sponse Appeal sndid’ leod Donors cam- acouver City Com- he Labor-Progres- ‘after consultation if trade unionists, laning to show splen- 08ts’ according to Mrs. Ul nford, in : ‘charge of the Red Cross Blood finic here. } ome in, whenever their grmit, in quite large appointments so that Fal the Same clinic.” ¥han 500 members of lj2al Lodge 756 will do- thd on May 1 and May Weiril 26, 172 members of dal ‘Woodworkers of l¥vill report at the clinic ne close to a pint each. ‘ members of the Cision, 52 organized milk earers, and many others ing this- week. - Simpaign has met with asti¢ response in the # according to Mrs. 7 fore than 600 members “ad unions have signed fds, and the majority 1) jave donated blood. 7) uaudred posters design- gued Arts Council here @ity presses this week ‘be displayed in all tes and in most city stories and shipyards. sea for the drive are fighting Blood”, and Yeath Warrant—Sisned trate with Gonors who jiraight from the job anic, city restaurant _ are planning to in- ood donors’ luncheon J aenus. The compbina- 8 on it will be plan- eration with the nu- ice of the Red Cross. mi donors are begin-— jae declared. “We try to an Similar Shifts may OPLE’S BOOKSTORE ASAE LPP to Nominate Candidate For -Burrard Riding Whe Labor-Progressive Party will nominate ea ate to ‘contest Vancouver Burrard con- stituency in the next federal election, it was announced this. week following a joint meeting of the Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant branches of the party. A public nominating conven- tion, to be addressed ‘by Mrs. Dorise Nielson, M.P., will be held on Sunday, April 30, 8 p.m., at Foresters Hall, Broadway and Kingsway. Fergus McKean, LPP provin-— cial leader and federal candidate for. Vancouver Center constitu- ency,-will also address the con-_ vention. McKean announced this week that the Labor-Progressive Party: intends to run candidates in a majority of B.C. federal ridings. LL = Council Score” AFL Leadership Delegates to. Vancouver Trades: end abor Council this week heard the protest of the Interna- tional Electrical Workers Union,. Local 213, against “the isolation-— 2 ist policy of the AFI, in deciding: not to send delegates to the La-— bor Conference to be held in London in June.” The resolution presented by the local, te be forwarded-to AFL. international headquarters, ‘was. given unanimous approval. Local Affiliates To New Council Loeal 217. of the International: Woodworkers of America has: voted to affiliate with the Indus-- trial Reconstruction and Social Development Council in Vancou- ver, Harold Pritchett, TWA dis-- announced this =a] trict president, week. j QUARTER \NSTANTIN Srrespondent ## Red Star | $3.25 "der auspices of the of Public Relations. ; ae 4AM MANDELL |$3.25 ALASKA and the CANADIAN NORTHWEST The story of the opening up of North America’s last frontier by HAROLD GRIFFIN $3.50 THE SIEGE of LENINGRAD y BORIS SHOMOROVSKY ‘and E. G. MORRIS $3.25 oH po NEW ADDRESS 1420 West Pender Street VANCOUVER, B.c. E @ Herridge Report : | e e Nullified Referred to the Organiza- tional Affairs commission headed by Arthur Turner, MLA, the report made by H. W. Herridge, MLA, retir- ing second vice-president of the CCF provincial council, met the fate of all important resolutions dealing with unity at the CCF provincial convention here last weekend. : In his report, Herridge -asked the convention “to go on record aS expressing appreciation of the Teheran Declaration, “but the Organizational Affairs com- mission,=- while accepting the re- port, added an amendment which completely nullified its intent. The report said in part: “In the field: of international affairs, the Teheran Declaration was the major political event of the year, the tripartite -statement is so forthright and so compelling that if has rightfully heartened all the democratic peoples and provided a solid foundation for future action. Four great coqun- tries, three of them the most powerful of all countries looking forward with confidence to vic- tory, stopped in the middle of the war to say to all peoples: “We stand for peace, we are determined in peace, the end of fighting will be only the begin- ning of the battle for peace. ” “The question of cooperation with other left groups has seri- eusly concerned the member- ship of the CCF during the past year. Sincere people hold op- posing views on this important question. Personally, I regret very much that the committee established to study this matter was dismissed by the provincial council before it had completed its task and made a final report. such a report would have been - @f great assistance to this con- vention. Z 7 “In the light of the lessons of history and the happenings in Europe at the present time it is ‘our duty as soeialists to work for the maximum of cooperation and the minimum of disagree- ment; to me all else-is folly.” Among the recommendations given by Herridge to the con- vention were: ‘@ That it go on record as ex- pressing appreciation of the Teheran Declaration. @® That it recommend to the national convention a clarifi- cation of the CCF position to- wards the Soviet Union. @ That it recommend to the na- tional convention that every effort be made to reach an quderstanding on points. of agreement with other left parties, as a basis of common resistance against the fascist menace. The amendment said in part: “We wish to make special ref- ference to the paragraphs in this xeport which deal with the ‘Teheran Declaration. “The principles as enunicated in the Teheran Declaration are ~ worthy but vague and might be ‘considered as an expedient for fiding over difficult periods. “We cannot read into the Teh- ‘eran Declaration the far reach- ang consequences proclaimed by ‘ssome groups and we believe the future economic social and po- litical security of the workers of the world can only be guaran- teed - by themselves securing ‘political power as a necessary ‘part of a complete economic and ‘political democracy.” Labor Personalities —33 Ernie Dalskog By CYNTHIA CARTER E looked like heavy weather ahead and the Annart was heading into the most dangerous stretch of water in the trip. Besides that, there was a bit of engine trouble. Although he was alone on the boat, Ernie Dalskog decided to stick it out because a bunch of the boys were waiting up coast for the arrival of the Loggers’ Navy. So he tinkered with the engine again, but still without satisfying himself that it would give no more trouble, and headed into the brooding storm. Dalskog stood at the wheel all that night and before dawn heavy rain began to fall. The next day the dirty weather hadn’t lifted, and the engine was acting up again. But when he left the wheel to in- vestigate, the boat shifted course. That afternoon he Passed the place where he should have changed di- rection to avoid hitting the wind broadside. ~ He had had no food, no sleep. And that second night, when- ever he felt his energy giy- ing out, he would concen- trate on what he would say to the boys when he reached camp Se Sometimes, of course you couldn’t get near the camps at all. You were met at the dock by: a ecom- Pany guard with a shot- gun, who kept his trigger finger ready and told you to “get out and stay healthy.” But you didn’t get out: You came into the camp at night, maybe hik- ing fifteen miles to do it, you gathered a bunch of ; the boys together passed out leaflets, and then you got out again sation anyone Seeing you—if you were lucky. And if you weren’t lu they tracked you through the bush, or maybe on aes turn in the trail somewhere, and your matches got wet and ; or slept beside zi dry log in your blanket. z : ut whatever happened, you knew that behind been left a spark of unity, some food for envereationc onan few scraps of Paper that would be read by lamplight in the bunkhouse at night and, if you’d done a good job, you’d find on your next trip a new air of interest, a stir of organization. and. maybe you'd go away with a few new union membership Cards in your pocket... . : ) E- was all part of the job of organizer for the loggers’ union = in the days when camps were ruled by the blacklist and it was under such conditions that Ernie Dalskog, secretary of International Woodworkers of America, Local 1-71, learned the ropes. Now, with agreements signed in in most logging opera- tions, with a union hiring hall established in Vancouver. with a labor code to protect the rights of men and women to organ- ize into the union of their own choice, the shape of the task has changed. Organization of the unorganized, of course, is still high in the list of important duties of the secretary of the biggest TWA -local in the- province, but new emphasis has been placed on the importance of Maintaining production, setting Mm - up functioning labor-management production committees, seelk- ing peaceful settlement of disputes- to uphold the CIO’s no- strike. pledge. : To this job Ernie Dalskog, a plump soft-spoken, friendly- faced Finn with a sound understanding of the labor move- _ ment, a history which rivals that of Paul Bunyan, and a con- stitution which almost equals that of Bunyan’s famous Blue Ox, devotes most of his time. He is also a delegate to Van- couver Labor Council, an executive member of the eouncil chairman of Victory Square Tabor-Progressive Party branch, and an active worker in all progressive activities throughout the province. : () [788s was born almost forty years ago in Kronoby, Finland. After four years in school and several on his father’s farm he started work as a logger in the woods, When he was. nineteen he came to Canada to work in the forests of Northern Ontario. A year later he came to Vancouver Island, signed on as a coal miner at Nanaimo, was caught in a mine cave in, escaped unhurt, and went back to logging, in which industry he has spent most of his time ever since. He took part in the 1934 strike at Menzies Bay as organizer for the Lumber Workers Industrial Union. When the Interna- tional Woodworkers of America was formed in 1937 he was placed in a responsible position. Although Daiskos went back into the camps as a worker-organizer, he was soon blacklisted. Finally he was driven out of the industry and became a full- time union official, as organizer on the two union boats, the Annart and the Laur-Wayne, in the union hiring hall in Van- couver, and as secretary of Local 1-71. Wide awake politically, with an intense interest in interna- tional affairs, Dalskog realizes the necessity of action on the political front for a trade union body as important as the TWA. “Beeause of this,” he declares, “our organization has decided to set up political action committees in every local and sub- local. : “Qur union is a responsible organization and a recognized force in the econemic and political life of this province. We must bend every effort te ensure that the future of our prov- ince and our country will be a future the people are looking forward to, a future of security.”