These pictures reflect the tremendous enthusiasm at the Pro- gressive Party's founding convention at Philadelphia. Above, a contingent of Auto Workers for Wallace stage a floor demonstra- tion, and, below, Henry A. Wallace and Senator Glen Taylor acknowledge the tremendous ovation that followed their nomination. NEW PARTY. TAKES FIELD “Policy of human rights: above property rights’ —PHILADELPHIA. The political monopoly of the one party with two names was of- ficially smashed in this historic city when to the accompaniment of cheers, songs and laughter the fighting new Progressive Party took the field on behalf of the American people in this year of grave decisions, Under the banners of Peace, Civil Rights and Security, more than 3,000 grass-roots delegates resoundingly nominated Henry A. Wallace and Senator Glen Taylor as the new party’s standard-bear- ers, 3 Staging what observers say was the largest political rally in US. history some 30,000 persons filled the stadium to hear the presiden- tial ticket accept the nominations. The convention got under way with a dramatic 20-minute ova- tion accorded to Charles P. How- ard, Negro attorney and newspaper publisher of Des Moines, Towa, who delivered the key-note ad- Te drew cheers when he said there are “no representatives of Wall Street in this hall—no Te- presentatives of the Klan” oe added that the con- vention auditorium was ° haunted by the ghosts of a Ré ‘publican circus and a Democratic funeral.” Wallace opened his acceptance speech with & moving reference to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt. : “In Hyde Park they buried our president,” the declared, “and in Washington they buried our dreams.” Delegates roared their approval at his fighting statement. “TI have made commitments, I have made them freely. I shall abide by them. I repeat them with pride. I am committed to the policy of placing human rights above property rights.” ,Chairman Albert J. Fitzgerald of the National Labor committee for Wallace and Taylor reported that 47 AFL, 31 CIO, 14 railroad and six independent unions were al- ready represented on the commit- tee, and said that “as of today, Ku Klux’ “still ; we can repart some 3,000 shop ‘committees for Wallace and Tay- lor already functioning in major industrial plants, and mew shop committees are being formed every day.” ” ency. CONCILIATION BOARD Harvey Murphy has been selec- ted by the District Policy Com- mittee of the IWA as its rep- resentative on the conciliation board which is to be set up in the dispute between Coast lum- ber operators and the union. The IWA wired the _ depart- ment of labor to that effect after provincial conciliator Bill Fraser was unable to break the deadlock occasioned by operator refusal to budge from an offer of 11 cents or 8 percent, con- ditional on “the union dropping all other demands. The union is seeking a compromise on wages at 25 cents, plus union shop, strict 40-hour week and welfar fund. Interior negotia- tions are similarly deadlocked, and operators there are trying to split the conciliation proceed- ings into three areas. The IWA is holding its strike vote in abey- ance, “for use immediately re- quired.” Murphy is regional director of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO). BC Electric Council and the Public Utilities Commission, the BCElectric is now readying itself to gouge Burnaby commuters by upping all fares in the muncipality. The Pacific Tribune this week obtained reluctant admission that the new fare steal is in the offing from Burnaby municipal ‘hall. - “We can’t give out any informa- tion,” said an official. “The BCElectric doesn’t have to con- sult us. It will make its applica- tion direct to the Public Utilities Commission,” inform you as a matter of court- esy ?” “Well, we have received a sug- gestion that the BCElectric will make an application.” “And if the council wants to oppose it, it will have to do so before the Public Utilities Com- mission?” “Yes,” stated the official, “that’s the procedure.” Ratepayers’ and other organiza- tions in the municipality, angered by the Public Utilities Commis- sion’s persistent refusal to recog- nize Burnaby Municipal Council as an “interested party” in the present fight to prevent erection ofa high-power line along Bound- ary Road, are reported to be or- ganizing a campaign against the proposed new fare gouge. “But surely the BCElectric. will’ IWA names Murphy HARVEY MURPHY OCT planning Burnaby fare gouge —BURNABY, B.C. Having suc- ~ News-Herald Having fabricated the story in, the first place, proceeded mouths of writers” and unions” known to say a word about Rus- sian mines till the News-Herald, presumably, with all the authority of a daily paper, questioned them about the Russian mine menace it had invented itself! Real grievances of the fisher- men at naval “negligence iin deal- ing with the menace” have long been expressed by (fishermen through The Fisherman, UFAWU paper—in all cases relating to Japanese mines. Cooking up stories, putting them into other people’s mouths, faking photographs, and adorning all with screaming headlines—these are the practices of “gutter journalism.” The motive is to sell the paper by deliberately fanning war hys- teria. Some people will do. any- thing to sell a paper, including playing on the fears of fishermen and their families in a way that builds groundless hate—the hate that leads to the bloodshed of war. This hoax affords a good measure of other phoney News-Herald war stories from around the world. If you are disgusted, as the Pacific Tribune is, tear off this front page and mail it to C. B. Delbridge, publisher, News-Herald, Vancouver, B.C. the News-Herald to place it in the “captains,” “under- “officials of seamen’s PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 6, 1948—PAGE !@ none of whom has been All labor behind | CSU---Conroy willis At press time spokesmen for the bulk of Canadian labor are convening in Ottawa to plan action to win the strike of the Canadian Seamen’s Union on the Great Lakes, a situa- tion which Trades Congress president Percy Bengough has branded “a J “Jimmy” Thompson of the CSU, and Malcolm McLeod of the Shipyard Federation (CCL) are attending from the Coast. AFL and CIO union ‘in the east have been preparing SU “c a national emerg- a motor cavalcade on Ottawa, with large contingents expected from Montreal and Toronto and workers at some plants chartering buses. Big delegations are rolling in from northern Ontario mining and bush camps, The conference is proceeding as scheduled notwithstanding the last- minute deflection of ‘the secretary of the Canadian Congress of Labor, Pat Conroy, since it is obvious ‘Conroy’s somersault does not change the sympathy for the sea- men felt by a million Canadian workers in the CCL, TLC, brother- hoods and other. unions. According to Ottawa sources, Conroy at first agreed to Ben- gough’s proposal that the CCL should attend. After. that Conroy saw the government. The next development shocked CCL mem- bers Atlantic to Pacific. Every local union received,a letter from Conroy and CCL president’ Mosher on the eve of the conference, tell- ing them it was “the official posi- tion of the Congress” to not par- ticipate in the conference. The reason was given in an en- closed copy of the Conroy-Mosher reply to Bengough’s invitation: “we cannot split the principle by condoning the lawlessness on the part of one party to the dis- pute and by supporting a mental- ity of lawlessness which appears to be quite characteristic of the policies of the (Seamen's Union and the AFL Textile Workers.” As one CCL worker commented in disgust in hearing of the letter, stab. in the back yet—trying to pull us out of a conference which the degree of unity attained ‘could be crucial for labor’s future. Apparently what the bosses could- - If the Public Utilities Commission rubber stamps a new n’t do with Bengough they could BCElectric application reported to be in preparation, Burnaby 40 with Conroy. What a line up residents will soon be paying higher bus fares. cessfully defied widespread public opposition to the 10-cent fare in Vancouver, with the connivance of Vancouver City —Canada Steamship. Lines, Mit- | ‘chell, Sullivan and Conroy all join in slandering the CSU: when that union is holding a picket line for (every worker. But Conroy over- ,estimates himself if he thinks he ;can shut off support of a strike which is just as much for us as for the CSU.” : Harry Davis, president of the CSU, has charged that Transport Minister Chevrier’s statement that the union is planning to call a deepsea strike in November is “an unmitigated lie . an attempt to provoke another strike and en- ;courage further disregard for the | labor laws of the country .. . in- citement to the shipowners | violates their contracts and their obligations under the law . .. and is refuted by the government-ap- pointed Commission which finds .the shipping companies guilty of breaking the laws. | “At the labor conference on | August 5 and 6 in Ottawa, I will show that Mr. Chevrier -and his associates are involved in a treas- onable plot ‘against labor in this country.” \ : Announce expulsion | Expulsion of Shelly Rogers fnom the Labor-Progressive Party wa5 announced by the provincial exe cutive of that party this weeK- _The announcement stated the exe cutive unanimously concurred ;@ Tecommendation to that eff from the LPP’s review committe on grounds of “conduct unbecom ing a member of the LPP and against the best interests of th? ‘working class.” “Conroy has given labor the worst . bove to. ema