,
Kimberley
Application

Presented —

- OTTAWA—Opposition to rep-
resentations made by the Inter-
national Union of Mine, Mili and
Smelter Workers on behalf of
employees of the Consolidated
Mining and -Smelting Company
in the Kimberley, B-C.. district,
before the National War labor

Board here this week was seen

when A. ©. Johannson, company

solicitor, questioned the board's
authority. :

The application asked for wage
inereases for 1500 employees.
Represented before the board
by John Stanton, union counsel,
the union made five requests.

@ Stabilization of wages for 450
miners at $8.02 a day in place
of a “complex and arbitrary”
Wage structure with bonuses
supplementing a fixed rate of
$4.50 a day.

@ Adjustment of wages for all
non-miner employees except
superyisory and office sStafis,
-to. maintain differentials with
the miners’ rates.

© Payments of time and one
half for overtime after eight
hours a day or 48 hours a
week, double time for statu-
tory holidays and payment of
a minimum of one half shift
to: workers called out between

_ shifts.

@ Vacations with pay varying
from six days after one year’s
employment to 12 days after
eight years. d

@ A shift bonus of five cents

for workers on shifts starting

between 3 p.m. and 7 a.m.
‘Imtroducing the new wage
scheme proposed by the union,
Stanton said that under the com-
pany bonus plan the workers
had no collective bargaining
tights in determining their
wages.

They don’t know from one
fortnight to another, what they
are going to get in their pay
envelopes,” he added.

It was revealed that more than
one half of the workers’ pay was
made up of eight bonuses which
were dependent on a number of
factors and complex computa-
fions. The miners’ presentation
also declared that as a result of
the unsatisfactory wage aud
working conditions unrest was
widespread among a miners in
he Kimberley district.

: In an attempt to block the

union’s representations, A.— C.

Johannson, company solicitor,

argued that under the present

wage control order the board

lacked authority to direct the

company to change its wage
eture.

ae G. Blaylock, president and

general manager of Consolidated

Mining and Smelting Company,

who has consistently opposed

unionization of his companys
employees in the smelter and
mines, outlined to the board his

Jabor policy which included

promt sharing and incentive

bonuses to supplement the base
rate.

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performed by 300,000 Chinese laborers under

army engineers.

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supervision of American and Chinese

Greeks Hold Large Areas

out in Greece, attended by so
many instances of treachery and
violence, all of which have been
to the advantage of the Ger-
man invader, who watches with
contemptuous complacency Greek
killing Greek with munitions sent
for the purpose of killing Ger-
mans.” yee

But on Mareh 3 came an an-
nouncement by the Ankara cor-
respondent of the London Times
that agreement had already been
reached between the different
guerrilla forces in Greece.

What these forces are can be
stated quite simply. There are
three main groups.

One of them, known by the
initials HKKA, is commanded by
a Colonel Psaros, numbers about
1,000 and operates on Mount Par-
nassus.

The second known by. the ini-
tials EDES and commanded by
a Colonel Napoleon JZervas,
which had 3,000 men at one time,
according to latest information
from Cairo now has about 1,500,
and operates in Southern Epirus.

The third is known by the ini-
tials ELAS, numbers 50,000 fully
equipped men on permanent ac-
tive service, plus 150,000 “re-
servists” waiting for arms.

It is the army of the National
Liberation Front, representing
the Agrarian Party, the Socialist
Party, the Communist Party, the
General Confederation of Labor,
the Railwaymen’s Union, and
Civil Servant’s Union and others.

Tt has almost completely
cleared the enemy out of a con-
tinuous area stretching from the
Albanian Border to the Gulf of
Corinth, including the- whole of
the Pindus, Epirus north of
Janina, western Macedonia, Wes-
tern Thessaly and the south-west
central district, and parts of the
northern Peloponnesus.

There is the picture. It speaks
for itself.

The EKKA is not an important
factor in the situation although
it is reported to have done some
good work on its necessarily lim-
ited seale.

Colonel Zervas is an adventur-
er. He exists because the British
government has sent him arms.
The British government original-
ly sent him arms because it had

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been led to believe that—with or
without the king — he could be
a handy counter-weight to the
too “popular”, too “radical,” too
“Communist-influenced” National
Liberation front and the ELAS
Army, which -was starved on
arms. :

The movement that counts, the
movement that reaily is the move-
ment of the Greek people, of pa-
triots of every type—army ojffi-
cers and peasants, tobacco work-
ers, civil servants, railwaymen,
townsmen and countrymen, civ-
ilians and ex-soldiers, even Bish-
ops—is the National Liberation
Front (EAM), whose armed force
is ELAS.

In March, 1943, the EAM called
a general strike and demonsira-
tion against the German decree
mobilizing Greek labor for Ger-
man war needs. The factories

struck, the transport services
struck, the government offices
struck.

In Athens and the port of Pir-
aeus, 250,000 people marched,
burned the ministry of labor,
burned the labor exchanges,
burned the call-up lists.

And the decree was cancelled.
- It was the most spectacular of
the “non-military” activities of
the EAM but it was by no means
an isolated action. Strikes and
demonstrations on an almost
equivalent scale have been fre-
quent and effective.

On the military side there is
ELAS, organized as far as pos-
sible on the model of the former
Greek Regular Army, with the
headquarters of its various divi-
sions quartered, as near as may
be, in the regions on which the
reguluar divisions were quart-
ered before the war.

An extensive commissariat ser-
vice organizes collection and dis-
tribution of foodstuffs and war
materials—some captured from
defeated Germans, some sup-

plied surreptitiously from the
towns, some from the Allies.
Heavy equipment, especially

artillery, is lacking. There is a
serious shortage, too, of medica!
supplies and of materials, for the
worksheps making uniforms for
the saldiers of ELAS, who in con-
sequence are clad in a medley
of German, Italian, British and
Greek uniforms.

ELAS runs an offieer’s school,
through which students pass at
the rate of approximately 100
every four months, graduating

' with the rank of second lieuten-
ant.

Whole sections of the country—
like sections of China behind the

Japanese lines—are fully con-
trolled and administered by EAM
and ELAS, although nominally
under German occupation.

The agreement announced on
Mareh 3 between ELAS and the
two small groups—of which one
is important only because it has
enjoyed British support—will, it
is to be hoped, deprive the slan-
derers of one of their weapens,
ensure appreciation of
strength of the forces concerned,
end enable the group hitherto
most favored by the Allies to rid
itself of undesirable elements.

the.

Hollyburn
Plebiscite
Proposed _

Climaxing a campaign car-
ried on by Vancouver organ-
izations, including many
trade unions, for more than
five years to secure Holly-
burn Ridge as a civic play-'

ground, Vancouver City:
Council this week agreed to hold’

_ a plebicite next December to ob-:

tain approval of a scheme tec
purchase the famed beauty
spot waich is now threatened by.
logging operations. — ;

Even pinchpenny Ald. John’
Bennett, long opposed to the
Plan because it “involved spend-
ing the taxpayers money” has’
given way to pressure and de-
clared himself in favor of the
scheme. i

While the city council has of
ficially endorsed the purchase,
some confusion was created later
this week when it was learned
that the price asked for the
timber stands would be nearer

$125,000 than the $60,000 first
suggested. The original plan
provided that Vancouver and

West Vancouver should each pay
$15,000, over a period. of 15
years, to the provincial govern-
ment, which would undertake
purchase of the timber. |

While Reeve Pat W. Field oi
West Vancouver estimates the
timber stand at 30;000,000 feei
valued at $2.25 a thousand boare’
feet, the operators claim that the
stand is nearer 50,000,000 feei
and point out that they have al-
ready spent more than $25,00C
on the property.

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NOTICES

Regular meetings of the South
Vancouver LPP Branch are held
on the second and fourth Wed-
nesday of each month at Nerquay
Hall, Kingsway at Slocan.

: Regular meetings of the Hasi-
ings East LPP Branch are held
at 8 p-m. on the first and third
Friday of each month at club
headquarters, 2443 East Hastings.

Kitsilano LPP Branch will hele
a social in aid of The Peoph
Press Drive at 2975 West Broad
way, Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m._

WINNING. TICKETS
in the :
PRESS DRIVE DRAWING
KITSILANO LPP (Zone)
First Prize: Cecil Hagman,
Ticket No. 85.
Second Prize: Pop Foster,
Ticket No. 77.

Third -Prize: William Stewart,
Tieket No. 66. ot
Holders of winning tickets ar |
asked to write or call at Th
People offices for their prizes. |

Regular meetings of the South
Hill LPP Branch are held every
second and fourth Wednesday in
Horticultural Hall, 4ist Ave. and
Fraser, at 8 p.m.

Regular meetings of the North
Vancouver LPP Branch are held
at 8 p.m. on the second and
fourth Wednesday of each month
at 1320 Lonsdale Ave.:, North Van-
couver.

Social and dance will be held
at Maccabees Hall, Seventh and
Main, Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m.,
under auspices of Mount Pleas-
ant LPP Branch. Proceeds to
The People Press Drive.

West End LPP Branch will
hold a social in aid of The
People Press Drive at John Goss
Studio, Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m.

Canadian Aid to Russia Fund,
Auxiliary No. 1, wants sewers
and workers. Send used clothing
of all kinds to 835 West Pender.
MArine 2744.

Dance-socials for servicemen
sponsored by Kitsilano LPP
Branch are held at 2975 West
Broadway every Friday at 8 p.m.

CANADIAN
AID TO RUSSIA FUND
Auxiliary No. 1
will hold a
DANCE
at :
HOWDEN’S BALLROOM
(1313 Granville St.)
on
FRIDAY, APRIL 28
Dancing 9 to 12
Unique Auction
Admission: 50 Gents
Door Prizes

Come to the “Pot of Gold’
Jamboree at Kitsilano LPF
Branch Hall, Broadway at Gar
narvon, on Saturday, April 29)
& p.m. Games, dancing and re
freshments. Admission 25 cent: :

South Vancouver LPP Branct

will hold a barn dance and bas
ket social at Norquay Hall of!
Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m. Adj

mission free.

Wanted to buy, a small radi}
for a hospital patient. Pleasi
write or call The People, MA}
6929, stating model and price: