e Buck asks CBC uphold free speech principles Acting on the assumption that “the air belongs to the people” as set forth in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ‘White Paper,’ ‘Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party, has forwarded a letter to D. Dunton, chairman of the CBC Board of Governors. The letter says in part: tunity to reply to attacks made Workers (CIO), The show of hands vote—and it was difficult to. tell what th ention supported their e€ majority was—saw the entire Frenc i 4 : Serr apener COR OF the ean | raised their hands against the CCL “On behalf of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party I want to raise with you and the Board of Governors of the CBC several important and related questions in regard to poli- tical and controversial broadcast- ing. The points which we wish to dis- cuss are the following: @ To establish that the Labor- Progressive Party, as a national - party, is entitled to free time both” during and between elections. On this point I should like to say that any definition of a national Party which excludes the LPP ‘is an evasion of the responsibilities of the corporation to give the Canadian public a picture of the issues confronting them. @ To arrange for the broad- casting of the national conven- tion of the Labor Progressive Party. e To provide for the oppor- on our party. Under the White Paper the CBC has announced that “the air he- longs to the people who are entitled to hear the principal points of view on all questions of importance” and “the right to answer is inher- ent in the democratic doctrine of free speech.” I do not want to list here all the recent broadcasts attacking our Party and to which we are entitled to a reply—such as the slander- ous attack made by one Major Everett Bristol in a CBC forum, reported in the Toronto Telegram of September 22 last, to the effect: that “the Labor-Progressive Party is a subversive and disloyal body, and an integral part of the Com- munist International’—followed by a demand that our party be out- lawed. We can produce ‘such a list if needed. What we are now con- cerned with is the establishment of our right in accordance with the principles you have laid down.” | Morris calls for labor lead in peace effort “The present crisis, as. with so many before it, is manu- factured artificially fer the purpose of conditioning the minds of the. people to war when it comes, declared Leslie Moiris, editor of the Canadian Tribune, in the Bay theatre last Sunday. “Nowadays peace has become subversive. If you talk peace you become suspect of being a com- munist. Peace today has come to méan. the continuation of war ona peacetime basis.” Morris outlined the whole pro- cess of international development which had taken place since the end of the war and the dominant role of aggressive American im- Pperialism in the preparation of World War III. This, he said, is best jllustrated in what is taking place in countries like Greece, China, Indonesia and other vast areas where U.S. arms and finan- cial aid is being extensively used to crush the democratic mdvements of the people. In the carrying i Upstairs 720 W. Hastings PA. 8059 speaking to a capacity audience thorugh of these policies Canada under the King-St. Laurent leader- ship is deeply involved. The. warmongers manufacture one crisis after another in the UN in an effort to “prove” the UN help- less and that war with Russia is the only solution. “To their eternal shame; said the speaker, “certain leaders of the CIO and AFL unions string along with this policy of war provocations,” Morris pointed out that. were the ‘Wallace line adopted by the people, satisfactory agreements on all ma- 3or issues could be arrived at with the Soviet Union “without giving away one iota of the interests or independence of the Canadian and American people. A socialist sector and a capitalist sector in our worid can live and work together if the common people were allowed to work out a solution.” This solution, concluded the. speaker, “is a fight for peace with labor*in the front ranks.” Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hasting Street MArine 5746 - STANTON & MUNRO BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES Nanaimo Office. Room 2, Palace Building, Skinner Street a 1780 4 HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS HAND-MADBE JOHNSON’S 63 West Cordova Street - - - - - - Phone MaArine 7612 BOOTS —_—— PACIFIC 9588 FERRY MEAT MARKET 119 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. . FREE DELIVERY Supplying Fishing Boats Jack. Cooney, Mer. Our Specialty — Nite Calls GL. 1740L || ployees abstain, What was true of CCL president A..R. Mosher’s un- ion was also true of such unions as the UAW-CIO, where half the the decision. Those who did vote adian Brotherhood of Railway Em-| delegates refused to take part in| | machine. i e The vote on the Mine-Mill appeal jagainst that union’s suspension from the CCL was preceded by a Mosher ruling that the subject was ;not debatable, was not subject to discussion from the floor, Mosher | | } ‘Sport! item phyrric victory. THAT'S WHEN Tt WAS YOUNG--- AND Foose The Mosher-Conroy-Millard team substituted for the CMA-Frank Hall union sluggers in Toronto, scoring a union splittin an RCMP witchhunt in Cape of C..H. Millard. paper in Sydney, N.S., edited by M, A. MacKenzie, comments on the Herald story as follows: A planted ‘news’ item in Tues- day’s Halifax Herald is causing considerable comment in this part of the world. Conjecture as to who wrote jt, and who supplied the “in- formation,” is getting to be-some- thing of a game. A grim game, it is truc, and one for which there would be no necessity if the stoolies were exposed and driven out of the labor movement — both economic and political. The alleged news tells us that the “scarlet rides of the * plains” have opened a drive on Commun- ists and suspected fellow travellers in Cape Breton. 3 The informant is. undoubtedly a member of the labor movement, but it is not stated how he got the inside on what the RCMP. pro- posed to do. : ; Our opinion is that he hasn't got any inside, but puts forward this bit of “information” in the hope that it will be used by the Ameri- | can immigration authorities to stop delegates from the mine unions from crossing into the States to attend their internation conven- tion. . The political leanings of the in- formant can well be tagged by his boosting of Millard. It is very re- '|} vealing that a report of the Tren- |ton meeting which Millard ad- | dressed came from Glace Bay. Now, who from Glace Bay accom- panied Millard to Trenton? - Here’s a bit from the report that might interest steelworkers: probe of the ‘Red’ factions has been Millard-RCMP tieup in ymonopolist’s fifth column, g alleged —TORONTO In last week's Canadian Tribune was printed a reproduc- tion of a “news” story from the Halifax Herald which reported Breton following a visit there The Steelworker and Miner, weekly news- under way for months but reached a new peak last weekend when C. H. Millard, national] director of the United Steelworkers, blasted the Communists for their attempts to infiltrate into the union.” So, Millard is credited. with peak!” Millard is also reported to have “jammed ‘cn verbal brass knuckles to challenge in debate those who tramped the Communist trail.” How like Millard! Meek as a lamb in Sydney even when bol- stcred by Clarie Gillis, M.P., who “accidentally” dropped into the meeting. - Apologetic and humble before the Sydney steelworkers, where bringing a witch hunt to a “new, limited the issue to “one speaker from each side.” Pat Conroy, CCL secretary - treasurer for the Con- gress and international president John Clark for Mine-Mill. “This is an autocratic decision,” said C. S. Jackson; UE-CIO Can- adian Director, who asked the con- vention not to start its delibera- ‘tions with a “gag rule” imposed from the beginning. Jackson then challenged the Mosher ruling, and the narrow ma- jority which the CCL president re- ceived in a show of hands vote jn- dicated better than anything else the reasons behind the executive council’s desire to squash debate on the Mine-Mill issue. Mine-Mill president John Clark, who went the limit and publicly apologized on behalf of that union for its “error” in criticizing Mosh- er for agreeing to lower the rail- way workers’ wage demand last summer, also revealed that the Con- gress leaders had attempted to keep the suspension issue off the con- vention floor by promising rein- statement by the incoming execu- tive council if a humble enough apology was made and the matter left at that point. Then the Mine-Mill president, in the interests of labor unity, bent over backwards in a public apology which retracted the news item which brough about Mine-Mill’s suspersion. Clark, for instance, did — not mention the fact that the Do- minion’s official labor gazette has also printed an article’ which bluntly states that A. R. Mosher was willing to settle the railroad workers’ wage demands for less than the amount asked by the Brotherhoocs. Pat Conroy, CCL secretary-treas- urer, who spoke for the executive council, admitted that the sus: a, sion issue had become a “free speech” issue in the nation’s labor press. The CCL official pleaded with the convention that it uphold the Gecision of the executive council, which it did by a slim margin; but it was a hollow victory for a Con- gress leadership which “knew” in advance that it had a machine vote behind it, but which wasn't cer- tain control,the convention. : SSOOOOPLOOEOHOTO— Port Alberni DIRECTORY GOOD EATS CAFE 2nd Ave. South of Argyle “Where working people meet" New Props. Kay & Marg: 24 HOUR SERVICE UNION TAXI Phone 137 ‘ any challenge may have been eagerly accepted. But what a lion | Communist in the union and where the members pay for the lack by lower wages than those in Sydney! 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For all your fuel supplies PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 22, 1948—PAGE 7 if it was strong enough to * CCL delegates gagged, Mine-Mill suspension upheld by slim margin ae f 6 CCL leaders won a hollow victory whea the 8th Congress conv plea to uphold the decision to suspend the In:ernational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter