SERIES OF RALLIES PLANNED :

While American Defence Min-
ister James Forrestal is visiting
Ottawa to elaborate plans for
further incorporation of Canada
into Washington’s “grand de-
sign” for aggressiory A. A. Mac-
Leod, outstanding spokesman of
the Canadian’ movement against
war and fascism in the late thir-
ties will be touring western
Canada bringing the message of
the need for a new crusade for
peace.

MacLeod, who is LPP mem-
ber of the Ontario legislature
for Toronto-Bellwoods, will hold
‘a series of peace rallies in Brit-
ish Columbia under the title,
“"alt the Warmongers.” These
rallies will be held in Vancouver
at Pender Auditoriung Wednes-
day, August 18; in Alberni at
Eric Graaf Hall, Thursday, Au-
gust 19; and at ‘Miners’ Hall, Na-
naime® Friday, August 20.

He will broadcast from CKMO
Vancouver at 7:15 p.m. August

MacLeod to make tour in B.C.

to the Second World War he was
national chairman of the League
for Peace and Democracy.

17, and from CJAV Alberni, on
Monday, August 23, at.8:15 p.m.
He will also be featured speak-
er at the New Westminster LPP
picnic on Sunday; August 22, at
Lawrence Street Park, Queens-

borough.

A special “Women for
Peace” tea is being arranged
at John Goss Studio, 641
Granville, at 2 p.m., Wednes-
da:g August 18. Sponsors are
Mrs, Freda Adams, Mrs. Hen-
ni Bell, Mrs. Marge Croy, Mrs.
N. Dawson, Mrs, Doris Hart-
ley, Mrs. Effie Jones, Mrs. Mae
Leniczek, Mrs. Ana Leschyn-
ski, Mrs. Marion Parkin and
Mrs. M. Russell.

He will speak at a luncheon
‘for trade unionists at the Olym-
pic Cafe, Tuesday, August 17,
at noon.

MacLeod enlisted in the First
World War as ong of the young-
est soldiers in the Canadian
Army. In the years leading up

A. A. MACLEOD, MPP

government to put back price
who told the PT this week: “Eggs
shot up 8 cents last week and are
scheduled to jump five cents more.
Shortening is up a nickel. There's a
butter boost on, the. way. Soap
flakes have jumped 6 cents a pack-
age and laundry soap 2 cents a
cake. The Liberals finally dropped
the austerity tax but lifted the sub-
sidy on fats and oils too. In other
words, you can get a Buick convert-
ible a little cheaper, but you must
pay more for soap,

To the question, “What effect is
this having on people?” Morgan re-
plied, “They're just finding it fin-
ancially impossible to provide suf-
ficient milk,} vegetables, meat and
other staples for good health.”

“What can be done?”

“We believe that militant, united
consumer pressure is urgently re-
quired. Organized expression of the
anger that is universally felt could
still compel price rollbacks, with

restoration of controls and subsi-

Fadling given sharp rebuff —

by own IWA

A sharp rebuff was dealt

James Fadling at Aberdeen w

local members

—SEATTLE?
IWA International President
hen the vote of a Local 3-2

trial board to acquit nine unionists of charges pressed by
Fadling was upheld by unanimous vote of a local member-

ship meeting. Local 3-2 is
The case grew out of the suspen-|

sion on Fadling’s instructions, of | yy

Local 3-2 Secretary Crawford
Jones, when the latter refused to
sign Taft-Hartley yellow-dog affi-
davit.

The membership vote to acquit
was termed “ a powerful blow
against Fadling’s attempt to rule
the. union from the top, and a 4
beginning toward reversal of the
international leadership’s ‘soft’
policy toward Taft-Hartley,” by
rank-and-file spokesmen’.

Jones had retained possession of
union records as duly elected sec-
retary and had secured a court or-
der temporarily restraining union
officials from preventing him from
earrying out the duties of that of-
fice. Nine fellow-unionists were par-
ties to the restraining order.

The Fadling forces retaliated by
getting a warrant for Jones charg-
ing him with “petty larceny” for re-
fusing to yield the records he was
elected to superintend, Jones was
fined $50 in justice court, and the
matter is now on apepal to Grays
Harbor Superior Court.

At Fadling’s direction, .charges ——-

were preferred against’ the nine
men who were parties to Jones’ re-
straining order. They were accused
of failing to abide by “the will of
the majority.”

“We were simply acting to de-
fend the IWA constitution,” one
of the nine explained. “Brother
Jones was suspended by the dicta-
torial action of one man, President
J. E. Fadling, No charges were pre-
ferredj and he wasnft given a trial.
Because he refused to follow the
Fadling policy of knuckling under
to the Taft-Hartley Act, he was ar-
bitrarily suspended from an office
to which he had been elected by
the democratic vote of the mem-
bership.”

‘The union constitution calls for
a vote of 7 to 4 in’ an eleven-man
trial board to convict. The vote in
the trial of the nine who had back-
ed Jones was 6 to 5 for acquittal

It was widely reported that the
intended to “re-.

Fadling’s home local.

PT expose welcomed

“The Pacific Tribune’s exposure
last week of the News-Herald’s
faked war scare story on non
existent Russian mines was snap-
ped up by the public to the tune
of an extra 800 copies,” Fel Ash-
tom, PT business manager, re-
ports.

PT salesmen hit the downtown
streets in force on Thursday
night last wek just before the
New’s - Herald’s sensationalist
“pink” edition came out.

“Readers have written, in to
congratulate us on exposing the
methods being used to whip up
a new war hysteria,” Fel Ashton
states. “They're fed up with
phoney war scares and spy
scares and they tell us they’re
glad to see one paper, at least,
fighting for peace-”

Act against
old parties

A call to the labor movement to
take political action against the
old-line parties is embodied in a
resolution to be laid before the
October 11 convention of the Trades
and Labor Congress by the Van-
couver Civic Employdes’ Union
(Outside Workers).

the convention “instruct the incom-
ing executive to make further rep-
resentations to the cabinet before
the end of the year with a view to
rolling back prices” and “authorize
the incoming‘ executive to call a
nation-wide work stoppage of eight
hours duration if the government
does not see fit to stop the scandal-
ous price-boosting of the monopol-
ies.” :

Don Guise was re-elected busi-
ness agent and Jack Phillips sec-
retary by acclamation. Voting is

proceeding for other executive
positions. i

A second resolution proposes that.

Unity aided
by Herridge

Re-admittance to the CCF of H.
W. -Herridge, MP, elected as a
People’s CCF candidate in Koote-
nay West in 1945, was welcomed by
Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial lead-
erg this week. Morgan said he be-
lieved the move would strengthen
the unity of all progressive forces
in the electoral fight to regain the
Trail-Rossland provincial seat for
the CCF foreshadowed by the death

ition MLA.

“The significance of this unity
move lies in the fact that it will
assure defeat of the Coalition in
the Trail-Rossland byelection,”

Morgan stated. “Unification of the
CCF and People’s CCF forces in
the Kootenays, with the backing
of the Labor-Progressive Party
and the powerful miners’ union
provides the. strength necessary
to take Trail-Rossland out of the
Coalition column and back into
the CCF.

“In the last .election .Webster.
was closely identified with the huge
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Company as one of its chief ac-
countants, and he was elected on
a minority vote because of the split
in the anti-Coalition forces. Labor
must now unite its forces to replace
company representation by labor
representation and at the same
time hammer another nail in the
coffin the people are prearing for
the Coalition government at the
next election.”

Morgan declared that his party
would take an active part in the
campaign to defeat the Coalition
candidate not yet indicated, in
both the Trail-Rossland and South
Okanagan byelections.

The CCF this week nominated
Bruce Woodsworth as its candid-
ate in South Okanagan. A nephew
of the late J. S. Woodsworth, he
is principal at Westbank school.

At Victoriayj Coalition strategists
are reported to be gloomy over the
government’s chances of winning
pthe byelections either in Trail,
| where the CCF is recognized to be
potentially strong now that the
CCF-People’s CCF split is being
healed and where there is an influ-
ential labor movement, or in South
Okanagan, where the CCF has
made big inroads and where a la-
bor movement has been built in
the last few years.

The Johnson government contriv-
ed to carry its first two byelections
in Saanich and Cariboo, but the
next two are expected to tell a
different story. And,; Coalitionists
admit, the sales tax has cut sharp-
ly into their waning strength.

this week of James Webster, Coal-}

dies, The government has the pow-
er and can be compelled to act.”
“What is the LPP doing?”
“We're proud of our consistent
fight against profiteering to date,
but the fight must be intensified
yet. Today we
tunity to present a brief to the Cur-
tis Commission oni prices and have

own. We welcome the fact that our

demand the oppor-;

asked this commission to hold hear-|
ings in each province including our,
'Murciano Arroyo and Felix Lopez

io ae

Match record living costs
with record protest action

The cost of living index, now at an all-time high, is gOo-
ing to keep climbing unless the people can match it with an
all-time high -in protest and organization to force the King

controls and halt profiteering.

This is the view of Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader,

request is being considered by the
commission. Hundreds of messages
to Ottawa are backing our de-
mand.”

“Is the LPP undertaking any
special activities?”

“We have set aside this Saturday
as the time for province-wide dem-
onstration by LPP clubs through-
out the province to rally support
to the “buy no beef” campaign.
We'll distribute 20,000 leaflets that
day, as well as holding parades and
meetings in many communities.”

(Vancouver's main parade will
leave Pender Auditorium this Sat- —
urday at 1.30 p.m.)

Plea sent to UN

—LONDON.

A cable to UN Secretary General
Trygve Lie urging UN intervention
to stop the Franco regime’s planned
execution of eight young Spaniards
has been sent by the World Federa~
tion of Democratic Youth whose
executive committee is in session
here.

The Spanish young people, re
cently condemned to death by 4
Madrid military court for active OP-
position to the Franco dictatorshiP,
are Eugenio Parra, Manuel Villalo- —
bos, Regelio Garcia, Pedro Martin-
ez, Benito Caloro, Daniel _Elola,

——

[ee

ARE YOU ON THE VOTERS’ LIST?

CRA opens drive for
full civic registration

Said Adam, “It’s election time.”
And Eve replied, “That's fine—
Let’s hurry down to register

So we'll be first on line.”

“Opening of the civic voters’
list for inspection this week
marks the,opening round of the
Civic Reform Association’s 1948
election campaign to elect Effie
‘Low-Fare’ Jones to the mayor-

alty,” states Elgin Ruddell; CRA

director.

“Any citizen may now contact
the city clerk’s office at the city
hall by phoning FA. 2711 to see
if he or she is on the voters’ list,
and if not to register to be plac-
ed on the list by the ann'ual
court of revision. :

“We are urging all trade un-
jonists and taxpayers generally
to do this because every year

thousands of citizens are dis-.

franchised by Non-Partisan enu-
meration methods. If all citizens
with the qualifications had been

‘ue of not less than $300. *

enumerated last year Effie would
have been elected in 1947. AS it
was she secured an outright m& |
jority of individual votes polled,
and lost only because of the
thousands of business property
and office tenant votes cast f°
her Non-Partisan opponent.”

Qualifications for voting stip
lated by the city charter 9%
that a citizen must be a BritisP
subject, 21 or over, and an ow?
er, owner under agreement, a
tenant of property having a ¥

“If any citizen possessing these
qualificatiogs © encounters any
difficulty in getting on the us
it would be a good idea to phone
Effie Jones at FR. 1317,” state

Ruddell.
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