HR. P. Pearce,

c/o R. Me unter,
Sask. Power Corn.,
Saskatoon, Sask.

*
Dear Sir:

3 " ‘Saskatchewan

Province of &

SASKATCHEWAN POWER GORPORATION

We are returning herewith your Unemrloyment
Insurance Book #F5l7-223 since you are now on. permanent
staff and no longer contribute to Unemployment Insurance

Yours truly,

ft ty,

OUR PLE

Regina, Saskl,
\ duly 9, 19536

/am frre
encl.
An appeal to Premier T. C.

Douglas of Saskatchewan has
been made by Leslie Morris, LPP
federal election campaign man-
ager, for the reinstatement of his
job of Harvey Pearce, Labor-Pro-
gressive candidate who opposed

CCF leader M. J. Coldwell in
Rosetown-Biggar.
Pearce, an employee of the

Saskatchewan Power Corporation,
a government - owned company,
was discharged July 22 after his
nomination on the grounds that
he was a “temporary” employee.

This was exposed as false by
Pearce who produced a letter
dated July 9 declaring “you are
now on permanent staff.” (See
photostat of letter).

BY MARK FRANK

‘Lost souls:

HARVEY PEARCE

wandered ©

around Chateau Laurier

“If ever we forget the pion-
eers who built the trade union
movement then we’ve lost our
souls.’ These were the words
uttered by Arthur Deakin, fra-
ternal delegate to the 68th TLC
Convention held in the swanky
Chateau. Laurier, Ottawa, last
aweek.

Deakin is the general secre-
tary of the British Transport &
General Workers’ Union. A “lost
soul” himself, Deakin is the man
who led the splitting up of the
World Federation of Trade Un-
jens and is now a vice-president
of the ICFTU. .

There were other lost souls at

the 68th Convention. Percy, Ben- ,

gough, now suitably adorned
with an LLD, was reminded of
his own betrayal of labor by an
open letter distributed to con-
vention delegates and signed by
R. Kent Rowley and Madeleine
Parent of the Canadian Textile
Council. It describes the manner
in which Bengough betrayed the
seamen, chemical workers and
then the textile union. It re-
minded him of his slogan “Co-
operation, Yes — Domination,
No!” in relations with the U.S.
and showed how in each case of
turning his back on the three
unions noted, he had parted
with this grand principle by sub-
mitting to domination from U.S.
offices of the international un-
ions.

Delegates also received the
labor unity appeal of the Hamil-
ton Conference of Mine-Mill, UE,
Fur and Leather, Garment Work-

cil.

Another “lost soul’ wandering
through the halls of the Chateau
Laurier was that of Frank Hall.
His emotional MRA _ outburst
was openly scorned by delegates.
Part of their disgust had a distinct

ers and Canadian Textile Coun-

anti-U.S. angle in that Hall made
it clear his own president in the
U.S., George M. Harrison; had
endorsed the anti-labor MRA
movement condemned even by
the ICFTU. :

Hall bared his “lost soul” to
the delegates. As they listened
in amazement, he told them how
someone had.come to his hotel
room during the 1950 railway
strike with a bottle of whiskey.
“The heat was on. ‘You look
beaten up,’ the friend with the
bottle told me, ‘here’s a bottle
of whiskey.’ Then another knock
came and it was an MRA man,
and he told me to try prayer.
Well we didn’t come out badly.
It wasn’t the whiskey, it might
have been the prayer.”

Earlie

gates about MRA belief in abso-

lute honesty, love, purity and ~

unselfishness. “To my shame I

couldn’t be a member because
of the state of my soul, which is

such that I cannot subscribe to
these ideals.”

he confessed to dele--

ThA 1

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O Dior! O Dior!
L. M. PURDY, Vancouver,

B.C.: O Dior! O Dior! All this
hemming and hawing over a few
inches of hemline!

I’ve lived long enough to see
skirts go up and down quite a
few times, so I find it hard to
believe that all this furore isn’t
deliberately manufactured in the
interests of the dress industry.

One thing we can be sure of:
hemlines will go up four inches
within the next few months. As
I recall, it was this same Chris-
tian Dior who ordered women to
lengthen their skirts back in
1946: - Lots of them said “No!”
and formed Little-Below-the-
Knees clubs, but within a year
all the skirts were lengthened.

The melting pot

READER, Vancouver,’ B.C.:
Here is a poem I wrote some
time ago and dedicated to the
labor press:

Thou are the melting pot

Into which we pour

The fiery liquid

Of our grievances

And seething passions

Long smouldering ‘neath in-
justice.

‘

Within the melting-pot

A churning process goes on
And soon—Behold!

There flows from it

The liquid, smooth and cool
Of reason

Which hath gathered

The scattered drops of hate
And passion

Into a flood of logic
Which at’ first indicts,
Then menaces, :
Then in a vast torrent
Drowns out forever

All injustice.

Bastille Day in Paris.

DULCE SMITH, London, Eng-
land: I went with a friend who
works in a shop in Ealing for a
week’s holiday in Paris, taking
the Bastille trip arranged by
Progress Tours.

As you can imagine she ex-
perienced a real eye-opener at
the Place de la Nation, when we
saw the brutal and bloody at-
tack by the*police on the poor
Algerians just as they were fold-
ing their banners and preparing
to disperse at the end of ‘the
march.

There were about 100 of us

-

around and we had entered the ~

march about the middle of it
and had only dispersed ourselves
about five minutes before the Al-
gerians came along. So we were
scattered all over the. “Place”
and saw the attack from many
angles.

Two of our crowd, a young
man and his wife were attacked
and beaten up by police( he had
to have several stitches in his
scalp) apparently just because
they happened to be on the spot
where the police were beating
up the Algerians. The police
stole his camera and he was still
trying to get it back through ap-

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peals to the British Embassy for
action when we left Paris.

Others of our party saw an
Algerian shot at point blank

range in the stomach and_ an- -

other Algerian shot in the throat.

It was very confusing as there
was a terrific downpour of rain
just as the main contingent of
Algerians were passing. I was
with my friend and two or three
others outside a cafe, sheltering
from the rain and clapping the
marchers, when there was a. sud-
den rush. At first we thought
people were seeking shelter from
the rain, and we were nearly
driven through the glass trying
to protect two screaming women,
one with a’ baby in her arms.
Then chairs and tables began to
fly into the street and the pres-
sure lessened.

We found our group separated;
some got into the cafe but I
eventually found myself in a
kind of packing shed helping a
poor old man with a bad leg
who had been in the melee, to
get out of the fight. By this time
the Algerians were fighting back
with chairs, tables and whatever
weapons they could find.

In the packing shed was a
young Frenchman with a bullet
in his thigh, and three others,
all hurt more or less; so with my
old man and these others to pro-
tect and make as comfortable as

possible, and the door bolted, I .

had to stay put until the situa-
tion quieted down outside.

I was told later that there had
been a nasty moment down the
Metro when. the police chased
an Algerian down there and laid
about them with batons left and
right among the crowds on the
platform.

During the brief time I found
myself outside in the fight, I
was surrounded by Algerians
looking for weapons outside the
cafe, but not one of them inter-
fered with me in any way and
I felt perfectly safe with them.
The only policeman very near
me was on the ground with sev-
eral Algerians on top of him.

I think this will give you some
idea of these beastly events.
There were six Algerians killed
on the spot and one Frenchman;
the latter had been sent by the
parade committee to try and
persuade the Algerians to draw
back after they had held off the
first police attack. Death at the
hands of the police was what he
got for his efforts!

Of things to come

EVERETT H. LEA, Escondid,
California: You are putting out
a good paper and I am glad to
have it right now.

They say that you cannot
change human nature; well,
there is one human trait that will
save the day very soon: Humans
do not like pressure in the way
of regimentation from any quar-
ter, and as the western nations
have been using pressure under
many names except its true one
(cruel and heartless exploitation
of the workers) a blowup is in-
evitable.

Those in control here in the
U.S. have been fools, because
their methods will lead to their
own destruction. Millions now
are determined to find out more
about socialism and communism,
because of all this American
a hunting and fascistic con-
rol.

_ tions, and bring more peoP

hose
. Watering for some of thor ns

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 21, 1959 —

Departinent 7
What You Pleale.

Selling the PT

R.B., Courtenay, B.C.: The a
tion battle is now over, but the ;
of us who have been sellin’
Pacific Tribune on the § fe
during the past weeks are det
mined to increase PT sales we
now on, in order to wit yeh
progressive votes in future oan

to the ranks of the LPP; Gar :
only political party that puts
ada first. } ae
We also plan to stage 4 ty
“blitz” to pick up old rene es
for the retaining of old rea0.
is just as important as the &
ing of new ones. ee

Back from France

Ase
ae it |
Wages ia

a

A.F., Clearwater,
one year in France
in British Columbia. °
low in France and there
great deal of unemployment.
United States is hated bY
workers, who. chalk up °F ome
the slogan, Yankee G0 i
The Catholic church still
tremendous power in the "4,
try—only in the big cities do
workers dare to speak opeP®”

Enclosed find $3 for @ Trib
subscription to the Pacific
une. he

L.A., Wancouver,
papers talk of a suppose
munist heaven” in Germa
the Germans don’t like.

Germany was and
still is a Nazi and 1c
country. While the gs
changing there are stl re
Nazis and sympathizers F
to stir up trouble, especially
paid to do it. . 10!

If a shattered and ©
country does not achieve wf
fort and understand 4 aoe
of thinking overnight, ™
that so remarkable?

ab
As regards the food —
from the United States:
so extraordinary about 2.
people wanting something 9 g
at one-fifth the usual PP cel
oranges were selling at ",
each in England, or ev® vite
T'll bet there would be ‘Y
rush for them. (L00K og
mob that broke picket 2 eet?
Slade and Stewart to :

Ate

bargains.) ' west Get
I can imagine how ths a
man and English mo? pe

cent “political” free oe:
What an idiotie sham ar
revolting it must aP
low-rationed people 7 i4<,
which were our late al ;

KKK likes tke

READER, Brisbane, ©!
Eisenhower says he 3§
have pro-communist bo
ed. His backers ie
seredmed ‘that the a
were communists. The was
proof of that, but “Ike
ing to burn them, seas
books — and then es,
crematoria! : f tbe Ly
Ex-Wizard Evans Pi aS csi
Klux Klan is report ny }
the Klan is practt :

“We don’t need it pretty!
pre

iforr

anyhow. We are tty gt
united and we have 4 5 BY
president.” ° dor actor! is
hower is quite satis once anf
Ex-Wizard Evans, W: bn
cussed with Fritz KU

sibility of a KlanB c