MONTEVIDEO.—(ALN).—Franco agents have worked out a new and intricate -
scheme to insure continuation of Spain’s supply of Chilean nitrates, which are trans- —
shipped to Germany for use in the manufacture of explosives, it was learned here
this week. Under the new plan. necessitated by refusal of Chilean longshoremen_
to load Spanish ships, Chilean nitrate companies, owned largely by U. S. and Bri-
tish interests, now ship their products to Montevideo in vessels of other nationali-
ties—mainly Peruvian. Hitherto Buenos Aires was the chief transference port.

|___ LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY
‘ol. III. No. 15.

Ogee 5 Cents

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Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, April 15, 1944
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nae Seamen Discharge or
}aarch through Oyonnax, oa Riek
Trance.

To Contest
‘Kimberley

KIMBERLEY,
8.C. — First elections
i0 Kimberley City
council since Kim-
serley was incorpor-

ated as a city on
March 31 will be held

April 20, with Harry -

Nicholson, secretary,
SUMMSW, Local 651,
as the mayoralty can-
didate heading a slate
of union aspirants for
2ouncil.

duist, George G.
Shaw, James-E. Mc-
Gregor and James
Thomson. —

Be April 21,

UMIMSW, Local 651.
will celebrate its first
anniversary, with a
Rae ccune to be
addressed by ‘Tom
Uphill, Labor MLA
for Fernie, and W. H.
Herridse, CCF MLA
i Rossland-Trail.

Union Slate —

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Protesting
‘Slum Ship’

_ A story reminiscent of the tales of Captain Bligh and
other seafaring bullies of another day reached Van-

couver when.one ‘of -the ships -of the Park- Steamships
“docked here after an absence of six months.

Interviewed by a People reporter this week, mem-
bers of the ship’s crew who were discharged by the
steamship company on their arrival here recited how
they had been forced to eat weevil-infested food and

Succ

ill Hear
Housing Demand

Demands that the federal government immediately undertake construction of
5,000 units of its postwar housing project will be carried to Ottawa by members
in city ridings, Minister of Pensions and National Health lan MacKenzie assured

John McPeake, chairman of the “5,000 Homes Now” Committee, in an interview

this week.

MacKenzie agreed that the committee’s demands were modest, considering
housing conditions, and stated he would be glad to join with other Vancouver

quate accommodation for this
eHtys homeless thousands

was shown this week when
delegates representing 100,-
000 citizens Unanimously en-
dorsed the program and pro-
posals of the “5,000 Homes
Now” Committee at a con-
ference in Hotel Vancouver.

Further unity was shown
when a vote of confidence in
the work of Chairman John
McPeake and the committee
was unanimously passed, af-

Innis, MLA, and Frank Mc-
Kenzie, ©CF provincial sec-
retary, declaring that the
“5,000 New Homes” commit-
tee was “under the control of
one political organization who
are using it to further their
own political interests,” had
been “taken under narrow

partisan control” and, furth-

er, “would not serve the CCF
purpose” had been read to
the gathering.

Since the motion of “con-

Susie Liane Clark, prominent
in the CCE’s Vancouver City
organization, representing the
New Era group, and second-
ed by Dawson Gordon, for-
mer CCF provincial candidate
for WVancouver-Point Grey,
representing Aeronautical
Lodge 756, it became obvious
that the “official” CCF pol-
icy towards the committee
did not reflect the attitude of
many CCE members.

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work under conditions com-
parable only with days when
ship’s captains were allowed
to flog their seamen and the
master’s word was the only
law of the high seas.

The men complained that
on reaching Australia, the
Stores of food ‘were badly
damaged with weevils and
repeated protests to the chief
steward elicited the reply
that the ship could not afford
to destroy the food or to
make fresh purchases.

The men charged that on
the return trip there was no
lime juice, fresh fruits, fresh
vegetables or milk or cigar-
ettes available aboard

oe oe ee members in making a joint representation on behalf of the community. : despite the fact that on Gre
i ae ae That Vancouver people are ter letters from Angus Mac- fidence, approval and appre- local market in various ports
Waldie, Ollie Lind. united in demanding ade- Innis, M.P., Mrs. Grace Mac- ciation” was moved by Mrs. of call these vital necessities

for the comfort of the crew
Were obtainable.

The chief steward had ad-
mitted to the men that the
captain had not made the
purchases of fresh fruit and
fresh vegetables because he
considered the prices asked
in some ports too high.. When
the men protested to the cap-
tain he repeatedly promised
that at the next port he would
get provisions, but at every

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