Clerks on the picket line

For nearly a month striking employees have been picketing
the giant Dupuis department store in Montreal, in a battle for
better wages and working conditions.

Congress of Canadian Women

holds parley this Saturday

A resolution pointing out ‘the
suffering of thousands of children
because of warfare asks that our
government act to bring an end
to wars which are killing the
children of Korea, Viet-Nam and
Malaya and further asks that all
bacteriological stations now in op-
eration in Canada to study bac-
teriological warfare be disbanded.

The setting up of child care
centres for working mothers and

a demand for sthe setting of the
wage for both

Delegates to the provincial con-
rence of the Canadian Congress
°f Women to be held in Pender
Auditorium May 31, will discuss
4 program of activities for the
‘Coming year based on proposals
of the provincial council. These
elude an immediate campaign
to raise family allowance rates
and the planning of a conference
n the fall to discuss children’s
oe in the field of education,

Creation and culture,

A number of resolutions have
Already been submitted for dis-
“Ussion at the conference asking
for reduction .of the price of milk
915 cents a quart, a demand for
A © increase of family allowances,
Nother suggesting changes in the
“OSt of Living Index so that it

same minimum
men and women by the provincial
government is the subject of an-
other resolution on problems of
working women,

Visitors are cordially invited to
attend the open session of the con-

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ALBERNI

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Inserted by LPP Election Committee .

Re .

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Editorial:

The CCF and peace

IN the midst of an election campaign in which the vital issues
of peace or war.are being deliberately hush-hushed by the old-
line parties of big business, the statement of JoSeph H. Corsbie,
B.C. provincial president of the CCF, over a CBC ‘radio network,
declaring that “Peace is the most important issue we are faced
with today,” is not only doubly welcome at this time, but vitally
important towards strengthening people’s unity at ‘the polls on
June 12.
This important statement by the CCF president, despite it’s
““(Marshall-Plan-economics-aid” context, projects the issue of peace,
extended trade and jobs into the electoral forefront, which to date
only the Labor-‘Progressive party has highlighted. Most _ peace-
minded people, whether workers, farmers or small businessmen,
will agree with the CCF president that policies making for peace
and extended trade with other countries is a much more realistic
approach to the problems of a troubled world than armaments and
the hateful propaganda of cold-war. ;

In this welcome statement from the CCF president on peace
and the need of extended trade, CCF workers and other will ex-
pect a realistic change on the part of the CCF leadership towards
greater unity at the polls; an abandonment of the exclusive “poli-
tical arm of labor’ idea; an end to union raiding and splitting as
at Trail and in the Vancouver civic workers; and an end to ex-
pulsions of CCF militants like Fred G. Jackson, whose only “crime”
is that as a trade union leader, he stands for working class unity
to defeat the Tory-Liberal spokesmen for monopoly!

The.logical next step is to call for an end to the arms race and
a negotiated peace. Such a policy would open the way to unity
at the polls between the CCF, trade unions, LPP, farmers and
other progressive groups: the only unity that can assure the defeat
of the old-line parties, and the winning of the peace objective so
correctly emphasized in his CBC broadcast.

With that kind of unity, peace and all it Means, can be won!

te Seat Serre

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Rush ro Celgar

license ‘ultimatum’

Demand that the Celgar application for a Forest Management
Licence be held up until after the elections was made this week
by Maurice Rush, LPP candidate for Vancouver East, in a letter
to E. T. Kenney, Minister of Lands and Forests. He urged that
the new legislature should review the province s entire forestry
policy. In his letter, Rush con-
demned what he termed an “‘ulti-
matum” made by Celgar Develop-
ment Co. at the recent Victoria
hearing. The gompany asked that
its licence be granted in full or
the. company would withdraw its
application.

“The attitude of this U.S. trust
to the people of B.C. is, to say
the least, insulting, arrogant, and
repugnant. It-reflects the grow-
ing idea among U.S. business men
that B.C. is a rich colony whose
natural resources are here for the
taking,’ said the LPP candidate.

Outlining the LP P’s
Rush said that the Forest Man-
agement Licence scheme should
be repealed ‘it enables
the handing away of our richest
natural. resources, our forests, to
practically

stand,

because

foreign monopolies, MAURICE RUSH

The CCF president now recognizes peace as the main issue.

Dewhurst
gives stand
on Indians

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

Alf Dewhurst, Labor-Progres-

sive party candidate in Alberni

riding, this week outlined his po-

sition on Indian Rights in a letter

sent to Native Indian voters in
the constituency.

“As a candidate for election to
the legislature from the Alberni
constitueney allow me to place
before you the position of the
Labor-Progressive party on Indian
rights,’’ his letter began.

“First, let me quote from the
program of the LPP which is
printed in booklet form under the
title, Canadian Independence and
People’s Democracy:

“‘Our party (LPP) fights
for the self-determination and
full equality of the Indian and
Eskimo — people, guaranteeing
them possession of their tribat
lands, adequate additional Iands
and material aid for the devel-

“opment of ‘their life and cul-
ture, so wantonly despoiled by
the exploiters of Canada.’

“T ask you to compare this
simple and concise statement of
aims with the programs and
deeds of the other political par-
ties in respect to Indian Rights.

“The LPP constantly struggles
against all forms of ‘white supre-
macy.’ We ¢all for a struggle
against al? forms of racism, dis-
crimination against any Canadians
on the grounds of race, color,
language, religion, or the coun-
try of their origin.

“The LPP is opposed to sec-
ond class citizenship. We say
that the Indian people, despoil-
ed of their lands, fishing and
hunting grounds by a white rul-
ing class, should be given fulk
citizenship rights immediately.

“We say that until every last
trace of discrimination is wiped
out the ‘Indian people should be
given the. fullest governmenta]
} assistance to establish good farms,
homes, ‘businesses and oceupa-
tions. There must be strict ob-
servance on the part of the gov-
ernment of treaty obligations, and
the revising of those _ treaties
where necessary and requested by —
Indians for the extension of land
holdings and fishing rights. In-
dian children must be accorded
every assistance in order that
they may participate fully in out
public educational system.

“Ti know that you have many
grievances that need rectifying,
many injustices that must be end-
ed. I pledge the full assistance
of myself and my party to your
just cause. As a member of the
Legislative Assembly I will at aH
times be available and at your
disposal.”

tax free, for one cent an acre per

year, B.C.’s forests must remain
in the hands of its people and not
be alienated to private monopolies
such as Columbia Cellulose, with
headquarters in Wall Street, Rush
said. es

He advocated that in place of
the management licences that
there be a government sponsored
forestry program which would en-
able adequate reforestation and
protection of our. timber stands.

Vancouver East LPP election
headquarters at 550 Kingsway
and at 1903 Bast Hastings are
busy centres these days, but more
volunteer help is needed in both
places, for canvassing and distri-
bution, campaign. manager Alf
Padgham said this week. For in-

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