ig > ie | hae | \ ‘ th i aa te ; i | : al i i i 4 MF if Abe a ai : } | FRIDAY, APRIL. 8, fil Cy ines So = mull | = MRISUINIE: 1955 Preparing for election Sir Richard Ackland prepares for the election by vigorously cleaning the windows of his campaign headquarters in a London factory. ‘Explaining to a public meeting why he resigned the Gravesend seat he has held as ian independent since he left the Labor party, Sir Richard said the H-bomb was morally wrong. “Some day, somewhere, the ordinary men and women must say to the gen- erals, statesmen and scientists, ‘Turn back from this evil,’ he said. Labor merger opens way for real unity “Merging of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labor will open the door to the forging of unity embracing the entire labor movement in this country,”» Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune, told an audience of 400 at Pender Auditorium Sunday night this week. The meeting was sponsored by Vancouver commit- tee of the Labor-Progressive party. “So far the unity moves have come from the top,” McEwen continued. “The fight for genu- ine unity will have to come from below, from the rank and file of the trade union movement. “When unity gets down to the rank and file, the ‘bosses will know that their policy of divide and rule will be defeated. Such unity will produce a great drive to organize the unorganized, win economic victories for the work- ing class and beat the threat of depression.” Harvey Murphy, Mine - Mill regional director, declared that “there's a rising movement in Canada against U.S. domination of our trade unions.” Holding up a contract negotiat- ed by union bosses in the Hod Carriers (“I doubt if any mem- bers know these conditions yet’’) he read rates for pipeline work which discriminate against Can, adian unionists. ‘ “This agreement calls for $1. 30 an hour in the Chilliwack to Vancouver area, and $1.20 else- where in B.C.,” said Murphy. “Yet just across the line, in northern Washington, U.S. work- es get $2.25 an hour for doing ex- © actly the same work, under the same contractors. This is dom- ination and. discrimination.” Because Communists and other honest trade unionists expose such scandalous situations, bosses ington or Chicago. and their stooges in the labor movement raise the old anti-com- munist cry “so that these sell- outs to U.S. big capital will be brushed aside.” Murphy ridiculed the anti- Communist outerys of Tom Als- bury, “this Johnny-come-lately in the labor movement who: was served up as dessert to the Ki- wanis at their banquet in the Hotel Vancouver.” : Dealing with Alsbury’s state- ment: that Communists had been shipped into B.C. after the war to gain leading positions in the unions,.. Murphy... recalled.. the early organization of Granby, the Corbin and Anyox strikes, in all of which he took part. “What. war is Alsbury talking about — the Franco-Prussian War?” he asked.. The full Canadian autonomy voted by the recent Mine-Mill convention was lauded by Mur- phy. “Do all our unions need Canadian autonomy? Well, the IBEW and the Carpenters cer- tainly wish they had it! Our Canadian unionists don’t want overseers — what they call road- men — responsible only to Wash- We are not anti-American, but we are pro- Canadian. Today, Canada is the only country in the world that hasn’t an independent trade union movement of its own.” et! UM oT Senator favors — exchange of MPs OTTAWA An exchange of parliamentary delegations between Canada and the Soviet Union would be a decided step in the direction of peace, Senator Arthur Roebuck said. in an interview here this week. He favored the sending of a Canadian delegation of MPs to the Soviet Union. meet us,” he declared. wage-line policy upset By a vote of five to one (with Ald. T. F. Orr opposing the majority) Vancouver City Coun- -Council’s hold cil abandoned its 1955 hold-the- : line policy on wages and accept- ed a conciliation ‘board award - of a one and one-half percent increase and other important concessions for the 1,500-mem- ber Civic Employees Union, Out- side Workers. Council’s hope that its dis- putes with other civic employees could be settled on the same basis blew up when Firefighters Union and City Hall Employees Association rejected the terms and decided to place their cases in the hands of conciliation boards. Outside Workers will vote on the offer at a membership meet- ing this coming »Monday, April 11, 8 p.m., in Pender Auditor- ium. The union erase provision makes it obligatory or every outside member, whether a mem- ber or non-member of the union, to pay dues by checkoff. Mem- bership in the union remains on a voluntary basis. \ Winning of union security marks the end of a 13-year fight by all Vancouver civie unions to achieve this gain. It also sounds the death knell-for the remains of Tom Alsbury’s rump union. At present Alsbury represents Local 407, set up by Carl Berg in 1950, on Vancouver Trades and Labor Council But the presi- dent and secretary of his union will now be paying dues to Van- -couver ‘Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers The union has also won im- proved seniority and layoff pro- visions; better grievance pro- cedure and overtime and vaca- tion concessions Continued H- WEAPONS percent of her total budget; in 1954 it was 41.9 percent. Feusi commended the federal government for the peaceful uses to which it was putting.the Chalk River atomic pile. Everything _ possible should be done, he said, to foster good relations between Russia and the West. Britain had seen fit to recognize China, and he believed Canada should follow that lead. ‘ Heming, in seconding the re- solution, told the House he had been impressed: by a letter which a clergyman had written him, asking if Saskatchewan re- fused to release uranium for the . making of atomic bombs. In reply he had advised the clergy- man that control of uranium ceposits and stocks was in the hands of the federal government. Senator Roebuck’s statement was among many demands in and out of parliament, in favor of accepting. ‘an invitation ex- tended by the Soviet Union -to the Canadian and all other par- ligaments. It was ‘contained in a declaration of the Supreme So- viet made on February 9. It said: “The Supreme Soviet .of the SSR considers that the estab- lishment of direct links between parliaments, the exchange of par- liamentary delegations and speeches by parliamentary dele- gations of one country in the par- liament of another will corres- pond to the desire of the people for the development of friendly relations and for cooperation.” (The parliaments of Sweden and Israel are among those known to have accepted the invitation.) In the House of Commons April 1, Lester B. Pearson cauti- ously referred to the invitation, official notice of which has been received by the Canadian am- bassy in Moscow and transmitted to the Speaker of me House of Commons. “There is much ti be said for giving serious .consideration to invitations of this kind,” Pear- son declared. “There is certain- ly a good deal to be said for visits by Canadian ‘parliamentarians to the Soviet Union either individu- ally or as a group in fesponse to invitations. “Tf and when ‘such visits take place, we should never neglect any opportunity to create the conditions which might lead to a better understanding between peoples.” George Drew, leader of the Conservative party, the idea of mutual visits by representatives of both countries. ‘CCF* member Alex M. Nichol- son of Saskatchewan suggested that Prime Minister St. Laurent should ‘head the Canadian dele- gation to the Soviet Union, which should also include the leaders of the other three parliamentary - parties in the House, as well as two women MPs. The Toronto Globe and Mail’ and the Toronto Star both gave editorial support to the exchange of parliamentary delegations. Senator Roebuck said in ‘an in- terview here: “IT.am a friendly sort of per- son, and regret the’ barriers be- tween any other nation and ours. “T am not in the least bit afraid ef our own case. We are ‘far beyond being influenced to our damage by contact with anybody else in the world. We are adults and not children. “If we can learn anything we should do so, and if we can teach anything to others. we should do that also. “It may be that contact be- tween our accredited representa- tives and those from the Soviet Union would dispel misconcep- tions on both sides and lead to better relations. {t+ might be that the common sense ‘in world affairs one finds among Canadian statesmen might avert a catas- trophe based on misunderstand- ing. To a question whether the ex- change of parliamentary delega- tions would be a step in the direction of peece, Senator Roe- buck replied: “Decidedly. It could not ve a step away from peace,” supported ° “Let us meet these people who have expressed a willingness tO: — Peace Council appeals for petition volunteers ‘. B.C. Peace Council announced — this week it is planning two mass house-to-house canvasses in the city for April 16 and 23. ; “We expect at least 200 cal vassers to take part in collect: ing signatures for the World Appeal against Preparations for Atomic War, and we are asking volunteers to contact our officer “MA, 9958,” a council spokesman said. — EXPOSING THE ATOM | SPY HOAX! @ NEW LIGHT ON THE 1946 SPY TRIALS IN CANADA! @ NEW FACTS ABOUT THE ROSENSERG- SOBELL TRIALS! H EAR -Wilham Reuben Author of The Atom Spy Hoax Hastings Auditorium 828 Hastings’ East Sunday, April 10 en — Collection — : AUSPICES: VANCOUVE® SOBELL COMMITTEE PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 8, 1955 — PAGE 12