OF Bill BCollectric’s Dal Grauer. Never satisfied with rooking the public through high fares and low ser- vice, our home-grown transit boss demands speed-up .. . faster sche- dules, up to and beyond the maxi- mum capacity of the rolling junk piles the citi- zens call “street cars” by force of habit. If a speeding bus knocks a citizen down . . . blame the . driver . . . but maintain the : speed. Profits, Fig. = and not safe and efficient service is the all important thing. But the law caught up with Grauer’s speed-up. Not Chief Mul- ligan, although he says he is ready to help enforce the law, but Divi- sion 101 of the Street Railway- men's Union, Bus drivers and motormen have decided to run the schedules’ according to the limits provided in statutory pro- vincial safety laws. Not a mile more—or less. Naturally this decision to run the BCollectric transit service ac- cording to the Jaws of the pro- vince made a tough service a bit tougher on the commuting pub- lic. Quick to seize upon this in- convenience, Grauer’s propaganda machine screamed “slowdown,” and sought to place the onus of decrepit transportation upon the Street Railwaymen’s Union. In this union enforcement of public safety regulations, Grauer Tom McEwen recent bulletin issued by the British Information Office (Reg. v-1703) tells how British production is going up. Phillip D. Reed, chairman of the General Electric trust and a member of the Anglo-American Productivity Council, has been giving British bosses a few elementary courses on the “know- how” of Yank- ee speed-up. i The results are- gratifying — to everyone except the workers, out of whose hide the “produc- tion must be wrung.” Un- der the new “Socialist” labor- management schemes introduced by GE’s production chief, the un- ions are assigned a new role. To | supply “suggestions’’ for more production; to avoid labor turn- over in industry; “to ferret out _ instances where workers are un- der-employed at their jobs”; and to see to it that “this ... stops”! Wages! What is that, a British _ worker might well ask of its new planners of speed-up? This little matter of how much the British . worker gets—or may get, is strict- ly taboo. Efficiency and speed is _. the watchword. Wages, like Stal- ~ in’s peace offers, mustn’t be dis- cussed, what! While British workers are being put through the “greater effici- ency’’ wringer of Anglo-American big business, the profits of some ' of Britain’s biggest bosses are _ steadily going up. Each “auster- ity” notch the British miners pull’ _ up in their belts means a bit more . profit to the coal operators. Wall Street efficiency experts supervis- Saw a splendid opportunity to pull a typical BCollectric double-barel- led grab; head off the union’s de- mands for a 25c-per-hour pay boost to meet rising living costs, and a 40-hour week to ease the strain of manipulating a mobile junk pile—and use the union’s insistence for the observance of safety regulations to ‘extract an- other fare hoist from a long suf- fering public. Needless to say this BCollectric maneuver will find support from the so-called Public Utilities Com- mission, which has demonstrated more than once that it is little more than a Coalition “front” for BCER interests. Already its chair- man, Dr. W. Carrothers, has in- timated that if the union’s action in enforcing public safety regula- tions “were shown to be serious, a full investigation could be car- ried out,’ adding that the “PUC was keeping an eye on the sched- ules.” In the coming weeks it will be all to the good if the public and the Street Railwaymen’s Union keep an eye on the BCollectric and its Charley McCarthys in the PUC. Otherwise high fares will go high- er, while service and wages re- main as shaky as an Oak Street car. Sooner or eae sooner than we wanted to, the truth had to come out. Ol’ Bill is down ‘sick and this column is being complet- ed by his willing understudy, say- ing those things we think he wants to say, and getting a timely jab or two when we don’t bring it up to Ol Bill’s standards of straight talk. Ol Bill was very reluctant to ‘ing Marshall Plan production in Britain have no objection to this kind of “socialism.” When we got through with this information bulletin we had a better grasp of what CCF- president Colin Cameron meant, when, in “a stirring speech’? in support of CCF nominee John Cameron for the Comox-Alberni federal riding, he is reported to have “called upon the delegates to elect a government to avert the impending collapse of our economic system.” Looks as if the CCF leaders have abandon- ed socialism. e “Austerity? Anatole France miight have said, hits rich and poor alike in Britain. Phillip Mountbatten, who has “an eye for Sleek cars,” has ordered himself a “razor-edged” built-to-order $32,- 000 Rolls-Royce, which the daily _ blah in our town tells us “seems to be an answer to modern roy- alty’s prayers” for streamlined automobiles. Since parliament -only ‘voted Phillip a miserable $40,000 per annum wage to exist on, the new car will knock a sizeable hole in his family budget. Even with the government undertaking the reno- vation of Clarence House to pro- vide a roof over Phillip’s head at a trifling cost of $200,000 to the British taxpayer, he is still going to have a hard time. Little won- der that Phillip is reported to agree with Britain’s workers that “austerity” is hell! oe Foreign Minister Bevin has no. end of troubles. If it isn’t “auster- ity” it’s the Yankee pawnbrokers insisting on cannons and fodder, and if it isn’t that it’s Socialists -who take the socialism of the British Labor party seriously. It appears that Oliver Baldwin, socialist son of the late Earl of Bewdney Stanley Baldwin, was id Short Jabs uti ETE ccc “HE law has caught up with . let it be known that he is badly under the weather, and sore as a boil because he cannot give this column and the Ol’ Bill press drive campaign the personal at- tention it needs. One of Ol’ Bill's worries is that his column cam- paign is slowing up a bit, mainly because he isn’t here to look after it. While we haven’t managed as yet to get Ol’ Bill into a hospital where he should be, because of Coalition hospital insurance scheme, which is more “scheme” than hospital insurance, we can allay his worries as to the final success of the Pacific Tribune $15,000 campaign. In fact Ol’ Bill told us how himself. “Just tell my many friends all over the provincé who sympathize with me in this ill- ness, to say it with cash for the Pacific Tribune drive. That will .keep my blood pressure down every time I think about this phoney hospital insurance, which I pay for and don’t get, and my morale up in knowing that work- ers’ dollars are pinch-hitting for a fighting paper none of us can do without these days.” That is how this old veteran fighter places the question. We feel sure that is how his many friends and supporters will ans- wer it. Meantime we are going to have a lot to say one of these days about a hospital insurance scheme that eats into pay en- velopes—but doesn't insure hos- pitalization when it is needed. Also, the best way YOU can “warm up Ol’ Bill’s great heart and help him get better soon, is to go after those donations to enable the Pacific Tribune to continue exposing the lies of the warmong- ers and their kept press. NUL ? | We See It AC A made governor of the Leeward Islands by the Bevin government. Socialist Baldwin wasn’t long in ‘the Leeward Islands .before he found that the white minority of 1800 who lorded it over the na- tive population of 160,000 in real “pukka sahib” style, was “more reactionary than even the English Tories,% in their oppression and exploitation of the natives, Bald- win proceeded to introduce some reforms and to make things easier’ for the Leeward Islanders. The colonial voast-beef-tiffin-guzzling minority are “outraged” at such goings on, and have told the Colonial Office so. Badwin has been “called home for consulta- tions,” with a diplomatic hint: en- closed that his resignation might be in order. The native cane workers, whose wages average 40c a day, refuse to cut the sugar- cane crop, chanting their battle song “No Baldwin, no cane.’? It is reported that Bevin is preparing to give his Socialist colonial governor a discourse on the difference between Socialism as an opposing philosophy to cap- italism, and _ Socialism-in-office, which will run something like this for the “Socialist’-in-office: “It may not, on the whole, be advis- able to stir up the toiling masses. against their employers. It may not, on the whole, be advisable to pay them more money, or encour- age them to demand more money. It may not, on the whole, be ad- visable to grant colored majori- ties the same rights and privi- leges as white minorities. It may ‘not, in fact, be advisable to preach or practice any of the doctrines commonly associated with So- cialism.” “Socialist?’ Cameron wants to “save our economic system from collapse.” “Socialist” Bevin is “saving” it. 9 Stay the hand of dean April 5. The on March 18. . : : ARRING unforeseen developments, and regardless of what Par- liament or the people of Canada may say or think, Prime Min ister St. Laurent will sign the North Atlantic “Security” pact on PM made this clear at a press conference in Ottawa In that seemingly simple ceremony of dancing. to Wall Street’s music, Prime Minister St. Laurent will sign the death warrant of countless thousands of unknown Canadians. The North Atlantic “Suicide” pact is a new Munich—but this time it is the peace, security and independence of the Canadian people that is being signed away. Hypocritically represented as a pact for ‘‘defense,’ the North Atlantic pact is a pact for aggressive war, led by the atom maniacs of reactionary U.S. imperialism against the countries and ideology of - Socialism. One need only read the published text of the NASP to grasp its sinister objectives. It kicks aside the United Nations with less cere- mony than Hitler tore up the pea of the secret treaties within the scope of the pact, the which are not considered “to be in the public interest.’’? ce charter of Versailles. And’ what Since when has peace not been in the public interest? The North Atlantic ‘Suicide’ the Truman-Marshall-St. Laurent ‘ It is a warmongers’ pact, directed first and foremost against those millions of pe Socialism as a new way of life. I 2: pact is the military complement of ‘plan”’ for “‘containing communism.” against the t is a pact inspired by U.S. imperialism, which, in its mad lust for world domina- tion, drags other states into its ruthless and reckless adventures, As such it must never be accepted by the Canadian the charter of the United Nations. The time is running out. Write or wire your MP today. Demand on behalf of your sons and daughters, of your léved ones, of your country—that no Canadian shall sign this Wall Street-inspired Munich betrayal of Canada. Prompt action by the warmongers ..-. and stay the hand of St. Laurent. LaCroix freedom blackout T Minister St. Laurent has give n Tory Leader Drew, his assurance that something will be done “‘to counteract the activities of communist parties.” The LaCroix Bill at outlawing the Labor-Progressive Party, and secondly, silencitig all democratic opposition to the gove there be no mistake about that. Experience shows, as it did mment’s suicidal war policies, Let under the Tory regime of ‘‘Eron Heel’’ Bennett and Hitler's Reich, that once any section of demo- cratic opinion is throttled by extra-legal decree, CCF MP T. J. Bentley of Swift Current hit when he said of this new-LaCroix that no section is free. “Section 98” bill—“/f it were nol the LPP they were after, it would be us.” Twice in preceding sessions of parliament this infamous measure — has been shelved because of mass public indignation and protest against — the curtailment of civil and. democratic rights for Canadian citizens. _ Let.no one be lulled into complacency by St. Laurent’s recént state- ments that he ‘‘did not believe in A government which can blatently assert that regardless of the outlawing the LPP” will of parliament it will sign the North Atlantic pact committing Canada to the war adventures of U.S. imperialism, will have little hesitation in gagging effective opposition to that siicidal policy. The LaCroix Bill is aimed at silencing opposition to war, just as an earlier Section 98 in the hands of the opposition to the starvation of the complement of a reckless foreign United protest in the form of Tory Bennett was used to silence “Hungry 30’s.”” It is the domestic policy. wires, letters, telephone calls, reso- lutions and delegations to your MP can stop this unconstitutional black- out of cwil liberties. Act now before a new iron curtain is lowered ‘ by the St. Laurent government to smother freedom in Canada. 2 Looking backward _ (From the files of The People’s Advocate, March: 25, 1939.) “Butter the bread before the meal and keep the butter off the table.” This and other free advice is being given daily to families zation subsidized by grants from Vancouver Welfare Federation. A family of three, limited to a relief allowance of $15.00 a month, and had managed to obtain small additional sums periodically from — this organization, was refused further assistance recently, ‘and in- stead, given’a food budget to cost $7.47 for over two weeks. The list is as follows: milk, 21 quarts, $2.10; bread, 18 loaves, $1.35; meat, 40c; fish, 12c; 1 dozen eggs, 25c; fruit, 30c; sugar, 4 Ibs., 23c; butter, 75c; potatoes, carrots and other — vegetables, 75c; coffee or tea, 25c; rice, cheese, shortening, dried peas and beans, 97c. oranges, bananas, apples or other i Besides “suggestions” for keeping certain foods off the table, housewives are urged to “save some supplies for the end of the week: and cook cereals the night before.” j ell (Pacifica Pee Eo Published Weekly (isa my SFSU D Reni ltavctfare aut 3 | ) (l { WE ig re AA at 650 Howe Street (ea ; isessntanineneisttl By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING ‘COMPANY LTD. Telephones: Editorial, MA. Tom McEwen F 5857; Business, MA, 5288 d ..... Editor Subscription Rates: ‘1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers Ltd. 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC: } . i publication of — peace of the world, and — oples who have adopted — of barefaced aggression, people as a substitute for people can still defeat the HE LaCroix Bill is still on the parliamentary order paper. Prime is a fascist police-state measure, aimed first — the nail on the head _ appealing for help at the Family Welfare Bureau, a charity organi-_ INIEVA PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 25, 1919 — PAGE 8.