this Friday night at Pender Audi-
torium to plan a rapid extension
‘of the anti-BCER drive. A mass
rally will be called in the near
future, and this week's meeting
is expected to form an initiative
‘committee to plan further public
demonstrations. All interested per-
sons are invited to attend.

Circulation of Mrs. Jones’ chain
letter calling for a plebiscite in
December on the question of city
ownership of BCER is arousing
interest throughout the city as
thousands of copies find their
way into homes.

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BCER hopes that the public
would quickly become “accustom-
ed” to the dime fare have proven
ill-founded. Citizens know they are
being fleeced and resentment 1s

growing daily. One irate bus-
rider staged his own “holdup” this
week when he deposited one of

the old three for 25 cents tickets

in a fare box and bluntly re-}

fused to pay the new dime fare.
The bus driver refused to start
his vehicle and the deadlock con-
tinuead for 15 minutes until an-
other passenger finally threw in
a dime.

LPP petitions demanding re-
Moval of the interim fare increase
and a public hearing are being
eee

Liberation army's

anniversary marked

; PEIPING

In its review of the 22-yeax) his-
tory of the People’s Liberation’ ar-
my, whose anniversary is being
celebrated throughout China, New
China News Agency states that
the army killed, wounded and cap-
tured 1,700,000 Japanese puppet

. troops and liberated a population
Of 99,500,000 to win victory in the
anti-Japanese war.

_In the three-year liberation war
it has wiped out 5,690,000 enemy
troops and_ liberated 143,000,000
People, thus increasing the freed
Population to 279,000,000. From
an army of 93,000 with 2,200,000
People’s Volunteers, it has grown
into a strong force of 4,000,000.

itizens rally to
ffie Jones’ drive
against dime fare

Effie Jones’ stickers urging citizens to “Save Your Dimes; Shop
At Home” are beginning to appear on community store windows as
the campaign against increased BCER fares gathers momentum.

Vancouver citizens who have written or phoned Mrs. Jones sug-
gesting ways to fight back against dime fares will meet with Effie

circulated until the end of this
month. Canvassers report that 95
percent of the people they visit
eagerly sign the petition.

Public Utilities Commission,
which gave BCElectric permission
to increase fares, proved this
week it hadn’t the haziest idea
of the company’s financial struc-
ture when it was unable to an-
swer six of nine question about
transit fares asked by Ald. Laura
Jamieson,

Questions which stumped the
PUC were:

What was the cost of the of-

ficial opening of the Bridge
River plant, including special
trains and entertainment?

What is the investment per
unit of production of the BC-
Electric, compared with Winni-
peg Hydro, Winnipeg Electric,
Seattle Light and Power and
Puget Sound Light and Power?

What is the cost per unit of
power used in the BCElectric
transportation system compared
with costs per unit supplied to
the Toronto Transportation Com-
pany?

How do you account for the
difference in fares between Tor-
onto and Vancouver?

What is the cost of light and
power per unit to Vancouver
citizens compared with the cost
to Toronto citizens?

\

City council this week avoided
a discussion on
tabling seven petitions objecting
to increased fares received
from trade unions, political par-

ties and women’s organizations.

A BCElectric power failure last
Monday brought downtown Van-
couver to .a dead halt from 1:51

to. .2:35 p.m. Department stores

were in darkness, buses and street
ears choked streets and intersec-
tions. The company has promised
an “investigation” into the rea-
sons Why 2 62,000-watt power
transformer at Horne Payne sub-
station at Boundary Road blew

out.

Little Pee Tee bounces back,
wants to see new sub record

Little PeeTee got rained out at the picnic Sunday, like everybody
else, but he bounces right back this week with an appeal to all sub-

getters Aor the Pacific Tribune to “make August

month for subs.”

Jack Rockendal of the
With three subs~this week; follow-
€d by W. Harman, East End No.
2, with two and one-half; Rita
Whyte, Kitsilano, one and one-half;
and Art Lindberg, Victory Square,
pee and one-half.

August is a good month for
Street sales and supporters are
Asked to take a bundle of papers
and spend an hour or two on some
busy corner,

The job is to win new reader's;
to reach thousands of workers and
Sell them subs so that they can
read the truth which the “free
Press” (subsidized by special ERP
funds—see story on page 2) will
Not publish,

Little Pee Tee, our symbolic sales-
man, urges you: “Get out and get
Subs during August!”

a record summer

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Canadian Seamen’s Union sets the pace

Runaied shop threatens thousands

a :

Ted Fedigan (center), a member of the United Farm Equip-
ment Workers (CIO), shown here with his family, is among the
thousands facing unemployment when International Harvester
shuts down its plant at Auburn, N.Y. Company officials have an-
nounced a shift of operations to Memphis, Rock Falls and Louis-
ville plants which will turn the Auburn works into a ghost plant

by November, 1950.

United Auto
workers win
layoff issue -

TORONTO
Four thousand Massey - Harris
workers ‘went back to work last
week with the knowledge that their
union, Loca] 439 of the United Au-
to Workers (CIO), had won a vic-
ory. When terms of agreement be-
tween union and company were
mnounced, the workers staged a
cheering victory march around the
blocks-long factory carrying their
union president, Steve Anco, on
thein shoulders.
The issue of the firing of Anco
was Feft to limited arbitration —
limited in the fact that only the
events directly connected with An-
co’s discharge are to be discussed.

Anco was fired when the he
backed workers who refused to
work overtime in the face of heavy
layoffs which are expected to hit
1,500 before the end of the summer.
The workers won the statutory
holiday pay for. Toronto's civic hol-
iday.

But they won something else,
sowever: the knowledge that their
union is¢strong. The more than
,000 workers gave an object lesson
in militancy to management. Un-
der Steve Anco’s leadership and

Canadian youth group
meet seamen in Britain

By JIM LEECH

The Canadian Beaver Brigade en route to the Budapest Youth
Congress and Festival, this week made contact with members of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union still stranded in Bnitain,

‘ LONDON

upported by a powerful rank-and-
ile movement, Local 439 demon-
trated a fighting spirit that will
mmeasurably strengthen labor’s
truggle against increasing layoffs
nd speedup.

It will also | put the union in a
nuch strenger position when the
sargaining committee talks with
nanagement on the new contract.
‘he present agreement expires
Sept. 15. A 40-hour week plus wage
nereases are among the union’s
demands.

Rank-and-file unity of the

and welcomed to

Brigade ranks seaman Len McRitchie.

The Beaver Brigade, 22-strong,
he third of its kind to visit Eu-

BCElectric by also took time to witness the com-

rope from Canada in as many years,

plete production of a labor news-
paper in “the most modern news-
vaper building in Britain,” that of
he London Daily Worker. This
great building and its modern ma-
shinery belongs to nearly 30,000
working people and 700 labor or-
‘anizations who contributed the
noney for the paper’s expansion.

Eager for news of Canada were
uen McRitchie, Vic Nolan and
ther CSU members now in Eng-
and. But these young, determined
inionists are: anything but con-
fused or dispirited by recent inter-
national events in labor and econ-
mmic circles.

Some of the seamen hope to
make their way to the continent to
ee for themselves, existing condi-
ions. Later they plan to return to
Canada to carry to the Canadian
people the eye-witness story of the
people of Europe, as do the mem-
vers of the Beaver Brigade.

Already Brigade members have
een in ‘England the big gap be-
ween prices and workers’ wages,
and know for a fact the cancerous
nature of war-plan expenditures
ylotted by the country’s delinquent
-overnment. In contrast the sure
roice of working class resistanec
jugs from many quarters such as
he union of apprentice builders,
he students and dockers who
peak for peace. 4

The strike of the dockers, -ori-
ginating in support of the Cana-
dian seamen, has been called “the
most inspiring strike of interna-
tional solidarity ever held in this
country,” the Canadian Brigad-
ers were told by John Moss of
the National Union of Students.

In keeping with this fight for
progress, over 500 British youth
will attend the Budapest Congress.

Opportunities to speak to the
ordinary people presented them-

-igelves without plan or fanfare and
‘proved the

widespread loathing
Britishers feel fon the crippling
Marshall plan and its instigators.

British youth, fighting on the

campus and in the unions for poli-

S

cies of peace and trade with coun-
tries that need British g2ods, will
undoubtedly, along with Canadians
and scores of other nationalities at
he Congress, lay an immovable
oundation for peace amongst the
yeoples of the world.

Beaver Brigade led
by McGill student

MONTREAL
Commander of the °49 Beaver _
Brigade is McGill law student
Camille Dionne. The Beaver Bri-
gade is now in Europe en route to
Budapest where the Youth Fes-
tival is to be held) Dionne is the
delegate of the Canadian Commit-
tee of the World Federation of
Democratic Youth.”
In Paris a great welcome was
accord the “Youth Peace
Train” én its way to Budapest
via Marseilles and Italy, carry-
ing delegates from Britain, Hol-
land and Belgium.

union was even more significant
in the light of a letter to em-
ployees by Massey-Harris man-
agement threatening loss of se-
niority, pensions and holidays.
Brantford Massey Local also took
top-work action in support of the
Toronto workers (although it did
aot strike), and the auto workers
»f Windsor’s Local 195 and Local
00 wired their support. Members
of Local 195 even appeared on the
dlassey-Harris picket line.

Picket courthouses

SEATTLE.

Demanding freedom for the 12:
Communist party leaders now im
the seventh month of their pro—
longed struggle for American poli-
tical liberty in New York, pickets
befc-e Seattle and Tacoma federal
courthouses have brought the.
peril of the heresy trial home to
thousands of citizens.

Picket lines are being maintain-
ed in both cities as Civil Rights.
Congress chapters throughout
Washington state join the national
movement to step up the fight for
quashing charges against the
Communist leaders.

South Slav Counsil protests
entry of Nazi Collaborators

TORONTO

Disclosure that the St. Laurent government has allowed two more
Nazi Collaborators to enter Canada has brought a strong protest from

| the Council of Canadian South Sl

Secretary M. Kruzic, and sent to

“We have just learned of the
rrival in Canada of two notorious
Yazi collaborators and war crimin-
Is, Momcilo Djujic and Dr. Gre-
gori Rozman.”

Noting that Djujic was sched-
vied to speak at a meeting in Wind-
sor and Rozman at a meeting in
Winnipeg, the telegram continued:

“The Yugoslav peoples suffered
mormously at the hands of the
Jazi invaders and their servants
uch as Djujie and Rozman and
ook with indignation upon those
who would give them aid and com-
ort and help them in carrying fur-

her their traitorous activities.

avs. A telegram, signed by Council
Prime Minister St. Laurent, read:

“The Canadians of Yugoslav ori-
gin organized in the Council of
Canadian South Slavs strongly
protest against the decision to per-
mit them to enter Canada and re-
quest that an immediate investiga-
ion be undertaken.”

FRASER VALLEY
LABOR PICNIC

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14
Fleetwood Park — Surrey
Everybody Welcome
Fun for All

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