workers could be added

‘ ion,
which Operators sought “to scuttle

; Candidate for ‘most hated landlord’ prize

Down Tulsa, Okla., way there’s a landlord with a heart the size of a pinhead. Mastermind of a
landlords’ mass “strike” against rent, control, Rev. Wallace J. Murphy dictates eviction notices to

a secretary from his sickbed. Somebody should reimnd him—he
that “you can’t take it with you.”

owns 18 apartment buildings—

LPP CONVENTION

‘

Party organizations in all other constituenciesvill carry an aggressive independent campaign to rouse
the labor movement to confront all candidates with tie key issues of peace, democracy and economic
needs. Where non-LPP candidates stand firmly 01 these issues they will get LPP support.

This policy replaced the previous electoral policy—adopted January 1948—of urging the people
to “Unite at the Polls to Elect a CCF Government,” which the convention rejected as a mistake.

But through Tim Buck and a host of other speakers, as well as~in the policy resolution, the
convention wamed sharply against any ‘“‘ourselves agxinst the world’ policy based on evading the fact
that hundreds of thousands of CCF followers are a vital part of the peace forces which, when united,

can be all-powerful.

As Time Buck put it, the essence of ihe diffe*ence

Vmee

between the discarded policy and_ the policy

adopted is nol that the fight for unity will stop, but that the LPP. will concentrate on trying to win demo-
crats, including CCF'ers, to support LPP proposals as against those of CCF leader M. J. Coldwell, instead

of supporting Coldwell in the hope

The convention gave close at-
tention to the threat to labor in
the attempt of CCL leaders and the

' Hall group in the TLC to replace

unity between unions by disruption,
raids and collaboration with the
bosses towards war, depression and
speed-up.

“They , fear Communists because
we fight to styengthen the unions,”
said Tim Buck, who said he was
confident labor unity would win
out and that another half-million
to the

present million-strong organized
labor movement. The convention
proposed far-reaching. organiza-

tional measures to turn the atten-
tion of the entire party to the basic
industries, as the kéy to uniting
the nation to fight for peace.

Delegates founded their confi-
dence on the mounting superiority
in strength ‘of the world peace
forces over the war forces.

They had live evidence of that
superiority at the convention. A

of getting close t» CCF followers.

host of telegraphed greetings ar-
rived from Communist parties
whose combined membership be-
fore the war had been numbered
in thousands but now was counted
in millions.

The rafters rang with applause
when Quebec delegate Danielle Di-
onne read a wire from George
Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reich-
stag fire trial, now premier of:
Bulgaria. Mme. Dionne hailed Dim-
itrov as “the man who taught the
working class how to stand up
against fascist terror, and who
taught us how to build the united
front of peace.”

Greetings also came from the
embattled Communist party of
Greece, which “regretted inabil-
ity to send a fraternal delegate,”
and the Communist parties of
Israel, France, Italy, Czechoslo-
vakia, Great Britain, Australia, .
New Zealand and the U.S.

Tim Buck pointed up the’ sig-

Ship operators attempting
to scuttle seamen’s gains

TORONTO

Breakdown of hearings between west coast shippmg operators and

officials of the Canadian Seamen’s Union last week was described as

an attempt to do “‘the job that the Great Lakes operators failed in dome

vice-president, of Vancouver.
Hearings lasting ten days ter-
minated following a slanderous at-
tack on the leadership of the un-
according to Thompson, in

all gains won over a period of
years.”
Operators brazenly demanded

wage cuts ranging from $20 to $50

a month, changes in working con-

- ditions, and abandonment of the

hiring hall system.
“Never have I heard such vicious
attacks on the seamen, who in the

fast summer,” in a statement released here by James Thompson, CSU

main are the same boys who sail-
ed the ships during the war.” said
Thompson. Acceptance of the op-
erators’ offer would mean a com-
plete sell-out of the membership of
the union, and would be sternly re-
jected, according to the union lead-
er. “

- “Canadian seamen will never go
back to the conditions of the press
gangs and Captain Bligh,” Thomp-
son said in promising a sharp re-
action from the CSU members.

nificance of the absence of a fra-
ternal delegate from the. American
party, for the first time since the
Canadian party was founded. They
endorsed his appeal to redouble
support behind that party’s battle
for legality. and to defeat fresh at-
tempts looming at Ottawa to place
legal bans on LPP activity.

The convention did not accept
the complacent belief that peace
forces outside Canada would win
this country’s battle for its citi-
zens. Norman Nerenberg, com-
mander of the 1948 Beaver Brigade
in Europe, described how youth

| from round the world had told him

that their people’s victories only
came through sternest struggle.

But delegates related innumer-
able evidences of the fighting ca-
pacity of the Canadian working
people, from the picket-line
struggles of British Columbia wood-
workers to the example of the im-
prisoned seaman who sent to the
convention from Bordeaux Jail
the message, “Tell them I’m join-
ing the party.” :

A resolute fight to improve the
size and quality of the LPP was
promised in endorsation of Stanley
Ryerson’s report on “the party in
action,” | ~

Delegates placed major empha-

sis on winning young people for

peace, “Are you a father? Are
you a mother?” asked Tim Buck.
“Then try to realize the kind of
responsibility the party should
show towards the youth.”

Delegates are returning to all
corners of the country with a job
to do. Their decisions are being
studied already by those who fear
them—the enemies of the people
who would make the fight for
peace “subversive.”

But no power can prevent de-
cisions which have sprung from the
people from becoming the property
of the people. To the warmongers
that spells doom. ‘ j

Every returning delegate can ex-
press the guarantee of that in one
word—struggle! ve

Party.)

Chairman of the newly-formed
committee is Tom Parkin, chair-
man. of the legislative committee
of Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council; secretary is Emil Bjarn-
ason of the Trade Union Research
Bureau, :

Radio broadcasts, a petition cam-
paign, and speeches to scores of
trade union bodies will feature the
drive to force the legislature to
amend the Legal Professions Act
during the current session at Vic-
toria.

Martin will speak over station
CKNW on Wednesday, February
16, at 9:05 p.m., and over station
CKWX on Thursday, February
17, at 6:05 p.m.

Petitions will be off the press
this week and will be widely cir-
‘culated. :

~

The committee is soliciting funds
from the public to cover the costs.
of the campaign.

artin committee
campaigning for
law act changes

A Gordon Martin Committee, set up this week, will conduct a
high-pressure campaign for amendments to the Legal Professions Act
at this session of the legislature to prevent discrimination on the grounds
of membership in any legal political party.

(Gordon Martin, graduate UBC law student, was refused ad-
mission to the bar because of his membership in the Labor-Progressive

Will tour B.C.

Dorise Neilsen, former MP,
has just returned from a Euro-
pean tour and will visit Vancou-
ver next month. She will speak
at a public meeting in Pender
Auditorium on March 7.

Dr. Endicott also spoke to the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, two
YMCA clubs, United Jewish Peo-
ple’s Order, St. John’s Forum, Wo-
men’s International League for
Peace and Freedom, UBC Social

Council, Boilermakers’ Union, Fish-
ermen’s Union, Woodworkers’ In-
dustrial Union, a meeting spon-
sored by the Student Christian
Movement and a study group of
ministers. i

A dico
3,000 hear Dr. Endicott
xe ios Bg

talk on peace, China
More than 3,000 Vancouver citizens heard Rev. James Endicott,
former missionary in China and one-time advisor to Chiang Kai-shek,

deliver his peace message in Vancouver during the past week. Largest
meeting was in Pender Auditorium,

Problems Club, Vancouver Peace ‘:

Speaking to 1,200 people in.

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which was jammed to the rafters.

Pender Auditorium, Dr. Endicott
labelled the Marshall Plan “the
most blatant piece of hypocrisy
ever done in the sweet name of
charity” and branded the Atlan-
tic Pact as “something you are
not supposed to fully know about.
but you are expected to be in
favor of it,”

Dr. Norman F., Black, chairman,

outlined the aims of the Peace.

Council. A resolution was passed
in support of:the United Nations.

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