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wasn’t begun

Bill of

Rights

Considered opinion in the capital is that strong public
support will be required to ensure passage of the bill in view
of the Coalition government’s policies which have already
restricted labor’s rights in defiance of united trade union

Nevertheless, there is a growing feeling even in circles

far removed from the labor

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News suppressed

‘The British Broadcasting Cor-
-poration (BBC) thought the news
important, but not a word of it

of the British Union of Coopera-
tives, representing 10 million

quarter of Britain’s population,
carried the following resolutions
with overwhelming majorities:
e That Britain gets out of Greece
and terminates its suicidal poli-
@ That Britain end its provoca-

or approximately one- -

movement that legislation is

n}needed to define the rights and

liberties of citizens, and the provin-
cial Bill of Rights proposed by the
CCF is regarded as a long step in
this direction in view of the King
government’s failure to bring down
federal legislation.

eral authorities during the “spy
scare’, application of obscure pro-
visions in immigration laws to bar
international _.union organizers
from this country because of their
political. beliefs, denial of the
rights of free speech and free press
in Quebec under the Duplessis’ gov-
ernment’s notorious padlock law,
have all combined to create a grow-
ing alarm that the rights of citi-
zens are being whittled away under
cover of a hullabaloo about democ-
racy. : ae :

The CCF bill, setting forth citi-
zens’ rights, will force the issue on
the Coalition government and give
expression to the widespread sen-
timent for enactment of such leg-

islation.

| CCL officers open
miners’ ‘witch hunt’

By MEL COLBY |
There’s more than one miner in Northern Ontario who

. ing

Labor. In the beginning it appear-
er that the federal government
had initiated the witch-hunt of its
own accord after ascertaining that
such a course would receive no se
rious opposition from CCL leaders.

But the picture looks slightly dif-
ferent now and the question needs

to be asked: Did the Congress lead-
ers themselves urge the govern-
‘ment to take action against the in-
ternational officers of one of the
largest CCL affiliates?

Was there an attempt to get gov-
ernment assistance to break up
Mine-Mill in the interests of the
Millard machine in steel?

‘These are questions that should
be answered. The men in the gold-
fields of Northern Ontario, rank-
and-file unionists, find it hard to

stomach the idea that CCL leaders
would sell their wage drive down

the river only because of their per-
sonal hatred of Reid Robinson.
_ The miners are not happy either

about the laudatory editorials in
the tory Globe and Mail, mouth-

piece of the mining barons. The

Globe has never complimented any
CCL union for fighting for and

winning wage increases, but it was

quick to bestow its blessing on the}

Congress leaders when they en-
-dorsed the witch-hunt against Mine-

-Mill.. What's it all about, miners

ask? + é
are growing a little weary

_ They
_ of the “Communist” charges that
are being hurled at Robinson.

They want wage increases, not red-

_ baiting. Many of them are also be-

ginning to wonder how the red-

-pbaiters in the CCL can swallow the
- eompany they find themselves in.

Every “Communist” charge

_ against Robinson from a CCL lead-

Youth reception

‘The five National Federation of
Labor Youth delegates from British
Columbia to their national conven-

tion, will be returning Saturday,

April 3. Plans are made for a

reception to be held at the John

Goss studio, 641 Granville Street,
this Saturday, April 3, 8 p.m. Also a

eonference will be held Sunday,
April 4, at which delegates will
give their reports. Interested peo-
ple are welcome to both the recep-

tion and conference. ar

if the witch-hunt against the international
officers of the CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
in the offices of the Canadian Congress of

~S

er is supported by the Financial
Post; by Premier George Drew who
smashes strikes at home and calls
for war abroad; by Premier Mau-
rice Duplessis, the sponsor of fas-
cist leader Adrien Arcand.

The red-baiters get plenty of sup-
port from discredited unionists
such as J. A. (Pat) Sullivan, a lead-
er of finks and hired thugs.

The CCL red-baiters find them-
selves being quoted by their natur-
al enemies, the personnel of the
Canadian Manufacturers Associa-
tion and the Canadian Chambers
of Commerce.

The milk, bread and butter prof-
iteers can be depended upon to

fight for the right of every red-

baiter ‘to red-bait.

No wonder the miners are won-
dering who is selling them down
the river. The CCL leaders have
some strange allies in their cam-
paign to rid the Congress of ‘“‘Com-
munists.”

BCFL lobby April 8
on Bill 39, sales tax

A meeting of the Executive Coun-
cil of the B.C. Federation of Labor
this week voted to commence the
provincial labor lobby on April 8
in Victoria on the issues of Bill 39
and the proposed sales tax.

The council elected President D.
O’Brien and Secretary Harold
Pritchett to attend the Prices Con-
ference on April 10, and O’Brien to
go to Ottawa on the Housewives
Consumers’ Association prices lob-

| by this month The council also en-

dorsed the Vancouver Island min-
ers’ demand that the government
enforce their $2.00 per day concili-
ation award, or take over the Is-
land mines and operate them in
the interests of the people.

Other matters coming before the
BCFL executive council meeting
was the request that CCL executive |
officers reconsider their stand on
federal immigration policy as it ef-
fects the IUMMS, and the threat-
ened deportation of Reid Robin-
son, and unanimous rejection of the
sales tax levy, and active opposi-

tion to the 21-percent freight in-
crease. :

The methods employed by fed-

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