shes bend Weel

8.

Continued

Quebec

several seats. The Progressive
Conservative Party, which is
closely linked in Quebec with
the UWnion Nationale has an-
nounced that it will not contest
any seats. a

“Only the union of all those
“who desire progress—the trade
union movement, liberals, na-
tional democrats—cean form a
government capable of solving
the problems of the postwar,”
the Labor-Progressive Party,
which is contesting a small num-
ber of seats, declared in a re-
cent press statement.

“The Labor-Progressive Par-

ty proposes the formation at

Quebec of a government which
will be representative of the
workers and trade unionists in
coalition with the forces of Lib-
eral reform.

“Against reform, against
all measures of progress are
aligned the tories in the camp
of Duplessis and the Blec
Populaire,’ _ the statement
continued. “After having
tried to sabotage the con--.
structive legislation present-
ed m the House, this reaction-
ary combine is attempting to
seize power. If this reaction
cecalition should succeed in
gaining power there will be
a regime of suppression of
civil liberties, destruction ot
the labor moyement and na-
tional sabotage.” g
Correctness of Prime Minis-

ter Godbout’s warning to a ra-
dio audience last week to “be
on guard against the shabby
provocateurs in the Bloc Popu-
jaire” has been fully born out
by the Bloc campaign during
the last few weeks.

The Bloc is employing the
typically fascist tactic of posing
aS a saviour of Quebec from
the terror of Communism, with
a few new variations. -

Both the LPP and the Liberal
PaPrty claim Bloc arguments
are those of Hitler. “Therefore,”
declares a Bloc leader, “I dis-
eover the alliance between the
Iiberals and Communists.”
Therefore—a new base for anii-
‘Communism

Instead of rallying the people
of Quebec around a program
based on the needs of Quebec,
where wages have always been
lower than in other parts of
Canada, Duplessis prefers to
draw his support from those
who lend willing ears to his
promises to invoke again the no-
torious padlock law.

Duplessis, who welshed on
every promise to the people
aiter his election in 1936 on a
program of “down with the
trusts, last week denounced
Godbout’s expropriation of the
Montreal Light, ‘Heat and Pow-
er as “bolshevism.” Quebec’s
low wages he attributed to “Ot
tawa.” But the workers do not
forget that it was Duplessis who
froze wages at 14 cents an hour
in the textile, silk, shoe and fur-
niture industries, or that it was
he who wrote the infamous
“ordnances’ which attempted to
legalize the 12-hour day.

His boasts that he would
Keep the CIO ont of Quebec
and his arrests of trade union
organizers are remembered by
the workers now enrolled in
Quebec’s growing trade union
movement. :

It is not surprising that Du-
plessis, who couples his anti-
labor crusade with a campaign
of obstruction to the federal au-
thorities, has an ally in the Bloc
Populaire. Not is it surprising
that Senator Bouchard and
many Quebee Liberals in the
federal house deliver a series of
stinging rebukes in reply to cer-
tain Bloe statements aimed at
the destruction of national ©
unity.

Lieut. Vernon Schaefer (right) of Chicago, co-pilot
of a B-29 Superfortress, receives a warm welcome
from a Chinese sentry after bombing Yawata, Japan.

Continued from Page One

Negotiations Planned
When Findings Received

“While we had hoped to establish a base rate at Kim-
berley, the National War Labor Board still allowed metal
and silver bonuses whose method of calculation, the board

agrees with us, is very complex.

We are satisfied to the

extent that at least some of the -bonuses have been in-

corporated into a base rate.

“We have not yet received the
full text of the decision, but we
are satisfied that some prog-
ress has been made. The Inter-
national Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers is going
forward on a province-wide
basis in all local negotiations,
to press for a base rate which
will mean for all underground
workers a rate of $1.00 an hour,
as well as other improvements.

“We believe that on that basis
we can halt the switching of
workers from the hard rock
mines to other industries and
relieve the tremendous labor
shortage which is now having a
paralyzing effect on many min-
ing operations. This will work
to the benefit of the industry
as a whole.

“As soon as .we receive the
full text of the finding and
direction we expect to open ne-

( GREETINGS to
The People

from

DR. W. J. CURRY

cc

f oa
BOILERMAKERS’

HALL
339 W. Pender

Every WED. & SAT.

9-12 pm.
CARLE HODSON?’S
ORCHESTRA
Phone PAc. 4835 for Rentals
— Y

gotiations with the Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Company
of Canada for the purpose of
completing the agreements
reached ‘at Kimberley and
Trail,” the statement concludes.

Elect Berquist
To School Board

BLUEBERRY CREEK, B.C.
—Sven Berquist, chairman of
the lLabor-Progressive Party
here, was elected to the school
board at the annual meeting last
week,

Seb hecbe bento hecbotonh ochabodocbecfokerfordoedar>

John E. Mecredy

GENERAL INSURANCE
Fire * Automobile * Accident

556 Howe, Vancouver, B.C. |

Phones:
} PAc. 5235 — Res. PAc. 4335
Be ss a we ae ee ae OE

OPEN

A SIS

TOM McEWEN

‘Provincial Organizer L.P.P.

SUBJECT:

Seating Accommodation For All 328
AUSPICES VIGTO

ee SSS SSS

Seek Coalition Government :
Greeks In City Send ©
Protest To Churchill —

Establishment of a Greek coalition government
revoking of death sentences against three Greek patri
members of a brigade which transferred its allegiance f,
the Greek government-in-exile at Cairo to liberation fo
in their homeland, is demanded in wites sent to Ro
velit, Stalin and Churchill by Greek Democratic Center |

_1, which includes Greek communities in Vancouver
Victoria. :

The action was taken after
local newspapers reported that
leaders of the so-called “mu-
tiny’—actually a demonstration
against the reactionary poli-

cies of the emigre government
—were to be executed.

the first meeting of the
cabinet that a ~ court-maz
will begin to inflict punishn
on those responsible for
“mutiny? at once wall make 4
well-nigh impossible.

At present the new Gi
eabinet contains no repre:
tatives of the HAM (goverr
body of the liberation for
the Communist Party or the
litical Committee, people’s
‘ganizations which have not
confirmed the decision made
a recent all-party confere
to form a government of
tional unity under Papandre

At is believed that their m
difficulty im entering suet
government is the King’s
fusal to pledge that he will k
out of Greece until a natio
plebiscite can be taken. Pap
dreou and his cabinet h
Signed a statement that “it
the country’s opinion that
King must await the verdict
the people, watching until ¢t
as head! of the Greek state, o
the interests of the nation.”

This ambiguous statem:
unacceptable to the liberat
forces, stressed the King’s. pe
tion as head of the state, <
implies that he intends to -
turn.

The new Greek prime minis- ~
ter, George Papandreau, seen —-
by the London Daily Worker
as “simply a tool used by King
George to re-establish the dic-
tatorship,” has made known a
proposed constitution for post-
war Greece.

This constitution provides for
formation of a “supreme council
of Labor,” on the model of the
fascist corporations, one-third
of the members being appoint-
ed each by government, em-
ployers and workers. If the
government were defeated in
parliament, it would be par-
liament—not the -gcvernment
—which would be expected to
resign. There would be state
control to “protect” workers
from their own organizations,
the press would be strictly cen-
scored, and the constitution
would be interpreted by a Su-
preme Political Court.

After announcement of the
constitution, Greek demo-
crats in London expressed sur-
prise at Premier Ghurchill’s
letter of support which laid
no emphasis on the need for
a real national government.

oe

Garfield A. King

While democratic groups
yithitn Greece declare that na- BARRISTER
tional unity is of the greatest é
importance, they fear that an- 553 Granville MA. 86!
nouncements of Papandreou at W— :

Sebcbchbchcbebhh bh bb bebbbbbbeiebebbdbcbebebebcbecbocbeebrcbecbcheebodechecbosbie

UNIVERSAL News Stand

138 East Hastings Street

‘
. .. features ...

Language and Home Town Newspapers
and Progressive Literature

a

IF WE DON’T STOCK IT; WE CAN GET IT *
FEEELELETEEELELEEEE ELE DERE LE LE LE LE EET BLE EE BT

at

Mebclechiehcedonbdbobiefecbocbstebeebeatirebaet

POWELL STREET GROUNDS

Sunday, July 23rd at 7:30.

= OP PARKERS = i
WILLIAM STEWART _

Vancouver North Federal L.P.P. Candidate

“WHAT WILL THE PEACE BRING”

Public Address System

RY SQUARE BRAN