Miners backed © The strike of 350 zinc miners at Normetal Mines, ju north of Rouyn, brings the total number of miners out 0 Waite-Amu er dicates Ontario and Quebec to nearly 7,000 in 10 mines. Noranda subsidiary with 450 miners, went out on strike Octob Jean Marchand, national secretary of the Catholic Sy? spoke to Noranda strikers recently. “Rest assured,’ he told 1,500 people assembled in Rouyn Forum, ‘Tam not here to bring you trouble or to raid your union—I am here to bring you the brother- ly greetings and support, both moral and financial, of over 100,- 000 members of the Catholic Syn- dicates in Canada in your strug- gle against the unprincipled ex- ploiters of our natural resources.” He explained why the fight of the Rouyn-Noranda miners was considered their fight by the members of the CCCL. They were, in his words, “both fight- ing the rapacious monopolies which are viciously exploiting the peoples and resc‘urces of our of the \ 0 Brotherhood of Electrical ig Ut ers and Street RailwaymeR® os Officials 0 ion met this week to talk what action would be && paw streetcars and buses if the aio is forced to call a strike’ the. B.C. Electric. yoted The IBEW membershiP vet jon), Internat £3 jen © for strike action after i qurned Z = . a re IRRES . a oS country.” Mg 3 Police manhandle picket Wherever workers are fighting|™ent conciliation Be, the bosses, he said, they could|@0wn union wage de set in No strike deadline had P* pew count on the help and united sup- Wednesday this week, CER prest Brutal handling of pickets by police at the strike-bound Wallace Barnes Company in Hamilton, port of the CCCL members. Ontario, which has aroused the anger of the labor movement, is illustrated by the photo above, show- ; ing the cops giving a striker “the heel treament.” The strike, now in its fifth month, was called by He spoke at some Jength on the | officials were to meet B pursed the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. evils of labor disunity and inter-|gent Dal Grauer on 7 trem" union raiding. afternoon in a Jastaicaan Addressing himself particularly to the ‘non-unionists” present, he gave them a trade unionist’s view- point of the status of workers un- der monopoly capitalism and on the role of a union in the workers’ to reach a settlement. * * x 0 rs International Woodworke! es? ts DO America has extended it nce Interior lumber strike operatify City rally hits suppression ; e ° struggles. 5 . ior OF GEMOCFACY IN GUILIN “i280, cnn soe A oa ee ag : ae : and pickets are on WE < 4ife omic crisis, into which we are be- ‘Is wl the union is ere we: - : : : et : ; _... |ing pushed headlong through a gr fal ea Set ypio® _Deriding the “fantastic charges” made in the British government’s White Paper, Hal Griffin,/narrow and short-sighted foreign Meanwhile 10 small non cat associate editor of the Pacific Tribune, told a meeting held in’ Hastings Auditorium here last Sunday |trade policy,” Marchand concluded | outfits in’ the Interior have 30 that some of the demands advanced by the People’s Progressive party in British Guiana were similar by warning employers: |wages of 100 employees pase to those put forward a century ago by the Reformers in Upper Canada. “OF ’ i ingin ep o0t : “Allowing for the fact that they are more than a century removed in time and for differences adie Clee a et cetera Sai our, Pe " in national development and _poli- P : are E wrkp Panic’ 5 >, |remplace!” (If the private enter- | market ituation.” ; tical setting, the program of the|*0F 2m appointed legislative oe =, eee eget oat ch Re prise system cannot functi i : er People’s Progressive party today|cil and an elected legislature in|Patriotic Appeal for Amendments bali Fechich. tien Gt Pattie, Poe | Re eed peeriee twA ask? can be compared in its demands|>°th Upper and Lower Canada. |to the Constitution calls for fully tiseath , eal bers voted 50-50 on taking pas for responsible government to| Real power was concentrated in responsible government, abolition : ag laction, but now tBat the sr pave William Lyon Mackenzie’s famous| the British governor and the ap-|of the state council and of the gov- |declared a strike most ™ 31 Points, introduced in the Upper | Pointed legislative councils. ernor's right to veto, and for the : Ge shut down. Canada legislature in 1830,” said He compared this with the New right of the elected government to * Griffin. *|Constitution of 1953 in British agp peti gpiate ety ¢ RR Roe soy ste ‘ : hi i its own chief secretary, mi : The struggle for responsible eit. ge oe prov — for a state Set feted inh atehities prin sw A second southern Ta rkers ud government and democracy in| Council dominated by appointed may be called by. W0° xanae” Canada was led by the emerging}™embers and an elected legisla-| “This is what the British gov- dustrial Union in Oro m8 native capitalist class, supported|ture. Real power, however, was|ernment calls a ‘Communist plot.’ ” Kootenay area affecting ty the - by a weak and scattered working |"¢tained in the hands of the British} Griffin said the Reformers were The WIU, a. split-off ae 4 class. In British Guiana, it is the |S°Vernor through his right to veto|denounced in their day as the PPP IWA, is voting on shut working class, in alliance with all|@!! legislation and his control over|is being denounced today, “and by tion. democratic sections of the people,|#PPOintments to the key posts of|the counterparts of the same die- oe that leads the struggle for respon-|Chief secretary, financial secretary|hard Tories and their apologists in 2 ; ky sible government and democracy, and attorney general. who today: refuse to concede the s 60 delegates fro th and the PPP program bears the} “William Lyon Mackenzie, in his|right of any colonial people to nt B.C. attende BF not imprint of the working people’s|/31 Points, called for fully respons: |Seli-government, whether in Brit- ove ah aR Carpenters | er? needs. That is the essential dif-| ible government, reform of the |ish Guiana, Kenya or Malaya. | parley in the Labor emg '# ference.” legislative council and legislative “We in Canada have a special leat. ee an decided 196 Griffin pointed out that the Con- control of provincial finances,” responsibility to the Guianese after-a wage increase ! stitutional Act of 1791 provided|said Griffin. people,” Griffin concluded, “for negotiations. hoe Canadian capitalists are playing : that the carr a large part in suppressing their It is expected 0-hovl “nt >: struggle for democratic rights i ters will demand 2 maior Prot that we ourselvés won. in bitter MAURICE RUSH and will make this ® \ear’s struggle only a century ago. To Hf i eo yd support them is to strengthen R L |} tracts. x acl our own fight against those who US to speak m rurphy ip De UNION WADE have betrayed our own indepen- Says eae pistrict dence to U.S. domination.” H > | Un, 48 Sa Seat pls The meeting, sponsored by the at anniversar y bag ne, Baie eie ie ont 19 Pacific Tribune, unanimously! Maurice Rush, Vancouver secre-|and politicians whos? Ne in a federal government “to protect 19 {28,9 the Labor-Progressive par-|the continuing PTO Soom! Baa es ty, will be the featured speaker at/ada are ‘Boom. ainiDe ile the British government the com-|9 yally in Pender Auditori ht to attend a DUET a wr pletely unwarranted “and _§anti- November 8 ite ets eee Se oe better yet, stay gee u and female esr ait ation i tune 28 ie ; Se 0 ‘ 4 ERIEND elementary rights” and urging the eee Hest sovislish state, : ea eae cei enticed Pe gsti? govenment, ray, (he vol | "ats, Mona Morgan, LPP cand-came ay ales © © nile bo “the atlentines Grote date for Vancouver Kingsway in Columbia. + * ine jp eri iee FeleD ae acer tiitad Nations the recent. federal elections, will ys pers of © pub NK YOU A SUIT THAT. DIDNT FIT2 ‘in chair the meeting. Some 4,000 men ood of ker rey THE HUB,-/“YBoy, AND GET The meeting also went on re Other items on the program in-| ternational Brother ill wor ge YOURS WITH EASY CREDIT!” cord as supporting the just de- |clude several songs by the choir|Sulphite and fe aa jate® é mands of the Guianese people |of the Federation of Russian Cana-|voted last week OP 44 wi pe for restoration of their constitu- /dians; numbers by the dance group |(a nickel an hour ulp pd 45 EAST HASTINGS tional rights in British Guiana |and string ensemble of the Asso-|nine Pacific Coast P a and for amendment of their con- | ciation of United. Ukrainian Cana- companies. sect vi VANCOUVER 4.8 re stitution to accord them fully |dians; a dramatic reading; and a| If the offer is re vol , B. responsible and representative | program of music and songs by a ment-supervise ae government.” city trio. 3 be taken in eac f PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 30, 1953 —