Millard’s “Brooklyn Bridge’ WW that the smoke has cleared away from the explosion which brought the recent Canadian Congress of Labor (CCL) convention to an abrupt finish last week, some matters of more than passing in- terest to trade unionists have begun to emerge. Gne of these was an admission made by Charles H. Millard, Canada’s big boss in steel, that he had been hypnotized into buying a “Brooklyn Bridge,”’ not for the proverbial one dollar, but the tidy sum of $550,000 or more. Quoting the Steelworkers’ Canadian chief, the Vancouver Sun wrote that “The Steelworkers paid the CCL almost $50,000 as reimbursement (that’s a new one!) for its preliminary work in reorgan- “izing the hardrock miners, and for the former Mine-Mill jurisdictional rights.” Until last week the actual figere paid to the CCL by Millard for the “‘right” to split and raid an old-established union, was evaded or denied. It is an axiom in our “free enterprise way of life’’ those with syphilis in the family don’t boast about it. But last week Millard didn’t only admit the $50,000 gift.to Mosher, for Mine-Mill jurisdiction, but’ added that another $500,000 dollars had been spent by the Steelworkers’ Union to wipe out the Mine-Mill union in centres where it has been established for years. Most of this, Millard said, had come from the treasury of the Steelworkers’ parent organization in the United States: Unconsciously the Sun gave its genuine .news story a most fitting headline: “Leader of Steelworkers Says U.S. Supplying Funds for Union War.” That is how “Project X” of the Marshall Plan doesn’t like the question put, but for once the Sun scored a bullseye! What has Millard to show for the expenditure of this huge sum? Nothing; in fact a little less than nothing, for his “organizing’’ crew has left only the wreckage of what was once a militant, fighting union in the Northern Ontario goldfields. - And in Trail? There Millard’s $500,000 has also got him nothing. The smelter workers, standing by their Mine-Mill union, have smacked him down in ‘every move he and his’ cohorts have made. All Millard has to show for his Yankee dollars in Trail is ex-CCF- MLA Herb Gargrave and a handful of piecard artists, to whom ‘union raiding and splitting comes naturally—as long as fat porkchops for themselves accompany it. Perhaps it was the fact that there was so little to boast about in this CCL convention that led Charlie to blurt out inadvertently how much money he had paid for the “Brooklyn Bridge,” across which he had hoped to walk to a new era of Millardian glory. ( Actually the only “‘achievement”” the pre ses could really boast before its leadership blew it up in a rena ouble-crossing finale, was the expulsion of ‘the fighting Fur and Le union! ) ~ One can:almost hear the laughter of the Chamber of Commerce as its members slap each other on the back with unfeigned glee! Esquimalt widens rift HAT all is not well in the backrooms of the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition at Victoria is no longer a state secret. The BCHIS scandal put an awful strain on the political nuptuals of the Coalition, a strain that has been voiced by leaders and supporters of both unhappy sepelded parties, to say nothing of the mass indignation of the working people of B.C. Now comes the Esquimalt byelection and more portents of a rapidly brewing political blowup. Ron B. Worley, vice-president of the Victoria and District Liberal Association and secretary of the Young Liberal Association, has resigned from all Liberal offices and organizations. His reasons for doing so are attributed to ‘‘insinua- tions” that he is backing some other candidate than the Coalition choice in the byelection. Worley is quoted by the mee press as stating that he “‘is o posed to the continuation of Coalition as a means of the government ‘staying in power. Any unsatisfactory union can and should be dissolved for the good of the province.’ Regardless of the route Worley arrived at that conclusion, it is one that is being accepted by, an ever growing number of British Columbia people. Political double-crossing and deceit in the selection and promotion of Coalition “dark horse’ candidates to hold the Esquimalt seat for the Coalition, is hardly calculated to enhance the ebbing presitge of that unholy alliance. What is more, Mayor Percy George of Victoria, the official Coalition candidate, is being termed a “carpet bagger’” by Harry Pooley, the Tory leader in Esquimalt, and two other recalcitrant Tories, W. A. C. Bennett and Mrs. Tilly Rolston, who bolted the Coalition last spring, are campaigning openly for A. C. Wurtele, Tory-turned—Independent. 5 A little extra public pressure on the issues and some candidates in the Esquimalt riding might smoke out the back-door Coalition. deals, ae aa: help rid bias province of this unholy and undemocratic Sue eer ) nu < OES ) ED Cis. iNii ml Ji wd i Wm aye vl i HA HN N N AED, e 4 Soh Ne mS crsisimace By nate Be pas vruolll aa | Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. -' By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephone MA. 5288 Tom McEwen Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. © Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa that - ONT RE RAT As We See It by TOM McEWEN Acca ANNA Na California State Senate Committee on Un- American Activities is running into difficulties. During recent weeks this Yankee inquisition into the beliefs and ideals of American citizens has been told off by a handful of fighting American women. Its threats to cite these “witnesses” for “contempt” are being countered by the ponyerut of outraged citizens. The San Francisco Chronicle of September 12 features one of these inquisition sessions under a headline that tells its own story: “Session Ends in Uproar As Crowd Cheers Witness.” It appears that the California Un-American “Snoop Committee has decided, in keeping with the U.S. State Department’s cold-war hysteria, that many organizations in that state are “subversive” and is out to do a smear job on the purpose and personnel of these organizations. These include the Arts, Sciences and Professions Council, the Civil Rights Congress, the American-Russian Institute, the Com- mittee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, and the California Labor School. Edith Jenkins, one of the leading workers on the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy is on the “witness” stand, or more properly, “tied to the stake.’ The Inquisition howls, and hurls insult, inuendo, provocation and insult. “I am a mother,” replies Mrs. Jenkins, “I want a peaceful world for my children, This committee seeks to make it appear that the advocacy of peace means the advocacy of force and violence. . This - is an absurdity and fools no one... .” The audience signifies its approval, and Chief Inquisitor Senator Burns scowls and scolds. But Mrs. Jenkins isn’t finished yete, “I am proud— prouder than anything in my life—of the position I have taken for real peace. And I object to having my motives questioned.” The crowd roars its ap- proval and the Chief Inquisitor orders the chambers cleared. Nothing upsets the Un-American Inquisi- age to tell the truth in ace sain es of _public view. Another American woman takes the “witness” stand, Alice Hamburg of the Arts, Sciences and Professions Council. In a prepared statement to the Inquisition, Miss Hamburg declared that “this hearing constitutes a flagrant violation of all aemo- cratic principles which are our srert American heritage.” “Damn _ these women anyway, growls the Un- American Inquisition, we’re getting nowhere. Here we have information from our FBI stools that the Arts, Sciences and Professions Council had staged benefit functions for the California Labor School and the Daily arenes World, and we're erring nowhere. The next “witness” Mauined to the stake de- clined to reply to the Inquisition’s provocative ques- tions .. . and had the “contempt” book thrown at her. But she didn’t feel half so- meyers as Chief Inquisitor Burns. It seemed to be “fighting women’s day” at the Inquisition. Rose Isaak, of the American-Russian Institute, described as “a bird-like’ woman, turned out to be a very wise owl, whose refusal to tell the Inquisition whether she had ever attended pro- Soviet rallies, subscribed to the Daily People’s World, or what ‘her position was in the Institute, drove the Snoopocracy of Yankee imperialism into another splenetic tailspin. Another, woman takes the ‘witness’ stand, Eloise Brown, described as “a pretty young blonde” from the Civil Rights Congress. Miss Brown refus- ed to tell her inquisitors whether she had ever at- tended any meetings of the Communist party, read its press, or whether there was any tieup between her organization and the party. Then the Un-American Inquisition demonstrated just how far down the sewer such outfits can bur- row in search of “evidence” to incriminate its vic- tims. Eloise Brown is separated from hér husband (not an uncommon condition in the best American or Canadian families). While in Korea, Brown’s letters to his wife had been intercepted, photostats — made, and*these used in an attempt to tie an Ameri- can woman to the Un-American Inquisition staké. 9 Mrs, Brown refused to identify the handwriting of these photostat letters as that of her husband. More “citations” for “contempt”! To us it is doubt- ful if a decent American people can find sufficient words in their modern dictionaries to express their contempt of such sHameful proceedings, in a land that boasts a Declaration of Independence and 4 Bill of Rights. It’s “woman’s day” all right and still’ they come, this time driving home the centuries-old lesson that families may look alike, but do not necessarily | think alike. “Witness” Mrs.,Decca Treuhaft, an active work- er in the Civil Rights Congress “politely and quite elegantly,” and in so many words, told the Un- American Inquisition to go plumb to hell. She de- clined to say whether she belonged to the Berkeley Tennis Club, whether she read the Daily People’s. Nits World, whether she had attended meetings of the Cdmmunist party, or the nature of her duties in “the Ae oe : tion so much as an American mother with the cour- . SBut she did tell them (with justifiable Bers that her first husband was Esmond Romilly, # nephew of Winston Churchill, who, at the age of 17 fought with the International Brigade in Spain against the butcher Franco, and who died on an RCAF mission over Germany in 1942. She also told the Inquisition that she was Jessica Freeman: — ig Mitford of England, who chose her own ideals and convictions. (Mrs. Treuhaft’s sister Unity, Adolph Hitler’s ‘Nordic Goddess,” while another sister Diana, is the wife of the British Fascist a leader, Sir Oswald Mosley.) family connections), Doubtless (with such the Un-American Inquisition _ thou'\t this “witness” ought to be just what they — needed to wind up a difficult “woman’s see but alas, they had never read history. Outside the Inquisition chambers a 40-strong ; picket line paraded, carrying slogans which said: — “Let’s end police brutality, Jim Crow, thought com — trol, senseless wars, and the Burns committee.” — Inside, five courageous American women dé fended their integrity and their rights. as citizen5, and in doing so, defended every honest atau are believes in democracy and peace. | * “We salute those five brave women of California: Their courage before the Un-American Inquisition is an inspiration—a guarantee that real peace willie : yet be won, by, and for the people. Se at Just look who's talking A RAY OF LIGHT is beginning to penetrate the murk in which our Ottawa solons surround themselves. Speaking at Murray Bay, Quebec, Resources Minister Winters is reported to have “appealed” to Canadians not to become “mere car- bon copies” of Americans, but to boost our tourist trade with a “more distinctive Canadian culture.” Resources Minister Winters also told his audi- ence at the annual convention of the Canadian Tourist Association, that there was “too great a display of U.S. flags in Canada, and that Canadian publications feature too many American news: items - and news pictures.” Coming from such a source (if the Canadian press has correctly quoted the minister), this is indeed a refreshing breeze: from a new quarter, even if considerably belated. The sorry truth is, however, that despite the minister’s belated homily én Canadian independence and distinctiveness, the government of which he is @ member has sold both ~ -our independence and distinctiveness to Yankee im- perialism, in return for a share of the super-profits which it hopes may accrue from the war adven- tures of such a partnership. A “distinctive Canadian culture’? The main aim of the Massey Report was to bury such .a thing. The Fulton Act was designed to keep the poisonous Sak of Yankee gangsterism away brings his “culture” with him. this dubious admixture, ‘he can get it in Canada atid from our growing children, but the “comic” pulps : and movies of Yankee propaganda flood every TONS stand and theatre from Halifax to Victoria. _ Our tourist bureaus and our business and civic _ “leaders” drape Yankee flags on every post, winds hy and vacant lot, and our civic administration would — scuttle every bylaw to ‘suit the Yankee “tourists” with $$$ to spend. Our police are instructed t? hang a parking ticket, on every native who exceeds the meter by two minutes—but the Yankee “tourist” cars, parked in front and behind, can sit there hours without a murmur. Thus we also et TAs our “courtesy” for dollars. oye ‘ ' When the Yankee tourist comes to Canada ne : If he runs out of par, since to him (aided by our servility to th@ meed for dollars) our country is already the 4oth . should he have’ enough basic educatio® state .. to sai ae that there are 48 states at home! 4 The danger, despite Winters’ blurb. is not one of “becoming” carbon copies of Yankee imperialis™: — .The danger is that we have become, and the back to independence, distinctiveness, and true Ca?;— adianism, has been made ever so much harde? because of those who betray Canada—behind - pretext OF Geaate a Canada. was