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IWA Auxiliary Meet
Supports Wage Fight

Some 40 delegates and officers of the B.C. Women’s
Auxiliaries to the International Woodworkers of America
(CIO) held their fourth annual convention in the Eagles
Hall, Nanaimo, over the week-end.

Unanimous endorsation was
given of the IWA 1946 program
calling. for the 40 hour week;
25 cents per hour wage increase;
and union security and the del-
egates were enthusiastic in
voicing their support for what-
ever action their union might
have to take to achieve the pro-
gram. Among the other main
resolutions was one on housing
in which it was urged upon the
government to build low-rental
homes and put an end to the
Miserable slums now existing.
“Jobs,-homes and health are all
tied in together,” said president
Edna Brown in speaking to the
resolution. Tobey Hogarth from
Courtenay appealed to delegates
o .do everything possible to
achieve both the union program
and solution of the housing
problem.

'“Qur men are not asking
for the moon,” she said, “but
only for a chance to see a
‘little of their families and
help to make the home a
‘better place to live in, a place
se interesting the youngsters
will want to stay in it and not
on the streets.”

Other important resolutions
asked for higher old-age pen-
sions; NO lifting of price con-
trols; subsidized clinics. for
cancer treatment; increased ra-

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tions for woodworke:s in iso-

lated areas. The meeting com-
mended the BC Federation of
Labor for its fine legislative
proposals and promised every
support in the fight to win them.
Extensive organizational and
educational campaigns were
planned throughout British Col-
umbia.

Greetings of support and co-
operation were voiced for the
veterans who ‘took up residence’
in old Hotel Vancouver. “Their
fight is our fight,” is the way
vice-president Mona Morgan ex-
pressed it; “labor and the veter-
ans must stick together in the
effort to have jobs and homes.”

IWA District Vice-President
Hjalmar Bergren and Federated
Auxiliaries President Margaret
Mix addressed the convention.
Both expressed the hope that the
IWA women’s groups would con-
tinue in the future as they had
in the past.

Officers elected for the com-
ing year are: Edna Brown of
Lake Cowichan, who starts her
4th term as president; Mona
Morgan, Vancouver, ist Vice-
President; Rose Lesher of New
Westminster, 2nd Vice-President;
Marge Croy of Vancouver, secre-
tary-treasurer: Mona Boquist of
Port Alberni and Mary Stevens
of Duncan were elected as trus-
tees.

MONA MORGAN
IWA Auxiliary Vice-President

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The Labor Arts Guild an-
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on Housing, with a $50 cash
prize contributed by the Van-
couver Housing Association.

Judges will be Mr. A. P. Al-
lison, President, Citizens’ Re-
habilitation Council, and Mr. J.
E. H. Lovick, advertising firm
of Stewart-Lovick Ltd.

The purpose of this competi-
tion is to stimulate the artists’
special contribution’ toward
combating the national housing
problem, and to rally their sup-
port in sharing the responsibil-
ity of all citizens in united action
for adequate housing measures.

Copy of rules and regulations,
suggested -slogans and official
entry forms are available at the
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Trades Council |
40- Hour Week

Council to hold consideration of a resolution as}
delegation on the 40-hour week was reversed ¢
the regular meeting of the council.

overwhelming support of a mo-
tion by Sam Shearer, Brother-
hood of Railroad Carmen endors-
ing the resolution, after oppos-
ing recommendation that it be
“held in abeyance until later’ in
the month”’.

Explaining executive opposi-
tion to immediate endorsation,
President Bert Showler urged the
council to hold consideration.

Sam Shearer, speaking in, sup-|

port of the resolution, pointed
out that the issue of the 40-hour
week was of such importance
that an immediate decision in
this regard should be made. He
charged that predictions of a
let-up in unemployment this
spring was “a lot of malarky”,
and urged that the Trades Coun-
cil should place itself in the fore-
front of any drive to force legis-
lation guaranteeing a minimum
work week of 40-hours.

Pointing out that senior citi-
zens should be guaranteed secur-
ity and that the present age at
which they become eligible for
pension payments is set too far
past the age when people find
difficulty in securing employ-
ment, Shearer supported the
second section of the resolution,
which urged reduction of the
qualifying age to 60 years. “We
cannot have our old people ly-
ing in their beds while their
children go out on the dole to
keep them.” Shearer said.

The show of hands vote in-
dicated that the meeting was

overwhelmingly opposed to the
executive’ necommendation, and
subsequent vote placed the meet-
ing on record as supporting both
delegation and pension act am-
mendment.

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