PP candidates in B.C.

Vancouver East

Chas. Reawert

ayearies Stewart, LPP candidate we pequicouver East, has a solid Move of achievement in the labor peri ment extending back over a . Pod of 37 years mbariie was born in Dundee, Scot- h : i 1892, When he was 15 he livin © leave school to earn his own ty Paso Five years later he came whet ae and settled in Saskatoon, frei . he worked in the CPR f 8ht sheds. After a few months ae mowed to Vancouver, took a job ang eaener with the Park Board, the ¢ €came a charter member of eS hen-organizing General Work- S Union, ae hree years later, Stewart and out URE wife packed up and set start or Butte, Montana, where he on work in the copper mines mated by the huge and powerful ee Company. There was no aiti Nin the mines then, and’ con- ‘Ons were terrible. reak came in 1917,” says recause of unsafe bi caan itions a huge fire sprea nrough the mine, and 175 men it S deren from suffocation and yen ithout any organization. Without any plan, the zat walked Was a spontaneous demon- of a growing resentment ad suddenly exploded into » and it laid the basis for rTmation, while the men were n strike, of the Metal Mine ers Union.” \ mmioh ty Strike ended after five and AN With a victory for the union turneg ity afterwards Stewart re- Workin © Vancouver. He began eh § for the BCElectric, where any: been ever since, and for Division es has’ been a leader in Union n 101, Street Railway ¥ Vidoes See

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Vancouver Center

Maurice Rush

No other candidate in Vancouver

Center knows more about unem- ployment in the depression years than Maurice Rush, the 33-year-old ‘LPP nominee. During the Hungry Thirties he helped to organize the unemployed in their struggles for

work and wages, and to end the vi- cious relief camp system.

In the 15 years since he entered the labor movement. Rush has made a considerable contribution to the building of trade unions in ‘this province. When only 19 he ord- ganized among the Nanaimo coal miners, at a time when discrimin- ation by labor-hating bosses was rife. He also helped to lay the basis for organization of cannery workers in the Interior, and con- tributed to the building of other unions.

An active youth leader for many years, Rush was one of the found- ers of the Canadian Youth Con- gress in the thirties. In 1987 he was arrested for leading a picket line at

the Italian. consulate, demanding. a}

boycott of Italian. German and

Japanees goods.

Rush served three years. in the Canadian Army in World War IT, and after being reported missing in action during the Battle of

of the Bulge, turned up in a Ger- |

_ man prisoner-of-war camp, where he spent several months.

Immediately upon returning home from overseas, Rush took his place again in the labor movement, and since 1945 has been provincial organizer for the Labor-Progress- ive party. He first contested Van- couver Center in the 1945 provin-

cial election.

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Burnaby=Richmond

Tom McEwen

Tom McEwen, LPP federal can- didate in the new constituency of Burnaby-Richmond, has a long and outstanding record of service in the Canadian labor movement.

Born in Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, Scotland, Tom McEwen emi- grated to Canada in 1911 at the age of 20. A blacksmith by trade, he has worked in shoeing forges, lumber and construction camps, CNR railway and auto body shops. and is classed as an expert artisan in iron.

While working at his trade, Mc- Ewen organized locals of the In- ternational]. Brotherhood of Black- smiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers, and represented this union for years on the Trades and Labor councils of Saskatoon and Winni- peg.

In 1925, he led the first strike of the iron workers in the Richardson Iron Works, Saskatoon, for wage increases and a shorter working day. Working a nine-hour day himself at the forge, McEwen was one of the first editors of The Fur- row, organ of the militant left- wing farmers of Saskatchewan.

In 1929, McEwen was appointed national industrial director of thé Communist Party of Canada and moved to Toronto.

, One of the initial organizers of the Workers’ Unity League of Ca-

ada, McEwen helped to build a

fighting trade union center of 45.000 workers. As general secre-

tary of the WUL, he led that body back into the parallel bodies of the AFL in 1934, in a great demonstra- tion of trade union unity which brought to an end one of the un- fortunate divisions in the house of Canadian labor.

When the depression struck, Mc- Ewen was a leader in the struggle for ‘work and wages,” abolition of slave camps, enactment of unem- ployment insurance, and other mea- sures of relief. In 1931 the Tory government of R. B. “Iron Heel” Bennett struck at the Communist party and McEwen, with Tim Buck and six other Communist leaders, was railroaded to Kingston peni- tentiary for five years. A country- wide protest movement secured their release in 1934. : . In 1940 McEwen was again ar- rested, in Winnipeg, charged with “Communist activities’ and sen- tenced to two years hard labor. After serving 14 months he was re- leased on .&2 Manitoba Supreme Court writ for illegal imprison- ment—only to be re-arrested at the prison gates by the RCMP and herded into a Hull concentration camp, without any semblance of a trial, where he was interned for ten months.

_The McEwen family have a proud record of service to Can- adian democracy. Two sons serv- ed for two years in the Macken- zie-Panineau battalion of the In- ternational Brigade in Spain, and in Canada’s jarmed forces throughout World War I. His eldest daughter, Jean, a trained nurse, worked with the late Dr. Norman Bethune in the Canadian medical unit which served with Chinese Liberation forces during the late thirties.

Since 1947, Tom McEwen has been editor of the Pacifie Tribune.

LPP ELECTION NEWS

Triple this $6000 and we'll make it

The Labor-Progressive Party’s struggle to change the direc- tion of Canada’s foreign policy from the path of war to peaceful trade and friendship is receiving increased attention as the election day draws closer. Last Sunday more than 500 people gathered at Powell Street grounds to hear Maurice Rush, LPP candidate for Vancouver Center, denounce the Liberal government's drive to war and to warn that the other parties, including the CCF,

are war parties too by their common support of the Atlantic pact.

. In Center, a vote for Rush is your only alternative to a vote for the Allantic pact.

The LPP is aie to bring its alternative to the war policies of other parties to many more tens of thousands of Canadians before election day. The finances needed to make this possible have yet to be raised. Last week’s appeal made a substantial change in the right direction. Over two thousand dollars rolled into election headquarters.

We need much more, Less than two weeks remain. Look below for your committee or club results. Act today. We must have the full amount you have pledged to raise.

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Election activities

BURNABY-RICHMOND: At 7 p.m. on June 17 and 20 and every day next week volunteer election workers from Burrard and South Vancouver will meet at the Shelly Building to pro- ceed to Burnaby-Richmond to do election work for Tom McEwen, the LPP candidate. Volunteers with cars are particularly needed, for this is a big constituency. They are asked to contact’ TA. 1451.

Volunteer workers in Vancouver Center are asked to note that on June 17 and 20 all workers will be transferred to Burnaby-Richmond.

VANCOUVER EAST: Election workers for Charles Stewart will meet at 1804 Cotton Drive on June 17, 7.30 p.m, to plan the work in the last week of the federaj campaign.

VANCOUVER CENTER: In addition to the regular LPP air talks over CKMO every week night at 5.55, Maurice Rush will have a final broadcast over CKWX Friday, June 24, at 9.55.

Ae * * There will be a mass rally on Powell Street grounds Sunday,

June 19, 8 p.m. Maurice Rush and Nigel Morgan, LPP pro- vincial leader, will be the speakers. Let’s make it a big turn-out.

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FENAL LPP ELECTION RALLY! Make a note of it now and plan to attend. June 23, § p.m., at Pender Auditorium.

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Kelp the fund grow

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