OTTAWA—By of Reid Robinson, Mine, Mall organizer,

Robinson ruling threat to all trade union leaders

successfully railroading the deportation

and Smelter Workers’ Union

past major legal obstacles, the federal govern-

ment*has left the way clear for similar action against any representative of an international union whose organization

is active in Canada on the wage}

and organizational front.

The day after Robinson’s deport- ation top government “officials ac- knowledged that they had learned with relief of Chief Justice J. C. MecRuer’s refusal to interfere in the ruling of the department of immigration’s special inquiry board.

The government had not been certain of the legality of its action against Robinson, and its fear of a court reversal was heightened by its knowledge that the special in- quiry board decision was handed down despite lack of evidence to substantiate it.

Observers here are not unmind- ful of the fact that Chief Justice McRuer is himself a well-known Liberal. They also draw a good many conclusions from the fact that, while he ruled he did not have the right to review the evidence, or lack of it, against Robinson, he had this to say: “Even assuming that I am wrong in the conclusion that I have arrived at, I still think the

order (for deportation) must stand.” “Robinson’s words following

the verdict will also bear remem- bering: “My deportation makes it possible for any international

Effie Jones fund given $90 boost

Shuffling cards and jangling telephones rolled in $90 ‘towards Effie Jones’ 1948 mayoralty cam- paign, last Friday. as Vancou- ver’s Civic Reform Association staged its first city-wide telephone whist drive.

Largest gathering, appropriate- ly enough, was in the solidly “low fare” East End district at the Serbian Hall.

Top award of $10 went to S. Reid of 5078 Ross, closely follow

ed by A. Larsen of 2826 Euclid. -who won an air tour of the city.

representative of a trade union to be barred simply by having an employer accuse him of being a Communist.”

The government's persecution of Robinson was considerably assist- ed by the tacit and sometimes open support of some prominent labor leaders who allowed themselves to be, used in a hysteria campaign when they should have been fight- ing to preserve the rights of the trade union movement.

Ironically enough the same union leaders who refused to speak out against the government’s persecu- tion of the Mine-Mill leader may find the federal ruling used against officials of their own internationals. For, according to government offi- cials, the success of the action ‘against Robinson now means that it will be possible to take action against any “undesirables” from the U.S. who are active in Canadian trade unions.

A government interpretation of “undesirables” has not yet been made but the word could cover any militant trade union organ- izer.

There is also a growing realiza- tion that the deportation verdict against Robinson can and _ will boomerang against Canadian union leaders who want to cross the bor- der to the U.S. on official business. The “undesirable” edict will work two ways and many of them will find their entrance barred regard- less of their political beliefs.

Last week, six delegates to the international convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (CIO-CCL) were re- fused entry into the United States as “undesirables” suspected of communist leanings. One of the six, Lou Palermo, Amalgamated business agent, is a well-known. CCF member,

David Croll, MP, counsel for the barred delegates, declared there “is not the slightest doubt that not one of the six is a Communist, a fel- low traveller or a friend of a fel- low traveller.” :

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Labor fighting Drew Tories on hustings, picket lines

On June 7 Ontario voters will decide the fate of Premier George Drew, the man whose record of red-baiting, union-busting, warmongering and dictatorship has made him the reaction to Canadian working men and women from coast to coast.

What labor can expect’ if Drew’s Conservative government is re-elected is now being demonstrated on picket lines in Toronto and Great Lakes ports provincial police are being used in attempts to smash union organization.

Defeat for Drew would signalize the turn to the political tide in Canada towards defeat of the war parties by the peace. camp.

Drew was elected in 1943 and 1945 on minority votes over a split opposition.

where mass. squads of

From this political observers draw the" tonclusion that the ditching of Drew in 1948

depends on the uniting of a million workers, farmers, behind. the election of a CCF government in Ontario.

This would include hundreds of thousands who are not past supporters of the CCF but who can be reached by a united labor campaign. \

Labor is being moved to powerful action by Drew’s attacks. Provin- cial police are scab-herding at the Rogers-Majestic strike of the Unit- ed Electrical Workers in Toronto.

Drew's police have been arrest- ing locked-out seamen and _ pro- tecting Sullivan’s company-tin- anced strikebreaking agency ina reign of terror on the Great Lakes.

In the mining towns the Con- servative Party is distributing a red-baiting rag called The Worker, edited by John Hladun, paid anti- labor agent whose activities are jirected by leading Tories.

Ironically enough The Worker’s demands for the destruction of the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO) and the CCF run almost side by side with an article lauding Ralph Carlin, loudest spokesman for the union-busting clique in the gold mines and a CCF member whose right-wing activities have been denounced by rank-and-file union members.

* * *

This spotlights one of labor’s big- gest problems in seeking the ouster of Drew. The “official” right-wing CCF group in the unions has lined up with the mine bosses’ attempts to break Mine-Mill’s wage and organization drive.

This policy led to the majority of the CCF provincial council des- erting Robert H. Carlin, CCF MLA for Sudbury and board member for Mine-Mill.

Carlin is running as an independ- ent CCF candidate in Sudbury,

‘with a 15 to 1 vote of his own CCF

ciub and the support of thousands of miners’ families behind him.

In an election campaign where the basic democratic right to or- ganize is being fought out on the picket line and the hustings simul- taneously such splitting activities as the assault on Mine-Mill cre- ate serious divisions.

Both the AFL and CCL province- wide bddies have called for the turning-out of Drew and the elec- tion of the CCF. Here again, par- ticularly in the Ontario Federation of Labor (CCL), right-wing CCF’- ers are following a policy which tends to obstruct the ful] unleash-

This is. seen in the top OFL pol- icy of restricting Political Action Committees to CCF card-holders only and preventing representation on Community PAC’s from unions

who elect delegates who are “mem- | |

bers or supporters of any other pol- itical party’ than the CCF.

Although these policies have aroused widespread resentment. they have not prevented most unions from keeping their eye on the overall question of how to beat Drew.

Indications are that the OFL

campaign fund of $100,000 will be

oversubscribed, and large numbers of unions are ignoring the OFL edict and electing PAC’s on the basis of those the membership con- sider best able to do the job.

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Stand of the Labor-Progressive Party in calling for election of a CCF government is having a visible effect on the labor and farm vote.

The LPP is again running its two sitting MLA’s A. A. McLeod (Toronto-Bellwoods) and J. B. Salsberg (Toronto-St. Andrews). Powerful campaigns are under way in these two constituencies, despite the efforts of CCF split-the-vote candidates. Elsewhere the LPP is throwing all its forces behind the CCF nominees,

ing of labor’s political force. else

housewives,

youths and veterans

She’s a crack auto worker

In Vancouver and other Canadian cities thousands of women have found that industry no longer has any use for their war-

acquired skills.

In Moscow. as in all Soviet cities, women play

an equal part and enjoy equal rights with men in industry. as Ira Tertishnikova, crack worker in Sie Stalin auto plant’s as-

: sembly shop, shows. es

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ing Drew on the following points: @ Drew is condemned out of.

his own mouth through his complete betrayal of each of his 22 election pledges, including milk price boosts from 11 to 18 cents, failure of his government to be instrumental in building one single home, payment of $1 a day pittance to senior citizens, reneging on health insurance and on free education for all youth. ‘e Drew has established a rec-

ord as No. 1 union-buster at Ford's in Windsor, Steleo in Hamilton, Rogers - Majestic in Toronto, and in every Great Lakes port. » ; @ Drew wants fascism because

of five Drew speeches are not about Ontario but about how soon Canada can get into another bloody massacre. Embedded in this theme is Drew’s_ violent

Drew wants war. Four out.

“anti-Communist” crusade, the smokescreen under which he vio- lates all his pledges and steals away democratic rights,

Behind these Tory activities stand Canada’s leading profiteers. Never in history have they grown so fat. It is easy for them to spend the millions that now fill Tory elec- tion coffers,

The majority in Ontario suffer from the minority whose guardian ahgel is Drew. Political analysts of all parties, in assessing the pros- pects of the majority for turning out the Colonel, will fasten their attention on the extent to which unity. at the polls is being built in the shops, camps, neighborhoods and farms. It is estimated that only through unity of the majority can the minority be beaten, and only behind the election of a CCF government can that unity he realized,

Tron C urtain’ ie suit

NEW YORK—Four Soviet composers, Dmitri Shostako- vich, Serge Prokofieff, Aram Bhachaturian and Nicolai Mi- askovsky, and their American agent, Am-Rus Music Agen- cy, Inc.. have instructed Charles Recht, New York attorney, to proceed against Twentieth-Century Fox for using their music without authority in the film The Iron Curtain, The four composers lave cabled Recht, protesting the use of their music and their names, sand have authorized him to

take all legal steps necessary.

Recht has notified Twentieth-Century Fox that any use whatever of the music of these composers, or of their names, in connection with the picture. is without any authority and

. Contrary to the express wiskes and direction of the compos- ‘ers, and also constitutes a libel on them in view of the anti-

Soviet characier of the film.

“Twentieth Century Fox,” said Recht, “has for some time been fully informed of the opposition’ of the Soviet composers to exploitation of their music and their names in associa- tion with The Iron Curtain, but they have refused to con- sider the composers’ wishes. They have stated that they in- tend to release their picture with the Soviet music and the composers’ names included, It.is therefore necessary for me to take legal action to protect these somepaeees by whatever

procedure may be necessary.”

Salsberg and McLeod are indict-'