SSS a en RR | | || 'YES’ VOTE WINS Local SOL LONGSHOREMEN’S & WAREHOUSEMEN’S UNION MARINE 0042 — MARINE 1741 Mr.Nigel Morgan, Provincial Leader, Labor-Progressive Party, 193 East Hastings Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Dear Sir and Brother: 45 DUNLevY Avenue VANCOUVER 4, B.C. 27 Sept. 1958 On behalf of the Members and Officers of the ILWU in British Columbia, I extend our sincere thanks and apprec- dation for your support, both moral and financial, in our strike, which we just recently brought to a successful conclusion. It was successful in no small part due to the support which you and many others have given us and for this we are very erateful. pan Watson Jones, . Sect/Treasurer. This is the letter the LPP received from the ILWU thanking it for its support during the recent strike. Members of the LPP provincial committee, at their meeting last month, took up a colle¢tion among themselves and donated the $50 collected to the ILWU strike fund. Continued from page 1 CCF-LABOR ership is already encountering strong opposition from both CLC and CCF rank-and-file delegates who recognize the potential strength of a broad popular movement. The right- wing leadership is not anxious to extend this opposition. But if it doesn’t admit. rep- resentation from independent unions, then it may well jeopardize the seats of sitting CCF MLAs and MPs in rid- ings where such independent unions as Mine-Mill and the United Fishermen have de- cisive strength. This was the question that split the CCF provincial coun- cil at its meeting here last weekend. Two provincial con- stituency organizations, Ross- land-Trail and Cranbrook, sent virtual ultimatums to the council demanding that Mine- Mill be allowed to. send dele- gates to the Labor-CCF area conference to be held at Cres- ton October 11-12. They were supported by H. W. Hergridge, CCF MP for Kootenay West, and Leo Nimsick, CCF MLA for Cranbrook. Now, if the CCF - BCFL liason committee accepts the CCF provincial council’s rec- ommendation for cancellation of the Creston conference, the local CCF organizations are still confronted with the nec- essity of defying the right- wing leadership and proceed- ing to a joint conference with Mine-Mill or sacrificing the labor unity needed to win Ross- land-Trail from Social Credit. Nothing could better illustrate how the right-wing CCF lead ership is prepared to under- mine the CCF itself rather than accept the labor unity which alone can bring into being a popular alternative to Social Credit. The fascist resurgence- dur- ing the “cam- paign” was readily apparent in the numerous acts of vio- French referendum lence by fascists against the Communist party. In several cities Communist offices were burnt or wrecked. Homes of Jewish people were placarded with signs reading “De Gaulle will wipe out the Jews.” Algerians resident in France were hanged and tor- tured in an attempt to intimi- date the Algerian National Liberation movement. into ’ bowing to de Gaulle. Main attacks of de Gaulle’s fascist followers however, were reserved for the Com- munist party which led the broadest opposition to the new constitution. In Algeria the voting was conducted under “curfew” conditions with the French army supervising the ballot- ing, to the extent of one soldier herding every eight voters to the polls to ensure the massive yes vote demanded by de Gaulle. Leaflets were given to Algerian women threatening that if they “made the error of voting no,” dire economic consequences to their families would follow. In many French cities, fascist and army raids were made on Algerian homes and the occu- Fascist terror aided de Gaulle PARIS—The Fourth Republic is dead, strangled by a fascist-rigged vote which last weekend gave the de Gaulle constitution in continental and colonial France a four to one majority: Official tabulations in France itself gave the latest figures at 17,666,828 YES votes as agains! 4,624,475 NO votes. for a constitution which gives General de Gaulle dictatorial powers. arrested, into summarily intimidated In their violent properties pants beaten or voting yes. destruction of owned by anti-de Gaullists, the fascists were attempting to “blame” Algerian residents in an effort to inflame public hostility against them and in favor of de Gaulle. Already de Gaule’s Informa- tion Minister Jacques Soustelle has called for immediate sup- pression of the Communist party and other republican and democratic organizations. In the French West African colonies the predominent no vote is also expressive of the colonial struggle for national independence. Present vote tabulations indicate that both Niger and Guinea voted no, but under fascist reaction and army pressures in Algeria, aided by colored ballots (white for those who wanted to vote yes, violet for no) which made the choice more easily detect- ed, a majority voted in favor of de Gaulle. As in 1933 when Hitler fascism came to power in Ger- many, de Gaullist fascist gangs have already been formed, working in close cooperation with de Gaullist police in fac- tories and working class areas, and mounting a rising reign of terror against all anti-de Gaullist expression. ‘Peg motion | CBRE model The Canadian Brotherhood} of Railway Employees, which concluded its 50th annual ¢ vention in Hoted Vancouv last weekend, focused much of the attenion of its 450 dele gates upon two key problem) that of growing unemploy” ment, and the threat of cO™ pulsory arbitration. Speakers included Claude Jodoin and Donald MeDoslds president and secretary-the™ surer of the Canadian Labo! Congress, and A. R. Mosh last president of the old Om adian Congress of Labor, wh? declared himself as «peinb fully behind the CLC allel ment with the CCF,” a ie. point totally at variance W) the CLC political action Te lution. Despite Mosher’s plug oa the CCF as labor's “politi! am arm,” the CBRE conve? 4 endorsed a resolution draft q on the principles of the political action adopted «all Winnipeg, calling upon aa workers to unite and clea + tio? Ay true government of the P ple.” CONCERT — BANQUET Celebrating the 9 j elebrating the 9th anniversary | A e e of the People’s Republic of China SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 ee CONCERT BANQUET To be held at Russian People’s Home, - To be held at Forbidden City, 90 East 600 Campbell Ave. starting 1:30 p.m. Pender Street, at 6 p.m. Ten-Coursé , Music — songs — folk dances. Special Chinese dinner followed by recital and | ‘ showing of color films of New China. speeches. Tickets — $3.00 per perso™ Boi Adwisaeieu=: Bees: available at People’s Co-op Bookstore, af 307 West Pender St. > ‘y fi September 26, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAO 2