

“Buck maintained that a de-
liberate fee increase was made
to limit university enrollment,”
says the Ubyssey article.

-In an adjoining column appear-
ed an interview with Dr. N. A. M.
MacKenzie, UBC president, pre-
dicting that student fees will be
decreased. The decrease will not
equal the recent $30 increase, ex-
plained MacKenzie, but will “be
large enough to ease the minds
of the students.”

Further on the article states
that enrollment has dropped by
\900 this year, placing the univer-
sity “in a financial squeeze which
will probably be felt later.”

Three days later, in the Oc-
tober 5 issue of The Ubyssey,
student editors set the campus
humming with a scorching edi-
torial. which made these points:

@ The paper originally accept-
ed Dr. MacKenzie’s testimony that
the increase had been prompted
solely. by rising costs, new ser-
vices and falling enrollments. But
“responsible and thinknig stu-
dents have made an analysis of
the situation and they have told
us that they are not satisfied with
Dr. MacKenzie’s answers or with
the reluctance of the Board of
Governors to release the pertin-
ent data.”

@ :In March an administrative
official was quoted as saying ‘we
do not at this time contemplate
a fee increase.” Yet type for the
calendar, announcing the increase,
was set in February.

@ In April the administration
proclaimed that “if we get a
sizeable federal grant the increase
may be dropped.” Yet the rough
totals of federal grants had been
fixed in February.

The Ubyssey editorial continues:

“On this page Tuesday we
printed from Mr. Tim Buck, na-
tional leader of the LPP, an
article in which the Communist
chief charged that fee increases
were part of a deliberate policy
to slash college enrollments.

“He says the government wants
more soldiers—which it won’t get
from the colleges—and that it is
worried about. the number of pro-
fessional men being turned loose
in a raw materials economy. _

“Some students are wondering
whether or not he is right.

“It is up to the administration
If it
cannot, it will have committed
suicide.

“The Ubyssey has reserved this
space in its next issue for a reply
from Dr. MacKenzie, from the

‘Board of Governors, or from any

other spokesman for the admin-
istration Dr. Mackenzie and the
board care to name.

“In event that no reply is re-
ceived this space will be left blank
with an appropriate explanation
above.

“Such an eventuality will be
taken by the student body to
mean hat. the administration
either cannot answer or finds it
politically inexpedient to answer.”

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TRAIL, B.C.

Led by president Al King, ie entire executive of Local 480,
International Union ef Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, visited Trail
district No. 11 board of school trustees last week to protest vigorously
against tne anti-union, red- baiting activities of a local school teacher
who told her Grade Five class that Mine-Mill members are “Communist

spies under the leadership of
Harvey Murphy.”

The father of one pupil, present
at the board meeting, said his
young son had asked him if he
was a member of Local 480 and
when -he replied “yes,’’ the boy
had said, “You are just commun-
ist spies, teacher said, but the
company is keeping an eye on
you.”

One Mine-Mill member charged
that the same teacher had been
guilty of a similar offence three
years ago, and quoted anti-union
statements made by the teacher
at that time. .

“This teacher should be severe-
ly reprimanded,’ said another
member of the union delegation.
“We wanted to have her present
at this meeting in order to con-
front her with these statements
and have her publicly retract
them.”

W. E. lweas, district school
inspector, said he did not think
the teacher should be “put on the
spot” and promised that the mat~
ter would be handled “through
the proper channels.” She was

“going to be told what her posi-.

tion should be on such subjects.”
Lucas added that the board
agreed with Mine-Mill that such
statements did not belong in the
classroom. “The matter will be
taken up at once,” he declared.

_tions for all workers,”

Board refuses
splinter group
certification

Application of International
Machinists Union, Local 692, for
certification and bargaining rights
covering fttters, machinists, weld-
ers, blacksmiths and helpers in
shops operated by the city has
been rejected by Labor Relations
Board, and many workers who
were misled by the union raiding
tactics are now rejoining Van-
couver Civic Employees Union,
Outside Workers, it is learned.

The civic union has applied for
re-certification under its new
name for the city, parks board
and PNE board, none of whom
are contesting the application.

“Once we get the new Certifica-
tion we will have a clear road
ahead to travel full speed for a
wage increase and better condi-
an Out-
side Workers’ union statement
said this week.

‘Home rule
candidate

wins in NWT
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT
A candidate who campaigned
for fully representative govern-
ment in the Northwest Territories
easily defeated two opponents to
wiry one of three elective seats in
the September 17 election, first
ever held for the Northwest Ter-
ritorial Council. Mervyn Hardie,
Yellowknife school trustee, polled:
778 votes in Mackenzie North, as
against 317 votes for James
Wheeler, Yellowknife broker
backed by the News of the North,
and 98 votes for John McKeekan,
Yellowknife publisher.
The Mackenzie South seat was
won by John Brodie, of Fort
Smith, and the Mackenzie West
seat by Frank Carmichael of
Aklavik.
Until this plectibyt Mackenzie
District was governed almost en-
tirely from Ottawa through fed-
eral appointees, although the
town of Yellowknife has has local
government in recent years.
At the last redistribution of
federal seats Mackenzie District
was added to the existing Yukon
seat to form a single constituency,
the largest in the country, em-
bracing a region from the Alaska
boundary to ‘the Mackenzie River:
and from B.C. and Alberta
boundaries to the Arctic Ocean.
Residents of the communities
strung along the Mackenzie River
bitterly opposed this move, con-
tending that the steady growth
of population in Mackenzie Dis-
trict as a result of gold, radium
and oil discoveries justified crea-
tion of a separate Mackenzie con- ©
stituency. :
Hardie’s platform recognized:
the overwhelming popular . senti-
ment against long distance gov-_—
ernment by Ottawa and the de-
mand for representative local
government by including these
planks: (
@ A fully representative North-
west Territories Council seat-
ed in the Territories.

@ A federal constituency for
Mackenzie District,
The right of incorporation 25
a municipality with fully elec-
tive council to be extended to
any settlement in the Terri-
tories upon a majority vote.

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