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Peace movement? vital

‘Back fighting seamen with
fighting dollars’--Thompson

“The United labor rally held in Ottawa in sup-
port of the Canadian Seamen’s Union strike was
the most powerful demonstration of labor unity
I have ever experienced,” Jimmy Thompson, CSU

vice-president, told the Pacific Tribune:on his re-

turn from the capital, “Such solidarity an win on
the lakes to keep labor free.

“Right now the urgent need is to give prac-
tical cheers to that solidarity with fighting dollars
to back the fighting seamen,” Thompson declared.
“We remember joining with other unions in rais-
ing 120,000 victory dollars for the Ford strike—
our need is even greater today, and we'll welcome
all contributions at our offices, 53 Powell Street,
Vancouver, B.C. . We're appealing to all locals to
join in the voluntary 25 cents per week per mem-
ber scheme approved at Ottawa.”

* * *
—OTTAWA.

The Trades and Labor Congress executive
council is going before the cabinet to demand
that the government compel lawbreaking Lakes
steamship companies to bargain collectively with
the legally certified Canadian Seamen’s Union.
Delegates from TLC affiliates unanimously en-
dorsed this proposal from Percy Bengough at the
United Labor conference here.

The decision was greeted by CCL-CIO dele-
gates, who later joined the AFL’ers in lobbying
the Liberal convention,

History was made when both groups, 700

strong, met in a joint. “open meeting.” Only the . +
Canadian Congress of Labor's last-minute refusal ©
’ to participate blocked the joint session from act-

ing officially.Bengough told the CCL’ers of his
“frank apreciation” of their support, He explain-
ed that the TLC constitution prevented passing of
resolutions at such joint conferences but stressed
the main factor which had brought both groups
together: “I want no divisions on the issue of the
CSU strike.”

There were no “walkouts” and “splits” as re-
ported by the dailies and CCF News. Stories of
a split told by Frank Hall, vice-president of the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
(AFL), who bosses and government hope will
replace Bengough, were labelled ”completely un-
true” by Bengough. “I wish to state quite frank-
ly that the question has been raised by some as
to whether the TLC is doing the right thing in
supporting the CSU,” Bengough told the confer-
ence delegates. “I would like to hear their views.
Now is the time for them to speak up.” Those who
spoke up were several TLC delegates all of whom

Continued on back page
SEE SEAMEN

Dailies didn’t report price demonstrations

The demonstration (left) against

turday stretched over ail mention they prevented) their readers from
downtown Vancouver mer’ ganee rin support of learning of the lead being given by the LPF in the
oe nety. blocks and wor [Ae sessed with fight against profiteering and high prices

Ousands, who saw it. The dailies, 0
War scare propaganda, didn

high prices in

% consider the demon-

stration to be news, however, and by blacking out

The dailies did report the Port Alberni demon-

SPY MANIACS OUT TO
WRECK MOSCOW TALKS

A thousand Vancouverites Wednesday night applauded
a call to B.C. labor to convene in conference for peace. The
call came at an LPP peace rally. from a Canadian known to
scores of thousands for his leadership of the peace fight in the
thirties—A. A. McLeod, member of the Ontario parliament
for Toronto-Bellwoods.

Despatches from Moscow, Berlin, Washington and
Ottawa underline the appeal as literally a life-and-death
question for British Columbians, whose labor movement,
MacLeod stated, could spark a national labor peace crusade.
(See page 7)

Already the big IWA local 1-80 on Vancouver Island
has voiced the world-wide demand for a German settlement
on -the-hasis of the Potsdam agréement*’ détiazify “all Ger-
many; cripple the Nazi monopolists and Junkers through
nationalizing basic industries and land; build a united demo-
cratic Germany instead of a new hotbed of aggression in an
American-annexed Bizonia.

Such proposals have been laid on the conference table
at Moscow by Molotov. ‘Reports from world capitals show
the peoples look with hope to the conferences in Moscow,
and with anger at the spy hysteria in Washington. The
Republican un-American maniacs seek to behead the Wallace
peace movement, to smear the Truman administration which
itself initiated the barren “spy” investigations—and also to
dynamite prospects for a peaceful settlement at Moscow.

British Columbia dailies have suppressed the fact that
the Soviet teacher: Mrs. Oksana Kosinkina herself told a
press conference how she was drugged and kidnapped by
American-sponsored whiteguard gangsters. She: has now
again been kidnapped by American authorities at the hospit-
al bed where she lies fighting for life following the suicide

Continued on back page
SEE PEACE

Stration (center and right), in which Nigel Morgan,
LPP provincial leader (extreme left in picture at
right), participated, but only to play up the demand
for action against the LPP made by Ald. Rush. (See
story on page 6.)

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