7 Seaman’seye
_ Shot out by |
armed goons

By HARRY GULKIN

—HALIFAX
in Was in the process of writing
oat story when 40 RCMP and ‘lo-
oe pure merece our CSU hall on
; ‘etex at they expected to
nnd hidden weapons. They found
Reape: but it did not prevent
oes from arresting CSU East
Ben Director Bert Meade and
ae Agent Gus Genitas. Both
a € leaders were seized and jail-

without warrants.

eee 1s a strike which is over-
mao by the dark cloud of
ine and gangster interference
eee Picketing. Seven of our
th “2 have been shot. I was on

© pier and saw what happened.

It was Frida: ‘i . \ ou
@ cola riday morning, April 8,

picket, raw morning. Twenty CSU
wher S were marching on the pier
ae the government-owned Lady
ee Canadian Challenger and
ix Naat Constructor (all Cana.
a5 National Steamship vessels)
e tied-up.
ee Out of nowhere 300 hired
er NS poured onto the scene and
eae through picket lines to
arin the vessels, They were help-
A Tough our’small line by an
Scort of armed CNR police.

Soon as the strikebreakers

Were put abo i i
ard t z
appeared. d the police dis
aes oan that the police disap-
Romp’ 2, at no city police or

sinister ere on hand, was in itself
that For this was the first time
guard € pier had been left un-
se al eee the first time that there
ity 5 a 24-hour police guard on

ti oa Police left but in the mean-

Our picket line was reinforced
berg proximately 100 CSU mem-
anes amet was made to board
SS the vessels, no attacks were
ships On the scabs, eveh though the

were moving away from the
der their own steam.

x while they were moving
Svat When it was impossible for
i) Of the goons to have wonder-
Be their safety, that seven

rt were shot down!

. here were two or three shot-
un blasts—and seven CSU mem-
the Were writhing in agony. Of
Mange men, Jim Felix is in a
diti ax hospital in serious .con-

°n. Donald Cranston, a native

of this cit
Shot out, y, had his right eye

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did the people of Halifax

It was

How
react?

eee thousand of them paraded
ae en the city streets to the

Citizen all where a total of 4,000
zest a engaged in one of the big-
in thi ass demonstrations ever held
which City It was a demonstration
the wife’. 2, terrific ovation to
My fF ag seriously wounded Jim-
blinaea x and to the mother of
OSE Donald Cranston. It was
about Stration which brought
Mayo & promise from this city’s
to Aa that he would take action
sterg vod: imported armed gang-
o rom roaming the city streets.

is thy Of the features of the strike
entire ae manner in which the
in this abor movement has rallied
Rene to our cause: ses

fish; miners, steel workers,
andlor ey, Lonsshoremen, freight

ere Frank Hall’s freight hand-
orde in Halifax are ignoring the
ts of the man who is playing
smash is role in attempting to
oa he CSU and are refusing
SS Our picket lines!

“ae are the longshoremen. De-
their acts from J. J. Campbell,
orderg CC?! President, and despite
ternati from “King” Ryan their in-
Crossj onal president, they are not
: idarity Sur picket lines. The sol-
hing ‘0! AFL and CIO unions be-
Tank-eee CSU strike shows the
erstandine’ s deep insight and un-
le bein neyo! the labor-splitting
e ng played by the Halls and
of ine TS, 2nd other top leaders
j © AFL hierarchy who have

with th - > h
Sov : e shipowners and the
‘rnment.to smash the CSU.

American way of life

The United Public Workers (CIO) is distributing 50,000 copies
of this pamphlet in the U.S. exposing the official American policy
of jimcrowing its native employees in the Panama Canal Zone.

Urge Slav Canadians to
demonstrate for peace

A call to Vancouver Slavic
Day for peace and friendship with

Canadians to demonstrate on May
all peoples of the world was issued

this week by the local Slavic committee. An atomic war, should it
break out, would be chiefly, although not exclusively, a war against

the peoples of the Slavic countries,
the statement points out.

“In such a war Slavic Canadians
would be expected to produce guns,
tanks, planes, bullets and atomic
bombs for the slaughter of their
kinsmen in Slavic lands, already
devastated by Nazis and fascists
in the last war,’ says. the com-
mittee’s call.

“Such a war must not take
place! Such a war would be a
crime not only against Canada’s
gallant wartime allies, but against

the Canadian people themselves,

against all of humanity.

“The Slavic people know what
war is.
turies they have fought and beaten
back numerous invaders and ag-
gressors. Out of the suffering and
misery of these countless wars was
born in them a strong bond of
brotherhood and unity, a firm will
for peace and a desire to live in
friendship with other peoples.”

Pointing out that in the Second
World War the Slavic peoples were
the main force that destroyed fas-
cist Germany, at a cost of millions
of lives, the statement says that
out of this great sacrifice comes
greater Slav unity and greater de-
termination to prevent future wars.

“But peace will not come of our

desires alone,” concludes the call. |,

“We must work for peace, speak
out for peace, act for peace.

“On May Day the citizens of Van-
couver will demonstrate their de-
sire for peace in the traditional
parade leaving Georgia viaduct

Down through the cen-)|

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Sunday,
dians. will join i

at 1 pm.

| Point.”

Case presented

by Street Carmen

| A 40-hour week for its 3,000 mem-
bers in Vancouver, Victoria and
|New Westminster is being demand-
‘ed by the Street Railwaymen’s
| Union, now trying to reach a 1949
| working agreement with B.C. Elec-
| tric Railway.

The shorter work week plus an
approximate 8% cents per hour
across the board are minimum de-
mands, and the union declares it
will not feel bound to accept as
binding the recommendations of
the current wage and conditions
conciliation board.

In view of popular support for
the union, BCER officials are at-
tempting to change this sentiment
by declaring that higher wages and
a shorter work week would mean
a straight 10-cent fare. This argu-
ment rings false for company pro-
fits in 1948 were the second high-
est on record.

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IW Apursueslegal

dispute, neglects

real issues on job

Writs have been issued against additional officers of the WIUC
as the latest move in the legal dispute being pursued by IWA ofhcials
over the $130,000 B.C. woodworkers’ strike fund. Attempts by IWA
attorneys to implicate WIUC president Harold Pritchett and vice-

president Hjalmar Bergren, togeth-
er with Bert, Melsness, ex-official
of the IWA, in the strike fund
issue were made last week. Both
union officials are reported to be
out in the field on an organizing
tour for the WIUC.

Ernie Dalskog, WIUC secretary,
is still confined in Oakalla jail on
contempt of court charges because
of his refusal to surrender or di-
vulge to the court the whereabouts
of the strike fund.

Dalskog gave three reasons for
his action, first, that to hand over
the strike fund to the courts
would result in large sums of it
being needlessly spemt-in costly |
legal actions, as well as keeping
it tied up at a time when it is
needed by the woodworkers to |
help win better wages and condi-
tions; second, he had been in-
structed by the October 3 meet-
ing of the IWA District Council
“to keep the money from falling
into the hands of the employers
or their agents . . .”; and third,
that the strike fund properly be-
longed to the woodworkers who
contributed to it—members both
of the WIUC and of the IWA—
and it should only be disposed of
according to their desires.

In Nanaimo this week, two other
WIUC local officials, Owen V.

Slavic Cana-| Brown and Fred Wilson are on
this march and
the following rally at Brockton

trial in Assize Court before Justice
J. O. Wilson, on a technical charge
of theft arising out of the trans-
ference of funds at the time of
the IWA-WIUC split. ~

Rank and file lumberworkers in
both IWA and WIUC see in these
court cases and the further at-
tempts to involve Pritchett and
Bergren in the strike fund issue
a further development of the long
campaign through the press and !
other propaganda mediums to dis- |
credit the WIUC, which IWA inter- ;
national president James Fadling
and his B.C. appointees have failed

"4 rights.

to achieve in the camps and mills
where only the WIIUC is giving any |

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real job» readership in the looming
employment crisis.

On Vancouver Island this week
the Iron River strike committee
released the following state-
ment to the press:

“A meeting of the Iron River
strikers held on April 17 instructed
the strike committee to issue a
public statement calling off the six

‘months old strike.

“The strike fwas called by a
majority of the employees working
at the MacMillan Iron River oper-
ation in defense of job seniority
The three fallers discrim-
inated against would have been
reinstated and the issue settled in

, Short order, had the matter been

left to the
themselves,

Iron River workers

“Instead of support, which we
had a right to expect! from the lead-
ers of the IWA,‘we received from
these people open betrayal, com-
pany collaboration and strikebreak-
ing. These people went so far as
to lead scabs through our picket
line, which up till that time had
been respected by all employees.
Their organizing of vigilante goons
to terrorize the people in the com-
munity will be long remembered.

“While we have decided to call
off the strike, we shall continue
the fight to maintain seniority
rights against the’ re-introduction
of the blacklist. We shall redouble
our fight against all company
agents and scab-herders parading
as trade union leaders.

“We extend to all those who have
assisted us so generously, our sin-
cere thanks. To them and the
woodworkers in British Columbia
we pledge to continue the fight to
uphold militant trade unionism in
the camps and mills. We will do
our utmost to re-establish unity
in the woodworking industry on
the basis of honesty, decency, and
just trade union principles.”

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— APRIL 22, 1949 — PAGE 7

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