Loggers repulse IWA scabh

The picket line held, with women’s auxiliary members alongside their menfolk.

Following publication in the phoney Lumberworker:of Pat Conroy's call for
Twenty workers were allowed on the operation but are expected to be blocked from

scabbing (see below), officials of the boss-backed TWA tried Wednesday to break
the loggers’ picket line at the big Iron River (MacMillan) operation at Oyster Bay.

IWA president J. Stewart Alsbury lies in hospital following the attempt. [WA
leaders Tom Bradley and Eric Wessberg were also there and Bradley acquired a

now on.
fallers, Anton

trial Union of

damaged eye. Some veteran loggers expressed regret at the absence of Conroy.

Many progressive candidates
entered in Valiey elections

—NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
Voters in most lower Fraser Valley municipalities will be able to cast their ballots for progressive
candidates, many of them already holding public office and standing for re-election, when they go to the

polls this month.

and a leading figure in PTA activities, is again standing for school

DEAN

“The American Franck report
shows there are two countries in-
vulnerable to atomic warfare: Rus-
sia and China.

“If we would start war we would
have to engage the entire manpow-
er of your country, mine, and the
United States. We would face 100,-
000,000 Europeans before we could
even reach Russia. In Russia there
are 200,000,000 and in China over
400,000,000. Altogether we'd ;face at
least 600,000,000 partisans. Who
wants to fight that kind of war?

“Everywhere I go I find the peo-
ple do not want to fight such a
war.”

The Dean said the “iron curtain”
stretches across Fleet Street (cen-
ter of the British newspaper world)
and went on to puncture the daily
press further by declaring the Sov-
iet Union opposes the Baruch plan
because her eyes are fixed on atom-
ic power “for energy not for
bombs ... so that her standard of
living would be raised.”

“The Baruch plan would take the

power to develop atomic energy
out of any nation’s hands and place
it with the UN, where the US wins
every vote.”

“Russia’s invasion of Europe is
an invasion of ideas.’ She has every
material she needs—all she wants is
peace to rebuild. She has no incen-
tive like other countries to arm or
to destroy commodities which can
be produced but not consumed.” He
said she is spreading ideas such as
health, freedom of religion, and the
desire and ability of people to work
for themselves and their countries.

“If you want to defeat an idea,
you can only do it by putting some-

thing better in its place.

“We have some liberties, but oth-
ers we lack: the right to work and
to full pay for work, the right to
health, education and _ security.
Christ thought these were the most
important liberties. His standards
ould be understood by a child but
it takes a mighty nation to prac-
tice them—‘I was hungry, naked,
sick, fettered and bound: what did
you do?’

“If we can’t practice brother-
hood, let us stop saying the Lord’s
prayer which says, ‘Thy kingdom
come on earth’. For God’s sake let
us get down to discussing with oth-
er peoples how we can work to-
gether to bring that kingdom on
earth.”

His simple presentation of the
peopie’s deep desire for peace
demonstrated at once why he has
become a top target of world re-
action. It also posed a problem
for those who came forward to
meet him, for the thousands who
rose to applaud, and the scores
of thousands who heard with ap-
proval of his message: the prob-
lem of translating his appeal in-
to the flesh and blood of a united
and fighting peace movement.

a pe Rg RR an En

Delta candidate

When Nick Stevens, who is
contesting a seat on Delta Muni-
cipal Council, was endorsed by
Ladner local of the United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers’ Union,
his candidacy was unquestioned,
for no one has worked harder
tor the iterests of 1isnermen

and Ladner citizens as a whole.
For the past 15 years he has re-
presented fishermen on Ladner
Board of Trade and led in get-
ting a new wharf and dredging
of the waterfront. ;

Runs in Langley

‘The Frame-up of the American
Communists--What It Means to Us’

LPP PUBLIC MEETING
HASTINGS AUDITORIUM
Speaker: TOM McEWEN
SUNDAY — 8 P.M.

OOOOH

A member of one of Langley’s
pioneer families, Frank Ayres is
making his first bid for council
in Ward One, formerly represent-
ed by Jack Treliving. Ayres is a
veteran of World War Ii.

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growing speed-up and discrimination in woods and

In Langley, Mrs. Mayme MacDonald, energetic members of the present school board

trustee, and Frank Ayres, Second
World War veteran, is contesting
the Ward One council seat formerly
held by Jack Treliving, long pro-
minent in fishermen’s and farmer’s
organizations.

Another new candidate for muni-
cipal office is William Swan, who is
contesting the school board election
in neighboring Surrey municipal-
ity.

On the north side of the Fraser
River, Rene Gamache, another
second World War veteran well
known locally in trade union and
athletic circles, is a candidate for
Coquitlam council, and in adjoining
Maple Ridge two progressive can-
didates, John Larsen and John
Strom, are standing for council
seats. / f

Larsen, who has held a seat on
Maple Ridge Council for many
years, has been endorsed by Whon-
nock Ratepayers’ Association.
Strom, who took a leading part in
organizing flood relief work at Al-
bion and has since led the fight on
behalf .of farm families whose
lands were ruined by erosion, is a
member of the floorlayers’ section
of the United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners.

ELECTION

progressive candidate for mayor,
she polled over 19,000 votes, includ-
ing the votes of thousands of CCF

; supporters who demonstrated that

they would vote for a progressive
candidate of other affiliations in
preference to a Non-Partisan.

This year, with a CCF and Civic
Reform candidate both contesting
the mayoralty, the majority of CCF
supporters who voted for Effie
Jones last year cast their ballots
for Alsbury, the much Jarger total
vote giving Alsbury some! 22,990.

Effie Jones polled 5,992, while the

Students choose Effie

Students at Vancouver’s Begbie
School, in a mock civic election
held Wednesday, displayed better
political judgment than their eld-

ers of legal voting age. They
chose Effie ones as “mayor,” Plac-
ing Tom Alsbury second and
Charles E. Thompson last.

victorious Non-Partisan Thompson
received the record vote of 32,228
from citizens, business properties
and offices.

The responsibility for failing the
needs of the majority of Vancouver
citizens is that of the CCF leader-
ship which by its anti-unity stand
and choice of issues—“anti-com-
munism” was one of Alsbury’s talk-
ing points—made unity impossible.

Franchise vote split

Press ‘time returns showed suc-
cess of the reactionary maneuver
to split backers of extending civic
franchise in Vancouver. In 31 polls
19,614 voted to leave the franchise
as it is; 9,252 voted to include wife
or husband of all present voters;
and 11,760 to include all British sub-
jects over 21. Over 100,000 citizens

get no vote under present methods.

erders

‘

Walkout started November 15 against discriminatory firmg of two old-time

George Nichol (1: year), part of
mills. The Woodworkers’ Indus-
against IWA-company opposition.

Johnson (5 years seniority) and

Canada upheld the workers’ fight
IWA minority in camp respected
the picket line.

IWA officials called on boss, gov-
ernment and workers to break the
strike. They pleaded with workers
in their homes to scab. They had
the Labor Board rule the strike il-

legal under the union-busting ICA
Act. The scab-herding attempt fol-
lowed.

The company is said to have of-
fered $125 bonus to any willing to
work.

‘Brush Aside Phony Picket Lines!’ | 4
by Pat Conroy |

itancy of the, lumber workers at Oyster. B
up by the Pritchett-D.
ation of such problem
As the in le collapse of their attempt to wreck the IWA comes
closer, desperation will bring on numerous ins ike this.
S a coalminer who has fought through se ar attempts by the |
Communists to wreck the UMWA, I have v sllections of phoney |
picket lines being used as a weapon in this type of disruption. |
The same people who are master-minding this ack on the IWA and |
assisting these traitors to steal your funds almost destroyed District 18,
UI A in the la 0’s and early. ’30’s. |
2 ESPECT for picket lines up by workers in an industry in a trade |
union fight with an employer is a fundamental principle of our move-
ment. We cannot allow this small group to intimidate our people and des-
troy our ‘union by treating these phoney political picket lines with the re- |

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among the high £ - zed today |
Not having the membership or the integrity to. recognize the trade
union procedtires, the Pritchett. gang will undoubtedly follow the. pattern
of their politi and spiritual leaders. They will try to create as much —
confusion and chaos as possible.
‘THE “WUIC” will make full use of phoney picket lines in any and every
issue, as part of their “rule-or-ruin’” effort.
Individuals have neither the moral nor the legal right to sto
from working to serve their own purpose.
A! aintain your right to have a demo-
cratic voice nm such important matters!
T is heartening ‘to see free trade unior
burden of treachery, intrigue and di
the world labor movement. .
I AM confident of your success in saving, your union from destruction. |
tive Pritchett and Dalskog their answer in an. even stronger and more |
militant IWA.
(National Secretary-Treasurer, C.C.L.)

OPEN LETTER TO PAT CONROY >

A scab is still a scab

Recognize this photostat, Pat Conroy? It will be passed around
on the job. It will be posted in union halls. You won’t live it down.

You were entrusted by labor with one of its highest posts.
You've committed the worst act of treachery a worker can commit.,

the world over shaking off the
y that Communists inflict on |

PAT CONROY

es

You were once a coal miner. Now, in your official capacity as
secretary-treasurer of. the Canadian Congress of Labor, you have
called for the busting of a picket line.

The greater the trust, the worse the crime,

In its long uphill fight ,labor records some unfortunate choices as
national officials, Not one ever made such a _ statement.

Some men have scabbed through ignorance and lived to redeem
themselves. There’s no excuse for you, Dr. Conroy—you know what
the score is. No excuse as CCL secretary, no excuse as a one-time
coal miner,

For you lie about the coal miners. One thing coal miners did mot
do in “the late °20’s and early ’30’s” was cross picket lines. Are you
talking about imported scabs? None of them were in the Progressive
Miners of Nova Scotia, United Mine Workers of America or Mine
Workers’ Union of Canada.

It takes more than a doctorate and a national secretaryship to
fear up the memory of the miners’ struggles in New Waterford,
Glace Bay, Corbin, Estevan and your own Drumheller (where you
were largely unheard of when your fellow miners were fighting
| for their union and their families).

It takes more than lies about miners to make loggers scab.

You got a rough ride at Drumheller the other night. The atti-
tude that lowered the name of Patrick Conroy in the Valley years
ago is now in full bloom.

You led for the boss in supporting the bosses’ Marshall Plan—
the plan that sent African troops to shoot striking French coal miners.
You've tried to make support for that war plan, and “anti-com-
munism”, the yardstick in your labor empire. You did it consciously,
wot in ignorance. Jt was inevitable that you would pass on to this,

Strikebreaking is strikebreaking, 5,000 miles away or in Canada.

You’ve got a machine in the CCL but you can’t suspend the
PACIFIC TRIBUNE and you can’t silence the workers.

Support by the doomed class can bolster you up just so long
The workers catch up sooner or later with the misleaders of. labor:

You've made it sooner with your guest editorial. It’s shown you
in your true colors

To the workers, a scab is a scab.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 10, 1948 — PAGE 12