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Elect C€F.gov’t through
unity at polls, urges Buck

TORONTO—“To make sure that King goes—to speed
him on his way—the forces of an aroused and wrathful people
should unite at the polls in the coming federal contest, and

elect a CCF government.”

With these words Tim Buck, national leader of the
Labor-Progressive Party, last week announced to a rally
in Massey Hall here the new electoral policy of his party.
Stating his readiness to accept an invitation he had received
to stand for nomination as a candidate in the federal riding
of Toronto—Trinity—Buck outlined a program for a “new

national policy” to uphold Can-
ada’s independence in the face
of U.S. encroachments on this
country’s sovereignty.

“Patriotic Caadians cannot en-
dure indefinitely the price-goug-
ing of U.S.dominated monopolies,
the attacks of big business on
the rights of labor, the surrender
of the direction of our foreign
policy to the U.S. State Depart-
ment, and the surrender of our
soil as asmilitarized war base of
the Wall. Street expansionists,”
declared the LPP leader.

“To defeat the old-line parties,
mouthpieces of monopoly, to de-
fend the security and independ-
ence of Canada, the forces of
tabor amd democracy should
united at the polls and elect
a CCF government.”

Of the masses of CCF support-
ers with whom the LPP should
strive to work in a common ef-
fort to oust the old-line parties,
Buck said that they “represent
the biggest body of Canadians
who are opposed to fascism and
the attempt to provoke a new
world war. Their desire for gov-
ernment action to protect the peo-
ple from evils of profiteering and
the threatening economic crisis,
their desire to keep Canada out
of war and maintain this coun-
try’s sovereign independence —
all constitute a broad ground of

common aspiration between them
and ourselves.”

He added that “development of
united action by CCF and LPP
supporters at the polls, in opposi-
tion to the old-line parties, would
administer a stinging set-back to
reaction.”

“To this end, the Labor-Progres-
sive Party,” in the event of Do-
minion or provincial elections dur-
ing 1948, will urge all progres-
sive people to support CCF can-
didates in every constituency
where there is no LPP candidate
or a candidate nominated by and
representing united labor or farm-
er and labor organizations. In
the event of a Dominion general
election, the Labor-Progressive
Party will call upon all demo-
cratic forces in Canada to unite
at the polls and ‘Elect a CCF
Government,’”

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Charge parking
report withheld

Charging that civic authorities
were attempting to suppress the
full report on the $10,000 parking
survey recently conducted in this
city in favor of Mayor Charles
Jones’ private parking scheme,
Mrs. Effie Jones, Civic Reform
mayoralty candidate, said that the
Civic Reform Association had been
unable to secure a copy.

At its board meeting this week,
the Civic Reform Association en-
dorsed a report of University of
B.C. professors proposing purchase
of eight down town parking lots
to accommodate cars in central
shopping areas, but declared that
the $4,000,000 needed to finance
this project should not be levied
on overburdened taxpayers.

“Vancouver business interests
are fully aware that decentraliza-
tion of the down town shopping
district is rapidly taking place,
mainly through lack. of space and
time to park the family car,” the
Association declared. “The CRA is
therefore of the opinion that-the
development should be financed as
a local improvement by the down
town -property owners who stand
to gain the major benefit from
this civic project.”

OTTAWA —The National Coun-
cil of American-Soviet Friendship
has asked Spyros Skouras, presi-
dent of Twentieth Century - Fox,
to withdraw from distribution the
film “The Iron Curtain,” that fic-
tionalized version of the 1945 “spy
seare” for which background shots
were recently filmed here.

Rev. William Howard Mellish,
the council’s national chairman,
contended that the picture, part
of which was filmed in Ottawa,
was “inimical to the aims and
welfare of the United States and
the United Nations.”

Meanwhile, a curious story has
come to light of how Dana An-
drews, Hollywood’s “Igor Gouzen-

Friendship council wants
‘spy scare’ film withrawn

ko” managed to sneak past his
namesake’s RCMP guard for a
“brief” two-hour conversation
when “The Iron Curtain” was
being filmed here. :

At the time, RCMP officials,
external affairs and justice de-
partment spokesmen denied they
would assist the moviemen in any
way

A recent Hollywood AP. dis-
patch let the story out with an
account of a secret meeting be-
tween the actor and Gouzenko
at “a hideaway address” under
supervision of RCMP officials.

Commissioner S. T. Wood of
the RCMP sad he had “no recol-
lection” of any such interview.

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French Shinty

at State -

Raimu and Fernandel are two of the actors, well known to
European audiences, who appear in the brilliant French social
satire, “The Well-Digger’s Daughter,’ which will have its first
Vancouver showing at the State Theater this coming week.

Marine Workers’ charges heard,
labor department action scored

Representatives of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers’ Industrial Union were to
meet with the newly-formed Labor Relations Board Thursday this week to lay charges
against Dominion Rustproofing Company’s Burnaby plant that have been the cause of a

five months’ old dispute.
Application for permission to
lay charges was first sought from
Labor Minister Gordon L. Wismer
on January 5, and on January 16
Wismer informed the union he
had referred the matter to the
new board. Board Chairman J.
Pitcairn Hogg, at first declared in
a letter to union president Wil-
liam White that there were “not
sufficient grounds for laying
charges,” despite evidence’ in a
letter from the company itself

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admitting that the union’s charges
were correct. According to White,
the board has now invited him to

appear and present details of the
dispute.

The dispute arose last Sep-
tember, when organization meet-
ings were held the plant
On company time and assisted
by company foremen, at a time
when the Marine Workers held
& maintenance of membership
agreement and 98 percent of
the employees were in the
union. Meetings were called by
company officials in an attempt
to set up a dual union, and
tacks were made against the
Marine Workers, while the
union’s g representa-
tive was not allowed inside the
plant at noon hour.

The labor department then be-
gan a vote in the plant, without
first investigating the situation,
and only after strong protest was
an investigation held and affiday-
its presented from employees
stating that the foremeh had at-
tacked the union, made false
statements to the effect that the
Marine Workers was not certified
there, and attempted to persuade
employees to form a dual union

at a time when an agreement was’

already in effect.
Following the investigation,

White received a letter from A. O.
Thormahlen, general manager of
Dominion Rustproofing, admitting
that he found “the charges made
by the union to be correct.”
“The ill-advised action taken by
the foremen and other employees
of the company, in apparent ig~
norance of the act,” the letter
said, “undoubtedly prejudiced the

vote taken by your department to
determine the bargaining agents.
Anything that you can do to solve
this unfortunate situation quickly
will be greatly appreciated.”

Despite this admission, the labor
department stated it could find no
irregularities and certified the
company union.

Similar cases of the labor de-
partments’s inaction on union
matters and apparent partiality
to company unions has been
charged by other unions.

In the Summeriand Box Com-
pany, the IWA has charged
that the AFL union had been
certified without any check of
the records, at a time when the
IWA was already the certified
‘bargaining agency under agree-
ment with the company. Simi-
larly the North Vancouver Lum-
ber Company, where AFI, en-
gineers were certified without
having a single member of its
union employed by the com
and where also the IWA held
certification rights and where
an agreement was in effect cov-
ering all employees. ©

Charges of blacklisting made by
‘the IWA against Holstat Lum-
ber Company, Terrace, dnd others,
although the evidence was ac-
cepted as conclusive, have so far
received no attention.

United Steelworkers of America
also applied for permission last
August to. prosecute Willock
Truck Company under the act for
intimidation of employees during
a period when certification was
being applied for, but to date no

action has been taken by the
labor department in this case.

UAWA seeks boost

WINDSOR—Geéeorge Burt, Cana-
dian director of United Automobile
Workers of America (CIO), an-
nounced this week that his union
will demand from Canadian em-
ployers a wage increase “of sub-
stantial proportions.” Exact
amount of which has not yet been
set.

The UAW already has set 25
cents an hour as its 1948 wage
demand. The UAW wage policy
committee also decided to ask for
@ guaranteed 40 hours’ pay a
week, three weeks’ vacation with
pay for employees with five years’
Service, as well as a pension plan.

—_

Charge confirmed

OTTAWA — Confirmation of a
dispatch, given front-page promin-
ence in the Pacific Tribune on De-
cember 26, that (Canadian fliers
were being recruited for Chiang
Kai-shek’s air force, was given
here this week. Undisclosed in-
formants in official circles admit-
ted that they had known since
last fall of the scheme to hire
ex-RCAF pilots for Mosquito
bombers purchased from the Cana-
dian government by the Kuomin-
tang regime. The admission fol-
lowed charges made by Eng Wong,
assistant manager of the Chinese
Times, Toronto.

Coordinate action

CORNWALL — Formation of a
joint CIO-AFL committee of both
CCL and TLC councils here “to
Stabilize labor’s position in the
Cornwall area” and seek combined
action on all major issues affect-
ing workers’ welfare, was an-
nounced recently. Both councils
authorized the unity move and set
up a seven-man committee. Chair-
man of the committee is W. H.
Sefton, regional director of TWUO
(CIO). President Ernest Booth of
the CCL council and President A.
E. Marshall of the TI£ council
are represented on the committee.

NFLY debates future”

A constituent convention to es-
tablish an organization for social-
ist-minded Canadian young people
is being called by the National
Federation of Labor Youth in To-
ronto, March 27, 28 and 20.

A call for the election of dele-
gates has been forwarded by the
national executive of NFLY, which
declares that the present body,
while having made a contribution
to the fight for youth needs, “is,
however, not equipped to answer
the need which does exist for a
socialist youth organization.”

The executive places two alter-
natives before delegates: to change
the present constitution and pro-
gram of the NFLY to make it the
socialist youth organization; or to
build a new organization which

might possibly affiliate with the
NFLY.

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