Aircraft Workers Secedefrom [AM

fT ARTHUR, Ont. —
© artling revelation that
| prisoners of war em-
by. the timber indus-
living under better
-ons than Canadians
ed in civilian camps
ade here at .a semi-
meeting of the Lum-
d Sawmill Workers

ct that German war
3 ,are being hired in
ce to returning Cana-
tterans by the wage-
timber barons was re-
‘xposed by Bruce Mag-
he leader of the union.
ites to the semi-annual
“i were told by O. Kos-
_ecretary of the organ-
that he had visited a
-1any camps and had
“quite a difference” be-
“villian camps and those
_. German prisoners. -

i
4

prisoners are moved
ps formerly occupied by
everything is made

‘ble for them,” said Ko-

aid recreation rooms pro-
aad laundries built, and
_-wers added.”
2d as an example a civ-
> mp where a building
a showerbath had been
jown six months ago,
» yet, no new one had
_ structed. On the other
“+ said, camps housing
' ir prisoners were in-
* ionthly and if conditions
7 par, immediate rectifi-
/ as made.
delegates supported Ko-
statements and said it
' seneral rule that when
was being converted
'-@ occupied by civilian
_vorkers to one for Nazi
of war, extensive im-
a its were made.
_vitation to the National
ard to take films of
where civilian bushmen
“king in order that the
ight be acquainted with
Fieless conditions existing
ed by M. Rejjevich, vice-
t of the Lumber Work-
Mm.
- D PROBE
Eent Bruce Magnuson
E meeting that the time
2 for a full investigation
fovernment of the condi-
the lumber industry with
to changes that would
,the- necessary induce-
‘r men to work in the

'
a

laborers were being em-
finder an apprenticeship
for as low as $2 a day
rd in some phases of the
‘industry while no bene-
*n from the presently in-
2 labor legislation are
by bushworkers.”

E that at present agri-

‘The camps are painted,’

Following Suspension of Leaders

Still travelling after his sudd

Carl Von Mannerheim,

arrives in Portugal for a rest,

by Dr.

protocol.

en exit from Finland, Baron
one time fascist Finnish president,

he says. He is accompanied

Henrique Cana, chief of Portuguese foreign office

ILO Condemns Argentine
Communists At Paris Meet

* MEXICO CITY.

fascist regime by the

—— Condemnation of the Argentine
International Labor Organization at

its Paris conference placed the ILO ‘‘on a higher political
level than the, United Nations assembly at San Francisco,

which opened the

door to Argentine fascism,’’ Latin Ameri-

can labor leader Vincente Lombardo Toledano said here
this week. Toledano, a member of the ILO governing board,
reported on his activities at the conference.

Toledano, who is president of
the Latin American Federation
of Labor (CTAL) and headed
the Latin American labor dele-
gations to the ILO meeting, said
that the action marked a turn-
ing point in ILO history. “It
was an energetic, pointblank
condemnation of Argentine fas-
cism,’’ he asserted.

Apart from proposals that the
ILO allow labor and manage-
ment representation from state-
run industries and that, while
linked to the United Nations Or-
ganization, it retains its auton-
omy, Toledano listed are some
of the chanes in ILO “opera-
tional methods” suggested by
joint CTAL delegations and now
being considered by an ILO com-
mittee:

(1.). Pledges of member gov-

ernments to carry out ILO
agreements within two years
from signing. (2) Yearly gov-

ernmental reports on their appli-

cation. (8) Cross-check by the
ILO with organized labor on
government reports. (4) ILO

sponsorship of economic reforms
as part of national constitutions.
(5) Use of regional standards
for economic reform measures.
(6) ILO viligance to aid labor
code enforcement.

(7) Tripartite ILO offices in
each member country. (8) ILO
sponsorship of. educational cam-

paigns. (9) Immediate’ estab-
lishment of ILO industrial com-
mittees. (10) ILO coordination

committees to -work with trade
unions.

IC ADVOCATE — PAGE 9

Members

MONTREAL,
ing of Aircraft Lodge 712
stitution upon petition of
the Montreal aircraft
IAM and to affiliate their

"The Lodge also voted to trans-
fer its assets and all collective
bargaining rights to the new or-
ganization. Shop Committees

and Executives of the former
Lodge 712 were instructed to act
in the same capacity in the new
union.

This action, taken on Sunday
of last week, followed a week
of communication between Lodge
712 and the Grand Lodge in
Washington. The dispute between
Lodge 712 and the Grand Lodge
began a week ago last Satur-
day, when D. S. Lyons, Canadian
Vice-President IAM, called the
leaders of Lodge 712 into a
meeting to discuss the affairs of
the lodge. While this meeting
was going on Lyons’ stooges
seized the offices and’ records
of Lodge 712. At the end of the
meeting Lyons handed notices of
suspension to three of the offi-
cers and informed thém that
their local had been taken over
by the Grand Lodge. On Wednes-
day, December 12, a regular

meeting of the lodge denounced

Wavell Speech Scored By
Indian Communist Organ.

By! P. C. JOSHI

BOMBAY, India.— The
People’s Age, under the title

editorially comments on Lord

Communist Party organ, The
“Diabolical Imperialist Plan”
Wavell’s speech in the Cal-

cutta Associated Chamber of Commerce, the mouthpiece of

British finance capital in India. The

Viceroy’s speech is this

year’s assurance to the British capitalists, the Indian princes

and Indian vested interests that

government to bring about a
This alliance forms the basis

of the Coupland Plan (a con-
stitutional scheme devised for
Inda by Prof. Coupland, the
British Empire’s constitutional
expert and father of the Pales-
tine Constitutio) which keeps the
Arabs and Jews flying at each
other’s throats) which proposes
the division of India into a Hindu
zone, a Muslim zone and a
princely zone, all subject to an
All-India agency centre which
is an euphemism for imperialist
domination.

Wavell assures British capi-
tal in India that the revision of
“eommercial safeguards’ which
guarantees them a dominating
position, will strangulatte In-
dian industry till a commercial
treaty is arrived at. Such a treaty
is not visualized as based on the
India, but is a deal between
British and Indian vested inter-
ests. The “just and lasting set-
tlement” he promises “means

they should rely on the

just and lasting settlement.

neither complete independence
nor real power to the Indians to
shape their destiny but another
lease of life to British imperial-
ist domination which will con-
tinue to strangulate India’s
political and economic develop-
ment.’

The editorial draws atten-
tion to the political background
in India, the growing country-
wide freedom upsurge on the one
hand and the ‘sharp division of
the Congress and League camps,
and says Wavell’s plan hides the
diabolical game of divide and
rule and is a grave danger to
India’s fredom movement. It re-
fers to the recent Congress lead-
ers’ talks with Wavell and Casey,
governor of Bengal, and says
that the imperialist Coupland
plan needs the help and coopera-
tion of Congress and of the vest-
ed interests that back it, and

(Continued on Page 12)
See WAVELL

Reorganize

Back Elected Officials

Que. — At a special membership meet-
IAM, called according to the con-
104 members in good standing,
workers voted to secede from the

L organization and membership to
the Montreal Aircraft Workers Local. Union,
‘been formed only a few

which had

hours previously.

the “Pearl Harbor” raid carried
out on their union office, and
the seizure of their effects by or-
ders of the Grand Lodge, with
the help of the police.

A telegram was sent to Har-
vey Brown, International Presi-
dent, demanding the restoring of
the property and funds belong-
ing to the Local and the lifting
of the suspensions by 6 p.m.,
Saturday, December 15, and stat-
ing that if at that time the
Grand Lodge persisted in sustain-
ing the dictatorial action the lo-
cal would have to reconsider the
whole question of their affilia-
tion to the LAM.

Meanwhile D. S. Lyons, Cana-
dian vice-president of the IAM,
was cooperating with Karl Ger-
hardt, anti-labor reporter for the
Montreal Gazette, in a vicious
campaign against the local and
particularly against their officers
suspended by the IAM. This cam-
paign carried all sorts of sug-
gestions of malpractice, includ-
ing the suggestion of misappro-
priation of funds. None of these
accusations, however, appear in
the formal charge laid by the
Grand Lodge against the offi-
cers of 712. The offensive -car-
ried on in the Gazette reached
a point where they quoted D. S.
Lyons as stating that Sunday’s
meeting was unconstitutional.
This was so far removed from the
facts that Lyons was compelled
to deny that he had made such
a statement.

Workers in the sheps are in-
furiated by the dictatorial ac-
tion of the Grand Lodge in seiz-
ing their effects and arbitrarily
suspending their leaders before
any investigation into the truth
of their accusations.

Lyons, instigator of the at-
tempt to smash the local, was
present ati the meeting Sunday.
According to the constitution of
the IAM he was entitled to be
present but could not speak with-
out the permission of the meet-
ing. His attempts to speak were
met by outcries from the work- ©
ers and Lyons was voted down.

One of the marked character-
istics of the meeting was the
amount of participation from the
floor — from the rank and file
members of the union. Speaker
after speaker rose to express his
disgust at the Hitler type ac-
tion of Lyons and his gang.
The workers have been shocked
to see so-called international la-
bor leaders walk irito their local
and appropriate their property
which they had obtained with
many hundreds of dollars and
jong hours of labor. .

A sharp legal battle is expect-
ed to take over this question.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1945