S q Carlin puts case to CCL unions, wants Mill-Mine reinstatement An appeal to all unions officers and membership to join with the CIO Mine. testing that union’s suspension from the CCL was made this week by d Member for the IUMMSW-CIC. > adian Boar (The British Columbia Federa- tion of Labor, CCL, also appealed to the CCL this week asking that Mine-Mill ‘be immediately rein- stated to its former status within the CCL. Carlin’s letter was read to the recent B.C. Federation of Labor convention following the address of Mine-Mill President John Clark, and unanimously en- dorsed. A wire to this effect was forwarded from the convention to ‘CCL national headquarters.) Carlin’s letter appealing for sup- port against the Congress decision points out that the suspension charges followed a news story in the July 19 issue of Mine-Mill’s official publication which said that A. R. Mosher, in his capacity as head of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway employees, had stated he was prepared to accept a wage rate lower than that which other railroad unions were demanding. As soon as Mine-Mill officers saw it in print, said Carlin, they felt it should not have been carried and they immediately wrote Congress officers tendering apologies. The writer of the story was also dis- missed. : “T suggest to you,” said the Car- lin: letter, “that this action on the part of my international officers and myself, even before there was any complaint from either Presi- dent Mosher or any other officers _ News reports confirm Mosher rail ‘walkout’ Leading AFL officials are ex- pressing surpise at the action of A. R. Mosher in suspending the CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union from the Can- adian Congress of Labor, osten- sibly for the issue of a story which appeared in the union’s publication which was critical of Mosher’s role during the recent railroad union negotia- tions. The AFL’ers point out that leading Canadian newspapers, including the Toronto Daily Star, carried despatches stat- ing that Mosher was willing to make a wage settlement less than that being demanded by the other railroad unions. At the time, Frank Hall, chairman of the rail union’s negotiating committee, said that Mosher’s willingness to settle for less, ‘came as a “bombshell.” of the CCL, was adequate proof of our desire to avoid such occur- rences in the future.” Carlin said that in view of the facts, “I suggest that the excuse given for our suspension is not only flimsy but constitutes a stab at the very heart of inner union democracy, freedom of the labor press and the long established de- -mocratic process of the rights of criticism. 3 “Surely,” Carlin continued, “we have not reached the stage where labor leaders and trade union pub- lications cannot criticize each other and even use harsh words against each other without inviting sus- pension, expulsion and the dismem- berment of our trade union cen- tres? Indeed, Brother Mosher and others who supported his demand for suspension. consider themselves quite free to criticize, oppose, con- demn and brand anyone they choose in the labor movement.” Carlin warned that the suspen- sion of Mine-Mill was an issue which did not affect that union alon. “I have reason to believe,” his letter said, “that Brother C. H. Millard, who has been raiding our union of late, was a very in- terested party in the move for sus- lll! fascism, affiliated to the Canadian Congress Mill and Smelter Workers in pro- of Labor urging the R. H. Carlin, Can- i reason to think that it is his hope to*extend his raiding tactics after Cc. HR. MILLARD Now he’s raiding Mill-Mine unions greater immunity if we should be outside the ranks of the CCL.” ’ The situation, Carlin said, raised tional right. “If raiders and dis- ruptors of sister organizations should succeed in suspending wn- ions that are subject to their at- tack in order to intensify their ,mind raiding, then it should be clear that the CCL will be exploded from within, that the autonomy of ev- ery union will be endangered.” Preceding Carlin’s letter was a joint statement signed by himself and M. E. Travis, Mine-Mill inter- national secretary-treasurer, which also raised the issue of raiding led by C. H. Millard. “Union officers,’ said the- joint statement, “were shocked by the action of the Congress in suspend- ing the IUMMSW, and have con- cluded that other motives may have influenced the decision. It is well known in labor circles that C. H. Millard has long cast covet- ous eyes on our union.” The Carlin letter, which asks that CCL affiliates contribute to- wards the establishment of unity in the Congress and in the labor movement by supporting the ap- peal against suspension through Se ee ee Gov't asked operation of Vancouver's Civic Reform charging it with “marked bi | BCElectric proposals in the recent PUC public hearings on BCElectric fares and rates in the lower main- land area. ° The letter, addressed to the chairman and members of the Ex- ecutive Council, reads: “This let- ter is addressed to you as the only authority other than the legislature to which the Public Utilities Com- mission is answerable.. “We wish to protest against the conduct of the commission in the (public hearings at the Vancouver Courthouse, August 25 to August 27. ings there was exhibited a marked bias on the part of the commission in favor of BCElectric representa- tives and against all who offered any opposition to the company proposals.” The letter then cites the following points as evidence resolutions before and during the of bias. coming national convention, em- phasizes that: “It should not be! : of you} our suspension in the belief that to whom this letter is. addressed j he will be able to do so with that the Canadian labor movement | , today is confronted by attacks, necessary to remind all proportions of which have been unknown in this country before. the issue of respect for jurisdic- | We are all probably of the same in agreeing that to beat} back these attacks will take the greatest unity and solidarity that! motives of the Capitol Hill Im-' lprovement Association and Van-! we, as. workers, can bring to bear.” : the | (1) Refusal of Dr. W. Carroth- ers, PUC chairman, to grant an adjournment to the Civic Reform Association for preparation’ of its case. “The company’s submission | sion in May, and was not received {by our association till eight days before the ‘hearings.’ (2) Carrothers’, questioning the | couver Trades and Labor Council y FRANK ARNOLD lory scheme to capture power behina Houde’s ‘Parti Canadien’ e —MIONTREAL Some- months ago Ontario’s Drew and Quebee’s Duplessis put their sinister heads carrying out the governmental tasks assigned by Canadian imper- ialism. The new axis they’ started shaping in Quebec City would be designed to show big business they could do a better iron-heel job in leading Canada down the road to fascism, national betrayal and war, This week in Quebec the seed of~-Tory reaction they planted was beginning to show some of its bitter, decaying fruit. Paul Bou- chard, staunch Duplessis side-kick and devil’s advocate of corporate announced that a new party was being launched in Que- bec to be known as the Parti Canadien or the Autonomy Party. Obviously planned as a reassem- blement of all reactionary, Union Nationale, nationalist, tory, clerical and outright fascist elements, the blue prints call for this unholy conglomeration to invade the feder- al arena in Quebec using Premier Duplessis’ political machine as the battering-ram. White collar workers to stage cabaret A public cabaret night is being staged by CIO white collar work- ers in Vancouver to help finance the organization of thousands of office employees who, in the words ‘of one union Officer, “are long overdue for the kind-of new deal they can get for themselves through the CIO.” Local 229 of the United Office and Professional Workers is spon- soring the affair, which will be held at the Pender Auditorium October 1, featured by the music of Wally Peters’ Orchestra and a floor show. Tickets are obtainable at 339 W. pension of our union. I have also Pender St. together in an undercover strategy meeting in Quebec City. What they discussed officially was kept a dark secret but political observers were quick to see the new Tory axis. Drew and Duplessis were forging in an attempt to replace the Liberals as the main vehicle for \ M, DUPLESSIS | Tory axis kingpin Slogans for the new party will come straight out of Duplessis’ own handbook. The cry will be “No Centralization”—“Autonomy” —“No Foreigners in Quebec’— “No Dominion-Provincial Deal- ings.” The Parti Canadien will echo every mystical, obscurantist, slogan of ‘“Race—Blood—Nation— Culture” that Hitler and Duplessis ever dreamed up. Its black re- action will be attractively ‘draped with rosy promises and the whole thing wrapped up in anti-com- munism to conceal its evil face. This Duplessis bought-and-paid- for machine will link hands with Premier Drew in an attempt to seize federal power at Ottawa in the coming elections. Affiliated with Bouchard in this sordid venture is Montreal’s own Mr. Five-by-Five, chameleon Ca- millien Houde, mayor of Montreal, one-time leader of the ‘Conserva- Houde, since his release from in- ternment camp (where he spent five years because of his opposi- tion to the war against Hitler) has been seeking to get his fingers back into the pork-barrel. Kept out of the usually lucrative poli- tical fields because of the only nominal powers assigned Mon- treal's Mayor, Houde this year threw his, lot in with his one-time enemy plessis, and the price is now obvious, Previously unable to dent Que- bec politics because of its openly imperialist jingoism, the Tory party now sees in Houde and his “anti-war” record a handy dema- gogic tool to break through French-Canadian hatred of war and reaction. Paul ‘Bouchard, the: other Du- plessis henchman, first distinguish- ed himself by editing Le Nation, an organ which voiced the most backward sentiments of separtists, corporists, Catholic fascists, and anti-Semites in Quebec. Main aim of Le Nation was to propagandize for the setting up of a corporate state (a la Mussolini) on the banks of the St. Lawrence. Tied up with the Order of Jacques Cartier, the clerical-fas- cist undercover conspiracy, Bou- chard has the honor of having first introduced the writings of Quisling himself to Canada in 1936, was outspoken in praise, of Franco, Petain, and Mussolini, and campaigned against the ‘anti-fas- cist war. Such are the men and the men- ace of the Parti Canadien, Launch- ing of this _Duplessis machine on the federal level to tie in with Drew’s reaction in Ontario -adds to the danger facing the working people in Quebec and in the rest tive Party in Quebec. Mayor of the country. “During the course of the hear-| was in the hands of the commis-, to review PUC body Association has asked the pro- vincial government to institute a legislative review and in- quiry into the status of the Public Utilities Commission, as’ against all who opposed ‘in presenting briefs BCElectric proposals. (3) Entries by Carrothers and commission member Major A. Mac- Donald into the interchange be- tween the parties in such a manner as to support or assist the com- pany. (4) Refusal to put commission staff members on the stand to assist in determining accuracy of company allegations on costs. opposing (5) After several statements that the hearings would consider any | matter raised by interested parties, | Carrothers refused to hear a CRA submission on the so-called “fair following objections by return,” BCE president Dr. A. E. Grauer to this submission. The letter continues, “Dr. Car- |Trothers’ position and attitude are -indistinguishable from those of the BCEHlectric, and this is equally true of Major MacDonald. As for | Mr. Patmore (third member of the commission), he has not been seen ‘at any of the last three public hearings in Vancouver, and this raises grave doubts as to his right “to continue to hold a position of _public responsibility, “In view of these facts, we re- quest you to institute a legislative review and inquiry into the status and conduct of the Public Utilities Commission as at present consti- tuted.” A copy of the letter has been sent to Harold Winch, leader of the opposition. Simultaneously the CRA has en- tered a request with the PUC for the “fair return” of the company to be examined at a fresh public hearing before any finding is made on fares and rates. TUT CRA urges voters s s s | to file registration |: “For the first time to our know- ledge, the voters’ list department at the city hall will be open six ‘nights this year for registration of voters,” Mae Leniczek, secretary of the Civic Reform Association, told the Pacific Tribune this week. “This will at least give an oppor- tunity for working people to go up there and get on the list. Usually the office has closed at five, though in recent years it, has been open one or two evenings as a result of four pressure. “This is not as good as the com- plete enumeration we demanded, but it is now up to all those who want to clean out the BCElectric- dominated city council to go up there and get on the list so as to be able to vote for Effie Jones for mayor in December. We would urge upon-readers of the Pacific Tribune to not only get on the list themselves but also to jot down the names of all the other Civic Reform supporters they know of and urge them to register. “This applies particularly to tenants, who are left off the list in thousands every year by Non- Partisan enumeration methods. “The city hall will be open for registration from September 8 to September 14, including Saturday, from 8.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. No tenant can register after September 14.” TR PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 10, 1948—PAGE 6