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Counterattack

LABOR MOVES TO CLEAN

UP BOSS FIFTH COLUMN

Across the nation and throughout the province, labor
this week opened up its counter-offensive against the
bosses’ fifth column in the unions.

Hundreds of thousands of unionists heaved a sigh of
relief when a special session of the Trades and Labor Con-
gress executive council suspended the Brotherhood of Rail-
way and Steamship Clerks because of the scabbery on the
Great Lakes. of that Brotherhood’s international vice-
president Frank: Hall.

The Canadian Congress of Labor had suspended Harvey
Murphy and the Mine-Mill union-militants!

But the Trades and Labor Congress was cleaning out
phonies—this is the kind of housecleaning labor wants.

Last weekend four big [WA locals in B.C. declared war
on the ““White.Bloc” disrupters whose inner-union, sabotage.
has enabled the lumber barons to prolong the 1948 contract
struggle for five months already.

And Dauny O’Brien, president of the B.C. Federation
of Labor (CCL), took straight to the local unions, the issue
of right-wing sabotage of that body’s executive board. (See
page 2).

It’s Been a great week for labor, a bad week for the
bosses and their stooges.

Honest trade unionists have been long-suffering while °
the boss, has been building his fifth column of labor phonies
—too long-suffering. But now the gloves are off, the issues
are in the open.

Reason for the counter-attack is this: What many work-
ers at first mistook for,an honest difference on policy is now

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See LABOR

Picket for repeal

Members of the United Electrical Radio and Machine “Workers (CIO) ‘were assaulted as
they picketed draft registration headquarters in Boston with placards calling’ for repeal of the
draft !aw. Demonstration was led by the Young Progressives of America. Scores of such dem-
onstrations took place in many key U.S. centers when the draft law became operative.

Pylon pickets’ question

Steam shovels whirred and
trucks rumbled on Boundary
Roard at 7 Mdhday morning.
B.C, Electric construction gangs
started work early on the foun-
dations of power line pylons
that will wreck local property
values, menace aerial transpor-
tation and residents’ lives.

In half an hour pickets ar-
rived. Scores of residents march-
ed up and down to register their
violent protest,

Stretched across the lawn of
the beautiful residence of Frank
Walsh, president of the B. C,
Property Owners’ and House-
holders’ Association, was a sign
that told the story. Residents
have fought to have the power
lines placed underground, but
Vancouver City Council did not
back them and the PUC told)
the company to go ahead with

its pylons. Burnaby Council was
barred from PUC hearings.

One picket sign read: “THE
PUC SAYS BURNABY IS NOT
AN INTERESTED PARTY.
OH YEAH?” Another read, “I
FOUGHT IN EUROPE TO
PROTECT MY HOME.’ Still
another broke into verse:

“CITY COUNCIL DOESN’T
CARE,

PUT |THE TOWERS ANY-
WHERE.

JUST SO LONG AS THE
BCE

HELP TO ELECT THEM
PERPETUALLY,’”

Old women, pregnant women,
men and women with their fam-
ilies were among the scores of
others who packed signs telling
of the danger of 320,000 volts
and of property losses from erec-
tion of the eyesores.

“WILL DAL GRAUER PAY

“Will Graver pay for my home?’

FOR THE LOST VALUE OF
MY HOME?” one sign pointed-
y asked, Grauer was there to
arge forward the work. BCE
spokesman Tom Ingledew ad-
mitted to the press that resi-
dents didn’t want the pylons,
“but we're going ahead anyway.”

Residents were discussing pic-
keting the residence of Grauer,
who is BCE president, with a
sign, “HOW DO YOU LIKE US
IN YOUR BACK YARD?”

This reporter was served cof-
fee from a home where there
is “open house” for pickets.
From the steps, committee mem-
ber Fraser Wilson could be
heard blasting the company,
“All our homes are losing value
for four blocks back.” The
work went on. City, provincial
and RCMP police were there to
force back pickets when blast-
ing started.

TLC crackdown

on Hall

clique

The full official weight of the Trades and Labor Con-
gress of Canada has been placed behind a Sunday punch
tossed at Frank Hall and his rebel group of 23 AFL road-

men. Chaired by President
session of the TLC executive
council’ in Ottawa last Saturday
suspended the Brotherhood of
Railway and Steamship Clerks
for failing to repudiate the actions
of its international vice-president
Frank Hall in hanging an SIU
charter on Sullivan’s Great Lakes
scabs.

Cutting through the fog of mis-
representation from the big busi-
ness press which from the scab
Province to the Financial Post
has been openly touting Hall as
the bosses’ choice to replace Ben-
gough—an official TLC newslet-
ter to the membership bares the
issues as follows:

Percy Bengough, a special

“The salient facts are that at
the Hamilton (1947) convention
the executive council was in-
structed to continue to recognize
and assist the Canadian Seamen’s
Union as the only bona fide union
of seamen in Canada and ruled
that the Seafarers’ International
Union should be considered as a
dual uinon.

“No doubt many of you have
read the report of the (govern-
ment) Brockington-McNish com-
mission in which no fault is found
with the manner in which the

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See BENGOUGH