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What's Bennett got to say?

_J)AVID CROLL, MP for To-
_,_ Yonto-Spadina, voiced the sen-
‘iments of all decent Canadians
—*Y his recent declaration in the
House of Commons that the presi-
_ kat of the United States should
‘Publicly “repudiate” the McCar-
SY Senate committee’s smear
‘Sainst Hon. Lester B. Pearson,
ulster of external affairs — a
tat based upon the perjured
__*vidence’’ of an FBI hired stool-
‘Pigeon,

Reporting Croll’s spech, Toron-
fe other daily newspapers said
ae tt “brought resounding cheers
Mall but one corner of the

_fise.” That was the Social
Mredit corner.

. ae few days later, the silence in
John, ted corner was explained.
- for Lethbridge, rose in defense
char cCarthyism. Blackmore
vile’ that Croll ‘‘outrageously
ed’” U.S. Senator Joseph Mc-
Y, whom Blackmore describ-
Patrice a gentlemanly, patient,
Voted” young fellow . . . now de-
,» Offering his life in battle
' *8ainst communism’’!

manly the other day it was re-
that large numbers of

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of wo-
8 and old, desiring “positions”
or ety these brief an-
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4 a ATIONS Wanted—Female.

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Ren, toed the want ads tellin

d tragedy, sufficient to
a Elisabeth Hawes’

ng little daughters while
‘4 to balance the family
Sie SO often she finds her-
th § prospective applicants
°Y find a sympathetic ear,
Which cry aloud for
‘ effective domestic service

is a mi
at ab iddle-aged Polish immi-
a 2 Wag zr. Hilda’s first job in’ Can-
Xe Seneral maid in a Shaugh-
“home li

> ; war between the
) 8ouse dowager and her bleary-
day wett’s Wages for a 14.

fed b Week were $60 a month,
Y the Sovernment employ-

Blackmore, Social Credit*

Blackmore’s ‘constituents have
been the recipients of franked mail
from Ottawa containing vicious
anti-Semitic and anti-labor litera-
ture. Among this franked filth is
included the anti-communist rant-
ings of Ron Gostick, self-styled
leader of the Canadian Anti-Com-
munist League, now lecturing
throughout Canada at ‘‘Project
X”’ expense. Gostick would like
to see McCarthyite ‘‘Un-Cana-
dian’’ committees set up in this
country to develop the smear tech-
nique against all who do not con-
form. -

The point that interests us in
British Columbia and the labor
movement in particular at the mo-
ment, is the Bennett government’s
attitude toward these McCarthy-
ite activities in the Socred national
leadership. If Social Credit lead-
ers prefer associations and activi-
ties of the McCarthy-Jenner-Bent-
ley-Chambers-Gouzenko scum, the
people of B.C. and labor in par-
ticular, would like to know.

A public repudiation by Vic
toria of Social Credit John Black-
more and his McCarthy ideology
is in order and the people would

like to hear the views of Bennett, .

Bonner and company.

TTT RULUtL UT

At the end of about six weeks when
the civil war in this Shaughnessey whore-
house took a turn for the worse, Hilda
was handed $20 and told to go. Protests
were unavailing. The boozey dowager
was adamant, the employment agency
said, “Sorry, there’s nothing we can do,
perhaps you should see a lawyer,” and
that was that. Hilda the DP was clipped
for about fifty bucks in her first round
with “free enterprise” as it is played in
the best upper crust circles.

A stranger in a strange land, without
friends, beset by the fear of creeping
age and the ever-present uncertainties
of all the tomorrows. Hilda is entitled
to cry a little. Of course, you didn’t
read that story in the want ads.
was there all the time. :

Then we have another type desiring
a “position.” One could tell she con-
sidered herself to be “refined.” Her
mannerisms betrayed her feeling that
all this was really beneath her. She
looked the two little girls and the apart-
ment over with an appraising eye, eon-
descendingly announced that she would
phone her “decision” in due course.

When her phone “decision” came it
fitted into place like a well-machined
cog. “I have checked the neighborhood
and it is not just what I want.”

The moral, of course, is that the word
“refined” in a want ad can cover a mul-
titude of human frailties. One should
always know in which class distillery the
“refinement” has taken place.

Jeanette was a different type. She
had youth, curves, poise, a charming syn-
thetic air of culture and sophistication.
She had toured Europe in search of the
latter, and while she had no diplomas
attesting to mastery of these arts, she
really didn’t need them. Moreover she
was a blonde, the kind Hollywood im-
presarios rave about. The way Jeanette
walked around that apartment was some-
thing to be seen.

But we*just couldn’t by any stretch
of the imagination fit Jeanette into the

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Let's have a real sofety drive

current police “crackdown” on
motorists, ostensibly intended to re-
duce the appalling accident and death
toll on our streets, reminds us of similar
police “crackdowns” on alleged vice in
our fair city. Following a well churned-
up “public” demand for a cleanup there
would be a series of raids on Chinatown,
a few fantan games cleaned up, more
fines in. the city coffers, then back to
normal. The city was assumed to be
“morally pure” until the next Holy Wil-
lie roundup. .

The techniques of this latest “crack-
down” on the motorist are obviously de-
signed, not to save life and limb, but to
increase civic revenues.. “Road blocks,”
“ghost cars” and proposed increases in

parking fines have little to do with cor-
rective measures for reckless drivers —

role of a “housekeeper.” It would be
sacrilege—and we had a faint suspicion
that Jeanette felt the same way. Jeanette
“just adored children,” but we doubted
if the adoration extended to washing
grubby faces, particularly when her am-
bitions ran to mastering modelling tech-
niques.

No want ad could adequately portray
Jeanette’s role as a “housekeeper” any,
more than a similar announcement could
make us see Marlyn Monroe as a buxom
charwoman. Jeanette departed, regal
and smiling. We closed our eyes and
ruminated on the Paris boulevards. The
children broke into our reverie with a
“Mama, why didn’t you keep her? She’s
nice.” “Bedtime,” said Mama. “We
have two now, we don’t need three!”

They come and go. They trudge from
one employment agency to another. They
tell their need of “positions” to the com-
mercial press at so much a line, and
behind it all is a story, sometimes with a
dash of comedy, but most often a volume
of cruel exploitation, discrimination
and sordid tragedy.

In the wage-labor relationship of this
social order we call capitalism, “domes-
tic” service retains most if not all of the
vicious relationships of chattel slavery.
The Jeanettes who are looking for a
temporary “position” on the way to ach-
ieving their “careers”; the semi-dowager
types with a private income and seek-
ing a “position” in a carefully “check-
ed” neighborhood may be able to set
their own pace, but the Hildas, those
countless thousands who have no choice,
become the victims of the worst form
of exploitation. Without effective org-
anization or control of their labor power,
they are the victims of every “mistress”
who palms her idleness on to her less
fortunate sisters—at bargain rates.

“Situations Wanted—Female” covers a
lot of crimes.

who should not be permitted to retain
a driver’s license.

How a traffic detail, engaged for the
most part in sticking parking tickets in
windshields, drumming up business for
Buster’s, and clearing the streets for the
BCElectric monopoly can give its atten-
tion to careless, reckless or drunken
drivers, is a poser which only Chief Mul-
ligan can answer — to his own satisfac-
tion. The point may be debated, but in
our calculations the death toll has in-
creased since the “ghost cars” took to
the streets.

The public is agreed that the menace
of reckless drivers must be eliminated—
but not used, as in the present loudly-
touted: “crackdown,” as a new pretext to
fleece car owners.

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People,
December 4, 1943) :

Delegates from a number of local or-
ganizations, including University Wo-
men’s Club, Labor-Progressive party,
CCF, Social Welfare agencies, Joint
Labor Conference and Mothers’ Union
of the Anglican Church, met with Labor
Minister George Pearson in Victoria to —
seek his help in extending day nursery
services.

© * *

Two progressive candidates, M. J. For-
kin, for council, and Joseph Zuken, for
school board, won re-election in the Win-
nipeg civic elections.

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
December 2, 1938)

Eleven Vancouver citizens were ar-
rested by city police when they picketed
the German consulate to protest Nazi
persecution of racial and religious min-
orities.
bens, Jack Gilbanks, Sid Zlotnik, Ernest
Cumber, J. Nickle, J. Carlson, Sid Dove
and H. Olson. A big crowd booed police
as they arrested the pickets. Three by-
standers, one of whom picked up plac-
ards dropped by a picket, were also ar-
rested.

* x *
»Opposition to shipments of scrap iron
from B.C. to Japan, already demonstrat- _
ed on Vancouver Island, spread to the
mainland. Union welders quit their job
of cutting up several hundred tons of

scrap iron stored on the Evans Coleman
dock. :

* * *

In the Regina civic elections, labor in: —
creased its seats on the council to nine

with election of three more candidates _

Sparse By: te Begins aioe Sa
on. .

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 4, 1953 — PAGE |

Those arrested were: Phil Gib- _