80,000,000 women reject Wall Street drive for war “Uncle Sam is not a one-handed person. hand and takes away with the other. He gives with one He gives dollars for war plants and takes away the economic and political independence of the Mar- shallized countries.” This is the message brought back from a tour of Europe by Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, former MP, who spoke to 1,000 people in Pen- der Auditorium this week. “Never have I seen and heard “ such bitterness towards the United States as came from the lips of women in the Marshall countries,” declared Mrs. Nielsen. One of two Canadian delegates to attend the peace congress of the Women’se International Dem- Ocratic Federation in Budapest this winter, Mrs. Nielsen thrilled her audience with stories of the fight for peace being conducted by the women of the world. Essence of her remarks was this: no people’s government .wants Wwar—the menace to peace comes from those countries, led by the United States, where predatory profiteers control parliaments and are willing to plunge their coun- tries into another holocaust be- cause war is profitable. Truman is copying Hitler’s tech- nique, said Mrs, Nielsen. The press, radio, and public platforms are being used to play again and again the Nazi theme song, design- ed to prepare the people to ac- cept the idea of the inevitability of war. “Day after day, week after week, month after month Uncle > Sam’s Big Lie is being pounded into the keads of the people. The Big Lie goes like this: ‘We don’t want war—the Russians do —we must prepare to, defend our- Selves from a Russian attack— we may have to strike «first.’ “This is the Big Lie which Hitler used to befuddle and win the support of the German work- ing class. The question is—are we going to believe it, too?” War preparations are advancing Tapidly in Canada, warned Mrs. Nielsen. Plans for underground war plants have been drawn up. t..Laurent is preparing to sign . the North Atlantic Pact—“Canada’s death warrant.” Youth are being recruited into the armed services. “Canadian women must organize Postpone forum on labor press The regular LPP Labor Forum Meeting scheduled for March 20 las been postponed until Sun- day, March 27, in the Pender Auditorium at 8 p.m, “Labor and the Press” will be the sub- Ject under discussion, with Tom cEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune, as the main speaker. . On Sunday, April 3, Nigel Mor- fan, provincial leader of the LPP, will address the Labor Forum on “Labor's Stake in the Peace.” The committee in charge of — these forum meetings extends a Cordial welcome to the public to take part in these interesting discussions on important current issues. against,.war and make their voices heard,” said Mrs. Nielsen. “We must unmask 'St. Laurent, Drew and Coldwell, who are all on the Wall Street bandwagon.” The “guns instead of butter” DORISE NIELSEN policy of the Canadian govern- ment is wrecking havoc with our economy. Exports. of lumber, apples, bacon and other com- modities to the United Kingdom have shrunk disastrously. “The United States determines how much Canada sells to Britain to- day,” charged Mrs, Nielsen. At the Budapest congress 500 women from all five continents, re- presenting 80,000,000 organized women, spdke out for peace. “The peoples of Europe and Asia. ean take care of themselves,” said Mrs, Nielsen. “It is the people of Canada that I am concerned about. We must unite for peace. War is not inevitable. Let us make our voices ring loud and clear, and the warmakers can be stopped.” Fined for giving away leaflets — —NANAIMO, B.C. Ragnor Lindal was this week fined $1 and charged $5 costs by Magistrate Lionel Beever Potts for giving out .a handbill on the street, : . < The handbill advertised an LPP meeting. Defence challenged legality of the civic bylaw under which Lindal was convicted but prose- -cutér Frank Cunliffe, former tory federal candidate, said the city had power to control traffic and Lindal had obstructed traffic by giving out his leaflet. : Beever Potts warned of stiffer penalty “next time.’ A member of Jehovah’s Wit- nesses has been similarly charg- ed. 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Second problem placed before the delegates by. district officers’ re- port was defense of the union against raiding by Canadian Con- gress of Labor and CCL officials. Strike vote in gold was recom- mended by officers because bar- gaining in 1948 had proved “fu- tile,” with the IGA Act used by “operators to deny any wage in- crease.” (Operators even spurned majori- ty and unanimous conciliation awards during the lengthy 1948 negotiations, and staged lockouts at several mines rather than grant them.) CCL president Aaron Mosher was invited to speak at the convention on motion of J. Byrne, Kimberley local president who said he had heard from CCL official William Mahoney that he was in town, seconded by regional director Har- vey Murphy. Mosher asked delegates to sup- port surrender of jurisdiction in Port Colborne and Timmins as the “will of the. majority of your as- sociated organizations (in - the CCL).’ He made no mention of the storm of protest in many CCL unions at raiding of Mine- Mill. He blandly denied there had been any raiding and drew derision from delegates whose union pre-dated the CCL by 40 years when he said, “All the jurisdictions of as- sociates of the CCL belong to the CCL.” Nels Thibault (president of the giant Sudbury local) and George Anderson (Copper Mountain) charged to Mosheris face that CCL sabotage thwarted Mine-Mill’s wage drive in the Timmins area last year. Thibault said the CCL had failed to organize asbestos in Quebec, and the IWA in eastern Canada, and that there are still scores of thousands of steelworkers unor- ganized. “Tl see you all in hell before you'll raid Mine-Mill,” said An- derson. The disruptive minority in Mine- Mill has been seeking to confuse the membership by avoiding fight- ing district leadership on such crucial issues as wages, speed-up, and the fight against raiding. Instead they have concentrated on a smear campaign against re- gional director Murphy. During the convention they got powerful help from top CIO brass (which raids Mine-Mill south of the line), the CCL, and the big business Sun and Province. Both the latter papers Wednesday tried to drop a political bomb among delegates by giving front-page headlines to appointment by CIO president Philip Murray of a com- mittee to investigate what B.C. Mine-Mill officers had to do with IWA funds. IWA _ International President Jas. E. Fadling also an- nounced court action to have Mur- phy and other officers turn over $9,000 to the IWA. No inside track or investigating Ladies’ and Gents’ Custom Tailors SMILE DRY CLEANING SERVICE 594 Rickards St. PA. 4418 and International Nickel in the east. | committees is required by many workers to know what happened to’ the funds. Last fall locals of the old IWA, already facing court action for “unspecified damages” for an “illegal” strike, and -with more strikes imminent over the boost in camp board rates, instruct- ed their officers to safeguard their funds. Some of these funds were temporarily placed in custody of Mine-Mill men. As soon as the IWA district council voted to, dis- affiliate from the IWA and set up the Woodworkers’ Industrial Union of Canada, the funds were. immedi- ately returned to those who had turned them over, so as to avoid ccmplications. It is some of these funds that Fadling now apparently wants Mine-Mill to act as a sheriff and collect, although the‘ rival claims of the WIUC and IWA are before the court. Convention was still in ot at press time. HARVEY MURPHY Boara sabotages entire local on certification -—_CRANBROOK, B.C. | When the Labor Board refuses to certify as bargaining agent a union local which has the overwhelming majority in 21 entire operations, | ‘then that is discrimination with a capital “D. Yet that is the situation which is enraging members and officers of the Cranbrook local’ of the Woodworkers’ Industrial Union of Canada. Last October when the WIUC was established a local delegate conference decided unanimously to disaffiliate from the Internation- al Woodworkers -of America. Every organized camp revoked the IWA checkoff and signed up in the WIUC by mid-November. Certification was at one applied for in 16 operations covering 21. camps. The Labor Board has now illegal- ly stalled for 16 weeks. . f What makes this a matter of | deep concern to every logger and | millworker in the area is that under shelter of the Board’s il- legal action the LWA at the Coast is signing contracts for an 8-cent sellout wage settlement in Place of the 13-cent coast award demanded as a rock-bottom set- tlement by the men. Cranbrook had already voted 97. percent in favor of strike for the. Coast award. ee Some employers turned over. September checkoff money to the present IWA. This seems to be the only straw at which the IWA can clutch to back its published claims for a,“membership of 400 in the area, ‘ The IWA has no local, no local office, no local officers and not even a shop steward in this area. The IWA Lumberworker in Jan- uary claimed that a number of WIUC men including local secre-' tary Mark Kennedy returned to: the IWA at a meeting here ad- ‘ tion, | with no more than one or two workers belonging to any other union, > dressed by CCL man P. Berkosha and IWA district secretary Mike Sekora. . Truth is that the audience were all WIUC men who went, as the Cranbrook Townsman reported, be- cause they “wanted a few questions answered.” ¢ According to the Townsman, some of Sekora’s remarks met with “shouts sof protest” and the lum- berworkers “made no bones about the fact they intended to stick to the WIUC.” After this Sekora did not ap- pear at a subsequent meeting in Nelson. Labor Minister Wismer has on file telegrams from every sub-local and many members protesting Labor Board stalling on certifica- He will shortly be on the receiving end of hundreds of cards sent direct from the job. Meanwhile in Vancouver the court has adjourned for a week the WIUC case seeking an order to compe] the beard to carry through its “public duty” and deal with these and 20 other ap- plications throughout B.C. EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS Se sm a HA. 0334 Fully 24-Hour Insured Service 613 East Hastings, Vancouver “ieieied; SOW ick Ti. Bad English Titles, from STATE THEATRE Starts Sun. Midnite, March 13 “DAYS and NIGHTS” THE STORY OF IMMORTAL STALINGRAD © the Book by Samonov PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH II, 1949 — PAGE 7