ON ANTI-LABOR RECORD From the Civic Non-Partisan Association’s H owe Street headquarters in downtown Vancouver a stream of publicity, extravagant newspaper advertising, colorful leaflets, radio broadcasts, is being di- rected at voters, all intended to bolster the legend that Senator Gerald Gratton McGeer “is a man who gets things done. Through McGeer, the new figurehead for the old political machine that centrols the City Hall, the CNPA hopes to divert attention from the damning fact that ten years of Civic Non-Parti-. san administration have accomplished nothing. : The boast that “McGeer gets things done” is discOvering to his embarrassment at election unemployed, the men who are now the veteran to support their campaign for work and wage Vancouver workers were still unorganized ? ing problem? What did you do to lighten the tax burden for home-owners when many people were forced to let their homes go for taxes? McGeer can- net answer. But the public can. In April 1935, when hundreds of relief Camp strikers paraded in Victory Square to demon- strate their demand for work and wages, McGeer tread the Riot Act from the steps of the cenotaph, as the newspapers reported, “to give legal sanction to pol- ice action against the inevitably draws the challenge, “What has McGeer done2”—as McGeer meetings. He is being asked, in effect: What did you do for the young Ss of the second world war, when they asked you as mayor of Vancouver Ss? What did you do to protect the rights of the trade unions when most What did you do to prevent evictions in the days when there was no hous-_. \ The Vancouver yENESS Daly, Movin NON-PARTISANS SELL McGEER PACIFIC] (Continued s th at Bottom) 4 ee en =-- set . = = anti - labor Vol. 1. = No. 42 Vancouver, British Columbia Friday, November 29, 1946 + "be now Five Cents Mysterious Persons Behind . = Q 9 i This Dispute me oe —Mayor McGeer rise “Yea, we mre prepared. §® necex<- p not sary, to mobilize 10.000 men to keep Vee the port open and rid this city of the oo Ty oe ted menace,” Mayer G. G. McGeer er teid The Vancouver Sun today. in elaboration of his radio address & Sunday nicht. - 3, 089 is “We are up against = straight o> rat z rete. fol? Cemmunistic activity,” he continued. 5 a “C see) ah ee “and it is well financed {rom some (c} r + por or . source. [¢ Is quite obvious, alxo. that 2 = BO eee cat as pea” ord A ee Re oe it ts not financed from Russia. On os vA) en oe vu eps \ow> 2 ges Of ere c z 5 se cog Cog OF em ss hs oso ne ane Page 22 of The Vancouver Sun for lo <5. oF 5 ore 4. TOP, ar a < ac ord ‘3 = Ys) wa Paes ee 0 ee ese ere yo OF we Serer. Saturday there was an advertisement : ze ee qelos BI oe Oe est A Ne : we ey A oe a ore : 2 ithe Sexict ottering raved rates ook e : oot, 5 per day elaas, a dav a redbaiter Beets oe re a eet ee ee Se tourist class, and $13 m day first (Fe eee wreak ah © ans Sede a ya ge ad os he elaea. h Oo AEE et Tt ree Gro? =o? sg Bee Oe oe on “Rusala ta ext te get the tearista t ehi-=- =e mas On Ol car 0 Pee Be no oer ose Bens ue and their meacy. It haa abandencd Sst ee BY ost 3: pay Of rol, ore gy & aay werld revelntien propaganda fer 1 fe 3 es Ver ere ey ot one ¢ b it Fr we ot yo? ue - Ne ye 3 ery OP S08 eal ew © “6 tae last fear years. a red alice pee opt FA es8So 3 yet Eo OM ae oe of ee ores S _nthett fy pot’ . “Oer treabies im Vancesver neem : oo oe LenS oe © oot or Ree te egring frem ithe same United we my ees OL So ete BR ee eo ct UO no yeni movement At bas ae- now (ie ie Bene Sear etree eS [tetepieg ie the Uatted sunt aa : aS See 5 \ ie & ee s aS the law seen Relic ver, they are going to obey y ee tT or we: vail put them unger Te SS aaa 9 Straint. 5 S ow “No more hoodlumism will be a Een G _ erated on the part of By ets a _ oe Tt want to give both Comm oi G ss = we and C. ©. F. a fair and proper | | Ri | | Sees e ee OF 5 he rejie : oe eee hare’ S Ve : eae Bree to remain in Vancou- oe ere ae EAG el s National warning. = | ETiteraptions at public nes x Jand booing at the police will n tee & healthy form of entertainmen indulge in in the future.” _- —— McGeer defended the action of of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, seven policemen « 2 demonstrat- ors.” In June 1935, when triking members of the Inter- Longshoremen’s Union had tied up the waterfront in their struggle to win higher wages from the Shipping Federation, his police force in attacking strikers, riding down men and women alike, shooting two work ers and clubbing scores of others. In June 1936, amid all the ballyhoo were assigned to assist bail- iff’s men in evicting a worker, his wife and three children, un- (Continued on Page 8)