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pales an individual in Van- couver named A. G. Pearce who publishes what goes under the name of a newspaper. The Union Free Press is its title, and if a newspaper could smell, this one’s odor would not only be ap- parent but audible for miles.

Now it’s more than doubtful ihat Pearce is a philanthropist With that established, ifs hardly likely that he’s publishing this monthly journal, compiete in two

colors and on Slick, expensive paper, merely as a hobby. In fact, there's more than just a

jitle> suspicion in the minds of several thousand workers on Vancouver's wateriront, to whom ihe paper has been delivered free in the past month, that the Union Free Press spells Canadian Man- ufacturers Association, and not too subtly at that.

But if there’s some surface humor in the spectacle of a com- pany union sheet trying to take up the cudgels for organized la- bor, there's an ugly undercurrent in the very fact that such things can be published in the name of a free press. Consider the fol- lowing excerpt from an article in the current issue entitled “fhe New Aristocracy’:

“In one part of the world we are engaged in 2 death’ struggle with an empire of close to 100 million yellow people . - . work ing feverishly with no limit on their hours of work ... and cer- fainiy no union man tells them what the production per man must be or how much money they must exact from the state during wartime ... In this part of the world, | am sorry to report, the picture is far different” (Empha- sis mine.)

Or this:

“The one and only group that I believe is capable and which in the end will be forced to take complete control of this problem (organized labor) is the military.”

ND if these words read like a

quotation from a Father Coughlin, or from one of our own home-grown reactionaries like Colonel Edgett, once con- nected with fascist organizations, it’s not an accident.

For Pearce’s Union Free Press, out of Labor Truth, through Edg- ett’s Industrial Association out of ihe CMA, gives fair warning of the things to come if certaain people have their way. From this column it looks, however, as though Pearce’s publication could be printed in neon lights, on the most expensive parchment, and in seventeen different colors, and it would still spell “fink” to all who can read.

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which, if allowed to advance will

hinder unity and progress, he stated. “The Quebec conference,”

Buck said, “showed that events have moved too swiftly for the decisions made at Casablanca. Again in Washington, in May, Prime Minister Churchill said plans had been worked out for a year, but within ten weeks the rapid change in the war sit- uation brought him back again, this time to the Quebee parleys.

“At Quebec divergencies in the military plans of the USSR and the Anglo-Americans were open- ly admitted. Furthermore, there was a shift in emphasis. There were no longer promises of ac- tion on the second front. Pre- viously unpreparedness had been given as the justification for lack of such action. Now it is said that the Allies are completely prepared, but will not yield to political pressure and will not open the second front until the British and United States gov- ernments decide to do so,” he stated.

The news that there was to be a three-day conference in Mos- cow in October, said Buck, was Welcome.

“But the test of battle is the supreme test of alliance. The United Nations alliance came into being to defeat Hitler. Its test is the full sharing of the military burdens of the war.”

In a survey of domestic prob- lems, Buck said that it was “time to state publicly that Prime Min- ister King’s polities do not ex- press the aspirations of the peo- ple.”

On the basis of his past record, the people could not look to King to lead the post-war pro- gram of reconstruction and re- forms they desired. Nor could they look to any of the old-line parties. There was a danger, however, that in moving away from the old parties the labor- farmer forces might find them- selyes disunited.

Reaffiliation To CCL Expected

Negotiations leading to reaffilia- fion of the International Wood- workers of America to the Cana- dian Congress of Labor, begun at the recent CCL convention, are expected to be concluded at the fortheoming convertion of the CIO in Pittsburgh, scheduled to open November 1.

Nigel Morgan, [WA board mem- ber, has been informed by IWwWA President Worth Lowery that a meeting between officers of the CIO, the CCL and the IwA BC District Council has been ar- ranged, where it is expected that an amicable settlement of the question will be reached.

Morgan will attend the Pitts- burg meeting in his capacity of international board member.

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Loggers

Camps affected by the dispute are operated by J. R. Morgan, Kelley Logging and Pacific Mills.

Justice Richards, who con- dueted the inquiry into condi- tions in B.C. shipyards last year, is a judge of the court of ap- peal in Winnipeg. His newest appointment as Industrial Dis- putes Inquiry Commissioner has been made under provisions of order-in-council P.C. 4020. He is due to arrive in Vancouver at the beginning of this coming week,

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Drive /A\ppeal Prompt Response

NDICATIONS that the current campaign to raise a $6,000 sus- taining fund for the People will be even more successful than the two previous drives were seen this week by the central press drive committee, when it announced that each city branch of the Labor-Progressive Party had accepted a drive quota and in most Cases

had increased the quota suggested.

City and other branches which have set quotas and are already

working on the campaign are:

Enet Eris ee 000. Keltsiland @20 ee 00 Grandview — een OU. Weert “bend 00 South Vancouver = 500 Mictory: Square. 500 ME Plegasant= 22S, 00 Hastings East : = 400 North Vancouver 300 New Westminster 300

During the ten days before the official opening of the campaign on October 1, $160 was turned in, according to Grace Greenwood, secretary-organizer. Branches are already selling tickets for the big Hallowe'en Dance, to be held Fri- day, October 29, at Croatian Hail, Hastings Auditorium, and How- den Ballroom.

“The necessity for building The People as part of the campaign to bring the program and policies of the Labor-Progressive Party to the people was never more ob- vious,” points out Drive Chair- man Minerva Cooper. “And while

cur quota of 36,000 may seem high, the fact that our drive com- mittees were able to double the $4,000 quota in the last drive gives us confidence that the new quota ean be reached.

“Most drive workers are well aware that the costs of maintain- ing a paper such as ours have risen sharply since the beginning of the war,” she adds, giving the following as the average monthly expenditures:

Wages, $550; printing, $750; mailing, $100; phone and rent, $65; engraving, cuts, news service, $60; office supplies, $100; miscellane- ous (including cost of press drives), $130; a monthly total of $1,750.

On this basis, she says, operat- ing cosis cyer a year (the People this week completes its first year of publication) run around $21,000. approximately $15,000 of which must be made up by the sustain- ing fund.

Ukrainians Seeking Return Of Property

[ ChCNTe Representatives of the Ukrainian-Canadian 4 and Civil Liberties Associations will meet at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, this coming Thursday, to formulate a special appeal to Prime Minister King and the cabinet for restora-

tion to legal status of the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple Association, and the return of its 108 halls confiscated by the

government early in 1940. Fifteen months ago a commit- tee of the House of Commons recommended that the ban on the ULFTA be lifted. Since

then Parliament has taken no action to implement the com- mittee’s report, despite many public demonstrations and re- quests for a hearing. Aroused by this flagrant inustice to a minority group whieh is whole- heartedly anti-fascist and whose industry and culture have en- riched Canadian life, a special committee of the Civil Liberties Association of Toronto has been striving for the correction of this injury.

In a cireular letter calling the Ottawa meeting, B.K. Standwell, chairman of the committee, states: “Up to the present time it has not been possible to ar- range for any appointment with the Prime Minster and the mem- bers of his cabinet in connection with this subject.”

Heading the Ukrainian delega- tion to the conference will be: John Boychuk, Toronto, chair- man of the Ukrainian-Canadian Association; John Stokaluk, Cal- gary, vice-president United Min- ers of America; Wm. Kardash, MLA, Winnipeg; Mike Dushnit- sky, Toronto, and many other prominent Ukrainian workers from Ontario cities.

B. K. Sandwell, J. L. Cohen,

K.C., and other members of the executive of the Civil Liberties Association will attend. Delega- tion from all interested groups, and individuals as well, have been invited to the conference. Those who cannot attend are asked to assist this cause by writing a per- sonal letter to the Prime Minister and to their member of parlia- ment. This should be done be- fore October 7, the date of the conference.

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the city clerk’s office—a ly acting on instructions city clerk—were giving: correct and misleading © tion to applicants who hat to the franchise, have that they will take up wives of tenants who ha refused admission to the Judge Richardson.

Richardson admitted that any tenant's wif legal right to have her placed on the list, and 1 that is necessary is that lord make out rent r the names’ of both husb wife.” .

However, women who for the franchise on these € were told that only on allowed in such cases the husband “generally preference.

At the same time, Rich has introduced a: totally ne ing barring permanent Te jn hotels from the civ. list, on the ground that is supplied by the landlord this makes the guest a lot ‘And on this ruling, he adm occupants of whole apar blocks can be classed as 10 if the landlord has no mo trol” than that of requirmg fo be turned down after tain kour. This ruling w by Richardson after “int study of English law dating | a contury.” =

Under this “access” ruin & tween 20.000 and 30,000 war ¢ ers in Vancouver will be ¢ § the franchise. In answer to ~ ter from the Trade Union @ mittee asking his attitude t ruling, Richardson replied he could give no blanket 2 Each case, he said, would to be dealt with individua

However, it is still possib those with a legal right to to have their names plact the list on election day = taining a certificate from ff clerk’s office. Members © committee and their legal

sentatives will be present sure that all those qualitit: ceive the franchise. “4

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