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. _ 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.

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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 ;

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