SU a) i ow . _ Signatures to netition for 5-power peace pact top 3,000 in province - Well over 3000 signatures to the World Peace Pact Petition have already been Col- lected in: Vancouver, B.C. Peace Council announced this week. “We are now far ahead of the pace which was set during the Stockholm Appeal campaign-” says a Council press statement. ak < é The 3000 signattires are those already turned in to the Vancouver office. At least another thousand signatures have -been collected but not yet reported, Quebec fascist editor : admits link with Smith At Fort Langley, a woman peti- QUEBEC CITY tioner canvassed the whole vil- lage on her returm from the 'Na- ional Assembly to Save Peace at Toronto and collected more than - 100 signatures. The editor of the new anti-Semitic paper The Cactus here admits now that most of his information comes from Gerald L. K. Smith, Jew-baiter and top man for the re- organized fascist groups in the U.S. In the April issue there appears a front page article on the death of F. D. Haney, where no. peace council was in existence last year, has held its first street canvass and is wel over the 100 mark. pa The newly-formed South Surrey Peace Council, centred on White Rock, has more than, doubled the number of signatures collected dur- Roosevelt and in a footnote with small print, editor Gerard Lang- lois says: “This article on Roosevelt’s death is taken from a pamphlet written by'Gerald L. K. Smith and also from the Cross and the Flag, organ of the ultra-nationalist group of Smith.” The April issue contains the usual run-of-the-mill articles on Free-Masonry, the-Jews and the Communists—the main content of Adrien Arcand’s fascist newspap- ers a few years ago. Formerly printed in St. George de Beauce, The Cactus is now is- sued in Quebec City, where editor Langlois can be in contact with top officialdom in the provincial capital. A rumor is now circulating that the Quebec fascist groups have undertaken the first steps in link- ing up their activities with the ABN-C group of fascist DP’s “that tried to intimidate delegates to the Massey Hall rally during the National Assembly to Save the Peace. This link-up already has the blessings of the Drew-Dup- lessis axis who are anxious to see storm-troopers smash the grow- ing peace forces in both prov- inces. Blairmore makes May Day holiday BLAIRMORE, Alta. Blairmore Town Council recent- ly gave final reading to a*bylaw establishing May 1 as a civic ‘holi- day. ‘This is the council recently elected by an overwhelming min- ers’ vote, composed for the most part of miners and other labor men. The council is also urging that action be taken to purify the town’s water supply. Mining jofficials are to be interviewed to discuss with them the matter of the water sup- ply being made unclean due to dumping of coal refuse on the river. Maclnnis refuses Stand against German rearming — Angus MactInnis, right-wing CCF MP for Vancouver East, “cannot undertake to oppose under all cir- cumstances the rearmament of Ger- many.’ : s This is what he wrote in a recent letter to a constituent who had e 1” written him urging him te oppose proposals for German rearmament. MacInnis’ reason for his ‘position was, by more than a coincidence, that giyen by the U.S. State Depart- ment “In the Soviet Zone rearma- ment has already taken place by creation of a ‘military police’.” Therefore Western Germany must be “allowed a certain amount of arms for the protection of her borders.” DISCRIMINATION CHARGED “One of the urgent needs of umbia is to have free access to education, the same as other Canadians, in our public schools,” said Doug Wilkinson (Johnny Canoe), UBC student and editor of Indian Time, at the monthly membership meeting of League for Democratic Rights in Elec- trical Centre last Friday. Wilkinson described the appall- ing health conditions of Native Indians, the high TB rate, the Indian girls refused jobs : Native Indians in British Col- — low allowances and relief scales, and widespread employment dis- crimination. bs “Five Native Indian girls were sent from up coast to work .for the BCTelephone Company on request, but when they ar- rived they were refused jobs,” he charged. __ Native Indians do not want to be “patronized” but demand to be treated as Canadians, not as an inferior race, the _speaker said. ing the whole of the last campaign. At Salmon Arm peace workers didn’t’ wait for> printed petition forms to arrive from Vancouver but typed their own. They have reperted 49 signatures. Among coastal points, Sointula, with 76 signatures, is outstanding. In the city, two young women, Carole Kelley of the NFLY, sian Organization, now over the 200 mark. Cyril Freedman, Jewish People’s Order, West End canvass. More than 380 petitioners turned out for threé suburban street van- vasses Saturday last and within two hours collected 846 signatures. The Council appealed to all peti- tioners to turn in petition forms as soon as they are filled and to all peace groups to make weekly reports, accompanied by filled petition forms. Wage boost al j HBC negotiated by Fur, Leather A mid-term wage increase of four son’s Bay Company fur workers tive Jack Brierly told the Pacific Tribune Local 515, Shoe and Leather, is opening negotiations with Leckie’s tannery in New Westminster for a 25 cents across the board increase, five additional paid holidays per year, two weeks holidays with pay after two years employment, and other concessions. at day, members discussed the ex- pulsion of the union from Canadian Congress of Labor and unanimous- union. “We reject the policy of the lead- ership of the CCL, which is one of sent to IFLWU Canadian director Bob Haddow stated trict to appeal the expulsion at the heat the deplorable splits bein mocratic policies, “We further call upon our dis- trict to establish the closest pos-' sible contacts with, and to extend fraternal assistance to, all unions fighting to improve the living ‘conditions of their members, es- ‘pecially with respect to other unions that have been’ expelled from the CCL or. the TLC be- “cause of their militant an gressive policies.” aa and Marguerite Rudkevich, of the Rus- have sparked both street canvasses and both are of the United and Edna Lindberg each collected more than 40 signatures during last Saturday’s and three-quarters percent for Hud- was negotiated this week by Local 197, Vancouver Fur Workers, dis- trict Fur and Leather: representa~ At the regular membership meet- ing of Local 510, IFLWU, last Mon- ly endorsed the policy of their refusing to lead the workers in their struggle for a better life,” a letter “We call upon the Canadian dis- next CCL convention, and in this and other ways do all possible f caused by the leadership of the CCL; but always keeping in mind that we want a labor unity baséd upon militant, progressive and de- Signing peace pact petition om. Here, Gust Sundqvist, national secretary of the Finnish Or- ganization of Canada, hands the first filled-out Peace Pact petition ‘to Mary Jennison, national secretary of the Canadian Peace Con- gress, as Jessie Storrie, Toronto Peace Council secretary, looks on. 26. “The Sun used perfumed ink this week to ‘convey the delicate fra- grance of Mugtet des Bois’ in a cosmetics advertisement,” said Local 28 secretary Jack Phillips. “As far as I’m concerned, the whole paper smells—but the odor is not Muguet des Bois, it is more like the Dogpatch Skunk Works.” 1 ,Many civic workers have can- celled their subscriptions to the Sun as a result of this and other news stories “slanted” against the union. { Asked to comment on the leaflet issued by the Labor-Progressive Civic Workers Club,: inviting union members to join the party and “fight for the unity of the labor movement,” LPP provincial leader Nigel Morgan told reporters that always had a policy of urging work- ers in all industries to enter its ranks. Terming the Sun story “a classi- eal example of yellow journalism,” the monthly Open Letter of the LPP Civic Workers Club said this week: as ‘“The Sun deliberately left the impression that this Open Letter is put out by Local 28. Why? In order to cause confusion and ill- feeling and in order to create more favorable circumstances for the growth of the splinter union, Local 407. In other words, the Sun was doing the same as Carl Berg: in- terfering with the internal busi- ness of Local 28. We feel sure that the Outside Workers will deal with the Sun even more sharply than they dealt with Berg. Our LPP club will answer the Sun by issuing twice as many bulletins and by doubling the size of our club.” : ¥ The official Union News Bulletin ed out that “in respect to polities, we have endorsed no party.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 4, 1951 — PAS? since its inception, the LPP has condemned the Sun story and point- Sun's distorted © yarn draws fire of Civic Workers: | A scare headline story in the Vancouver Sun of April ys “Civic Workers Urged To a drew scathing condemnation from leaders of Local 28, Civie Employees Union, this week. Join Communist Party: ed Cops, robbers-- public in dark over who's whal “Let’s play cops and robbers.” “I wanna be a cop!” : “J wanna be a robber!” Memories of: this childhood gam were revived in Vancouver's police station this week — only no is seemed sure who were the cops, 4” who were the robbers. : The lid blew off Mulligan’s ste on Monday, when it was rev a that money turned over to policy for safekeeping by three prisoner s was stolen One prisoner lost %?” another $30 and a third $10. First announcement said that tt | thefts “apparently occurred te weeks ago.” Chief Constable walt Mulligan has since gent his ow? fe fice safe to the jail to hold vay able effects. “The department's insurance Cc? id pany have paid the claims,” the chief. But that wasn't W worried the public. A Tuesday night headline in Daily Province shrieked, “Of nat Fae ” ee May Quit Over Jail eThefts. (oP ae did:) : Mayor Fred Hume said th® special meeting to investigate thefts may be\ held soon. ott Public Reaction: “$19 Sete ; . N the War budgets frebled _ paRrl® ‘ wie War expenditures of Ate Pact member countries have D@ the trebled sinde commencement a for? Koeran war in June, 1950. Be ete! that date, member countries «$2 spending at a combined rate © are billion annually. Now they . ¢s6 spending at a combined rate billion annually wa ry