fiiners fett, a member of the union's district policy committee, told the Tribune. “It will bring the min- ers’ wages more in line with those of other workers who have made gains in the wage drive. - ‘we feel it is a victory for the whole labor movement, whose sup- port belped te make it possible. |- - "Morale among all the miners has- been high throughout the strike,” he said, pointing out that |. financial support was still need- ed for hundreds of families who weuld not receive 2 pay cheque for some time. Wo stab problem has arisen at any time. during the prolonged strike, called. July 3 by the B.C. District of the TUMMSWWU for $i an hour, the 40-hour week, and two weeks’ holidays with pay. Instead the Committee of B.C.4 Mine Operators relied on a pub- lic red-baiting campaign, hoping te demoralize the miners by un- dermining confidence in the union feadership. See : GREETINGS to > , Pacific Tribune from... DR. W. J. CURRY } Sejle | Value »- Quality | Always at the Home of UNION MADE CLOTHING — and Friendly Service. Phone PAc. 3645 _ 45 ¥:. Hastings — Vancouver > LUX THEATRE ; COMMENCING Sunday, Midnight 3 October 20-26 , Strictiy a must see picture as | timely as today’s front paze headlines. “Guilty Mien” see for > the first time, actual hangings, of Hitler’s henchmen. PLUS # TRULY THRILLING and @ THRILLINGLY TRUE! SY SPARS eur diom And tuthermore; not to make use of bombs, would be a criminal Waste of the Taxpayers money? © —Fred Wright in the ©-O News French voters the proposéd constitution for close to 1,500,000 votes. between the three major parties in the country and was opposed by a heavy concentration of re- actionary monopoly groups. It guarantees the right of trade- union membership and the right to strike. It affirms the right of every man to a job regardless of ‘his origin, his opinions or his beliefs.” In a clause embodying one of French labor’s major de- mands, it provides for the na- tionalization of any. industry. which “thas acquired the charac- teristics of a national public serv- ice or a monopoly.” Official returns issued by the Department of the Interior for 89 departments of Continental France gave 9,002,467 votes for adoption and 7,790,676 against in the referendum on the draft constitution Sunday. These Con- tinental figures, involving a to- tal poll of 16,793,143, were com- plete except for Corsica and North Africa. Approval of the constitution backed by the three main parties in the Coalition government, the Communists, Socialists and Mou- vement Republican Populaire came despite the opposition of General de Gaulle. With approval of the constitu- tion, voters now will choose a permanent assembly November 10 —a move which will mean that France’s government is shifting over from its present provisional status to a permanent organiza- tion. Under the new constitution the president will have no power of ‘veto over the assembly but may suggest changes in bills already passed. The premier will be nom- inated by the president, subject to endorsation by the assembly- CEASE EEE EE BRIAN DONLEVY ‘Walter Brennan Anna Lee- .. meee Fritz Lang | | ( AERO VENETIAN | BLIND CO. LTD. 368 W. Broadway FAIr. 2482 e@ STEEL SLATS 2 WEEK DEL. COLGRED TAPES FREE ESTIMATES _S Doo ae [oc yan USER TRIBUNE — PAGE 8 approve new constitution, rebuff De Gaulle PARIS—Defeating the claims of the pro-fascist and right-wing parties, the French electorate this week approved France’s Fourth Republic by The new constitution, the second to be voted on by the French people since the liberation, represents a compromise Two additional legislative groups will be established. Both will be restricted to consultative roles. They are the council of the fed- eral union set up to administer the affairs ef FErance’s colonie and the economic council. . Bushworkers vincial police began immediately the strike broke. In a protest wire to Attorney-General Leslie Black- well, strike leader Bruce Magnu- son demanded “the immediate withdrawal of provincial police from struck mils’ and protested the “unwarranted interference” by the police. The provincial police, Magnu- son charged, are on the strike scene at the request of the lum- ber operators for the purpose of breaking picket lines. Already, the Ontario police, aided by mu- nicipal officers, have forced a small number of scabs through one picket line, but over the en- tire area only one mill is in par- tial operation. ; In an up-to-the-minute report |by radio (one of the few ways of reaching the tsolated bush, camps) Bruce Magnuson, chairman of the union’s Joint Policy Committee, took sharp issue with Labor Min- ister Charles Daley’s attempts to confuse the issues which compelled the trike. Said Magnuson: Labor Minister Daley has charged us with bad faith, and has seen fit to abuse us because the strike was not called off at the last minute, on the basis of vague promises of coneiliation. sent to him on September 30 was ignored. His failure to reply to that message should be explained. Later efforts to conciliate the dis- pute were made on conditions that the strike be called off at the last minute, when such a step was im- possible to accomplish. “We are not prepared to accept Daley’s criticism following his miserable failure to comply with reasonable requests for coopera- tion over 2a period of more than two years. “The labor minister has all the necessary power to convene meet- ings of employers of labor in the industry and to make them negoti- ate with their employees in_good faith. : “This can be done at any time, and we are fully prepared to con- sider any and all proposals for set- tlement on the basis of our accept- ed program and principles.” @ Announcement by the Wom- ‘en’s Council that Mrs. Effie Jones will tour Vancouver Is- land to address a series of pro- test meetings. The LEP Women’s Council an- nounced this week that Mrs. Ef- fie Jones will tour Vancouver Is- land to address a series of pro- test meetings on the increase in the price of milk. “Only a portion of the large revenue derived by the Hart gov- ernment from liquor profits would more than pay the cost of a sub- Sidy to restore the September price of milk, and I am demand- ing that this be done,” Mrs. Jones told the Tribune. “Wffie Jones,’ as she is known to thousands in B.C., is recog- nized as an outstanding author- ity and fighter on community is- sues and public affairs. From the Milk days when she was secretary of the Emergency Committee during the great unemployed trek in the last depression, through her anti- profiteering fight in the national- ly known Housewives’ League, to her militant leadership of last winter’s anti-eviction struggle, she has maintained 2 consistent rec- ord of fighting leadership on burning popular issues. Tentative itinerary for the tour is: -_ Cumberland: Friday,| Novem- Courtenay: Saturday, Novem- ber 2. Port Alberni: Sunday, Nov- ember 3. Cowichan: Monday, Novem- ber 4. Nanaimo: Tuesday, Novem- ber 5. Ladysmith: Wednesday, Nov- ember 6. Iran workers Conference here. during the past few months. time. NT TAT PARIS—(ALN)—Behind the current uprisings of tribes in Southwestern Iran is a British directed plot to smash the grow- ing trade union movement in the strategic oil fields, according to influential leaders from Azerbaidjan attending the Peace Proud of their labor movement which now has 80,000 mem- bers and is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions, the Azerbaidjan spokesmen fear that the British scheme of pitting the tribesmen again industrial workers will, if it succeeds, black out the economic and political gains which they have won Under British domination, they were kept illiterate and not allowed to speak their own language, much. less organize unions. Right now they have opportunities for education and every one will soon have a chance to vote in the elections for the first fear intrigue Ea NIMC NTT TT = TOM BINNIE REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE We Specialize in the Fraser Valley 1541 Pacific Highway, B-B. No. 4, New Westminster Phone N.W. 2663-L-2 A wire) Fascists approached to sell it. Among those who have responded are the Duke of Sedford’s British People’s Party and the Union for British Freedom (a new anti-Semitic organization ‘with “which former Mlosleyites are connected and whose initials- conveniently embody the letters — BUF). : : Wational newspapers and peri odicals are being approached with advertisements, and al- though many have turned them down the fascists’ most ont standing success to date was when the News Chronicle and The Times Literary Supplement recently advertised the jbook. HEUTE ELECT RUDDELL ELGIN RUDDELE Candidate in the Aldermanic Byelection, Says: Refund The City Debt How THE NON-PARTE- SANS SOAK THE TAX- PAYER FOR THE. BONDHOLDERS— i—Vancouvers total deben- ture Debt $64,564,705.16 2—Total Debt charges for 1945 $4,127,201.68 This Is 26¢ Out Of Every Tax Dollar (The biggest single item on Vancouver's expense sheet), as compared with i10c for every Winnipeg tax dollar 3—Average interest rate to bondholders 45% RUDDELL PROPOSES 1—Refund the Debt G.e—Swap low-interest short term bonds for outstanding debentures). 2—3 % Meximum Interest From now on — with pro gressive steps to get “out of the red’’ by 1960. TORONTO CUT ITS DEBT CHARGES $4,000,000 A YEAR IN 7 YEARS SAVE VANCOUVER TAXPAYERS $1,005,000 A YEAR Civic Reform Committee 517 Holden Bldg. UOT TT LT ERIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946