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Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, September 4, 1943

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jeabee Edward Strenk of Detroit inspects a wrecked
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Solomons. Captured by American troops, the field was
ady cleared and in use when this picture reached here.

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lpyard Unions Meet

'n 7-Day Production

Proportion, by calling a con-
in the Vancouver area.

rence, tentatively set for this week end will review the

§ question of continuous

Move was made necessary

Sitation arising from the
=2ts's recent decision to lay
»a and slow down launch-
om 60 to 80 days and the
img tendency to employ
esmall crews on Sunday,
S brings them technically
* the scope of the seven-day
hile enabling the manage-
to evade payment of double
© Sunday work.
» Boilermakers’ union met
jon this question and the
5= definitely accused the
TS Of violating the seven-
atinuous operation plan all
the line by laying off most

production.

of the men on Sunday,” declared
Malcolm MacLeod, union business
agent.

“Qur union therefore decided
to eali for a conference of all
Shipyard unions, perhaps some-
time this week, to discuss the
possibility of making a return
to the six-day week, with Sun-
day a double time day.”

MacLeod said that a meeting
this week between the unions and
the operators had failed to ar-
rive at a solution and that the
men in the yards were insistent
in demanding that unions be tak-
en into consideration in any

- change of plans being considered.

Union. Operators

New proposals for a settlement of the two-
logging dispute, deadlocked through refusal
with the Interantional Woodworkers of Ameri
George Currie, federal labor department
Union and company officials in the Vancouv

Resume Parley
On OCI Dispute

year old Queen Charlotte Island
of operators to sign an agreement
ca, were submitted this week by
representative, to a joint meeting of
er offices of the labor department.

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Demands

. Trades
Congress

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QUEBEC. — When dele-
gates to the 59th annual
convention of the Trades
and Labor Congress of
Canada met in the Cha-
teau Frontenac here on
Tuesday, they faced a re-
sponsibility to the Canadi-
an people perhaps greater
than at any other time in
the Congress’ history. As
the senior labor body in
Canada, the Trades Con-
gress speaks with the avu-
thority of some 275,000
trade unionists from Hali-

tax to Victoria. And this

year it spoke.
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Buck Sends Unity Letter
To CCF Meet In Calgary

Toronto—In line with the res
the national

the Labor Progressive party,

will send a letter to the September
ing the question of affiliation of the L

At the same time a committee
comprising Tim Buck, A. A. Mac-
Leod, MPP for Toronto-Bell-
woods,and T. ©. Sims, executive
secretary of the new party, has
been appointed to meet with the
CCF national council to discuss
the question of labor unity and
affiliation.

The national office of the Labor
Progressive party also announced
this week that Tim Buck will be-
gin a national tour of the country,
with his first speaking engage-
ment in Edmonton on Oct. 5. He
will then come through to BG,

Back in Vancouver this week
from Toronto where he attended
the constituent convention of the
new Labor Progressive party as

leader of a BC delegation of 12
members, Fergus McKean, chair-
man of the BC section of the new
party, sees tremendous possibili-
ties for the development in BC
and throughout Canada of a broad
labor-farmer movement for in-
dependent political action that
can well assume leadership and
government of the country pro-
viding labor can unite its forces.

“Unity is the big issue facing
labor, and unity was the keynote
of the convention in Toronto,”
McKean stated. “As the party of
National unity, we set ourselves
the task of building, through or-
Ganization of the trade union and
farm movements and participation
in parliamentary activity, a move-
ment of Canadian workers nad

olution on unity endorsed by the national convention of
executive committee, on the proposal of Tim Buck,
2 meeting of the CCF national council in Calgary, rais-
abor Progressive party to the CCF.

farmers that will take over the
government of the country and
lead it for victory over fascism,
prosperity and democratic pro-
gress in the peace.

“Because we recognize that only
a united labor movement can
achieve these objectives, the La-
bor Progressive party has offered
to affiliate to the CCF. Whether
that offer is accepted immediate-
ly or not, we will continue to
fight for unity and will guarantee
success of that fight by making
the Labor Progressive party in
the meantime a strong party of
Socialist-minded Canadians, guid-
ed by the scientific Socialist
teachings of Marx and Lenin, and
pledged to building a Socialist
Canada.”

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