Bridges fights back Eight thousand people last week jammed San Francisco’s civic auditorium to la a nation-wide campaign to revers@’* the frame-up conviction of Inter- national Longshoremen’s presi- dent Harry Bridges, here shown (second from left) conferring with union officials. Banners at the rally proclaimed, “Fight the Frame-up. You’re next!” Democratic Rights League to fight for Rights Bill, repeal of Padlock Law PHONE Pacific 7644 WAND STUDIO 8 East Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. \ SSS “anything with a Camera” ) i ais SOOOQDQOonmn> Vernon LPP Club Greets May Day FARMERS NEED MARKETS For Their Produce Fraser Valley Citizens Need Peace and Trade with all Peoples Bes Webster's Corners LPP tt Club 4 JOIN WITH US IN THE FIGHT FOR PEACE AND > $ pREVENT ANOTHER WAR! NIILO MAKELA CLUB MAY DAY GREETINGS , from Webster's Corners Garage OW, Edstrom Sam Saari’s Garage ' Webster's Corners, B.C. Wimpey’s Hamburger Stand ARVELLA BENNER Webster’s Corners, B. C. Seek probe in Nanaimo area amalgamation — NANAIMO, B. Cc. et aaa from Brechin, Hare-} wood and Nanaimo met at the home of former parks commissioner Ar- chie Lewis this week and setup a Committee for a Government In- quiry into Amalgamation to press for a probe into all aspects of the proposed amalgamation y of the three-communities. A resolution sent to the bovine cial minister of municipal affairs, George S. Pearson, under the sig- nature of the committee’s secre- tary, Gordon Martin, asks that open hearings *to be held in Nanaimo, Brechin and Harewood to hear sub- missions of interested parties. The resolu fons points out that amalgamation might require the introduction of a new method of assessment and a new basis of taxation, “It is necessary to assure the ratepayers of the three com- munities that an equitable basis of taxation will be established as between small holdings, residential properties and downtown commer- cial and industrial properties,” the committee stresses. Unless steps are taken to. hold public hearings, the danger exists that the method of amalgamation decided on may become just a get- rich-quick scheme of the commer- cial interests. If carried through with ade- quate protection for the interests of the people in the communities affected, amalgamation could lead to rapid expansion of Na- naimo as the industrial and com- ercial center of Vancouver Island Forbes arrested on ‘contempt’ order ' John C. Forbes, secre of the Woodworkers Indust Union of Canada, was arrested this week on a Supreme Court order \com- mitting him to jail for “contempt |: of court.” Forbes failed to pay into court $11,000 claimed. by the IWA, stating that the money’ had paying back wages ee MAY ON GREETINGS» from ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. “TI confidently look ahead and win-a Bill of Rights,” delegates to the first national civil weekend. urgently needed in Canada was ‘apparent in the long list of vio- lations cited by delegates—among them the threat of pro-fascist po- litical repression through a, govern- ment-sponsored Section 98; the Duplessis Padlock Law; racial and religious discrimination at Dress- den, Quebec City and Shawinigan Falls; Nazi DP terrorism at Tim- mins and wholesale police-state attacks against the trade unions. The 152 delegates who took part in the conference represen- ted trade union, fraternal, lan- guage, social and civil liberties organizations from coast to coast. Trade unions delegates spoke on “behalf of 28 locals estate 13 internationals. Mrs. Spaulding explained, “the new organization is not breaking “new ground” but is continuing a fight Canadians began years ago. In her keynote address she re- minded delegates that the Cana- dian people had been fighting to maintain and extend their liberties for years. She cited the 1919 Win- nipeg General Strike: the 1925 Drumheller coal miners’ strike; and the day-to-day battle of the Canadian . Labor Defence League which in the thirties carried the banner of the civil liberties and labor rights throughout Canada and won the support of 450,000 Canadians behind a successful de- mand for repeal of Section 98. Mrs. Spaulding warned,however, that the attacks on civil liberties which took place during the twen- ties and thirties are being repeated more intensely in the fifties. First task of the League For Democratic Rights will be to fight fcr a Bill of Rights which will include (a) equality of all citizens before the law (b) no interference with the rights of minorities to use their own lan- guage and religion (c) rights of labor to organize, strike and pi- cket to be reaffirmed (d) right to political belief (e) right to re- ligious freedom (f) complete equality for women (g) guaran- tees against racial discrimination (h) equal rights for the Indian and Eskimo peoples (i) full e¢m- ployment and social security (j) a Canadian constitution which will provide the above and other urgent necessities. TOM’S GROCERY 600 Main Street Greetings to All Working People $ May Day 1950 TORONTO predict that our new League will lead a nation-wide crusade to‘repeal the iniquitous Padlock Law and Mrs. Margaret H. Spaulding, MBE, told nghts cenference in Toronto last The conference established a new national organization, the pent for Democratic Rights headed. by Mrs. Spaulding and Edmond Major, chairman of Montreal Civil Liberties Union, as co-presidents, and Thomas Roberts, executive secretary. Harry Gord was elected treasurer. That a national organization to protect and fight for civil Tights Court echoes Benchers in Martin ruling - VICTORIA, eect B. c. Court of Appeal this wéek because of his membership in the Labor-Progressive party. oe The judgment dismissing Mar- ‘tice Gordon Sloan, spoke - of; the young law student’s belief in. an “alien philosophy” and demonstra- ted that none of the judges in the case believe in freedom of i a cal thought. fusing to admit Martin practice were that “he is not a fit person to be called to the Bar” and “that he did not satisfy the Bench- ers he is a person of good repute within, the meaning of the Legal Professions Act.” A wealth of testimony refuting both these points,’ including Mar- tin’s war record with the RCAF, failed to shake the prejudices of the Court of Appeal judges, who confirmed the “class judgment’ of the Benchers. chérs, said Sloan's verdict. to the law. sons of the conclusions.” upheld the Benchers of the Law| Society in not: allowing -Gordon: Martin ‘to be called to the bar); tin’s appeal, written ‘by Chief Jus— Original reasons of Betichets | re- “T have given careful considera- tion to these reasons of the Ben- “In my opinion they reflect the exer- cise of proper discretion according I might also add that I am in agreement with the rea- Benchers and their Axe pacifists in CCF, says Liberal organ By JOHN MARSHALL WINNIPEG As W. G. Doneleko, former CCF MLA, appealed to the people of Winnipeg to be true to the tradi- tions of J. S. Woodsworth, founder of the CCF, the Winnipeg Free Press called on the CCF leaders for further purges of the membership. In an editorial entitled “Defense and the CCF” on April 19, the Free Press urged not-only the elimina- tion of “Communists and - fellow- travellers” but the purging of the pacifists as well. Angered by the vote of the B.C. CCF convention against further arms expenditures, the irate Liberal.organ called on M. J. Coldwell to clean house of this “pacifist, 7 eteg acenmveg: hes in the CCF.” Ban rammed through council at Victoria - VICTORIA, B.C. Burocratic methods were used at the last meeting ‘of Victoria Trades — -and Labor Couneil {(AFL-TLC) to iram through a,.40-8 ;vote. banning Communists from, holding official positions, After some 30 ‘delegates had walk- |ed out in protest; more: than 20 delegates. whose status had not yet been decided upon were allowed to vote in order to ensure the two- thirds majority needed.by the Peck- ‘Wilkinson-Rayment machine to put the ban into effect.’ Greetings to Organized W orkers On May Day Trade Union Research ‘|| 339 W. PALL_MALL Rename os VE 5 Vancouver Heights LPP Club “UNITE FOR PEACE” May Day UNIVERSAL Features: _ Language 112 East Hastings Street and Home Town Newspapers and Progressive Literature ~ “If we don't stock it - we can get it’ Greetings from NEWS STAND MAY DAY UNION. PR MA. 650 Howe St. . TO ALL READERS OF THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE FROM GREETINGS INTERS LTD. ene 2154-5 Vancouver, B.C. 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