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Looking down at Japanese killed during the room-to- room and house-to-house fighting 1 in Manila, Pvt. Max Prusa, Cleveland, O., checks up on “‘last ditch’ stand of the enemy.

Greenwell Popular Choice For Nanaimo Constituency

Geerge Greenwell, prominent in the British Columbia cooperative and trade union movement and assistant man- ager of Kyogut Trollers’ Cooperative, chosen labor- Progressive Party candidate for Nanaimo federal constituency

at an enthusiastic nominating convention in Duncan last week.

was

UBC and is particularly well- known for his work in the co-

Nominated by Councillors Wil-| ~ i :

liam White and Bob Noble of|@Perative field amongst B.C. Saanich, Greenwell was the una- fishermen.

nimous choice of the 35 delegates AS a member of the B.C.

Teachers’ Federation he was ac- tive in support of the move to affiliate that body to the trade union movement.

representing LPP Clubs in Na- naimo, Extension, Ladysmith, Cowichan Lake and Duncan. The convention chose Wilf Killeen, secretary of TWA Local 1-80, as campaign manager, and plans were made for establish- ment of sub-election committees in all polling divisions and the conduct of an aggressive cam-

His long record of leadership in these fields, as well as his popularity in the constituency, are expected to prove great as- sets in the vigorous campaign for his election.

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Urge Govt. Take Over Canol

post-war development of the Yukon Territory and the wel- fare of its people, that the anol project will be maintained under Federal Government ownership and supervision.

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In the future development

“of the Yukon Territory and

the Northwest, the big defense projects such as the Canol, Northwest Staging Routes,

and the Alaska Highway are -

essential to each other for eco- nemic and efficient operation. The tremendous expenditure they entailed as defense proj- ects, and which were fully jus- tified in the face of the threat of Japanese invasion of the Northwest, can be returned to Canada in their maintenance as peace-time projects for the opening up and development of northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.

The people of the Yukon are in full agreement with the pro- Bosed appraisal of these proj- ‘ects for ultimate ownership as a peace-time project. They cannot but be greatly dis- turbed, however, at the pros- pect of a complete closing down and abandonment of these projects. They have al- ready seen an example of this

~type of wanton waste in the

abandonment .of the ten-mil- lion dollar Haines Road. The fact also, that as a result of apparent monepoly control and tariff agreements -be- tween Standard Oil of Cali- fornia and the White Pass and Yukon Railway, commercial users of gasoline in the White- horse area and other Yukon points, had gasoline prices in- creased in the summer of 1944, from 46 cents to 75 cents per imperial gallon. The contro- versy in the Alaska press rela- tive to this unwarranted hoist in the price of commercial gasoline, merely confirmed the fears of many people in the North of the ever-present danger of being deprived from benefiting from the exploita- tion of their natural resources. The threat to terminate the

paign. :

Greenwell is widely known throughout the constituency. He is the descendant of one of the pioneer families of the district. Coming from a family of coal- miners, he worked for two years in the mines. He won a scholar- ship to the University of British Columbia and taught schools in Saanich and Pender Island, both in Nanaimo constituency.

He was later instructor in co- ‘operatives and credit unions for the extension department of

BOMBAY — A _ remarkable

SB Coming to the Paradise Monday “BOWERY TO BROADWAY”

Donald O'CONNOR ACIS Ose

Candlelight In Algeria

Susanna FOSTER

Canol project at the end of June, and the possibility of its becoming the plaything of powerful and reactionary oil interests, can only add to those well-founded fears.

The first cost of great proj- eects like the Canol has been met from war appropriations. Té is an operating concern and tas served both Canada and the USA well in the criti- eal days of threatened inya- sion and attack. UWnder peace- lime reconstruction and the opening up of Northern Brit- ish Columbia and the Yukon, the Canol development of the Norman Qil Fields, given ade- quate outlet to these northern areas, cah mean a great deal to the future prosperity of British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska.

I submit, therefore, a in yliew of the graye situation im- plied in the press reports on the shutting down of Canol. that your gevernment will act ummediately to assure the peo- ple of the Yukon and the Nerthwest, that unlike the Haines Road, the Canol ana other great defense projects will be preserved for the peace- time progress, security, and prosperity of the Canadian peo- ple under government owner- ship.

Copies of this letter have been forwarded to the Hon. T. A. Crerar, minister of mines and resources, to members of the Yukon Council and the Territory Controller, and to the Canadian Press. Respectfully yours,

Tom McihWen,

Provincial Chairman, LPP.

Postwar development — progress in the Yukon and All ka depends to a large extent the preservation and utilizati of the great defence projects — the North. “The wanton destr tion of the ; 10-million dol: Haines Road, connecting Hain Alaska with .the Alaska His way, north of Whitehorse, s; ported the fears of large s tions of the people of the Yuk and Northern British Colum that the great Alaska Highyw would suffer the same fate, ry less widespread public sentime was aroused for the maintenar and extention of these war-iij

‘projects into the post-war dey .

opment and opening up of Gz ada’s northland. The recent ne of the closing down of the Car project, and the uncertainty — its ultimate fate can only 2 fuel to those justifiable fears

the Yukon people.

Canadian and’ American bu ness men’s organizations hg” urged the extention of thi - projects, in additional highwa sea and air routes as vitally ni. essary to practical policies | northern development. ‘Tao - cost of the Canol project is 4 proximately 134 million dolla |

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LONDON — British scienti — have evolved a new treatmé based on penicillin which y master the common cold Then — treatment will not be availa! unzil after the war This is |] | cause manufacture of the Bi 3 ish-discoyered drug is reser: for battle casualties and spet

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“Role of the Labor Press”

RIBAR 3.

Margaret Black

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story of the way in which Royal Air Force men have looked after an unknown Indian boy whom they had rescued from Burma appears in the Times of India. An RAF unit moving back be- hind the lines during the peak of the Japanese offensive in Burma in! August, 1942, came upon a two-year-old Indian boy lying

unconscious in the gutter. His parents had died during an & enemy atack. The RAF men. ©

picked up the child and eventual- ly brought him to an RAF sta- tion near Bombay early in 1948.|« Since then he has been under the eare of the unit, by whom he is regarded as a mascot. ?

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SELLE EEE ELS,

PISHERMEN and FISH WORKERS FRIENDS and FAMILIES CELEBRATE AMALGAMATION INTO ONE UNION

Annual Ball:

Friday, March 23rd

Floor Show Arranged by Fred Bass e

Boilermakers’ Hall

BILLY JONES TEN-PIECE ORCHESTRA Dancing 9-1

TICKETS, $1.00 EACH

SS BS BBP EP BP BL BL BP BLP BY GP GIG

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21: Please Note Change of Day !

CcKWX 9.30 A.M.

BOILERMAKERS.

SUNDAY, MARCH 18th

8 p.m. - SPEAKER...

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“World Trade Union Conference” “Visits the Battlefronts”

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