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Pritehett May
Go To Ottawa

A further meeting is expected
before the end of the week at
which both parties will give their
answer to the new proposals.

That the IWA is prepared to
accept the new labor department
plan for an end to the deadlock
was made clear in a statement
issued by Nigel Morgan declaring
that the proposals submitted by
Currie “can be accepted as 4 basis
for a fair settlement,” and that
IWA is prepared to urge their ac-
eceptance by the QCI loggers.

“The proposals do not include
all the points asked by the union,
or even all the recommendations
of the government-appointed ar-
bitration board,” Morgan said,
“but we feel they provide a basis
for a settlement which, in view
of the urgency of the war situa-
tion and the need for uninterrupt-
ed and increased production of
spruce for Mosquito bombers,
should be adopted.”

The QCI operators were repre-
sented at the meeting by R. V.
Stuart of Stuart Research Enter-
prises, and R. J. Filberg, manager
of Aero Timber Products. 1WA
representatives were Ernie Dals-
kog, secretary, Local 1-71, Dis-
trict President Harold J. Pritchett,
and Nigel Morgan international
board member.

Harold J. Pritcheit, district
council president of the In-
ternational Woodworkers of
America, is expected to leave
for Ottawa within the next
few days to interview Labor
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unless the labor department im-
mediately abandons its policy of
evading IWA requests for action
on a strike vote in a number of
Queen Charlotte Islands logging
camps where operators have re-
fused to accept the recommenda-
tions of an arbitration award in-
structing them to sign 4 union
agreement.

This was the decision of a joint
meeting of IWA Local 1-71 and
district council executive mem-~-
bers here this week where plans
were laid for further action to
avoid the threat of an employer-
provoked tieup in the vital spruce
logging industry.

Other decisions arrived at in-
clude:

Establishment of a special fund
for the Queen Charlotte Islands
‘40 be used in case of emergency
should such emergency arise.”

Local 1-71 will immediately ap-
ply for certification as the collec-
tive bargaining agency for all
employees of Aero Timber Prod-
ucts in the Queen Charlottes.
Camps operated by this company
are not included in the award
handed down by the federal ar-
bitration board.

The IWA reiterated its position
that operators must be compelled
to observe the recommendations
of the arbitration award recogniz-
ing the IWA as collective bargain-
ing agent and urging the oper-
ators to sign a union agreement

Sharp objection was taken by
the district council executive to
the employment by Stuart Re-
search Enterprises of Charles
Pearse, employee of the proyin-
cial labor department, said to be
on leave of absence while in the
employ of the research organi-
zation. In view of the fact that
Stuart Enterprises is now en-
gaged in advising and leading the
logging companies’ fight against
the union, the district council has
demanded of Labor Minister
Pearson that he either recall
Pearse to active duty in the de-
partment or cancel his leaye of
absence, “since Pearse’s work is
of a distinctly anti-union nature.”

The meeting also wired Labor
Minister Humphrey Mitchell de-
manding again that he intervene
immediately in the QCI dispute.

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G Nations Indians

Meeting

In Kast

First international meeting of Canadian and American
Indians to take place since white men came to this continent

is being

Brantford, Ontario. The three

held this week on the Six Wations Reserve near
-day meet was called by the

Grand Council of the Six Nations Confederacy to discuss
compulsory taxation of Indians without representation in the

Canadian parliament or the United States Congress,

sory military training, and recom-
mendations to the government of
Canada for amendment of the In-
dian Act.

Six Nations Indians point with*
pride to the fact that they were
allied with the fighting forces of
Britain in early wars on this con-
tinent, and during World War
One sent more men per capita
to the fighting fronts than any

other national group in Canada,

During this war, they point out,
they have even exceeded the rec-
ord they set then, to the extent
that North American Indians are
already represented on every Al-
lied fighting front.

“We take second place to no
one in patriotism to our eountry,”
stated Andy Paull, business agent
of the Native Brotherhood of Bri-
tish Columbia, when he left for
the convention last weekend to
represent Indians in this province,
“and therefore we feel we should
be given equal citizenship rights
with other patriotic Canadians.

"We also resent the system of
payment of income taxes. Since
even members of parliament find
it difficult to file their returns,
the average illiterate Indian is
mystified by-the very sight of in-
come tax papers. This adds to
their resentment at being obliged
to pay taxes while being denied

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the right to vote. These matters
must be given serious attention,”
he added.

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tion will be elected from the floor
to place the decisions of the con-
vention before Canadian and
United States governments, and
to submit recommendations to the

_ Canadian government on amend-

ments to the Indian Act, which
is now being revised.
Delegates will also consider the

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PUBLIC MEETING

Hear

Fergus McKean

TOM McEWEN
MINERVA COOPER

Speak on the

National Convention
of the

Labor-Progressive Party

LYRIC THEATRE

SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 — 8 p.m.

Chairman: William Burgess