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Five Cents

“YEREONI DS British Columbia, Hriday, May 31, A946
Formerly PACIFIC ADVOGATE

Buck Calls

Support To Strikers

a5 ORONTO— Declaring that the trade unions are carry-
ing forward on the picket lines the battle to win the peace,
Fim Buck, LPP national leader,

week, called upon all working
to labor’s struggles.

Qabor unions across the Domin-
ion have been compelled to strike

and take to the picket-lines be-|

cause of the bankruptcy of the
King-Mitchell labor policy and the
protit-greed of big business. These
strikes of the 37,000 woodworkers
in British Columbia, of the 800
Vancouver foundry workers, the
41,400 New Toronto Anaconda Brass
workers and the Carleton Place
textile workers, are not the con-
cern only of these workers and
their CCL-CiOQ and AFI unions;
they significantly concern the wel-
fare and social security of all Can-
adian workings people.

he issues at stake are: higher
living standards, the 40-hour
week, vacations with pay and
union rights. Im a nutshell—
better livine standards and high-
people’s prosress. On the picket-
lines our Canadian labor unions
are carrying this struggle for-
ward.

Winning these strikes will bene-
fit every Canadian worker, farmer,
veteran and small business man.
= am urging all members and or-
ganizations of the Labor-Progres-
Sive Party to give every possible
measure of support to these strikes.

G@anada is fortunate that her
labor: unions embrace over 750,000
workers. In every community, and
first of all in those communities

(Continued on Page 8)
See BUCK

SSO TTT

Jean Phillips

Jean Phillips, staff mem-
ber of the Canadian Tribune,
passed away suddenly on May
20th following a brief iUlness.
=The Pacific Tribune editor-
Sial board and staff, and
many British Columbia
workers who knew and
loved Jean WFPhillips, extend
their deep sympathy to her
bereaved husband Paul Phil-
lips, her two young sons, and
her parents, A. E. and Mrs.
Smith, and to Controlier
Stewart Smith and other
members of the family.

The working class of Can-
ada has lost a valiant and
loyal comrade in the passing
of Jean Phillips.

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in a statement issued this
people to throw their support.

CSU Scores
A Victory

After two days of strike
marked by clashes between
pickets and police along the
Montreal and Toronto water-
front as the Canada Shipping
Act was invoked to arrest and
intimidate striking: Great
Lakes seamen, the Canadian
Seamen’s Union emerged
from a conference between:
transport department officials
and union representatives, with
agreement from the transport
department that henceforth
crews of all its ships would
work a straight 8-hour day.

Information to this effect
was received in Vancouver on
Wednesday this week by J.
S. Thompson, Pacific Coast

|- vice-president of the CSU.

The transport department
has also agreed to pay over-
time for all time worked over
eight hours instead of giving
seamen time off for extra time
worked. :

Wage rates, now being sur-
veyed by the labor depart-
ment, will be negotiated by
transport department officials
and a union committee.

Crews of all transport de-
partment ships have been in-
Structed to return to work
immediately.

(Continued on Page 8) .

TIM BUCK

‘ See CSU

VLC Warns Premier King On
Anii-Labor Legislation

In its Tuesday session the Vancouver Iabor Council
(CEL) denounced the Truman proposals before the US.

Congress for anti- strike legislation,

labor iegislation,” and called
of Labor “to sound a warning

describing it as “anti-
upon the Canadian Congress
to the King government “that

similar repressive legislation will not be ‘tolerated by labor

in Canada.”

The council resolution on the
question noted that ‘eurbing of
labor’s right to strike by govern
ment seizure of plants has al-
ready been used in Canada in the
packinghouse and steel indus-
tries.”

The statement of the minister
of justice St. Laurent that he
“had no knowledge” of the arrest
of striking seamen on the Great
Ihakes drew strong protest from
the council.

’ Gouncil secretary John Turner
forwarded a wire of protest to
the department of justice stating
that “Wancouver Labor Council
protests arrest of Great Lakes
seamen and vigorously protests
action of government in using
the Canada shipping act on be-
half of the shipowners to break

the strike.”

CMA Cracks Whip

VICTORIA.—The growing bold-
mess of big busimess’ attacks on
the people’s living standards and
the government's capitulation be-
fore them were reflected im Pre-
mier John Hart’s announcement on
Wednesday this week that a spe-
cial cabinet meeting had been
called for this Friday to consider
wild charges levelled by the B.C.
Division, Canadian Manufacturers
Association, that present strike
struggles im this province consti-
tute “a planned attempt under
Communistic direction and control
to disrupt industrial life:

Premier Hart's announcement
came within 2 few hours of publi-
cation of the CMA’s denunciation
of the TWA strike.

4+inerease,-
union security. Nearly all impor +

FOR MARCH ON VICTORIA

With no sign that Se eted negotiations under Commissioner Sloan had
produced any change in the operators’ attitude to the unions demands as the
strike of 37,000 woodworkers entered its. third week, the International Wood-
workers this week directed its efforts to mobilizing the great body of public.
opinion behind it to force the just settlement which is now blocked by the oper-
ators Stalag tactics and governmental inaction.

Highlights of a series of demonstrations, parades and tag
days already held or being planned is a mass march of
loggers on Victoria to demonstrate on the provincial gsov-

ernment’s Own doorstep their

mounting dissatisfaction with

the Coalition’s calculated aloofness from strike issues. The

mareh, which will get under way |:

from up-Island points at the be—
ginning of the week, will con-
verge on the capital around the
weekend.

Striking woodworkers in this '|
province were heartened this
week by the victory scored by
the TWA in Washington and Ore-
gon. In the fir belt, scene of
many a long sffuggle in the past,
operators signed an agreement
providing for a five percent wage
increase—20 cents an hour—and
establishment of the 40-hour
week throughout the industry.
Union security was not an issue,
Since it has already been written
into agreements. The new agree-
ment also gave some 50,000 wood-
workers affected a two-week va-
cation with pay plan similar to
that already in effect here.

A review of strike developments
here presented this picture.

@ The IWA is meeting with
unprecedented popular support in
its. demands for a 25-cent~ wage
the 40-hour week- and

tant trade unions and labor or-
Sanizations, including the B.C.
Federation of Labor, Vancouver
and Victoria labor councils (CCL)
and Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council (TLC), the LPP and the
CCF, have pledged their full sup-
port to the strike. Typical of the
financial support received from
several sympathetic progressive
organizations was a donation of
$500 from the Bast Indian organ-
ization, the Khalsa Diwan So-
ciety.

@ Jack Greenall, TWA interna-
tional trustee, and Dick Guster,
executive member of TWA Local
1-80, now on a national tour to

(Continued on Page 8)
See IWA

B.C. Delegates
i On Way To LPP

Convention |

Delegates from British Co-
lumbia to the second national:
convention of the Labor-
Progressive Party, which
opens its sessions in Teronto,
June 1, left Vancouver, Mon-
day night via CPR. Twenty-
Six in all, the delegation from:
the coast province is the larg-
est on record to any similar
gathering in the east.

To many of the delegates
was their
they were
prospect.
every:
province,

it
first convention and
enthusiastic at the
Coniting fron: almost
industry and area in the
the B.C. delegation is
fully representative of trade
unions, veterans, farmer, cultural
and other spheres of social and
political activity.

With B.C. in the forefront of
the wages and hours struggte,
spearheaded by 40,000 striking
workers, the delegates from B.C.
Carry an additional responsibil-
ity to mopilize the
the people of the middle west
and east in support of the strike.

Reports from the BC.
cial office of the LPP indicate
that since the exit of the McKean
faction some 10 months ago, the
membership in the province has
nearly doubled its numbers and
influence.

President William Green of

of price controls are a.

“death lobby.”

the American Federation of
Labor, testified before a Senate committee and charged
that those groups of monopolists who oppose thé retention -

Nomare

support of

Green declared -

proyvin-- -

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Truman’s anti-strike policy would lead to “slave labor: .

under fascism.”