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Their profit, your loss

Look over these reports clipped from the daily press over a few
days. Every one of them reflects the irrefutable fact that the mon-
opolies are reaping Proftts exceeding even those’ of the golden
“boom_and-bust” years of the twenties. They're also the strongest
argument for your signing the petition to the government demand-

sere UP ding

compared with $857,236 the |

ing restoration of the excess profits tax.

Labor Federation to present
Bill 39 demands to cabinet

Proposed amendments to Bill 39 will be presented to the
provincial cabinet and then to an open hearing of the new
Labor Relations Board, it was decided by the B.C, Federation

of Labor’s executive council meeting last Saturday with mem-

bers of its special standing com-
mittee,

A proposal that the BCFL pre-
sent a completely new provincial
laber code to replace Bill 39 was
over-ruled in favor of presenting
amendments in conjunction with
the Canadian Congress of Labor's
N&tional Labor Code.

The meeting also recommended
to all locals that delegates be
elected immediately in readiness
for a call to Victoria to attend
conferences when Bill 39 comes
before the legislature.

Copies of the CCL National
Labor Gode, as soon as available,
will be mailed to all affiliates and
BSFL speakers will visit all locals
and organizations upon request.

On political action, the BCFL
executive urged that special com-
mittes be set up in each union
“to see to it the membership and
their immediate family, eligible to
vote, are registered to vote.”

Backing up its action with a
$200 donation, the executive went
on record in support of the two
“anti-Coalition’ CCF candidates,
Colin Cameron and J. M. Thomas
in the forthcoming provincial by-
elections in Saanich and Cariboo.

Present “internecine fight devel-
oping in the ranks of organized

labor’ was deplored by the meet-

ing, and the CCL national officers
were requested “to intervene with
the national officers of the Trades
and Labor Congress, AFL, to ex-
plore ali possibilities to eliminate
itt

The meeting also condemned
oil companies for witholding gas
‘from the markets and demanded
the provincial government “take
over the oil companies and
operate them ininterests of the
general public.” : ;

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Office workers to hear Philpott

Effect of present high cost of living upon professional workers,
office clerks and stemographers will be the subject of a public

meeting to be held in Pender Auditorium bh

ruary 18, at 8 p.m..
Elmore Philpott, po

will be accompanied by rep

groups concerned, including a

of the United Office and Professional:
that it is this particular group of

Recent figures have showr

rdest hit by
workers who are ha known, are still largely unorgan-

workers,” as they are gene

ral
ized h and have received no gene
sa contrast to increases won

number of years, in

“dustrial workers, ard their standard of ii

than any other class of worker.
The meetin

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1948

ere Wednesday, eb-

pular columnist, will be guest speaker and
resentatives from the professional
speaker from the Seattle Local

Workers of America,

soaring prices. “White collar

wage increases for a
by organized in-
ving is generally lower

g is sponsored by Local 229, United cag
Professional Workers of America,

.

quartered on Canadian soil.

Dismantling of the Sault Ste
‘Marie steel plant and shipment
of its parts to the U.S. was
singled out for attack by Probe.
He also pointed to the shipment
of Steep Rock iron ore in raw
form to American plants, while
Canada is “crying for every form
of steel.” —

“It is time we stood on our
Canadian feet for a change,” he
declared. “We are willing to co-
operate with other countries, but
to make our industrial policy sub-
servient to another country is
a position that I feel unable to
concur in.”

Victor Quelch (S.C, Acadia)
sounded a similar note of pro-
test! He demanded that External
Affairs Minister Louis St. Laur-
ent reveal “what are the strings
attached to the Marshall Plan”
in its application to Canada.

Probe suggested that appoint-
ment of former Reconstruction

of minister of trade and com-
merce implied more than a sim-
ple shift in cabinet position. It
was, he held, a symptom of the
growing subservience of the Ca-
nadian economy to U.S. direction.

“I do not wish to give anyone
a mandate to integrate our econ-
omy more closely with that of
what has been up to now an
industrial competitor at Canada’s
expense,” said the CCF member.

As though to emphasize the
delight of big business with
Howe’s new appointment, the
Financial Post headlined: “Busi-
ness Gets New Ottawa ‘Head
Office.’ ”

* * *

If “integration” of the U.S.
and Canadian economists is pro-
ceeding apace under Wall Street
terms, “integration” of Howe’s
new department and the big guns
of Canadian finance capital is
also being consummated. _

Speaking to a meeting of the
Canadian Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion in Toronto on January 26,
Howe spoke enthusiastically of
the intimate relations between
himself and the CMA. Not a
word was said about the ‘storm
arising in trade unions that find
their industries, like electrical
goods and auto, facing. cutbacks
in production.

Instead, Howe remarked that
he was “happy to say that the
thinking of this Association is
coinciding almost exactly with
the thinking of myself and my
officers “on the issue of the
capital goods restriction program.

* * Wen:

Clarence Gillis (CCF-Cape Bret-
on South) added a strong voice
to Mr. Probe’s in attacking “in-
tegration” of the Canadian and
US. economies.

“It am afraid,” said Gillis,
“that we are going to be a coun-
try that will supply raw ma-
terial, set up assembly plants,
send our raw materials over
there, have them _ processed,
bring them back, pay for them,
create another dollar shortage,

‘assemble them in Canada, and

send them out at prices dictat-
ed and directed on the other
side of the line. That is what
we are going to be. From there
on we are just a satellite of the
United States because control is

over there.”

Minister C. D. Howe to the post |

CCF charges King gov't.
selling living standards

By MARK FRANK
OTTAWA—Growing discontent continued to feature de-
bate in committee stage on Finance Minister Douglas Abbott’s
austerity Bill No, 3 last week.

Discussion on the principle of the Bill sounded a militant
note of opposition against the inroads American demands are
making on Canadian sovereignty.

“Integration” of Canadian industry on U.S. terms was
bitterly attacked by CCF spokesman J. O. Probe (Regina
City). Probe, it will be recalled, is the CCF member who
has openly attacked the Marshall Plan. He belongs to the
“ginger” element in the CCF parliamentary group, which last
session fought the granting of privileges for U.S. troops

CPR fights.
Sask. tax

REGINA—In an extraordinary
and contemptuous act against the
people of Saskatchewan and the
laws of that province, the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway, Canada’s
biggest monopoly, and most hated
in the West, has resorted to the
courts in a move to challenge
constituted authority and reclaim
certain special privileges once held
on three and a half million acres
of its holdings. ; =

With calculated arrogance, the
CPR has started proceedings to
upset and have declared ultra
vires the Saskatchewan Mineral
Taxation Act under which it is
obliged to pay a tax of three
cents an acre on its holdings in
the province (although a similar
levy has been paid by the Cana-
dian Pacific for over five years
in the province of Alberta!)

Ignoring the usual procedure of
a petition against the Crown, the
CPR issued a writ against two
ministers (Attorney General J.
W. Corman, K.C., and Resources
Minister J. L. Phelps) as indivi-
duals, thus seeking to circumyent
the Petition of Rights Act and
the necessity of obtaining a fiat
to sue from the Attorney General.

The manner in which the Sheriff
of Regina interrupted a session
of the Saskatchewan cabinet to
serve writs of warrant on minist-
ers J. W. Corman and J. L. Phelps
was unprecedented, and was large-
ly suppressed in the news stories
in many parts of the country.

Liberal journals in the province,
sensitive to any clearcut struggle
against monopoly interests in this
election year, have sought to play

down the incident, to contain it
within strictly legal limits and to
dissuade Premier T. C. Douglas
and the CCF from making it an
election issue. E

“It would be a serious error to
confine this struggle to a legal
battle in the courts,” declares the
Westerner this week. “Farm and
labor groups in the province should
Swing into action in support of
the Saskatchewan government.”

Buck tours country
In preparation for approaching
Provincial

ruary and the end of March,
the LPP national executive an-
nounced this week.
A reorganization of its mem- -
bers’ work announced by the
~FP national executive estab-
lishes a secretariat composed of
Tim Buck, Leslie Morris, Stanley
Ryerson and Charles Sims, sets
tion-education
Stanley
organiza-

commission, and names
tyersun as national

“CCF target wrong’

MONTREAL — Replying to a
charge made by the Quebec sec-
tion of the CCF that the Labor-
Progressive Party was trying to
“jump on the CCF bandwagon”
in order to “confuse the public,”
the LPP provincial committee last
week declared, “The CCF can gain
nothing by lending their voices to
the Liberal-Tory chorus against
the LPP. We will disregard all
such abuse and will proceed un-
deterred in urging labor and the
people to elect CCF government.”

The CCF resolution, signed by
president Guy Desaulniers and
public relations chairman Dr. J.
C. Flanagan, stated that LPP sup-
port to the CCF was due to “the
serious falling off in- party mem-
bership” and to “sweeping anti-
communist and pro-CCF victories
in the labor unions.” The Quebec
CCF leaders also indulged in a
red-baiting attack.

“Desaulniers and Flanagan are
pointing their guns in the wrong
direction,” the LPP retorted.
“Their target should be King’s
big business government, which
they are out to beat.” ‘

Wave meet called

OTTAWA.—First session of its
1948 National Wage Coordin
Committee has been called for
February 18 in Toronto, the Cana-
dian Congress of Labor reported
this week. The meeting will pre
cede the annual convention of
the Ontario Federation of Labor,
slated for February 20-21.

Main purpose of the meeting is
to canvass the general wage out-
look for 1948 with a view to co-
ordinating activities of the CCL
unions. Already a number of
unions have held district conven-
tions at which preliminary wage
plans have been framed. In some
instances, unions are avoiding
specific demands until it can be
determined whether price increases

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as wages will form an important

topic at the Toronto meeting.

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