ting oviet citizens were Ve ational Labor Re- 321%: methods used to itn Bim a tree and severe- to i elf after two months Whit She was sent to a to Ge Russian workers iie@ as “uncultured and fF undeserving of hu- catinms ot even when sick. ine fe» get well disgusted Dersay ANd finally she was loyap with a load of other S api ccause they were a wiler’s war economy. nan ple were all dumped Moses @Stern Ukraine and a8 their way to their mes as best they ight yalked the last five lizes foot, but so weak at the trip took her did not know me, for sad ragged and noth- fad bones,’’ she states. by clothing on the to buy food. ous; ley ¥ free again. I am now and am going # first I hesitated to Army men that [I ier (§ Germany because I to Mf it. But when one wowi= told a group of gageen, they all grabbed ai me and I had to ~ a hundred times. sige £ bad nothing to he id that I should talk chat all our people at the Germans are pam = it to you because eset 2a Should know too.” *eSSs oii + reconvened after may tanks this week ul 2sident Roosevelt's sige © Opposition to the Labor Board grant- ‘eases to meet rising me prices have con- ince, ng the extraordinary + CIO, Phillip Murray @S repeated concessions r=. creases in prices, re- mae nit the War Labor ne ake adjustments in q@ties,”? and the “arbi- eS against labor” with ttrative agencies seek ‘Own failures. as also demonstrat- Said, “by knocking payments to farm- Binds to the Farm Se- istration and repeal- tion on salaries after 6 00.”. re yf British trade union = pay for increased ders and members ‘ggle. But under the artime needs, and in _ of the fact that igger issues at stale ted Army came and . than “piecework,” previous objec- tions were overruled~“and géneral agreement on the principle of in- centive pay was arrived at. Latest of the big national unions to approve the incentive pay pro- posal are those of the Electrical Trades Union and the National So- ciety of Painters, both of which have signed agreements with the Shipbuilding Employers’ Federa- tion. In each case, however, the agreements stipulated that the sys- tem would be in effect for the duration of the war only: Principal clauses in the ETU's agreement—which closely parallels the painters’ agreement—are: (1) Payment by results shall be in the form of group contract schemes and not schemes of individual piecework. (This would remove one of labor's chief objections to the system.) (2) Contracts and prices shall be arranged between the managements of individual firms and the representatives of the ETU working on the contract. (3) Con- tracts shall provide for periodical reviews of the value of the work done at intervals as short as reas- onably possible, + Wartime Planning When is Ottawa Going to Act? This is the question worried citizens of Prince Rupert are asking. Their city is swiftly going to the dogs under the terrific strain of having become a major defense centre, while at the same time available sources of Civic revenue have been sliced by the surrendering at nominal fees ef many large blocs of civic prop- erty. : Gaping holes are appearing in all city streets. Buses proceed at a crawl through seas of mud that once were paved thoroughfares. The hundreds of heavy trucks, steam shovels, “cats,” cranes and assorted vehicles that move day and night over streets designed at best for light passenger traffic have wrecked roads, sidewalks and drains. Unless something is done in a very short time even these _ vehicles will not be able to oper- ate. Hon. Wells Gray, provincial min- ister of municipal aifairs, recent- ly wrote to Olaf Hanson, MP, as follows: = “My supervisor of municipalities has returned from a ten-day trip to Prince Rupert. His report to Mme is that the roads are in ter- rible condition owing to heavy traffic by Canadian and United States army trucks. I believe these governments should do something to repair this damage. You are aware that the city and provin- cial- governments reserved land free to both governments for de- fense work and it is impossible for the city of Prince Rupert finan- Cially to repair the damage. It is unfair also to the new council to have this condition as it will not- withstanding have to increase taxes to meet refunding obliga- tions.”’ This is the problem that has con- fronted Prince Rupert's City Council, with its Labor majority. On top of this, the city is ex- pected to provide greatly extended services to the swollen population. And Ottawa disclaims responsibil- ity. Minister of Defense Ralston sends a rude letter to the city council expressing concern over the city’s “lack of cooperation”! The council, backed by labor and all sections of opinion, is still de- manding assistance as a war meas- ure. The latset move has been toa join the Canadian Federation of Mayfors and Municipalities and ask their support in a move to obtain special financial assistance for municipalities which have been saddied with abnormally heavy wartime loads. Victory Loan Labor Refutes CMA Smear Charges by the Canadian Manufacturers Association that Canada’s workers are indifferent to the war effort and only concerned with advancing their own interests is sharply con- tradicted by success of the Fourth Victory Loan campaign in which labor played a major role. Joyce Gamidge, Burrard North employee, has two angles for en- suring the safety of her sailor boy friend while he’s on the high seas. Her regular work is helpinz to build the ships to carry the offensive to Hitler. And in case that shouldn’t prove to be enough, last week she went to town on Ganada’s fourth Victory Loan cam- paign, Joyce was one of the girls who led the bond sale drive in Worth Burrard to a smashing tri- umph a few days after its official opening, and this week she’s guest of honor at a shower preceding her marriage to her sailor. “The girls really put the cam- paign over,’ one shipyard worker told The People. “They put a lot of enthusiasm into their work and deserve a lot of credit.” Tabor has taken the victory bond. campaign to its heart. “You can’t beat that slogan,” said one chap the other day. ‘“Back the attack’ has every- thing. It puts the case in a nut- shell So you want a second front? All right, then—back the attack! That's the thing that ap- peals to labor—not the ‘sound in- vestment’ talks of some of the salesmen.” He pulled a red-coyvered pamph- let from his hip pocket and slapped ~ it across his palm. “Face of the Ememy,” if said on the cover. “T show ‘em this,’’ he explained. “You can’t beat Hitler by talking about “safe investments.” You've got to really come to know what It’s talk like that from the man on the job that put he campaign over in Norh Burrard. They over- subscribed their quota in a few days, without any aid from the official speakers sent by the Na- tional War Finance Committee. BC Electric Workers have issued a bulletin of their own to report progress in the drive. Compliment- ing Div. 101, Street Railway Em- ployees, on subscribing $70,000 in the campaign, a letter from R. K Gervin, business agent, and C. M. Stewart, president, states: One330.BOND 1457 ee cunn : -303 CARTRIDGES of ONE 5001b. BOMB : Ores190. BOND Gre SOLDIER ‘$ WARDROBE oy ONE SOLDIERS EQUIPMENT “In this drive as in all other activities, the labor movement has shown that it has reached maturity, and is entitled in every way to be recognized as an equal partner in Canada’s war effort. The response is a recognition by you that the future for Canadians for generations to come is at stake on the world’s far-flung battlefields. It is a recognition that the gateway to democratic progress will be thrown open when fascism is completely rout- ed.” Locked out employees of Boeings had no intention of allowing their dispute with Ralph Bell to get in the way of the success of their campaign. At the plant gates and at meetings, on the platform and in little groups they advocated, urged, insisted that the Victory Loan must come before any dis- pute, that first and foremost came the provision of weapons and sup- plies for the attack. They piled up a total of $571,- One} 00. BOND 2 PARACHUTES f 2 AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS ou : 2 ASSAULT BOATS or . 1 3-INCH MORTAR: 000 in subscriptions, while they continued to urge resumption of plane production at the four plants and asked an investigation into the whole question of pro- duction at Boeings, in order to speed the planes on their way for the offensive. Last year their quota was $250,000. In addition to the splendid re- sponse of workers in the yards and shops, the unions themselves are doing plenty to ensure the success of the drive. Boilermakers and Tron Shipbuilders, Local 1, has pur- chased ‘a $10,000 bond; Amalgam- ated Building Workers $5,000, and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners $5,000. Dock and Ship- yard Workers has invested $2,000 in the coming offensive, and TWA locals throughout the district have done a fine job. Local 1-80 pur- chased a $3,000 bond, 1-71 bought a $50 bond, while Local 357, New Westminster, spent $1,500 and Lo- eal 363, $200. TWA District Coun- cil bought a token bond of $50. Lumbering Beating the Blacklist B.€.’s logging and lumbering bosses have long held the repu- tation for having perfected one of the best “blacklist” systems in North America. Dating from 1920, when the B.C. Loggers Association was first organized to break the unions in the camps, a job hiring system had been put into operation that by the late ’20’s had effectively got control of all avenues of employment, driven hundreds of active union men from the industry, and for a time com- pletely stifled labor organization. The outbreak of war and con- sequent labor shortages in the industry marked the first weaken- ing of the employers’ position, de- stroying some of the effectiveness of the blacklist. But the principal factor that has brought about greater democracy in hiring prac- tices has been the tremendous growth of the International Wood- workers of America, with its 12,000- odd members working in most of the big operations. This was clear- ly demonstrated when the IWA recently won reinstatement of one of its members fired for union ac- tivity. He is Nels Madsen, quiet, popu- lar job steward at Camp A-35 of Pacific Mills on the Queen Char- lotte Islands, and a veteran of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion in the Spanish war. Madsen was dis- charged by the company last De- cember. The TWA decided to make a test case and applied for a con- ciliation commission. Last week the commission, on the basis of evidence submitted by the union which clearly demonstrated that his discharge was due to union ac- tivity, ordered his reinstatement. And this week he was back on the job, active again as a camp dele- gate, active in the TWéA’s job of boosting the production of airplane spruce for victory.