PUC hedges on CRA bid: for hearing “We're the main stumbling block to the B.C. Blectric’s plans to final- ize its fare and rate hoists—that's why we're having trouble getting a hearing before the Public Utilities’ Commission on the company’s rate structure,” John Stanton, president of Vancouver's Civic Reform Asso- ciation, stated this week. He was commenting on a letter received from Dr. W, A. Carrothers, PUC chairman, replying to a CRA request to appear. “Since your being as an interested party at the pre vious hearing,” Carrothers wrote, “your Association has taken part in Political activities and it has been frequently stated in the press that your association is very closely re- recognized | ° ae ee Effie Jones hits waste of tomatoes Every school child is taught to eat tomatoes for vitamin C, Last week you'd be lucky if you could buy even green tomatoes in Van- couver; This week there are toma- toes—if you can pay 20 cents a pound, two pounds for 35 cents. Yet last week four-fifths of the south Okanagan tomato crop was rotting on the vine because the Marketing Board issued a “pick to order” instruction. The farmers call it a “stop pick” instruction. Why are there tomatoes on the market now? The South Okanagan Cooperative Vegetable Growers’ As~ jsociation defied the Marketing Board to run a load of tomatoes past authorities to Vancouver where markets were bare. 7 BES ES lated to the Labor - Progressive 5 it. to. the, Uae seman tor Spe fought for her rights | that party in certain aspects. As , we refuse to recognize other Polit The fighting spirit of workers like Marylin Hassel (above), who proved too much of a hand- cal parties in the province.as in-| ful for two husky cops, enabled members of the C'© United Electrical Workers to keep the Univis . terested parties, we would be in- consistent if we allowed the Labor-: Progressive Party to appear... - in another guise, So far as We know the claims made with regard to your relation to the Labor-Pro- fressive have never been denied by your Asociation:” “They've been denied, but the de- nial’s been suppressed,” comment- ed Mrs. Mae Leniczek, CRA secre- tary, in pointing to the role of the Vancouver Sun in this case, “In a story on the Boundary Road hear- ings the Sun wrote on July 10, that ‘Councillor Beamish was support- Electrical an attempt to smash picket lines and the Nation The union this week voted to accept a company “Company’s Dayton, Ohio, plant strike bound for two months. Police used tear gas in al Guard was ‘called out to intimidate strikers. proposal for settlement. Employers’ labor letter exposes plot to destroy IWA leadership IWA International President Jas. E. Fadling this week again ed by Mrs. Effie Jones, civic action.’ “We have written to the Sun pointing out that the Civic Re- form Association is an organiza- tion open to all citizens interest- ed in civie reform, regardless of political belief, but neither writ- ten nor verbal representations have obtained a retraction.” Public Utilities Commission heat- the operators have ings are expected this month and the CRA is preparing submissions against the 10-cent fare and. in- creased gas and light rates. City man wins picnic contest First prize in the reads; “Ol: Johnson and Anscomb make hay ~ ’ Taxing the working man’s pay, But if we unite And put up a fight— They'll collapse like the one horse shay.” Runner-up prize’ winners in order were: A. Rankin, 1121 Bidwell; Alex Paul Sushko, 5638 Frances; P. Niksie, Patricia Hotel, Vancouver; Elspeth Munro, Burnaby; Charles; Frank Coller, 140 West 19th; E. M. River; H.| paign Norberg, 857 Kefer; 2536 Waltham Avenue, Eleanor Cadden, 1542 Palmgren, RR1, Campbell A. Hanson, 1062 Bute. Winner of Ol’ Bill's ing contest was Merwy? were 1012 beans in @ spokes- woman for the Civic Reform Asso- ciation, an LPP organization for United Labor Picnic’s jingle contest has been won by A, Warburton, 766 East 14th Avenue, it was announced this week, With the addition of the winning last line the jingle now bean-guess- Marks, of 1058 Pacific, who estimated there jar actually relying on their union paper, ever showdown action may be ne- cessary, Fadling has joined the no- torious operator propagandist Bob Morrison in a full-scale red-baiting written for it by Al Parkin, union educational director. Exactly phrasing the ideas that tried through la. variety of methods to plant among the membership, Fadling’s release to the Vancouver Sun was headed “IWA HEAD BRANDS UNION PAPER ‘RED’” and SBC. LUMBERWORKER ALSO PRINTS ‘FALSE INFORMATION’ SAYS FADLING”. ; The attack was made through the IWA. International Board’s public “Voice of the IWA” radio program, a broadcast set up by the Fadling group and used for repeated public attacks on the B.C. district leader- ship. The text was released to the Sun. Texts of past broadcasts have been illegally used by operators in attempts to intervene against the leadership in union elections. In a wire to Fadling, District Pres- jgent Ernie Dalskog warned that “the officers and membership of District 1 wil hold you personally responsible for sabotage and em- ployers’ expdoitation of same.” The anti-union plot into whose pattern Fadling has repeatedly fit- ted himself emerges to view in re- ports in the British Columbia La- bor Letter, a mimeographed memo- randum directed to business execu- tives and political figures by the B.C. Federation of Trade and Indus- try, a key organizing center of cam- — open and underground -— for top-flight monopoly circles, The memorandum discusses what it believes to be the reasons for the IWA's action in going through conciliation while holding its strike yote in abeyance. First reason offer- containing 1017 beans. PACIFIC 9588 | FREE FERRY MEAT MARKET © 119 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, Supplying Fishing Boats _| Jack Cooney, Mer. dination with fresh B.C. DELIVERY Our Specialty Nite Calls GL. 1740L into what the Pacific Tribune can now ex government-" White Bloc,” plot to destroy t At a time when B.C. woodworkers are locked in a B.C. Lumber Worker, to unite the membership for what- attack on that paper and articles | the pose from employer sources as an operator- he leadership of the IWA in B.C. fitted himself squarely! “hot” conciliation period and ed is that “the discouraging absence disruption, to instal the equivalent of desire of the rank and file of the union to throw money into @/ .yashea IWA. second strike fund while the lac of accounting for the 1947 strike fund is a source of discord within the union does not suggest that it would be easy to get the kind of balloting result the union leaders might advocate, particularly in view of the operators’ offer of... 11 cents or 8 percent.” Actual facts, according to the unicn headquarters here, are the reverse—the strike fund is roll- ing in with a spontaneity and speed that leaves no doubt-of the membership’s determination. 1947 funds were fully accounted for in. an audit by chartered account- ants that refuted charges of shortages made by Fadling and his supporters (the self - styled “White Bloc”). Significant about this passage is that it reflects “White Bloc” estimations and as- pirations and hence also the source of emphuyer estimations of the inner-union situation. Second reason advanced in the Labor Letter unwittingly offers the give-away on an operator-Coali- tion-“White Bloc” plot to convert the union into a company union, “The union leaders have a healthy respect,” states the Letter, “for the teeth in the amended ICA Act... And in the face of a growingly-ef- fective campaign by the so-called White Bloc within the union to clean out the communist control at the top, they do not want to place themselves in a position where the union might be decertified by the labor board and a, new and non- communist crowd might gain the bargaining representation.” This statement substantiates un- ion charges the ICA Act was writ- ten to destroy unions for the boss- es, with special fangs for industrial unions. It reveals the extent to which the operators are Spurning the union’s demands because they bank on’ the “White Bloc” to disrupt the union if they can hold out long enough. But most startling of all it tips the operators’ hand in counting on the labor board to use the “con- ‘cealed Taft-Hartley” decertification {clauses in the act, backed by all the state resources wielded by the Coalition government and in coor- “White Bloc” of a company union in place of a By Tuesday. this week, 30,000 lugs (30-Ib. boxes) had been shipped. But 35,000 had wasted and 30,000 re- mained in the field. The hundred growers there get from six to nine cents a pound, but the consumer pays 20 cents, Retailers pay five cents more than the farmer gets, but have to absorb all shrinkage losses. + On hearing of the situation from the Pacific Tribune, Mrs. Effie Jones, widely-known civic leader, wired Agriculture Minister Frank Putnam: “Who was responsible for the stop-pick order given Osoyoos tomato growers which has result- ed in wastage of 35,000 lugs and possible future wastage of 30,000 lugs still on stalk, while Vancou- ver citizens suffered a scarcity Real fear of the operators is laid bare in the concluding para- graph; “Ticklish point in negotia- tions is not wages or danger of a strike but whether or not the machinery of conciliation will put the squeeze cn the lumber indus- try to accept some form of com- pulsory union membership to which the industry has been un- alterably opposed in all past ne- gotiations.” This underlines the headline of the August 4 Lumber- worker: “UNION SHOP OR BLACKLIST IS THE CHOICE BEFORE US.” Union circles see full confirma- tion that this is an authentic pic- ture of operator strategy in Fad- ling’s fresh public attack on the un- ion’s leadership, delivered with the operators’ hallmark of the “red smear” technique that condemns as “communist” all sources of mili- tant oposition to the operator pro- gram of wage-slashing, speedup, and lengthened work week through union-busting, The same sources are quick to point out that far from the “White Bloc” being “growingly effective” in its campaign, the union member- ship is aroused against it as never before. As one seasoned un- ion veteran put it, “The union has the woodworkers and the support of all decent labor men’ and we- mien and citizens generally. Wood- workers’ families must eat, and neither the operators nor Fadling nor the Coalition nor all hell can stop them.” of tomatoes last week and are forced to pay high prices on available stock this week?” It’s a good question. Who was re- sponsible and why? And why are cucumber farmers forced to run the gauntlet to market? And why cannot all Lulu Island potatoes be marketed? SSOOOOELOOOOOEO™ HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD 2 Other Valuable Jewellery ~ STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. | 719 ‘okede Be Wace meee | QSOQOROOQOPOOOOMmDY FOR PURITY AND QUALITY Buy Hastings Bread Cakes, Pastries HASTINGS BAKERY 716 E. Hastings St. HA. 3244 BRANCHES AT 4191 MAIN ST. 864 DENMAN ST. PA, 2874 ALWAYS MEET AT Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS Triple Mike P.A. 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