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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951

Boycott cuts

city sale of
beef 10 p.c.

Sales of beef dropped an estimated 10 percent as a result
of soaring beef prices and a oneaweek “Buy No Beet” drive

organized by the Congress of

Canadian Women.

Beef prices were still on the rise as the Pacific Tribune

went to press, and are likely
as U.S. buyers continue to grab
beef at Canadian stockyards. Un-
less an embargo on shipments of
mea‘ is reintroduced by Ottawa,
meat-eating citizens face a future
menu of horseburgers.

Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council (APL-TLC) unanimously
endorsed a resolution ealling for
reimposition of an embargo on
beef exports at its meetihg on
Tuesday this week. Delegate
George Johnston of the Amalgam-
ated Meat Cutters Local 23 sub
mittled figures to prove his con-
tention that lifting of the em-
bargo in 1948 is responsible for
the present record price of beef.

“From 1941 te March, 1948, the
price of sirloin steak rose 58 per-
cent,” said Johnston. “But from
March, 1948, to March, 1951, it
went up another 130 percent.
Similarly, round steak was up 67
percent to 1948 and has jumped an-
other 133 percent; for pot roast,
the figures are 62 percent and 168
percent; for stew beef, 70 percent
and 174 percent. Notice that the
so-called cheaper cuts have gone
up most.”

Johnston pointed out that the
cattle monopolists, not the retail
butchers, were making profits on

to continue advancing as long

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beet. :
“The embargo was lifted be-
cause of the livestock lobby,” he

charged. “Cattle raising is a big
industry. You can see it in the
Cariboo, where absentee owner-

ship and capital controls the mar-
ket.” .

What Johnston failed to em-
phasize was that the small farm-
ers, as well as the consumers and
“small retail butchers, are also be-
ing caught in the squeeze. The
common enemy is the greeedy
monopoly which gouges all of
them.

Congress of Canadian Women
is demanding a full investigation
into soaring beef prices, and is
pressing Ottawa to take - action
immediately.

Meanwhile, horse meat from Al-
berta. is expected to go on sale
at the butcher shop of John
Jensen, 633 East Hastings, some-
time in the coming week, and

Monarch Meat Company has ap-°

plied for permission to open a
horse meat packing plant in Van-
couver.. Horsemeat for human
consumption is already being. sold
in Manitboa. Alberta and On-
tario.

Now Duplessis finds
ball teams ‘subversive’

MONTREAL

Montreal’s sporting world and citizens generally are
deeply roused by a recent unprecedented police order to ex-
pel baseball clubs from city leagues, if any team members
are found to have progressive views.

Chief of Police Langlois in a personal order has already
suspended the N-Flyers team, from the Intermediate Base-
ball League. Supporters are actively distributing a petition

protesting the action.

Pretext for expulsion was the
June 13 arrest of three supporters
of the N.Flyers team, on a charge
of “soliciting money without a
license” as they were collecting
funds for the team during a
game on its home-ground.

“This practice, said Peter Mun-
oz, manager of the team, is car-
ried on with the full knowledge
and approval of all league and
city playgrounds officials. Before
the schedule got under way, all
teams were authorized by the
league president, Joseph A. Bour-
gouin, to take collections during
the ball games.” :

Police officer Boyezun, who di-

rected the arrests, said the charge ~

was: “Soliciting money without{ a
license.” A supporter of the team
then pointed to him that all teams
were doing it on the their home-
grounds: “It’s legal,” he said.
“Yes,” replied Boyczum, “it is
legal for everybody but it’s not
legal for you!” ‘
Supporters of the team collect-

~ ing money had a total of $3.23.

Police said they found $350 on
thent. :

End Korean war
rally to be held
in city Sunday

Four speakers will give their
views: on the Korean war and
-how peace can be restiored in that
country at an End-thd-War rally
to be held in Vancouver this
Sunday, June 24.

The four are Dr. Harold J.
Bass, former missionary in Kor-
ea now of St. Paul’s Methodist
Church, Tacoma; Rev. A. Rowe,
United Church minister of Haney,
B.C., Mrs. Hilary Brown, who has
been active for many years in
‘eredit union and co-op circles;
and Ray Gardner, executive secre-
tary, B.C. Peace Council.

“The meeting, sponsored by B.C.
Peace Council, takes place in the
Electrical Workers’ Hall, 111
Dunsmuir, beginning at 8 p.m.

Canadian delegates USSR

Soviet Friendship Society are seen above at a recep

Four off the five Canadians who visted the Soy’et Union last month as delegates of the Canadian-
‘ion held in their honor in Moscow. ‘ Alderman Jacob
Penner is speaking; Emil and Fagel Gartner, ‘Toronto, are seen in centre; Mme. Jeanette Pratte Bru--

nelle, Montreal, is at the end of the table. The fift» delegate, the Montreal artist Frederick Taylor, is
not shown, Members of the delegation are now bac in this country reporting to audiences.

Boilermakers win —
Privy Council plea

A smashing victory for the prin

in Kuzych expulsion

ciples of trade unionism in Canada and a simultaneous

bitter defeat for anti-labor big business groups was registered this week as the Judicia
Committee of the Privy Council in London handed down a judgment upholding. the right

of ‘Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union of Canada, Local No. 1, to expel Myron.

Kuzych, one of its members.

Backed financially by mysterious “friends’
carried on his anti-union crusade since 1945 involv

legal costs.- The decision handed
down this’ week by Viscount
Simon quashes a majority judg-
ment of the B.C. Appeal Court
which had awarded Kuzych $5,000
“damages” for alleged wrongful
expulsion from the union.

The Privy Council decision not
only cost Kuzych this $5,000; he
was ordered to pay the full costs
of both appeals, amounting to
thousands of dollars.

“The decision is a great victory
for the entire trade union move-
ment in this country and com-
pletely vindicates the position of
our union,” said William White,
president of the Marine Workers
and Boilermakers Union. “EG
firmly establishes the right of a
union membership to decide who
shall be a member of that union,
a right which the Canadian courts
tried to take away.”

The Law Lords rejected Ku-
zych’s contention that the union
trial commitee ‘which expelled
him was not properly constituted,
and that its expulsion order could
not be regarded as a “decision”
because bias. and intimidation
were involved.

“Tf the question had been ask-
ed of (Kuzych) or any of his fel-
low members, ‘What was the de-

cision of the general committee?’

it cannot be doubted that the
answer would have been, not that
no decision had been given, but
that the decision was to condemn
and expel (him). <

“And’this would be so, not only
because it is the‘natural reply for

’ for the past seven years, Kuzych has
ing the Boilermakers’ Union in heavy

the members of the union to give
in the circumstances, but because
it is the right answer.”

The Law Lords said that the
expulsion decision was subject to
appeal to the Shipyard Workers
General Federation, and that Ku-
zych did not do so before invok-
ing the court’s jurisdiction. They
poingzd out that Kuzych was
bound by his contract to pursue
this appeal before he could issue
his writ. f

They concluded: ‘He has not
done so, and on this ground Their
Lordships will advise His Majesty
that the (current) appeal must be
allowed.”

Kuzych was expelled from his
union for arguing publicly against
closed shop principles.

Defense committee
continues appeal in
Hilland-Carlyle case

“Gladys Hilland and Verne Cat-
lyle were part of the leadership
of IWA Local 1-217 when that
union was spearheading the drive
for wages and conditions in this

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province,” said Ivan Birchard,

treasurer of the Hilland-Carlyle
defense committee, which was set
up following the recent arrest of
the two unionists.

Money is urgently needed to
pay the heavy costs of fighting

the case in court, and donations —

should be forwarded to Ivan Bit
chard, 1631 East Second Avenue,
Vancouver.

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