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IWA gains
in north as
strike ends

British Columbia’s northern In-
terior lumber strike, which began
September 28 after the operators
rejected a conciliation board award
which had been accepted by Inter-
national Woodworkers of America,
ended Wednesday this week and
the 3,000 workers are filtering back
to work as camps and mills reopen.

A wage contract between the
IWA and the operators was signed
late Tuesday and the first workers
were back on the job at 8 a.m. the
following day. Mills are expected
to reach full capacity within a
fortnight.

The agreement includes six key
points:

.

@ Maintenance of membership on
an industry-wide basis. (The
operators wanted it on a single-
plant basis).

@ A wage boost of 542 cents an
hour commencing January 6.

@ Modified seniority clause,
grievance procedure and arbi-
tration procedure.

@ Protection of workers from
discrimination for strike activ-
ities,

@ Three more days vacation with
pay for employees with” more
than five years service.

-@ Contract re-opening date ad-

vanced to 90 days prior to the

expiry date of August 31, 1954.

Strike in the southern Interior
continues, and the. B.C. govern-
ment has appointed a one-man
commission, Judge A. E. Lord, to
investigate the dispute. He is
meeting with operators and IWA
representatives this week. ~

Now third fewer
bus operators

“B.C. Electric transit department
has less than 1,000 drivers now,
compared to 1,500 a while ago,”
charged J. L. Hayward, a bus
driver and delegate for the Street
Railwaymen’s Union, at a Trades
and Labor Council meeting Tues-
day this week.

Council endorsed a letter from

‘the SRU urging a shuttle service

to Granville Island for the several
hundred men who work there, be-

eause opening of the new Gran-| ors

ville bridge will “isolate them

_ from their jobs.”

Hayward blasted cuts in transit
service and declared the basic ser-
vice of the BCER has “disappear-
ed.” He said that 44 eight-hour
runs had been cut off in the com-
pany’s economy drive.

“Unless you have a good basic
service you have no service,” he
added. “The people know what
kind of service. they want, but
they’re not getting it. We are now
scheduling for standing loads, not
sitting loads. It’s common now to
pass up passengers in non-rush
hours on such main streets as
Granville and Macdonald.”

LDR presses Evdokimoff appeal

‘T have nothing to hide. Til
tell you just what I have done from
yesterday morning until you came
over to my place.”

This frank statement was made
by Nick Evdokimoff, Krestova
Doukhobor, when he was arrested
by the RCMP last June. Subse-
quently, throughout the prelimin-
ary hearings and the trial itself,
Evdokimoff stoutly maintained
that he was-not guilty of being in
possession of an explosive sub-
stance. Now in jail for 14 years,
he still maintains his innocence
and is carrying his case to the
appeal court.

Recently, 40 Doukhobors from
Krestova and 28 from Thrums ex-

Doukhobors petition for release
of man sentenced to 14 years

pressed their belief in Evdokim-
off’s innocence by addressing a
petition to “all judges of the court
of appeal.”

The petition reads:

We, the undersigned Douk-
hobors, wish to make known our
strong disapproval of the con-
duct and ovicome oy the recent
trial of Nick Evdokimoff. We
wish further to express our firm
belief in the complete innocence
of Nick Evdokimoff of the
charge for which he was con-
vVicted and cruelly sentenced.
And he does not deserve such
punishment.

McCarthyism made its appear-
ance in British Columbia this week
when Miss Beatrice Ferneyhough,
hired January 1 as director for the
Junior Red Cross in this province,
was fired Wednesday this week,
because she contested a Point Grey
seat as a Labor-Progressive party
candidate in the provincial elec-
tions last June.

The appointment, made public
Tuesday, placed Miss Ferneyhough
in charge of program activities for
some 130,000 Junior Red Cross
members in B.C.

The following day Col. Gordon
P. Stirrett, president of B.C. Divi-
sion, Canadian Red Cross Society,
announced that “we have let Miss
Ferneyhough go.”

There was no question as to
Miss Ferneyhough’s qualifications
to hold the job. She graduated
some years ago from McGill Uni-
sversity with a Bachelor of Arts
degree and recently completed her
master’s degree in English at Uni-
versity of British Columbia.

In a front-page story which
could have been written by Sen-
ator McCarthy, the Vancouver.
Province reported the firing of
Miss Ferneyhough, “candidate in
Point Grey for the Labor-Progres-
sive (Communist) party in the 1953
provincial election.”

‘The Vancouver Sun quoted Col.
Stirrett as saying Red Cross direct-
“had‘no idea of her political
connections when she was hired.”

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Let’s get |.
more in ’54

Nick, lives at Winlow and is doing
everything he can to win his
father’s freedom. At considerable
personal sacrifice, he raised more
than $150 for the appeal. In a re-
cent letter to the Vancouver
branch of the League for Demo-
cratic Rights he wrote: “I am
hoping that with your help and
God’s -help, he will be with us
soon.”

Harold Dean, of the law firm of
Stanton, Munro and Dean, an-
nounced this week that he is still
awaiting the first copy of the
transcript of evidence given at the
trial. Once this is obtained, they
will order further copies and pre-
pare the appeal for Evdokimoff.
Money is-still required in order to
meet the necessary costs.

All donations and requests for
further information should be ad-
dressed to the League for Demo-

cratic Rights, 339 West Pender
Street, Vancouver, B.C.

Delegation to see
Pearkes on Bill 7

VICTORIA, B.C.

A delegation of trade unionists
and private citizens will meet with
Major-General George R. Pearkes,
MP (Esquimalt-Saanich) to express
their opposition to sections of Bill
7, now before. parliament, which
menace civil liberties and the
rights of labor.

Announcement of the delegation

|was made Sunday this week at a

meeting here addressed by Jack
Phillips, executive secretary of the
Vancouver branch of the League

MISS BEATRICE FERNEYHOUGH

for Democratic Rights.

Dear Reader:

Let’s start the new year right by
resolving that every press club in
British Columbia will sign up more
readers for the Pacific Tribune in
1954 than in the year which has
just closed!

Proposed targets for 1954 will
be published in the next issue,
along with the
record of press
clubs for 1953.

Club of the
Month awards
for December
went to Trail
(provincial) and
Little "Mountain

mee (Vancouver).
Hook prizes have been mailed out.

A member of Little Mountain
press club set a new record for
street sales by selling 301 copies
of our Christmas issue, topping by
one paper the mark achieved by
veteran salesman Arthur Wilbee,
Sr., some months ago. Wilbee is
in.poor health these days and un-
able to continue working at his
favorite corner, Main and Hast-
ings. But we know he'll be de-
lighted to learn that some of our
younger Supporters are taking up
where he was forced to leave off.

The PT New Year’s Eve dance
was a whopping success, with
225 people jammed into the
Fishermen’‘s Hall. 1! regret very
much that we had to turn back
some peopie at the door, but
the place just wouldn’t hold any
more. Next year remember to
get your tickets early!

Rita Whyte

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February 11 - 1896
December 16 - 1953

You raised the people’s shining
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And fell, with your name upon it
At the dawn of the future day.

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~ IN MEMORIAM -

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t —Walt Whitman
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