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Mosher
Hits At.
Murray

“One of organized labor’s
first objects is to make the
world a better Place to live
in, but there are vested in-
terests who are doings their
utmost to discredit labor
among the sailors, soldiers
and airforcemen,” declared A. R.
Mosher, president of the Canad-
ian Congress of Labor, before a
banquet sponsored by Vancouver
Labor Gouncil iast weekend.

Mosher, in Vancouver to pre-
Side at the official installation
of the new Shipyard and General
Workers Federation, denounced
those who “are doing their ut-
most to convince the troops by
Propaganda that labor is selling
them down the river and that
the application of labor’s policies
for a fuller life would mean

regimentation and straitjackets
for the people.”

ashing out at Gladstone Mur-
ray, former general Manager of
the CBC, Mosher charged that
the interests for which Murray
spoke “are not concerned as to
Whether labor is straitjacketed
or not but simply worry over
who holds the key to the strait.
jacket. :

“Even though labor must suf-
fer persecution and blasphemy
by these who are trying to turn
the armed forces against us, we
must not cease our efforts to en-

sure the winning of the war, and :
with it the winning of the peace ~
for the armed forces as well as _

for all of us.”

Mosher condemned the war-
time wage control order as hav-
ing clauses more objectionable
to labor than any previous order.

“habor is not opposed to the
freezing of wages at a fair level,”
he said, “but labor is opposed
to the unequal distribution of
purchasing power through the
freezing of wages at fair levels
in some localities and the freez-
ing at low scales in others.

“We insist there be no hind-
rance to collective bargaining
for wage earners in the low
brackets with a minimum of fifty
eents an hour or $25 a week, he
added.

While stating the new Labor
Code was not all that it should
be, Mosher gave the government
full credit for this step and Said
that if the government amended
the. wartime wage control order
to conform with the provisions
of the code it would win the ap-
proval of the labor movement.
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Ruth

Kremen, secretary of
the Seattle Chapter, Joint Anti-

Fascist Refugee Committee,
and columnist on the Washing-
ton New World, will be guest
speaker at International Wo-
men’s Day Rally at the Beacon
Theater here Sunday, Mar. 12.

irs. Kremen; one ot the
first women to go to work in
Seattle shipyards, was also one
of the first women electricians
and marine wiremen. She is
the author of Victory Jingles,
a book compiled from her
columns in the New World, and
an accomplished singer. Her
union affiliations have included
the Seattle Newspaper Guild,
CIO, United Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, AFL, and
ClO United Ottice and PFro-
fessional Workers.

Speaking with Mrs. Kremen
will be Minerva Cooper, pro-
vincial secretary of the Labor-
Progressive Party.

Evans Fund

Total $735

Books were closed this week
on Arthur Evans Benefit Fund.
Total of $735.29 has been donated
in the past few weeks by readers
of The People to pay hospital
and specialists’ bills incurred

when the nationally known labor
leader sustained fatal injuries in
a traffic accident. :

Ail money turned in to The
People from now on will be
handed over to Bill Bennett’s
Fund to pay off the $1,200 mort-
gage on the Evans home.

Contributions received since
the last report was published
are:

Previously received —__ $608.79
IWA Collection List —._ _ 8.00
Maude and Jack Stehr __ — 2.00
Bob Law 2.00

Mac-Paps (further donation) 1.00
Arthur Bentley _.__—————sss—s—<Csé~a' 100
HH. Harris 5.00
W. J. Sanders _..... s—s«éY5S 00
A. DButty 5.00
Margaret and George Black 5.00
Bert Padgham 3.00
Henry Spencer _. 1.00
H. Foster 1.00
Grandview Br. LPP —_ 50.00

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and
Wir Gray 2 2.00
Worker at Beban’s Camp — 19.50
irs. ba G. Allen 32 22 — 95.00
John Gavin 1.00
Louis Larson 2.00
Ruby Elliott 83.00
Mr. and Mrs. Jock Clark __ _ 4.00
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Establish
Shipyard
Federation

A powerful organization
to strengthen organized la-
bor in increasing war produc-
tion and carrying out post-
war plans for continued em-
ployment of British Colum-
bia shipyards was brought
into being last weekend in the
conference held to establish the
Shipyard and General Workers
Federation of British Columbia.

The conference heard reports
that the membership of all CCL
locals in the shipyards had ap-
proved affiliation to the federa-
tion in recent balloting. The Fed-
eration will bring together all
locals of the Boilermakers, Dock
and Shipyard Workers, CCl Ma-
ehinists Union, Blacksmiths
Union and Operating Engineers.
This will cover the Vancouver,
Victoria and Prince Rupert locals
comprising some 20,000 shipyard
workers.

Establishment of the federa-
tion uniting all CCL unions has
filled a long-felt need of the ship-
yard workers and lays a firm
base for unity of action on all
questions affecting the shpyards.

Stated purpose of the federa-
tion is “to promote the interests
of its chartered unions and gen-
erally to advance the economic
and social welfare of the shipyard
workers.

“In the legislative field the
federation shall, in cooperation
with its affiliated and other trade
union organizations, promote the
enactment of suitable legislative
measures, municipal, provincial,
and federal.”

The CCL locals affiliated to the
federation will now receive their
charters from the federation
while the federation will be af-
filiated to the Canadian Congress
of Labor.

Malcolm McLeod, formerly
business agent for Local No. 1
Boilermakers Union was elected
federation president and G. S.
Culhane, president of Victoria
Boilermakers Union, Local No. 2,
was named secretary-treasurer.

The federation offices will be
located in the new headquarters
of the Boilermakers Union at
339 West Pender, Vancouver.

Free Rights
Issue Aired

VICTORIA, B:C.—A move to
establish free rights of citizen-
ship for residents of company
towns was made in the legisla-
ture this week when Herpert
Gargrave (CCF, Mackenzie),
moved that the House go into
Committee of the Whole to dis-
cuss implementation of the Re-
habilitation Council’s recom-
mendations along these lines.

The council recommended
“that wherever conditions exist
in company towns restricting the
establishment of business, culi-
ural, religious and other institu-
tions, and the free movement of
citizens, such restrictions should
be abolished.” and that “legisla-
tion should be enacted to make
such communities fully available
to employees and others, and to
permit them to build and own
houses, to purchase land to en-
able the establishment of private,
cooperative and other  enter-
prises . . . in order that company
towns shall be on the same foot-
ing as other cOémmunities in this
province and fully open to the
self-government, enterprise, resi-
dence and enjoyment of our
people.”

-report of the Post-War Rehabilitation Council.

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This Week in the Hou

By BRUCE MICKLEBURGH —

HNC
HE crucial question of Dominion-Provincial relations was p

fc legislature this week when Harold Winch moyec
the Bose See of the forthcoming Dominion-Provincial

ference at Ottawa. “go into Committee of the Whole House™ t
euss “matters in which the relations of the Dominion govern
to the provincial government are implicated” as listed in the in

inch emphasized this was a question which all members:
econ an ihe House should discuss, and Dorothy Steeves” Gy
North Vancouver) said the government should obtain the view:
all sections before going to the conference. bs

It is to be hoped the government will make this possible. ;

The excellent and constructive nature of the recommendatio |
the Rehabilitation Council was the result of a non-partisan app:
by- members of the council, both Coalition and CCF, and a Si”
approach is indicated here. The worst thing that could happen ¥
be for the question to become a partisan one. For the effectiys
of any postwar planning depends on the closest unity and coo
tion between the Dominion and the provinces. ie

Unfortunately, Dominion-Provincial relations have been a sf
subject ever since Confederation. Canada has an outmoded con
tion which has been usesd by the forces of reaction time and
again to shackle the forward march of the people. It has be
favorite tactic of the spokesmen for monopoly to -pose the que
of “provincial rights” in such a way as to block centralized ej
to establish high living standards and social security from coa :
coast, and at other times to deny the right of a province to pre :
within its own jurisdiction. ; :

The growth and development of the Canadian nation has ne
tated a corresponding growth and development of the functio;
the federal authority. and the reyenue-raising powers allotted
Dominion in 1867 have become increasingly inadequate. During -
last war the Dominion inyaded the exclusively provincial pre:
of income tax. It remained in this field jointly with the proy
until the present war, when by agreement it took over sole inj
tax rights for the duration.

In B.C., this was bitterly contested by “Duff’ Pattullo. whe
then still premier. As a matter of fact he, together with the .
Premier Aberhart of Alberta and ex-Premier Hepburn of On ~
wrecked the last conference om Dominion-Provincial relation |

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walking out rather than discuss even any increase of federal reve :
raising power. bringing to nought the recommendations of the Ro |
Sirois Commission. i
The stern needs of war. however. swept aside such cham] ;
of “provincial rights.” Today Ottawa controls many fields forn ~
under provincial jurisdiction, for the nation could only be effect '
mobilized by federal action. i

HE most recent product of the need for war unity is the i
federal Labor Code. PC 1003. established under the emerp }
powers of the Dominion government to cover ali workers 3 ;
dustries directly or indirectly vital to the war effort. In Bea
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takes in 65 percent of all wage earners, and Labor Minister Pe;
announced in the House this week that his government will brit }
a bill to extend the provisions of the code to the other 35 per
formerly under the ICA Act. Ontario is doing likewise, and the |
is open for the other provinces to follow suit. Constitutionally, j |
relations are still a provincial matter. Actually the workers are ge |
a federal labor code. The need for this code will not disappear
ape end of the war. nor will the need for federal action in
ields.

_ Mrs. Steeves ably established the need for maintaining the le
tive unity we now have. Yet she and Harold Winch would

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Ate. voice of diehard toryism was heard in the legislature
week when Herbert Anscomb “the Honorable Minister of BP }
Works” voiced his suspicions of the Atlantic Charter and red |
his postwar proposals to the freeing of industr
and government controls.” While he admitted
about the Atlantic Charter

is damaging the third-party movement in BG a
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Anscomb and Maitland represent th i i i
L ose infl in’
government which must be Overcome and isolateat ob Donan i

Program is to be effective,