The ‘iron curtain’

“| Karlsruhe,

Noted forestry
scientist dies

While out on a hunting trip
in the interior last week, Maxi-
milian Herman Paulik, Lulu Island
resident and manager of the B.C.
Chamber -of Forests, passed away
suddenly.

A graduate in forestry from the
Universities of Heidelburg and
1e, Germany, M. H. Pau-
lik emigrated to Canada 23 years
ago from the USSR. He has held

'|many. important positions in for-

estry management and conserva-

= |tion since coming to Canada. He

President Nels Thibatilt (1) of Ontario Local 598, International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO) and fellow-unionist
Art Michels are turned back at Chicago airport, two of 13 Cana-

dian delegates denied entry to
‘annual convention

the U.S. to , attend Mine-Mill’s”

No explanation for their actions was given

by U.S. immigration iron-curtain officials.

was chairman of the B.C. Forest
Conservation League and regard-
ed as an outstanding authority
on all phases of scientific forest
conservation and utilization.
During past years M. H. Pau-
lik contributed a number of time-
ly articles to the Pacific Tribune
on this issue so vital to the wel-
fare of B.C. F
M. H. Paulik is
his wife,

survived by

one daughter and five |

Gorden Martin, <a.

the University of

examinations credibly, while char-
acter references demanded by the
Law Benchers were of the highest
order from the Royal Canadian
‘Air Force in which Martin served
49 months. He tholds an RCAF
gold medal for proficient service.

Under the Legal Professions’
‘Act as amended at the last ses-
sion of the legislature, the Bench-
ers ar eempowered to admit or
reject applicants to the bar on
‘tthe basis of “good character and
repute.”

It is rumored that the Benchers’
vote on the Martin application
was split, and only carried for re-
jection by a narrow majority. A

sons, four of whom are studying |! number of the Benchers are no-

at the University of B.C., while
the fifth is attending-the Univer-
sity of Heidelburg. Funeral ser-
vices were held Tuesday of this
week.

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Support for Bengough
Hall union-busters seek cover

By MEL COLBY

growing as

Rank-and-file opposition to the attempt of the so-called “rebel” group of Frank Hall

to challenge the autonomy of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada is swinging steadily

behind president Percy Bengough and the policies he stands for, a Canadian Tribune survey
shows. At Toronto, where the largest AFL, trades council is located, the issue is being

fought out in local unions and has
still to reach the council floor, but
one indication of rank-and-file sen-
timent is expressed in the quick
retreat of A. F. MacArthur of the
International Brotherhood of
Teamsters.

Neither are the leaders of the
Plumbers and Steamfitters happy
that they allowed their names to be
associated with Hall; they have for-
mally withdrawn from the “rebel”
group. Toronto painters, who were
associated with Hall by an AFL
roadman, are hoping to increase
the number of delegates they will
send to Victoria, but rank-and-fil-
ers say those delegates will be for
Bengough. ;
_ “Archie” Johnstone,”*of the AFL
Hotel and Restaurant Workers,
and “vice-president” of the Hall
group, who did a job of union-split-\
ting in Vancouver recently, is
caught between two fires. Before
the Hall plot he instructed local
unions to refrain from sending
delegates to Victoria. Now he
wants them there, but in Toronto

rank-and-file sentiment is mainly
for Bengough. 1

Unions such as Garment and
Chemical are increasing the num-
ber of delegates they intended to
send before the Hall gang-up on
the Congress. Reports from dele-
gates to the trades council is that
other local unions are digging deep
into their treasuries in order to in-
crease representation.

Another indication of rank-and-
file sentiment behind Bengough is
the warm reception given to CSU
delegates when they speak at
trades council meetings.

At Hamilton the Trades Council
is officially on record for Ben-
gough. Bruce Docherty, council
president and representative of the

Plumbers and Steamfitters, will

voice that support at Victoria.
Hugh Sedgwick, secretary-treasur-
er of the Ontario Federation of
Labor will also fight against the
attempted Hall putsch,

Both trades councils in the Niag-

——

ara Falls area are on record behind
Bengough.

In Northern Ontario the Bush-
workers are upping their delegates
who are al! pledged behind Ben-
gough policies. Reports are that
delegates from the Pulp and Paper
unions will not "go down the line
with Arthur D’Aoust.

The two Lakehead cities, Port
Arthur and Fort William, will send
the largest delegation it has ever
sent to a Congress convention, pos-
sibly 30. This is an all-out pro-Ben-
gough area.

In the West local unions and
trades councils are rallying to the
support of Bengough and the TLC
executive council. Regina, Saska-
toon, Winnipeg, Calgary and Ed-
monton trades councils have re-
solved to support Bengough.

In Manitoba it appears probable
that the delegation from that prov-
ince will exceed the record one
which was sent to the 1946 Hamil-
ton convention when TLC auton-
omy was at stake.

itorious for their reactionary anti-
labor views. Senator J. deB, Far-
ris is an outspoken advocate. for
war against the Soviet Union—
mow, while T. G. Norris, legal
mouthpiece for the Canadian Man-
ufacturers’ Association, is the
Taft of B.C., who demanded a
real Taft-Hartleyized labor code
during the last session of the
B.C. legislature when Bill 89 of
the ICA was being debated. El-
more Meredith, “Non - Partisan”
school trustee is also noted local-
ly for his strong anti - labor
views.

Martin’s case was linked with
that of Norman Littlewood’s'
when their applications came be-

Litlewood has since been admit-
ted to the bar despite’ efforts to
debar him with the “red bogey’’.
H. R. Bray, counsel for Martin, de-
clared he may appeal the case
since such appeals are _ possible
where practicing lawyers have
been debarred by the Law So-
ciety benchers.

While the Benchers made no def-
inite charges of “communism”
against Martin, it is bovious that
their decision in his case is a
new form of political discrimin-
ation, and fits into the curernt
anti- communist and anti -Soviet
hysteria now prevalent in certain

graduate
British Columbia has been
mission to the,bar by the Benchers of the B.C. Law Society.
During his three years at the UBC Martin passed all

RCAF veteran victim
Benchers witch hunt

student from
denied ad-

law

fore the Benchers back in July.|,

THE DAILY
PROVINCE -

(Owned by the Southam Co. Ltd. of Montreal)

GORDON MARTIN

Solons order him “grounded”

circles. Martin.was the LPP can-
didate for the Vancouver riding
of Point Grey in the last provin-
cial elections, and it is widely rec- —
ognized that the decision of the
old-line party Benchers was mo-
tivated by political reasons.

Classroom to open

Something new in courses is
offered by Marxist Classroom this
session. Beginning October 11,
four classes in the art of draw-
ing up posters and leaflets will
be given at 211 Shelly Building.
- Tke instruction will be elemen-
tary and is especially designed
to give club. secretaries and
others whose duties demand it
a working knowledge of the basic
rules of poster and leaflet work.
The class is limited to ten stu-
dents and enrolment is being
taken now at 209 Shelly Build-
ing, 119 Pender Street West.

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Aussie prime minister
opposed to CP ban

Australia’s prime minister,
Joseph Chiffley, replying to
an accusation that the West-
ern Powers were “appeasing
Russia,” told the House of
Representatives it was “dan-
gerously stupid to talk idly
about force.” :

No person in the Western
world wanted another D-Day,
he declared.

Opposing a motion aimed at
banning the Communist Party,
Chiffley said: “This would
be a futile gesture anywhere
in the world.

“Tt would be foolish to sug’-
gest that the recent drastic.
electoral change in South Af-
rica, the unrest in India Pak-
istan and Kashmir, and the
fighting in Palestine were all
due to communism.”

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