SERIES OF RALLIES PLANNED :

While American Defence Min- ister James Forrestal is visiting Ottawa to elaborate plans for further incorporation of Canada into Washington’s “grand de- sign” for aggressiory A. A. Mac- Leod, outstanding spokesman of the Canadian’ movement against war and fascism in the late thir- ties will be touring western Canada bringing the message of the need for a new crusade for peace.

MacLeod, who is LPP mem- ber of the Ontario legislature for Toronto-Bellwoods, will hold ‘a series of peace rallies in Brit- ish Columbia under the title, “"alt the Warmongers.” These rallies will be held in Vancouver at Pender Auditoriung Wednes- day, August 18; in Alberni at Eric Graaf Hall, Thursday, Au- gust 19; and at ‘Miners’ Hall, Na- naime® Friday, August 20.

He will broadcast from CKMO Vancouver at 7:15 p.m. August

MacLeod to make tour in B.C.

to the Second World War he was national chairman of the League for Peace and Democracy.

17, and from CJAV Alberni, on Monday, August 23, at.8:15 p.m. He will also be featured speak- er at the New Westminster LPP picnic on Sunday; August 22, at Lawrence Street Park, Queens-

borough.

A special “Women for Peace” tea is being arranged at John Goss Studio, 641 Granville, at 2 p.m., Wednes- da:g August 18. Sponsors are Mrs, Freda Adams, Mrs. Hen- ni Bell, Mrs. Marge Croy, Mrs. N. Dawson, Mrs, Doris Hart- ley, Mrs. Effie Jones, Mrs. Mae Leniczek, Mrs. Ana Leschyn- ski, Mrs. Marion Parkin and Mrs. M. Russell.

He will speak at a luncheon ‘for trade unionists at the Olym- pic Cafe, Tuesday, August 17, at noon.

MacLeod enlisted in the First World War as ong of the young- est soldiers in the Canadian Army. In the years leading up

A. A. MACLEOD, MPP

government to put back price who told the PT this week: “Eggs shot up 8 cents last week and are scheduled to jump five cents more. Shortening is up a nickel. There's a butter boost on, the. way. Soap flakes have jumped 6 cents a pack- age and laundry soap 2 cents a cake. The Liberals finally dropped the austerity tax but lifted the sub- sidy on fats and oils too. In other words, you can get a Buick convert- ible a little cheaper, but you must pay more for soap,

To the question, “What effect is this having on people?” Morgan re- plied, “They're just finding it fin- ancially impossible to provide suf- ficient milk,} vegetables, meat and other staples for good health.”

“What can be done?”

“We believe that militant, united consumer pressure is urgently re- quired. Organized expression of the anger that is universally felt could still compel price rollbacks, with

restoration of controls and subsi-

Fadling given sharp rebuff —

by own IWA

A sharp rebuff was dealt

James Fadling at Aberdeen w

local members

—SEATTLE? IWA International President hen the vote of a Local 3-2

trial board to acquit nine unionists of charges pressed by Fadling was upheld by unanimous vote of a local member-

ship meeting. Local 3-2 is The case grew out of the suspen-|

sion on Fadling’s instructions, of | yy

Local 3-2 Secretary Crawford Jones, when the latter refused to sign Taft-Hartley yellow-dog affi- davit.

The membership vote to acquit was termed “ a powerful blow against Fadling’s attempt to rule the. union from the top, and a 4 beginning toward reversal of the international leadership’s ‘soft’ policy toward Taft-Hartley,” by rank-and-file spokesmen’.

Jones had retained possession of union records as duly elected sec- retary and had secured a court or- der temporarily restraining union officials from preventing him from earrying out the duties of that of- fice. Nine fellow-unionists were par- ties to the restraining order.

The Fadling forces retaliated by getting a warrant for Jones charg- ing him with “petty larceny” for re- fusing to yield the records he was elected to superintend, Jones was fined $50 in justice court, and the matter is now on apepal to Grays Harbor Superior Court.

At Fadling’s direction, .charges ——-

were preferred against’ the nine men who were parties to Jones’ re- straining order. They were accused of failing to abide by “the will of the majority.”

“We were simply acting to de- fend the IWA constitution,” one of the nine explained. “Brother Jones was suspended by the dicta- torial action of one man, President J. E. Fadling, No charges were pre- ferredj and he wasnft given a trial. Because he refused to follow the Fadling policy of knuckling under to the Taft-Hartley Act, he was ar- bitrarily suspended from an office to which he had been elected by the democratic vote of the mem- bership.”

‘The union constitution calls for a vote of 7 to 4 in’ an eleven-man trial board to convict. The vote in the trial of the nine who had back- ed Jones was 6 to 5 for acquittal

It was widely reported that the intended to “re-.

Fadling’s home local.

PT expose welcomed

“The Pacific Tribune’s exposure last week of the News-Herald’s faked war scare story on non existent Russian mines was snap- ped up by the public to the tune of an extra 800 copies,” Fel Ash- tom, PT business manager, re- ports.

PT salesmen hit the downtown streets in force on Thursday night last wek just before the New’s - Herald’s sensationalist “pink” edition came out.

“Readers have written, in to congratulate us on exposing the methods being used to whip up a new war hysteria,” Fel Ashton states. “They're fed up with phoney war scares and spy scares and they tell us they’re glad to see one paper, at least, fighting for peace-”

Act against old parties

A call to the labor movement to take political action against the old-line parties is embodied in a resolution to be laid before the October 11 convention of the Trades and Labor Congress by the Van- couver Civic Employdes’ Union (Outside Workers).

the convention “instruct the incom- ing executive to make further rep- resentations to the cabinet before the end of the year with a view to rolling back prices” and “authorize the incoming‘ executive to call a nation-wide work stoppage of eight hours duration if the government does not see fit to stop the scandal- ous price-boosting of the monopol- ies.” :

Don Guise was re-elected busi- ness agent and Jack Phillips sec- retary by acclamation. Voting is

proceeding for other executive positions. i

A second resolution proposes that.

Unity aided by Herridge

Re-admittance to the CCF of H. W. -Herridge, MP, elected as a People’s CCF candidate in Koote- nay West in 1945, was welcomed by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial lead- erg this week. Morgan said he be- lieved the move would strengthen the unity of all progressive forces in the electoral fight to regain the Trail-Rossland provincial seat for the CCF foreshadowed by the death

ition MLA.

“The significance of this unity move lies in the fact that it will assure defeat of the Coalition in the Trail-Rossland byelection,”

Morgan stated. “Unification of the CCF and People’s CCF forces in the Kootenays, with the backing of the Labor-Progressive Party and the powerful miners’ union provides the. strength necessary to take Trail-Rossland out of the Coalition column and back into the CCF.

“In the last .election .Webster. was closely identified with the huge Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company as one of its chief ac- countants, and he was elected on a minority vote because of the split in the anti-Coalition forces. Labor must now unite its forces to replace company representation by labor representation and at the same time hammer another nail in the coffin the people are prearing for the Coalition government at the next election.”

Morgan declared that his party would take an active part in the campaign to defeat the Coalition candidate not yet indicated, in both the Trail-Rossland and South Okanagan byelections.

The CCF this week nominated Bruce Woodsworth as its candid- ate in South Okanagan. A nephew of the late J. S. Woodsworth, he is principal at Westbank school.

At Victoriayj Coalition strategists are reported to be gloomy over the government’s chances of winning pthe byelections either in Trail, | where the CCF is recognized to be potentially strong now that the CCF-People’s CCF split is being healed and where there is an influ- ential labor movement, or in South Okanagan, where the CCF has made big inroads and where a la- bor movement has been built in the last few years.

The Johnson government contriv- ed to carry its first two byelections in Saanich and Cariboo, but the next two are expected to tell a different story. And,; Coalitionists admit, the sales tax has cut sharp- ly into their waning strength.

this week of James Webster, Coal-}

dies, The government has the pow- er and can be compelled to act.” “What is the LPP doing?” “We're proud of our consistent fight against profiteering to date, but the fight must be intensified yet. Today we tunity to present a brief to the Cur- tis Commission oni prices and have

own. We welcome the fact that our

demand the oppor-;

asked this commission to hold hear-| ings in each province including our, 'Murciano Arroyo and Felix Lopez

io ae

Match record living costs with record protest action

The cost of living index, now at an all-time high, is gOo- ing to keep climbing unless the people can match it with an all-time high -in protest and organization to force the King

controls and halt profiteering.

This is the view of Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader,

request is being considered by the commission. Hundreds of messages to Ottawa are backing our de- mand.”

“Is the LPP undertaking any special activities?”

“We have set aside this Saturday as the time for province-wide dem- onstration by LPP clubs through- out the province to rally support to the “buy no beef” campaign. We'll distribute 20,000 leaflets that day, as well as holding parades and meetings in many communities.”

(Vancouver's main parade will leave Pender Auditorium this Sat- — urday at 1.30 p.m.)

Plea sent to UN

—LONDON.

A cable to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie urging UN intervention to stop the Franco regime’s planned execution of eight young Spaniards has been sent by the World Federa~ tion of Democratic Youth whose executive committee is in session here.

The Spanish young people, re cently condemned to death by 4 Madrid military court for active OP- position to the Franco dictatorshiP, are Eugenio Parra, Manuel Villalo- — bos, Regelio Garcia, Pedro Martin- ez, Benito Caloro, Daniel _Elola,

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ARE YOU ON THE VOTERS’ LIST?

CRA opens drive for full civic registration

Said Adam, “It’s election time.” And Eve replied, “That's fine— Let’s hurry down to register

So we'll be first on line.”

“Opening of the civic voters’ list for inspection this week marks the,opening round of the Civic Reform Association’s 1948 election campaign to elect Effie ‘Low-Fare’ Jones to the mayor-

alty,” states Elgin Ruddell; CRA

director.

“Any citizen may now contact the city clerk’s office at the city hall by phoning FA. 2711 to see if he or she is on the voters’ list, and if not to register to be plac- ed on the list by the ann'ual court of revision. :

“We are urging all trade un- jonists and taxpayers generally to do this because every year

thousands of citizens are dis-.

franchised by Non-Partisan enu- meration methods. If all citizens with the qualifications had been

‘ue of not less than $300. *

enumerated last year Effie would have been elected in 1947. AS it was she secured an outright m& | jority of individual votes polled, and lost only because of the thousands of business property and office tenant votes cast f° her Non-Partisan opponent.”

Qualifications for voting stip lated by the city charter 9% that a citizen must be a BritisP subject, 21 or over, and an ow? er, owner under agreement, a tenant of property having a ¥

“If any citizen possessing these qualificatiogs © encounters any difficulty in getting on the us it would be a good idea to phone Effie Jones at FR. 1317,” state

Ruddell. =

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