~ and Phillips called on all Sam Lindsay. heads Outside Civic Workers Sam Lindsay, park board, was elected president of Vancouver Civic Employees’ Union, local 28, over Labor Day weekend, and Donald Guise and Jack Phillips were reelected for their fourth terms as business agent and re- cording secretary, respectively. Three vice-presidents were elect- ed by acclamation: Tom Anderson, scavenging department; Frank Smith, sewers; and Ed~ Smith, waterworks. J; M. Arbuckle, roads, was elect- ed to a three-year term as trustee; E. Larson, sewers, to a two-year term; and A. McDermid, pave- ments, to a one-year term. In a statement issued after the election results were known, Guise civic workers to close ranks and present “a, solid and united action” in the fight to win more wages and the union shop in the next year. “Also high on the list for serious consideration,” said the statement, “is the fact that the money for the city’s 10-year program is getting lower and lower. Our union must Seriously consider taking a public ‘position on this question. There’s lots of money to be found and lots of work to be done.” Guise and Phillips leave by plane Saturday to attend the Trades and Labor Congress convention § in Montreal. Boilermakers’ salmon derby this Saturday The big annual salmon derby sponsored by Marine Workers and Boilemakers Union takes place this Saturday, September 9, and more than 150 contestants will compete for $400 worth of prizes. Some 30 prizes will be awarded, including an expensive camera and several dynaglass fishing rods. Time of the derby is from 5 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., and fishing area is from Copper Mine to Tunsel Bay, via Cowan’s Point and Rodger Cer- tes. All boats must be checked out and in at Eagle Harbor between the times mentioned, Jackson asks IWA for reinstatement Bob Jackson, former president of International Woodworkers of America, local 1-217, who left the IWA to’ join the Woodworkers’ In- dustrial Union of Canada in Oc- tober, 1948, this week forwarded an application to the International IWA convention meeting in Minne- apolis on September 11, asking re- » instatement. e Jackson applied last month to rejoin IWA’ local 1-217, and was instructed to apply to the interna- tional convention for a ruling on _ his ease. a Paul’s Beauty Salon @® RENO’S CURLY CUTTING e PERMANENT WAVING 2511 E. Hastings St. HA. 6570 Opposite Forsts (Upstairs) ee Brother’s Bakery Specializing in Sweet and Sour Rye Breads 342 KE. HASTINGS ST. PA. 8419 ns \ MILO CAFE | “We Specialize in : Ukrainian Foo 242 E. Hastings St, PA. 3037 Vancouver SS a SOCIALIST STAND ON IMPERIALIST WAR ‘OUT’, MP TELLS YOUTH Angus MacInnis has sat in the House of Commons as the mem- ber for Vancouver East for the past 20 years, ever since he was first elected as a Liberal-Labor candidate in 1930, two years before the formation of the CCF. Those working peopie in his pre- dominantly working class constit- uency who heard his statement on “workers’ rights” following his re- turn from Geneva recently must have wondered, however, if the Liberal part of the hyphenated designation on which he was first elected has not in fact been the dominant consideration all along, particularly when they recall his defense of “poor little Finland” in 1939. MacInnis returned from a con- |} ference af the International Labor Organization at Geneva with the argument that “now the right of the worker to strike has been won, he should recognize the right to work, produce and increase effi- ciency.” The Vancouver Province carried an editorial gloating over MacIn- nis’ statement. But the trade union movement thought differently. Reaction of unionists was well expressed in an article appearing in the Canadian UE News, which said “MacInnis has many times on the floor of the House proclaimed that he speaks for labor. But there are a few elementary things he should know: The right to strike was fought for and won long before he was born, and it still has to be fought for; Ottawa is even now cooking up schemes to limit that right. “The ‘right to work is always the boss’ explanation for scabs and blacklegs to break a strike. To. ‘increase efficiency’ is likewise {the boss’ expression to cover up his speedup and stretch- out plans.” MacInnis spent an uncomfortable half-hour with a delegation of six National Federation of Labor Youth members here recently be- fore leaving to attend the current parliamentary session. The young people, including army and mer- chant navy vets, visited the spokes- man at his home in the South importing | Cambie district, and the interview | went like this | “What can you do, Mr. MacInnis, ;to prevent involvement of Cana- | dian youth in another war?” | “There is nothing I can do. We |must stop the agressors before it |is too late.” | “What about the socialist position |on war, especially fmperialist war, | Mr. MacInnis?” | “That no longer applies, because |we have a policy democratically | adopted in the CCF, to fight this | aggression. I tell you, you people | are wasting my time and yours.” | “If you are such an upholder of | democracy, Mr. MacInnis,-what do |}you. think of the arresting of | peace petitioners?” “Well, you people don’t need to | kick if you lose your freedom. You ;are lucky to live in Canada; in some countries you wouldn’t enjoy ;Such freedom.” “We guess you mean fascist |¢ountries like Spain, Mr. MacInnis. | By the way, what do you think of |the proposal to admit Franco into |the United Nations?” | ‘Well, we let one dictator in; ‘Maclnnis echos bosses’ cry for efficiency’ ANGUS MacINNIS why not another?” That ended the interview. Labor unions oppose entry of Ukraine Nazis TORONTO Toronto and Lakeshore Labor Council (CCL) last week unani- mously adopted a resolution to be forwarded to the CCL national ex- ecutive, asking for action to pre- ‘vent the coming into Canada as immigrants the 20,000 nmembers of the, Ukranian Nazi division, S.S. Halychyna. “There seems to be a definite policy of the Canadian govern- ment in favor of these people com- ing into Canada,” charged Al Herk- ovitz, delegate of the International Fur and Leather Workers. © “We should rally large sections of the community against bringing these people into the country.” The Ukranian Nazis entered Hitler's service voluntarily and pledged themselves to fight to the death for the fascist cause. Their record includes wholesale murder of Jews, fighing in action against the. Soviet armies and against British and American armies _in Italy, supervision of concentration camps, etc. When it was announ- ced that the goverment proposed to settle survivors of the Halychy- na Division in Canada, public in- dignation was immediate and wide- spread. Following progressive pro- tests and a request from the Can- adian Jewish Congress, the govern- ment announced it would postpone action on immigrajjion until all charges against the Ukranian Nazis could be heard. Another delegate to the Labor Council meeting said “They are fascists and we don’t want any part of them in Canada.” . Fascists hold European meet FRANKFURT international fascist confer- eS will take place in Rome this month on the initiative of the U.S. ambassador to Rome, James Dunn, it is learned here from sources close to the Deutsche Partei (Ger- man Party). The conference is to constitute an international fascist organization under the name of the Association for International Solidarity which will be camou- flaged as a “eultural organization. Organizations and parties which have been invited to send their rep- resentatives to the Rome confer- include the British Union Movement (Mosleyites), the Aus- Union of dndependents, German’ rty, the Liberation of Flanders from Belgium, De Gaulle’s People’s Rally (RPF) and the Spanish Fa- lange. Nate Pa yi \ 1 or 44on Aildrees. Cornell Univ. , Ovens aettede Phy siost Rea | Ps Qs one ot the Wands assembled oun 7? orrison : f Tthece 4, U9A. men Who the first with their afomiz bomb, g 5 have never lost confidence thet > the people a the wer)d wa}] pent HO more Such Weapas, \y er dong the wars which beg their Tterrer. Philip Morrison, one of the physicists who produced the first atom bomb, has signed the world peace petition. Beneath his signature (reproduced above) he wrote: “As one of the men who with their own hands assembled the first atom bomb, I have never lost confi- dence that the people of the world will permit no more such weapons by ending the wars which bring Another. noted U.S. physicist, their terror.” Hans Berthe, has denounced the U.S. decision to produce the H.bomb, urging the Truman administra- tion to state that it does not intend to use the H-bomb and declaring that its use in war would mean “nothing resembling our civilization” would remain. British workers laud Soviet a chievemnts By PAT SLOAN LONDON Seven members of the executive -board of the British Electrical Trades Union, just back from a 14,000-mile air tour of the USSR as guests of the Soviet labor movement, all reported favorably on conditions in that country. “T went to the Soviet Union with a very open mind,” said delegate Jim Hutton, a Labor party mem- ber who was formerly chairman of the Edmonton borough council of London and now sits on the Mid- dlesex county council. “I was told I would have a conducted tour. But it was our delegation that planned the tour and we saw what we wanted.” . Hutton told how he had been shocked at some slum houses he saw on the way from the airport to the center of Moscow and said so. He found his criticism ‘Well taken by the Russians, who said slums were being cleared and later showed how this was being done. “We saw 40 blocks of flats being built within an area of three square miles in Moscow where standards come fully up to our own,” he re- counted. “At Zaporozhye we saw many thousands of houses with shops, cultural facilities and offices recently built. We were struck by the amount of female labor and when we asked a woman if she liked to work, she replied: “We get equal pay for equal work and like to play our part for reconstruc- tion’.” Hutton concluded from the visit that “Soviet people are unamimous in support of their own particular system. I am certain the construct- ive work I have seen there was by the will of the peopie.” Delegate Jack Potter said he went to the USSR “very skeptical indeed” after what he had read in the press. As an old socialist, he was particularly interested in workers’ control. “The opportunity for workers in. the USSR represents what I have desired and longed to see in Great Britain,’ he said en- thusiastically. Commenting on the role of unions in production and the “verve and energy of Soviet workers,” Potter said the Soviet Union held “a lesson for everyone in this country.” Ted Marchant, who works at the Metro-Vickers plant in Manchester, was particularly impressed by the cleanliness of the *great Dnieper power station, the fact that he found a young worker of 23 in charge of the main control room and the part played by women in reconstruction. “It is the earnest wish of everyone that this power station should be allowed to re- main, that is, that peace should be preserved,” he said. | light. In every other PEASANTS village, on any night, you find a mass of seat- ed figures clad in white, sitting in the darkness, with someone argu- ing the merits of this piece of land and why this or that family should have it. They are discussing the proposals put forward by their elected peasants and rural workers’ committee and when agreement is general, the land is allotted, title deeds issued and old debts wiped out, For the peasants, land hunger is the most urgent thing, before which they cannot be intimidated by bombs or rockets. Pak Hung Wun is typical of the poor peasants of Wundang. He has never owned a shred of land in his life and was never able to rent-more than an acre, from which he could usually rely on a crop of 24 bags of rice. Of this, he had to pay 14 bags in rent and three bags in taxes, leav- ing seven bags to keep his wife and two children, in a normally good season. This has been his life of drudgery and near starvation and of his parents before. Now, at the age of 35, he will own five acres under the land reform, with no rent to pay and lighter taxation. “I shall be well-to-do,” he said, “I would rather lose my life than go back to the past.” Like the other peasants, Pak has been busy many nights since the war began, on reconstruction work, road and bridge repair and trans- port. He has volunteered for the army, but they are taking younger men first, so he must wait. This land reform is the last of three in the past five years. Two other “land reforms” were forced by the peasants themselves in mass actions which the landlords and Syngman Rhee could not entirely withstand and which they there- fore attempted to divert by carry- ing out a fake land reform, under which the peasants bought their land in a 15-year spreadover. Both of these reforms left most of the peasants and landless farm work- ers where they stood and only bene- fited, as was intended, the more _ well-to-do sections on the land. The present land reform is rela- tively simple, and is a process of readjustment in which the poor peasants and farmworkers will get their share of land. The land of — landlords owning more ‘than 13 acres is confiscated and distributed by the peasant organizations, but _ where a landlord family wishes to work on the land, a normal share is given to them. This applies in very few cases—most landlords are > absentees and not devoted to the land or to work. STANTON Barristers, Solicitors, Notavties SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 193 E. HASTINGS ST. (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 8, 1950—PAGE 7 & MUNRO