Murphy will appeal
to CCL convention

Harvey Murphy, B.C. director of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, will appeal to the October
11 CCL convention against this week’s CCL executive de-
cision to suspend him for two years from CCL activities.
“The CCL has suspended me because it fears to have me

speak to the convention on the
question of Reid Robinson.”

Ostensible grounds for Murphy’s
suspension on charges laid by W.
Mahoney, CCL western director of
organization, are allegedly “slan-
derous remarks concerning CCL
Officials” at a B.C. Federation of
Labor banquet in Victoria April 8.
At that time Mahoney led a small
group of delegates in a split from
the lobby against the ICA Act.
Murphy had criticized CCL execu-
tives who cooperated with the gov-
ernment in the deportation, on
framed-up “Communist” charges, of
Reid Robinson, international vice-
president of Mine-Mill, who was
leading a wage drive in northern
Ontario gold fields,

Senator Robert Taft, co-author
of the infamous American Taft-
Hartley Act, first raised the bogey
about American “Communists” in
Canada, and it was Charles Mil-
lard, Canadian director of the Un-
ited Steelworkers who pointed the
finger to Northern Ontario for the
obedient King government.

According to the CCL’s Canadian
Unionist, when Mine-Mill Executive

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| Board Member Bob Carlin asked
the CCL “to ask the government to
take no action to affect five labor

organizers who had been brought
into*Canada. by his union from the
U.S.” the CCL refused on grounds
“special care must be taken to Pro-
tect the people of Canada from...
the underground conspiracy of
communism.” (Only evidence that
the government - could produce
against the non-communist Robin-
son was Dies Committee reports
that he had been on the American-
Soviet friendship council.)

CCL also suspended the whole
Mine-Mill union® in’ Canada on
| Srounds of an attack on CCL Presi-
jdent A. R. Mosher in Mine-Mill’s
International paper The Union, the
writer of which has already been
dismissed.

The suspensions were editorially
greeted by the big business Van-
couver Sun, whose reporter sup-
plied Mahoney with the notes on
which his charges were based.

They come on the eve of the Sep-
tember 4 convention of the B.C.
Federation of Labor, of which Mur-
phy is vice-president, and at a time
when Mine-Mill is locked in a strug-
gle with gold mine operators who
threaten to shut down the entire
industry in B.C. rather than remove
miners from their present degraded
pesition in comparison with other
industries.

The suspensions confirm predic-
tions in last week’s Pacific Tribune,
based on the employers’ Northern
Miner, of “fresh attacks on the mil-
itant International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers, both
open and through labor figures who
for opportunist reasons have proy-
ed willing to aid the bosses’ at-
tempt to break Mine-Mill.”

Additional evidence that employ-
ers and CCL leaders share the
same enmity to Mine-Mill’s leaders
is seen in current attempts by W.
S. Kirkpatrick, assistant general
manager of Consolidated Mining
and Smelting, to circulate in union

take over
gold mines

Demand on the government to
take over and operate the prov-
ince’s gold mines was served in a
cabinet interview this week by
Danny O’Brien, president of the
B.C. Federation of Labor, George
Home, president of the Vancouver
Labor Council, and Kenny Smith,
secretary of the Mine-Mill union.

Their brief pointed to “the devel-
oping crisis” in this industry affect-
ing 1,500 gold miners and “the
whole economy of the province.”
Already, “a mine giving employ-
ment to 300 residents in Premier
and Stewart has been closed.” Al-
though “boards of conciliation have
already dealt with the wage and
other questions ... practically all
boards have confessed inability to
deal with the problems arising on
the basis of one mine and one
local union...

“Gold mine production has in-
creased over 64 percent in the first
six months of this year and with
the federal government bonus now
amounting to approximately $1,500
per year per mine worker, subsidy
will be correspondingly increased.

“Small investors face serious loss
by what appears to be collusion be-
itween the operators’ to freeze
} them. out.

Mine-Mill regional director Har-
;vey Murphy announced at press
ie that the union had won a
}eourt of referees decision granting
unemployment insurance to locked-
out Premier employees.

Ask gov’t

HARVEY MURPHY

“They want to silence me on
the Robinson case.”

Rush backs PT
renewal night.

“Never has the labor movement
in this province needed to streng-

‘then its press as much as today,”

Maurice Rush, provincial organizer
of the lLabor-Progressive Party
stated this week in commenting on

the Pacific Tribune’s appeal to its
supporters to turn out in force in
Vancouver August 31 to renew
hundreds of old subscriptions. “The
people who support the paper have
the job of spreading it. Our organ-
ization appeals to its membership

to do their part by joining in.”

transportation

miles to school.
operate in the morning, but no

transportation has been provided
-to bring the children back home.
Roads are in a deplorable con-

Whonnock wins school bus

--one way

By W. V. SHAW
With school days approaching, residents of the Whonnock
district have won partial concessions from the school board
in solving the problem of elementary school children, many
in the primary grades, who have to walk as much as three
The board has agreed to have a school bus

children have often had to wade
through the water that runs down
the road. They arrived at_ school

CCF plans"
for dairy
industry

—WINNIPEG.

Debate on a resolution favoring
importation of margarine as part
of a long-term program for the
dairy industry took place on the
final day of the.CCF national con-
vention here. Although farm dele-
gates bitterly opposed it the resolu-
tion passed with a comfortable ma-
jority. Farm delegates did succeed,
however, in defeating an amend-
ment advocating immediate remov-
ee of all restrictions on oleomargar-
ne.

In the resolution as passed, im-
portation of margarine is made the
final point in a four-point program
for the dairy industry, and.is to
be handled only by a crown com-
pany, so as to take it out of the
hands of private monopolists, The
clause reads: i

“Importation and manufacture
of margarine exclusively by a
crown company, so that the quan-
tity, quality, and price may be
regulated according to the needs
of the dairy industry and the con-
sumer.”

-With point one proposing a gen-

eral stabilization of the dairy in-
dustry, point two provided for a
subsidy policy to encourage pro-
duction of butter and make it’
available to consumers at a reason-
able price. Point three called for
“importation of New Zealand but-
ter if and when Canadian butter
production is inadequate.”
The CCF’s proposed general
stabilization of the dairy industry
would be obtained through a long-
term price. program related. to
dairy production costs, and regional
marketing of all milk through pro-
ducer cooperative pools,

Other resolutions covering farm
policy included:

@ A system of guaranteed or
forward prices. Minimum prices
will be established well ahead of
the planting season to enable
farmers to plan their production
in advance without worrying
about market fluctuations,

@ Enactment of a National
Marketing Act and establishment
of marketing boards with produ-
cer and consumer representation,

soaking wet and had to spend half
an hour in the lunchroom drying
out.

= No action greeted a previous del-
egation and petition, but recently
a public meeting at Whonnock sent
a fresh delegation to council and
school board, backed by a petition
bearing 149 signatures, resulting in
the agreement to provide morning
buses.

A meeting on Friday last week
received the delegation’s report as
progress and decided to form a
community association in Septem-
ber,

MacLeod speaks

for all agricultural products.”
@ Elimination of speculation in
marketing of food commodities.

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B.C. WORKERS HELP

CSU seeks world aid

The world's maritime unions have been called on “to support
the Canadir Seamen’s Union both morally and financially in its
fight against those shipowners who are out to subvert free trade
unionism in Canada.” The call has gone from the CSU to the
International Transport Workers’ Federation. The CSU will call
on all waterfront unions to refuse to load or unload any Cana-
dian vessels “in the event that the shipowners force a strike

on the deepsea ships.” - :
An appeal to all members of the United Fishermen and

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Allied Workers’ Union to personally assess themselves 25 cents
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Phone 137

pickets who were fired upon by scab-manned vessels have been.
released on bail pending appeal of sentemces ranging from six
moths to one year. .
Woodworkers at Youbou Camp 6 raised $95.34 for the CSU
at a dance where IWA men donated their services as musicians.
All funds to aid the CSU strike should be sent to the Can-
adian Seamen’s Union, 53 Powell St., Vancouver, B.C.

at Valley picnic

—CLOVERDALE, B.C.

A. A. MacLeod, MPP, Ontario
LPP leader, making his final ad-
dress in a busy week's visit to the
Coast, was the guest speaker at the
annual Fraser Valley picnic spon-
sored by the- LPP regional commit-
tee at Fleetwood Park last Sunday.

The picnic was attended by sev-
eral hundred farmers and workers
from all Surrey and Langley com-
munities. :

Commenting on the rise of dis-
ease and illness brought on by de-
clining living standards and fear
of war, MacLeod stated, “Yet, when
a high ranking member of he Am-
erican government visits Canada
there is no discussion of mutual

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