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Vancouver, British Columbia, September 1, 1950

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Price Five Cents

Labor Day ‘greeting*

GOV'T PRESENTS UNIONS
WITH ‘DOG-COLLAR’ LAW

Briish Columbia’s Young Con-
S*rvatives have no objection to
Hon. Herbert (Hic!) Anscomb’s
Political brews, nu matter how bad
the taste to the taxpayers who
regard the minister of finance as
the brewmaster of the obnoxious
Sales tax. But they do object to
their party’s chief representative
in the Coalition government be-
ing so openly identified with the
Commefcial type of brew which
the government dispenses through
its liquor stores—and on which,
ineldentally, it also levies sales

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It seems there has been a lot
of unkind gossip around, and this
has produced a ferment—or you
Might say trouble is brewing —
in young Tory ranks..

‘-The result was apparent this
Week when the B.C. executive of
the Young Progressive Conserva-
ives staged a “beer hall putsch”
reverse by demanding that
Herbie get out of the booze racket
°r out of the leadership of the
Tory party in this province.

Herbert (Hic!) Anscomb’s ‘goof’
creates ferment am

_.It was all very distressing to
the finance minister who, in addi-
tica to his parliamentary chores,
acts as managing director of
Growers Wine Ltd. operating
“goof factories” in Vancouver and
Victoria, He is also reputed to be
a direcyyr of {Coast Brewetie®
Ltd., which controls four brew-
ing enterprises, and of Capital
Estates Ltd. which controls) a
number of breweries in Washing-

ton and California..

In spite of his extensive brewery
experience, Herbie didn’t know
that trouble was brewing for him
until the indignant young Tories
pulled the bung out of the barrel
and poured out their wrath in the

presence of reporters.

_ “When a political leader is @n-
gaged in the manufacture and
saie of goof, the kickback is too
much for any political party to
survive,” declared one young
Tory. Such idealism in his own
party caused Herbie to stagger
slightly. “Everyone has always
known about my private business

ong Tories

conections,” he answered lamely.
.. But the worst was yet to come.
Newspaper reporters recalled that
in 1946, when a group of veterans,

organized as the Veterans’ Brew-
ing Holding Co., Ltd., applied for
a licence to operate, it was Fin-
ance Minister Brewer Anscomb,
sitting as chairman to hear the
application, who turned thumbs
down on the vets.

As finance minister, Anscomb
has active interest in the purchase
and sales policy of the Liquor
Control Board of this province. In
the opinion of the young Tories,
it seemed hardly likely that Brew-
er Anscomb’s interests were pure-
ly political in the formulation of
such policies. Hence the demand
that he devote his full time either
to brewing politics or just brew-
ing.

Continued on Page 6
See ANSCOMB

Canada’s nine-day railway strike involving 124,000 work-
ers ended Wednesday night on orders of Frank H. Hall
and A. R. Mosher, who told strikers to go back to work as
soon as the government’s Railway Strike Settlement Bill
became law, but a nation-wide protest against the anti-
strike legislation has been launched by the entire trade
union movement.

Joint AFL-CCL mass meeting in cities and towns from
coast to coast are denouncing the government bill as “a
threat to the entire labor movement.” A statement issued
by Percy Bengough, TLC president and Pat Conroy, CCL
secretary-treasurer, accuses railway managements of at-
tempting to “use the House of Commons to protect the
interest of private capital” and says this “brings into clear
focus the danger to the whole Canadian trade union move-
ment.”

(In Vancouver the provincial labor secretary of the
Labor-Progressive party, Maurice Rush, said: “The govern-
ment bill to end the railway strike aims a body blow at
free trade unionism in Canada. It sets a pattern of govern-

‘ment strike-breaking and compulsory arbitration.

“Every employer in Canada will hail this special Bill
because it undermines free collective bargaining and takes
from working people the right to freely withdraw their
labor as a means of getting redress for their grievances.
The new Bill will hang like a hammer over every trade
union until it is nullified.

“It now becomes crystal clear that back of the develop-
ments of the last few days was conspiracy to force through
special legislation to hamstring labor in face of rising prices
and general attacks against labor’s rights, and to shackle
labor as part of the government’s war program.

“No working man, regardless of politics or affiliation,
can take this legislation lying down. The powerful state-
ment issued by the four main trade,union centers in Cana-
da against compulsory arbitration should be the signal for
labor to use its full, united strength to compel withdrawal
of this police-state measure.’’)

Coupled with protests of a million Canadian trade union-
ists against the strike-breaking legislation, is a demand
that Donald Gordon resign as president of the CNR. because
of his handling of negotiations with the unions.

The government “dog-collar” bill, which became law
at 9.56 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, ordered railroads to be
operating again within 48 hours; ordered strikers to re-
turn to work with an immediate four-cent increase; ordered
resumption of negotiations with a proviso that issues not
settled through negotiations will be thrown into “binding
arbitration.

As the Pacific Tribune went to press, a mass labor pro-
test meeting against the government bill was scheduled to
take place.in Pender Auditorium Thursday night, jointly

sponsored by Vancouver and New Westminster Trades and
Labor Council (AFL) and Vancouver Labor Council (CCL).

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