‘We've reached new audiences’

Looking fit and full of bounce,
Tim Buck took time out from
his rigorous schedule of meetings
this week to tell the Pacific
Tribune about his tour of Van-
couver Island and the Gulf Is-
lands.

“Did you manage to get a bit
of a rest?’ was the first question
I asked him.

“We were blessed with very
fine weather all week, not a spot
of rain,’’ answered Tim obliquely.
“And say, do you know some-
thing? In the town of Sidney we
were presented with the biggest
stalk of rhubarb I’ve ever seen.
The leaf measuerd 36 inches by
44 inches, and the stalk, I swear,
was big enough to make two deep
rhubarb pies. I tell you, Nigel
Morgan was just as astounded as
I was, and he was a bit crest-
fallen, too—he found it hard to
believe they could grow bigger
rhubarb around Sidney than on
Galiano Island!”

(Nigel Morgan, Labor-Progres-
sive party provincial leader, and
LPP national leader Tim Buck
toured Nanaimo-The Islands con-
stituency in the final week of
Morgan’s election campaign. Mor-
gan, born and raised on Galiano
Island, contested the riding for
the LPP.)

“T gather they kept you on the
go,” I said, “but you are looking
remarkably fit, Tim.”

“T° feel fine,’ he replied. ‘‘To
illustrate the intensity of the
eampaign, well, listen to this. Af-
ter finishing some post-meeting
discussions in Courtenay at one
o’clock. Sunday morning, Nigel
Morgan and I were up and being
interviewed by the press at 9 a.m.
We left for Nanaimo at 11 a.m.,
spoke in Robins Park that after-
noon, went straight to a banquet
at Ladysmith at 6:30 p.m., were
driven back to the wharf at Na-
naimo, got aboard a fishing boat
which took us to Gabriola Island.
We concluded our meeting there
at 11 p.m., started back for Na-
naimo, arrived at one.o’clock Mon-
day morning, just in time for
Nigel to prepare,the radio broad-
east that he had to record Monday
“morning at 11 a.m. Aitogether,
a well-occupied and very fruitful
week, as you can see from this
account of one 24-hour period.”

“Did you notice much differ-
ence on this tour compared to
previous tours?”

“Yes, the most evident and ob-
vious change being that on this
_ trip we held meetings in localities
where we had never held LPP
meetings before,”’ said Buck. “On
Salt Spring Island and Gabriola
_ Island we addressed very fine
meetings; at Ganges Harbor we
were told that ours was the big-
gest a ace of the entire election
eampaign.”

“Were the audiences enthusias-’

tic?”

“That’s a good question, be-
-eause I believe it would be true
to say a majority of people came
with a big question mark regard-
ing the LPP and its new program,
What was remarkable was the
way this attitude changed as they
heard for the first time what
the LPP does advocate. And there
- was tremendous interest shown in
the new program. In fact, while
Nigel Morgan’s speeches concen-
trated entirely on issues of the
provincial election campaign, and
mine dealt with the LPP program

Rallies in Islands

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only in part, practically all the
questions from the audiences con-
cerned the new program.

“Two things impressed me par-
ticularly. First, that the people
of British Columbia are united in
their determination to stop the
sellout of our country to the
United States. Second, that they
fully support the demand made
in our program that Canada re-
establish trade with all countries.
And this realization of the need
for trade is not limited to loggers
and fishermen, but represents the
thinking of all sections of the
population.

“The best evidence of the in-
terest in Our program was ‘that
on each of the islands several

people expressed a desire that a

Labor-Progressive party club be
established.”’
* * x

Buck was enthusiastic about
the meetings held on Vancouver
Island, too. In Courtenay more
than 400 attended an indoor
rally ‘on a warm Saturday eve-
ning, and while an important base-
ball game was in progress in
town.”’

Similarly Alberni,

at oProut

where Eric Graf Hall was packed

for a rally addressed by Buck
and Alf. Dewhurst, LPP candidate
in Alberni constituency. “The
meeting went on until after 11
p.m.,’’ said Buck, “and then we
moved to the basement. where the
women of the Association of
United Ukrainian Canadians serv-
ed a very fine banquet and there
were more speeches, so that in a
political sense we didn’t wind it
up until one o’colck in the morn-
ing."

In Nanaimo between 300 and
400 turned .out for an open-air
meeting in Robins Park, after
which, in Tim Buck’s words, ‘‘we
drove to Ladysmith and enjoyed
a full-course banquet at the Finn-
ish Hall.”

What kind of questions did the
people ask? What were they prin-
cipally concerned about? :

“On Gabriola Island one ques-
tioner expressed the fear that
arms reduction would leave Can-
ada undefended,” replied Buck.
“It was quite remarkable to see

the change that came over the
‘audience when we pointed out

that the program of the LPP was
for gradual, controlled reduction
of armaments on the basis of the
real requirements for national
security.”

-“The answers to all the ques-
tions we were asked are con-
tained in the LPP’s new pro-
gram,’’ observed Buck. ‘““We must
get our program into the hands
of these paanle who are Sophie
the answers.’

, One final quote from Tim Buck,
“TI was talking to a Native Indian
who attended one meeting,” he
said, ‘‘and I was interested to
learn that he had come all the
way from Campbell] River to Cour-
tenay to hear us. He said some-
thing that impressed me deeply.
‘To reach the Native Indians with
your message,’ he told me, ‘you
have got to find out all about
things the Native people are in-

terested in—problems of the res-"

ervations, fishing rights, treaty
rights, and above all, how can
we win the right to get the same
treatment as whites for widows
or dependents.’ ”’ -

‘Concluded Buck: ‘‘That’s a job
for the LPP in British Columbia
to tackle immediately.”

Mine- Mill
returns to

old hall

ROSSLAND, B.C.
The International Union of
Mine, Mill and. Smelter Workers
returned to its old home, known
as the K.P. hall but built by the
Western Federation of Miners,
Local 38, in an interesting cere-
mony held here recently. Present
for the occasion was labor vet-
eran George Casey, a Prince Rup-
ert alderman who was secretary
of the WFM local in its heyday
here. ;

Very much affected by the ¢ cere-
mony, Casey told the meeting:

“Tt was just 52 years ago that
I was initiated into the Western
Federation of ‘Miners in this same
hall, It was in this hall that the
first 8-hour day law for under-
ground workers was drafted in

' | action

: GEORGE CASEY
“7 was initiated into the West-
ern Federation of Miners in this
same hall 52 years ago.’’

1898. And in this hall in 1902
the first Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Act was drafted.”

Casey recalled that many fa-
mous labor leaders had spoken
in the hall,

“Jim” Hawthornwaite, outstand-
ing B.C. Socialist party leader and
MLA in the early years of the
century, Eugene Debs, Ed Boyce,
Charles Moyer, ‘‘Big Bill’ Hay-
wood, Elizabeth Gourley Flynn.

Mine-Mill international presi-

dent John Clark complimented

the union on recovering the old
Miners’ Union ‘Hall, and added:
“As one who fought to organize
this union in the early days and
who married and spent my honey-
moon in the Kootenays, I feel
as though I am reliving past ex-
periences in being once again
present at a miners’ union meet-
ing in Rossland.” ‘ '

Defining Mine-Mill’s stand on
the all-important question of
peace, Clark said, ‘‘No worker
anywhere in the world can take
any other attitude than for world
peace, for no worker anywhere
can possibly gain anything
through war. Our union stands
solidly behind any action that will
further world peace.”

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CMS lays off 300

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short -change shift

KIMBERLEY, B.C.
Jonsolidated Mining and
Smelting Company has laid off
300 men here (70 at tthe con-
centrater plant and more than
200 at the nearby Sullivan
mine) for:refusing to work a
short change—two shifts with-
in a 24-hour period—which
violates the Metalliferous Mines
Act.

The Act provides that no
more than eight howrs in any
24-hour period shall be worked
in any mine or metallurgical
works.
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Delegation
asks action
on swamp

A large delegation from West
Point Grey packed the committee
room at Vancouver City Hall
Tuesday this week to demand
in draining of a swamp
bordering Queen Elizabeth public
school, claimed to have been the
possible source of polio infection
which has resulted in the death
of one boy aud the infection of a
second, .

Although houses surrounding
the. bog are on city land, the
swamp itself is on provincial land
immediately west of the city
boundary, and aldermen used this
fact to sidestep taking any direct
action,

Council members voted, how-
ever, to take up the problem with
provincial authorities. City engin-
eey John Oliver contended it
would cost ‘$400,000 to $500,-
000” for connection to a trunk
sewer which now stops at Twenty-
ninth, and Ald. George Miller said
the city had asked Victoria be-
fore to consider a joint sewerage
scheme in the area, but received
no co-operation.

A delegation spokesman claim-,

ed open sewage from neighboring
areas goes through drainage pipes
instead of regular sewage pipes.

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signature of V. Grbic, natiov
secretary of the {Federation
Yugoslav Canadians, reads:

“Yugoslav Canadians have
shocked by the report of
Windsor Daily Star of May
that the notorious war crinmuD
Dobrosavy . Jevdjevic has arT
in Windsor and that he inten@
to ‘address a public meeting
Niagara Falls. j

“Jevdjevic was a close colel
orator of ‘General Mario Roat#:
commander of the Italian army
of occupation during the war.
was responsible for the murdet
of thousands of innocent wom’
and children. For these crimes
he was tried in absentia an
sentenced to death by the ve
slav court.

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tion of your government in Pe
mitting this criminal to e@
Canada. We ask that he be de-
ported from Canada immed
ately.”

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