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World Youth

| Week Marked

By RUTH TURNER

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ine Under the slogan, “Unity of World Youth for Victory and

tt the Four Freedoms,” young people throughout the democratic

ti countries will mark this coming week as World Youth Week.

: From the World Youth Council in London a call has been
ei issued to youth groups throughout the world, declaring:

“Youth of the temporarily occupied countries, unswerving-

Fly carrying out your tasks under the shadow of the invaders’

ihangman’s noose, you are estab-
lishing your indisputable right to
a future where no man lives in
() fear and where the four free-
idoms are your rightful heritage.
_™ “Youth of the free countries,
-§Sivyou who have worked, trained,
lm served and fought in preparation
)} for the final onslaught, you too
Hare staking firmly your -claim
te to a bright and happy future.
“We will not fail each other,
»for united we cannot fail. Dur-
ing World Youth Week in the
m | spring of 1944 as we stand shoul-
* jer to shoulder in united action
©and endeavor, no expanses of
“ Sea or land will separate us in
our. march forward through the
(| springs of succeeding years —
lv = springs of new life and happi-
7 ness—springs that will belong to
& youth. Forward for our future.
iY Fight! Attack! Win!’
Y= ‘The Anti-Fascist Committee of
"Soviet Youth is planning a spe-
j cial campaign to increase indus-
ti! 7 rial and agricultural production,
ii }-0 urge students to excel in their
TM studies, to mobilize youth for
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speedier restoration of liberated
cities and towns and to raise a
fund for children who have lost
their parents.

American Youth for a Free
World is planning a national con-
ference on the four freedoms,
with a mass meeting in New
York to be attended by the rep-
resentatives of the youth move-
ments of other countries.

Canadian youth will have a
nationwide broadcast over the
GBC network on Saturday, April
25, 715 p.m. entitled “Youth
Fights for the Four Freedoms.”

@n Sunday, April 2, 8 p.m., the
Tabor Youth Federation here is
sponsoring a youth rally in the
Boilermakers Auditorium. The
rally will take the form of a
eolored pageant symbolizing the
youth of the United Nations.

The guest speaker will be a
representative of American Youth
for Democracy and guests will
include young Soviet seamen and
leaders of city youth organiza-
tions. Both the American and
Chinese consuls here have been
invited to attend.

‘New Labor Board

Members Named

i OTTAWA, Ont.—The new Wartime Labor Relations

"Board will be headed by Justice G. B. O'Connor, of Edmonton,

} Labor Minister Mitchell announced last week in naming the
G ; personnel of a new 10-man_ board.

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(@Sanada, registered approval of
7 the appointment, and A. R. Mosh-
ar, president of the Canadian
¢ =) Congress of Labor, who will be
)2 member of the board, said
‘O’€onnor would shave the coop-
heration of the CCL.
~ Justice J. N. Francoeur of
/Quebee City will be vice-chair-
# = man of the board and of the
© other eight members four are
‘irom labor and four from em-
¢ *ployers. :
©" Tabor representatives are: A.
| ~ R. Mosher, Canadian Congress of
ie Labor, Ottawa; Fred Molineaux,
Fe ‘Brotherhood of Painters, Decor-
7 ‘ators and Paperhangers of Am
fericea (AFL), Hamilton; W. L.
) Best, Brotherhood of lLocomo-
7 tve Firemen and Hnginemen
(AFL), Ottawa and R. Harmen-
gies, National Federation of
| Aluminum Workers, St. Joseph
D’Alma, Quebec. :
i Representing the employers
are: H. Taylor, Ganadian WNa-
{= tional Carbon Company, Toronto,
7? W. H. Brown, Moore Corpora-
= tion, Toronto; A. Deschamps,
| contractor, Montreal, and A. J.
'] Hills, Canadian National Rail-
» ways, Montreal.
re The board will have charge of
the administration of the new
federal labor code which pro-
vides compulsory collective bar-
(= gaining and arbitration for all
> war industries.

Perey R. Bengough, president of the Trades and Labor
FY Congress of Canada, registered approval of the appointment,
‘and A. R. Mosher, president of the Canadian Congress of

Machinists Mark
25th Anniversary

“Lodge 692, of the ~ Interna-
tional Association of Machinists,
Will play its part in the new de-
velopments that are shaping up,
in working for the victory still
to be achieved and in securing
peace and security in the new
world to be realized,” Shelly
Rogers, lodge chairman, told 700
members at the 25th anniversary
banquet of the founding of Local
692, in Hotel Vancouver, last
week.

Rogers pointed out that the
recent expressions of goodwill
and friendship exchanged by
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin,
“opened the door to a new epoch
in world history, an epoch of

peaceful economic and social
progress never before visual-
ized.”

Other speakers were J. C.

Keefe, secretary and vice-chair-
man of the British Columbia
railway division of the union, and
James McMillan, international
organizer, who presented Thomas
Sills and Edward Dawson with
badges for 25 years union mem-
bership and Neil Robertson, Don-
ald MacKay and R. E. Jackson
with 15 year badges-

Farmers and labor are getting together in a big way in Great Falls, Montana, with a
series of joint broadeasts on which questions of war and peace are discussed.

‘Proud Of 1943 Production Record’ .«

Fishermen Discussing Merger

; _ Members of our union can be justly proud of their 1943 production record, declared
William Burgess, union secretary, addressing the sixth annual convention of the United

Fishermen’s Federal Union in

Vancouver this week.

“The pilchard fleet produced a total of 82,000 tons of pilchards which is the highest pro-
duction in the history of the industry. This total yielded approximately 15,000 tons of meal
and well over 2 million gallons of pilehard oil, as well as 100,000 cases of canned pilchard.”’
herring fleet, Burgess reported a production of 100,000 tons

Lauding the ettorts of the
of herring for the year, the by-
products of which had contribut-
ed greatly to agricultural
production in Canada. Fishmeal
is used for cattle and poultry
feeding because of its protein
quality and nearly 10,000 tons of
meal had been used in Canada
in 1943.

Burgess described this as “a
truly worthy contribution to the
nation’s food production pro-
gram. That Ganada has succeed-
ed in producing meat, bacon and
egs for export to our armies at
hitherto undreamed of levels is
largely due to- the record pro-
duction of protein materials ob-
tained from the fishing industry
of Ganada and of British Colum-
bia in particular.”

Representing all types of gear;
seiners, gillnetters, trollers and
handliners, the 100 delegates at-
tending the convention spoke for
a union membership of 2,500
seattered from the Fraser River.
to the Skeena River. Points rep-
resented at the convention in-
cluded Vancouver, New West-
minster. Ladner, Sunbury, Soin-
tula, Deep Bay, Steveston, Port
Mann Quathiaski, Pender MHar-
bor, Woodward's Slough, Skid-
gate, Albion, Nanaimo and Lund.

Officially opened by Mayor J.
W. Cornett, the convention re-
ceived greetings from R. K. Ger-
vin, secretary, Vancouver Trades
and Labor Council, and Guy Wil-
liams of the Native Brotherhood
of British Columbia.

Discussing labor relations in
the industry Burgess reported
that huge production gains had
been made in all branches, de-
spite the deadlock in negotia-
tions with the operators.

He accused the operators of
hiding behind government regu-
Jations and refusing to negotiate
with the union representatives.
“Ty practically every instance,”
he said, “the attitude of the op-
erators whenever the union has
asked for concessions has been-
one of complete refusal to get
down to a basis of negotiations.”

Burgess pointed out that the

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attitude of the operators called
for great care in determining
the policy to be pursued for eol-
lective bargaining agreements.
He deprecated the use of the
strike weapon and warned
against “those who may precipi-
tate us into umwise actions.”

“As workers supporting the
successful prosecution of the war
and wishing to contribute to the
eventual victory over fascism, we
~would deplore any delay in the
fishing season that might retard
production without first using
every conceivable method at our _

“disposal to attain our just de-

mands,” he continued.

Turning to the organizational
plans of the union, Burgess said
that the union would soon place
an - organizer in the field to
organize new locals and to work
towards a single union in the in-
Gustry.

“We have accomplished the
task of welding together repre-
sentative groups of fishermen
within the industry into one
union. The amalgamation of the
United” Fishermen’s Union, the
Salmon Purse Seiners Union and
the Pacific Coast Fishermen’s

Union are encouraging steps in
this direction.”

He mentioned that negotiations
were now underway for an amal-
gamation of the federal unton
and the B.C. Fishermen’s Pro-
tective Association. A ballot on
amalgamation is being taken by
the Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union
of Prince Rupert and should it
agree to join the UFFU, “the
last remaining trade union chart-
er other than the UFFU would
be replaced by a local charter
from our union.” :

-Complimenting the officers of
the Native Brotherhood on the
splendid convention, which he

-attended,,. held at Cape Mudge

last year, Burgess stressed the
need for closer cooperation be-
tween the two organizations.

At its convention, the Native
Brotherhood adopted a resolu-
tion approving the trade union
movement as “the economic arm
of the native fishermen,’ and
steps are being taken to set up
locals’ of Native Indian fishermen
at coastal points.

The UFFU convention is con-
cluding” its sessions this week-
end with election of officers.

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