Emergency

go CP leader demands

The last time the federal
government took upon
themselves repressive
‘“emergency powers’ the law
remained in force for 17 years,
warned Nigel Morgan, provin-
cial leader of the Communist
Party at a meeting in the
Swedish Hall on Sunday evening.

Over 150 people attended the
rally called to celebrate the 53rd
anniversary of the founding of
the first workers’ republic in the
Soviet Union and to protest the
new government law to replace
the War Measures Act.

Morgan said life in Canada
under capitalism, contrasted to
life in the Soviet Union under
socialism can be summed up in
the fact that under socialism you
have jobs looking for people;
that peoples of 146 nationalities
live together in harmony and
equality, and laws and
constitutions which are
dedicated to the rights of man

make exploitation impossible.

* In Canada, on October 16 of
this year the government placed
on the books legislation which
wiped out with one stroke the
rights people have fought for

U.S. TAKEOVER
IN AGRICULTURE

When the Canadian
Agricultural Congress meets in
Ottawa on November 25, B.C.
farmers will.have plenty to say
through agricultural representa-
tives who attend.

They will allege that over 70
percent of the annual pack of
Canada’s fruit and vegetable
crops are processed in American-
owned plants which in many
cases are in a ‘‘run-down’”’
condition while their plants in
the USA are completely
modernized. This situation
leaves Canadian farmers in a
poor condition to compete in the
world market. ,

The recommendations in a
report of the federal task force
on agriculture are being sharply
criticized by farmers across
B.C.

Act must

rights people have fought for:
the right to bail; the supposition
of innocence until proven guilty.
He recalled that Section 98 of
the Criminal Code, instituted in
1919 to crush the Winnipeg

General Strike, was used over -

and over again against union
leaders, Communists and others.
During that period, over 10,000
charges were made under the
section, and it was not until
‘‘Tron Heel Bennett’? was
defeated in the thirties the
vicious act was repealed.

The War Measures Act,
instituted in 1939, involved over
50,000 decrees and again these
were not taken off the books until
the late 1940’s.

The.crisis in capitalism has
been marked over and over
again by the institution of laws
which abrogate peoples’ rights,
Morgan said.

That crisis is here now in the
half-million registered
unemployed in Canada — one out
of every 10 persons.

Forty-one percent of those are
in the province of Quebec, where
the crisis in capitalism is most
sharp. Wages in that province
are 26 percent below those in the
neighbouring province of
Ontario.

Of Quebec citizens having an
income of over $15,000 a year, 77
percent are English-speaking.

Until we rectify the injustices
in Quebec, Morgan warned,
there will be no peace for ideas
and injustices cannot be
repressed with legislation.

He urged the audience to carry
the struggle against the new
legislation into every facet of

- the community — in the trade

unions, ratepayers groups, and
all organizations concerned
with democratic rights. Above
all, he said, write letters and
send wires to members of
parliament.

Veteran trade unionist Harold
Pritchett traced the history of
the struggles in the Soviet Union
to the present day, and the
evening concluded with a fine
film on the life of Lenin.

BETHUNE
MARXIST CLASSROOM

Lecture No. 3

“Democratic Centralism”

Lecturer — Harold Pritchett
SUNDAY — NOV. 15th — 7 P.m.

ROYAL TOWERS HOTEL — Fraser Room

New Westminster

Edna Brown
mourned

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The progressive movement in
B.C. will bé saddened by the
news that Edna Brown, first
women president of the IWA
women’s auxiliary in B.C. and
prominent in labor and
women’s activities for many
years, was killed in a car
accident the first week of
November. :

The accident happened while
she was on a drive with her
husband Owen to Nitnat Lake.
According to reports the car hit
a soft shoulder and went over
into a deep ditch. |

Owen Brown, who fortunately
escaped serious injury, was a
pioneer president and charter
member of the IWA local in
Cowichan Lake.

Edna was a daughter of
Nathan Dougan of Cobble Hill,
and her sister Mildred
Liversedge lives at Cowichan
Lake. The Pacific Tribune
expresses its deepest regrets at
the tragic death of Edna. On
behalf of the thousands of people
who knew this wonderful warm-
hearted woman, we send our
condolences to all members of
her family.

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MARIA GIDORA

The labor and progressive
movement of British Columbia
lost a devoted and pioneer
member last week in the passing
of Mrs. Maria Gidora after a
long illness. Born in Boriwtscy,
Bukovina in 1898, she came to
Karwin Alberta in 1907. After
her marriage to George Gidora
she moved to Wainwright, and
in 1943. came to _ British
Columbia.

She is survived by her
husband, George, six children,
‘Peter of Surrey, Mrs. Waselena
Simard of White Rock, Mrs. Olga
Wetaski of Coquitlam, Mrs.
FrezinasDodsworth of Abbots-
ford, and Kostin of Surrey; two
brothers, twenty-three grand-
children and two _ great-grand
children.

Nigel Morgan, Provincial
leader of the Communist Party,
paid a tribute to her long years of
work in the progressive
movement and expressed
sympathy to her family.

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B.C. centres mark
Soviet anniversary

Rallies in several towns and
cities in B.C. have marked the
58rd anniversary of the founding
of the first socialist state, the
Soviet Union. %

Jim Beynon, a young worker
who recently travelled widely in
the USSR, told a rally in Victoria
of the gains made in that country
since the revolution. While the
people in the socialist countries
are building the future, he said,
we in the capitalist countries are
fighting to rid ourselves of the
past— Capitalist exploitation.

The drive of reaction against
this struggle is now in full swing,
he said, and the War Measures
and the Public Order -Act are
part of that reaction.

Trade union leader Jack
Phillips, who recently returned
from a tour of the Soviet Union,
addressed an anniversary
meeting at the AUUC Hall in
Vernon on Saturday, Nov. 7.

In an inspiring speech, Phillips
told of the progress being made
by the first workers state in
building socialism.

A resolution adopted by the
meeting, with about 50 persons
in attendance, said the War
Measures regulations should be
lifted and that there is sufficient

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legislation now to deal with
criminal acts.

The resolution also charged
the new legislation introduced
to repeal the War Measures

‘regulations, ‘‘is in effect a new

version of the War Measures Act
and is a threat to civil liberties
and should be rejected as such.”’

People came from many miles
to attend a meeting and film
showing at Mission where provin-
cial leader Nigel Morgan spoke.
on the occasion of the Soviet
anniversary.

The audience expressed deep
concern with the imposition of
the War Measures Act and the
Public Order Act.

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