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Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, June 10, 1949

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‘Strike goes on‘ - Thompson

UNIONS SUPPORT CSU,
HIT SUSPENSION BY TLC

AFL chieftain William Green’s order to the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada this week to suspend the fighting Canadian
Seamen’s Union has aroused a storm of indignation in the labor
movement from coast to coast. It is an order to a supposedly autono-
mous Canadian trade union center to cast out a Canadian union
chartered by the Congress and accept, in effect, the American-
dominated Seafarers’ International Union (AFL), which by its
scabbing tactics in the current East Coast strike has surrendered all
claim to be a legitimate labor organization.

Buckling under combined pressure from Green, the Canadian
government and the U.S. state department, TLC president Percy
Bengough suspended the CSU, and shamefacedly hinted that a way
might be found to issue a separate charter to West Coast CSU men,
who are not on strike. (To this, James Thompson, Pacific vice-
president, replied grimly: “‘We are a part of the Canadian Seamen’s
Union. )

In a decision calculated to harass the striking seamen’s picket
lines, Mr. Justice Manson this week refused to lift an anti-picketing
injunction on a strike-bound freighter in Vancouver, and termed the
CSU strike “‘illegal.”

The indignation aroused by Congress’ fratricidal act and Ben-
gough’s shameful betrayal of trade union principles found expression
in refusal of delegates to Vancouver Trades and Labor Council
meeting this week to accept the unseating of CSU representatives.
Using the technicality that official suspension documents had not
yet been received from Congress, angry delegates overruled the chair
and reinstated CSU “with voice and vote” until official notification
of suspension arrived.

Answer of British workers to suspension of the CSU by Con-
gress was an extension of sympathy walkouts by English dockworkers,
who have consistently refused to unload scab-manned Canadian ships.

At Liverpool 6,000 dockers on a sympathy strike were joined
by another 2,000. When British troops began to unload a scab ship,
the Montreal City, at Avonmouth, crews of strikebound ships at
nearby Bristol decided to join the CSU on the picket lines. From
Blackpool came news that the Empress of Canada, crack CPR
liner, will carry most of her 4,693-ton cargo back to Canada because
dockers refuse to unload it.

Continued on back page
See ELECTION

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Put Morgan at top of poll

“BE There’s a symbolism in this picture of two young LPP sup-

porters placing their candidate's poster at the top of the
pole in their hard-hitting campaign to put Nigel Morgan at the top
of the provincial poll in Alberni on June 15. The belt and spurs
were put to good use after petty supporters of “Honest” Jim Mowat,
“Independent” Coalition candidate, went around ripping down all
Morgan’s posters.

Coalition, CCF leaders have no differences on main issues

By HAL GRIFFIN

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for the Coalition to save them-
selves, “their children and their
children following” from, all the
evils of an illusory socialism
promised or not promised by the
CCF—it depends on which candi-
date is speaking and to what
audience.

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tion, but umhappily one to which

progressive voters in a majority
of provincial constituencies will
find no satisfactory answer. The
influencing of national policies
toward peace or war and the
shaping of the provincial econ-
omy to impose or ease the bur-
den of the developing crisis on
the working people will lie with
the new government of British
Columbia. But it is also true

that whichever of the two pro- graceful cloak for the ugly out-
tagonists in this election, the lines of capitalism. That’s the
Coalition and the CCF, wins a_ impression the CCF, to a lesser
majority there is no irreconcil- €xtent in this than in past elec-
able difference on fundamental 0m campaigns, has sought to

: create in order to win votes. It’s
issues of policy between them. also the impression the Coalition,

to a greater extent in this than
in past election campaigns, has
sought to create in order to
Scare votes away from the CCF.
A few of the CCF candidates

In the eyes of a great many
voters the CCF is identified with
socialism, the Coalition with free
enterprise, which is only a more