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City union hits Malan firings

Vancouver Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers, this week
wired a protest to the mayor of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, over the
firing of 800 African municipal employees who took part in a one-day
strike against the Malan’s government’s racist laws.

The union wire, sent over the signature of president Edward
Smith, called’ on Port Elizabeth council “to reinstate strikers without
loss of pay and privileges. Any other course will brand you as being
tarred with the same brush as your government.”

British terror in Kenya

Fruit, vegetables rot |
on sround for lack off
markets, Klein charges

agan and markets for fruit are far and few between.
city are paying high prices for both vegetables and fruit.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, B.C.

Tomatoes, cucumbers and melons are rotting on the vine in the Okan-

Yet housewives in the
This was the glaring

contradiction, reminiscent of the thirties in its waste of food, brought forward
this week by Joe Klein, Farmer-Labor candidate contesting the Similkameen
provincial byelection to be held November 24.

If there were no Mau-Mau in Kenya the British colonial government would have had to create one

in order to justify its repressive campaign against the

organizations.

Kenya African Union and other democratic
Hundreds of trade unionists and others have been arrested in raids and roundups such as the

roadblock shown here in Nairobi, but African opposition to the new Kenya constitution, which perpetuates
the white supremacy rule of the British minority, continues to grow.

LPP leader protests case to Victoria

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No work, so Vernon cadi gives

man jail term ‘till things better

VERNON, B.C.
Treatment of a 27-year-old un-
employed wotker in a manner
reminiscent of the Hungry Thir-
ties has incensed citizens of Vern-
on and resulted in a sharp protest
. being forwarded this week to At-
torney-General Robert Bonner
and. Minister of Justice Stuart
Garson by Nigel Morgan, LPP
provincial leader, who is presently
on a tour of Interior points.
- Subject of the protest is Ernest

Geaneu, whose home is in New —

~Brunswick and who was jailed for
‘three*months by Magistrate Frank
Smith on November 8, on a charge
of vagrancy.
Geaneu was described by RCMP
during his trial as being “without

adequate clothing, a job or mon- *

ey.” He was arrested subsequent
to a call from an Oyama citizen
who reported he had given the
hitch-hiking defendent a ride in
his car and discovered him to be

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destitute. The RCMP said Geaneu
was suffering from malnutrition

and in court he looked very pale’

and ill. :

“If I had a chance to get work,
I would go to work,’ Geaneu
pleaded with the magistrate, ex-
plaining he was bound for Vernon
in search of a job.

Said the imagistrate: “Things
don’t look very good up here right
now. There won’t be any work
available around this country for
the next two or three months —

“men are being laid off, not taken
”

on.

Sentencing, Geaneu, Magistrate
Frank Smith added: “At the end
of three months, things will be
better and at least you will eat.”

“Increasing numbers of youth
and even married unemployed are
being forced out on the highways
and ‘byways in search of jobs to
feed themselves and their fami-
lies,’ said Nigel Morgan this week.
“Tt is a crime anda disgrace that
young men should be thrown into
jail with dope peddlers and gun-
toting burglars for the sole of-
fense of being unable to obtain

work.”

Geaneu’s case attracted wide at-
tention after it was taken up by
former MLA~C. W. Morrow. and
Mayor A. C. Wilde, who was re-
ported to be “very upset” by the
young man’s plight.

‘ eripple the trade unions.

Klein has received the unani-
mous endorsation of Local 649,
International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers,

In a prepared statement issued

this week, Klein denounced the ©

actions of the attorney-general’s
department of the Social Credit
government in permitting the
big employers to use’ the courts
ofthis province “to attack the
hard-won rights of the work-

“The vicious three- month sen-
tence given Tony Poje, IWA Na-
naimo business agent, and the
heavy total of $3,000 in fines imr
posed on Poje and 14 co-defend-
ants for peaceful picketing by a
Vancouver court and upheld by

‘the B.C. Supreme Court, with the

attorney-general’s department con-
ducting the prosecution, is a de-
finite hostile act committed by the
Social Credit government against
the organized labor movement of
this province,” said Klein.
“Anti-labor employers have nev-
er accepted labor’s right to. or-
ganize and to bargain collectively
for improved wages and conditions.
This year the employers made a

concerted attempt to force down

workers’ wages, speed up work-
ing conditions and to seriously
The em-
ployers were assisted by the anti-
labor features of the ICA Act
tailored by the discredited Lib-
eral-Conservative Coalition goy-
ernment.”

Dealing with the problems of.

the farmers in B.C., Klein said:
“Market and price manipula-
tions engaged in by the big whole-
sale firms are ruining the farm-
ers. The farmers have to,contend
with the most serious contradic-
tion; -hard work in preparing the
ground, purchasing the seed, plant,
fertilizer; harvesting with no guar-
antee of a market or price.
“Tomatoes, cucumbers, melons,
potatoes and fruit rot on the
ground and in warehouses and
B.C. government marketing boards
seem incapable of moving this
produce to the markets in the
cities of B.C. and the prairie prov-
inces.. This situation must be
remedied or the bulk of our farm-
ers will be impoverished.
“Farmers and workers alike are
facing a period of growing sharp
struggles ‘for a decent life. Can-
ada is in the grip of a severe mar-
ket crisis. and both provincial and
federal governments seem unwill-
ing to take the steps that are re-
quired to recover our former mar-
kets and to "prevent U.S. dump-
ing. This situation will: not im-
prove until the ordinary people
take things into their own hands
and out of the hands of profes-

_ sional politicians.

“Workers in B.C., through bit-
ter and hard-fought strikes, pre-
vented the employers from slash-

ing wages. The farmers have not’

yet learned to fight in the same
determined manner. But they
will. ‘And the workers and farm-

ers will also learn that when they

join hands and fight together the
big employers and food monopol-

Seis
JOE KLEIN

ists will not able to continue to
pile up big profits at the peoples Ss"
expense.

“Farmer-labor sie is very im-
portant. It ig also important that —
the workers and farmers under- —
stand that present governments

- are doing the bidding of the big

employers and food distributors.
This can; only be corrected by the
workers and farmers electing thei? |
own people to the legislature and
parliament.

“Premier W. A: C. Bennett and
his government have already de-/
monstrated that they are more con-
cerned with their own_ political
fortunes than they are with the
people’s welfare. The CCF, con-
trolled by the right-wing labor
splitters, has lost the confidence
of the working people and farm-
ers. The Liberals: and Conserva-
tives have abdicated in favor of
Premier Bennett and his Tory
friends. The only real alternative
for the people of Similkameen iS
the election of a people’s candi-_
date. That is why I am running
en a Farmer-Labor ticket.” <

Klein will speak at the follow-
ing places during his election
tour: 4 :

- Hedley Community Hall, Sun
day, November 16, 2 p.m.; Hedley
Nickel Plate Community Hall,
Sunday, November 16, 8 p.m.;
Keremeos Legion Hall, Monday,
November 17; Osoyoos School
Auditorium, Tuesday, November

°18; Oliver, Wednesday, November

19; Copper Mountain Community
Hall, Thursday, November 20;
Penticton K of P Hall, Friday: —
November 21. }

Klein is also trying to arrange

meetings at Cawston and Okan-

agan Falls for Sunday, November
23. {|

He will speak over radio station
(CKOK, Penticton™(800 ke), 0?
Friday, November 14, 5.45 p.m.s —
Saturday, November 15, 12.02 ©
noon; Monday, November 17+
5.45 p.m.; Tuesday, November 18
12.05 noon; and Wednesday, NG
vember 19,°5.45 p.m.

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