Per U.S. Seamen Refuse To Ship Supplies To Franco NEW YORK.—(ALN).—National Maritime Union (CIO), from whose ranks have come the bulk of the 3,617 U.S. merchant seamen killed in action, has served notice that it will “not be a party to carrying vital materials to Franco Spain which can and will be utilized to bolster the Nazi war machine. lution adopted by the Port of New York membership declared that WMU members would “cease being the transmission belt by which U:S, supplies are shipped to our enem- jes.”’ The union condemned the State Department's appeasement policy as “inimical to the best interests of the American people’ and de- elared that some “sections of the State Department have been flirt- ing with notorious fascists and seem intent upon losing the peace while thousands of seamen and sol- diers are dying to win the war.” The resolution attacked the State Departments policy as similar to the “suicide policy” of appeasing Japan with scrap iron and oi] while Sympathizing with China. ‘This policy,” the union said, “brought death, not only to millions of Ghinese, but also to thousands of Our soldiers, sailors, marines and merchant seamen.” The union said that it is well known that “Franco Spain is stooging for Nazi Germany and © AID THE RUSS { RELIEF ” A reso- has troops fighting our most ef- fective ally, the Soviet Union, prob- ably with materials we furnish. We feel that diverting valuable ‘ships to Franco Spain is the same jas diverting them to Hitler Ger- many. We believe that the materi- als we sare sending Franco Spain will, undoubtedly, be used against Americans at some future date, _jJust as Japan used our supplies to ) kill us.” The NMU's ban follows by three jweeks a strike by longshoremen jin Gulf ports against loading Span- ish ships with American war sup- plies. The longshore strike, signifi- ‘cantly played down in the press, held up the sailings of several Spanish ships for three days. Be- fore the war, it is recalled, Pacific Coast longshoremen fought several long and successful strikes against the shipment of U.S. serap iron to Japan for use against China and {to Italy for use against Ethiopia. These strikes were ended by the personal intervention of the secre- tary of state. Salt those who are deserving of our help! STYLES — VALUES — QUALITY in = sf «8 TOPCOATS Imported Barrymore, Vel-Tabs and Tweeds . . . 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The whole situation created by these two meetings seems to indi- cate a move to split away entirely from the Blaylock “labor policy,” which in essence consists of hold- ing men to their job without pro- test by a system of department transfers and demotions. It results from (1) the action of the Work- men’s Committee in sending the anti-union delegation to Victoria (2) the enthusiasm and hope for the building of a genuine trade re- sulting from passage of the ICA Act amendments and (3) the com- plete failure of the company union setup and a growing disgust at the continued domination by the company over their lives and wel- fare. Russia Thanks Canada For Aid Soviet Red Cross and Red Cres- cent Society this week cabled warm thanks to the Canadian people for clothing and medical supplies shipped to the Soviets by Canadian Aid to Russia, it has been an- nounced. The cable, transmitted by Fedor Gusev, Soviet minister to Canada, read as follows: “Request you to convey our sin- cere gratitude to Mr, McLean, chairman National Committee Ca- nadian Aid to Russia Fund, and to all members of the committee for their successful work in collecting money for aid to the Soviet Union. The Red Cross Society of the USSR highly appreciates the fraternal help of the people of Canada to the Soviet people in its struggle against our common enemy, the Hitlerite Germany. Signed by president ex- ecutive committee Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, USSR, Dr. Kolesnikoy.” - =— ‘Loggers’ Navy’ Denied Fuel O IWA Plans File Protest_ Refusal by the oil controller for Canada to grant mercial gasoline and fuel oil permit to the “Loggers’ otherwise known as the IWA organizing boats “Annar “J aur-Wayne’—is being sharply protested by the memi and demands for restoration of the commercial license will be placed before all government agencies concerned, FE. Dalskog, secretary- treasurer of Local 1-71, told The People this week. All local unions of the TWA in the province, together with all log- ging camps affected by the ruling, are preparing to send wires and protest resolutions to BC federal members, to Oil Controller Cot- trelle, and to Minister of Supplies Howe. The wires and resolutions will point out that this discrimina- tory move will deny thousands of loggers the right to be in touch with their elected union representa- tives and will seriously hamper the progress of union organization. The ruling by the oil controller has already tied up the 45-foot diesel cruiser “Laur-Wayne” in Vancouver harbor, and will soon bring the “Annart,” now in Queen Charlotte Islands waters, to a sim- Since a majority of cam’ ered by IWA Local 1-71 ; ecessible only by water trar | tion, union officials are ni able to reach either the 1,00) bers of the local or several | and unorganized loggers wl ertheless rely on the IWA to sent them in labor-managem lations or matters affecting = tion. q Denial of a commercial : ecense is considered all the m fair, Dalskog declares, in ¥ the fact that the work of th: gers’ Navy” is considered : important as that perform Small camp and work boat by logging companies for car cation and transportation. dition, scores of small boz now operating along the coi der .commercial license tho Many cases they are used more “essential” purpose t, permit travelling salesmen ilar standstill. clothing firms to take ord: clothes from loggers. 4 Auto Union Lesa : Will Visit NEW YORK, NY.—(ALN).—In recognition of the va. the war effort of international Russia labor unity, the executive §. mittee of the United Automobile and Aircraft Workers ( & largest union in the US, with 760,000 members, voter week to send its president, R. urer, George F. Addes, on a mis- sion to Britain and the Soviet Union. They are expected to leave early next month. At its annual convention in Chi- cago last August, the UAW voted unanimously to “call upon the na- tional CIO to invite trade union leaders from Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Australia and other United Nations to attend a con- ference for the purpose of discuss- ing the conduct of the war and the r DR. W. J. CURRY DENTIST 207 West Hastings Street Tel. PAc. 1526 TUNE IN the Weekly Labor Newscast — ‘GREEN GOLD’ Station CJOR 600 Kilocycles Every TUESDAY — 7:45 p.m. with NIGEL MORGAN as Your Reporter ) Sponsored by the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) SE cS PI PP PRS Rl J. Thomas, and secretary- terms of the peace.” The ¢ tion in structed the UAW n officers to “promote the of such an international labc ference until such time as have met with success.” i. 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