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Parkin

pales an individual in Van-
couver named A. G. Pearce
who publishes what goes under
the name of a newspaper. The
Union Free Press is its title, and
if a newspaper could smell, this
one’s odor would not only be ap-
parent but audible for miles.

Now it’s more than doubtful
ihat Pearce is a philanthropist
With that established, ifs hardly
likely that he’s publishing this
monthly journal, compiete in two

colors and on Slick, expensive
paper, merely as a hobby. In
fact, there's more than just a

jitle> suspicion in the minds of
several thousand workers on
Vancouver's wateriront, to whom
ihe paper has been delivered free
in the past month, that the Union
Free Press spells Canadian Man-
ufacturers Association, and not
too subtly at that.

But if there’s some surface
humor in the spectacle of a com-
pany union sheet trying to take
up the cudgels for organized la-
bor, there's an ugly undercurrent
in the very fact that such things
can be published in the name of
a free press. Consider the fol-
lowing excerpt from an article
in the current issue entitled “fhe
New Aristocracy’:

“In one part of the world we
are engaged in 2 death’ struggle
with an empire of close to 100
million yellow people . - . work
ing feverishly with no limit on
their hours of work ... and cer-
fainiy no union man tells them
what the production per man
must be or how much money they
must exact from the state during
wartime ... In this part of the
world, | am sorry to report, the
picture is far different” (Empha-
sis mine.)

Or this:

“The one and only group that
I believe is capable and which
in the end will be forced to take
complete control of this problem
(organized labor) is the military.”

ND if these words read like a

quotation from a Father
Coughlin, or from one of our
own home-grown reactionaries
like Colonel Edgett, once con-
nected with fascist organizations,
it’s not an accident.

For Pearce’s Union Free Press,
out of Labor Truth, through Edg-
ett’s Industrial Association out of
ihe CMA, gives fair warning of
the things to come if certaain
people have their way. From this
column it looks, however, as
though Pearce’s publication could
be printed in neon lights, on the
most expensive parchment, and
in seventeen different colors, and
it would still spell “fink” to all
who can read.

(7

John Stanton
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary

503 Holden Bldg.
16 E. Hastings St. MAr. 5746

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Continued

Buck

which, if allowed to advance will

hinder unity and progress, he
stated.
“The Quebec conference,”

Buck said, “showed that events
have moved too swiftly for the
decisions made at Casablanca.
Again in Washington, in May,
Prime Minister Churchill said
plans had been worked out
for a year, but within ten weeks
the rapid change in the war sit-
uation brought him back again,
this time to the Quebee parleys.

“At Quebec divergencies in the
military plans of the USSR and
the Anglo-Americans were open-
ly admitted. Furthermore, there
was a shift in emphasis. There
were no longer promises of ac-
tion on the second front. Pre-
viously unpreparedness had been
given as the justification for lack
of such action. Now it is said
that the Allies are completely
prepared, but will not yield to
political pressure and will not
open the second front until the
British and United States gov-
ernments decide to do so,” he
stated.

The news that there was to be
a three-day conference in Mos-
cow in October, said Buck, was
Welcome.

“But the test of battle is the
supreme test of alliance. The
United Nations alliance came
into being to defeat Hitler. Its
test is the full sharing of the
military burdens of the war.”

In a survey of domestic prob-
lems, Buck said that it was “time
to state publicly that Prime Min-
ister King’s polities do not ex-
press the aspirations of the peo-
ple.”

On the basis of his past record,
the people could not look to
King to lead the post-war pro-
gram of reconstruction and re-
forms they desired. Nor could
they look to any of the old-line
parties. There was a danger,
however, that in moving away
from the old parties the labor-
farmer forces might find them-
selyes disunited.

Reaffiliation To
CCL Expected

Negotiations leading to reaffilia-
fion of the International Wood-
workers of America to the Cana-
dian Congress of Labor, begun
at the recent CCL convention, are
expected to be concluded at the
fortheoming convertion of the
CIO in Pittsburgh, scheduled to
open November 1.

Nigel Morgan, [WA board mem-
ber, has been informed by IWwWA
President Worth Lowery that a
meeting between officers of the
CIO, the CCL and the IwA BC
District Council has been ar-
ranged, where it is expected that
an amicable settlement of the
question will be reached.

Morgan will attend the Pitts-
burg meeting in his capacity of
international board member.

Continued

Loggers

Camps affected by the dispute
are operated by J. R. Morgan,
Kelley Logging and Pacific Mills.

Justice Richards, who con-
dueted the inquiry into condi-
tions in B.C. shipyards last year,
is a judge of the court of ap-
peal in Winnipeg. His newest
appointment as Industrial Dis-
putes Inquiry Commissioner has
been made under provisions of
order-in-council P.C. 4020. He
is due to arrive in Vancouver at
the beginning of this coming
week,

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Press

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Drive /A\ppeal
Prompt Response

NDICATIONS that the current campaign to raise a $6,000 sus-
taining fund for the People will be even more successful than
the two previous drives were seen this week by the central press
drive committee, when it announced that each city branch of the
Labor-Progressive Party had accepted a drive quota and in most Cases

had increased the quota suggested.

City and other branches which have set quotas and are already

working on the campaign are:

Enet Eris ee 000.
Keltsiland @20 ee 00
Grandview — een OU.
Weert “bend 00
South Vancouver = 500
Mictory: Square. 500
ME Plegasant= 22S, 00
Hastings East : = 400
North Vancouver 300
New Westminster 300

During the ten days before the
official opening of the campaign
on October 1, $160 was turned in,
according to Grace Greenwood,
secretary-organizer. Branches are
already selling tickets for the big
Hallowe'en Dance, to be held Fri-
day, October 29, at Croatian Hail,
Hastings Auditorium, and How-
den Ballroom.

“The necessity for building The
People as part of the campaign
to bring the program and policies
of the Labor-Progressive Party
to the people was never more ob-
vious,” points out Drive Chair-
man Minerva Cooper. “And while

cur quota of 36,000 may seem
high, the fact that our drive com-
mittees were able to double the
$4,000 quota in the last drive gives
us confidence that the new quota
ean be reached.

“Most drive workers are well
aware that the costs of maintain-
ing a paper such as ours have
risen sharply since the beginning
of the war,” she adds, giving the
following as the average monthly
expenditures:

Wages, $550; printing, $750;
mailing, $100; phone and rent, $65;
engraving, cuts, news service, $60;
office supplies, $100; miscellane-
ous (including cost of press
drives), $130; a monthly total of
$1,750.

On this basis, she says, operat-
ing cosis cyer a year (the People
this week completes its first year
of publication) run around $21,000.
approximately $15,000 of which
must be made up by the sustain-
ing fund.

Ukrainians Seeking
Return Of Property

[ ChCNTe Representatives of the Ukrainian-Canadian
4 and Civil Liberties Associations will meet at the Chateau
Laurier, Ottawa, this coming Thursday, to formulate a special
appeal to Prime Minister King and the cabinet for restora-

tion to legal status of the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple
Association, and the return of its 108 halls confiscated by the

government early in 1940.
Fifteen months ago a commit-
tee of the House of Commons
recommended that the ban on
the ULFTA be lifted. Since

then Parliament has taken no
action to implement the com-
mittee’s report, despite many
public demonstrations and re-
quests for a hearing. Aroused
by this flagrant inustice to a
minority group whieh is whole-
heartedly anti-fascist and whose
industry and culture have en-
riched Canadian life, a special
committee of the Civil Liberties
Association of Toronto has been
striving for the correction of this
injury.

In a cireular letter calling the
Ottawa meeting, B.K. Standwell,
chairman of the committee,
states: “Up to the present time
it has not been possible to ar-
range for any appointment with
the Prime Minster and the mem-
bers of his cabinet in connection
with this subject.”

Heading the Ukrainian delega-
tion to the conference will be:
John Boychuk, Toronto, chair-
man of the Ukrainian-Canadian
Association; John Stokaluk, Cal-
gary, vice-president United Min-
ers of America; Wm. Kardash,
MLA, Winnipeg; Mike Dushnit-
sky, Toronto, and many other
prominent Ukrainian workers
from Ontario cities.

B. K. Sandwell, J. L. Cohen,

K.C., and other members of the
executive of the Civil Liberties
Association will attend. Delega-
tion from all interested groups,
and individuals as well, have been
invited to the conference. Those
who cannot attend are asked to
assist this cause by writing a per-
sonal letter to the Prime Minister
and to their member of parlia-
ment. This should be done be-
fore October 7, the date of the
conference.

Continued 4

Franch

the city clerk’s office—a
ly acting on instructions
city clerk—were giving:
correct and misleading ©
tion to applicants who hat
to the franchise, have
that they will take up
wives of tenants who ha
refused admission to the
Judge Richardson.

Richardson admitted
that any tenant's wif
legal right to have her
placed on the list, and 1
that is necessary is that
lord make out rent r
the names’ of both husb
wife.” .

However, women who
for the franchise on these €
were told that only on
allowed in such cases
the husband “generally
preference.

At the same time, Rich
has introduced a: totally ne
ing barring permanent Te
jn hotels from the civ.
list, on the ground that
is supplied by the landlord
this makes the guest a lot
‘And on this ruling, he adm
occupants of whole apar
blocks can be classed as 10
if the landlord has no mo
trol” than that of requirmg
fo be turned down after
tain kour. This ruling w
by Richardson after “int
study of English law dating |
a contury.” =

Under this “access” ruin &
tween 20.000 and 30,000 war ¢
ers in Vancouver will be ¢ §
the franchise. In answer to ~
ter from the Trade Union @
mittee asking his attitude t
ruling, Richardson replied
he could give no blanket 2
Each case, he said, would
to be dealt with individua

However, it is still possib
those with a legal right to
to have their names plact
the list on election day =
taining a certificate from ff
clerk’s office. Members ©
committee and their legal

sentatives will be present
sure that all those qualitit:
ceive the franchise. “4

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