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; Union men, flown to strike-bound
_ Ships in all parts of the globe, have

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Mire-Millunion leader may be permanently blinded

week. Travis may be permanent-
ly blinded_as a result of the at-
tack.

has been placed around the hos-
pital because the thugs who as-

to “finish the job.”
Leader of the thugs was Nick
Yonarich, personal representa-
_tive of CIO boss Philip Murray

Following an operation on his
eyes in a local hospital, doctors ‘
voiced their doubt that he would |® few weks ago.
regain his sight. A 24-hour guard

in the current Steelworkers’
raids on Mine-Mill.

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Mine-Mill officers have filed a

| $100,000. Two of the goons taking’
|part in the assault were under
peace bond because they had con-
fessed helping in the kidnapping
of Mine-Mill international rep-
resentative Dick Anderson only

The attack on Travis took place
in the studio of radio station
WJLD. Witnesses said that as

saulted Travis have threatened | Travis entered the studio to make

a final broadcast on union elec-
tions, he was struck over the
head with a chair. Then, as he lay
on the floor, the attackers kicked

him in the face and jumped on
him.

Later in the evening a parade
of the Ku Klux Klan was staged
in downtown Bessemer, with
white-sheeted members warn-
ing Negro workers not to vote
for Mine-Mill, and urging white
workers to uphold “white su-
premacy” by voting for union
representation by the Steelwork-
ers.

The same goons had threatened
to kill vice-president Reid Rob-
inson, board member Charles Wil-
son and members of the Mine-
Mill District 5 staff. In threaten-
ing staff member Graham Dolan,
Zonarich had said: “This is what

the Steelworkers are going to do

to you guys all over the country.” |

CIO president Philip Murray
has been told by Mine-Mill of-
ficers that their union holds
him personally responsible “or-
ganizationally, legally and fi-
nancially” for.the consequences
of the attack.on Travis.

“The entire campaign of raid-
ing against our local unions in
the South,” said the Mine-Mill
telegram to Murray, “has been
directed, encouraged, aided and
abetted by David J. McDonald,
secretary-treasurer of the United
Steelworkers of America, and by
CIO secretary-treasurer James B.
Carey. Accordingly, we demand
that you convene a special meet-

ing of the CIO executive board to

Murray aide led goons who assaulted Travis

—BESSEMER, Ala.

Maurice E. Travis, international
secretary-treasurer of the Inter- |
national Union of Mine, Mill and| ~ 338 i
Smelter Workers, was the victim ae ee criminal charges Se aIOey
of a brutal assault by a gang of |Zonarich plus a damage suit of
Steelworkers’ hoodlums here last

afford this. union, one of the
founding unions of the CIO, and
other CIO affiliates who are vic-
tims of raiding attacks, an op-
portunity to present this case
and others in an attempt to re-
turn sanity to the CIO before
these suicidal raiding tactics of
your organization, other CIO af-
filiates, and now the CIO itself,
bring complete destruction to the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions.”

Mine-Mill is asking local unions
and members in all parts of the
U.S. and Canada to send tele-
grams condemning this wave of
gangsterism to Philip Murray,
1500 Commonwealth Building,
Pittsburgh, Pa.

as citizens

Park Board squirms

protest

bar against Goss

Vancouver Park Board attempted to “officially end” the case of

baritone-teachet John Goss last Monday night.

But it appears that

the “end” is just the beginning, for Goss may take legal action, claiming

damages resulting fromthe Board

SEAMEN

The strike is costing the com-
panies involved millions of dollars.
(in one port alone, Halifax operat-
ors’ losses for the first three weeks
are estimated at $500,000). Scab
crews of Seafarers’ International

managed to move only half a dozen
vessels. With the bosses’ “united
front” breaking up—first nine
Great Lakes companies signed CSU
agreements, and now West Coast
operators have signed—a complete
victory for the CSU appears to be
in the offing.

This week the struck Canadian
freighter Sun Valley cleared from
Rouen, France, for Trinidad, with
officers and four cabin boys as
crew. Sailing with a skeleton
crew is unlawful under the ade- -
quate manning scale which the
Canada Shipping Act calls for.
it is now up to Minister of Trans-
port Lionel Chevrier to prosecute
officers and owners of the Sun
Valley, There is little likelihood
that he will take such action, for
the government has been playing
a vicious anti-union role in the
seamen’s strike.

Off the Cuban port of Cairbarien,
Cuban naval forces fired across the
bows of the Canadian Victor and
forced 25 striking CSU seamen to
go ashore. Following this .action
the Latin American Confederation
of Labor declared none of its mem-
bers would work any Canadian
East Coast ship. .

SOVIET

reversal of a verbal contract tc
employ him as a voice teacher.

Goss’ counsel, John Stanton, ap-
peared before the board to pro-
test the bar against Goss on four
grounds:

@ That the board had placed
B.C. Institute of Music and
Drama Principal Glyndwr Jones
in an invidious position by re-
quiring him to break a verbal
agreement made in good faith
between himself and Goss.

@ That the board had placed
Goss in a difficult position be-
cause he had made his arrange-
ments (including vacating the
lease on his studio and turning
down an offer of another posi-
tion) on the strength of this
agreement.

@ That the decision was a
flagrant violation of individual
civil rights. :

@ That thé decision had
brought considerable unfavorable
publicity to the city and was
harmful to the development of
culture in Vancouver.

Stanton was allowed to speak
only after a vote had been taken.
Heated debate followed his presen:
tation of the case, with Commis-
sioner Holland moving a motion
reading in part: “The board is not
disposed to reconsider their action.”
He also asserted the board should
not publish any reason for rejec-
tion of Goss.

Commissioners Alsbury, Webster
and Irwin voted, to re-open the
case, but Chairman Bert Emery
split the 3-3 tie by voting Against.

If Goss sues the board for breach
of contract, Commissioner Alsbury
says he will resign “because I re-
fuse to accept personal responsi-s
bility for action I have voted

i against.”

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No blockade in Austria

Despite differences, the Big Four international military police continue to operate in Vienna. Here
four MP’s decorate the hood of their jeep with the flags of their respective countries.

PEACE

were already at war and had. lost
the fight for peace. This congress
gives the world the choice between
@ peace policy and the war policy
of the men of the Atlantic pact.”

Among leading delegates who ad-
dresesd the congress were: :

Konnj Zijliacus (British Labor
MP): “Former U.S. Defense Secre-
tary Forrestal or someone as off
his rocker about the Red Army as
he is, could by one single hasty de-
cision plunge mankind: forthwith
into black fury, the hell on earth
of war.’ He branded Churchill as
spiritual father of the Atlantic
pact. ,

Protestant Bishop Albert Berecz.-
ky (of Hungary): “Christianity has
been the accomplice of the capital-
istic system too long,’ Cardinal
Mindszenty, sentenced to life im-
prisonment for espionage, had used
the cover of the church to defend
“a backward system which West-
ern opinion long ago condemned.”

Vicente Lombardo Toledano (Lat-
in American labor leader): “Latin
Americans will redouble their ef-
forts to throw off the yoke of Yank-
ee imperialism.”

Soviet author Ilya Ehrenberg
told the press conference that the
Russians had “heard’ of bombs
which might be dropped on specific
places” and said the news did not
give them any great feeling of se-
curity. . - However, the Soviet
people will not mistake the insane
declaration of American leaders for
the actual wishes of the people.”

A terrific lift was given the
congress when Paul Robeson ap-
peared on opening day to sing
songs in Russian, Spanish, Eng-
lish, including Joe Hill. Robeson
explained the analogy between
this song and the frame-up trial
of the 12 American Communist
leaders, urging support for the
defense of “the great Communist
leaders of the working class.”

A peace handshake from the

May 6.

known

ganizations.

From Vancouver, the Women’
Committee for Peace Action is ‘i
sending Mrs. Effie Jones, well- | Berry Richards of The Pas.
community figure long A
noted for her role in women’s or

Toronto peace rally
to hear Endicott r

World Peace Congress at Paris will
be brought direct to the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto, by Dr
James Endicott, Canadian delegate, at the opening session here 0?

eleyko (CCF MLA for St. Clem-
Stents), and possibly his colleague

Panel chairmen will include Ed
ward Day, past chairman of Acme

. . and

Manitoba Peace Council has an- | Screw and Gear UA local, en
nounced that its delegation will | Frank Showler, national chairn

include its president, W. G. Don-|of the Fellowship of Reconciliation

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ELECTION FUND LAUNCHED

an objective of $25,000 from

votes, can assure the defeat of

defeat this Coalition government of big business, and elect truste
fighters for peace and security.” r :
In a campaign already under way, the LPP is out to raise 4
$25,000 fund to carry through a concentrated fighting campalg?
in a number of provincial and federal constituencies for election o
LPP candidates, and to aid in the election in other constituencie
of labor and CCF candidates who take a definite stand for those
policies which will maintain peace, independence, and. economie
security and prosperity for the people. re OS,
“Money is politics,” stated Ruddell, “‘the kind of politic
where the dollars and dimes of the workers, coupled with thelt

order to win we have got to dig down.”

LPP to raise $25,000 |

“We cannot top the election slush funds that will pour into
Coalition coffers from the big monopolists to help reelect thei”
government,” Elgin Ruddell, LPP provincial ‘election campalg"
manager told the Pacific Tribune this week, “but we can reac

the people of this province to help

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TORONTO.

the spokesmen of big business-

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