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“No War With China’

needs card

directed to

campaign
St.Laurent

A blitz campaign to demand peace and friendship — not

war i— with China has been
Peace Council.

launched by British Columbia

Thousands of postcards, addressed to Prime Minister St.

Laurent,

are being distributed throughout the province so

that the people of “British Columbia may cast their votes for

No War With China.

The postcards say, simply,

“This is my vote for No War
With China.”

“We appeal to all peace workers,
to all lovers of peace to write or
wire the Prime Minister now de-
manding No ‘War With China,”
says a B.C. Peace Council press re-

lease. “Don’t wait for a postcard.
Write now.”
“The provocative statements

made win Washington within the
last few days are proof that the
firing of MacArthur has not alter-
ed American war plans in the
least, in spite of all the protesta-
tions of President Truman.

“That a Senator should propose
in Congress an immediate declara-
tion of war against China is, in-
deed, the most blatant, war-like

American Embassy in Ottawa
against the recent provocative
statements of | American Con-
gressmen and urges -all peace
workers to take similar action.

Governor urged
fo save McGee
by National ClO

The® National CIO has appealed
to Gov. Fielding Wright of Missis-
sippi to grant clemency to Willie
McGee, Negro ex-GI and father of |

Steelworkers’
jurisdiction
claim blows up

B.C. labor is awaiting with keen
interest decision of the provincial
Labor Relations Board on whether
it will reopen the question of union
jurisdiction at Trail, where Steel-
workers unsuccessfully attempted
to raid Mine-Mill last year. Having
failed to win the workers, Steel is
banking all its hopes on a vote in

the smelter.

When LRB held a hearing at Vic-
toria last Monday on legal argu-
ments for and against reopening,
however, Steel’s case blew up in the
face of those who devised it.

Basis of Steel’s case was the con-
tention that the international ex-
jecutive board had met in Febru-
ary, 1950, and granted the Steel-
workers jurisdiction over mining
and smelting operations.

Challenged by Mine-Mill’s Harvey
|Murphy at the LRB meeting last
March to produce evidence that
such an_ international executive
meeting had ever been held (“I’m
willing to swear no such meeting
iwas held,” said Murphy) the Steel

statement yet made during the} | four children sentenced to die May |; leaders could produce no proof.

‘whole cold war.

“And the revelation that General |
Ridgway, MacArthur’s successor
in Tokyo, is in favor of bombing |
Manchuria also exposes the fact
that a change in leadership has
not brought a change in policy.”!

British Columbia Peace Coun-

18 for a frameup rape charge. The |
}ore action was revealed in a letter)
|\by James Carey,
treasurer, to an affiliated union
| council.

Carey's letter, addressed to Joint|

CIO. secretary- |

On Monday the Steel balloon
was pricked, when an interna-
tional Steel report was introduc-
| ed, showing that no executive
board meeting had been held be-
tween November, 1949, and March

cil has wired a pxotest to the (Council 13, United Shoe Workers of 128, 1950. Thus, the charter to the

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America, said:

“The CIO has been interested in|

\this case, and has acted from time

to time since 1945. Recently we lent
lour efforts to obtaining _the last.
| stay of execution from the Supreme |

Rooart Unfortunately, the court has

seen fit to deny a review of the
| case.”

| Carey added: “We are now fol-
Now ving the usual CIO procedure in

|

Dancing - appealing to the Governor of Mis-

| Steel local in Trail was proved to
| have been issued illegally in the
| first place.

Steel tried to utilize a court de-
cision that members who had been
“exonerated” from paying initia-
tion fees and dues to their splinter
|group were still “in good standing.”
But this contention collapsed, too,
|for only an international board de-
cision could authorize such an anti-
union procedure, and when no such
meeting was held, the Trail group
|leading Steel obviously had no au-

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Housewarming

A “housewarming” to official-
ly open Civic Employees’ Union’s
new centre in Pender Auditor-
ium will be held Friday, April 29,
president Thomas Evans of Out-
side Vaorkers, Local 28, announc-
ed this week. In addition to un-
ion and women’s auxiliary mem-
bers and their itamilies, many
trade union leaders have been
invited to attend the affair.

‘Will flags fly
af half mast for

Canadian Trib.’

Seizure by Quebec’s Premier
Maurice Duplessis of 4,000 copies of
the Canadian Tribune featuring re-
ports on the recent Asembly to Save
Peace in Toronto (attended by 500
Quebec delegates) drew _ protests
from coast to coast this week, in-
cluding many from British Colum-
Dia.

The Vancouver executive of the
League for Democratic Rights wir-
ed Duplessis, pointing out that his
arbitrary action was “a violation of
Article 18 of the United. Nations
Charter of Human Rights, which
says there shall be freedom of ex-
pression either by word, in writing,
in the press, in books, or. by visual,
auditive 6r other means,’

Bill Stewart, secretary of the Ma-

rine Workers’ and Boilermakers’
Union, called Duplessis’ action “an
encroachment on the whole ques-
tion of freedom of the press” and
sent protest wires to Premier Du-
plessis and Justice Minister Gar-
son.

.“In my opinion, Duplessis’ action
is a continuation of the blackout by
the press put into effect by Toronto
newspapers during the holding of
the great peace session,” Stewart
said. “Duplessis’ illegal move is a
further step in the absolute desire
of the warmongers to prevent news
of the Canadian peace movement
from reaching the people.”

“James Thompson, president of
the West Coast Seamen’s Union,
commented: “When La Prensa
was seized by the Argentine gov-
ernment, the Vancouver Sun and
other daily newspapers in Canada
flew flags at half mast in protest
against the gagging of the press.

I wonder if these newspapers will
be so eager to defend the free-
dom of the press in the case of

the Canadian Tribune — a viola-
tion of democratic rights in our
own Canadian backyard.”

The WCSU is wiring a strong pro-
test to the Duplessis government.

A newcomer to B.C. from Quebec,
Jack Brierley, district represent-
ative of the International Fur and
Leather orkers Union, stressed

‘|that “the sentiment of the people

in the province of Quebec is pro-
foundly for peace.” This is the rea-
son for Duplessis’ action, he said.
“The ‘Padlock Premier’ has to pre-
vent the people from knowing about
the growing Canadian peace move-
ment, in order to carry out his war
plans,” said Brierley.

Harvey Murphy, Mine-Mill leader,
blasted Duplessis’ latest move as

“one in a tong line of fascist
actions.”

Phone rafes

increase ups
BCTel fake

B.C. Telephone Company’s boost
in phone rates last year resulted in
a whooping increase in net income,
figures released this week reveal.

An additional $5 million preferred
and common stock shares were
thrown on the market, and com-
pany net earning over the past
10 years were quoted to induce
speculators to buy. . Net income,
after depreciation, interest and
taxes, is shown in the prospectus
as follows.

1950 $991,019
1949 578,398
1949 750,157
1947 736,306
1946 TLL ’
1945 : 770,986
1944 726,220
1943 745,938
1942 758,740
1941 708,763

. Not mentioned in the “come-on”
prospectus, of course, is the B.C.
Telephone’s system of “siphoning
off” profits to the parent company,
Anglo-Canadian, via a service con-
tract whereby Anglo gets one per-
cent of BCT gross revenue for
supplying “technical assistance.”

On January 1, 1951, BCT had
246,486 phones in service, covering
a territory with a population of
800,000, including the metropolitan
areas of Vancouver and - Victoria.
At the end of February, the com-
pany had on hand, unfilled appli-
cations for more than 23,000 tele-
phones.

Peace Council
protests ban to
French - embassy

British Columbia Peace , Council
has wired the French Embassy in
Ottawa protesting against the ban
which the French government has
placed on the World Peoce Coun-
ceil. The council whith had its
headquarters in Paris, has been
forbidden to transact its business
in France. |

The wire states:

“All true friends of France are
shocked by France’s persecution
of the World Peace Council and
strongly protest against it. All
Canadians‘have profound admir-
ation for the struggle of the com-
mon people of France for peace
under leadership of distinguished
Professor Joliet-Curie.”

The Council urges other groups
and individuals to write or wire now
to the French Embassy and also to
write to Jules Moch, Minister of the
Interior, Quai D’Orsay, Paris. {

IWA in Washington
wins 1214 cent boost

a SEATTLE
Two large employer associations
have followed the powerful Weyer-
haeuser Corporation in granting the
CIO International Woodworkers of
America a 121%; cent an hour pay
boost as well as three additional
paid holidays.

The new victories in the 1951 ne-
Sotiations were chalked up when
representatives of the Plywood
Assn. and the Williamette Valley
(Oregon) Operators Association
signed on the dotted line.

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