PREMIER NEHRU

Malan threatens UN

PREMIER MALAN

South Africa's pro-fascist Premier Daniel Malan, striving to prevent his government’s treatment on Non-Europeans from coming before the United Nations, this week resorted. to threats, accusing the Indian government of Premier Jawa- harlal Nehru of “interfering” in South Africa’s internal af- fairs.

Among those arrested by the Malan government for defying the racist “apartheid” laws are some of South Africa’s most prominent Indian leaders, in- cluding Dr. Y. M. Dadoo, pres- ident of the South African In- dian Congress, and Nana Sita, president of the Transvaal In- dian Congress.

Death of Jack Butler

severs link with days

of pioneer

socialists

One of the few remaining links with Bill Bennett, E. T. Kingsley and others of the socialist pioneers of this province has,

been snapped with the death of Jack. Butler.

An honored and

loved figure in the progressive labor movement here, the beteran Communist died in Vancouver General Hospital on sSunday this week, two weeks before his 74th birthday.

Born into a poor Irish working class family in Belfast on October 24, 1878, reared, as he himself was wont to remark ‘on a diet

-of potatoes and sour milk,” Jack Butler started work when he was 11-years old. From the day he left school in 1889, until he drew his richly earned old age pension

he knew hard work and hardship, lightened only by the comradeship of the labor movement into which his experiences led him in his twenties.

In Ireland he worked as 4a laborer. Then he turned to the sea, and there were few of the world’s great ports that he did not know. He had sailed around Cape Horn in windjammers and followed the tall masts across the Pacific to Sydney. >

Around the turn of the century he came to Canada, working his way across the country to Van- ecouver. And here, in his barber

“shop in the basement of the Ivanhoe Hotel, he met “Ol’ Bill’ Bennett, the great pioneer of the British Columbia socialist move- ment who died in 1949, and form- ed what was to become a lifelong friendship. *

In Vancouver too, Jack Butler worked as a laborer, becoming an active member of the Hod Carriers and Builders Union.. He joined the Socialist Party of Canada and was one of those who fought for a consistent socialist policy, fol- ljowing the leadership of Bill Bennett.

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Turning to the sea again, work- ing as a fireman aboard freight-

‘ers out of Vancouver, he never-

theelss kept in close touch with developments in the labor move- ment here. His years of devoted work embraced membership in the Workers party, the old Com- munist Party of Canada and, the Labor-Progressive party.

Two years ago, at the age of 71, he earned national recognition for his work in the peace move- ment by collecting 1,000 sig- natures to”the petition for a five- power peace pact.

Equally, almost to the day of his death, he was a consistent supporter of the- labor press, as he had been since Bill Bennett gave him his first copies of the Western Clarion and Federation- ist, and the Pacific Tribune count- ed him among its most devoted workers,

Funeral services. will be held from Clinton Hall this Saturday, October 18, at 10 a.m.

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McCarran snoops draw blank in attack upon Mine - Mill; stool exposed as ‘damn liar’

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‘ A veteran labor leader of the Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers Union took the witness sta here before the Senate “internal security”: subcom mittee and angrily challenged the assertion any of 3 the union’s strikes were “Communist-dictated.” .

Orville Larson of Miami, Ariz, a Mine-Mill member for 17 years and now a vice president,

spelled out for the committee the wages and conditions.

Harvey ‘Mutusow, a_ self-con- fessed FBI spy and free-lance writer, had told the committee a lurid tale about how the strike was some sort of a “Communist” plot to cripple the Korean war effort.

John Clark, the union’s presi- dent, released the text of a state- ment which the sub-committee refused to let him read. |

“The first principle I learned as a’ young trade unionist,”’ Clark declared in the statement, “‘was that no decent union man would

which seems to play the game of stoolpigeon.’”’

Therefore, the said. he was ob. liged “‘even as an innocent man to. seek the protection which the Fifth Amendment affords to all people.”’ ;

Clark asserted Mine-Mill is “easily the most democratic un- ion on the North American con- tinent.”

“In our union,’ he said, ‘‘we never make judgments about a man on the basis of his. skin color, the church he attends, his national origin, his political opin- ions. Such questions are never raised.

“There is no ‘test’ of ortho- doxy for membership in Mine Mill. We certainly do not tol-:

‘erate any ‘political tests’ such as certain members of Congress would like to impose on Am- erican trade unions.”’ ;

Earlier, the four highly-rank- ing officers of Mine Mill charged that “the facts make a damned liar’ out of Matusow.

Matusow had told the McCar ran committee that he had at- tended an alleged 1950 Commun- ist party meeting in New Mexico, at which international represen- tative Clinton Jencks had alleged. At this meeting, he claimed, discussion allegedly centred on “ways of hindering the Korean war effort” by call- ing a strike under the guise of wage increases and working con-

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ditions, but actually to cut down production of copper for the war effort in this area.

“In the first place, we had no copper strikes; at all in New Mexico during the whole year of 1950 and the first half of 1951,” declared the union’s president John Clark, vice presidents Or- ville Larson and Charles Wilson and secretary-treasurer M. HE. Travis. -

“In the second place, if Matu- sow had in mind the strike called by our Bayard, New Mexico local in October, 1950, he has his met- als mixed. That strike was against an Empire Zinc Company property, which produces only lead and zinc. And the strike involved fewer than 90 workers, so it‘hardly could be said to have ‘hindered the Korean war effort.’

“Finally, if Matusow had his years mixed and really meant our national copper strike in 1951,

‘he’s completely nuts. Our 10-day strike was called in August, 1951 to uphold a settlement which } been proposed by the U.S. 80¥ ernment, speaking through Cyrus Ching, then director of the fed eral Mediation and Conciliatio? Service, after the ‘Big Four’ co! porations had rejected. the BOG ‘ ernment’s proposal.

“The 1951 strike was called: as eyery strike in the history of this union has ben called, only after a secret referendum vote 9 the entire membership. More than 85 percent of the members voted for the strike.”

“We call attention to the im portant fact that these rigged hearings have been going on fo? three days, yet the committee has been unable to dig up a single rank and file member of Mine Mill to testify against the unio? and its democratically electeé leadership,”’ the officers declared.

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