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Vancouver, British Columbia
Eriday. December 13, 1946

Five Cents

ELECTION OF McGEER
CHALLENGE TO LABOR

The Civic Non-Partisan Association, which spent thousands of dollars
to elect its mayoralty candidate, bombastic, deity-invoking and labor-hating

in the publicity campaign
Senator G. G. McGeer, and

erties’ votes duplicated in the
poll after poll gave the lead to
Tem Alsbury, the GCE candidate
who had the backing of organized
labor and the LPP, but the lead
was not encugh to offset the ma-
jority piled up by McGeer west of
Burrard street.

AS in other elections, a divided
progressive vote, additionally han-
dicapped by the limitations of the
franchise, contributed to defeat of
CCH and Givie Reform candidates
through the CCF’s refusal to join
with other progressive groups in

a slate of CNPA aldermen, this week succeeded in
tion thet for the past 10 years has throttled all Civic
The majority of Vancouver’s workins.

people did not vote for McGeer. He was ele
favored Dunbar, Point Grey and South Granville reside

progress.

maintaining the grip on Vancouver's administra-

cted by the thousands of business prop-
ntial areas. In the East Vancouver areas

Carrying through 4 campaign for
reform. : :

Only in the mayoralty contest
was the progressive vote united,
and even here considerable popu-
lar support was lost by the sub-
ordination of pressing Civic issues
to larger CCE policy throughout
Alsbury’s campaign.

The election of MeGeer, who
connived- with the Shipping Fed-
eration to break the longshore-
men’s strike in 1935, poses a chal-

lenge to labor, which saw in his
selection by the CNPA an attempt
to block labor’s fight for civic
progress in the months ahead.
Once again a civic election has
demonstrated the need for full
labor unity if the people’s needs
are to be met. And an aroused
and united city labor movement is
now the urgent need to prevent
the big business interests behind
the: CNPA from using their elec-
tion victory. against the people.

At the Civic Reform Commit
tee’s headquarters, with returns
still incomplete as the Pacific
Tribune went to press, John Stan-
ton, campaign manager, expressed
gratification with the vote polled
by Civic Reform candidates.

“We haven't yet succeeded in
getting any one in the city hall
to represent us, but that isn’t

going to prevent us from making
ourselves heard there,” he said.

Stay granted

Through the united efforts of organ ized labor and veterans of the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat-
talion of the International Brigades which fought on the side of Republican Spain during the

Pranco-Hitler-Mussolini invaSion of 1936-38, these four anti-fascist stowaway refugees from Franco have been
granted the right to stay in Canada while their case is being considered by immigration officials. Left to right:
Jose Cruz Perez, Severanio Garzo Sanchez, Francisco Jases Gisbert, and Julian Mondedero Fuster. Giving them
4 Canadian welcome is Emile Goguen, veteran of the famed Mac-Paps and member of the I.W.A.

Vets move in as leaders fined

‘OTTAWA — Answer-
ing a court which this
week found him guilty of
forcibly entering an Ot-
tawa naval barracks F.
E. Hanratty, fermer air
force observer and leader of
the Veterans Housing League
here, declared that it was
“the first time in the annals
of Canadian law that two men
whose interests are the inter-
€sts of the people at large
are being prosecuted by a
government which doesn’t
care what happens to the peo-
ple.”

Charged jointly with Han-
tatty and also found guilty

was George Bleakney, Ot-
tawa barrister and counsel
for the Veterans Housing

League. Both men were fined
$200 with the alternative of
three months in jail.

The charges arose out of
the action of the -Veterans’
Housing League in seizing a
vacated maval barracks and
other buildings and installing
a number of veterans’ families
in them. These familieés are
still occupying the buildings,

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See LEADERS FINED

Duplessis uses police terror in effort
to crush civil liberties, opposing opinions

MONTREAL—Distribution of a
Fred Rose, LPP member of p
Quebec’s labor- I
he French, English and

appeal, furnished
ing police raids on t
Party this week.
Duplessis’
provincial statute
notorious padlock law, came _as
he prosecuted his campaign
against members of the Jehovah's
Witnesses sect, between 800 and
1000: of whom are now awaiting
trial on charges ranging from dis-
tributing pamphiets without a li-
cense to seditious conspiracy-
eadquarters
rest of Si-
old engin-
ver-

books of the

The raids on LPP h
followed closely the at
mon Maiumed, 22-year ;
e€eringe graduate of McGill Uni ;
sity, for distributing what police
termed 4 “seditious and libellous
pamphiet” dealing with the ree
Rose case. Malumed was arrainged
before Magistrate C. BE. Guerin

and released on $950 bail pending

arliament - 7 Y
hating Premier Maurice Duplessis with a pretext for order-

Jewish headquarters of the Labor-Progressive

for Montreal-Cartier

newest attack on civil liberties, constantly

leaflet urging support of the campaign to defend

now awaiting hearing of his

threatened by the retention on

his appearance at a preliminary
hearing set for December 17.

Following Malumed’s arrest,
police descended on the home of
Ald. Michael Buhay, national sec-
Fred Rose De-

eretary, of the Z
returned

fense Committee who
only recently from a national tour
during which he addressed pub-
lic meetings in all major centers
denouncing the King government’s
undemocratic methods of conduct-
ing its so-called espionage inquiry.

Wo arrests were reported to
have been made during the raids

folio, was not available for com-
ment on suggestions that the raids
had been conducted under his pad-
lock law, adopted in 1936, which
empowers police to search and
padlock any premises which,
in the attorney-general’s opinion,
are being used for communist ac-
tivities.

Meanwhile, Right Rev. Dr.
Dixon, Anglican Bishop of Mon-
treal, has addressed an open let-
ter to Duplessis urging “most
strongly that in the provincial en-
forcement of law and order there
should not be even a suspicion of

and Premier Duplessis, who also
holds the attorney-general’s port-

any infringement of the individu-
al’s civil and religious liberties.”

Five laborites. win acclamations

When nominations for the forthcoming civic and muni-
Cipal elections closed this week five progressive candidates,
one councillor, two school trustees and two park commis-

sioners, were returned by acclamation.

Returned ~ unopposed in the
Fraser Valley municipality of
Langley was Councillor Jack Tre-
living, who won the Ward 1 seat
last year in his first bid for muni-
cipal office. A member of the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, Treliving is well-
known throughout the Fraser Val-
ley as a leading member of the
Tabor-Progressive Party.

Two popular figures in the In-
ternational Woodworkers of Am-
erica, Archie Greenwell and Mrs.
Edna Brown, were among the six
members of Lake Cowichan
School Board elected by acclama-
tion. Greenwell is an executive
member of IWA Local 1-80 and
Mrs. Brown president of IWA
women’s auxiliaries in British
Columbia.

In Wanaimo, Archie Lewis, sec-
retary of the Nanaimo sub-local
of IWA Local 1-80, and John Uns
worth, a member of the United
Mine Workers of America, both
received an acclamation for the

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