LPP alerts people on
gov't taxation policy

Carried unanimously by standing vote of the delegate
body early in the sessions, a resolution condemning the pro-
posed 3 percent sales, tax by the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition
was roundly applauded by the hundreds of visitors. who

attended the LPP provincial con-
vention. In view of the wide-
Spread interest on this vital is-
sue, the full text of the resolution
follows:

“The Tory - Liberal Coalition
Government of B.C. has stated
that new methods of taxation to
raise $15,000,000 required to fin-
ance the Province’s education-
al and social services program
must be found by the Legisla-
ture at this session of the
» House. Government spokesman
Herbert Anscomb has announ-
ced the imposition of a three
Percent sales tax is needed in
order to raise the stated amount
of fifteen million dollars.

Thus the political agents of
the monopolists, headed by Pre-
mier Johnson and Finance Min-
ister Anscomb, masking their
real intentions behind a hypo-
critical concern for the plight
of the tax-burdened farmers,

small home-owners and small
business men, and ably assisted |

by their political running-mates
in the leadership of the Union
of B.C. Muncipalities, are aim-
ing to solve the municipal finan-
cial crisis at the expense of the
working people, and in the in-
terests of big business circles.
This fifth annual convention

of the Labor-Progressive Party
of B.C.-Yukon, sharply condemns
the big business “soak the poor
spare the rich” taxation policy
of the Coalition government, as
currently expressed in the moot-
ed and highly-touted 3 percent
sales tax, : =

This convention demands that
the costs of progressive edu-
cational and social services pro-
grams, in keeping with popula-
tion needs, be met by'a method
of taxation which will yield the’
required amount from big busi-
ness sources, .

And further, the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party will campaign vig-
orously for the defeat of every
member of the. present legisla-
ture who favors, supports or
condones the enactment of leg-
islation empowering the govern-
ment to levy a sales tax.”

Convention greets

Sunday afternoon session of

unanimously endorsed 2 cable of greeting to Premier Klem

Gottwald

the LPP convention,

wald of Czechoslovakia, signed by Tim Buck and Nigel Morgan.

“The Labor-Progressive Party

of British Columbia and Yukow

in convention assembled, greets the timely action of the heroic
people of your country in defeating the attempts of reactionary
elements to wrest from them their recently-won democratic gains.
By these gains’ wen through heroic and self-sacrificing struggles
of the united Resistance Movement in the war extended in the
peace, now consolidated by the militant democratic forces of the
people led by their Communist and Social Democratic parties,

Health group rejects “|

A seething angry gathering of 1200 men and women jamm
foyer Monday this week, demanding a full investigation into

estimated 12,000 membership.

Bertrand Galloway, president of |
the Association, announced some
time ago that the organization
should go into “voluntary liquida-
tion” after the provincial govern-
ment “had checked its books.” A
limited meeting in the IOOF Hall
on Hamilton St. was called hy Gal-
loway to formalize “liquidation,”
but the mass turnout of members
far exceeded his expectations and,
having other ideas, moved to the
Pender Auditorium.

The un-audited balance sheet
submitted by Galloway showed the
National Health Association had
piled up liabilities in excess of $22,-
500. It soon became apparent, how-
ever, when the men and women
who had paid in their hard-earned
dollars for health insurance took
over, that this was less than half
of the story.

The stormy meeting which en-
sued indicated that a group of
seeming racketeers had misused
thousands of dollars which the
membership had paid in as health
insurance premiums.

|

delegates
ent Gott-

| Principal outcome of the meet: |
ing. was the setting up of a Six- |
member committee to audit the)
Association books and bring down }
a complete report within ten days. |
Some of the main highlights |
brought out in the turbulent gath- |
ering of indignant workingclass |
fathers and mothers indicated a,
gigantic “insurance” swindle in.
which thousands of people hada
been “taken-for-a-ride’ as one
member put it. |

Gov’t health insu

Progressive Party was in session
Auditorium, 1200 people jammed

inte the hall,

@ Jeff Spencer, salésman for the | : : se MUO yn house
NHA, declared that to his knowl. | {0m all Oe eens ee
edge, “there is $250,000 to be ac-/|serted he “didn’t go into this busi-
counted for somewhere,”
shown on the balance sheet pre-

|'make money for himself.” Discus-
sented by Galloway.

| sion on his ‘balance sheet” brought

notj|ness for the members’ sake, but to

iquidation’

before full investigation made

ed into the Pender Auditorium
the operations of the Nationai

Health Association, an insurance organization of which they represented a fraction of its

rance needed

While the fifth avnual convention of the, B.C.-Yukon Labeor-

in the main hall of the Pender
the foyer of the building and out

on the street, demanding a place to meet in order to investigate
the stewardship of National Health Association officers, and the
financial stanidng of the organization of which they are members,

Picture shows a section of the indignant assembly crowdimg

want a communist to run the

place.”
The- committee elected by the
jmeeting to check up on the ox

you have thus strengthened world peace.”

o President Galloway, under fire

out the fact that on top of his

}ganization’s books are, AJ. Aj-
{

4 'deman, Coquitlam; J. D. Blaney,
Babe ty ae ec ae J. Spencer and J. F. Noble, Rieh-
Maisiet st Age a bre each |™0nd; Almer Meredith and M.
received a $1. 2
member in good standing. Also, | MeLeod, Vancouver. The find

fnatHiGica cabbiatinn GEA caceiee a | nes ot this committee will be
$500,000 in Victory Bonds on Gal- |submitted to a full membership

‘The capitalist class is stupid’

Ever eager to seize upon anything

given signal, intended
vineial leader Nigel Morgan.

”

This crude method of “combatting communism” in-
spired by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce strategists
misfired as usual. The buckets dropped as intended, but
aside from splashing a little water on the speakers and

part of the audience,

the efforts of reactionary big

business to dampen the enthusiasm of a Canadian
workingelass audience for progressive ideas failed miser-

ably.

Dear Sir:

Elsewhere in this issue is a picture of the two LPP

leaders,

holding those selfsame C-of-C buckets—filled
with over $1,700 workingclass dollars, given in a collec-
tion at the monster Exhibition Gardens rally last Sunday
to fight reaction. A fitting reply to the instigators and

tools who conspire to organize violence against the

that can be used to discredit the LPP, the. com-
mercial press ‘played-up’ the Port Alberni Legion Hall incident of last week, where a
trap’ consisting of a number of buckets of water
to be dropped upon Tim

were placed above the stage, and at a
Buck, national leader of the LPP, and pro-!

I reed with great enjoyment ef your
beptism at Port Alberni. The only thing that

displeased me was that the two-gallon buckets

loway’s “own guarantee,” and fur-
ther that a real estate deal of some
$94,000 negotiated by Galloway (of ;
which there was no mention in the |
ROBERT R. McKee iota sheet) had netted him a!
bein coe ae, | profit of some $44,000. This latter !
transaction involved the sale of
property to the Vancouver Com-’
March izth, 1948, Pe Chest organization, valued
jat $50,000. No Satisfactory answer
}on the deal or where the difference
| between the $94,000 and the $50,-
000 went was forthcoming from
Galloway. °‘

‘booby

Several members of the Associa- |

tion dmanded that Effie Jones,
president of the Vancouver House-
wives’ Association, be called to the
platform to present their case.
Galloway refused this request, on

meeting on March 25, :

, Meanwhile there is g gTrowmyg
public demand that the provincial
government through the attornéy-
general’s department, institute =
more rigid examination of the op-
erations of insurance companies,

with a view to protecting the in
terests of the pelicy holders, In
past months, thousands of peo-
Ple have been mulcted of gav-
ings and protection by insuranes
racketeers,

West End LPP

initiates song clubs
The West End Council Of) the

: ere too small and should have been filled the grounds that she “wasn’t a LP Pp is initiating th ation

popular leaders of the people. ks : : member,” and therefore had ps Sr He tena ‘a an pone

; : : ith liquid tar, plus the required proportion right to speak. Instead, Galloway | Club, patterned: ee
tement to violence is see ¥ , g pea , y | ;

sachetarmey n in the photostat of a turned the “mike” over to his le gar aad

letter received by Nigel Morgan from Robert R. McKee,
As one delegate to the ‘LPP con-

Vancouver architect.

veation put it, “McKee apparently has the mentality of
a KK mob leader, who usually begins with a tar-and-
feather complex and ends up as the kingpin in a lynch

mob.”

In McKee’s letter there is no indication of meet-

ing ideas with ideas; of making good the public boasts of ‘
the spokesmen of big business that “capitalism is superior 4

te socialism.”

Here there is only ignorant sadistic re-

version to type-—to crush ideas with violence,

Hitler tried it and failed.

The Chamber of Com-

merece, their dupes, stooges and provocatuers will also

of red feathere.

gal advisor, Dudley McGeer, bro-
ther of the late ex-Mayor, G. G.
McGeer Dudley’s contribution was
primarily a whitewash of the
Galloway -administration of the
NHA and assurances ‘to the in-
dignant assembly that “everything

poe would be all right.” - i }

‘ When the membership audience |
heard Dudley speaking for the
Galloway administration of their
organization, they insisted that Ef-|
fie Jones speak for them. Mrs. |

Jones however, had left the meet: |

Youre very truly,

Rx Service 190-5
Ex Vencouver Collece
Clasomate

“People’s Songs Ine”,
popular in many\U.S. centres

These choral e¢luk
people of a communi
and teach them to s
songs of their @oun
the labor movement.
of such clubs are’ al
in the U.S. and.

¢ West Enc
Council hopes to bs abie to estab-
ied

lish the first People’s Songs

of its kind in vvahaeheate
The Council has also staged an

old-time prairie — ree, sched-

tiled to take place in the

End hall on Saturday, —

fail. : ing when the motion to call her/at 8 pm. A fine prog n of en-
< Tim Buck underscored the colossal stupidity of the ape ; back was carried by an over. 'tertainment has bee arranged
apitalist class: in bis Exhibition Gardens meeting, “Mc- "t+ Nigel Morean, whelming majority. This in ispte and a big turnout fiformer prai-
capitalist class * rs Labor-Progressive Party, % . . : j ee
Kee's letter to Nigel Morgan is @ fitting exhibit proving  Jio‘Wjcct Senter Street, of Galloway’s attempt at red-bait- | rie residents and others is ex-
the correciness of Buck’s estimation. Vancouver, B. C, : ing, by declaring that “we don’t | pected, iad ise an
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aspen Tits

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