Ss — ——— —— d —— —— — a. ——— —— —— — — — — — —— —— LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY UL i Vol. Ii. No. 16. 5 Cents Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, April 22, 1944 wren aterials For Building |War Homes | Available 4) ~+=tThere is no shortage of materials for needed | housing in congested Vancouver, according to John McPeake, chairman of the 5,000 Homes Now Com- mittee, which is now a sub-committee of the recently formed Industrial Reconstruction and Social Develop- ment Council. “We received information ‘from a reliable sourse this week that there is no shortage of building ma- terials,“ McPeake told The People. Woman M.P. | To Speak At May Day Rally ___Mrs. Dorise Nielson, MCP. (LPP, North Bat- Pearkes, V.C., DSO, Of | ficer Commanding Pa- ( cific Command, and Howard Cotisgan, ra- dio news commentator, and public relations of- ficer for Seattle Metal Trades Council (AFL), ‘May Day meeting at ' | Brockton Point ‘here '] April 30, it is an- 'Heunced by the Worker- || Warrior Day Commit- | | tee which is organizing © | the parade to Stanley » | Park. tleford), Major-General Seattle, will address the_ “I have the word of a rep- utable local contractor that 5,000 new homes could be built at once, if the govern- ment would release permits covering materials already on hand,” said MicPeake. ~ “The people of Vancouver are getting the run around. On the one hand we are told that manpower is the prob- lem, yet Selective Service denies this, We are told that there is a lack of materials, and men in the construction business say otherwise. Just what is the truth?? This is no time for buck-passing!” While reports came from Ottawa this week that Van- couver may become a “closed city” with restrictions on entry “when ‘the situation becomes serious,” as federal authorities put it, the 5,000 city families facing eviction within the next few weeks feel that the situation has already become serious enough to warrant immedi- ate action. Of the 300 most urgent eases are more than 200 fami- lies with children. Miss Milli- —Continued on Page 8 SE ee nin nn Minn nnn ttn Partisan Forces Unite In Greece : By FRANK PITCAIRN LONDON. —— The true facts about the heroic and well-organized resistance movement inside Greece are only just becoming known here because King. George, ministers of the Greek government-in-exile in Cairo, and certain Britain agents suc- ceeded in obscuring the story of the National Liberation Front. _ Even Prime Minister Churchill fell prey to this misinformation, for in his speech of February 22 he said: - “It is painful to see the confusion and the internecine strife which has broken —Continued on Page 2 CCC What looks like fire trail- ing behind these U.G. Lib- erators on- them way to bomb Berlin is vapor cre- ated by planes speeding through the thin air of the stratosphere. Company Unions’ Activities Scored The charge that there are 51 company unions in British Columbia was made by Dick Osman, business agent of the International Association of Machinists at. Vancouver Trades and Labor Council this week as a recommendation asking: the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada to press for abolition of company unions ‘was unanimously endorsed. Osman reported that a company union had been formed under the protection of the Societies Act in the Cemo Electrical Manufacturing Company’s plant, from which two members of his union who refused to join were fired. On the morning of March 29 there was no agreement, according to Osman, — but “a lawyer brought in by the company had a closed shop agreement signed ~ and forwarded to Victoria by 10 a.m. and at 4 p.m. two of your members who refused to join a company union were fired. He told delegates that a letter from Labor Minister George S. Pearson inform- ing the council that no certification for bargaining rights had ever been granted any group of workers under the Societies Act was not true. “Bargaining rights are what they got in Cemo,” he added. —Continued on Page 8 ‘om TT so Serer re errr rarer eee Mi MATT