New veteraifs’ intervention
halts city eviction

As a result of determined efforts by members of the
Vancouver New Veterans’ Branch 168, Canadian Legion, a
Proposed eviction of an ex-serviceman, his wife and three
children was halted last week.

Glen Dunphy and his family
Teside at the Little Mountain Bar-
racks. They were ordered to va-
cate their home by May 7 or face
eviction. The four-year old Dun-
wy boy has been confined to bed
*or nearly 11 weeks, ‘with his hip
a & cast. No other accommoda-
oe was offered the family and
hey were unable to find any.
Legion members, assisted by le-
Sal Counsel, conferred with re-
Presentatives of UBC Emergency

Susing Accommodation and
Stated they would seek an: injunc-
On to restrain the eviction; if
attempts were made to proceed
With it.

UBC Emergency Housing Ac-
Commodation then agreed to post-
pone the eviction proceedings un-
til May 27, so that the family
Would have time to seek other
accommodation. Legion members
have stated that they intend to
4ssist the Dunphy family in their
quest for a home, and will act on
their behalf if attempts are made

to evict them should other ac-
commodation not be located be-
fore May 27.

Mrs. P. Wallace, who with her
family, moved out of the barracks
last month, after being threatened
with eviction, related some of the
questionable tactics used by UBC
Emergency Housing Accommoda-
tion, to force veterans and their
families, who occupied the build-
ings last year, to vacate. After
refusing to accept back rent from
the Wallaces, Dr. Gordon Shrum,
the building administrator, served
the family with an eviction notice.
Luckily, the Wallace family was
able to secure other accommoda-
tion, using Wallace’s Workmen’s
Compensation grant. After the
family had moved out, the UBC
building authorities srequested the
rent money they had_ previously
refused. Mrs. Wallace fears that
similar tactics are liable to be
used on the Dunphy family to
force it to vacate.

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Canada should follow
not Luce, declares Ph

By MARK FRANK

OTTAWA—Canadian-born
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, explor-
er and Arctic authority, call-
ed for a policy of “friendship
on the shores of the polar sea”
during sessions of the National
Conference on  Canadian-Soviet
Relations held here last weekend
under the sponsorship of the Na-
tional Council for Candian-Soviet
Friendship.

In any future
ansson, “Canada
the battleground. You are in be-
tween. You'll be much worse off
than we of the U.S. because you
are closer to the scene of pos-
sible conflict.”

Should any of the countries
either of the old world or the
new attempt to send rockets or
conduct airborne warfare, it will
take place through Canada, he
said.

Endorsing Senator T. D. Bou-
chard’s earlier remarks to the
conference Stefansson asserted
that Canada “must squarely face
the issue of spending money for
trade and commerce, or for war.”

war, said Stef-
is going to be

Strikers learn hard unity lesson

NEW YORK—(ALN)—Throughout the U.S. some 350,000
Striking telephone workers are trickling back to their jobs with
Wage increases of only $2 to $4.50 a week because their 39
unions succumbed to the provocation of the huge. telephone
Monopoly and started bickering among themselves. The workers
had originally demanded $12 a week but the real issue, as the
Strike developed,. was regarded on both sides as union security.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company was out to
bust the union and whether it succeeded remains a question.

The National Federation of Telephone Workers is not af-
filiated to the AFL or CIO. Because it started out as a company
union setup, each of its branches operated independently. At the
Close of the strike, the national policy committee set up for the
strike was abandoned and each branch reached an independent
Settlement with the local telephone employers.

The strategy of the company was to force just such a settle-
Ment, because it was known on both sides that a strong con-
tract could emerge only if a single, united union held out for a
national contract. Union leaders are now aware that the lack of
Coordination forced an unsatisfactory settlement but they are
not all pessimistic. One NFTW leader said the strike was valu-
able if only because it taught telephone workers that “CIO and
AFL are not horrible initials” and that telephone workers must
become part of the labor movement,

This Detroit telephone. opera-
tor uses a megaphone to em-
scabs crossing the picket line.

Giving her opinion
Phasize her opinion of
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947

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Elmore Philpott, internationally
known. newspaper columnist of
Vancouver, told the conference
that Canada had a. choice be-
tween two roads in world affairs
—‘the road of Henry Wallace
and the road of Henry Luce.”

“The right road,’ continued
Philpott, “is that indicated
Henry Wallace. It leads to
century of the common man
to the century. of American
perialism.”

Philpott warned that if Can-
ada did not take the path of
Wallace, it would mean that
instead of increasing trade to
the benefit of the country it
would .trade its “atomic bombs,
germs, and what comes out of
cannon and the mouths of ma-
chine guns.”

He pleaded for a commonsense
attitude towards commercial re-
lations with the USSR.

Commenting on the serious de-
terioration of trade _ relations
since the end of the war, and the
threat of a coming economic
crisis, Philpott declared it was in
Canada’s own interest to open
immediate negotiations for a mu-
tual trade agreement.

Sweden, he pointed out, had
just concluded a $278,000,000 trade
agreement -with the USSR, Po-
land had signéd a similar agree-
ment and Britain was now dis-
cussing a big trade deal with the
Soviet Union. Canada should do
likewise.

“Tf Canada does not hurry
up, the ‘get tough with Russia’
gang may wake up too late and
find that we're holding the
bag,” he declared.

Philpott claimed that Swedish
economic experts believed their
agreement with. the USSR “would
take up the shock of economic
crisis occuring in the West.”

KE.

In the discussion following Phil-
pott’s address, it was pointed out
that Canada must fight for trade
agreements with the USSR for
her own interests. It was shown
that during the war the USSR
became Canada’s seventh most
important market for exports, but
cancellation of mutual trade
agreements at the end of the war
had reduced trade to the minimal
proportions of pre-war years.

As an indication of the federal
government’s attitude towards
Candian-Soviet relations, it was
revealed that 200-odd flat cars
made for the USSR during the
war, but never shipped, are now
rusting away.

These cars were made at the
CPR yards in Montreal. They
are constructed on the broad
gauge and are useless on Amer-
ican railroads, according to Phil-

pott, “It’s just a lot of costly
junk,” declared Philpott. “It
could have and should have

been shipped to the USSR.”

‘Wallace,

ilpott

STEFANSSON

VILHJALMUR

B.C. members go
to national meet

TORONTO—A meeting of the
national committee of the Labor-
Progressive Party will be held
here May 21-24, it was announced
here this week.

The meeting will hear Tim
Buck, LPP national leader, re-
port on his recent visit to Bri-
tain, where he attended the con-
ference of Empire Communist
parties, and his subsequent tour
in Europe, including visits to
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

British Columbia members of
the LPP national committee whu
will attend the meeting to be
held in Toronto this month will
be Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial
leader, Maurice Rush, Minerva
Miller and Tom McEwen, it was
stated at LPP provincial head-
quarters here this week.

OTTAWA — Parliamentar-
ians, labor leaders and repre-
sentatives of cultural and re-
ligious groups mingled freely
as officials of the National Coun-
cil for Soviet-Friendship played
host to a conference on Canadian-
Soviet relations at the Chateau
Laurier last weekend.

Convened to discuss the deter-
ioration of relations between Can-
ada and the USSR since the end
of the war, the conference dis-
cussed subjects ranging over Can-
adian-Soviet trade, cooperation in
the Arctic and the basis for friend-
ship.

Aim of the sessions was to pres-
ent their findings to the federal
government in the interest of bet-
ter relations between the two
countries.

Among members of parlia-
ment attending the conference
were Senator T. D. Bouchard,
T. J. Bentley, F. W. Townley-
Smith, D. J. McCuaig, William
Irvine, H. Archibald and H. W.
Herridge.

Labor leaders present included
A. R. Mosher, president of the
Canadian Congress of Labor, and
C. S. Jackson, district president
of the United Electrical Workers,
who acted as co-chairman for
some of the sessions.

J. W. Buckley, secretary of the
Trades and Labor Congress, sent
a message of greeting to the con-
ference, expressing hopes for its
success.

Greetings were also sent by the
United Mineworkers of America,

District 26, through its leader,
Freeman Jenkins, and from the
United Auto Workers, through

Roy England.

Approximately 80 organizations
from over 20 cities were repres-
ented.. Included in the. list of
organizations were: Toronto La-
bor Council, Cooperative Union
of Canada, Quebec Women’s. In-
stitute, Lumber and Sawmill
Workers Union, Canadian As-
sociation of Scientific Workers,
Ottawa Women’s Forum, Inter-
national Chemical Workers and

Canadian Seamen’s Union.

Outide city employees

renew 15-cent

demand

Rejecting an offer by Vancouver City Council for wage
increases of eight cents an hour, the large majority of 1,100
members of the Outside Civic Employees’ Union voted last
Friday to renew demands for wage increases of 15 cents

an hour, retroactive to January
1. The city council’s offer was re-
troactive only to March 1.

It now appears that the pro-
tracted wage dispute will go to
arbitration. Outside civic workers
have received no wage increases
in two years.

Commenting on the city’s wage
offer, Elgin Ruddell, executive
member of the Civic Reform Com-
mittee, stated:

“The city is well able to pay

the full wage demands of the
outside civic employees, without
increasing taxes on homes one
penny. This can be done by ap-
plying the business tax which was
granted by the legislature at its
last session.” .

“This tax would raise an esti-
mated million dollars, which is

more than the $900,000 required to
meet the civic employees’ demands
in full.”

TUNE IN J,
Nigel Morgan’

PROVINCIAL LEADER‘

LABOR PROGRESSIVE
PARTY

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