(0 A A Tre Re TT LEFT TURN! A Column For WAR VETERANS -- by Jack Philips UTTIATRUUTUAHUEUGRAT OER AEEAOGTTEETEAU TUR ARTOTAET UAT ET HLA ‘Eegion convention (B-C.) has come and gone. Mark my - sport: ; findings of this meet will have its echo in “the national con- Pon, to be held in Quebec city, in May, and in every provincial fation to be held in the country this year. British Columbia ms have set the pace. fobs, Homes and Security”; veterans have spoken for labor- Rim unity; veterans Know that rehabilitation won’t work unless § pole nation is put to work at decent wages. 'yery Wegion branch in B.C. should soon begin its discussions sparation for the national convention. There is no doubt that problems as jobs, homes, pensions, training, farm settlement ‘ehabilitation in general will rank first in importance. The fhese discussions start, the better; and the more study and ration that goes into these resolutions, the more realistic Fopressive will the national meet turn out to be. it is very Significant that there was no apparent refiec- 3 of the current spy scare and red-baiting at the Vancouver wention. Significant also the fact that two resolutions op- june labor-veteran unity were rejected with very little cere- ‘ay or debate. Imstead of voting for isolation; the conven- a voted tor co-operation with all public minded groups con- ged in the solution of common problems. - aly one resolution was offered on the international situation, (Bis was passed in amended form without much discussion. mended resolution was, Gn your reporter’s opinion), rather 2 # job, and should not be duplicated at the national convention. ssed, the resolution called for the transformation of UNO into 2r world government that would: Establish world law. Maintain the peace. Administer justice in accordance with the law established. Be democratically- elected by world powers, great and small. prid government is the slogan used by the reactionaries who posed to Big Three unity and the veto power; world govern- Bis the cry of the big stick wavers who fear Soviet strength. emand for a democratic election of a world government, by = powers, great and small, is raised by those who wish to by- she fact that only the unity of the Bigs Three can guarantee ace. be feeeson, 300,000 strong, nationally, must make its weight Ottawa for a progressive peace pelcy, -.- in support of UNO. ,itVE Bis, T’s TRUE! last week's “Left Turn” you read Peeriority, rights have no Boal values in the case of lay-offs.” It should have read “except # case of lay-offs.” (What a difference a word makes!) tly one newspaper correctly estimated in advance the trend Vancouver Legion convention; only one newspaper correctly id out where the most stress would be laid, and gave a clear fo veterans. That paper was the Pacific Tribune. Moral? Get the hands of veterans! Put the press drive over the top with = that will drown sut the phoney press hysteria on the spy PP. Critical Of usterity” Budget he so-called “Austerity Budget for 1946 as proposed }= City Council came under critical review of the Munt- Affairs €ommittee of the Labor-Progressive Party at eetinge Monday evening. semed apparent to the com- that the budget followed me-worn rut of failing to provisien for desperately i Civie works and other de- ent requirements while eon- =z to foist the burden of BE charges and other munici- costs to the small taxpayer and to raise the needed civic revenue from those best able to pay. The proposals include: @ Refund the civie debt. @ Re-assess commercial prop- erty to yield an additional $2,000,000. xpenditure on the home Bs, tenants and smell busi-| @ Introduce a business tax on Fxeople. commercial tenants. budget Pe an in-| @ Press for Crown grant in lieu ; Of revenue of half a mil- of taxes on Crown land leased dollars from the increased for commercial purposes. tment on homes. The com-| @ Support the demand for larger provincial government grant. The committee points out that our present city license bylaw is utterly antiquated and viciously ulfair to the small business, while completely unsatisfactory in mak- ing large undertakings pay in ac- cordance with the benefits that they secure from the community. The bylaw is poorly drawn and nearly useless as a regulator, which is its primary function. Successive city councils have failed the citizens by not adopt- ing a sound license bylaw and a graduated business tax based on ability: to pay. » condemned in the strong- ms the fact that the coun- hile sitting as a Court of eiment Revision had made no to safeguard the small sOwner and had made no ¥ to increase the assessment mmmercial property We which Bocen greatly enhanced in i recently and has always sunder-assessed in propor- >) home assessment. committee adopted a five- program ‘to overcome the ;fimancial crisis, to make ion for a start on civic without imereasing the IC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3 Veterans'have spoken for a program | Coldwell Apologizes |For Bevin Policy Delegates to this week’s Vancouver Labor Council filed without comment a reply from CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell, whitewashing the actions of the Britislt Labor gevernment in Greece and Indonesia. The letter, remarkable for _ is replete with thin apologies for evasion of the issues, its British foreign policies and betrays the embarrassment of the CCE lance: when ciallenecd to defend them. Coldwell States: “Our general policy toward the British Labor government is that we feel it is highly important for the cause of democratic social- ism” (read social democracy) “everywhere in the world that the British labor government be given every opportunity and erit- ical encouragement to implement their stated policies “In Indonesia it has been def- initely established that both «the Prime Minister and the President” (of Britain and the U.S.?) “have expressed themselves in favor of British troops remaining in that country until the Japanese have been disarmed and removed. Bri- tish troops (less than 3,000) were sent to Indonesia merely to ac- cept Japanese surrender and were confronted with the upris- ing of indonesia nationalists. This is not a British problem in- asmueh as this country is part of the Dutch empire. The British have merely been carrying out their duties ... Mr. Bevin has stated that he wants British troops . . - to leave the country as Soon as possible. It is now a question of arriving at a satis- Big May Day In Victoria R. MEZGER Tribune Correspondent VICTORIA, March 26 — At a joint AFL, CCL May Day Conference Meeting at 1116 Broad St, Monday night, it ws decided that Mayor George be asked to declare a civic hali-holiday on May 1. George Wilkinson and T. A. Mitchell were elected to contact the Mayor and Council to place the re- quest before them. After a thorough discussion, in which all delegates participated, it was decided that in view of the necessity for labor to publicly de- monstrate its determination and solidarity behind a program en- tailing a shorter work week and |- a higher standard of living for Canadian people, that May Day this year be observed by spon- soring two events. All unions and veterans organizations will be in- vited to participate in a May Day Parade through the down town streets and will be asked to pre- pare banners and floats. The par- ade will culminate in a mass rally in Beacon Hill Park, where out- standing speakers from labor and veterans organizations will speak. A further conference meeting, at which committees will be elect- ed, will be held in Room 6, 1116 Broad street, 8 p.m., April 11. BIVALVIA UU UHRA UHL Read The ‘Trib’ TIVWIULUOiGAUU LU LUAU LTS S factory solution between the Duteh and Indonesian represen- tatives.” You will notice that the wishes of the Indonesian people them- Selves do not enter into Mr. Cold- well’s calculations. @n Greece the CCF leader says there supervised by British, American and FErench observers are scheduled to take place on March 31 this year.” (Shades of Winston Churchill). “British policy to this country changed very radically after the visit of Mr. Hector MacNeill, Bri- tish under-secretary of State in November when right wing ele- ments were ousted and the rep- resentative government intro- duced.” (Political prisoners in Greek gaols take note.) “This has mot been totally satisfactory but it is at least a repudiation of past Tory policies. Personally I hope and expect that freedom will be given to these people toe deter- Mine their own government in their own Manner.” No wonder the delegates re- frained from commenting! “elections Guild Protest Reflection of the hysterical reporting in the espionage case was seen in a protest re- solution passed by the mem- bership of Vancouver News- paper Guild, Local 1 this week. Stating that “the irresponsible, mischievous and non-factual reporting such as has been utilized by certain sections of the press, should be con- demned as a reflection on the integrity of all newspaper workers. The executive stands instructed to ask the manage- ment of the Canadian press to answer certain questions re- garding the handling of the eurrent spy scare stories.” Ask Free Election For Greek People VANCOUVER, B.C., March 25. —Speaking at a meeting to com- memorate the 125th anniversary of Greek independence, held un- der the-auspices of the Greek Democratic Center, Elmore Phil- pott, well known radio commen-— tater and journalist branded the Greek elections being held this week as “a howling farce.” “These forced elections,” said Philpott will prove nothing and Settle nothing. Unless and un- til there is placed in the family of nations a free and independent Greece, there will be no peace. Greece is the key to peace .... the cork in the bottle which Brit- ish policy hopes to keep the USSR _ bottled up in the Black Sea. Brit- ish policy in Greece is designed to keep that bottle securely cork- ed.” Commenting further on this reactionary policy, Philpott stated that “Britain’s life-line had three main links: Fransisco Franco, the Curzon-Churchill- Bevin policy, and the Italian king, the senile royal hand that signed the order to plunge the dagger into the back of France and Bri- tain, and the present government ef Greece. These elements are the prime links in Britain’s life- line in the Mediterranean.” Stanley Morriss, secretary of the Greek Democratic Center, spoke on the long history of the struggles of the Greek people for freedom and independence. Quot- ing from C@hurchill’s orders to General Scobie.on the necessity, to crush the Greek resistance forces, who had defeated the ‘| German invaders, Morrisse’s speech revealed the depth to which British policies have gone to keep the Greek people subor- dinated to reactionary policies. Churchill’s order to Scobie was “not to hesitate to shoot—and to secure the support of the Greek _ *zovernment,” a government that Was even then collaborating with the Germans. : A resolution was unanimously adopted demanding the immedi- ate withdrawal of all British forces from Greek territory. Har- old Pritchett, district president of the TWA chaired the meeting. VQ) EQRTH rYorm GLIMPSE OF A CULTURE Staunch defender of bourgeois “culture” Angus McInnes, CCE- MP, rants at the Communists because—“they laugh at what they call bourgeois morals and bourgeois integrity.”—News Herald, Feb. 18, 1946). ERIDAY, MARCH 29, 1946