CPR tresp Nigel Morgan, LPP candidate for Indian Reserve No. 1 at Nanaimo t property and they should be pro- secuted in the courts if they pro- ceed one step further,’’ Morgan said at an old fashioned pow-wow called by the local Indian council to stop CPR engineers from pro- ceeding with excavation. Morgan was the only candidate to attend the Indian meeting whieh followed action earlier in the day by four members of the reserve who went on to the track and forced the OPR to withdraw. Morgan supports Indian protests on “The Labor-Progressive party gully supports your protest against the CPR attempts to take over a railway right-of-way,” Canadian Colleries have any right whatsoever to interfere with your agreement has been reached. assing — Nanaimo-Islands, told people of his week. ‘‘Neither the CPR nor Cross-examination of the CPR resident engineer for Nanaimo by ‘Chief Edison White at the meet- ing drew the admission that he had been “instructed by the Vic- toria office, under whose jurisdic- tion the work had been started, to put a stop to some unauthoriz- ed ditching that was taking place.”’ ~ Indignant residents of the No. 1 Reserve demanded that the CPR get off their property, respect their rights, and leave their pro- perty, fences and’ trees alone un- til such a time as a satisfactory The trouble started last Thurs- R, KENT ROWLEY MADELINE PARENT Textile strikers unite to support ‘fired’ union heads LPP stand on schools outlined Speaking at the North Val couver Parent-Teacher Council this week, Tom McEwen, candi- date for the Labor-Progressivé party in that constituency, declal- ed: “The Labor-Progressive party supports in principle a completely non-sectarian educational syste) which permits of no division 0! discrimination. Our educational system must be uniform in its 0b jective—to provide all childre® with an opportunity to learn thé skills, sciences and culture, neces sary to their economic wellbeiné and for the promotion of good citizenship.”’ “Those who bring religion into a political campaign or seek to iD ject it into our education sy= tem,’ said McEwen, ‘are rendel ing the people an ill service at this time, which: can only 1ead day when a CPR work train sud- denly appeared on the Reserve and began’ digging a ditch and clearing a right-of-way with a steam shovel for what is believed to be planned for a new, perman- ent route into the new dock. victory is won.’’ ; MONTREAL Striking textile workers here have pledged to “continue the battle for improved living conditions against Dominion Textile, until More than 1,000 strikers jammed the St. Thomas Aquinas hall Monday night this week and vigorously rejected the efforts of the American leadership of United Textile Workers of to a-worsening of our educational standards. To integrate the seP arate schools into our educational setup is to invite disaster. would tend to lower educational — standards, undermine the stand i Port Alberni ERIC GRAF ‘HALL Friday, June 6 8 p-m. t Also Speaking: ALF DEWHURST . LPP Candidate for the Albernis on your reserve than they have to come digging in my garden,”’ Morgan declared. an agreement was concluded with the Reserve for a 33-foot right- of-way for the Vancouver Island Coal Mining nad Land Co., the sole use of hauling coal from their mine to the Nanaimo tipple. March sion that when it ceased to be used for hauling coal] it would re- vert back to the Band. Since only the Bright Mine Colleries, successors to the Van- couver Land © Company, should be turned back, the Indians claim. by the CPR and a couple of saw- mills and the Indians are getting no reimbursement, ‘ test CPR engineer had to say, and gave their protest publicity in the press, the CPR work train has been withdrawn and work discon- tinued, “The CPR has no more right Away back in December, 1883, for This agreement was ratified on 16, 1923, with the provi- No. 1 Indian s now operated by the Canadian Island Coal Mining and the roadbed Instead it is being used Since the Indians established heir picket line, called the pro- meeting to hear what the TIM SUNDAY, NANAIMO RALLY : ROBINS PARK 5th St. and Park Ave. NANAIMO, B.C. 2 p.m. | BUCK JUNE 8th America to foist the “Sam Baron gang on the backs of Canadian textile workers.’’ ; The meeting expressed “full confidence’ in R. Kent Rowley, Madeline Parent and the other Canadian officers of the union who were fired by UTWA inter- national secretary-treasurer Lloyd Klenert upon his arrival in Mon- treal last week. A motion proposing the estab- lishment of an independent Can- adian textile union passed unani- mously. This motion will be dis- cussed and acted upon when the Canadian textile council, com- posesd of officers of the UTWA, meets here later in the week, R. Kent Rowley charged that a deal had been made by Roger Provost, newly appointed UTWA director by Klenart, with Dorfi- inion Textile to sign an agree- ment that included* all the open “speed-up clauses that were re- jected by the members.” Rowley told the cheering work- ers that “in this union we have a democratic tradition that the of- ficers are elected by the member- ship and are responsible to the membership,: and we would never sign an agreement selling out the membership.”’ : “The strike continues 100 per- cent solid,” continued Rowley, “and after meeting with the Val-- leyfield strike committee I can say that the textile workers there are more determined than ever to carry on the fight for improved conditions.” Madeline Parent, Canadian dis- trict secretary-treasurer, called on the meeting “‘to get rid of those American traitors who come here to take our money, make deci- sions, and impose upon us leaders who are ready to sell out the workers.” An abortive attempt to Ee over the Valleyfield headquarters of the union by the Baron gang was debeated by. the workers. About 50 men entered the office Monday morning accompanied by Valleyfield police. They smashed windows and furniture and at- tacked union organizer Conrad Leblanc, who attempted to pre- vent them from wrecking the Dlace. Police promptly arrested Leblane and, Mde. Muranceau, who was the only other striker pre- sent during the invasion, Later in the morning a group of strikers, led by Rowley, re- turned to the office, ejected the thugs and re-established order. Vancouver Second Hand Store @ Stove Parts and Repairs @ Used Plumbing Supplies Tools Kitchenware 638 MAIN ST. PAcific 8457 | LABOR YOUTH CHOIR BIRTH: ards of our teaching professio? and impose sectarian dictatorshiP upon educational administratiod: It would be a retrogressive ste? of the worst possible kind.” CLASSIFIED — A charge of 50 cents for ea? insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional lin? is made for notices appearing i this column. 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