PP candidates in B.C.

Vancouver East

Chas. Reawert

ayearies Stewart, LPP candidate
we pequicouver East, has a solid
Move of achievement in the labor
peri ment extending back over a
. Pod of 37 years
mbariie was born in Dundee, Scot-
h : i 1892, When he was 15 he
livin © leave school to earn his own
ty Paso Five years later he came
whet ae and settled in Saskatoon,
frei . he worked in the CPR
f 8ht sheds. After a few months
ae mowed to Vancouver, took a job
ang eaener with the Park Board,
the ¢ €came a charter member of
eS hen-organizing General Work-
S Union,
ae hree years later, Stewart and
out URE wife packed up and set
start or Butte, Montana, where he
on work in the copper mines
mated by the huge and powerful
ee Company. There was no
aiti Nin the mines then, and’ con-
‘Ons were terrible.
reak came in 1917,” says
recause of unsafe bi caan
itions a huge fire sprea
nrough the mine, and 175 men
it S deren from suffocation and
yen ithout any organization.
Without any plan, the zat walked
Was a spontaneous demon-
of a growing resentment
ad suddenly exploded into
» and it laid the basis for
rTmation, while the men were
n strike, of the Metal Mine
ers Union.” \
mmioh ty Strike ended after five
and AN With a victory for the union
turneg ity afterwards Stewart re-
Workin © Vancouver. He began
eh § for the BCElectric, where
any: been ever since, and for
Division es has’ been a leader in
Union n 101, Street Railway ¥
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Vancouver Center

Maurice Rush

No other candidate in Vancouver

Center knows more about unem-
ployment in the depression years
than Maurice Rush, the 33-year-old
‘LPP nominee. During the Hungry
Thirties he helped to organize the
unemployed in their struggles for

work and wages, and to end the vi-
cious relief camp system.

In the 15 years since he entered
the labor movement. Rush has
made a considerable contribution
to the building of trade unions in
‘this province. When only 19 he ord-
ganized among the Nanaimo coal
miners, at a time when discrimin-
ation by labor-hating bosses was
rife. He also helped to lay the
basis for organization of cannery
workers in the Interior, and con-
tributed to the building of other
unions.

An active youth leader for many
years, Rush was one of the found-
ers of the Canadian Youth Con-
gress in the thirties. In 1987 he was
arrested for leading a picket line at

the Italian. consulate, demanding. a}

boycott of Italian. German and

Japanees goods.

Rush served three years. in the
Canadian Army in World War IT,
and after being reported missing
in action during the Battle of

of the Bulge, turned up in a Ger- |

_ man prisoner-of-war camp, where
he spent several months.

Immediately upon returning
home from overseas, Rush took his
place again in the labor movement,
and since 1945 has been provincial
organizer for the Labor-Progress-
ive party. He first contested Van-
couver Center in the 1945 provin-

cial election.

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Burnaby=Richmond

Tom McEwen

Tom McEwen, LPP federal can-
didate in the new constituency of
Burnaby-Richmond, has a long and
outstanding record of service in
the Canadian labor movement.

Born in Stonehaven, Kincardine-
shire, Scotland, Tom McEwen emi-
grated to Canada in 1911 at the
age of 20. A blacksmith by trade,
he has worked in shoeing forges,
lumber and construction camps,
CNR railway and auto body shops.
and is classed as an expert artisan
in iron.

While working at his trade, Mc-
Ewen organized locals of the In-
ternational]. Brotherhood of Black-
smiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers,
and represented this union for
years on the Trades and Labor
councils of Saskatoon and Winni-
peg.

In 1925, he led the first strike of
the iron workers in the Richardson
Iron Works, Saskatoon, for wage
increases and a shorter working
day. Working a nine-hour day
himself at the forge, McEwen was
one of the first editors of The Fur-
row, organ of the militant left-
wing farmers of Saskatchewan.

In 1929, McEwen was appointed
national industrial director of thé
Communist Party of Canada and
moved to Toronto.

, One of the initial organizers of
the Workers’ Unity League of Ca-

ada, McEwen helped to build a

fighting trade union center of
45.000 workers. As general secre-

tary of the WUL, he led that body
back into the parallel bodies of the
AFL in 1934, in a great demonstra-
tion of trade union unity which
brought to an end one of the un-
fortunate divisions in the house
of Canadian labor.

When the depression struck, Mc-
Ewen was a leader in the struggle
for ‘work and wages,” abolition of
slave camps, enactment of unem-
ployment insurance, and other mea-
sures of relief. In 1931 the Tory
government of R. B. “Iron Heel”
Bennett struck at the Communist
party and McEwen, with Tim Buck
and six other Communist leaders,
was railroaded to Kingston peni-
tentiary for five years. A country-
wide protest movement secured
their release in 1934. :
. In 1940 McEwen was again ar-
rested, in Winnipeg, charged with
“Communist activities’ and sen-
tenced to two years hard labor.
After serving 14 months he was re-
leased on .&2 Manitoba Supreme
Court writ for illegal imprison-
ment—only to be re-arrested at the
prison gates by the RCMP and
herded into a Hull concentration
camp, without any semblance of a
trial, where he was interned for
ten months.

_The McEwen family have a
proud record of service to Can-
adian democracy. Two sons serv-
ed for two years in the Macken-
zie-Panineau battalion of the In-
ternational Brigade in Spain,
and in Canada’s jarmed forces
throughout World War I. His
eldest daughter, Jean, a trained
nurse, worked with the late Dr.
Norman Bethune in the Canadian
medical unit which served with
Chinese Liberation forces during
the late thirties.

Since 1947, Tom McEwen has
been editor of the Pacifie Tribune.

LPP ELECTION NEWS

Triple this $6000
and we'll make it

The Labor-Progressive Party’s struggle to change the direc-
tion of Canada’s foreign policy from the path of war to peaceful
trade and friendship is receiving increased attention as the election
day draws closer. Last Sunday more than 500 people gathered
at Powell Street grounds to hear Maurice Rush, LPP candidate
for Vancouver Center, denounce the Liberal government's drive
to war and to warn that the other parties, including the CCF,

are war parties too by their common support of the Atlantic
pact.

.
In Center, a vote for Rush is your only alternative to a
vote for the Allantic pact.

The LPP is aie to bring its alternative to the war policies
of other parties to many more tens of thousands of Canadians
before election day. The finances needed to make this possible
have yet to be raised. Last week’s appeal made a substantial
change in the right direction. Over two thousand dollars rolled
into election headquarters.

We need much more, Less than two weeks remain. Look
below for your committee or club results. Act today. We must
have the full amount you have pledged to raise.

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Election activities

BURNABY-RICHMOND: At 7 p.m. on June 17 and 20 and
every day next week volunteer election workers from Burrard
and South Vancouver will meet at the Shelly Building to pro-
ceed to Burnaby-Richmond to do election work for Tom McEwen,
the LPP candidate. Volunteers with cars are particularly needed,
for this is a big constituency. They are asked to contact’ TA. 1451.

Volunteer workers in Vancouver Center are asked to note
that on June 17 and 20 all workers will be transferred to
Burnaby-Richmond.

VANCOUVER EAST: Election workers for Charles Stewart
will meet at 1804 Cotton Drive on June 17, 7.30 p.m, to plan
the work in the last week of the federaj campaign.

VANCOUVER CENTER: In addition to the regular LPP
air talks over CKMO every week night at 5.55, Maurice Rush
will have a final broadcast over CKWX Friday, June 24, at 9.55.

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There will be a mass rally on Powell Street grounds Sunday,

June 19, 8 p.m. Maurice Rush and Nigel Morgan, LPP pro-
vincial leader, will be the speakers. Let’s make it a big turn-out.

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FENAL LPP ELECTION RALLY! Make a note of it now
and plan to attend. June 23, § p.m., at Pender Auditorium.

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Kelp the fund grow

Target Raised | Van. N. Com. 400.00 158.25
inane Stow nt! $ 247.00 | Van. Profes. 700.00 6038.50
urrard tion Committee—
Bldg. cicadas. ie ea 64.75 Alberni Com. .. 900.00 153.50
Civic Work. 200.00 133.75 | Courtenay-Camp-
Elec, Work. 250.00 62.00 | bell River 350.00 24.00
Gas & Trans. 160.00 84.190 | Cowichan Lake Com-
Kitsilano ..... 400.00 301.75 | mittee ..... 500.00
Metal Trades 130.00 11.25 | Nanaimo Com. 750.00 328.47
Mt. Pleas..Fr. 250.00 - 188.75] Fraser Valley _ N ee
Oleic ais RS ppp SA Progen ar ee
Rip: & Stoel. a0: SP torts Gents ee = Rae
: 50. 1061.09 | West Kootenays Com:
becca Pacha ae PO gabe 400.00 3.00
Vancouver Centre Committee— Natal _ Michel 200.00 120.70
Bill Bennett .. 250.00 126.50 Cranbrook Cl 75.00
Commer. Dr. 300.00 42.75 .
East End 1 375,00 182.75; Fernie Club = 75.00 =9$—_—_—
East End 2 $75.00 134.75 | Kimberley Cl. "75.00 10.06
xones Prod een Fry) Wynndel Club 25.00 8.50
OOTP 2 eco ; 202. ie
Grandview 350.00 245.95 |, owell BR. ee
Mating: a. 150.00 Britannia Cl.... 50.00 37.00
Sea & Shore .. 500.00  192.50|)Cambie Club .. 75.00 7.50
Strathcona .... 50.00 1.00 | Grassy Pl. .... 25.00
West End .... 250.00 72.10 | Kamloops 00 20.00
edd Mite Oe ST clout 08 50.00 «15.35
Lang Bay CL
$4875.00 $1686.29 Mt. Cartier Cl. _
Notch Hill Cl.. 35.00 33.00
Van. East Committee— Osoyoos Club 50.00
Hastings ...... 125.00 73.25 | Princeton Cl. 50.00
Moberley ..... 150.00 156.91 |Salmon Arm Cl. 35.00 43.00
Niilo Makela 250.00 81.35 | Sointula. Club.. 50.00 $5.40
Norquay ...... 300.00 69.70.| Steveston CL 75.00
Renfrew Aft. . 25.00 Vernon Club.. 156.00 120.00
Renfrew ...... 75.00 S200} MRS, ee.
South Hill 25.00 7.50
- Total to June 13,
$ 950.00 $ 410.71 AORD: Fo. a, $15,000.00 $6006.72