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Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, October 8, 1948

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Price Five Cents

Cutting through. the warlike headlines
of the daily press, a call to Canadians to
fight for peace has been issued by the national
executive of the Labor-Progressive Party
over the sigrature of its national leader, Tim
Buck,

The statement reads:

The graves of World War II are hardly
cold, yet the money kings of Wall Street are
provoking World War IIT.

In Paris, Mackenzie King and General

Nothing for Wall St. war

Marshall are wrecking the United Nations.
Everything that Roosevelt fought for, the
United Nations, American-Soviet friendship,

is being destroyed by the warlike Yankee
imperialists.

Ernest Bevin, in the name of “Social-
ism,” is. doing the dirty work for Wall Street
by fanning the Berlin crisis — a cynical,
manufactured hoax to panic and paralyze
the peoples.

To try to offset the very crisis that
their post-war betrayal of the Roosevelt
peace policy has brought about, and fearing
the coming American economic crash, the

Wall Street money kings.set their course for
imperialist war. They publicly announce
plans to atom-bomb the civilian populations

(Continued on page 6)
SEE -PEACE STATEMENT

Operators’ plot nipped

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sawmills and woodworking
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Operations throughout B.C. thousands
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ized woodworkers are signing Up HS
3 vee new members
WIUC.. Among those signing Up like 5 aaa
are these two union stalwarts, Emil Jo

Don Barbour.

the new -

The militant union of British Columbia wood-
workers, shorn of the disruptive elements who
were conspiring to deliver it into the hands of
the big lumber operators, is living up to its
fighting traditions in a new struggle against
profiteering operators seeking to rob loggers of
their recent conciliation wage award and dis-
credited international union officials desperately
invoking the aid of the courts to continue the

disruption they conducted throughout conciliation
proceedings.

On the outcome of this struggle depends not
only tlte future strength of the labor movement,
but the welfare of the people of this province
whose purchasing power is directly and indirectly
determined by the level of the woodworkers’
earnings.

Repudiated by its Canadian membership, the
clique of IWA officials headed by James Fadling,

WORKERS FLOCK —
TO JOIN NEW UNION |

international president, has turned to the courts

to obtain the most sweeping injunction of its
kind ever granted in this country as its only
means. of obstructing the new Woodworkers In-
dustrial Union of Canada (WIUC)—the former
District 1 of the International Woodworkers of
America until the district council’s dramatic de-
cision to disaffiliate last Sunday, with only dele-

gates from New Westminster and Kamloops
locals dissenting.

But on the job, the WIUC, preparing for
its constituent convention in Vancouver this
coming week, is assured of the overwhelming
support of organized woodworkers who have ne
hesitation in choosing the progressive policies

of their district officers — the men whe

(Continued on back page)
SEE WIUC

EFFIE JONES OPENS CAMPAIGN

‘Tl get back 7c fare’

“The big issue in the coming civic election is
the need to end the BCElectric’s domination of our
city, to win back the 7-cent fare and restore the
weekly pass,” Effie Jones, Civic Reform candi-
date for mayor declared to an enthusiastic meet-
ing of Vancouver citizens at Pender Auditorium
on \Wednesday night.

Holding up a new broom presented to her
at the beginning of the meeting, Mrs. Jones de-
clared: “Believe me, I know how’ to wield a
broom, and when I am elected on December 8th,
I willase this broom to sweep out of our city hall
every BCElectrical political stooge and feliow-
traveller.” :

Referring to the fact tHat she has been
termed “BCER Public Enemy No. 1,” Mrs. Jones
said she-took pride in this title, and would con-
tinue to battle this monopoly which acts as 2
roadblock to civié progress.

Castigating the so-called Non-Partisan Asso-
ciation, she termed it “nothing more and nothing
less than a political ‘front’ organization for the
BCER” and “a willing tool which faithfully car-
ries out such orders as agreeing to the increase
in street car ‘fares.”

(Continued on Page 7)
SEE JONES’ RALLY