Labor United Regardless

Of Mr.

OTTAWA, Ont— Prime

Wat to peace.”

By ROBERT LAXER

ings Virtuous Snub

Ministers too can be prima-donnas! Although Mr. King
ig no virtuoso of the arts, he was hurt to the quick when the CCL brief presented on
April 5th suggested that the government had not planned an “orderly transition from

as the lifetlong friend of the working man.

“If this is what you think of
me in view of my life’s record in
matters of this kind, I have
nothing more to say to you. This
is where we part company” he
told the CCL delegation.

Wery true words these last
few! Ever since V-J Day the
government. has parted, labor’s
trade union spokesmen pointed
ouf. With unequalled patriotism
labor has done its-job during the
war. labor had sacrificed and
produced. Now it demands gov-
ernment action te win the
peace.

Both congresses, TLC and CCL,
presented their annual briefs to
the government this week on be-
half of 700,000 workers. The fact
that they are almost identical in
their main. proposals proves that

they voice Ilabor’s ‘unanimous
opinions. These are:

@ Legislation to allow for.
wage increases (€.C.1lL. recom-

mends complete elimination of
wage pegging).

@ Retention of price control.

@ A national labor code to
Suarantee collective bargaining
and union security.

@ A 40-hour week, 65¢ an hour
minimum wage (just passed in
U.S. Senate).

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Social

A social will be held in
Grandview Halli, on Saturday,
April 20, at 8 p.m., in honor of
Jean and Bob Mason, who
are leaving the city at the end
of the month. All friends of

Jean and Bob are cordially in-
vited. ;

Obviously cornered and feeling the pressure of 700,000 organized |
workers of both labor congresses whose sp okesmen met him this week, Mr. King posed

@ Health insurance.

@ iIncreased income tax ex-
emptions,

All that Mr. Mitchell, minister
of labor could say in reply was
that price and wage controls
would be necessary until “there
was again a free flow of con-
Sumer goods.”’ This in spite of
the fact that the government has
already .given the profiteers a
field day, by lifting price ceilings
while all demands for wage in-
creases are stubbornly resisted.

Mr. Mitchell ignored too the
TLE suggestion that prices be
held down by action on cartels,
stock manipulations and excess
profits, instead of by pegging
Sub-standard wages. ~

Although Mr. King is anxious
to “part company,” his sgovern-
ment has not heard the last of
labor’s campaign, it is pointed
out in trade union headquarters.
These are but opening shots of a
wage campaign that will sweep
the country in the next few
months. “Never” delegates

agreed, “have AF of L and CIO}

unions been united in

basie policy.”

** Smells. Nice’’

The “Kelowna Courier” pub-
lished a special “perfumed” Hiast-
er supplement, alleged to be the
first expefiment of its kind at-
tempted by a weekly paper. The
Vancouver Province says the
Courier “smells nice.” Most of
the commercial press “smells”
these days,-and it isn’t eau de
cologne.

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The Art of ©
Buckpassing

Labor Mayor Harry Daggett of
Prince Rupert reported to this
northern city’s industrial devel-
opment committee on his return

Bohemia’s colloborationist

tion, stands before a people’s court in Prague,
slovakia, te answer for his crime.

Ka
Frank, the man held personally responsible for the :
age hitlerite destruction of Lidice and its entire pop;

Minister of State,

Czec

from placing northern problems
before the government at Vic-
toria. There has been no deci-
sion reached in Victoria on the
future of the famous Skeena
Highway from Prince Rupert to
the interior, officially opened
Labor Day, 1944, with high
sounding tributes to the future
of the north but now closed to
traffic by mountains of mud,
snow, red tape and buck-passing.

Ottawa says it’s up to Victoria.
Highways Minister Anscomb says
we can’t take it from Ottawa be-
cause of a jurisdictional fight
with the CNR, along whose right
of “way. the highway runs for 27
miles.

At Kwinitsa a slide five hun-
dred feet deep has blocked the
road for months. However, Vic-
teria government officials did
promise to press the question at
the reopening of the Dominion-
Provincial Conference in Ottawa
and assure northern citizens that
in all likelihood the road will
eventually become part of the
provincial highway system.

What eventually may happen
seems to depend on the amount
of public pressure that can be
rallied and northern boards of
trade are sending Olaf Hanson to
Ottawa, to carry on the fight. In-
formed local sources say the CNR
is insisting on holding all com-
mercial rights on the road for 10
or 20 years.

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IWA Demands Price
Controls be Retained

At its quarterly session

the District Council of

IWA, April 14, the following resolution was adopted |

copies forwarded to the Federal Government:

“WHEREAS: The Dominion
Government has recently an-
nounced the “decontrol’ of prices
on such essentials as furniture,
steel, tobacco, certain foodstuffs,
farm implements, etc., etc.;

AND WHEREAS: Despite re-
peated affirmations on the part
of the government during the
war and immediately prior to
their “decontrol” of prices, re
the necessity of maintaining
price controls in order to main-
tain the purchasing power of the
Canadian people and avoid disas-
terus inflation the King Govern-
ment has wmnevertheless relaxed
price controls on hundreds of ar-
ticles with the false and hypo-
‘critical excuse that it was nec-
esSary in order to encourage pro-

duction and assist industries
otherwise making insufficient
profits.

AND WHEREAS: The work-
ers of Canada who accepted a
wage “freeze” during the war
years in’ order to defeat the fas-
cist enemy are now pressing for
wage increases so that annual
earnings may be brought into
line with the increased cost of
living and so that they and their
families may be provided with a
normal and decent standard of
living.

AND WHEREAS: These wage
demands can be met out of the
high profits of Canadian indus-
try, which Bank of Canada sta-
tistics reveal to have increased
more than 100 per cent during
the war years, 2nd still leave

Canadian industry with ;
profits. :
AND WHEREAS. ft
ceilings were maintained
Wage increases would ser
increase the purchasing pr
of the Canadian people, —
living standards nd stim
production and the whole-

omy.”

THEREFORE BE Ir
SOLVED: That we, B.C. Di
No. 1, TWA in quarterly &
meeting, urge the governme
immediately reinstitute p
controls in order to ensur
effective transition from 2

time to 2 peacetime ett

without endangering the

Standards of the Canadian’

ple and te provide throug!
sonable controls and the”
Sion of adequate purcl
power and increasingly | -
standard of living for the 7
of Canada.

BE Yt FURTHER BE
ED: That we will join wi
other organizations and pec

a, campaign for the retur |

retention of price control.”

The district Council wi |

also took “stand-by for ~
action” in the event of wa)
gotiations being stalled.

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