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Prices

(at Ottawa, F. A. McGregor,
combines investigation commis-
3iomer, named gasoline as one of
the commodities -under investiga-
tion for price-fixing or profiteer-
ing.)

An indication of what the pub-

lio expects will be given to the}.

government next Monday night
in
the Saanich byelection.

Still another indication of what
the public expects is rapidly as-
suming gigantic form in the
thousands of signatures now be-

ing placed on = petition forms
throughout the province. Mem-
bers of trade unions, the House-

wives’ Consumer Association and
other organizations reported this
week that they were delighted
with the response to the petition

calling on the King government.

to restore price controls’ and sub-
sidies and. roll-back prices to 1946
levels. - : : :

We can’t say we're surprised :

by the response, for it’s not the

kind of petition you have to con-|:
vince. people they should sign. |:

Usually, you just begin to talk

about it and before you get any |:
further they say, ‘Sure, Ill sign }.

it)" Marion Parkin, secretary of
the Vancouver branch of - the
Housewives’ Consumer Association

reported this. week.

“Our greatest need is for more

volunteers to help out with shop- |

ping district and community can-

vassing. I'm sure we -could get |

the signatures of .99 percent of

the people if we had sufficient

canvassers,” she remarked.

“Those of us who were out on
the street corners in the shopping
districts last Saturday collected
Several thousand signatures in a
few hours. We'll be out again this
Saturday and every additional vol-
-unteer means hundreds more sig-

_ natures. Our headquarters at 9

East Hastings Street is always
open for volunteers.”

_ Meanwhile, from tne hearings
of the parliamentary price com-
mittee at Ottawa, these facts have
emerged:

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Blueprint for strikebreaking

This chart showing the flow of editorial material under the
varitype process is from a 26-page plan prepared by New York
publishers to fight the International Typographical Union (ITU)
wher its contracts expire next month. Chicago papers, in their
dispute with the ITU, have been using the process since Novem-
ber. In Vancouver and other Canadian cities the Southam papers
have trained scabs for established printing processes instead of
installing the expensive varitype machines, but the aim is the

“including provisions both for

This view, supported by facts
and figures, has been submitted
‘to- Ald. J. D. Cornett, chairman
of Vancouver City Council’s li-
censing committee, in a four-page

j brief outlining LPP proposals on

the proposed. new business tax
dylaw.

The brief points out that the
present licensing bylaw attempts
to be both a regulatory device
‘and a method of raising tax rev-
enue and that “these objectives
are in conflict.” It holds that
ceilings placed on fees in vari-
ous classifications weaken the
bylaw as a source of revenue,
while the classification them-
selves are entirely arbitrary.

“We submit that the placing
‘of ceilings on license fees puts
‘a most unfair handicap on the
businessman,” states the
brief, citing as a “glaring in-
justice” the $6,500 ceiling placed
‘on the license fees of departmen-
tal stores,

“A sample survey of 10 small
retailers disclosed that their li-

cense fees averaged an annual
charge of 5 cents per square

foot. of floor space. If this rate

' Were applied to one of the large

stores, it would

yield a license fee substantially

me excess of 10 times the exist-
ceiling, or

_ 000,” stated the brief. gages

By eliminating such discrimina-
tion the LPP committee asserted
that the city’s revenue by nearly
51,000,000 a year, equal to four
‘nills of real property tax.

In its conclusions, the brief stat-
ed that the measure “will serve
to equalize and broaden the tax
base and to increase civic rev-
enues,” at the same time making

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1948

lit possible “to avoid any increase

LPP calls on city council
to implement business tax

Vancouver City Committee of the Labor-Progressive
Party favors immediate implementation of the business tax

classification and for progres-

sive graduation within classifications.”

BCFL scores
union move

Ambitious proposals of the Chi-
nese Trade Workers’ Association
here to launch an organizational
drive among  Chinese-Canadian
Workers for 10,000 members and
affiliate to Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council (TLC) were sharp-
ly oviticized by the B.C, Federa-
tion of Labor (CCL) this week.

The proposals were made last
Sunday by Foon Sien, president
of the Chinese Trade Workers’
Association, which claims to be
“the only organization of the Chi-
nese labor movement in Canada.”

On Wednesday this week the
B.C. Federation of Labor pointed
out the effect the proposal would
have upon Chinese-Canadians al-
ready members of trade unions.

“The CCL is firmly opposed to
racial discrimination against Chi-
nese or any others who are in
this country,” its statement de-
clared,

“In CCL unions, particularly
the IWA and both big mine
unions, considerable numbers of
Chinese workers are members and
protected by all agreements in
exactly the same manner as other
workers.

“The CCL has no provision and
does not intend to make pro-
vision for separate unions for
different nationalities and will
continue to insist upon equal pay
for equal work and elimination
of all racial discrimination

throughout Canadian industry.”

have won the right to admission
in what their attorney, J. A. Fan-
elli of Washington térms “a com-
plete. victory.” :

The three were notified this
week that U.S. Attorney General
Tom Clark had upheld the de-
cision of an appeal. board re-
versing the findings of a special
board of inquiry by which they
were denied entry into the United
States.

In view of the successful out-
come of these appeals, the TWA
this week instructed its lawyer
here, John Stanton, to proceed with
the appeals of Harold Pritchett,
Mark Mosher and Floyd Hamilton,
axcluded from the U.S. by similar
rulings. :

The special board of inquiry
based itself on these findings in
denying all six officials entry:

@ That they were members of

the Labor-Progressive Party, “a

legal political party in Canada

with Marxist principles.”
' @ That at a provincial conven-
tion in 1946 a resolution was

5,000 copies of the Communist
Manifesto as part of the 25,000
copies the Labor-Progiressive
Party was distributing nationally
to mark the centenary of Marx-
ism.
@ That the Communist Manifes-
to contains the following para-
graph: “The Communists dis-
dain to conceal their views and
aims. They openly declare that
their ends can be attained only
by forcible overthrow of all ex-
isting social conditions.”

@ That this paragraph brought

the six officials within the

meafiing of the amended section
of the Act of 1918 as members

“of an organization distributing
. literature teaching the overthrow

by force or violence of the gov-

ernment of the United States
or all forms of law.”

“The controlling question be-
comes, therefore, whether the
Communist Manifesto is litera-
ture of the kind described in the
statute,” stated the appeal board
in its ruling.

The ruling points out that “the
Manifesto does not call for the
forceful overthrow of the govern-
ment of the United States. It calls
for the overthrow of social con-
ditions. And it refers to existing
social conditions.”

Continuing, the ruling refers to
the majority opinion handed down
by Justice Frank Murphy in
United States Supreme Court in
the historic. deportation proceed-
ings against R. V. Schneiderman
on the grounds of his member-

ship in the U.S. Communist Party.
- Justice Murphy’s opinion, quot-
ed by the appeal board, read:
“The Manifesto of 1848 was
proclaimed in an autocratic Eur-
ope engaged in suppressing the
abortive liberal revolutions of that
year. With this background, its
tone is not. surprising.” :

The appeal board's ruling point-
ed out that the Supreme Court
majority “concluded that the
Manifesto, together with much
other evidence concerning the doc-
trine of the Communist Party of
America in the nineteen-twenties,
did not clearly show that that
party was an organization which
advocated the overthrow of the
government of the United States
by force or violence.”

Quoting further from Justice

@ material difference between
agitation and exhortation calling
for present violent action” and
“mere doctrinal justification or
prediction of the use of force
under hypothetical conditions at
some future indefinite time,” the
appeal board’s ruling concluded:

“We conclude that the Commun-
ist Manifesto does not advise, ad-
vocate or teach the overthrow by

United States.”

All three officials appealing the
immigration ruling, Dalskog, Mels-
ness and McCuish, were declared

eligible for temporary admission
to the United States,

adopted undertaking to distribute |

Murphy’s opinion that there “is

violence of the government of the

IWA officials win right
to enter United States

Three British Columbia district officials of the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America, Ernie Dalskog, Bert Mels-
ness and John McCuish, barred by U.S. immigration officials
from entering the United States to attend union meetings,

Saanich -

called on Coalition speakers
on the platform to meet
an LPP spokesman to de-
bate Coalition accusations
against LPP participation
in the campaign and _ the
LPP‘s own charge that the

| government was seeking to

divert attention from real
issues of the byelection —
“the cost of living, social security,
taxation and labor laws.”
Anscomb told the meeting that
the government-supervised strike
vote 1s “the meat” of Bill 39 and
would remain, Challenged by
Mickleburgh to produce one ex-
ample of a BC union that ever

-| conducted a strike vote other than

by its own secret ballot as re-
quired by union constitutions,
Anscomb produced his favorite
story about a Vancouver Island
logging camp where union offi-
cials took round two ballot boxes,
one marked “No” and the other
marked ies? Mickleburgh
promptly branded the story as “a
figment of the minister’s colorful
imagination.” .

Many CCF adherents feel that
Cameron has ‘played. into the
hands of Coalition red-baiters by -
his attempts last week to repudiate
LPP support as “a conspiracy” to
bring about his defeat through
“embarrassing”. him with support
(at the same time accusing the
LPP of responsibility for his 1945
defeat in Comox through not sup-
porting him). :

They see Cameron’s statements
as lending credence to Coalition
falsehoods about the LPP, the
very weapons with which. the
Coalition’ is attacking» Cameron
himself. This week Cameron
strengthened his _ position .. in
speeches ridiculing red-baiting as
an evasion of such burning issues
as health insurahce, but this ef-
fect is at least partly cancelled
out by efforts to appear just as
much an anti-communist as At-
torney General Gordon  Wismer.

Plenty of CCF supporters, how-
ever, make no bones about their
enthusiasm over the LPP’s endor-
sation of Cameron. .

With a very close contest in-

dicated in a traditionally safe
Liberal seat, the degree of unity
in action that has been achiev-
ed is generating a wew emthusi-
asm which, coupled with wide-
spread disgust with the Coali-
tion’s betrayals, can well result
in the election day effort re-
quired to make Saanich the be-
ginning of the end for the gov-
ernment,

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