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B.C. ELECTRIC PR

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! Great Circle air route across the northern wilderness.

make this route serve Vancouver’speople by reducing days to hours . . . . and making
on the neighbor she has, in fact, beccome through modern air transportation. War in the
g only the incalculable devastation of the atom bomb... .
that 60 years of struggle has been able

to accomplish.

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EPARING

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1946

PPPIELRERAR EPA,

20-YEAR FRANCHISE STEAL

s

‘Chief Justice Gordon Sloan, who m@diated the woodworkers’ strike, has beer
appointed as a commissioner under PC 4046 to inquire into the strike of
2,500 hardrock miners, members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and

Smelter Werkers, which on Wednesday this week closed down 12

tions in the province.

gold and copper opera-

The appointment was announced Wednesday by Federal Labor Minister Humphrey

Mitchell, acting on the recom-
mendation of provincial Labor
Minister George Pearson.

In the mines affected by the
strike, ranging from Cariboo Gold
Quartz in the north to Granby
Consolidated’s copper operation in
the south, the walkout was fully
effective.

Mines closed down by the strike
are all producing operations. Mines

still in the development stage are
not being called out, according to
Harvey Murphy, UMM&S western
representative. “

@ther strikes in the hardrock
mining industry — Cariboo Gold
Quartz in 1937, Pioneer Gold Mines
in 1940—have -highlighted labor’s
struggles in the past decade, but

this is the first time in recent years

that the miners have straick simul-
taneously for their demands.

The strike, authorized by an
overwhelming majority of UMM&S
members, was called after mining
operators rejected the union’s de-
mands for a 29-cents an hour in-
erease and the 46-hour week,
refusing to consider any master
agreement covering all operations.

Vel lL. No. 21,

Five Cents

Vancouver, B.C. Friday July 5,
Formerly PACIFIC ADVOCATE

1946

Moulders win raise; _
CCL signs two plants

Possibly that striking Vancouver foundry workers might

soon return to work with the major part of their demands
won was seen this week when Vancouver Metal and Chemi-

cal Workers? Union signed with two city plants for a 15°

cents an hour wage increase
As the? Pacific Tribune went to
press, however, negotiations for a
general settlement were still dead-
locked, with the Canadian Manu-
facturers Association demanding
that the strike be called off and
all points in dispute submitted to
a conciliation board.

By signing with the CCL union
the two plants, Al Steel and Iron
and Getson and Burpee, broke the
solid front of the CMA which has
been responsible for keeping 35
plants closed down and 800 foun-

and the 40-hour week.

dry workers idle for nearly two
months.

At the same time as the CCL
union was concluding: its agree-
ments embodying the -minimum
demands of CCL and AFL workers
alike, the executive of the AFT.
Foundry Workers was signing with
the management of Westland fron
and Steel for a 10 cents an hour
wage increase. AFI. workers in the

(Continued on Page 8)

See MOULDERS

People must be given
a vote on BCER deal

Ignoring widespread public sentiment for a publicly-
Gwned transportation system controlled and operated by the
city, Vancouver's Non-Partisan City Council has refused to

avail itself of the opportunity

to acquire B.C. Electric hold-

ings and instead has given Canada’s 19th largest monopoly

a 20-year renewal of its -grip
and development.

This is the significance of the
20-year exclusive franchise to the
B.G. Electric, covering street car,
trolley car and bus operations
within City limits, this week ap-
proved in principle by the city
council.

Further proof of the council’s
subservience to monopoly inter-
ests was offered by rejection of
Blue Transit Lines’ offer to intro-
duce a fleet of 500 busses into

Vancouver. The council’s fran-
chise committee, headed by Ald.
Charles E. Thompson, was “not

convinced” of the adequacy of
Blue Transit Lines’ proposed fin-
ancial arrangements.

Under the new agreement, the
tity has the right to purchase
B.C. Bilectric holdings at the end
of every five-year period by serv-
mg twelve months’ notice on the
company. But it is unlikely that
ny advantage- will be taken of
his opportunity as long as the

(Continued on Page 8)
See BCER

upon the city’s economic life

“The pride and boast of its working people is that Vancouver is a union town .. .

TMM MMMM nn

No raise in
lumber prices

The following telegram
was sent this week to Re-
construction Minister €. D.
Howe by. the provincial ex-
ecutive of the TLabor-Pro-
gressive Party over the sig-

nature of Maurice Rush,

organizer:

Newspapers report dele
gation cf B.C. lumber op-
erators meeting with you,
Thursday. Main purpose of
delegation is te get boost
in lumber prices and so
ensure that recent wage
increases will not cut into
excessive profits now be—
ing made by lumber mon-—
opoly interests. Boost in
lumber prices will build
up inflationary conditions
and deai severe blow to
veterans and working peo-
ple building homes. ithe
Labor - Progressive Party
demands that there be no

increase in lumber prices.

TTT TTT TCT

“T will say,” he added, “that
the sentence imposed upon me
ean only be secondary to the im-
portance of the welfare and peace

of Canada and the world,” and
pointed out that this was “not
the first time I have been a
victim of a frame-up.”

The full text of Mr. Rose’s
statement follows:

“A jury has found me guilty

of a crime £ did not commit. In
Many years of political activity

I have never~ done anything
against the interests of Canada
and its people. ;

“I do not ~- believe ‘the twelve
jury men. They, like other Cana-

Ilsley budget will meet -
‘storm of protest’---Sims

By ALDERMAN 7. C. SIMS, Toronto

“Mr. Ilsley’s 1946 budget aims to benefit the big ¢corpora- |p
tions and the rich and to shoulder more burdens on to the
working men and women,” declared Alderman Charles Sims,
LPP national organization publicity director today.

“The people were justified in de-
manding that personal income tax
exemption be granted to single
persons earning up to $1,200, and
to married heads of families up to
$2,000 annual earnings. The LPP is
calling upon labor to demand ac-
tion from the MP’s and the gov-
ernment to amend the budget to
grant these reforms,’ said Sims.

“We expect a storm of protest
from all over the country. Mr.
Tisley’s reactionary proposal to tax
all married men and women as
single persons if they both work

and earn $750 or more a year, is |f
a heavy blow against the family. |}

It should be defeated. It is directed
towards forcing women out of em-
ployment,” stressed) Mr. Sims.

“The budget should include
Provisions to increase the excess
profits tax, should provide for
the continuance of price controls
and vital food subsidies, includ-
ing the milk subsidy. This is the
way the budget can help to main-
tain living standards of°the com-
mon people.”

dians, have been the victims of
a vast propaganda machine tIet
loose in this country since the

establishment of the Royal Com-
mission early in Pebruary.
“This commission, set up by

.|the government on the advice of

Fred Rose terms trial —
‘nlot against Canada’

MONTREAL, Que.—Fred Rose, Cartier member of par-
liament, whose application for $25,000 bail pending hearing
of his appeal in the fall was refused last Saturday, this week
issued a statement from Bordeaux jail warning the people
of Canada that “the Canadian spy scare can easily become
the match that sets off World War III.” e

unserupulous individuals in high
office at London and Washington,
resorted to methods unheard of
in a democratic country in order
to get people to condemn them-
selves and others: I am one of
the victims.

“This is not the first time that
I have been a victim of a frame-
up. I was sent to jail in 1931 for
one year, because I told the un-
employed to organize so that they
and their families would not
starve. This was not to the liking
of the privileged few. They did
not want to spend money for
Such a trifle as the preservation
of Canadian lives.

“Today these same privileged
interests see the people in many
countries asserting their rights,

taking over the land, mines, and

(Continued on Page 8)

See FRED ROSE

‘The historic task of our party in Canada and the
world Marxist movement is to help the masses to ad-

vance through their own experiences to the establish-
ment of that richer and freer and more secure social
order which is the higher destiny of our people.

We must set to work to help our people develop a
conscious national will to action for peace. We must
defeat the drive of monopoly capital to befuddle the
people with prejudice, suspicion and chauvinistic readi-

mess for war. Our national

image of ourselves must be

the image of a people determined to defeat monopoly

capital and its drive to war,

determined to destroy fas-

cism, determined to win the peace . .. for our certain
achievement of that next higher stage of civilization
which lies ahead and for which we are fighting—Social-

ism in Canada and throughout the world.”
TIM BUCK, National Leader, Labor-Progressive Party.