8 ULFTA Ban Should Be Lifted. Price Reaffirms Board Rejects Demands NEW WESTMINSTER—Request of local teachers for certain ad- justments in salary schedules was rejected by the school board here. The board sat the same time cut in half the teachers’ requested cost- of-living bonus. Instead of bonus of $18 per month for heads of households and $10 for single persons proposed by the teachers’ committee, the board offered to pay 60 cents per week to all teachers making over $2,- 100 yearly and, to those earning less than $2,100, a bonus of $9 monthly for heads of households and $4.50 monthly for all others, during the nine months of the school term. School maintenance Were granted an increase of $10 per month. All are living bonus. @ THE RUSSIAN RELIEF DRIVE . . sored by | Mayor J. W. to become effective as from Feb.|Buscombe and Miller i. The bonus will be paid only | @pproval of Price’s statement, on | the grounds that the subject of |the Ukrainians had not been dis- employees |Cussed before the council. Although Alderman Jack Price had to accept a rebuke from the city council last Monday for his statement, made at a public meeting in the Beacon theatre here last Sunday night, that he was “speaking for all members of the city council when I say that we are behind you in your request for the return of all property to the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple Association,” his own opinion on the subject remains unaltered. ‘I'm taking nothing back,” Price told The People this week. “I sincerely believe that the time has come to return all property to the ULFTA. Some of us here in Canada, while we talk a lot about democracy, don’t bother to practice it at home.” At last Sunday’s When asked for a statement, receiving cost-of-| Mayor Cornett replied that while he had sent Price to the meeting and help those who are deserving of our help! STYLES — VALUES — QUALITY Uap TOPCOATS Imported Barrymore, Vel-Tabs and Tweeds - . . Flawlessiy tinished and distinctively styled by leading Canadian manufacturers. Slip-on and Balmacaan models— 25.00 27.59 30.00 rs le Oe ENGLISH GABARDINE and POPLIN KRAINCOATS 16.50 22.50 SUITS—SERGES—TWEEDS and WORSTEDS 30.00 35.00 40.00 SHIRTS by FORSYTH—TOOKE and ARROW Whites and attractive patterns in soft and fused collars— 200 2.50 2.95 Home of Union Made Clothing and Friendky Service meeting, spon- the committee for the defense of the ULFTA, Price fur- ther declared: “I don’t think the government displays very great statesmanship in thus trying to suppress a people in such a fashion. I hope we are still living in a democracy, and it is up to us to preserve it to the utmost.” At the Monday council meeting, Cornett and Alderman voiced dis- Civil Struggle of the Ukrainian CGana- dians for justice as an part of the struggle for freedom everywhere. to represent him, they had not dis- cussed the question personally. “I have formed no opinion about the Ukrainians,” said the Mayor. “AS acquainted with the facts of the case at all.” a matter of fact, I’m not “They invited the mayor to speak. Since he turned over that invita- tion to me, he was apparently sat- isfied that nothing I would say would be out of place,’ Price de- clared. Alderman Buscombe declined to give his opinion. “The Ukrainians are our allies now, and are very fine people,” since he did not even know that the after Sunday’s meeting, not commit himself on the justice of the act. he said, adding that halls had been seized until he could “Wo alderman should take it upon himself to speak for all of us,” Alderman George Miller protested, telling The People that he didn’t know anything about the case, but that “the RCMP wouldn't take ac- tion without good reason.” Some- times they may have to act quick- ly, he explained, as in the case of the evacuation of the B.C. Japan- ese. “However, I have no quarrel with the Ukrainian people,’ he] added. A resolution urging lifting of the ban on the ULEFTA and passed unanimously by the Bea- con Theatre audience, protested the illegalization of the organiza- Gon charges preferred, without an op- portunity for a hearing or de fence.” “without trial, without David Freeman, speaking for the Liberties League, saw the integral “Our civil liberties were won by our ancestors, but each generation must fight to preserve them. The best instance of this necessity to fight is provided-in the Defence of Canada Regulations, basic principles of British justice are in which the he said. = Jones, Housewives’ ignored,” Mrs. Effie League organizer, pointed out that Canada, alone among the demo- cratic ULFTA, the Communist party, and other anti-fascist organizations. nations, had banned the “We can’t fight each other and Hitler too,” Harold Pritchett, TWA president, must choose to fight Hitler are to smash fascism.” “We if we told’ the meeting. Joseph lLypka, speaking in Ukrainian, outlined the history of the legality for the organization and the return of their halls, many of which were labor. Ukrainians’ fight to win back built by volunteer Ms WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY MODERATE RENTAL RATES a MODERN and OLD-TIME DANCING Hastings Auditorium 828 B. Hastings Tues., Thurs., Sat. > DANCE at the EMBASSY 1024 Davie OLD TIME MODERN Wed,, Fri. z, be > Refute Charges | ‘Red Control’ 4 A. A. McAuslane concerning ‘communist control’ of the | makers and Iron Shipbuilders Union which last week y | secede from the Canadian Congress of Labor, was mac’ statement issued by Tom McEwen, official of the Com: | Labor Total War Committee this week. - Refutation of the charges Full statement follows: In order to clear away any mis- understanding or confusion that may arise from the most recent press statement of Vice-President A. McAuslane of the CCL as re- ported in the Vancouver press, Feb. 15, on the Boilermakers’ issue, and to refute the slanderous in- ference of “Moscow controlled” or- ganization it is necessary to clari- fy the following points: The alleged dispute between the Boilermakers, Local No. 1, and the CCL was primarily caused by Vice-President McAuslane’s refusal to recognize an execu- tive board elected under an au- thorized local election, and by the promoting of dual ‘indus- trial’ charters in an industry where unionization is already well established. At no time, prior to, during the election, or since, has it been the policy of the communists to gain or seek control of any af- filiated union of the CCL or of the CCL itself. The aim of com- munists-is to preserve and ex- tend union- organization and unity; to develop labor-manage- ment relations in production; and to establish working condi- tions and wages that will make it possible for every Canadian worker to give his or ‘her best effort to Canada’s war effort, and to oppose company union- ism whenever and wherever it makes its appearance. The action of Boilermakers’ Lo- cal No. 1 in reluctantly disaf- filiatine from the CCL was the only action left to them under the circumstances to restore union democracy, to restore union properties and funds, at present (as a result of Vice- President McAuslane’s policies) frozen by court injunctions. This action of the Boilermakers is approved by every honest trade unionist, regardless of his affiliation. If any individuals or groups of individuals are setting up dual organizations to the CCL or to the Boilermakers, Vice-Presi- dent McAuslane should know about it, since he alone is large- ly responsible for the dual, abortive ‘industrial’ charters now alleged to be installed, or being installed, and which in themselves constitute the es- sence of disruption. No “Red Union Centre” is be- ing formed or contemplated, and only exists in the fevered mind of Vice-President McAuslane, who at one time was a petty of- ficial of the former “Workers’ made by CCL Vice-Pi 3 Unity League, and saw 1 j evidence of control by © then than he does now what can be conjured We red-baiting imagination the purpose of covering ~ ruptive union policies. @ Arrival of ‘prominent fig’ the coast, alleged to bh? munists, active in AF CCL unions, are a norm: plement to the developn new war industries. Ce | ists have joined the forces with the single Fa of fighting the Nazis, an entered basic war ing With the single purpose ing their labor and influe to the advancement of ~ production for the defi Hitler, And strangely a: during the Mills-Stephen — in Local No. i, Vice-Pr McAuslane was cynically erous against the comm proposals of continuous fF tion and labor-manageme operation in production! ~ President McAuslane’s c tion that the presence of a communists in the Van Shipyards is @ sinister ine of their aims to capture) control is in line with i structive union policies . pursuing in shipyard 1 and which the communis such, haye-no hesitation i: ing are destructive of thi interest of the CCL, whi an official, McAuslane is i bound to preserve. By, and through, such state as Vice-President McAuslane to the Vancouver press op 21, he is rendering an jll-sery the CCL and to the trade movement generally. The 5} ing of slander, suspicion anr unity can only bring disast the rank and file of the affected; it weakens their effe ness and solidarity, and re them easy prey.to every ji against their ranks or intere If Vice-President MeAuslar tains a vestige of workin) honesty and dignity, he mu aware that a mendacious cr against communism at this cannot serve his purpose, no to the prestige of the trade Congress he is paid to serve The communists, just be they are communists, are pre now, as in the past, to give Support and assistance to building a powerful well-org: and united CCL. But they az prepared now, nor in the £ to see the trade unions disr or smashed—even under the text of smashing communis Satisfy the blatant eso of a parently hysterical official. TUNE IN the Weekly Labor Newscast — ‘GREEN GOLD Station CJOR 600 Kiloecycles Every TUESDAY —- 7:45 p.m. with NIGEL MORGAN as Your Reporter Sponsored by the International Woodworkers of America (CI¢ SSS