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__ Praise of labor laws

TRADE UNIONIST, Vancou-
ver: Proof that Angus MacInnis,
MP, is regarded by. the federal
Sovernment as a member of
-MacNamara’s band is contained
in a communication from the
department of labor to all trade
union officials in Canada.

The communication isn’t a let-
Ay ter. Apparently Ottawa is satis-
_ fied that nothing needs to be
: added to MacInnis’ words in
_ Praise of federal labor policy.
_ Shades of Bill 1!

_ The communication is “sub-
Mitted for your information,” by
A. MacNamara, deputy minister
Of labor, and clipped to the cov-
ering slip is a photostat of 2
Vancouver Province | interview
With MacInnis, dated July 21.

“Canada’s labor relations pro-

_* 8ram is one of the finest in the
world, according to Angus Mc-
Innis, MP for Vancouver East,
Who has just returned from
- Switzerland,” the article begins,
and goes on to quote McInnis di-
Tectly as saying:

“Canada provides as much ma-
Chinery for the settlement of
labor-management grievances as
does any country in the world.
In fact, Canada is far in advance
of most countries. . . . In pro-
viding machinery for concilation
_ and arbitration, the government
is considering the welfare of
_ COmmunities as a whole.
The worker's right to strike has
been. won and now he should lay
* emphasis on the right to work,
the right to produce, and. the
right to increase efficiency.”

_ last statement advocating speed-
up and greater production, as the
_ Pacific Tribune dealt fully with
the question in the issue of Sep-
tember 8. But I wonder how
_ MacInnis feels about his boot-
licking statement now that the
_ Sovernment smashed the rail
Strike by introducing a slave law
forcing the workers to return to
the job with their grievances un-
Settled? Knowing MacInnis for
Many years, I figure he'll line up
With Mosher and Conroy against
labor, and try to convince the
‘Yailroaders that their leaders’
betrayal was really a victory.

Daily press report
Of disaster ‘rubbish’ —
pv: SPENCER, “Vancouver:
Bighty miners were killed at
Creswell, England, on September

26, because they stopped to rest.
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Bighty were burned to death,
“taking a breather,” so the Sun
informed us.

Many of those men were mates
of my father, who started his
mining at Creswell Colleries over
forty years ago. He married the
daughter of a miner who also
worked at Creswell. Coming to
Canada, he pursued the same

work. ‘

I know very little about min-
ing, but I do know that miners,
especially coal miners, never lose
a minute getting to the surface
when @ fire starts. Coal dust is
everywhere and can easily ignite
from the smallest spark.

Every miner knows this and
when the Sun reports that the
men stopped to rest “calmly tak-
ing a breather,” the Sun is not —
reporting the truth.

Most likely the men were over-
come from the fumes, or ‘from
lack of oxygen, or they could
have been helping one or more
of their buddies who had been
burned.

It is such reporting that turns
men against the capitalist press,
because it is easy to see through
their lies, their desire to place the
blame on the backs of the work-
ers, to turn people’s attention
away from the fact that some
mining regulation was being
broken so as to make better time,
to get more work out of the
miners, to make more profits for
the shareholders. :

I say to those reporters who
write such rubbish, go down the
mine and learn the truth; it nev-
er hurts to get facts straight
from miners. pr pce

Here’s 14 new subs ---
| signed up the crew

JOE KEENAN, Fort St. James,
B.C.: Here I have been working
for you, collecting subs (enclosed
find $35). My name is Joe Keen-
an, a great friend of your paper
for years. I am a cook up here
at Chaede’s Camp, and have been
getting the paper here and there,
‘as I travel around a lot. Have
been receiving it here from a

. friend, Mrs. Chris Sivertsen, |

I expect .to stay up here,’ so
I am subscribing. The boss in
here is Eric Chaede, and I have
‘managed to get the whole crew,
boss and all, to subscribe. Chaede
runs a good camp and we are
grateful for his cooperation. Best

luck to our Pacific Tribune.

I am sending along a poem by
Mick O’Brien about the camp,
also a picture of some of your
new readers,

as ee ak kes

Now folks, you all read poetry,

. Y suppose you always will;

But here’s the omly chance you'll
have :

To read of Chaede’s mill. _
-Chaede has an outfit, north of
Fort St. James,

Although it’s no secret
‘I just won’t mention names.

The crew is kind. of high-ball

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And of every race and creed.

ommens

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1 14 Your Department
White what You Pleate.

The cat man is a Russian,
The foreman is a Swede.

But they all pull together

And what’s' more important still,
They keep the planks a-falling
Off the end of Chaede’s mill.

And when the trucks are loaded
They’re worth their weight in
gold.

They'll house some city fellow

And protect him from the cold.
When his fireplace is glowing,
Keeping out the winter chill, |
Then he'll thank the boys that

made the planks
Roll off of Chaede’s mill.

Now when you’ve worked the

whole year through
And made yourself a stake,
You find you’re feeling kind’a
blue
So a pleasure trip you take.
And ,if- you should go to Paris
Or visit on “Nob Hill,”
No doubt you'll find a few fir
planks ‘
That rolled off Chaede’s mill.

I had a dream the other night
That I should like to tell.

I dreamed I went to Heaven
When I should have gone to hell.
And when the bush, boss met me
In the logging section there,
He came and sat beside me ~
To fill out a questionnaire.

To find out all the things I'd
done
And wanted yet to do;

“So I said I’d worked for Chaede

And wished to join his crew.

Then St. Peter smiled upom me,
Says, “You’re welcome here, I’m
sure; : ‘ .
But please take off those calked-
a up boots
And do not scratch the floor.”
He said: “I’m very proud of it,
What is more important still,
It is the last ten’ thousand feet

That came from Chaede’s mill” —

—MICK O’BRIEN

‘As though a sewer
gnawed slimy props

“NOVAK,” Vancouver, submits
the following poem:
The structure round me fairly
rots
As though a sewer ‘neath it
flowed 4!
And gnawed away the slimy props
That carry such corruptive
load.
I voice my fears to no avail
For this my rulers dub me
“Red,”

.Monopoly press and political goal

Confirm democracy is dead. -

What though I rant at all the ills,
Deplore the mad tyramnic grasp
Can words of mine split wide the
hills,
Or seal the rending chasm fast?
Thus does the avid, anxious hope
That dares expression in the
breast
Die on the gilded party rope —
Scorned by oppressor amd op-
pressed.

In vain the martyr’s burning
pain,
"In vain the selfless sacrifice
With calumny his efforts ruined
His’ purpose foiled by vicious
lies;
Oh why is it the nation heeds
‘Entrenched reactionary power
And scorns the patriot who bleeds
For crying justice of the hour?

—NOVAE

- do their stuff, we may make

MILLWORKERS
SET THE PACE!

Rick

“Chaede has an outfit, north of Fort St. James . . } where
the crew is kind of high-ball,” says ‘a poem in an adjoining
column on this page. Cook Joe Keenan, shown standing between
Chuck Brisco (left) and Chris Sivertsen (right) certainly was
high-balling for the PACIFIC TRIBUNE last week when he
signed up every mam in camp, including the boss, as 4 sub-
scriber. Joe set a mark for every PT booster in the province
te shoot at :

10 TOP VANCOUVER PRESS GROUPS
KITSILANG ee a? hee a ca 20

NORTH VANCOUVER (AREA) oo... ee ll:
SHIP AND STEEL ......... Sec rit Aaa, ATs oboe 10
GRANDVIEWs 600 ee 10
RENFREW: 3 ie ee Be Soe 10
COMMERCIAL DRIVE 0. ts 9
NOROUAN: CC ee 9°
GAPITOIS EU te 8
WESTEND Sit 9 Sct) es 8
MARITIME. ae os

10 TOP PROVINCIAL PRESS GROUPS

FORT STs JAMES ee es 14
PORTCALBERNE 5 ae a 11
NANAIMO (AREA) 080 ee ee ee 11
NEW WESTMINSTER (AREA) Boas 10
CUMBERLAND ......... AT eee eee ae ee 7
WICTORTAG 6 Oe aed oR ae ial ad ae 6
RATEMONGARM So is oa 4
COURTENBY, 6 yc eae
MIENERG ges pein tai ansctces iene tate 3

POWELE RIVERS 204 3

271 SUBS IN

{ ESS than four weeks remain- | October expiries have been
ing in the 1950 sub drive— mailed out to all press groups
and only 271 subs in. Our ob- this week, and it isi the job of
jective of 2,000 is still a long the executives to see that every
way off, but if press groups member visits readers whose
and individuals who have pled- renewals are now due. Re-
ged to reach definite targets member, renewals count on the
drive quotas!
‘Alf Dewhurst is visiting Vic-
toria, Lake Cowichan and Na-
‘naimo to discuss the press
drive with the committees in
_ those places. On Saturday this
week, Dewhurst and Fel Dor-
land will attend a press con-
ference in Port Alberni and ~
they will help with the drive
there; during the following
week. They will also visit at

it yet.

Individual pledges amount to
521 subs in Vancouver and 145
in the province. First indivi-
dual to meet her pledge of 10
subs and become a member of
the 10-25 Club (made up of
those supporters who raised
$25 for the PT financial drive
and 10 subs in this drive) is the
organizer of the Kitsilano press

group. We hope to have more Cumberland, Courtenay and
members enrolled by next Campbell River on their Island |
week, : tour. ‘

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