across Canada.

‘reported that they were well re-

eral delegations had visited MP's
‘for city constituencies, ~

MP for Mount-Royal, none of the

- ganized by the CLU.

Gi ciih fir

Gov't plans to ram

Bill 93 through at

present session

Mine-Mill’s B.C. District announced this week that it will send
a representative to Ottawa to oppose the anti-democratic clauses of
Bill 93 before the Special Committee*of the House of Commons.
The union, which empowered its executive board to proceed at its
recent B.C. convention, has alréady made application to be heard
to Justice Minister Garson. It is expected that other unions in this

province will also send representatives or submit briefs.

Plans to ram Bill 93 through

\

OTTAWA

the present session were revealed

fn a significant declaration by Justice Minister Stuart Garson to MP’s

on February 6.

The minister’s statement in the House of Commons promising
that the government would “proceed vigorously” to make the bill
law this session upset widely publicized reports that consideration
of the bill would be long drawn out. The stories were believed to

be part of a planned campaign to
head off rapidly mounting protest

Garson’s policy statement em-
phasized the note of urgency which
League of Democratic Rights of-
ficials are putting on the need for
the strongest protest now to the
Special Committee studying the
bill, as well as to members of the
committee and MP’s generally.

Unreported in the daily press,
Garson was replying to a question

placed by H. W. Herridge (CCF,
Kootenay-West). He said:

“. . . there is no reason, in our
opinion, why a careful and thor-
ough consideration cannot be given
to this Bill 98 by the House of
Commons: committee and by the
House itself before the end of the
present session. Certainly it is the
intention of the government to
proceed vigorously with the con-
sideration of the bill to that end.”

Citizens’ delegations

interviewing MP’s

TORONTO
Representative delegations of citi-
zens in Toronto and other Ontario.
cities and in Montreal have been
busy in recent weeks interviewing
their MP’s, in some instances to
acquaint them with the anti-demo-
cratic features of Bill 93, in others,
where the MP visited was familiar
with the proposed revision of the
Criminal Code, to lodge their pro-
test.

A. J. P. Cameron, MP for To-
ronto-High Park, met with a group
of his constituents recently to dis-
cuss Bill 98. Cameron assured the
delegation that they need not be
“at all alarmed.” He said the par-
iamentary committee now working
on the bill intended to heed public
opinion carefully. He had not yet
studied the bill in detail, he said,
but would do so now as one of the
members of the special committee.

Similarly, delegations from the
United Electrical Workers, Mine-
(Mill and Fur and Leather Workers
have visited Dr. W. H. McMillan,
MP for Welland, and Harry Cavers,
‘MP for Lincoln. The delegations

ceived. : ’
In Montreal, the Civil Liberties
Union reported this week that sev-

The CLU emphasized that with
the exception of the group that
interviewed Alan MacNaughton,

delegations were sponsored or or-
This, the
CLU concluded, was evidence of
the growing awareness by Cana-
dians of the serious dangers’ to
democracy contained in many of
the provisions of the bill.

Two delegations made representa-
tion to Edgar Leduc, MP for Jac*
ques Cartier. One delegation rep-
resented the Lachine branches of }
the Association of United Ukriin-
ian (Canadians; the other was a
delegation of citizens of Ville La-
‘Salle headed by Mrs. Ethel Leigh,
LPP federal candidate in the con-
stituency. :

According to Stanley Dobrowol-
ski, leader of the AUUC delegation.
Leduc did not seem familiar with:
the contents of Bill 93. During
the discussion however, the MP
agreed that some of the formula-

tions were vague and dangerous
and needed further study.

In his comments to: the second
group led by Mrs. Leigh, Leduc
assured those present that he was
in favor of the workers’ right to
strike; he was also of the opinion
that the section under treason that
deals with “intent” would :prob-
ably be modified.-

In any case, he would study
the report of the special commit-
tee dealing with the bill and if
there were no changes, he would
speak against it in the House.

Representation to Alan Mac-

Naughton was on the basis of a

short brief drawn up by one of
the constituency study groups or-
ganized by the GLU. MaecNaugh-
ton, a member of the parliament-
ary Special Committee studying the
bill, made no commitments,

According to members of. the
delegation, however, some of his
comments led them to believe that
he saw no danger to civil liberties
in amendments the delegation ob-
jected to. He saw no need for a
Bill of Rights since, in his opinion,
“the Criminal Code serves that pur-
pose.” ;

The need for further public ac-
tivity was’ expressed by the group

‘of Verdun. citizens that interview-

ed A. Cote, MP. for Verdun and
parliamentary assistant to the min-
ister of labor.

* Cote, although he admitted that

several of the amendments could }

be applied to labor, was non-com-
mital about his own position. He
promised consideration to any rep-
resentation and criticism that might
come from the TLC and the CCL,

Sarto Fournier, MP for Rose-
mount-Maisonneuve, said _ this
bill was designed to come into ef-
fect in case of a war with the

USSR. Although he agreed that _

much of the wording was vague
he was convinced it would be used
only in case of “emergency.”

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Page from B.C. labor history

‘The death earlier this month of William Twiss, one-time Vancouver
alderman, at the age of 83 ,turns back a page in B.C. labor history.
Twiss served with the Garrison Artillery which was sent to Wellington

in 1890 in an attempt to smash a coal miners’ strike.

As the late Bill

Bennett relates in his Builders of British Columbia, 15 miners’ leaders
were seized and sent to Victoria for trial, but the miners’ women folk
took over the picket line and won. This picture, from Builders of British
Columbia, shows the artillery in the historic Nanaimo miners’ strike of

1912-13.

Speaks at Vernon, Notch Hill

Morris draws large
audiences in Okanagan

VERNON, B.C.
Some 250 people filled Burns Hall

-{here on Wednesday last week to:

hear Leslie Morris, who attended
the recent 19th Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union as a fraternal delegate from
the Labor-Progressive party. Mor-
ris, who is now LPP national fed-
eral election campaign manager,
was accompanied by Henry Codd,
LPP candidate for Okanagan-Rey-
elstoke federal constituency.

‘The last time I spoke in the
Okanagan Valely was in 1937, in
Support of the Spanish Republican
government,’ Morris reminded his
audience. “The Spanish war was
the prelude to the Second World
War.

“We were unsuccessful then in
preventing the war fror spreading.
We can be successful, we must be
successful in preventing the war in
Korea from being extended to Peo-
ple’s China, from becoming a global
conflict.”

For more than an hour Morris
held the rapt attention of his audi-
ence with his description of the
construction and progress he had
seen in the Soviet Union — the
Volga-Don Canal, the great Kuiby-
shev hydro-electric project, the new
building in Moscow and other cities.

“The Soviet people are building
for peace,” the said. “War would
divert all this vast surge of human
energy and ingenuity created by a
socialist society that is transforming
the country for the advance to com-
munism. The physical scars of the
last: war have’ been erased, but the

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Following the Vernon meeting,
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Encouraged by two recent devel”
opments, the ranks of striking
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remain solid as their strike enters
its tenth week. a
On February 3 the union issued
a press statement announcing that

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Hawken and Company. :
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and a member of Washington State

Legislature, urged all AFL and

TLC affiliated unions in the city
to give greater assistance to the 56

union ‘members of Local 42. st

on ‘strike, :

The union struck on December §
for enforcement of the majority
award of a conciliation board. The
award called for a wage increasé
of 10 cents an hour, nine statutory
paid holidays and a medical Se”
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