ei] — LABO PEOPL F’S VOICE FOR VICTORY VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943 Oe . sets to ion, Local No. 1, finds the ‘tive. Not only has the new # cutive the firm support of its 2 wunien membership, but its od is backed by executive offi- ® and shop stewards of other 4 local unions with jurisdiction ‘the shipyards. fteanwhile, the committees elect- 4y the shop stewards have taken tical charge of the Boilermal- '~ affairs. By an injunction ated Robert Stephen, former en secretary defeated in last ath’'s election and now a mem- ' of the board of administra- appointed by GC Vice-Presi- = A A. McAuslane, the new en officers are restrained from wing on the union’s business the union's funds have been sen. | evelopments this week includ- mn New Year's Day the new ifficers were installed by George Wilson, business agent for the welders’ unit of the union and me of its oldest members. jon Saturday the new Officers, sccompanied by a number of hop stewards, occupied union | ffices in the Holden Building, josting guards day and night. Yearly 200 union shop stewards, it two meetings on Sunday, en- forsed the actions of their new kKecutive and officially recog- tized it as conducting the mion’s affairs, as from Monday. ‘he new officers, in a state- gent signed by President Wil- am Stewart and Secretary ) taleolm Macleod and forward- a to CCL President A. R. Mosher, preferred ~ charges igainst CCL Vice-President A. C MeAuslane, asking that eith- ))c Mosher or GCL Secretary Pat ‘onroy proceed to Vancouver + investigate the situation. (See age 6.) -etters were sent by the new ‘ficers to all members of the ‘Oard of administration appoint- d by McAuslane giving them a his weekend, as the national ecutive council of the Ca- #dian Congress of Labor consider the situation ing out of CCL President Mosher’s action in author- ers and Iron Shipbuild- puted by the CCL national ex- Shown here is a group of Boilermakers’ shop stewards in the union office they Canadian Congress of Labor refused to recognize the new officers elected b appointed a board to administer the union’s affairs. .With their new officer conducting the business of the union. PRAMS E re eet RIL MS SIRE ; “S MEETINGS ~~ Gly Sey srz > Shi Se RSTE RA = ASREGMAKS ER occupied when the national executive of the y referendum vote of the membership and s under legal restraint, shop stewards are now 2,000 Boilermakers Endorse Resolution Deploring CCE Action Approval of newly elected offi- cers of Boilermakers. and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local No. 1, Was conveyed in a resolution read to an enthusiastic meeting of the union Thursday night in Hastings Auditorium, with Vice-President Lioyd Whalen in the chair. Around 2,500 members attended, a tenfold increase over the average attend- ance at past meetings. Signed by 42 charge hands and foremen at North Vancouver Ship Repairs, the statement condemned outside interference in the affairs of the union as leading to a state of chaos in the shipbuilding in- dustry. “We, the undersigned foremen and chargehands, employees of North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., do hereby declare that due to outside interference in the (Continued on Page 6) affairs of the Boilermakers Union, a state of confusion is approaching in this yard. This confused condition if continued wll inevitably reflect on produc- ton records which have been achieved by employees of this plant, “Therefore be it resolved: “That in the interests of our war effort the fundamental prin- ciples of democracy be upheld in this dispute and that those officers elected by the men be the only recognized negotiators on their be- half.” A letter was read from H.