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Drew Anti-Labor,... 1. -1KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont.—Col. George. Drew, Premier ,j oi Ontario, iias a.big.^kglfTiinion-biistlng' in the Northern :f\ loudest, ..spokesman for the red- * He has heeri actively cairipaign- hairing- disruptive group . within ! •sng to capture the legislative seats A tic Timmins Mine-Mill Local 241. j._i, ' *•* The Tories certainly* know how jin the Tvorfhem . • constituencies-- . v. • . . ; . ....——-- t: a ;vi v n; - lru:s tiTi g. is going to ■for his Tory now held in the' -g^rmhenti, j'help them; and they're quick toj® :he main by the CCF. ^acknowledge the service render-1JThe Colonel knows jtiat strong ;ed. It’s high time . the miners:nmionism among the miners is the , fo'ind out, too. ■ V .... . --•••••.• The real role of those wfho at-. chief cbstacld in his way. andt6 disrupt Mi'neiMm ov‘erhe[s out to smash Alt he can. =phbneyissues like -communism’’JasMine-Mill is the obstacle in can't be disguised any longer. s Drew's path, because strong on-; Consciously^ or unconsciously. s '• -ionism among”the gold minerals thev/.are helping Drew keep going to pave the wav for their miners disorganized-on the;politi-’%] -'-tmfey oil the- political front to de ---f-a 1- f rort-t a s'-we II as -o nt h e^eco n^~ ^ 'feat' Drew and, his Tory govern/7mic front.' Only unity m(Sng the;Q ^nvnt in the'• special! provincial miners can defeat BTew andLi-o elections called, for. ..June 7th:. guarantee the re-elpction of CCF jp\%T, l«f / f/vcandidates in thg^^orth-—jiisi as; v I ni‘y of the working people in' unity is the opiy means by which !a t In- powe;f4!lXofi4i--C^^KrUr-aFi^--: thrq^^nms^^ hope-U defeat-^e:; iz .ngs._fti fijfhting for their econom- mme opptfatdrs' who are the real j u !• needs, is the force Drew fears poweip/behind the Tory govern-1F '••most as the greatest' single ’hreat.. ni«*jrfV-te his react ioanry regime. That is .why Drew last week launched VioiQus-dwo-pronged' ’ drive vrtrfSse C /targets are Mine-Mill arpdg the / CCF party. ■ .• House '- to-- house distribution ; last week of ^-' Toi-y-fepbnsored news sheet'filing itself “The Worker,': ^ipbse.d the D”lt;tw plot ■{Metalliferous^ Minin eveiyxfmportant_mining centre,; goinff in this Vssion of the le of ojrfmio- This sheet, edited by j MacDonald, in introducing the;no.orfouS ?ohn Hladun dar-iy^ bver ^ refusal ■ S r of the Consolidated Mining \ r_ . _, =nd Smelting- Co. „« west, w| »he miners’ union _for the esttb-denounced .recently iby Cleyel of underground bOJKidd, secretary-treasurer of the: The .House, meeting in com-Ontario Federation of Dabor m/ttCe a whole Monday April |t •2^- heard' this minister of the U-—•CCD?, who-declared that^work-:- . • ... ® _■- ■ v __- ' -* v. -1 .Crown read reasons fo deletion —. ers must rccogmze it ‘ for what it \ , ^ . J|. „ / ! of this c ause of the daft m nes I.’ acfci as-. .proivded him- by the The' connection between Drew-m*r’e operators* asociation. Copy and the union-busting disruption; the operators* statement iswithin the ranks of Mine-Mill; in ■ 0150 in the hands of all ..local j ajsome “sectfdns of Ontario mining uni0RS‘ When challehged ^ by camps, has been cleared up by thie:CcF members of the legislature, appearance of Hladua’s latest Mr; J^acDonald did not deny H venture. Screaming from itsr ,hat these were the reasons supf j pages are hysterical attacks on | pl'ed hy the operators. „ |Mine-Mill. They appear side” by An amendment was introduced!sldgwxth^iloiTaIsWHngTbr”Th^^^—If^n—^rTr'niohl -harddestruction of the only political * rock, miner, to have this section I-l.movement by which working pe6-i onx certification „ inserted and ef-ple can hope to defeat Drew, that fectlvc speeches were, made by.~~'is:THeCCFr —-- . j-Sam -GiithrTg,—Tom Uphill ‘-and[Arthur Turner^ Only defence Union members now see the j from the government's side j m real objective of the recent hys- ! came from : Alan . MacDonnell. j( r terical’ red-baiting campaign car-1 This amendment produced one j ried on , together by the Toiy ;-?f -the closest votes of this,.ses-1in press, the minb bosses, and ihe :f*ori w*th a number of coalition j ‘small clique attempting to dis-1 n,embers. voting /with the CCF; to fupt the union from within. /n committee. j of' ' The threre miners in the leg- j la With the appearance of “The jgiature. Sam Guthrie, Tom Up-1orW orker/ the disruptive activities ^ mjp 'and john McInnis, took the ra Of this clique inside the union fall; piinister to task for deletion j m into an old familiar pattern. Min-: Qf the clause desired by '.the ie ers will remember that Drew and [ union that underground wbrkers; wi ; the newspapers started off1 ■ byshould be well enough acquaint-declaring the greatest “menace”; ed with the English ., language to be the Communists. With “The ? to be ahlg to .give and receive Worker '' now derhanding that, warning. ’ and eO.T° told the min-“the CCF must be scrapped*,” ' ister that the provisions in the —ttnioa-members—now- ?ce—where Uoal—Ml|ie3 —Hegulations”’”shbuTd;, the red-baJting has been “heading ! brought into the MetalUfer-1 Tall the time- They see it now.'re-! rous(- 3dines -.Act''Their effective gardlesS of their own personal ■ st3-nd forced the minister-to-ad-politicai aiflliatibns. i-journ the debate for more con-; sideration. , - ' ; !It -isn t - any coincidence that; other amendments^T proposed J. ^The Worker, which attacks by the union are still due for /both -Mine-Mill and the. CCF, C^r* discussion^The unipn’s fight to ries an article in thc-same issue ! secure the. /haximtim guarantee //in which it. heaps.-high praise up- • of safety underground is so on the activities o^ Ralph CarHn.] strong as To 'cause a break in
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Vancouver BC District Union News
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Apr 30, 1948
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