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ID you ever hear of a one-man
central trade-union body? No!
Well I think I have just located
one. The Trades and Labér Con-
gress of Canada. the Canadian
Congress of Labor, the Catholic
Federation, all are bodies com-
posed of affiliated unions, but if
this body, which calls itself
“Canadian Association Unions”,
has even one legitimate trade or
industrial union, _ international,
native or Cath-
olic, affiliated,
attached, at
otherwibe con-
nected with
: not

hook-tender, but
eat it too.

A friend of
mine has_ sent
me a copy of a
Publication cs 4
which purports to be the official
ergan of the above named body,
the Canadian Associated Digest,
but which has all the earmarks of
one of these advertising rackets
published with the sole object of
milking the advertisers, among
whom are included such staunch
friends of unionism as _ Bloedel,
Stewart and Welch; Spencer's
Department Stores; West Kooten-
ay Light and Power; S. M. Simp-
“Son logging outfit, Kelowna;
Coleman and Johnson Bros.

LAST week “Gorgeous”
_. Drew, Tory premier of On-
tario, rede forth to slay his own
crudely-constructed dragon of
“communism”. Immaculitely at-
tired, oozing confidence, ego and
arrogance at every pore, scornful
of the common people, our Tory

berg, and A. A. MacLeod:

clean out the eight CCFers in the

- Ontario House, who are also “a_
_ threat to our free institutions.”

George

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(‘Boss” Jehnson, premier of B.C.
to you).

What leads us to say that this
self-styled CAU is a one-man
show, is the character of the con-
tents of the publication and a
couple of monthly bulletins that
came with it. There are three
signed articles, labor-hating and
red-baiting, over the signature of
one, James L. Stafford, eight
blurbs for industrial firms and
board of trade who carry paid
ads in the paper, the balance be-
ing scissors-and-paste jobs, all of
it being anti-union, anti-labor,
anti-socialist and anti-communist.
Of course there is no union label
en it. Even the scab print shop
seems ashamed to put its name
on. it. :

There is, of course, a possible
alternative — that the man Staf-
ford may be merely a front for
the CMA, but to any one with
experience in the newspaper game,
our first guess would be the most
natural one—that this is one of
these rackets designed to capital-
ize on the present red-baiting
campaign of the fear-stricken
bosses.

It is only a féw weeks ago since
Tom McEwen, in this paper, drew
to the attention of our readers
that Western Business and Indus-
try warned its business clientele
of a racket that aimed at milking
them by offering to fight commun-
ist infiltration at a price. The sec-

the assembled Tory conspirators

what a real leader looks like,
heave out bumbling John Brack-
en and lead the party to “victory”
--and Canada to fascism,

In drafting his plans “Gorge-
ous” George made two fatal er-
tors. He might have recalled Rob-
ert Burns’ words, that “the best
laid schemes of mice and men,
gang aft agley”, and worst of all
he appeared to have absolutely
forgotten about that great impon-
derable in elections—the people!
' Organs of “public opinion” like
the Toronto Evening Telegram
and The Globe and Mail recited
the daily jousts of Don Drew with
high praise and commendation.
All who dared question our
knight's 22 promises by which he

‘had hoodwinked the people in

1945 were branded as “commun-
ists” by “Gorgeous” George and
the Tory press. To them at least,
that seemed an adequate reply to
all opposition. .

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\WHEN ‘the ballots were counted

a deep gloom settled upon
the Tory camp and its debonair
knight, a gloom which not even
the most potent “Drew cocktail”
could lift. The LPP members in
St. Andrew and Bellwoods were
re-elected with increased major-
ities—in spite of Tory and CCF
efforts in those constituencies to
confuse and split the vote. Thir-
teen of the Toronto-Yorks’ 17 rid-
ings gave “Gorgeous” George elec-
tion delirium tremens — with a

‘CCF majority. ‘To ‘top it all off,

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Short Jabs

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retary of that crusade may now
be back in Kingston penitentiary
where he came from—and he was
not a political prisoner either,

.The platform of this CAU, pub-
lished over the name of an alleg-
ed “Executive of the CAU”, is
taken holus-bolus from the anti-
CMA and NAM in the U.S. Aboli-
union pronouncements of the
off; prohibition of industry-wide
tion of the closed shop and check-
collective bargaining agreements;
banning of union welfare funds
unless employers have a voice in
their administration; elimination
of mass pcketing; no sympathy
strikes; oppose any form of union
security which interferes with in-
dividual liberty; and lots more
that even to name “would be un-
holy,” as Burns says.

The depths of moral turpitude in
which the producer or producers
of this paper are steeped, are
shown by an announcement
among the display ads (of which
there are about three or four
thousand dollars’ worth), which
reads “Employ Disabled Veter-
ans. They Cause No Trouble.”

The word “unions” has acquir-

ed its meaning through 150 years

of working class struggle. use
it in connection with this phoney
outfit is an invasion of working
class rights. I challenge this Can-
adian Association Unions to name
one legitimate union in its ranks
—or be branded for what it is, a
fraud. ‘

tu-
ency of High Park (which re-
sembles Vancouver’s West Point
Grey) turned thumbs down on
him and voted CCF!

The Tories weren’t defeated in
Ontario. There is’ still a Drew ma-
jority in the legislature. The Drew
government could have been com-
pletely defeated—could have been
dealt a blow which would have
duplicated the resounding defeat
it received in “Tory” Toronto
throughout the whole province,

Had the CCF leadership in On-
tario come out with a program
of unity and determination to
Smash the Tory machine in On-
tario—to brand the Tory red-bog-
ey as a smokescreen for broken
promises and sharpening reaction,
rather than attempting to out-
Tory the Tories in anti-commun-
ist fulmination and vote-splitting,
as in St. Andrew, Bellwoods and
Sudbury, the Drew election de-
hacle would have been complete
and decisive. | :

“Gorgeous” George, who has
preened himself as an “expert” on
how the Italians, Czechs, Roman-
ians, Frenchmen, Hungarians,

Yugoslavs, and what not, should ©

vote, has accomplished what he
didn’t set out to do—to raise the
burning problem in the inner
circles of both of Tory and Liberal
hierarchy on how to save these
respective parties from the indig-
nation and disgust of the Canad-
ian people. The CCF victories in

Yale,, Oshawa and Vancouver '

Center give added emphasis to the
Drew debacle in Ontario — and
added concern to King and Brack-
en in the direction of their Poli-
tical stables. ;

Meanwhile “Gorgeous” George
and his Tory squires have a $64
problem-—where to find a seat for
our knight which can be — not
considered—but guaranteed “safe”
from the common people,

In common humanity

ERSONAL suffering of the flood victims has been terrible

enough. But the real ruin of hopes and lives and
families does not come from the flood waters. It will
come—if the people let it come—from failure of the Coali-
tion to undo the damage by making, together with Ottawa,
100 percent compensation for all flood losses.

The announcement of a special session of the Legisla-
ture July 7 (called for the B.C. Federation of Labor) is
welcome.

But by then it will have been 40 days since Agassiz, for
example, was evacuated ‘Thousands ‘are inhumanly tor-
tured by anxiety, unable to make plans, because “Boss”
Johnson fails, in all his Statements, to announce that every
dollar’s worth of flood loss in property and income will be
made good by the provincial and federal government.

Certainly syrveys have

syr’ to be made ‘and machinery set
up, but the principle of full

compensation has to be estab-
lished as the principle and guarantee to the people on which
all this work is based. :

Evasion means that the old-line party governments are
trying to wiggle out of such a commitment and get away
with only partial compensation. ‘These are the same govern-
ments that failed through the years to establish river con-
trol, and whose emergency measures were “too little and
too late.” The callous attempt to chisel the flood victims
is part of the same pattern of criminal negligence and con-
tempt for the people’s welfare that is the hallmark of
governments which put profits before. people.

One of the most important sessions in our history meets
in only 19 days. There is no time to lose in raising, through-
out the province, without standing on formality, the insist-
ent, united demand for the 100 percent compensation on
which the future of the flood victims depends, as well as
safety dyking and immediate start on river control.

How much tie victims get and how much they suffer :
will depend exactly on how much pressure is put on the
government and how soon. ‘

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“We'd better get an injunction — the union nego-
tiating committee's outside.”

Looking backward

( From the files of the People’s Advocate, June 20, 1938)

While most of Vancouver still slept, city and Royal Canadian
Mounted Police at six o'clock on Sunday morning descended on
the 750 single unemployed in the post office and art gallery and
ejected them with teas att sage

Residents in do
awakened by

hooves over Paving stones.
glass breaking.

latter of horses’
They heard shouts and the sound of
Sirens sounded in the distance,

see men running along Hastings and

pursued by police on horseback and in patrol] cars.

forced up against the Sweep of plate glass windows
department store and brutally clubbed. . . .

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The Pattullo government must either act immediately to provide

work and wages for the unemployed through a public works

program, or, admitting its inability 'to cope with the problem, résign.

A resolution to this effect received the unanimous endorsation
of the 15,000 people who* rallied at Powell Street grounds Sunday
oon to protest the police attack om single unemployed. \. . -

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streets

They ‘saw men
of Woodward’s

In the House of Commons on Tuesday, J. S. Woodsworth, MP,
commented: “The irony of it all is that while Prime Minister King
was at Niagara Falls (unveiling the Cli
men executed for