Vancouver, B.C., Friday, March 29, 1946
Formerly PACIFIC ADVOCATE

VicGill University as a
suse of this pro-fascist bar-
S| Sanacians may have missed
\irring challenges to the de-
» democratic rights which
thirteen Canadians have
Bly experienced. From Mr.
; of the Liberal Party to
jefenbaker and Mr. Smith
» Progressive Conservative
and Mr. Coldwell of the
§ -oices were raised for a Bill
hts and the liberties of the

-¢. G. Power, an M-_P. since
und wartime cabinet minis-
ooke very quietly but ef-
dy when he said, “I wish
> (the Prime Minister) had
‘1 to allow such legislation
t Order in Council) to have
slaced on the statutes of
i. He has taken a decision
Which I cannot agree .. ~- I
t by my silence appear to
sitly approving what I be-
co be wrong .. . if this is
' the funeral of Liberalism

-C Scores
lage Freeze

+ trade union movement
tompletely lost patience
= the National War La-
Beard and ate determin-
| by=pass it and get re-
| by direct negotiation.
miact became evident at the
1g of the Vancouver labor
mil this week, as delegate af-
-elegate recounted experi-
f with the board, revealing
act that board procedure
iy served to stall negotiations
m no case resulted in de-
s favorable to the unions.

vey Murphy, district repres-
ve of the IMMSWU, empha-
the nature of the struggle
f organized labor, illustrated

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See WAGE FREEZE

Ottawa Tribune Correspondent
he Nuremberg criminals must have enjoyed some of
Bpeeches delivered in the House of Commons this week.
Ecularly sweet in their-ears must have been the words
jlon Low with his own local crusade against bolshevism
“ted hot-bed.”’

Z do not wish to be an honorary
pallbearer.”

in every party here in Ottawa
there are trends in defence of

“civil liberties. The people can turn

these individual voices
ringing chorus.

into a

Ship’

ard Unions Prepare
For United; Wage Action

B.C. shipyard odes entered the. nation-wide fight for increased wages and a

shorter work week,

when

the

Mafine Workers and Boilermakers Union set

up a policy committee to coordinate the drive for the forty-hour week and two dollars
a day pay increase for all categories.

“The policy committee which is
proceeding in line with the CCL
wage drive will work in con-
junction with all major unions
across Canada. The policy com-
mittee will shortly convene 2

meeting of shipyard unions from:

Rupert, Victoria and Vancouver
to work out a joint program. The
next general meeting of the union
to -be held April 1, will consider
the question of setting up a fund
to finance the campaign.

“Biven on the basis of official
figures,” Malcolm Mcleod, presi-
dent of the Shipyard General

Workers Federation, told the Pa-

cific Tribune this week, “the gross
wages of shipyard workers to-
day will buy eight percent less
goods and services than in 1939.
This does not take into account
the five to twenty-five percent
taken out of our wages by income
tax aeductions.

“From 1939 to 1946 wages in
the shipyards have only increased
by about ten cents per hour. For

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See SHIP UNION

Marine Warkers Union Win
Closed Shop Agreement

The strike at the Active Trading Company was settled

this week in Vancouver,

when the company signed a tull

union shop agreement with the Marine Workers and Boiler-

makers Union, Local No. 1.

The settlement included the
reinstatement of all employees
“without prejudice.” The comp-

any also agreed to withdraw
court action against eight em-
ployees and three union Officials.
(Action had been started by the
company in an attempt to intimi-
date picketters).

Bill White, union president an-
nounced the intention of the
union to start immediate nego-

tiations for wage increases and |

adjustment at the plant. “Con-
siderable credit is due the em-
ployees of the Active -Trading
company for the determination
and solidarity displayed during
the dispute,’ White commented
“Although a good many of them
are new to the union they dis-
played a militancy that would do
eredit to any union. The favor-
able settlement obtained in this
dispute should prove an inspira-
tion to our membership in other
plants.” Hight ex-servicemen,
employed by the company took
an active part in the dispute, ap-
pearing on the picket line every

day.

=

UFAWU Meet Sets

Wage-Price Program

The United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union re-
elected all table officers at the concluding sessions of their
convention last week. George Miller was returned as presi-
dent, Bill Rigby, general secretary-treasurer, and Alex Gor-

don, business agent.

Homer Stevens, Ladner, is ist
vice-president and Jack Maxwell
2nd vice-president. Elected to the
executive board were, Mark Gal-
way, Steve Stavannes, Angus
Weish, George Moon, ‘Pop’ Foster
and Mario Gregor. Trustees will
be Alex Eyton, Jim Read, and
Elgin ‘Scotty’ Neish. :

A one dollar assessment to es-
tablish an emergency reserve
fund was agreed upon at the con-
vention as delegates laid down a
policy to “eliminate long standing
grievances and establish hourly
conditions more in line with other
industries” and to “establish job
security and a greater degree of
union security for our member-
ship-”

For shore workers these issues
will mean the fight for an eight
hour day with overtime rates for
hourly workers and straight time
for monthly workers.

The statement of policy, draw-

ing attention to the tremendous
importance of salmon fishing to
the union membership, lays down
the following principle for nego-
tiations in 1946.

That all agreements should be
signed by June 1 and authorises
the fishermen not to leave for
the fishing grounds until agree-
ments are signed.

Making common cause with
the rest of organised labor, the
eonvention statement declares:
“Tuabor in all industry must go
ahead together in establishing 2
forty hour week, a higher mini-
mum wage and higher living
standards. Full employment and
the prosperity of our people de-
pends on this path being followed.
Hither we go forward to the es-
tablishment of higher living stan-
dards for all, or we will go baek
to the conditions of the vicious
circle of unemployment, wage
cutting and undernourishment,
which prevailed in the thirties.”

SEE ROSEN

Members of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers’, Local No. i, on the picket line at the plant

of the Active Trading Co., during the li-day strike.

picket line.

War veterans took an active part on the