Carload of cops
placed in alley
near union hail

Who hired a carload of
away from Pender

cops to park less than a block

Auditorium on the night of November 3,

when a meeting of 900 members of Civic Employees’ Union,
Local 28, was going on inside?

Why were these “off-duty”
ready to rush into action as soon as

cops riding in a pojice car,
they received the word

from headquarters over the radio?

_wiuel follows bombing

. +» erowds attended funeral
serv ces held in Toronto last
weekend for Michael Bortnick,
Ukranian Canadian shot down

on the street by John Pica, who
is reported to have told police
when they arrested him, “He is
a Communist.” The murder fol-
lowed by only three weeks the
bombing of a Ukranian Labor
Temple in Torento for which
police have thus far made no ar-
rests. Picture below shows Pica
(left) after his arrest, and
(right) police bending over Bort-

Who was expecting a riot at the Civic Workers’ meet-

nick's blanket-covered body.

ing? Was it hulking Carl Berg, TLC
vice:president, who was refused
admission by union members, and
skulked around ‘corridors until told
to leave the building by Pender
Auditorium authorities?

These questions must be ans-
wered. Thousands of Vancouver
citizens, aside from members of
Civic Employees Union, want to
know the facts which are being
concealed to date by Berg and his
friend Fred Doherty, president of
the Policemen’s Union, Local 12
(TLC).

A delegation from the Civic Em-.
ployees’ Union visited Mayor
Thompson this week and asked
him to conduct an investigation
into the whole matter. Here is
the story the union members told
the mayor:

Just prior to the opening of the
meeting, Sergeant Matheson of the
city police entered Pender Audit-
ditorium and aproached William
White and William Stewart, offi-
cials of the Marine Workers and

Boilermakers Union,
the building.

“T’ve been instructed to report
to the boss up here. Who's the

boss?” said Sergeant Matheson.
“We're in charge,’
Marine Union leaders.

"I've got four men parked in a
car near the hall. They'll stand
any

by in the event there’s

trouble.”

“We didn’t order any police pro-
tection, and we're not expecting
White.

any trouble,” said_ Bill
“Who sent you here?”

“That's all right, it won’t cost
you anything. Doherty sent us
and told us the Policemen’s
Union will pay our expenses, as
we're not on duty.” _

Sergeant Matheson then phoned
the police radio operator and told
him that if a call came in from
Pender Auditorium not to call the
regular on-duty cars as he was

parked within half a block.
Shortly afterwards

leaving.

But the questions remain. Had
Berg to have a “riot
break out? Did Berg arrange
with Doherty to have a carload
of cops on hand? If the cops
were not on duty, why were they

using an official police car?

Who paid them, and why?
Leaders of Civic

Union will appear before

gated. Bee >
Civic Workers’ union
announces broadcasts —

Civic
“on the air’

Vancouver
Union will be

during November
“fight back’ campaign
union splitters and raiders.

All broadcasts begin at 7 p.m.,
on the following days: Friday,
November 10; Monday, Novem-
ber 18; Wednesday,
15; Friday, November 17; Mon-
day, November 20; Wednesday,
November 22; Friday, November
24; Monday, November 27 and
Wednesday, November 29. -

which runs

replied the

Berg was
tol@ to leave the hall, There was
no trouble at the meeting. When
ex-union president Sam Lindsay
staged a walkout less than 100
went with him, and many of these
had voted against him prior to

Employees’
the
Police Commission on Friday this
week’ to protest the presence of
off-duty policemen not ordered by
them, and to demand that the pro-
vocative action be fully investi-

Employees’
over
station CKMO three times a week
as part of a
against

November’

arley continues

as Leckie strike

wins full

support

Strike of close to 100 workers at J. Leckie Shoe Com-

pany
solid.
company

(CCL) were scheduled to meet with

‘5 now in its second week, with picket. lines. remaining
At Pacific Tribune press time, representatives of the
and International Fur and Leather Workers’ Union

Labor Relations Board

in an effort to settle the dispute.
Local 510 president John Turner and secretary Humphrey

Harris stated this week:

CONTINUED

KOREA

lack of reserve of trained man-
power.” And Teng Chao comments:

“With the firm support of the
people throughout the world, the
Koreans will undoubtedly make the
100,000-odd American troops pay
heavily for every inch of land gain-

people in weakening the imperialist
forces is a tremendous contribution
to world peace.”

The article cites facts to demon-
strate that, on a world scale, the
U.S. suffers from similar fatal
weaknesses, “which show that the

Truman-MacArthur decisions
extending the war are the actions
of desperate men.”

To invade Korea alone, a small
country of 30 million people, the
U.S. has had to put into the field
eight of its total of 13 divisions,
1,000 planes and several hundred
warships. It was heavily defeated
in the first stages of the war and
it will yet be a long-drawn-out
struggle absorbing much of. US.
manpower. How can the U.S. im-
perialists wage large scale ground
war? Teng Chao asks, explaining:

“They have innumerable scatter-
ed military bases in the Pacific and
Atlantic which they have to guard
with their limited manpower; and
have inordinately long supply lines
to keep open. And while they try
to guard all these bases, everywhere
they are hated and attacked by the
people, especially in Indochina, the
Philippines, Malaya and Burma.
Even in Britain, the people oppose
U.S. bases there. The imperialists
are sitting on a volcano.

* “With the total of 1,458,000 men
in all services, the U.S. simply can-
not wage a world war. That is
why Truman is frantically trying
to expand U.S. forces to three mil-
lion by the end of June, 1951. But
it should be remembered that in
the Second World War, the Soviet
Union put 10 million men in the
field against the 5,000,000 mustered

ed. The‘heroic work of the Korean “

for |

SELLS 100 PAPERS A WEEK

Jimmy Phillipson, 69,

leading PT

Jimmy Phillipson is crow

can see him on the streets of
Pacific Tribune.
year. And Jimmy has been on
In the back of his mind, Jimmy
has a dream+—a dream and a plan.
It’s to open a little bookstore in
Nanaimo , where he can display
progressive books, magazines and
—of course—the Pacific Tribune.
By next year the dream may be-
come a reality.

Jimmy Phillipson was born May
6, 1881, in the county of Cumber-
land, England. (He first saw the
light of day in the same month
and the same year that the late
Bill Bennett, later to become known
to thousands of workers as Ol’ Bill,
was born.)

by Hitler and the result was that
German casualties amounted to

3,000,000 men,

“Tt is no wonder that the U.S. im-
perialists are, in their mad drive
to war, trying to build up German
and Japanese forces again. But
U.S. forces, even with their satel-
lites, are too small and weak; and
the weakest arm of all is the ground
That is why the American
warmongers try to make out they
can win by bombing, including
atomic bombing.”

The article then shows that the
allies, in the Second World War,
dropped 1,350,000 tons of bombs on
Germany, the equivalent of 450
atom bombs, yet Germany was not
defeated by all this. It was defeat-
ed by the Soviet Armies. It con-
cludes that air power cannot win
a war and, it adds, “the U.S. by no
means has a monopoly of atomic
bombs.”

forces.

NANAIMO, B.C.

ding 70, but every week you
Nanaimo, selling copies of the
He sells 100 papers a week. That's 5,200 a

the job for many, many years.

Coming to Canada in 1907, Jim-
my got a job right away in the
mines at Nanaimo. From that day
to this he has held a union card
in the United Mine Workers of
America. For that matter, he still
shovels coal, helping to load coal
barges at the dock.

JIMMY PHILLIPSON .
He worked with OY Bill Bennett

Jimmy joined the Socialist Party
of Canada in 1907, and met Bill
Bennett the saMe year, when he
visited Nanaimo to campaign for
J. Hawthornthwaite, the Socialist
candidate, who was elected to the
provincial legislature that year.

Jimmy Phillipson took part in
the great strike struggles of 1911-
1913 in-Nanaimo, and during that
period had the opportunity of meet-
ing big Bill Haywood, famous IWwWW
leader who later became a Com-
munist.

The years rolled on, but Jimmy
never slackened in his consistent
struggle for progress and social-
ism. Today, at 69, he is one of the
Pacific Tribune's best salesmen,

bringing the message of truth to
new workers every week.

“Our union has patiently nego-
tiated with the company since last
May for wage demands to assure
only a subsistance level. We have
had no increases since 1947. We
were forced to go on strike by the
inconsiderate and stubborn attitude
of the company. We feel that our
strike is just, our demands are just
and that unitedly we shall win
them.”

The union took strike action when -
the company insisted on interpret-
ing a conciliation board award in
a manner that would have exclud-
ed the majority of workers from
benefits. When the strike was call-
ed the union reverted to its original
15 cents per hour wage boost de-
mand.

B.C. Federation of Labor exec-
utive backed the strikers and pro-
tested the firm’s interpretation of
the board’s award. “There must
be a full mobilization. of labor be-
hind these workers, whose wages
are substandard,” said BCFL sec-

retary George Home. -

B.C, District Council No, 1, In-
ternational Woodworkers of Ameri-
ca, wrote the Leckie company: “We
request that you immediately sit
down with the Fur and Leather
Workers’ Union and consummate
an agreement. Failure to do so
will cause us to place you immedi-
ately on the ‘We do not patronize’
list.”

An attempt on the part of a few
misguided workers at the J. Leckie
tannery in New Westminster to
have the union decertified collopsed
when a vote taken last Monday
showed almost 100 percent support
—there was only one dissenter—for
retaining Fur and Leather Work-
ers’ Union as bargaining agent.
“The vote showed that the few em-
ployees who originally applied for
decertification have now realized
their mistake,” said union, district
organizer Pearl Wedro.

CONTINUED

CHINA

Premier Chou En-lai summar-
ized China’s attitude in his report
to the national committee of the
People’s Political Consultative Con-
ference on the October 1 anniver-
sary of the founding of the People’s

‘| Republic of China.

“The U.S. deliberately concocted
the assault of the Syngman Rhee
gang against the -Korean Demo-
cratic People’s Republic in order
to extend its aggression in the
Bast, he charged, and then, on_the
pretext of the situation in Korea
dispatched its naval and air forces |
to invade the Taiwan province of
China (Formosa), announcing that
the so-called problem of Taiwan’s
status should be solved by the
American controlled United Nations.

“Moreover, it has repeatedly sent
its air force, which is invading
Korea, to intrude in the air over
the Liaotung province of China,
strafing and bombing, and has sent
its naval forces, which are invad-
ing Korea, to bombard Chinese
merchant shipping on the high
seas, *

“By these frenzied and violent
acts of imperialist’ aggression the
U.S. government has displayed itself
as the most dangerous foe of the
Peoples Republic of China. The U.S.
forces have invaded China’s borders
and may at any time expand their
aggression .. .”

Since its first protest on August
27, China has sent four protests to
the UN against American bombing
and strafing of Chinese territory,
detailing the incidents, the number
of Chinese citizens. killed and
wounded, and the damage done.

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