CNPA front shaken

en splendid vote given Effie Jones in the

mayorality election has broken through the _

smug crust of the ‘Civic Non-Partisan Associa-
tion.” Against the entire big business political
machine of the CNPA and its lap-dog press, Effie
Jones polled approximately 19,000 votes to the
CNPA’s 24,000, showing that even powerful
Tamany machines like the CNPA, with all its
financial, press, and other ‘influential’ backing,
can be broken by the democratic will of the
common people.

If one takes into account the thousands of
Vancouver workers, disenfranchised by the med-
evial restrictions of the City Charter, WHO
WOULD HAVE VOTED EFFIE JONES, then
it is clear the CNPA mayorality standard bearer
would have gone down to defeat with his BCElec-
tric colors trailing in the political gutter. A
very important lesson indeed!

The mayorality vote also holds a lesson for
the Public Utilities Commission and its chairman
Dr. Carrothers, who sarcastically observed to a
Vancouver labor delegation on which the Civic
Reform Committee was represented, that “you
don’t represent anyone but yourselves.” Early
in the campaign, sensing that the CNPA were

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the person or persons responsible

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of all ‘splits’ and dis- grams. As a lead to some super-

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feeling the pressure, the doctor made a dis-
covery. “It does seem,” said this PUC cus-
todian of BCElectric interests, in reference to.
the fare hoist, “there is a special group of people
on which a great hardship is being worked.”
Such profundity!_ Such perceptivity! Yes doc-
tor, 19,000 of Vancouver’s citizens said it with
votes for Effie Jones—a fact which gave consider-
able worry to those interests you so assiduously

- safeguard. Even the BCElectric had to get out

a. ‘special’ enlarged edition of the ‘Buzzer’ to
apologetically explain how little profits there is
in a transit monopoly! !

Even the meeting of the City Council (while
the campaign was on) had to show a little
‘stiffening’ against the BCElectric—a stiffening
that grew out of the fear of the CNPA political
weather-cocks that the indignation of the people
against the fare hoist might place Effie Jones
in the mayor’s chair. It nearly did at that, and
certainly will in 1948.

_ Effie Jones has rendered Vancouver a great
service in giving its working people an oppor-
tunity to say NO to BCElectric-CNPA power
politics in the City Hall. For the first time the
CNPA regime hasbeen effectively challenged.
A new phase of civic conciousness has been born,
which will find its full fruition in a nominal

as well as moral victory for Effie Jones in 1948.

TAA TY

By Tom McEwen

political and economic events
as Austin F. Cross, who special-
izes in the Blaylockian “one-
happy-family” worker-boss rela-
tionship, to the Trotskyite Max

tele-

movement are detrimental to
labor—and by. the same token,
beneficial to the exploiters of
Tabor. The one percent which
occurs in the outer fringes of
the labor movement have a re-
verse effect. For them the
bosses lament—and labor emer-
ges morally strengthened.

Last week the Pacific Tribune
was in receipt of a circular letter
signed by, Allan Meikle, presi-
dent of the so-called Canadian
Federation of Labor. It appears
the CFL has suffered a major

split... right down the middle,
and the ‘ins’ are anxious to
know if.-the ‘outs’ ever got any
money from. the Pacific Tribune
for subscriptions or advertising
for that CMA-subsidized organ

of the CFL known as the ‘Labor

Review.’ >

The Lord forbid! We make
a lot of errors in the course of
a day, but that’s not one of
them..

Briefly, the story is something
like this. Some little time ago
the CFL held a ‘convention’ in
St. Catherines, Ontario. Seems
like the ex-secretary and editor
of the notorious ‘Labor Review,’
W. T. Burford, and CFL vice-
president Zenon David, both top-
notchers in this national com-
pany-union setup, didn’t want
the ‘convention’ to take place.
So, some bright boy . .. or girl,
with special CFL training, sent
wires to all the delegates the
day before the convention, tell-
ing them it was “cancelled”...
89 telegrams in all. :
_ The plot thickens, as the dime
stinkeroo novelists would say. A
‘reward’ of $500.00 has been offer-
ed for “information leading to
the arrest and conviction” of

rating, some of the telegrams are
said to have been sent out from
Toronto “by a plump, well-dress-
ed woman of about
Torontonians can earn some
easy ‘austerity’ money. by care-
fully. scrutinizing their ‘plump’
mature matrons, There’s five
hundred smackers to be picked
up in *he game.

In spite of mysterious ‘cancel-
lations’ the convention was held
& is as scheduled,

round numbers.
It impresses the
subsidizers.) The
convention ex-
Tom McEwen pelled secretary-
editor Burford and his side-kick
David for “conduct unbecoming
officers of the federation.” An
injunction was later granted by
Mr. Justice Urquhart ‘restraining’
Burford from acting as CFL
secretary and from publishing
the ‘Labor Review.’

Any trade unionist who ever
saw or read a copy of the ‘Labor
Review’ will not lose any sleep
over this ‘split’ with its oderifer-
ous charges, counter-charges and
injunctions. Its advertising
clientele are among the worst
open-shoppers and -company-
union exponents in Canada. Its
literary contributions, aside from’
the anti-AFL, anti-CCL, anti-
Soviet, company-union filth ped-
died by Burford, include such.
eminent authorities on current

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947

CCF socialism rules,

Eastman, whose speciality lies
in anti-Soviet forgeries. and:
35.” slander.

This split in the CFL gives
those workers, who may have
unwittingly become enmeshed in
its anti-labor toils, an opportun-
ity to get out of this racketeer-
ing company-union mess and
allign themselves with their AFL
and CCL brothers in the Cana-
dian trade union movement...
of which the CFL is denitely not

with “95 percent

of the 45,000 a part.

CFL © member- Meanwhile we trust our Toron-
ship represent- to brothers will keep their eyes
ed.” (Company peeled for a ‘plump’ matron.
union setups are e

always a bit AST week a reader sent us a
reckless - with copy of “The Canadian Mail,”

published at 464 St. Francois
Xavier Street, Montreal, together
with a circular letter sent out
by that paper to all members
of the medical fraternity. This
publication, like Burford’s ‘Labor
Review’ is violently anti-labor .. .
but from a different angle.

Socialized medicine: “The Can-
adian Mail” is definitely against
socialized medicine, and turns its
entire anti-Soviet batteries into
the fight against this menace,
which would make moral and
physical wrecks of our Canadian
doctors and nurses.

Aside from that horrible place
Russia where medicine is free,
just look at Saskatchewan where
Says the
‘CM.’ “In. Saskatchewan the
distress of the profession ... is
evident.” The ‘CM’ runs two
anonymous ‘contributions’ from
Saskatchewan medicos, “anony-
mous for fear of reprisals” by
the CCF Ogpu! These alleged
‘contributions’ say little about
medicine. They do however make
a strong bid to the Canadian
Manufacturers’ Association and
the reactionary sections of the
medical profession to ‘come
across’ with the dough needed
“to assist the  anti-Socialist
parties win the next election.”
Real tory ‘political medicine.’

‘CM’ describes itself as “A
publication of opinion.” A more

fitting description would be a

political cuspidor in which all
the tory Gouzenkos are invited
to expectorate at socialism.

Write your MP today

HE Dominion Parliament is now assembled

in special session. How it will resolve the
momentous issues facing Canada will depend
to a large extent, upon what the basic organiza-
tions of the people outside of parliament do in
the next few days.

Clearly what has been done to date by the
people on prices, housing, and other urgent
matters of domestic and foreign policy has not
been sufficiently effective. The King government
has resolutely set its feet on the path designated
by reactionary big business.

During the coming week Ottawa should be
inundated with letters, wires, resolutions, de-
mands; urging a roll-back on prices and the re-

_ Stitution of price controls.

The people must demand of this session a
new relationship of trade and friendship between
the New Democracies of Europe, the USSR and
Canada. They must demand that Canada lead
in the convening of an Empire conference to
break the stranglehold of Wall Street.

Write your M.P. today. If you cannot cover
all points vital to Canada’s welfare, cover one.
Tell your M.P. you expect him to fight for
price controls, for curbing the profiteers; to
fight for veterans’ pensions, homes, and all those
things Canadians could have in abundance—but
are denied. The main thing is to TELL HIM
NOW !

“. .. unless we make labor realize that higher wages. are

the sole cause of inflation, our austerity campaign wont be
worth a nickel . . .” ts

ra

Seamen win great victory

Ocean-roing seamen are to be congratulated on the ‘victory.
won on November 28 in the terms of the new 1948 .deep sea
agreement, in winning over $2 million in wages, benefits. and. social
reforms through their Canadian Seamen’s Union.

For the first time in Canadian maritime history seamen
have guaranteed employment. In the past when a deep sea vessel
put into a Canadian port the crew. was paid off and not rehired
till the ship was ready to sail. This meant a loss of two or three
weeks’ wages. The new contract negotiated by President Davis
and his fellow officers calls upon shipowners to keep the seamen
employed without any loss of time or pay.

Sick pay in foreign ports was also won by the CSU. Many
seamen fall ill during a ship’s voyage and are forced to pay off
in foreign ports. This meant that he was without wages until he

_was able to recover and get another ship. The new contract ~

guarantees him two-thirds of his basic wages for a period of not
longer than 12 weeks. ‘

Wages were boosted $20 a month and overtime rates jumped
10 cents per hour. An able seaman now receives $170 a month—
in 1943 he was paid $52 a month. In 1944 an ordinary seaman:

was paid 1714 sents per hours overtime.

per hour.

He now gets 70 cents.

Seamen were also successful in winning the 40-hour week in

port;

in 1943 they worked 56 hours.

Union security is also guaranteed. No member in bad standing,
no non-union man can be employed.

Other gains were a two-week vacation with pay after a year’s -
service; $150 disaster pay for loss of gear; hiring of CSU members
in most American ports and additional living conveniences such |
as. bunk lights. - .

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