own account
of exchange

The Pacific Tribune received the
following letter from Fred Jack-
son this week, giving his version
Of the one-punch scuffle he had
With Stewart Alsbury at the last
regular meeting of Vancouver
Labor Council

“Kindly allow me space to point
out a serious error in your report-
ing of the physical encounter be-
tween Stewart Alsbury and myself
at the October meeting of the Van-
couver Labor Council.

“Your description follows closely
the commercialized press version,
which suggests that Alsbury called
Me “a stooge for the communist
party” during regular debate on
My motion; and in consequence, aL
planned and executed an attack
upon him after the meeting. What
actually occurred is as follows:: |

“Although, during debate, I was
‘ called many vulgar names by. Als-
bury, the specific one mentioned
above was not used at that time.
On the motion being put to vote
and lost, I was quite willing to ac-
cept the decision, On conclusion
of the meeting, on my way out of
the hall, Alsbury stepped in front
Of me and, without protection of
the platform, called me a ‘stooge
for the Communist party’. This re-
Mark precipitated the scuffle from
which Alsbury allegedley emerged
Y with a black eye.

“In closing let me say that I
sincerely regret the incident. I am
convinced that neither name-call-
ing nor fist-fights btween repre-
sentatives of . trade unions will
solve the serious problem facing
all workers today.”

Women convene
public forum to.
act on prices

Calling for joint action against
rising prices, the Congress of Cana-

ian Women here is sponsoring a
public forum, November 3, 8 p.m.,
in the Medical Dental Auditorium.

Among those invited to partici-
pate in the forum are Alderman
Anna Sprott; Dr. Stewart Murray,
Senior Health Officer; representa-
tives of trade unions and women’s
organizations. : :

“With the cost-of-living index hit-

ting an all-time high, it’s time the
people of this city got together to
do something to bring down high
prices,” said Mrs. Marie Godfrey,
B.C. president of the Congress of
Canadian Women. “That is the
reason we are convening this pub-
lic forum where everyone will get
an opportunity to discuss a plan of
action to put a stop to the drive
of corporations and cartels for
more and more profits at our ex-
_ pense,

“We are finding it impossible to
put a decent well-balanced meal on
the table at today’s prices. We are
determined not to stand idly by
While the health of the families is
gradually undermined by a govern-
ment policy which allows compan-
ies to amass super profits and at
the same time places more and
More taxes on things we buy. =

“We urge all those interested in

ay seeing something done to bring
a down prices, to come to this public
: forum and take united action, It’s

not enough for us to ‘beef’ at home.
. We've got to get together now!”

Jackson gives”

Anger of Street Railwaymen’s
delegates was roused by a letter
to council from Ivor W. Neil, BCER
general transportation manager,
which denied employees’ conten-
tions that speed-up had accompa-
nied recent service cuts.

“Neil couldn't correlate the facts
and figures he produces with the
way we see them,” said John Hay-
ward. “He must be working for
some other outfit.

“Neil claims the BCER did not
reduce rush-hour service on Au-
gust 25. I can tell you specifical-
ly that 27 specials were cut in
the rush hours before that date.
Every day at Prior barns six spe-
cial runs aren’t being signed be-
cause the company hasn’t suffi-_
cient men. | Naturally, men refuse ~
to work rush-hour runs of a cou-
ple of hours and stay around 13
hours to earn $7. Many are quit--
ting and I don’t blame them.”

Dealing with further proposed
service cuts to become effective on
October 27, Hayward! commented
that “the change from four to five-
minute service at Fourth Avenue
represents a 25 percent reduction.”

iw. E, Sturgeon referred to the
fact that service cuts plus speed-up
means that passengers stand up.

“Why should people have to stand
-when they are going out in the
evening?” he asked. “At 11, 12 or
1 a.m. you see people standing and
in many cases they’re packed in
like a bunch of sardines while all
these busses are -in the barns.

“Aocain, Neil claims that average
speed on the system is 10 miles
an hour. I work eight hours and
three minutes and I cover 110 miles.
Y don’t know how I could cover
that distance in eight hours at 10
miles an hour, although the BCE
could probably prove that I did.”

' Charlie Madison,. machinists’
delegate, referred to the BCER’s
“rotten transportation service”
and termed Neil’s letter “nothing
but an alibi.”

Pulp, paper. workers
win wage increase

POWELL RIVER, B.C.

A general wage increase of five
percent, on top of a six-cent boost
negotiated last May, was won by
1,800 pulp and paper plant workers
here this week.

The new settlement, negotiated
by two AFL unions—International
Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Mill Workers, local 76, and
International Brotherhood of Pa-
permakers, local 142.

Under the new wage scales, the
basic rate is $1.18. Minimum in-
crease will be 6 cents and maxi-
mum 10 cents.

LPP candidate polls
good vofe af Welland

Mel Doig, LPP candidate in the
Welland federal byelection — this
week, polled 1,683 votes. The seat
was retained by the Liberals, who
have held it since 1935, by Dr. W.
H. McMillan, who polled 19,352
votes. Sam Hughes, Conservative,
was second with 13,037 and Melvin
Swart, CCF, ran third with 5,985.

In Loving Memory
of a Dear Husband and Father

JOHN THOMAS GREENWELL
Died October, 1949

MINER, TRADE UNIONIST, EVER A TRUE AND
LOYAL FIGINTER OF HIS CLASS

Street Railwaymen’s Union del
B.C. Electric’s reduction in service and speed-u
and took a swing also at “Charlie McCarthy in

Street Railwaymen hit

BCER service, schedules

egates to Trades and Labor Council (AFL-TLC) blas el
p of workers at the council meeting Tuesday,

Victoria, the P

SPS SUE I ERED APMED LE cd OE EES PE

ublic Utilities Commission.”

EFFIE JONES

FOR SERVICES.

Effie suggests
‘old faithful’ as
gift for council

BCElectric officials don’t know
what to do with “Old 124”, their
40-year-old observation street car
which went out of service this
summer. So they held a contest
and offered $25 for the best sug-
gestion.

Effie Jones didn’t enter the con-
test “because I don’t want tainted
money from the BCER”, but this
week she offered a solution to
company officials.

“Just give ‘Old 124 to city coun-
cil and let Mayor Thompson in-
stal it in the Mahogany Room,
as a reminder of the Non-Parti-
sans’ long and faithful service
to the BCElectric,” quipped Effie.

Costly British
African scheme
proves failure

LONDON

The Labor government’s much
advertised ground nuts scheme at
abandoned. This scheme was orig-
Kongwa in East Africa has been
inally announced as a great eperi-
ment in. “socialist planning” in col_
onial Africa, which was to have
solved Britain’s vegetable oil prob-
lem.

To date, it has swallowed up a
capital sum of £40 million ($120
million) used in the main for clear-
ing an are a 045f0,00”fUT1-i.
ing an area of 450,000 acres for
growing of ground nuts.

When it was found that the
growing of ground nuts was a fail-
ure, attempts were made to grow
other oil-yielding crops such~ as
sunflowers, but these too have
been gq failure. Last year at a
cost of £600,000 a sunflower crop
worth only £100,000 was raised.

_ MILO CAFE

“We Specialize in
Ukrainian Food”
242 E. Hastings St. PA. 3037
f Vancouver

| CONTINUED

TRUMAN

threat of war beneath the camou-
flage It interpreted the address
as being “broad enough to cover
an offer of troops to India, Natio-
nalist China, Indochina or any other
country under danger of Commu-
nist attack.” In light of the facts,
that the people of China, under
Communist leadership, have driven
the utterly discredited Chiang Kai-
shek regime from the entire ‘Chin-
ese mainland, and that the people
lof Viet-Nam, under Communist
leadership, are now fighting to drive
the French from Indochina, the
full meaning of the policy laid down
by Truman is clear.

Whenever the peoples of Asia,
in their struggles for independence
from imperialism and the native
reactionaries who front for imper-
ialism, succeed in establishing their
own popularly chosen governments,
the U.S. may resort to armed inter-
vention. It may try to restore to
power a regime repudiated and de-
feated by its own people or to
strengthen the hand of a European
imperialist power striving to re-
tain its waning hold on a colony in
the exploitation of which American
‘interests share.

To represent this policy as a
“partnership of peace” President
Truman was obliged to ignore a
number of established facts, any
one of which was sufficient to de-
molish his pretense. Some of these
were:

@ American armed intervention in
Korea has restored to power the
admittedly corrupt Syngman

“Rhee regime which was repu-

diated by the people of South

Korea last May even in ballot-

ting rigged to secure election of

that regime.

Americas .armed forces are
maintaining the repudiated and
hated Chiang Kai-shek regime
in power on Formosa, an island
territory seized from China by
Japan which by historical right
and agreement belongs to China.

American arms and funds are
prolonging the war in Indochina.
where the French imperialists
repudiating a pledge of inde-
pendence, are striving to crush
the armed forces of the Viet-
Namese People’s Republic and
reconquer the country.

Not the Soviet Union but the
United States is maintaining a
huge system of military bases
throughout the entire Pacific,
even on the territories of its sup-
posed “partners”.

Not the Seviet Union but the
United States is rearming Japan
as a threat to peace in Asia.

Not the Soviet Union which Tru-
man depicted as scheming te
make the peoples of Asia into
“slaves of a new imperialism”,
but the United States, with its
tremendous private investments
in most of the Asian countries.
is the “new imperialism” feared’
by the Asian peoples.

Castle Jewelers

Watchmaker, Jewellers

Next to Castle Hotel

762 Granville MA. 8711
A. Smith, Mgr.

Company fires
three expelled
by red-baifers

TORONTO

Three workers wih a total of 75
years service with the Consumers
Gas Company at Toronto have been
fired from their jobs as a result of
an illegal expulsion from their un-
ion by a so-called “trial committee”
established by H. A. Bradiey, red-
baiting international president of
the AFL Chemical Workers Union.
Bradley, making a special trip

; from Akron, Ohio, constituted him-

self an authority on “Communism”
and then autocratically announced
that Reg Wright, Charles Manser
and William Johnstone were ex-
pelled from the union’s Local 161.

Wright has been president of the
local for six years and has 25 years’
service with the company; John-
stone is an executive board mem-
ber of the union with 30 years’
service with the company, and
Manser, secretary of the gas local,
has worked with the firm for 20
years.

In. an obvious threat meant to
intimidate all members of the un-
ion, Bradley has announced that
nine others are under “suspicion.”
Wright, a founder of the union and
mainly responsible for achieving
the protection of the closed shop
clause, has the support of the ma-
jority of the rank-and-file which
recently refused to hear top brass
charges that he was a “Commun-
ist’!

The rank-and-file decision that
Wright was “too valuable” for the
local to lose and the refusal ‘to
hear trumped-up- charges laid
against him by prominent right-
wingers, was completely ignored
by Bradley who assumed dictator-
ial powers in establishing his own
kangaroo court in order to pro-
vide for expulsion of the three un-
ion leaders.

One of the key questions’ involv-
ed in the case is that of the demo-
eratie right of the local union to
decide its own affairs. Bradley
‘usurped this right by appointing a
three-man committee to “super
vise” its affairs. The committee,
responsible only to Bradley and
not to the membership, has as one
of its members, Joseph Barry, a-
Bradley appointee who is mainly
responsible for laying the charges
against Wright and other union-
ists. :

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