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Union paper scores contract,
says BCElectric interested
only in bondholders’ profits

A bitter denunciation of the BCElectric for awarding a tower contract to an Italian company is
contained in the current issue of Ship and Shop, organ of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union

here. Answering the BCElectric’s claim that it is saving B.C. consumers $1 million by having the work

done in Italy, the union paper retorts:

. Then how about an immediate reduction in street car fares, and how about an immediate re-

duction in electric power rates?”

The only reason the company is having the work done in Italy, the paper charges, is “to use the
depressed areas of Italy to puf more money in the pockets of the bondholders of the BCElectric.”

Rosenberg frameup
‘to open gates to fascism’
U.S. Communists declare

Contrasting the company’s use
of the slogan, “Industry. is moving
to B.C.,” widely used in BCElectric
advertising, Ship and Shop com-
ments:

“When we see the slogan so
prominently displayed and insert-
ed by our transportation mono-
poly, we would’ get the impres-
sion that the BCElectric is vital-
ly interested in the future of Brit-
ish Columbia and its people.

“However, a closer examination
of the facts shows clearly that the
BCElectric is only interested in
gouging what it can from the
workers of B.C., then throwing
them on to the scrap heap when
its own interests so dictate.

“2. @apsiatal firms in‘ BS;
since the end of the war, have
fabricated and erected all the steel
towers in B.C. It has meant work
for hundreds of men since 1946.
But now the BCElectric wants to
take advantage of the lower stand-
ard of living in Italy and have its
towers completely fabricated in
that country, to be erected in B.C.

“Already this has resulted in
a number of workers being laid
off in our local plants, with hun- .
dreds more slated to go.”

Calling on all organized workers
to protest, Ship and Shop suggests
the BCElectric should be taken
over by the provincial government
because it “has betrayed the in-
terests of the people of B.C. and
because of ‘that, has no right to
exist as a private monopoly in
British Columbia.”

Unionist, war' veteran

to contest

VICTORIA, B.C.
Tom Seibert, 32-year-old Second
World War veteran with an im-
pressive record in the labor move-
ment of B.€., was the unanimous
choice for Labor-Progressive can-
didate in Victoria federal constitu-
ency, at a public nominating con-
vention held here last week.
“No party can cut taxes if they

LPP names Seibert |

intended

NEW YORK

In a tribute “to two immortal Atherican patriots, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,” the U.S. Communist

party calls for “a‘ ‘new national resistance” to “the threat of fascism.”

A formal statement, issued by

the party’s national committee urges action along the following lines:

@ “The truth about the ‘why and wherefore’ of this frameup must be brought to the labor ahve?
which should be shown that behind the Rosenberg frameup stood the worst enemies of all labor; that if

the Rosenbergs could be framed
as ‘spies,’ then any labor leader or
militant worker can be framed by
the same forces on trumped up
charges of any kind. The Rosen-
berg case — like Mooney and Sac-
co-Vanzetti and later cases — is a
labor case.

@ “To warn the labor move-
ment and the people as a whole
that behind the Rosenberg ‘spy
hoax’ new attacks are being plot-
ted against the rights and living
conditions of the people, and to
help organize united resistance to
stem.the tide of fascism.

@ “To show that the Rosen-

berg fight merges with the people’s

hatred of the Korean war, of the
suicidal foreign policies of Wash-
ington, and that the fight to ex-
pose the criminals behind the Ro-
senberg frameup is a vital part
of the peace and democracy bat-
tles, just as the fight for Dreyfus
in France was a fight for French
democracy against militarism and
war.”

The statement charges that the

Truman administration, the FBI
and the Eisenhower administra-
tion all demanded of the Rosen-
bergs “that they help open the
gates to fascism, to anti-labor,
anti-Communist, anti-Semitic vio-
lence in the United States.

“The top officials in govern-
ment, especialy the department
of frameup headed by J. Edgar
Hoover, plotted to force the
humble Jewish couple to betray
democracy by ‘fingering’ the
Progressive and Marxist move-
ment as an ‘espionage conspir-
acy,’ the statement points out.

“The plot to frame the Rosen-
bergs on the basis of a fantasy
created by the FBI in a deal with a
frightening and chronic liar was a
political plot to assist in advanc-
ing the McCarthyite pro-fascist
reign of fear, to brutalize the pop-
ulation, and get it to accept the
further fascization of the United
States without resistance.”

Noting the tremendous move-

‘ment that developed to save the

Rosenbergs, the Eeronent adds:

“In this historic battle for the
preservation of democracy in
the United States, it is a tragic
fact that the organized fabor
movement was deceived by the
colossal frameup propaganda in
this case; that it fell victim to
the stupid and criminal myth
that there existed an ‘atom
bomb secret’ which the Soviet
Union had to ‘steal,’ and that
this explains the terrible danger
of atomic war under which our
country lives today.”

Foreseeing the effort by pro-
fascist forces to spread more anti-
Semitism,; more violence, more
frameups, the statement declares:

“The task is now for us Ameri-
cans not to falter in the face of
this challenge, but to take inspir-
ation from the courage of these
two patriotic Americans who
would not give the Jew-haters and

see war Berets what they want-
e ”

Victoria —

go ahead with the present Wal”
policies,’ Nigel Morgan, LPP prove
incial leader, told the meeting:
“They just can’t provide the need:
ed health services, educatio |
grants and increased old age Pe
sions.’ }
“We are prone to forget the |
staggering cost of war,” Mot L
said citing the 21 million men kill
ed in the last war, and 20 million
civilians who died, the 29%
lion wounded and disabled, the at
million evacuees and the 150
lion made homeless.

“The Labor-Progressive party
takes a fundamentally differ
position from all other parties © on
this vital question of peace,”
the speaker. “The election of LeP
candidates would ‘signalize m? 7
than anything else the desire °
the people for a change in polit |

In his acceptance speech,
bert said, it was an honor to ¢
the banner of the Tabor Pros,
sive Party, “the true inheritor ° a
the traditions of those democral?
Canadians—men who were SCOl
ed, reviled and denounced in the!”
time — whose struggles reare
in the knowledge that we too ™
struggle to advance their tt
tions in our own time.” ¢]

Active in the labor movelne
since the thirties, Tom Siebert ¥
a member of the Relief Proié ted
Workers’ Union and_participalé
in the sitdown of jobless mea |
the: Vancouver Post Office in ! +
and in the trek to Victoria thet |
followed. . he

During the early war yeals ard
helped to organize the Doc
and Shipyard Worxers’

Local No. 1 (CCL) and was #0! *
time its business agent. ; pe

He served overseas with a
Seaforth Highlanders in the @ A
paigns in Italy, where he in
wounded in action near Cass"”
and in Holland. et

Since the war he has
deepsea out of Vancouver ee
member first of the Canadiat Ty
men’s Union and later of the a
Coast Seamen’s Union, an wes
recently has worked in mills #

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on construction projects. __
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NOW is the time for all’ Good Canadians
- to rally around a policy to

PUT CANADA! FIRST

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— CANADA'S LIFELINE”

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SUNDAY, JULY 12-8 p.m.

THE FACTS THEY WILL NOT PRINT
About Justice Minister Garson’s R.C.M.P. slanders.
About Conservative Leader Drew’s McCarthy-type ravings.
About the events in Korea.and Germany.
About the LPP policy to Put Canada First.

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