Mrs. Rae Luckock, president of the Ca:
report to the recent national conference of women. in |Toronto.

nadian Congress of Women, is shown above giving her
Mrs. Libbie Park left) was elected

Secretary of the congress, nad Miss Ethel Neilson (right) was named to the executive.

VANCOUVER HOUSEWIFE VICE-PRESIDENT FOR B.C. ©

Women’s rights as a prerequisite
for the realization of human rights
for which humanity unceasingly
Struggles.”

You might think that as the wife
of a millworker and mother of a
nine-year-old son, Mrs. Godfrey had
little time to spare for the wider
Activities of popular movements.

hd in a way you would be right.

€ is a good housekeeper, devoted
to her family, and she might easily
avail herself of the éxcuse that the

Ome takes all her time.

But Mrs. Godfrey is also one of
a increasing number of women
© see the relations between the
Problems of rearing children and
q € war hysteria that threatens to
€stroy in the incredible flash of
a avom-bomb the young lives mo-
_ ‘hers devote their years to shap-
ng. That’s why she makes time
Sr the labor movement as presi-
fot of the Women’s Auxiliaries of
ie Woodworkers’ Industrial Un-
ane That’s why she is secretary
ree’ Foster Day Care Association

Aue particularly interested*in pre
oh 0ol training and kindergartens,”
© told a Pacific Tribune writer

Bis Week. “The first point in the
ved of Rights our congress adop-

eek its conference in Toror#
0 Month was the right of women
Work on a basis of equality.”

fa Then she observed, “The right of
men to work — and in these
8ys it’s often a necessity to make
mene family income — doesn’t
quate enn unless there are ade-
: Sidran’ ities for pre-school age
oN from lack of proper care be-
use mothers have to work to
ane sure they don’t go without
the uetes: It’s absurd. Yet in
On] Whole of Vancouver there are
Y three public schools with pre-

- 100] facilities.”

a, Godfrey knows that there is
mer of difference between the
men Ully nurtured illusion that. wo-
nN have full equality and the fact
ay in every sphere they are han-
Pred in exercising their right
“quality with men. And it’s to
for full equality of women that
Canadian Congress of Women
emg organized.
gg.) Coming Thursday, April 138,
Sie at 614 Granville Street,

a

&

is bh

will be one of five B.C. dele- .

to the recent national con-
who will report to a meet-
all interested women, from
& provisional committee
set up to organize a pro-
Trcial congress snip June 1,
Maticnal Children’s Day.

fregs
ing of
Which
Will

Otherwise children suf~

/
en $s

she ‘wi

Meeting will discuss plan
for B.C. wom

: Trim, charming Mrs. Marie Godfrey is a youlg
in this province is likely to hear a lot in the coming moaths.
Newly organized Canadian Congress of Women,
ere, in the words of the Bill of Righ

congress

Vancouver housewife of whom the labor movement
As vice-president for British Columbia of the
ll be responsible for a campaign to organize women
Women adopted by the Congress, for “realization of

ts for Canadian

city
roughly told that major costs 0

RIGHTS BILL

center was padlocked by Premier
Maurice Duplessis under the Que-
bec padlock law... In 1949, in Brit-
ish Columbia, a qualified lawyer
was refused the right to practice his
profession because of his political
‘opinions.

'@ In Decem

fia

ber, 1949, a member-
| ship meeting of the {Ukrainian La-
| por Temple in Timmins was broken
| into by an organized group. result-
|ing in injury, violence, property
‘damage; and in February, 1950, the
| case against the attackers was dis-
| missed in court.

| ¢@ Attack on. academic freedom.
BES May, 1949, the head of the bio-
| chemistry. department of the Uni-
i versity of Alberta. was summarily
| dismissed for alleged “radical” poli-
\ tical views.

'@ Witchbunts in
‘deprive government workers
|their legitimate civil rights.
immigration and natural-

the civil service
of

|@ The
| zation. laws of Canada are used
\to bar visitors from Canada on

political opinions,

is of their
OR eng citizenship from

o withhold :
ee of Canada on the basis
of membership in political, cultural
and recreational organizations.
e Anti-democratic political forces
at Ottawa are campaigning BOs
troduce an amendment to the cr ae
inal code, similar to Srey :
which was struck from the statute
book in 1936 after tremendous pop-

. protest.
alone: are some Of the reasons
e is necessary, the call
wppere is urgent need
ated national action to
freedoms. cae to the

ence and join the discussions.
ces share to help cies a strong
national organization. —

Persons or organizations wish-
r information should

furthe
ons ve Mrs. M. H. Spaulding,
chairman. Conference Committee

Civil Rights
ound & National C
te ontvation, 654 College Street,

| Toronto 4, Ontario.

|
'a conference

concludes.
for co-ordin
protect our

Small owners suffer
in Burrard light deal

Owners of small properties on Burrard Street from Broadway to
Hastings are burning up over the “raw deal’? handed them by Vancouver
council this week, when, despite protests to aldermen, they were

new lighting program would fall on
| their shoulders,

Despite the fact that this section
, of Burrard is a main traffic artery
jand consequently lighting improve-
'ment is of great advantage to mo-
torists and pedestrians, the property
owners must “pay the shot” in full.

But that’s not all. Costs of im-
provement are coraputed on * the
property frontage per foot, so that
the “little fellow” who owns a home
‘or small business on a 50-foot lot
pays just as much for the lighting
improvement as the owner of a
large business valued at $1,000,000
with the same foot frontage.

When it came to voting on the
proposition, however, the shoe was
on the other foot. City council de-

cided that the assessed value of
buildings and property would be
the governing factor in the vote.
Naturally, the big business inter-
ests controlled the decisive votes.

Indignant small owners visited
city hall with their complaints but
received rough treatment from their
‘representatives’... Said Alderman
Fisher: “It doesn’t matter what
YOU want. We'll do as WE want,
anyway.’ And Mayor Charles (El-
ectric) Thompson blandly observed,
“We like you to bring your pro-
tests to us because it gives us a
chance to see your smiling faces.”

The city, ‘aldermen smirked, isn’t
paying’a nickel for the lighting im-
provements. “It doesn’t matter
what percentage of you protest, the
project is going through, and the
Burrard Street property owners
will pay!”

In an advertisement inserted in
the daily press, indignant Burrard
property owners declared: “The
right to petition and a fair hearing
is a fundamental of civic democra-
cy. What is happening at city hall
affects all citizens. It is the Bur-
rard taxpayers today — it can be
|} YOU tomorrow.”

| Steeves and the like, where do these

“Attempts to cover up the yaw-
ning cracks of disagreement over
the top CCF betrayal to Marshall
plan — Atlantic pact war policies
and participation in union splitting,
will not answer the deep crisis
which has beset the CCF party,”
he said.

“The role the CCF top leadership
has assumed in common with right
wing social democrats the world
over, of becoming the open accom-
plices of the warmongers; the ser-,
vants of imperialism; the purvey-
ors of capitalist hatred and slander
against the Soviet Union, the Peo- |
ple’s Democracies and national lib-
eration struggles is as disastrous
for the CCF as it is. for the people
of this province.

“All genuine partisans of peace
and progress must guard against
being misled by the deliberate at-

developing struggle for peace and
working class policies represented
in the superficial and meaningless
debate ranging between the Winch-
Cameron-trotskyite wings of the
leadership. There evidence in
abundance that the Coldwell-Winch
leadership supports every decisive
policy being pursued by the St.
Laurent government.

“But behind all the leftist phrase-
mongering of Cameron, Young,

is

spokesmen and the Winch-Coldwell

tempts to confuse and obstruct the |
| of 40,000 signatures by May Day.

Millard-Conroy leadership disagree
on decisive issues —- working class
unity to beat back the war threat
and boss-planned wage cuts, the
shameful steel raid at~Trail, ban-
ning the A-bomb, and the Wall
Street plan to make B.C. the spring-
board for aggressive war against
the Soviet Union and the people
of Europe and Asia?”

“These are the questions on which
CCF policies will be judged by the
workers and farmers.of B.C. The
struggle for peace, for trade and
jobs, for labor unity and people's
rights and living standards is gain-
ing strength — just as the menace
of war and economic crisis looms
larger. It is hard to believe that’

People will judge
CCF by stand

on peace, jobs

“Continuation of the present policy of going along with the Liberal-
Wall Street war plan, disarming the labor movement and betraying the
people’s interests, or formulation of a genuine socialist policy of peace,
working-class unity and democratic advance—that will be the central
question before delegates to the forthcoming CCF provincial convention
in Penticton,” Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, stated in an inter-

view with the Pacific Tribune this week.

these developments and the lessons
of 1949 won’t find reflection among
rank-and-file delegates at Penticton
this weekend,” he concluded.

Ban the Bomb
canvassers on
street corners

Every Saturday for the next four
weeks Ban the Bomb canvassers_
will be out on Vancouver street cor-
ners seeking signatures for ptace,
Vancouver Peace. Council officials
announced -this week. The final
month of the petition drive will see
a stepping up of activity in order
to reach British Columbia’s quota

Canvassers will operate on Sat-
urdays from Pender Auditorium,
339 West Pender, between the hours
of 11 am. and 3 p.m. Door-to-door
canvassing and signature-seeking in_
parks, playgrounds and shopping
centers will continue every day of
the week.

A provincial convention of the
peace movement will be held in
Vancouver about the middle of May.
Delegates from many cities and
towns throughout B.C. are expec-
ted to attend.

On the eve of the convention a
public rally will be held, addressed
by Dr. James G. Endicott, who will
give a report on his recent Euro-
pean tour, (In Moscow Dr. Endi-
cott presented peace proposals to
leaders of the Supreme Soviet; in
Stockholm he attended a meeting
of the World Peace Congress exe-
cutive committee). Dr. Endicott
will also report.on the Canadian
Peace Congress convention, sched-
uled to take place May 5-6-7.

Negotiations are under way to
have Earl Robinson, noted Ameri-
can singer, appear with Dr. Endi-
cott at the public rally.

Prime Minister of Canada.

z
ATOM BOMB BE BANNED.
2,
3.
being of our people.

NAME

Petition
To the Right Honorable Louis St. Laurent,

We, the undersigned citizens of Canada, acutely awaire of
the suffering, horror and destruction brought about by the use ;
ofthe atomic. bomb, respectfully petition the government of
Canada to take the following immediate action

Urge in the Assembly of the United Nations THAT THE
Press for strictest international control to ensure com-

pliance of all nations in outlawing the bomb as a military weapon.

F Encourage reseatrch in the use of atomic energy for peace-
ful purposes and its practical application for the increased well-

Please send all signed petitions without delay to the sponsors of
this petition: THE CANADIAN PEACE CONGRESS,
49 Walker Ave., Toronto, Ont.

ADDRESS

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