It would be nice to record that the recent visit of Arthur Turner, MLA for Van-
couver East, and the Rev. Mathews, M.P. for the East Kootenays, had made some

- contribution to the solution of the burning questions facing the people today.
I went to the meeting held in the IOOF hall in Cranbrook last week with an open

mind, expecting, in view of the
fact that the steelworkers are
*‘gnder the gun with regard to
_ Bill 39, that Turner, who claims
membership in that local (pos-
* sibly by the same alchemy that
‘te held a seat in the Labor
Council as representative’ for a
non-existent Auto Maintena-ce
Workers Union) would make 2
contribution toward stirring up
- support for the fight.

. It must be set on the record
that Turner did nothing of the
kind. In this community, where
the fight needs stimulus and u--
derstanding, he endeavored to
spread defeatism and confusion.
After a speech which lasted
,close to an hour,
~ some ten minutes at the end to
the most important question
facing organized labor in B.C.
today. Most of his speech was
devoted to the unsuccessful fights
the CCF had put up in the
legislature, a recapitulation of
the various measures that had
_been passed, etc. He did not

NSW anti-labor
. “goon squad’ built

. . SYDNEY—A . pro-fascist goon
“squad has been formed in New
.. South Wales, with headquarters in
» the, big steel, engineering and coal
-gentre of the state’s south coast.
+ The Express, organ of the Legion
of Ex-Servicemen, reveals that the
new group. “will. come into the
+ Open. in a national emergency,
4; Such as a general strike. . The

\

. banded New. Guard.”

+> ‘ The prewar New Guard gained
-}.-motoriety for. smashing up. labor
meetings, assaulting labor leaders
and conspiring against labor gov-
> -ernments;-..

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CCF speakers in Kootenays skate
| around big issues facing people

By CHARLES SAUNDERS

mention the B.C. Electric fran-
chise, for obvious reasons, but
stressed their (CCF) . fight for
public ownership and gave us a
comprehensive outline of the
riches of the Peace River coun-
try and the prospects of develop-
ing the PGE under public owner-
ship.

On Bill 39 his
amounted to this.
should keep up
their fight; it
won’t accomp-
lish anything,
but it will give
the CCF MLA’s
something to
talk aobut in
the house and
possibly, if the
CCF are elect-
ed, we will
have a labor
code like they
have in Saskat-
chewan follow-
ing the next
elections. This
reporter could
hardly believe his ears. Having
been accused of misrepresenta-
tion before, by these social-demo-
crats, who seem to want to
create impressio.s without want-
ing to go on record, I questioned
Mr. A. Turner at the end of the
meeting regarding the calling of
a special session of the house
on this issue. His answer was
the CCF classic, to wit... “It
is a good idea. to fight for it
but I am sure that the govern-
ment wiil not call one.”

What brilliance: we _ should
fight for something there is no
chance of gettizg. If this is Tur-
ner’s idea of giving leadership
to the organized workers, he will
find few to follow him. Once
before I ‘had occasion to refer
to him’ as ‘Spill the, Beans Tur-
ner,’ and there is no doubt that
the policy of the CCF leadership
in the great fight that faces the

contribution
The u..ions

\c. S.aunders

‘trade unions today received its

public’ airing in this interior
town. ‘The movement toward i.-
dependent: political action on the
part of ‘the trade union’ move-
ments so strong at the coast, that
a determined attempt is being
made to cause splits in the In--
terior. _ :

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j utter ‘futility of ever expecting

j people of Canada.

This was further borne out at
the recent meeting of the East
Kootenay labor council whei a
group of well-known CCF dele-
gates from the Kimberley “local
made a determined attempt to
put the council on record adopt-
ing the CCF as the political arm
of labor. Further developments
indicate that this was prepara-
tory to forcing a similar move
in Kimberley, where the CCF
speakers also held meetings.
However, the council, already on
record supporting the B.C. Feder-
ation resolution on political ac-
tio, prevented the motion from
coming to the floor.

With regard to the Rev. Math-
ews. It must be said that he
gave us a very nice speech. In
apparently approved style he
recapitulated some of the things
that had happened in the House.
Then he turned to Canada’s num-
ber one problem, hoysing. He
quoted in full an editorial from
the Vancouver Sun. Congratulated
the editor. Called him courageous
and drew atte.tion to the fact
that this editor often attacked
the Mackenzie King government.
Which may do something to boost
the circulation of the Sun, but
will scarcely add anything to the
solution of the housing problem.
Again this reporter was amazed
to discover that a federal MP
could go completely through an
hour’s talk without referring to
Canada’s foreign policy, the Tru-
man doctri.e or the Marshall
plan. I thought it must be an

oversight.
But judge for yourselves. I
questioned Mr. Mathews on

these points. His answer? I quote
verbatim, “Canada is a_ very
young . country; she does not
seem to have any well defined
foreign policy and as for the
Marshall plan, it has not been
discussed ia the House yet so I
really. could not tell you any-
thing about it.” And this is all
that Mr. Mathews could tell the
people of this area about the
danger of a third world war,
about Canada’s relationship with
other countries, about the ses-
sions of the U.N. etc. ete.

As I have stated, I went to
this meeting with ah open mind;
I came away recognizing the

the. present CCF leadership. to
see anything outside of - their
own narrow party circles and to
confine all of their actions to
furthering its aspirations, even
though these do not coincide with
the needs and aspirations of the

Boyer new trial
ajain postponed .

MONTREAL—The trial of Dr.
Raymond Boyer, the last defend-
ant to appear on charges of
alleged violation of the Official
Secrets Act arising out of Can-
ada’s “spy scare,” has been post-
poned until October 8. Hearing
of the case of the famous scien-
tist will probably be further de-
layed at that time because of
the heavy number of cases on
the Court of King’s Bench roll,

Last .spring a jury disagreed
after hearing evidence on the
same charges,,and split 10 to 2 in
in favor of his acquittal, thus
making necessary the new trial.

EAST END

TAXI

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Growing dissatisfaction of

Vancouver New Westminster
Trades, and Labor Council calling
for a “one or two day” mass
protest strike against the bill.
The resolutign, which was re-
ferred to the Council’s legis-
lative committee for study,
recommended that a joint AFL
and CCL committee be set up
to carry out plans for the pro-
test action.

“We must work with other sec-
tions of organized labor in our
fight to bring about a fall session
of the B,C. legislature,” Charles
Stewart, vice-president of the
Street Railwaymen’s Union, told
the delegates. |

Division 101 brought in a gug-
gestion that the council organ-
ize a parade to protest the latest
batch of price increases - going
into effect this week following
government removal of price
ceilings and subsidies on several
commodities. While “alarm” was
expressed by the council at. the
new threat to living standards,
no local action was decided upon.
Instead, delegates to the Trades
and Labor Congress convention,
opening in Hamilton September
24, were instructed to see that the
‘matter is given “urgent atten-
tién” at the national meeting.
Housing policies, or more ap-
propriately, the lack of them,

TLC body to conside
Bill 39 protest strike

labor movement with Bill 39 was reflected Tuesday night in
a resolution presented by Pacific Stage members of the ©
Street Railwaymen’s International Union (AFL) to the

came under strong censure from

British Columbia’s organized

several quarters, with delegates”
charging provincial and fede
government authorities with in-
action. :
Both governments were cet —
sured for their failure to com
plete the housing survey started
by Dr. Marsh some time 28%
according to the terms of a reso
lution introduced by a woman
delegate from the Provincial Gov-
ernment Employees Association.
Pete Canavan, business agent of
the Building Service Employees
Union, stated that the report of
Dr. Marsh was good and should
be completed. i ia
The council legislative commit
tee reported that a _ study of
sociological problems in the city
revealed that the main cause
what were termed “very bad com’
ditions” was the lack of decent
housing. Main recommendation
for-meeting the problem of dis —
ease and ill-health prevalent
the cheaper rooming houses
a program of low rental housing
Inability of aged persons to pay
for proper accommodation ae
the lack of any recreational 1
cilities for them were pointed
in the report. Other causes of 1" —
conditions described by the see
mittee were cited isp
cient police patrolling
and lodging houses. * a

#

Three union investigators went
back to the mine with the men,
to determine whether the mining
of 15% tons of coal a day was
too much to ask from each man.
That was what started the strike.

Arthur Horner, secretary of the
Mineworkers Union, criticized the
British press for its reporting of
the Yorkshire pit strike.

“I want you to observe the ac-
tivities of the national press, who
have jumped and grabbed at
every possibility of inéiting a
crisis, of exaggerating the crisis,
and of increasing its effect,’ Hor-
ner said.

“IT have always said that when
a crisis comes the ruling class
in Britain will prove no differ-
ent than the ruling class of every
other country.

“When they have to choose
between their position as em-
ployers and capitalists and their
own country, they will sacrifice
their country as other people
did in France and Spain.

“Some of the owners of the
capitalist press are just the same.
They are prepared ‘to incite the
miners and to incite every other
section of the workers, so that
they can demonstrate that nation-
alization is a failure, that the

British press incited —
coal crisis---Horner

LONDON—The Grimethorpe coal mine,
struck five weeks ago and started a general
took a total of nearly 60,000 miners from their JOP? —
Yorkshire, have started full operations again.

where 40 eke
walkout Res

Labor government, is.
and that we should hand °
the destinies once again t0
very people who prought — ant
country into two major

caused us to live for ois
in poverty and hunger in @

of plenty. 1a ee
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‘L-say to the press thy.

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TORONTO—Reconstructor ff
ister C. D. Howe, receP i rtain:
turned from a_ visit ee
sounded off for eae a: ‘Bust
at a meeting of the Li Howe
ness Men's Club. yernit
apropos the Attlee 8° to
“It has thought it nocd id eo!
carry out their (Sociale. prob
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clear, Aid to Britain vite
conditioned upon comp. hey

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