iD ww, Th | ED een Vol. 6. No. 16. Vancouver, B.C., April 18, 1947 > Five Cents US, MOVES IN ON CANADA Bases seen danger to sovereignty OTTAWA.—Ganada’s national sovereignty is Qt stake, according to Lester B. Pearson, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. and now under- Secretary for external affairs. Speaking to a confer- €nce of Eastern Ontario and Quebec Hi-Y clubs in the capital, Pearson stated: ‘To strengthen the UN, Gnada and other member countries must give up Some of their national sovereignty.” (Continued on page 8 — See SOVEREIGNTY) CCF sees menace in ‘anti-Red’ campaign Se warning that the present big business-inspired and communist’ drive would be directed against the CCF ast all other progressive organizations unless it was de- < €d was made by Mrs. Dorothy Steeves, former MLA, in ven Teport as first vice-president to the CCF provincial con- tion here last weekend. RS ‘The big business rulers are grimly preparing to put Rill Ge class discontent in the coming slump that inevitably follow the present price-boom in North foe by anti-labor legislation and anti-socialist agita- ran financed by all the resources they can command,” Mrs. eves declared. drat tS are not wanting that freedom of speech is to be ay tically curtailed, for—make no mistake about this—the a Sent anti-communist drive will become a drive against BY Organization and individual which threatens their vested rests, and that means the CCF.” th Mrs. Steeves was also one of the most outspoken of € many delegates who took the floor to condemn Ameri- N aid to Greece and Turkey in discussion of a resolution Spe ting that Canada protest unilateral interference by by power in the affairs of another country. U.S. action in yPassing the United Nations posed a threat to world Peace, Mrs, Steeves said. (For further details see story on page 3.) ee Wallace scorns threats @ Henry A. wallace (right) Now -in Britain, this Week scorned demands made J. Parnell Thomas, chair- Man of Congress’ Un-Ameri- aan Activities _ Commiittee, 48nd others that he be pro- Secuted under the 148 year- old Logan Act for his SPeeches warning that Am- erican policy was slipping into the hands of men who Would embark the U.S. on “a wild and mad nightmare °f ruthless imperialism.” He declared: “f shall go on Speaking out for peace Wherever men will listen to Me to the end of my days.” enna a By MARK FRANK ‘ nine-tenths of the U.S. tele- No number, please Phones’ were. silent throughout the greater part of the U.S. this week as 325,000 workers challenged one of America’s giant mon- opolies — the $6,500,000,000 American Telephone and Telegraph which controls phone industry. It was the biggest' walkout of women workers in American his- tory. This week U.S. Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwell- enbach announced that the company and the striking National Federation of Tele- phone Workers had both re- jected his proposal to end the strike. Only break in the strike came from Sher- man, Texas, where 2 com- pany signed with the union. (See also story on page 2.) @ Two of Philadelphia’s long distance operators, Dolores Chambers and Ke- gina Hickey, take time out to rub their aching feet. MP’s alarmed over price boost protests OTTAWA—Now that the Easter”tecess is over, members are back in their seats and offices mulling over the cabinet’s slick performance in price decontrol. Just before adjournment, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took a long stép in the direction of satisfying the Conservatives’ noisy “lift all controls at once there is no emerg- ency” program, Pin-pricked into action by the influential Canadian Manufacturers’ Association and countless major and minor lobbies, the government surrendered its authority over controls on some 100 types of goods and services. Immediate reaction came from the tory Ottawa Journal, which announced on April 3. that “prices will not go up” as a result of the decontrol order. This statement was immediately challenged when the cost of liv- ing index for March 1 was re- leased the next day. It said that the index went up 1.1 points over February 1 and that this resulted from removal of price controls on goods and services in Jan- uary. Food costs had gone up 1.7 points. Rebellious MP’s, flooded with protests from: constituents and the labor movement, are not happy about the eabinet’s ac- ‘ tion. CCF members, in particu- lar, have promised to bring the position of the recent Western housewives delegation to the floor of the House. To wage earners and farmers, increased living costs, estimated by the CCL at 6 percent in 1946 (Continued on page 8) See PRICES OTTAWA — Justice Minister J. L. Ilsley’s definition of ‘sub- versive character’ as given to the House of Commons last week is about as intelligible as Gertrude Stein’s famous phrase “A rose is a rose is a rose.’’» “A gathering of a subversive character is a gathering of persons conducting subversive activities,” he solemnly told members. A subversive is a subversive is a subversive Ilsley made his statement in the course of giving formal answers to questions about RCMP activities put by A. M. Stewart (CCF, Winnipeg North) without revealing any informa- tion. As a result, the Canadian people, whose taxes pay RCMP salaries, know little more than they did before about how pub- lic funds are being spent. Isley did confirm the general suspicion that the RCMP’s ‘special section’, headeqd by Supt. C. E. Rivett-Carnac, as- sistant director of criminal in- vestigation, at a salary of $3,- 576.25 a year, keeps secret dos- siers on citizens “not suspected of criminal activities,” and he left the impression there are so many of them their number “cannot be determined.”