vial heart of the province — the

down to defeat, although the com-

- woods.

“was: Salsberg

this year than in 1948, though the voters’ list was about 3,000 smaller.

- only one wage“ increase—a measly 80 cents a day last year. The cost

- coal camps.

now behind that of many _ other

every year. mood—there is no doubt of that.

- Practically every delegate carried a mandate from his local union

each other. union leaders, - enough.

a significant part was played by The Lamp, the industrial paper of

for a new agreement (the old one

“the miners. But a firm stand by the policy committee, backed by

: stantial increase.

CCF wiped out

drops 19

in Ontario vote,

seaus

TORONTO

With 790,000 votes, only 49 percent ee the 1,626,439 votes cast, the Tory party of Premier Leslie Frost won 79 seats in the 90-seat

Ontario legislature in last week’s elections.

leader Walter Thompson, dropped

The Liberals, under defeated

from 19 to seven seats in the next

legislature and the CCF suffered a catastrophic defeat, losing 19 of 21

seats.

J. B. Salsberg, LPP standard- bearer in St. Andrew, will be the only labor voice from the indust-

Toronto and Yorks—in the new House. A. A. MacLeod LPP On- tario leader in Bellwoods, went"

bined vote in Bellwoods—CCF and LPP—was greater than the Tory Ukrainian nationalist victor John Yaremko. Salsberg’s majority over the Tory Herman was about 1,500; MacLeod lost by 2,100 in Bell-

The unofficial vote in St. Andrew (LPP) 5,164; Her- man (Tory) 3,854; Green (Lib.) 2,183; Resnick (CCF) 1,854;. Ma- honey (Ind.) 387. There were about 4,500 fewer votes cast in the riding

In Bellwoods, the vote ran: Ya- remko (Tory) 5,481; Gould (Lib.) 5,132; MacLeod (LPP) 3,299; Gor- don (CCF) 2,438. The vote in Bellwoods was some 3,500 less than

in 1948, but here too, the list} was smaller. |

CCF leader E. B. Jolliffe dropped about 6,000 votes in York South over his 19 fgure, to lose by about 900 to the Tory Beech. Mil- lard in York West lost votes when he was defeated by the Tory Bran- don.

Tommy Thomas in Ontario rid- ing, which includes the industrial centre of Oshawa, defeated Liberal leader Thomson. Thomas — had made a public statement favoring a negotiated peace through big power negotiations, but on the eve of the election, following a visit to Oshawa of CCF leader Jolliffe, he repudiated the statement. On thé basis of his earlier statement, the LPP in Oshawa had _ backed Thomas’ re-election.

Other LPP candidates fared as

follows: In York. South, Norman Penner, 877; Windsor-Walkerville, Cyril Prince, 842; Welland, Peter Boychuk, 841; in Cochrane South, Joe Billings, 854.

In all but Cochrane South, where

‘CCF candidate W. J. Grummett.

was elected, Tory candidates were returned.

UMWA convention prepares to fight

for wage increase

By BEN SWANKEY

CALGARY:

While the decisions of the wage scale convention of District 18, United Mine Workers of America, held in Calgary last week, have not been made public, it is clear from the talk going around mining camps that the miners are going after a substantial increase.

Nothing less than that would satisfy the rank and hg of the union

today. Since 1948 the miners got

of living which has gone up every- where is particularly high in the : The result has been a steadily deteriorating standard of living for miners and their families. And their wage rates are

groups of organized workers who have been winning wage increases

The miners are in a fighting

to demand a wage boost. The miners are. determined to get a substantial increase and are pre- pared to fight for it.

Their bargaining position has been greatly strengthened by the fact that there is a shortage of miners at present. In fact, the operators are “stealing” men from Contrary to the pre- dictions of the operators and some oil and gas have not destroyed the market for coal. The demand for coal is higher than ever and it can’t be produced fast

In rallying the miners in the fight for a substantial wage hike,

the Miners Clubs of the Labor- Progressive party. Its circulation which has already reached the 2000 mark is growing steadily.

It is understood that negotiations

expires on February 16) will prob- ably begin some time in December. The coal operators will of course try to beat down the demands of

the rank and file, can win te sub-

LDR demands Franco free — jailed strikers

TORONTO Immediate freedom for Lopez Raimundo and his 33 associates, now iacing death before Franco’s tribunals in Spain, is demanded in a protest message to the United Nations and the Spanish govern- ment by Thomas C. Roberts, exeeu- tive secretary of the League for Democratic Rights.

Raimundo is one of the Barce- lona 34, seized last spring for lead- ing the great Barcelona strikes against the high cost of living.

Roberts likened the attack’ on the 34 with that of the Montreal city police against the women’s delegation appearing recently at Montreal city hall protesting the rise in the cost of meat.

Mde. Danielle Dionne, one of the women, a mother, was arrest- ed on charges of “disturbing the peace,” and faces of three months. Her case is being taken up across Canada by the Congress of Canadian Women chapters.

The World Federation ‘of Demo- cratic Youth, sponsors of the pro- test action on behalf of the Barcelona 34, urges messages to the United Nations in Paris; and to Lopez Raimundo at the Refor- matorio de Adultos, Departmento Celular, Ocana (Toledo), Spain.

imprisonment |:

Holds seat 7

J. B. Salsberg, LPP MPP for Toronto-St. Andrew, retained his seat in the Ontario elections last week despite a Tory sweep and the running of a CCF spite-

candidate in his riding, which he has held since 1948.

Salsberg wins,

will continue unity struggle

TORONTO

Given an ovation from a’ hall packed with election workers, A. A. MacLeod, Ontario LPP leader, who was defeated by the Tory Yaremko in Bellwoods, said the defeat was but “a detour on the road to victory”.

““As far as we are concerned,” he said, “we will carry on the fight for labor unity as we have never fought before,’ confident that we are absolutely correct.”

MacLeod said that in the next legislature, J. B. Salsberg, MPP- St. Andrew, will be the real leader of the opposition. The conclusion must be drawn, he said, that the splitting, red-baiting, anti-unity role of the CCF leadership “had cheated the labor movement out of labor’s seats in the legislature.”

He thanked his election work- ers who, under the leadership of manager Oscar Kogan, had work- ed so splendidly. ;

J. B. Salsberg, victor in St. Andrew, told the cheering audi- ence that not only the LPP, but Toronto and all Ontario had lost when A. A. MacLeod went down to defeag. But, he added: “I have every confidence we will stage a rapid comeback. The people ‘will quickly realize that Yaremko does not represent them, but the war- mongers. There will be a turn away from him before long.”

He said the importance of the fight for unity was illustrated in Bellwoods where the combined LPP and CCF vote would have defeated the Tory and held the seat for Labor. “We must carry on the fight for unity—in the legis- lature, in the unions. everywhere.”

unity for

and the people’s needs, Tim Buck,

“They will recognize that our pro- posals for labor unity were correct. The job now is to talk to every CCF member, every worker, on the

need to build this labor unity for peace, on the need to achieve a five-power pact of peace to ensure that the needs of the peaple are won.”

The election itself is a part of our struggle for unity and peace he said. |“Our struggle and growth is hinged to the growth of the working class, the historic class that will be the ruling class in a socialist society. Ours is the party of history, because we are, the party of the working class,” he told the cheering audience.

He urged them, “desipite the fact that*you are tired and have worked magnificently in the past weeks”, to make sure of the re- election of labor civic candidates in the December 3 Toronto election —naming Norman Freed, for alder- man in Ward 4, Charles Sims for alderman. in .Ward 5, Stewart Smith for Board of Control, Dewar Ferguson, alderman Ward 6, Trus- tee Edna Ryerson, Board of Edu- cation, Ward 5, Bob Laxer, Board of Education, Ward 4, Stan Thorn- ley, Board of Education Ward 6, Marg Popoff, councillor Ward 2, York Township and Jimmy Wal- lace, councillor in Long Brancls.

“If we make sure that those who didn’t vote on: November 22 get out and vote Dec. 3, the job can be done and the voice of labor can be returned to city council,” | he declared. \

Significant gains have beén made during the course of the election campaign in the struggle for labor unity in the province and the. re- election of J. B. Salsberg was a tremendous victory and a great tribute to the work of the party, Buck said.

Buck was sharply critical of the role of the CCF leadership in the campaign. |“The CCF leadership, | which had rejected, our appeals for labor unity around single can- didate taking a stand for peace, undermined the confidence of the ‘working class. The CCF leaders, along with the Liberals, offered no real alternative program to that put forward by the Tories.”

Imagine, he said, what a turn- out of voters there would have been if the Nov. 22 election had been a plebiscite on the issue of

neace or war.

election rally held here November 22. will learn the lesson of the cataclysmic defeat of the CCF,” he said.

CCF rejection of

peace

caused Tory win

TORONTO

The big task aed for the: Labor-Progressive party and the-labor movement in Ontario is to step up struggle to win labor unity for peace

LPP national Jeader, told a post- “Many thousands of workers

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Canadian Corps calls Meyer release ‘insulf fo our armed forces’

TORONTO Release of Kurt Meyer, Nazi war criminal, “under any cir- cumstances,” would be a direct insult to present. or past mem- bers of the Canadian armed forces, stated a resolution passed this week by the executive of ‘the. dominion command of the Canadian Corps Association. _ The action was taken follow- ing nublication of a. Canadian Press dispatch from Germany which revealed that Mever, the murderer of Canadian prisoners- of-war, has been allowed “leave” to visit his family from the West German prison where he is ostensibly serving life impris-

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Salsherg is voice of labor says Morris

“ “TORONTO

“J. B. Salsberg is the only Labor MPP from the heart of industrial Canada, the Greater Toronto area,” said Leslie Morris, Ontario Labor- Progressive party campaign man- ager to an election night rally here last week.

“In 1948, the ccr won 11 seats, the LPP two and the Tories four in the Toronto area. Now, because of right-wing labor splitting, the Tories have grabbed 16 seats, the CCF have lost them all and the LPP has the only labor seat. What a ruin for CCF labor policy, what a vindication of LPP unity policy!

“There is a new mood arising, but it still has to be united and organized. CCF’ers will ask why were we wined out and only, Sals- berg elected?’

“We will give the answer—it will not be hard to do it. Unity came late in a number of seats like Hamilton East and was not strong enough to win. But condi-

tions for winning it will improve ranidlv from now on.”

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