~ Tom Clarks past
hides source of
— “startling’

Skeletons rattled in U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark’s private
closet as Senate hearings on his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court

opened here this week.

The following disclosures have come to light and indicate that
opposition to his confirmation is growing:

@ Clark was once a $12,000 a
year representative of Texas oil
interests and a paid lobbyist for
Safeway and other chain stores.

@ A Texas state senate inves-
tigating committee -once censured
Clark officially for concealing
facts about a strange and sudden
boom in his personal fortunes.

President Truman’s nomination
of Clark for the Supreme Court

vacancy created by the death of|}

Justice Frank Murphy, is being
debated before the Senate Judic-
iary Committee, of which Pat Mc-
Carran (Dem., Nevada) is chair-
man.

Disclosure of big money ties in
Clark’s Texas past came out as
the number of protests against
Clark’s confirmation mounted in
the judiciary committee files.

The chain stores hired Clark
to kill the chain store tax bill.
‘This tax was intended to protect
the little crossroads grocery stores
the giant mercantile trusts were
putting out of business.

The present attorney general’s
payroll ties to Texas big  busi-
ness were not generally known
to the public. They were brought
out into the open in 19387-by a
Texas State Senate investigating
committee, which was checking up
on the sources of the income of
this lawyer-politician,

Clark was hired by the trusts
as a contact man with the state
government after his law partner,
William McGraw, became state
attorney general in 1935.

Clark’s employer in the oil in-
dustry was the Texas Petroleum
Council, which was set up by
oil companies in tke Lone Star

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WASHINGTON

TOM CLARKE

He was not “willing to make a
full disclosure.”

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state. The industry is dominated
by such petroleum giants as the
Rockefellers’ Standard Oil com-
panies, the huge Texas Corpora-
tion, which works with the Rocke-
fellers; the Mellons’ Gulf Oil Com-
pany, and the Pew family and
other oil tycoons. :

Clark’s chain store boss was the
big Safeway Stores, Inec., whose

that time.

The Texas Senate committee
found that Clark had “experi-
enced a tremendous and startl-
ing increase in earnings’’ after
his law partner became state
attorney general,

Clark was asked to explain. His
answers didn’t satisfy the investi-
gators. The committee adopted a
resolution censuring Clark for not}
being “willing and eager to make
a full disclosure of his financial
affairs.”

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LUMBER

talked big at their last convention.
“Rough and tough bargaining”
was promised.

WIU leaders knew the score.
“We'll back up the IWA if they
stick to their promise of rough
and tough bargaining,” they told
the IWA rank-and-file. “But we
warn you that only unity will win
victory. For the purpose of con-
tinuing their super-profits, the
lumber bosses dream and work
for the return of the open shop,
extended hours of work, and mis-
erable working conditions of the
past.”

In adhering to the Marshall

gressive American imperialism,
the Canadian government has dis-
rupted and weakened Canadian

plan, the economic weapon of ag-|-

CSU leader iniured

economy, closing foreign markets
and disastrously affecting the fut-
ure of every citizen.

B.C.’s lumber industry was one
of the first basic industries to feel
the adverse effects of the Marshall
Plan. Profits of the lumber bosses
reached an all-time high last year,
because of increased productivity

of the lumber workers, but trade
with non-dollar countries is now
rapidly drying up.

Unable to deal profitably with
British Columbia because of the
dollar shortage, Britain this week
placed a large lumber, order with
the Soviet Union. The Anglo-Soviet
timber deal is for 198,000,000 board
feet (approximately 10 percent of
Britain’s softwood import needs)
by the end of the year, and in-
volves between $7 and $8 million.

Bound and gagged by the Mar-
shall plan, B.C. operators are feel-
ing the pinch as the bottom drops
cut of the export market and
promised Marshall aid orders fail
to materialize. Already 39 oper-
ators out of 165 are either shut
down or temporarily closed. Top
grades of lumber are still in good
demand and the price is firm; but
“rough green” .shipments have
been drastically curtailed and the
price has dropped.

Demand for hemlock logs, used
largely by pulp mills, has fallen
off since the closure of three pulp
mills, one at Woodfibre and the
others at Port Alice and Port
Mellon. More than 1800 men were
thrown out of work.

This week H, R. MacMillan
Export Company Ltd. announced
that 189 men, or 25 percent of
their employees, are being laid
off at the plywood plant because
_ of high prices and loss of mar-
kets, :

So the bosses are getting tough.
They want to'retain their profits
at the expense of the woodwork-
ers. Hence the wage-slashing” drive.

The operators’ brief, read to
the conciliation board by R. V.
Stuart and John Billings for
Forest Industrial Relations, ask-
ed for a. 13-cent-an-hour wage
cut—a return to the 1947 level
of 95 cents an hour. This was in
reply to the IWA request for a
15-cent boost.

The operators also rejected the
IWA request for lower board
rates, and turned thumbs down on
other union proposals.

Lumber operators in the north-
ern Interior have proposed a 20%-
cents-an-hour wage reduction — a
return to the 1946 basic wage rate
of 77 cents an hour; increase of
the working week from 44 to 48
hours; increase in board rate from
$2 to $2.50 per day; and shorter

Ineffective trade union leader-
ship has led the IWA up a blind
alley. The operators have closed
the gates on them. They must
now turn and fight their way out
—and that fight can only be suc-
cessful if all woodworkers, IWA,
WIU, and non-union unite their
forces and present a united front
in opposition to the lumber bar-
ons.

Any other course of action will

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lead to disaster.

J. M. Smith, CSU _ business
agent, suffered leg and chest
injuries in a two-car collision
last Monday night at Commer-
cial and Franklin which hurled
one car 80 feet into a bush and
resulted in seven persons being
taken to hospital, James Thomp-
son, CSU West Coast vice-presi-
dent amd driver of the car in
which Smith was riding, suffer-
ed minor head injuries but was
released from hospital after
treatment.

PEACE

ers; Uta Hagon, now playing in
Street Car Called Desire; Charles
Huston, Washington lawyer; Rob-
ert W. Kenny, California lawyer;
Paul Robeson, singer; O. John
Rogge, former U.S. attorney-gen-
eral; Ben Shahn, artist; Reverend
John B. Thompson; and Dr. Gene
Weltfish, anthropologist and
author.

The Canadian delegation will be
headed by Dr. J. C. Endicott and
Mary Jennison of Toronto Peace
Council. (In Toronto this ‘week,
Miss Jennison stated that Holly-
wood’s “exotic betrayal of Latin
America has blinded many Cana-
dians to the fact that south of
the Rio Grande we have 130,000,000
potential friends and allies in the
present struggle for peace.”)

* * *

TORONTO

Canadian Peace Congress
lodged strong protests with the
government of Argentine and
Brazil following receipt of a cable
from World Peace Congress presi-
dent Dr. Joliot Curie advising Ca-
nadians of repression of the peace
movement in thost countries.
News of the repression had been
blacked ‘out in the daily press.

has

Partial text of the cable reads:

“We learn of the suspension
by the Peron government of the
Argentine Peace Congress and
numerous arrests, as well as the
‘bloody repression of the Brazil
Peace Assembly with the assas-
Sination of a young peace par-
tisan (activist for peace).”

Through secretary Mary Jenni-
son the Canadian group has told
the police-state governments of
Argentine and Brazil:

“The Canadian Peace Con-
gress, speaking for many thous-
ands of Canadians, those who
have suffered from the recent
war and who see themselves and
their country threatened ny ae
drive towards another armed
conflict, urge (your) government
to reconsider this action in the
interests of all the people of the
world.”

Expressions of “deepest regret”
were forwarded to the suppressed
peace bodies and a pledge to speak
all the louder on their behalf as
well as for Canadians.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 12,

One freed,

21 CSU men

still in jail

“T’ve served my year and I know

what it’s like. Im concerned now .

‘about my 21 buddies still in the
penitentiary,” Mike Hornik of the

Canadian Seamen’s Union declared _

at a reception held for him here

on his release from Guelph Re

formatory.

The 21 still in jail, including
CSU Great Lakes organization dir-
ector Mike Jackson, are serving
sentences of from two to three
years imposed on them during the
CSU Great Lakes strike last year.
Sixteen are at Collins Bay and
five at Prince Albert.

release were, “It's wonderful to be
out but none of us can rest until
the Jabor movement wins the re-
lease of those boys in there and
until:
union rights that the CSU is de-
fending on its worldwide deepsea
picket line.”

Hornick, now 24 years old, was
among the five pickets jailed for
the “crime” of being shot at by 2

Lethbridge to speak to the crew.

In a brief ceremony at the re-
ception he was presented with 2

Seamen’s Defense Committee and
a cigarette
the Toronto electrical workers who
appreciated his stand.

“T feel the same way as when
I went in,” he said. “Nothing can
ever repay you for the time spent
in jail, but these boys are not
sorry because they’re fighting for
their democratic union rights. T?
send them to jail is a criminal act
in itself. I'll leave no stone un-
turned to try to bring the issue t0
the attention of my fellow trade
unionists.”

Demands for the release of
the imprisoned seamen should
be addressed to Solicitor-General
Joseph Jean at Ottawa.

Greek unionists
face execution

SEATTLE
An urgent plea to unions and

of 11 Greek trade union leaders
now under death sentences wa%
sounded here by Petros Arnaoutis
treasurer of the American section
of the Greek Maritime Unions.

The dynamic, 41-year-old Greek-

the U.S. to win support for the il
officials and rank-and-file me™
bers who face a Royalist firin
squad for the “crime” of “incitin’
to strike.”

“These men are guilty of ‘but
one thing—defending the working
class and the members of thei!
union,” Arnaoutis declared.

the death penalties be sent to

mier A. Diomides, Athens,

ington, D.C.

‘A note of , unity which ba
Strengthen expected milita
struggles between reactionary sia
ployers and the trade union MOV
ment of France is to be fount
the decision of the Confeder@ a0
of Christian Trade Unions to
in unity with the Confeder i
Generale du Travail (CGT) ©
pressing for wage increase’

ver
The decision represents 2 T® Ao
sal of policy by the Christi t

unity in action with the
CGT is not purely a trade ;
affair, but is an important P°

development.

check on behalf of the National

Unity policy hailed —
PARIS

Hornick’s first thoughts on his

labor wins the battle for

ship’s officer as they boarded the

lighter on behalf of ©

progressives to help save the lives »

American labor leader is touring —

He urged. that protests against

Greece
and to the Greek Embassy, Was?" _

tion
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Trade Unions and it is felt ean a

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