The CCF News sets itself up to judge the award. It states that “trade union circles are at a loss to understand the action of Har- vey Murphy, of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the IWA nominee on the board, in signing the award, which cannot be expected to meet with anything but dissatisfaction on the part of the TWA members who had been led to believe that their district officers were putting up a vigorous fight for adequate wage adjustments.” The CCF News did not have the courtesy to wait until the reasons for the decisions were released. Did it not know that during the conciliation board meetings on Sun- day, the IWA Policy Committee Was in ‘constant session and voted unanimously to recommend _ this settlement? Stewart Alsbury, the CCF’s own protege, is on that pol- icy committee! As to settlements; going into the conciliation board, the companies stood adamant for 11-cents an hour or 8 per cent. The board recom- mended 13 cents or 11 percent. In other, words, a minimum settle- ment of 13 cents up to 24 cents an hour increase; In comparison, the Packinghouse Workers recently won 9.6 cents, a fact quoted by the employers’ representative. Had I brought in a minority re- port as the CCF News considers I should have done, against the in- struction of the IWA Policy Com- mittee, and against my Own better judgment, that minority report would have split the union, to say the least; or does the CCF News’ advise that the workers should re- ject the award now and go on strike? When the union is discuss- ing this matter and the ;CCF News offers no alternative. Is that lead- ership? Forty-one thousand workers were involved. Each half-a-cent re- presents an increase of half a mil- elion dollars! Union security has to be fought for, The responsibility for not attaining it lies on those who have been organizing disruption DOO OOPOOHOOEnorwD] Port Alberni DIRECTORY GOOD EATS CAFE “Where working people meet” New Props. Kay & Margaret 24 HOUR SERVICE . UNION TAXI Phone 137 Frank Harris, Ist & Argyle R. D. TASSIE CHIROPRACTOR 117-Ist Ave. South ISLAND TAILORS Ladies & Gents Tailors Suits Lowest Price in Town M. Yesowick, Manager 103-Ist Ave. North SOMAS DISTRIBUTO LTD. - Woop — sAWDUST — COAL For all your fuel supplies Phone 1187 — McGregor Block By HARVEY MURPHY ~ Murphy blasts ‘CCF News’ smear on |WA conciliation board award ! The CCF News, in its front page attack on the IWA District leadership, just at the time the membership was meeting to decide acceptance or rejection of the conciliation board award, outdid any capitalist sheet in spittiiig its venom against a union that has, just won its successful big wage increase. through “White Blocs” and striv- ing to promote dissension as the editorial in the CCF News’is de- signed to do; it lies on those who discussed union business in an antilabor daiiy press even while the board was in session, so that the employer could use this in- formation. The stand taken by the CCF News in deriding stool pigeon evi- dence is also the stand taken by the Vancouver Province. When stool pigeon evidence can be pres- ented, who says it should not be placed before the conciliation board that is dealing with union secur- ity? Have the editors of the CCF News never heard of workers being fired on stool pigeon evidence? Have they never seen unions dis- rupted by stool pigeons? Issues like wagés and working conditions are not decided, as the CCE News naively contends, through winning “the sympathy and support of the chairman by presenting a logical and reasoned ease in a civilized and courteous manner.” The chairman, Justice H. I. Bird, was an appointee of the Coalition government, whose atti- tude towards labor is notorious, Before he was placed on the bench, he was the government’s special appointee in prosecutions arising out of the Corbin strike. He has appeared for corporations in B.C. on many occasions, His views are not influenced by such ques- tions as whether a union is “civil- ized” or “courteous.” His views as the representative of the govern- ment on the board are determined by governmental policies, and the class interests of the employers. The bringing in of the strongest possible union case, putting the employers on the defensive as the evidence introduced by the union did, and the strength of the union membership; these are the things that determine the settlement. ‘iron curtain’ SPECIAL TO THE Delegates from Local 1-80 duly. filled in the pretentious appli- cation forms and presented these and themselves to the inspector for further questioning. After the first few routine ques- tions, U.S. immigration authorities got down to the business of pick- ing “suitable” delegates to the IWA convention, Q. What is your destination in the US.? A. Portland, Oregon, Q. What is the purpose of your visit to the U.S.?~ A. I am a delegate to the IWA convention. Oh, you're a union delegate, eh; I am sorry, but you'll have to wait for some inspectors to come up from the wharf. P2998 S 0 SEEOO— wonder if you are like the rest of your fellow-citizens, who seem to experience no difficulties in getting through this elaborate “iron cur- tain.” When the officials arrived the real interrogation begins. Q. Are you a member of the Communist Party or the LPP? A. refuse to answer that Q. Why? : A. Because the right to poli- From this point on you begin to | IWA delegate reveals location PACIFIC TRIBUNE > —PORM AL BRRNEGB.C. to the IWA international con- vention, together with Ladies Auxiliary delegates, lined up like other Canadian citizens in the U.S. immigration office on September 24 , Like the rest of their fellow citizens they ereed, which the Canadian and American constitutions give me, are just as sacred to me as the men who fought and died for those constitutions. . Q. Do you believe in the over- throw of the government by force and violence . .. have you ever been in jail, . . etc., etc. The questions come with machine- gun rapidity, and it is obvious they are not even interested in answers. — With mixed feelings, as they fire such questions you look down at your war-service button—and think about the Atlantic Charter and its “four freedoms.” You also begin to form a pretty good idea in your mind as to the exact location of the “Iron Curtain.” You are finally told you are “temporarily” refused admission because you refused to disclose your political affiliations. You will now have to await the U.S. Attor- ney-General’s decision—which you may appeal! (The last successful appeal cost the IWA $5,000, and was arbitrarily reversed by A.-G. Tom Clark inside of a week?) As you leave the U.S. Immigra- tion office you realize why they] did not ask you the question—Are tical freedom, religious belief and you a fascist? Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hastings Street MArine 5746 STANTON & MUNRO BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES Nanaimo Office Room 2, Palace Building Skinner Street 1780 ALWAYS MEET AT Triple Mike P.A. System — Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS Wired for Broadcasting 389 West Pender Street _ HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS HAND-MADE JOHNSON‘’S BOOTS 68 West Cordova Street - - - - - - Phone MArine 7612 Not their business New York fur workers in a gigantic demonstration (below) blast the House labor sub-committee probe into alleged “communist domination” of their union as an invasion of their rights as free trade unionists to choose their own leaders. Above President Ben Gold (center) of the International Fur and Leather Workers’ Union (CIO) chats with union leaders after testifying in Washington. Gold, who readily acknowledged he was a Communist, told the witck hunters they had no business snooping into tlhe political opinions of union members. Jones will implement parking. ctte. report By EFFIE JONES. ‘ Civic Reform Candidate for Mayor Unless downtown Vancouver is to become a_ business ghost-town, action will have to be taken without delay to solve the acute parking problem, me The solution is obvious—to begin immediately to, imple- ment recommendations in _ the $12,000 report on downtown park- ing presented to Vancouver City Council last March 8 by a special committee which made an exhaus- tive survey on council instructions during 1947. More than six months have passed and council has taken no action. When I am elected mayor, I will shake up these doodlers and dawdlers. and see that some- thing is done. What was the main recommenda- tion in the report? It was stated that the city— not private interests—should ac- quire various land areas in the downtown district suitable for parking lots to accommodate a to- tal of at lease 2,600 cars, and in my opinion, this can best be done by charging the cost to downtown business properties as a local im- . provement from which they will derive the chief benefits. A survey conducted earlier this year showed that 72 percent of some 7,000 motorists interviewed at the Vancouver motor vehicle testing station favored city-owned Parking lots. Obsolete and slum buildings would be demolished to provide Space for these city-operated parking lots. As the survey points out: “The replacement of obsolete dwellings and buildings by land- Scaped parking arear would result in a more attractive city for Van- couver citizens and tourists.” When I am in the mayor’s SS uGHEST PRICES ie eg DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery 3TAR LOAN CO. Ltd. EST. 1905 719 Robson St. — MAr. 2622 Se chair after December 8, I will demand immediate action on the parking problems. Useful work will be provided for many citiz- ens; Vancouver business men will benefit; , obsolete will be demolished; and our downtown area will acquire a prosperous, progressive “new look.” More money for living, less for killing —LONDON Vigorous protests against the inadequacy of the recent $1 weekly wage boost to members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union are continuing despite threats by the AEU’s executive board against those taking part in “unofficial strikes.” The union, which includes close to two million workers in the shipbuilding, automobile, aircraft and other industries, was award- ed the $1 wage increase Septem- ber 2 by a government labor board. The award was far below — AEU demand for a $2.60 r Token strikes have occurred in a number of areas. At a Clyde shipyard, only five out of 140 workers voted against a token stoppage. In London a mass meeting pledged “to carry on the figlt even without Trade Union Council support.” The London workers pointed | out that “if there’s enough money for increasing production of war material there must be enough for raising working class living standards.” Slogan of the was “More money for living— less money for killing.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1948—PAGE 7