IACIFIC ADVOCATE

‘PEOPLE'S VOICE

FOR PROGRESS

. 1, NO. 6

5 Cents

VANCOUVER, B.c., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1944

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Pledge of support
; Canada”

“with other

Saveur
ige Government Take
ver BCElectric Utilities

labor organizations

for the reinforcement policies of the goverh-

was made in a resolution adopted at the second annual

tion of the B.C. District Union of the International

rs held in Vancouver this

resolution states that it
Pow clear from the parlia-
@ry debates .. . that the
affair has been engineered
reactionary forees to seize

of Mine, Mill and Smelter
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| REID ROBINSON
MSW International Pres.

fon the basis of the issue’
hledges “support of the war
nment in the policies en-
Fed by Prime Minister Mac-
i) Kang and General Mc-
Maton.” Copy of the resolu-
is to be sent to General Mc-
Faton.

' convention,

7

with 35 dele-

attending, representing
Pximately 5,000 unionists
sy hardrock mining area im
th Golumbia, also took a
= stand on the BCEHlectric
I The delegates ‘decided to

and strongly recommend
Carrying out of a policy
ey the government of Brit-

ish Columbia will take over the
BCHlectric as a whole and that
from this beginning the policy
should be enlarged to include
all public utilities with a hydro
commission” to be established
similar to the one in Ontario.

The sessions were addressed
by Hareld Pritchett, president
of International Woodworkers of
America, District No. 1, Daniel
O’Brien, regional director
Ganadian Congress of Labor,
Tom Uphill, labor MLA of Fer-
nie, Colonel D. B. Martin of Pa-
cific Command, John Turner.
Workers’ Hduecational Associa-
dion and Steve Glumaz of Seat-
tle, international representative
of the International lLongshore-
men and Warehousemen’s Union
(CIO).

Chase Powers, IUMMSW_ in-
ternational board member, spoke
to the delegates on the impor-
tance of maintaining unity in
their ranks and in the ranks of
organized labor as a whole. on
fhe issues affecting all workers.
He reported on the recent ClO
convention and on the work of
jhe CIO Political Action Com-
mittee in the reelection of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He cited this as
on eels of the powerful in-
fluence a united labor Oven
eould jose.

Harvey
canizer, reported t g
mendous organizing victories
achieved by the union in the
province, in which the = entire
hase metal industry was now
organized. He stressed the neces-
sity of large scale international
ivade for full production and em-
ployment in the mining industry.
Ane of the main objectives of the
union. he declared. was a stable
and uniform wage structure and
¢he national inquiry on this mat-
er to he conducted” by the Na-
{jonal War Labor Board was a

welcome move.
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district or-
on the tre-

Murphy,

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of-

LE BACK EAM

ish Intervention Bar

Open intervention: of Britain against popular - supported, democratic
Liberation Movement of Greece shocked world opinion this week and drew

the undisguised condemnation of the U. S. government.
ion, reflecting stand of the British public,

refused

British labor sent John Brown (left) and Arthur Horner
of the British Trades Union Congress as fraternal dele-
gates to APL convention, who both urged the AFL to
-help cement world labor unity at the London conference.

Out-of-TownDelegates
Arrive For LPP Meet

With representation from all sections of the province this
week's second annual convention of the B-C. section of the
Labor-Progressive Patty is assured of thorough and compre-
hensive treatment of British Columbia problems and promises

to evolve a historic program
around which progressive opinion
ean vally for the struggles ahead.

Prominent among delegates’
names already on hand at press
time are LPP Kamloops federal
candidate Henry Codd of White

Lake, president of Notch Hill
Parmers’ Institute, LPP Yale
federal candidate Angus Camp-

bell of Copper Mountain and LPP
New Westminster provincial
candidate Jack Greenall, IWA
District No. 1 secretary.

From the famous north coun-

try of Alaska Highway fame
comes Carl Gray of Whitehorse,
active unionist, who flew in by
plane. early this week. Compet-
ing with him for distance hon-
ors is veteran left-winger Sam
English of Michel in the Crow’s
Nest area, vice-chairman of his
UMW.A local and well known for
his part in the Cumberland and
Wanaimo miners’ struggles.
From mining centers of the
province come another group of
delegates. all active in LUMMSW

&

locals, Bert Flatt, Britannia
Beach LPP Club chairman, Eric
Anderson, secretary of the same
club, George Anderson, — local
business agent at Copper Moun-
tain, George De Groff of Ross-
land, and two women delegates,
Mrs. Clara Loski of Fernie and
Mrs. J. Cyrolik, recording secre-
tary of Kimberley LPP Club.

Another prominent woman
delegate is Ruby M. Young of
Penticton, LPP provincial com-
mittee member and secretary of
the Municipal Workers’ Union
there. Also from the Okanagan
are delegates John Clark, well
known apple grower and pio-
neer trom Kelowna, Hector M.
Angus, civil engineer and land-
scape painter from Penticton,
Hillian  Blaschuk and Steve
Daneliuk, club secretary, from
Vernon, and Mike Kovich, -busi-
nessman from Osoyoos- near the

U.S. border.
Vancouver TIsland delegates

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British press opin-
to accept Churchill’s de-

fensive references to a supposed
threat of “Communist dictator-
ship’ and charged that British
diplomacy had taken a prestige
losing, reaction- “suppor rting turn
which would have disastrous
consequences on British relations.
with postwar New Hurope if con-
tinued.

- Following closely on the not-
yet-settled Belgian political cris-
is, where British influence backed
the unpopular Pierlot régime, the
Greek situation portrayed . the
stubborn retreat of prewar re-
actionary “stooges” of old line
Tory imperialism as the mighty
upsurge of democratic people’s
movements in liberated countries
gaye encouraging promise of a
solution to problems of economic
and political reconstruction.

Crisis in Greece was ignited by
attempt of right wing elements
to prepare for crushing the Lib-
eration Movement (KAM)
through disarming and disband-
ing its military arm (ELAS) un-
der pretense of incorporating lat-
ter in a national’ army. HAM
leaders, undoubtedly represent-
ing the overwhelming majority
of Greeks, whom it led under
Nazi occupation, resigned from
the government, in which it held
only 30 percent of seats, when
it became obvious that previous
agreement to incorporation of
EAM was being used in reaction-
backed political maneuver to
smash the people’s movement.

Calling on the people to resist,
a general strike was called and
censored reports were unable to
hide its complete success. Top-
pling of the Papandreou regime,
clearly inevitable after the tre-
mendous demonstration of* peo-
ple’s solidarity behind the HAM,
was temporarily averted by Brie :
ish tank and artillery supported
armed intervention after Greek
police action in firing on and kill-
ing demonstrators roused the in-
furiated resistance of the people.
Instability of the regime, based
on foreign arms and suppression
of popular will, could not be
hidden however and political re-
percussions in Britain, as well
as the rest of the ‘democratic
world, were proving a hornet’s
nest for the directors of such
policy.

Churchill’s defence was follow-
ed by Anthony Eden’s statement,
in reply to U.S. Secretary of
State Stettinius’ announcement
on non-interyention in internal
affairs of liberated countries,
that Britain had the right to in-
terfere. Barrage of criticism
from MP’s in the British House
of Commons clearly indicated
that this stand did not reflect

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