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‘Guard rights‘ call to labor

OTTAWA PLOTTING T0
SMASH RAIL STRIKE

As six o’clock on Tuesday morning train whistles blowing in a hundred yards and
divisional points highballed the biggest strike in Canadian history. Across the country,
operations on the two great railway systems and their subsidiaries came to a standstill as
125,000 workers struck for wage increases of 7 and 10 cents an hour and the five-day, 40-
hour week, leading the fight of all labor against big business profiteering and soaring living
costs.

Even as train wheels stopped rolling it became evident that the railway workers, em-
barked on a strike struggle for which the only parallel in English-speaking countries is
the British railway strike of 1919, would need the full support of all organized labor to win
their demands and prevent the St. Laurent government from using it literally to railroad
through parliament the anti-
labor legislation indicated in
inspired press» reports. from
Ottawa.

These reports stated that
the government intended to
outlaw strikes in all public
utilities and other “vital” in-
dustries by making arbitra-
tion compulsory in all dis-
putes, posing a grave threat
not only to those sections of
organized labor immediately
affected by to the entire
trade union movement.

Declaring that victory for
the railway workers “will be
a victory for every working
man, ° lim’ Buck, PP" na-
tional leader, this week warn-
ed:

“It is plain that the govern- Striking rallway employees picket the CPR station
ment and employers have

Exclusive

© These exclusive pictures from
the Korean front show (top)
tank crew of Korean People’s
Army being welcomed by citi-
zens of liberated Seoul; (cen-
ter) captured Americans on
their Way to a POW camp;
(bottom), a U.S. fighter plane
downed by Korean guns.

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plans.” (Full text on page 6). “Date of the arrival of the “Negotiate Now’ peace lobby
The same warning was at Ottawa will be governed by the time Prime Minister St. Laur-

made by J. B. Salsberg, MPP, ent calls parliament to deal with his government’s action in raising

in a statement issued in Tor- a brigade for service abroad,”” Miss Mary Jennison, secretary of

onto on Wednesday _ this the Canadian Peace Congress has announced.

week: “If any attempt is made to introduce the matter of Korea

at the emergency session on the railway strike, then we will

Continued on page 6 . ° : : 9 ;
See CPE PROFITS immediately set a date for arrival in Ottawa,” she continued.

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Find death pit where 7,000
prisoners murdered by Rhee

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