oO aemapeeag en nn er iy B Me Atos @ entree Volk 6. No. 18 Vancouver, B.C., May 2, 1947 > ** Five Cents BUTTER STRIKE PROPOSED Candy bar boycott sweeps province ee Unity of progressives can assure future - Morgan A note of confidence that the working people, “striving for peace, security and progress,” will find in united action the strength to overcome the anti-demo- cratic forces arrayed against them, is struck by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, in a May Day state- ment issued this week. Text of the statement reads: = May Day, 1947, finds the forces striving for peace, Security and progress stronger and more determined (Continued on Page 8—See MORGAN) Labor prepares drive to defeat Coalition gov’t ____ Angered by the Coalition government's hostil- ity towards labor, demonstrated during the session Of the Legislature when the government virtually ignored the united protest of CCL and many AFL Unions to adopt its Industrial Conciliation and Ar- itration Act (Bill 39) containing anti-union clauses Proposed by the Canadian Manufacturers Association, the Powerful B.C, Federation of Labor (CCL) this week. took the first steps in a campaign to bring about the government's defeat, A statement issued by the Federation's executive, fol- lowing a meeting last Sunday, declared: “The B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL) will support to ‘the fullest extent, financially and morally, all unions en- Reed in necessary economic struggles against anti-labor ill 39, “A special convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor ‘Will be called for June 6. “Executive officers of the Federation, together with CCL Vice-President Alex McAuslane, are instructed to ex- Plore every means. and method that may be used to bring about the defeat of the Coalition. government and to bring ‘definite recommendations towards achieving this end to the €deration’s special convention.” Interviewed by a Pacific Tribune reporter Monday, Mc- z . « S Auslane condemned as. “completely inaccurate” and ‘mis- Chievous” a story published by the government-supporting ancouver News-Herald asserting that political differences ad disrupted the Federation’s meeting. “There were no differences in principle among those attending the meeting,” he said. “And the News-Herald’s Statement was not issued by the press committee.” Bill threatens labor @ In the US. the House of Representatives has passed, 308-107, a vicious labor bill, for which Rep. Fred A. Hartley (R.,N.J.), at right, House Labor Com- mittee chairman, bears ma- jor responsibility. Bitterly opposed by labor, the bill would strip the unions of many rights, banning indus- try-wide bargaining, the clos- ed shop, jurisdictional and sympathy strikes, mass pic- keting and all strikes by government employees. It would bar Communists and supporters from union of- fice, deprive violating unions of bargaining rights for one year and deny unlawful strikers reinstatement in their jobs. It would also allow unions to be sued. “The butter shortage will be over next week. There will be all the but- ter you want to buy, but it will cost more.” If housewives support plans for a butter strike May 10-17, this statement, credited by the Vancouver News-Herald to one of the largest retailers in the city, will be amended to, “There is no real butter shortage except that created - by speculators expecting to profit by price increases. If it’s going to cost us more, we won't buy it.” The projected butter strike is part of the gathering storm of protest against inflated prices and rampant profiteer- ing permitted by the King government's irresponsible de- control policies. A boycott of chocolate bars, started by school students at Chemainus last week under the slogan, ‘Bring back the nickel bar,’ quickly spread to Nanaimo ‘and Victoria and by last weekend had been taken up enthusiastically by students in Vancouver, where entire schools are refusing te buy chocolate bars until the price is lowered to five cents. (Continued on Page 8) See PRICES Police attack telephone pickets In San Francisco last week 14 men and 18 women were arrested when police charged 2,000 striking telephone workers demon- strating against an injunc- tion limiting to six the num- ber of pickets outside any local Pacific Telephone and Telegraph exchange. The demonstrators, most of whom were women switch- board operators, were gath- ered outside a downtown exchange when police charged, knocking many of the women to the ground. The attack aroused the en- tire labor movement in the Bay area and the CIO called an emergency meet- ing to discuss what the striking National Federa- tion of Telephone Workers termed (‘strikebreaking by injunction.’ @ Here stockholding tele- phone workers picket the annual _ stockholders meeting at the American Telephone and Telegraph building in New York.