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BROOKE CLAXTON
The “potential enemy” is
Russia.

Pretense
Stripped —
from pact

_No sooner had the Atlantic
EN been launched at Wash-
R8ton this week. “ona sea
of champagne, cocktails and
Whisky ang Soda,” than sev-
ral ot its main promoters
Proceeded to strip it. of its
__ defensive” camouflage and
’ Feveal the cold-blooded design
for war beneath,
Bi New York, General
et N. Bradley in effect
*rved notice on the peoples
°f ‘Western Europe that if
they Should choose govern-
ments in which Communists
“the i¢iPatea or dominated,
ine si States would go
transte and he called for the
Eur ng of Western
, 2P@ into a huge armed

fee! AY ensure that this
_ Ould not happen.

From Boston, Dr. Harold
Sen, president of the
ity of Pennsylvania,
Arthy a billion dollar “Mac-
propos, plan” for Asia and
bard eu peat the U.S. bom-
of me USSR and countries
aga, ter Europe with prop-
thin dropped from high-

ying planes or balloons.
ya in “Vancouver, dele-
conf to the annual army
areata heard private
most nes by some of Canada’s

“* Vociferous advocates of
oa cae Russia, including
versity] Shrum of the Uni-
rise of B.C. and T. G. Nor-
mie KC, president of Van-

“ver Board of Trade, who
re red that “in all essential

pects, Canada is at war

Univers
urged

With Russia today.”

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Revolt

Ships tied up in B.C.

‘WORLD LABOR
BACKS SEAMEN

East Coast shipping companies which forced the Canadian Sea-
men’s Union to take strike action by signing a stab-in-the-back contract
with. the Seafarers’ International Union this week found themselves
bucking a round-the-world picket line.

At press time, some.32 ships were reported tied up in Belgian,
Cuban, French, British, American and«Canadian ports. The remaining
58 ships of the eastern companies, now at sea, will be struck as soon
as they reach their destinations. Some are headed for India and Aus-
tralia. :

Dockers in London voted to a man not to unload any Canadian
ship from the East Coast during the CSU strike and stated that if
shipowners attempt to use scab labor all dockers in London and
Liverpool will be pulled out on strike.

“Except for ships at sea the te-up is 100 percent effective,”
announced Harry Davis, president of the Canadian Seamen’s Union.

“Any East Coast ship that hits Vancouver will. stay here,” de-
clared Jimmy~Thompson, Pacific Coast vice-president of the CSU.
No strike has been called against B.C.-based deepsea ships.

The Riverside has been picketed at Lapointe Pier since: Saturday,
and local longshoremen have refused to cross CSU picket lines. The
seamen are “‘sitting tight’’ aboard the ship.

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At Victoria the Seaboard Queen tied up at Ogden Point. Lights -

and water were cut off but the crew stuck it out, until they were

served with ‘a Supreme Court injunction ordering them to vacate the |

vessel. Br

Should any ships manage to sneak scab crews aboard and “‘get
away” from one port in this strike, they won’t get far—only to the

next union port.

In England, five ships are now tied up: the Jvor Rita and
Beaverbrae at London, the Seaboard Ranger and Royston Grange
at Liverpool and-the Gulfside at Avonmouth.

Jack Pope,#United Kingdom representative for the CSU, said that
all Canadian ships from East Coast ports would be tied up as they
arrived in British ports. .

Attempts to inject “force and violence’ into the strike have al-
ready been made by the shipping companies and their stooges.

In the east 30 SIU scabs, imported from Montreal to Halifax,
claimed that they were assaulted by union seamen.

‘In Vancouver, two rocks were tossed through a plate glass win-
dow in headquarters of the Seafarers’ International Union. The provo-
cation was so obvious that even SIU officials blamed it on ‘‘pranksters”
and stated that they did not believe CSU men had anything to do
with the incident. But the pattem was evident—alleged “‘violence”’ .as_
a prelude to calling in police to quell “force and violence’’ on the part
of the peaceful picket line.

Meanwhile, in the House of Commons, Labor Minister Hum-
phrey Mitchell disclosed the motive behind the shipowners’. strike- -
forcing action when. he revealed that all during negotiations for a
peaceful settlement the anti-Communist International Longshoremen’s

‘Association (AFL). had been putting pressure on Canadian. com-.

panies to reject any settlement with the CSU and sign with the SIU.

The SIU has not a single member in any East Coast port. All
scabs are_recruited from the Montreal and Toronto underworld, given

Continued on back page — See SEAMEN

Cabinet considering new

version of LaCroix bill

Justice Minister Stuart Garson
meant this week when he stated,
that the government’s policy “‘in

respect to legislation against com-
munism’’ would be announced in
due course.

The LaCroix bill, which in
effect would restore Section 98
to the statute books and trans-
form Canada into a police state,
was “‘talked out’? in the House
of Commons by William Irvine
\(CCF, Cariboo)?

But the threat contained in
that bill has not been lifted. It
has merely been transferred from
a private member to the St. Laur-
ent government. That is what

RURAL AS ATAU

against pact

The cabinet is now considering
a draft bill prepared by the jus-
tice department for presentation
to parliament. This bill is pat-
terned after the private member’s

Srowing within CCF

---SEE BACK PAGE

‘toration of Section 98, repeal of

padlock law in Quebec, it will
be used, not only against the
LPP, but against all labor and
all sections of the peace move-
ment.

The measure under considera-
tion is said to provide penalties
up to 14 years in the penitentiary
against persons engaging in what
are termed ‘Communist, Fascist
or other anti-democratic opera-
tions.’” But there need be no il-
lusion that a government which
has admitted and _ protected
French citizens wanted by their
, own government for collaboration
with the Nazis will prosecute its
own fascist friends—not under a
fascist-type measure.

What can you do to defeat
this threat to your liberties as a
peace-loving citizen?

The popular campaign against

bill introduced by Wilfrid La-

Croix. It is no less than the res-

which loomed large in the defeat
of the Bennett Conservative re-
gime in 1935 and the election
of the King Liberal government
now headed by St. Laurent.

Prime Minister Louis St. Laur-
ent has said there will be “no
persecution” of the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party. But the bill now
being studied by the cabinet is
clearly intended to meet Tory
leader George Drew’s demand,
for repressive legislation “against
the LPP. It is the government’s
intended answer to the growing
opposition, in the trade unions,
within the CCF, to Canada’s war
commitments and military expendi-
tures under the Atlantic pact, and
to popular reSentmept against
U.S. arrogance and domination.
Like Premier Maurice Duplessis’

‘

(Continued on back page)
See SECTION 98