Seyi! | wen eresy!, |; js ay ii , “i fii) Figen, ACC IU DEMING GTM AME ETE ALY Vd ELE IE A PET OMe PLT Re ' / of “s Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, June 17 hE tans : 4 Price Five Cents And the sales tax remains! FAILURE TO FIGHT ON ISSUES DEFE Determination of the fighting Canadian seamen 0 carry on their world-wide strike, now .in its Wwelfth week, until it is won, has increased since the Wnwarranted suspension of the CSU by the tades and Labor Congress took place a fortnight ago, Swelling labor support for the Canadian Sea- men’s Union was reflected this week in the financial Snations from labor bodies, which show a sharp "Pward trend since the Congress act of betrayal. In Vancouver, the Trades and Labor Council Save $500 to assist the seamen to pay legal costs M current court cases. Waterfront workers in San "ancisco and Los Angeles collected $400 for the B.C. labor redoubles Its support for CSU CSU. From Victoria supporters came a cheque for $427. Crew of the S.S. Waikawa gave $1,001; crew of the Lake Winnipeg, $578; crew of the ake Tatlo, $600. The~ Fishermen’s Union, a steady contributor, threw another $75 into the pot; and .scores of smaller. donations poured in_to strike headquarters at 53 Powell street from union locals, groups of sympathizers, and individuals. The. strike kitchen is feeding some 200 strikers daily and needs a continuous supply of food dona- tions. Meat, fresh vegetables, coffee and canned goods are welcomed. Continued on back page See SEAMEN Employers want to smash Mine-Mill, too an ALR. Mosher CCL president, was already Sekciees when this picture was taken recently, ay S : iaviMs if not the employers’ by his attempts Taids on its membership. Jeering hard-rock miners and their wa ag smash the -Mine-Mill union through CCL-organ- inside Timmins’ Empire theater, speaking to a small put to get there he had to walk through this picket They wanted to know whose interests he was ATS CCF In the successful climax to a shrewdly planned campaign which could only have been defeated by a fighting opposition rallying the people around living issues, the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition govern ment swept back into office this week with an even larger majority. To win its victory it retained all but two of the-seats it held in the last legislature and toppled its opponents in such CCF strong- holds as Mackenzie, held by CCF whip Herbert Gargrave since 1941, and Cowichan-Newcastie, represented by Sam Guthrie since 1937, The Coalition regained the four northern ridings, Fort George, Peace River, Omineca and Prince Rupert, it lost in 1945, and took back the Trail-Rossland seat the CCF won in a byelection. Even in such constituencies as Vancouver East and Burnaby, which have consiistently returned CCF members since the Party contested its first’ provincial election in 1933, Coalition candidates pressed the CCF hard and E. E. Winch won a reduced margin in Burnaby. The Coalition’s two losses were in. Grand Forks-Greenwood. where R. W. Haggen,-the CCF candidate, defeated the Coalition’s T. A. Love in a three-way fight; and Cranbrook, where CCF can- didate Leo Nimsick edged out Clifford Swan, Coalition. In Fernie, where for the third consecutive election the CCF executive insisted on running a candidate against Tom Uphill, the veteran Independent Labor member, the CCF trailed the poll and Uphill was re-elected. How the CCF leadership’s vote-splitting part- isan action endangered this seat for labor, however, was reflected in Uphill’s 30-vote margin. From the viewpoint of the most progressive sections of the CCF and labor movement, the greatest loss was in the defeat of Sam Guthrie in Cowichan- Newcastle and John McInnis in Fort George, for both had resisted the pressure of the CCF top leadership to take a stand with which they could not agree. In_ post-election discussions thousands of CCF supporters will be seeking the reasons for their party’s defeat, which has reduced its’ representation in the House to less than the seven seats it first won 16 years ago. The Coalition planned its campaign well. It held out to the northern ridings the lure of an extended PGE. It diverted public attention from the grim prospect of declining export markets with the promise of extensive new industrial development. The CCF might have exposed these issues of the Coalition’s making for what they were and carried the fight around the real issues of the sales tax, jobs and peace. But the CCF failed to fight on these issues. In the eyes of most progressive voters there were only minor differences be- tween the CCF and the Coalition on these vital issues. In a majority of ridings, it was a straight fight between the Coalition and the CCF, and elsewhere candidates of other parties made scant inroads on the vote. The Coalition took Peace River from the CCF by the intervention of one of the two candidates entered by the so-called People’s party, and held Delta only through the votes diverted by the Social Crediters. In the Coalition stronghold of Chilliwack the anti-Coalition vote was evenly divided between the Social Credit and CCF candidates. The other exception was Alberni, where the Labor-Progressive party concentrated its efforts to elect Nigel Morgan, its provincial leader. In this riding won by James Mowat, who ran as an In- dependent Coalitionist after being denied renomination as official Coalition candidate by a rigged convention, the vote was split four ways. Final results were: Mowat (Ind.-Cln) 3,166; Whittal (CCF) 2,053; Christie (CIn.) 1,518; Morgan (LPP) 585. The only other LPP candidate entered in the election, Vi Bianco in Vancouver East, drew more than 1,000 protest votes against Continued on back page See ELECTIONS