arther attempts by City PC. Engineer 2s Brackenridge to prevent pS of an agreement. Strike of outside civic em- #5 seemed imminent last swhen the Civic Employees’ » unanimously instructed its tive to proceed as rapidly rssible towards arbitration, ds used by the council in #- conciliation proceedings #denounced and the union *| another meeting with ald- | at which Jones, McTag- or Brackenridge were pre- 7} fire fighters, meeting this fm made a similar decision milecided, Without dissent, to Pnothing to do with a prop- ©.1 advanced by aldermen to mone the main points in dis- S;and to “sign off” on all fur- fittempts at conciliation. 7%: feel that the council hasn’t 6 to conciliate at all,” said ¢ Bird, President, Local 1, »-rovincial, Fire Fighters. sthe largest meeting it has @ held, the City Hall Em- f2s Union this week voted Hmousiy against the city §il’s proposals and rejected Band taken by aldermen that sare “willing to endorse the ple of trade-union member- jbut will not impose a closed contending parties will 70 into formal arbitration to siate on the closed shop. If founcil refuses to agree to ®rbitration award, according 2 Civic Employees Federa- hive was instructed not to _ dusal of Vancouver's “Non-Partisan” City Council to civic employees a closed shop may lead to a strike, de- ments in the dispute indicated this week, when members » Civic Employees’ Union, the Fire Fighters’ Union and tity Hall Employees’ Association announced that they @ fed up” with the council’s attitude and would tolerate Controller Frank Jones, Cor- tion, which embraces all Civic employees organizations, a sirike will be the only alternative. However, the council -has al- ready been advised by McTag- gart that it would not be bound by an arbitration award. Attitude of most aldermen towards the closed shop for civic employees Was made clear when the dispute Was opened. At that time, alder men tn council meeting declared that “the closed shop in a form of fascism.” Soviets Will Honor Pledges Although some so-called “so- cialists.’ many capitalists, and “all the Nazis” are talking about an impending deal between Hit- ler and Stalin, there is no eyi- dence that Stalin is talking about it, according to Elmore Phillpott, who addressed a meeting of 600 Sunday on the subject, “Russia’s Foreign Policy.” The meeting was the first in a series sponsored by Mount Pleasant and Kiisilano branches of the Labor-Progres- Sive Party. “The Soviet Union will never Thake a separate peace with Hit- ler-’ stated Phillpott, “but will live up to its 20-year pact with Britain to fight the common en- emy with all her resources. Wine out of every ten people killed in this war have been Russians, he pointed out. John Stanton was chairman for the meeting. A Second Gollection Joseph Stalin he Face Of Hitler’s Army | By D. ZAVSLAVSKY 4 19 W. Pender leaie Canada A Study in Canadian Democracy By STANLEY RYERSON Ve Didn't Ask Utopia A Quaker Family in Soviet Russia | By HARRY & REBECCA TIMBERS he War Of National Liberation Addresses of the Soviet Premier logram of the Labor-Progressive Party THE PEOPLE BOOKSHOP 105 Shelly Building MA 6929 $1.00 $1.00 of the Wartime Vancouver, BC Protest Use Of Troops Protest against the use of troops in Halifax, where 400 freight handlers were on Strike this week with 1,000 stevedores idle in sympathy with them, was expressed in a wire sent to Prime Minister Mackenzie King by the Joint Shop Stewards Committee at North Burrard Drydock this week. The resolution adopted by the shop stewards read: “Since it is in the national in- terest that the Canadian people he united behind a total war e& fort, and it is especially true that the government should enjoy the confidence of labor if we are to put the Fifth Victory Loan over the top as we must do, we, the Joint Shop Stevards Committee of North Burrard Drydock, repre- senting 7,000 workers, demand that you take immediate steps to Satisfy the needs of the Ifalifax freight handlers and te cease us- ing our armed forces as strike- breakers.” A similar resolution was passed by the general meeting of the Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuild- ers Union, Local 1, on Thursday. Continued Buck its ranks without delay. We urge anew that cooperation between the CCF and our party be ini- tiated in joint action throughout the country, to prepare for the election, at the earliest oppor- tunity, of a government of real national unity; one which will carry into life the democratic as- Ppirations of the vast majority of Canadians, French and English- speaking alike, for the total erushing of fascism and the win- ning of a people’s peace. HAst. 0340 766 E. Hastings Hastings Steam Baths Vancouver,- B.C: Always Open. Expert Masseurs in Attendance 8 a.m. to 17 p.m.—40c and 50c He as @ John Stanton Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 503 Holden Bldg. 16 E, Hastings St. MAr. 5746 < S ye v 7 $2.15 per Gall PAINT iccico a ibs, 2c Wills?’ 156 West Cordova St. Buy now while buying is good! > Spanish War Vet Killed In Action The name of a 22-year-old veteran of the Spanish War, WO2 James Haughey of Vancouver, was this week on the list of those reported killed in action. Haughey, who enlisted in Spain, shortly after the outbreak of war, was a wire- less gunner in the R.C.A.F. He served two years with the British Battalion Was taken prisoner in the fighting around Grandesa and on his return to Canada came to Vancouver. Another veteran of the Spanish Jack McBride, who fought in Spain as a member of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the Sicilian campaign. MeBride, who is well-known among members of the TWA, won his award while serving as a War, Pte. stretcher bearer with the Seaforths. The citatior states that he cared for wounded under fire at Piazza Armerina until he himself was wounded and evacuated. MeBride’s father lives at Carlisle, Sask., and his wife in England. LPP To Nominate In Vancouver Center The British Columbia section of the Labor-Progressive Party will name the first of the several candidates it intends to place in the field in this province at the next federal elec- tion when it holds its nominating convention for Vancouver Center constituency at the Beacon Theater on Sunday, October 17, it was announced by the party's publicity department this week. A constituency convention com- mittee, representative of the five party branches in the riding, has already been set up and is now Girecting a pre-convention can- vass of the constituency. Chair- man of the committee is Shelly Rogers, with John Goss as chair- iman of the agenda sub-commit- tee, Allan Ross, chairman of the publicity sub-committee and Car- oline McFarlane, chairman of the registration sub-committee. This week a convention call went out to party members and supporters signed by 47 leaders of the trade union and progres- Sive movement, Those signing the call were: William Stewart, president, Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuild- ers Union, Local 1: William Bur- gess, secretary, United Fisher- men’s Union. Local 44; Harold Pritchett, president, B.C. District Council, IWA; Harvey Murphy, international representative, Mine, Will and Smelter Workers; Pete Canavan, vice-president, Aeronau- tical Mechanics Lodge 756, IAM. E. E. Leary, president, Vancou- ver Labor Council; Charles Stew- art, business agent, Street Rail- waymen’s Union, Division 101; Corey Campbell, vice-president, Vancouver Labor Council; Charles Saunders, president, Dock and Shipyard Workers Union, Local 2; William Gateman, secretary, United Fish Cannery, Reduction Plant and Allied Workers Union; fhlalcolm McLeod, chief business agent,.Boilermakers and Iron Ship- builders Union, Local 1. Ernest Dalskog, secretary, Lo- cal 1-71, IWA; Tom Parkin, re- cording secretary, Aeronautical Mechanics Lodge 756; Nigel Mor- gan, international board member, IWA; Carl Hagman, president, Times Have Changed for the LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY BROADCAST New Time — 7:15 p.m. every Saturday Tell Your Friends 4 United Steel Workers of America, Local 2765; Ed. Simpson, business agent, Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local 1; Bar- bara Stewart, business agent, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28. J. M. Smith, secretary, Deepsea and Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, B.C. Division; Herb Wat- son, secretary, United Stee] Work- ers of America, Local 2655; Ceci! Hagman, secretary, Firefighters Union; Fred McNeil, business agent, Dock and Shipyard Work- ers Union, Local 2; Bert Smith, business ageni, Amalgamated Shipwrights, Joiners and Boat Builders Union, Local 2; Norman McSween, business agent, Boiler- makers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local 1. Sam Shearer, secretary, Rail- way Carmen’s Union, Local 58; Lawrence Anderson, business agent, Amalgamated Shipwrights, Joiners and Boat Builders Union, Local 2; Bert Melsness, district secretary, IWA; Vernon Crowley, secretary, Moulders and Foundry Workers Union, Local 1; Garl Zuker, secretary, International Jewelry Workers Union;. G. G. Wahl, secretary, Sub-District Council, United Steel Workers of America. Sheila Stewart, vice-president, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28; Jack Wilson, president, Moulders and Foundry Workers Union, Local igo ites Hawken, president, International Jewelry Workers Union; Pearl Chan, president, Hotel and Res- taurant Employees Union, Local 28; Max Ehrenburg, president, Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union, No. 69: Jean NViason, presi- dent, Housewives League. John Stanton, labor attorney; William Rigby, editor, The Fish- erman; Ruth Turner, secretary-or- ganizer, Labor Youth Federation; Effie Jones, organizer, House- wives League; Bill Bennett, man- ager, The PeopJe Bookshop; Hal Griffin, editor,-The People. Val Christie, manager, Fisher- men’s Settlement Service; Wil- liam L. White. business agent, Burners and Welders, Boilermak- ers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local 1; Harold Malm, organizer, United Fishermen’s Union, Local 44; James Dobson, Dock andl Ship- yard Workers Union, Local 2; Al Parkin, associate editor, The People. # a tg