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Vol. 6. No. 12 Vancouver, B.C., March 21, 1947 SS | Five Cents

LOBBY DEMANDS GOV'T LIFT
_ANTI-LABOR CLAUSES IN BILL

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Lobby in capital

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An estimateg 100,000 B.C.
trade unionists of both CCL
4nd AFL affiliation were
represented by the 200-odd
labor, Pensioner and veteran
Sbbyists who converged on
| ictoria’ tnis week to de-
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Mand that the government’s
Proposed labor bill should
not be Passed in its pres-
ent form,

@ At left, Harvey Murphy
of the Mine, Mill and
Smelterworkers is shown

: addressing a public rally.
At right, some of the
lobbyists. . parade to... the
Parliament buildings.

Se a

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Py Percy Bengough, president of the Trades and

: Labor Congress, this week pointed his finger to
: U i iT Va He bo t Ss@e@ Nn a fact which indicated that the clumsy statements
mR purporting to expose communist activities in the

unions issued by J. A. ‘Pat’ Sullivan as he re-
signed from his posts as president of the Cana-
: : a dian Seamen’s Union and secretary-treasurer of

the Congress last weekend had actually been pre-
S Dar O campaign pared for him by anti-labor and anti-democratic

interests.

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“| know Sullivan did not write the statements
he made to the press,,’” Bengough asserted. “They

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are not his style — he couldn’t write them.”
& 0 As roy U Nn ions ; A. A. MacLeod, MPP, the Labor-Progressive.

(Continued on Page 8—See SULLIVAN) °

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Will : MP UJ. § : B mf ly ~ Godbout heckled
oo oe ctbinet_ |) | Labor warns U.S. British | | Sout heed
chose Unionists have been thousands of Cartier elec-

eBation 48 members of a del- tors packed @ rally last Fri-

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2 ; day to h 0: K

labo representative of Y to hear Oscar Kogan,

. ers? T, farmer and consum- eo [ G W fi | | n ever (e ae R ussia campaign manager for |
| West. e2izations in the four Councillor Michael Buhay,

Prem Provinces to inter-

We Ae LPP candidate, assert, “The
W Finan - ON—American imperialism cannot look to the British people for support Liberals are licked today

lag Abbot’, Minister Doug: LOND p : \ : DECOR E

inet moniter tt other cab- | | in an ideological attack on the Soviet Union because the “workers will never fight and they know it,” other

trojs, “embers on price con-

thousands attending a Lib- °
Organ €y are Mrs. Mona

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Russia to impose American capitalism on Eastern Europe. eral rally jeered and heckled

Croy and Mrs. Marge This warning to Wada “If the United States intends and liberated the workers ®x-Premier Adelard God-
ray & and they will go to Truman, following ae a - to adopt an unfriendly atti- from economic exploitation.” Sout when he failed to ex-
Women, as delegates of the mand for. United States a tude toward Russia, that is At the aie time. Richard Plain his recent statement
mi 8 Price Control Com- nancial ant oe pant her own concern,” Cocks said. Go oan ar BARE oP abel’ ores yee tly etahs
n : ’ . vice was e

Be Monn cae ee cee Say pak oy by Seymour Cocks, But, he added, even though Labor MPs, criticized the of ‘foreigners—Jews, Italians
Drees. ‘5 8 leader of the influential ex- there was no desire “to ex- British government’s cooper- ang Czechs.” At the LPP
of the or restoration ternal affairs group of the change Britain’s Socialist de- ation with American anti- rally, Buhay charged that,
» tab milk subsidy, re-es- arliamentary Labor Party mocracy for Soviet Commun- Soviet policies and warned as in past elections, the
lishment of price controls pes long an outspoken critic ism,” British workers had ad- that such policies would lead Liberals were hiring men
© 1945 level and reten- of British policies in bolster- ways admired Russia as one not only to disaster for the at $25 a day in an effort

4 °f rent controls, ing the Greek monarchist reg- country “which has over- British empire, but to collapse to steal the by-election.

wae thrown the capitalist system of world civilization.