u —— =: LPP seeks Srobe 3 er i Friday, June 2, 1950 DR. EVELYN BAXTER TO SPEAK j Women’s congress holds first B.C. parley June 2-3 First .B.C. provincial conference of the Congress of Canadian Women opens with a public session in Salon A, Hotel Vancouver, this Friday, June 2, at 8 p.m., addressed by Dr. Evelyn Baxter, Ph.D., well-known clinical psychologist from Seattle. Dr. Baxter was graduated from the University of Vienna and is at present a practicing clinical psychologist, dealing with emo- tionally disturbed children and adults. Previously she taught eco- nomics at the University of Ari- zona and Montana and for three years was director of the Family Relations Center in Sacramento, California. Long a prominent member of the Congress of American Women, Dr. Baxter is widely known as a writer, also, having edited the Sunday edition of the Montana Standard and handled, publicity for the Great Northern Railway. All-day sessions of the confer- ence will be held in Hotel Van- couver on Saturday, Discussions will be Held on child welfare and family health, women as citizens and education and culture. Pro- vincial officers will be elected in the afternoon and the conference will close with a speech by the newly-elected president. Anyone can attend as an in- dividual or a delegate. Regis- tration fee for the sessions is $1. Further information on the conference can be obtained by phoning Mrs. Marie Godfrey, DE, 0769-R. The Congress of Canadian Wo- men was set up at a national con- ference held at Toronto in March. Its main aim is.to secure equal rights for women in both the eco- nomic and political spheres. Van- couver delegates to the Toronto, conference have been actively working to establish a provincial organization in British Columbia. Mine-Mill wins new victories Fresh from its resounding victory at Trail, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers this week won wage increases and other concessions for 200. workers at Beale Quarries, Vanada. and Pacific Line Company of Blubber Bay. At Blubber Bay ‘the union secur- ed the closed shop (first in B.C. for Mine-Mill), pay hoist of three cents an hour across the. board, five statutory holidays and classifications. Local 882 nego- tiating committee members were: chairman Jack Billingsley, S. Barker, H. Friesen, C. Simpson and R. Gregor. re- Local 816 members at Beale Quarries won four cents an hour across the board plus six paid holidays. Bargaining committee members were A. McCormick, J. K. Johnson, H. Short, B. Hanchuk, J. Yates and C. Allan. Mine-Mill president Ken Smith assisted both union locals in ne- gotiations. ; : At Trail, jubilant Mine-Mill members, having signed a new contract giving members a sub- stantial wage hoist, despite the disruption engineered by the. Steelworkers’ union-splitting raid, are preparing ta celebrate and con- solidate their victory. A victory celebration will be staged in the big Cominco Arena on June 8, with an orchestra from the U.S. and prominent labor speakers featured on the program. Provincial Labor Minister John Cates has been invited. ; Determined to wipe out the rem- nants of the Steel raiders and con- solidate Mine-Mill’s position as the only legitimate union, Trail local bought the Waldie property in the downtown area this week, and will renovate the building and turn it into a union hall. Cost of the project is being financed by Mine- Mill members, who are purchas- ing $10 shares. : Big All-Slav concert to be held June 11 Folk dances and music of the Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Czech- oslovak and Yugoslav peoples will be colorfully presented by 200 sing- ers and dancers in national cos- tumes at a concert in the Auditor- ium, Denman and Georgia, on Sun- day, June ’1, at 8 p.m. Organized by the Canadian Slav Committee, proceeds of the con- cert will help finance sending of five delegates to the first Cana- dian Slav Congress, meeting in Toronto July 1-3. Admission to the concert is by silver collection. nine cents an hour, maintenance of union membership and the 48- hour week, Union demands are for 17 cents an hour pay boost, union security and maintenance of the 40-hour week. : Full mobilization for an indus- try-wide strike is now imperative. IWA negligence in strike prepara- tions must be overcome within the next two weeks. As the WIUC paper, Union Woodworker, states: '“Every minute must be utilized to -arouse the determination of the workers and mobilize them for action, so that when a strike is called every woodworker on the Coast will be ready to hit . the bricks—ready to struggle un- _ til victory is won.” _of- public record. of forged letter okayed by RCMP By PIERRE GELINAS A firm demand for drastic action against the instigators of the forged. slander letter published by the Montreal Gazette has been laid before the gov- ernment by the Labor-Progressive party. : A letter sent to Justice Minister Stuart Garson by Stanley Ryerson, LPP national organizational secretary, stated: On May 26 the Montreal Gazette published, on page 13, a “photo- stat” letter under the heading: ‘Letters Linking “Peace Move- ment’ to Communists Circulated Here.” On the same day you are reported as proposing to make a statement on the matter in the House of Commons. On behalf of the national execu- tive of the Labor-Progressive party, the party of Canadian Com- munists, may I state that this alleged “document,” for the “auth- enticity” of which the Gazette re- ports RCMP officials as vouching, is an obvious, crude and transpar- ent piece of forgery. Its manu- facture can have had no other purpose than that of villifying by inference the lLabor-Progressive party, and disrupting’ the struggle of the Canadian people for peace. May I ask that you give the most serious consideration to the fol- iowing proposals of the national executive of the Labor-Progressive party: ; J That you, as minister of jus- tice, order a judicial inquiry into the facts and circumstances connected with the publication of this “document” in the Montreal Gazette of Friday, May 26. This inquiry should ascertain, by ex- amination of the responsible edit- _ ors of the Gazette, and of the Mon- treal “anti-subversive” squad and RCMP officials who appear to have had a hand in the affair, the an- swers to the following questions: a) Who is the person, or per- sons, who gave this forgery to the Gazette? b) Who is “Nicholas Kamin- ski’? Does he exist, or is this the pseudonym of the real author of the forgery, and if'so, who is the forger? c) What are the real forces be- hind this provocation? On what grounds do RCMP officials allow _ themselves to be reported as en- dorsing the ‘“authenticitiy” of a crude and obvious forgery? Who are the instigators of this “opera- , tion”? 2-That you, as minister of jus- tice, make provision for the Labor-Progressive party to be rep- resented in such a judicial inquiry. —That you give consideration to measures susceptible of adop- tion by the parliament of Canada, to protect the vublic against the irresponsible publication of de- spicable forgeries such as _ this, the most shameful to see the light of day in many years. | The relation of the Labor-Pro- gressive party to the peace move- ment in this country is a matter It is stated in numerous public documents,, in- cluding the resolutions of the Feb- ruary 1950 national committee meeting of the LPP, embodying full support to the broad objectives of prohibition of atomic weapons and the opening of negotiations to end the cold war. It is this posi- tion which the Gazette forgery slanderously seeks to misrepre- sent. : _ Presbyterians seek ban on atom-bomb ; CINCINNATI Representatives of 2,500,000 Presbyterians last week asked the U.S. to seek international agreement stopping manufacture of atom and hydrogen bombs. The action was taken at the closing session of the 162nd General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. TORONTO STANLEY RYERSON “What are the real forces behind this provocation?” Fur out for master pact International Fur and Leather Workers Union met with a group of fur manufacturers this week to discuss an industry-wide master agreement in Vancouver, designed to bring working conditions up to the level achieved in other Can- adian «cities, growth of the industry locally. Pearl Wedro, district organizer, said union demands include a 15- cent an hour pay hike, 40-hour week, paid statutory holidays, va- cations with pay, closed union shop with checkoff and established minimum rates of wages. Vancouver Fur Workers Union, local 197, was certified this week as bargaining agent in four shops: Lando Furs, Viking Fur Company, Avenue Furs and Toft Furs, Sev- eral more applications for certifi- cation are now before Labor Re- lations Board. Steel plans another raid c PORT COLBORNE C. H. Millard’s Steel officials have anounced here that the USWA will apply for certification at the International Nickel re- finery Local 637 of Mine-Mill, The new Steel raid takes place at a time when a new contract, effec- tive June 1, 1950, has just been negotiated between the company and Mine-Mill on behalf of 1,300 workers. The contract provides the Rand formula of modified un- ion security, a reduction in hours from 48 to 44 and increase in take- home pay ranging between 9% to 11 cents. Local Mine-Mill , officials, al- ready successful in defeating one Steel raid, express confidence that the new attempt is ‘doomed in advance to fail.. and to help the’ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 2, 1950—PAGE 12 MONTREAL In their hysterical fear of the people, the ene- mies of peace in Quebec have resorted to straight, shameless forgery of documents. Gazette published on. May 26 a so-called ‘“‘photo- static copy’ of a letter alleged to have been sent to a signer of the “Ban the Bomb” petition by a The Montreal so-called Nicholas Kaminski, al- legedly an official of a so-called “Canadian Youth Peace Move- ment.” In that letter, the so-called Ka- minski asserted that “the ob- jective of the Canadian Youth Peace Movement is to have a major Communist party in Can- ada.” He-called on the signer of the petition — whose name, of course, remains a mystery—to at- tend a certain meeting, failing which, he says, “. . . your name, along with the names of other ab- sentees will be turned over to the RCMP along with fool-proof evi- dence that you are an active mem- ber of the Communist party,” According to the Gazette, that document was received from the “anti-subversive squad” of the Montreal city police, and “its authenticity has also been estab- lished by officials of the RCMP.” Jean Pare, chairman of Mon- treal Peace Council, charged the Gazette with publishing a forgery and challenged the Gazette as well -as the RCMP to produce the so- called Nicholas Kaminski along with the so-called “Canadian Youth Peace Movement” — both completely unknown by either the Peace Council or the Canadian Peace Congress. , Pare called in vain on Justice Minister Stuart Garson to explain whether RCMP officials in Mon- treal had made themselves part- ners to this gross forgery. The purpose of such an unprin- cipled action was made quite clear in the editorial the Gazette devot- ed to its “discovery.” Charging “blackmail in the name of peace,” the editorial launched a vicious at- tack on the petition campaign be- ing conducted under auspices of the Canadian Peace Congress. There was blackmail indeed — but it was against Canadians of good will who want to add their voice to the growing peace movement. In a statement given to thé press in Montreal, Miss Mary Jennison, national secretary of the Canadian Peace Congress, denounced this “..,. unserupulous forgery, manu- factured to order for those who, fearing the strength of the people’s desire for peace, descend to calum- ny in their effort to disrupt ,a movement of the Canadian people which all their trickery cannot halt.” She called for intensified can- vassing for signatures to the new Petition for Peace throughout the country as an.answer “to those who now stoop to forgery in their efforts to halt the demand for peace.” Text of Miss Jennison’s and Pare’s statements along with a copy of the new Petition for Peace were mailed during last weekend to thousands of people in Quebec urging them to sign the petition So that “those who want war will not have the last word.” | Bulgarian artists coming to congress é TORONTO Three famous Bulgarian artists > . will attend sessions of the First — ‘Canadian Slav Congress to take place in Toronto June 29-30 and July 1, according to an announce- ment of the preparations commit- tee last week. — ~ Part of a delegation of. four fraternal’ delegates from the Bul- garian Slay Committee, they are Mikhail Popoff and Rajna Mik- hailova, national artist-singers; and Prof. Tamara Yankova, pian- ist.