Higher education

To help their fathers fight
these boys and girls joined the
Club Employees’ Union (AFL).

the

the club pays our dads?”

in the foreground asks: “How can we go

Havard Club in New York,
Hotel and
week

e. and increased wages. The Gub won't discuss the issue. The sign

picket line of Local 6,
The union wants a 40-hour

to Havard on

Widespread indignation is
hooliganism which

Prince, Michael Kennedy and

A press statement on the inci-
dent issued by the LPP National
Committee declares: The entire
labor and democratic movement
must be galvanized into vigorous
action to make certain that the
inspirers and organizers of this
Windsor fascist act of mob force
and violence are exposed to the
light of day and properly punish-
ed for their attacks against la-
bor. This was no unpremedated
action of a mob of irresponsible

precipitated
quarters of the Labor-Progressive Party,

indsor attack on LPP points up
need for Canadian Billof Rights

being expressed from many quarters against the organized

the wrecking of
and the cowardly
Martin Kisk, LPP leaders in

the Windsor-Essex-Kent, Ontario head-

fascist-like attack upon Cyril
Windsor.

students. Inflamed and misguided
students were pushed to the
front, but the men responsible
were the monopolists of Ford and
General Motors, and the big
business Windsor Star... .”

Tim Buck, National Leader of
the LPP, who experienced similar
treatment at the hands of an ir-
responsible group of students at
the UBC, wired Prime Minister
King as follows:

‘“Phe scandalous mob attack
in Windsor upon Cyril Prince,
Michael Kennedy and Martin
Kisk and the wrecking of the
Labor-Progressive Party head-
quarters, while federal and_ lo-

the wages
cal police stood idly by, impera-

a Dominion-wide basis.

ss . ©
“SUDBURY—A special two day na
resentatives of the Canadian locals of the CIO

with the adoption of a plan aimed at coordinating the union’s current wage campaign on

Mine union heads tell splitters
s miners’ wages

tional wage policy conference attended here by rep- : :
qd| our eyes to such going on is an

6

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers conclude

An attempt to disrupt the con-
ference failed when the majority
of the 66 delegates refused to
join a small group of union dis-
duptors in a staged walkout. A
joint statement issued by John
Clark, Mine - Mill international
president, and R. H. Carlin, MPP,
District 8 board member, charged
that the: minority group who
walked out “had previously
sought to block the union wage
program” and had “attempted to
use this conference as 4 spring-
board for a new campaign of con-
fusion and disruption.” Mr. Car-
lin is CCF-MPP for” Sudbury in
the Ontario Legislature.

by

day. Those
needed

The disruptors, :
John Sheddon of the Port Col- : inson,
local of Mine-Mill, ment deport Reid Robinson
described by President Clark as
a “disgruntled handful of office
seekers who were rep
membership in the

Led by Sheddon, a four-man
“representing” !
splitters visited Ottawa this week Mine-Mill Sudbury. Local 598, said
to urge support for their
sionist
‘“ : Mosher, president of the
“In walking out of the confer-) Congress of Labor.

bourne

committee

wage

movement

issues are:
increase,
job security and a decent stand-
ard of living.”

udiated by the
last election.” |

ship of the group which led the
fight against the union’s wage
campaign at the special confer-
ence has also been most vocal

a vitally
genuine

who were led!in‘its demands that the govern-

Mine-
| Mill international vice-president, a
demand that is also being made
by the Financial Post, spokesman
for Northern Ontario gold mine
corporations.

Thibeault,

were

the! Nels president of

seces- , that the timing of the disruptive

“could not have been

from A. R. | element
Canadian more advantageous to manage-
The leader- ment.”

ence because the majority of de-

legates insisted on discussing the
vital wage questions for which
the meeting was called, this group
did a disservice to the entire
membership of the union,” said
the joint statement.

Clark and Carlin emphasized
that the special conference had re-
affirmed its support behind the
Mine-Mill demand for a 35-cent
an hour wage boost for Canadian
miners. “Regardless,” their state-
ment stressed, “of efforts by em-
ployers, government, press or , dis-
ruptive elements in our own
ranks, the workers of our indus-
try. will continue. to focus their at-
tention,on the real issues of the

LPP city convention

The Vancouver City Committee
ef the Labor-Progressive Party’
as issued a call for its Sth annual
_ Convention, to be held in the
Pender Auditorium Saturday and
Sunday, May 8-9. ;
The convention call stresses the
need to review LPP activities in
the municipal electoral field and
the laying down of clear cut poli-
cies for the 1948 elections.

“Our convention meets,” reads
the call, “following far-reaching
decisions of our National
Committee and Provincial conven-
tion. It will be the central task
of our City Convention to consider
the application of those policies
to the work of our party in the,

An editorial.

For a Bill of Rights

APPROXIMATELY 200 prominent Canadians
of life have been
“traitors

Social Credit MP for McLeod, Alberta.
so “named” are a
British Columbia industrialists, educationalists, ministers of the
gospel, artists, writers and lawyers,
been identified with

Communist
Among those

or another have

Civil Liberties Union and the
cil, Their activities in
past, could not, by any
to Communist sympathies or
of the vulgar cpithets used by

into Hansards.

House by crackpot MP’s
for sober reflection on what: it portends. In itself, it is perhaps

tect Canadians who are

intimidation, and

equally important,
the

prelude’ to the repression of every vestage of liberal thought
Hansell’s speech,
so termed, indicates that he too and those who think like him,

and action.

would not stop at

every strata of democratic and progressive opinion.

The Communists have repeated this often since 1933. The

pages of Canadian

be repeated too often, and sharply
Bill of Rights to preserve those democratic priviliges the Hansells

would destroy.

from many walks
Commons as

“exposed” in the House of
a . Hansell

and dupes” by the Rev. E.

score or so of prominent

some of whom at one time
such organizations as the
Canadian-Soviet Friendship Coun-
these or similar organizations in the
stretch of the imagination be ascribed
influences, and certainly unworthy
Hansell in reading their names .

reactions to this disgraceful incident in the
there comes the need

denial of fundamental rights.
to protect others who are definitely not Com-
calumnies and

repression of the Communists as a
if such a gross vulgarity can be

the Communists, but reach into and violate

accorded such undue publicity on the front
newspapers, reminds us again that it cannot
emphasizes the need for a

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Greater Vancouver district.”

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tively requires action from your
government. This fascist-like
outbreak of .mob violence against
respected labor leaders and the
offices of a legal political party
is unmistakably part of a plan-
ned national operation against
democratic rights. This Windsor
outbreak follows the riotous at-
tacks against public meetings in
the course of my recent tour
in Western Canada.

On behalf of the LPP I urge
that the Federal government
condemn this violence and van-
dalism at Windsor. That your
government co-operate with the
local Windsor authorities to con-
duct a full probe into the Wind-
sor outbreak with the object of
discovering and bringing to jus-
tice the persons who instigated
it and used the students in the
pattern of Hitler storm troop-
ers. And further, that action be
taken by Parliament to enact
at this session a Bill of Rights
which will guarantee to all Can-
adians the right of freedom of
organization, assembly, press
and conscience”.

In Ottawa this week, during
the House of Commons debate on
a motion to set up & committee
on humam rights and fundamen-
tal freedoms, vigorous protest was
made against the Windsor out-
rage.

Col. D. A. Croll (Lib.-Spadina),
declared: “We should all be dis-
turbed by the undemocratic beha-
vior of the Windsor students. No
Canadian can condone such an at-
tack on civil liberties. . . To close

incentive to others a little tougher
than school boys—they too might
try it since it seems ‘to be easy
to get away with it.

M. J. Coldwell (CCF-Rosetown-
Bigger), “I regret sincerely that
within the last few weeks we
have seen violence against politi-
cal leaders and a political party
whose fundamental principles TI
cordially detest. But nonetheless
if we condone violence against
parties we dislike the time may
come when the very procedure
that we have condoned may be
used against all’ the rest “of us.
We cannot afford to pass over
lightly any violations of those
freedoms which we enjoy. I say
that these recent disturbances
have been very disquieting to
those of us who believe in free-
dom, and they are symptomatic
of dangerous tendencies which
through being allowed to grow
may have dire results”. ;

Angus McInrres (CCE-Vancouver
East), “I’m definitely opposed to
that sort of thing, no matter by
whom it is done. People who use
violence or advocate violence are

doing a. disservice to any com-
munity. Outbursts of this kind
whether they happen here or

abroad are not just spontaneous
but are usually engineered”.

R. W. Herridge (Ind.-CCF, Koo-
tenay West), “I’m disgusted with
this exhibition of mob hysteria
and violence. I cannot but feel
that the students are not directly
responsible, Behind the scenes are
some. adults .who ought to be

‘|ashamed of themselves, and who

I trust will be exposed.

I-am very pleased to note that
responsible members of all politi-
cal parties and widely differing
newspapers are just as emphatic
in their denunciation of this dis-
graceful happening”. :

T. J. Bentley (CCF-Swift Cur-
rent), “As long as the LPP is
a legal party in Canada they have
a right to own offices, hold meet-
ings, and carry on other activities
peacefully and within the law,
and should not be subjected to at-
tacks or hooliganism.”

Labor leaders in B.C. contacted
by the Pacific Tribune for com-

|}ment on the Windsor affair are

equally vehement in their con-
demnation of these Hitlerite tac-
tics in Canada, which in the main

are inspired by powerful monopo-
listic interests. °

“At my local meeting last Sun-
day,” said Harold Pritchett, Sec-
retary, B.C. Federation of Labor,
“we went unanimously on record
to protest to the Department of
Justice against the attack on the
Labor - Progressive headquarters
and leaders in Windsor. The res-
olution declared that an attack
on any working class organiza-
tion is an attack on all working
class organizations and smacks
of the days of Hitler in 1933. As
vice-president of the B.C. Dist-
rict, IWA, I _ heartily support
that resolution.”

(IWA~ Local 1-217 — resolution
moved by Lloyd Whalen.)

Alec Gordon, organizer of the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union and ‘vice-presi-
dent of the Trades Congress of
Canada declared:

“The attack on the LPP head-
quarters in Windsor is clear
proof of the long-felt need in
Canada for a proper bill of
rights for Canadian citizens.
The situation in our country
where koodlums can interfere
with the political rights of in-
dividuals or groups smacks very
strongly of Hitler Germany and
has no place in the Canadian
scheme”.

Ernie Dalskog, President, IWwA,
B.C. District No. 1, put it this
way: .

It is a dastardly attack on civil
rights and democracy in Canada.
Public feeling is being whipped
up in a manner very reminiscent
of Germany under Hitler in 1933”.

Maleolm McLeod, President of
Local 1, Marine Workers and
Boilermakers, declared:

“y believe that Canadians
have the right to assemble,
speak or organize in a legal
manner, and particularly as a
trade unionist would I say the
first freedom to be gaurded is
the freedom to speak. Other-
wise we would be thrown back
to the time when unions and
people’s organizations had to
hold their meetings in secret and
hide their minute books because
they were denied the right to
speak their opinions openly.”

If mob action breaks this rule
and the law does nothing about
it, then there is no law to guard
the dignity of citizenship. All
we ever fought for would be
destroyed—but it won’t be, be-
cause we will fight against it.”

Children benefitted
by Murphy debate

In a letter of thanks to the
Vancouver City Committee of the
LPP for the net proceeds of the
public meeting at which Harvey
Murphy, western representative of
the IUMMS replied to the anti-
labor Hladun slanders Mrs. Jean
Pearce, public relations officer of
the Crippled Children's Hospital,
has written: ‘

“Will you kindly convey our
thanks to those responsible for the
kind donation of $26.25 recently
received and which we understand
represented proceeds of a public
meeting at which Mr. Murphy was
speaker.

“Since the opening of our new
wing Children’s Hospital has ex-
panded until it now has a capacity
of 100 beds. Naturally this has
greatly increased our scope of
work and we are grateful for
such assistance as you have given.’
Commenting on the Jetter Mur-
phy declared “if Hladun or his
backers will meet us on a public
platform to have their slanders 6x-
posed we are sure a much larger
donation could be gotten to help

the Children’s Hospital.”

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