IWA strike gave union new role in northern B.C. By BRUCE MICKLEBURGH Standing in the main street of Terrace just after five o’clock, I could see men coming home from work who were wearing proudly the regimental badges of their first battle to win the peace. Tucked in grimy hat bands or pinned on sweat-stained suspenders were said “IWA-CIO Local 1-71.” There would be nothing unusual in that sight in towns that have been organized for Many years. But in Terrace, isolated from the main industrial centres, ninety miles East of Prince Rupert, the operators have had things strict- ly their own way since the first erew went into the bush. @n Thanksgiving Day, 1944, John McGuish organized a sub- Jocal in Terrace. It eked out a precarious existence till May 15, 1946, when over three hundred loggers and mill workers walked off the job. Back at work now, they are talking about their first victory. “Two years ago I didn’t know anything at all about unions,” Secretary Art Shaw told me, “but now Ill be building unions the rest of my life.” “We learned plenty of lessons in this strike,” another member said, “We were all green men when we started, but by jeez, if we ever have to go on strike around here again, well really iknow how to put things over.” Six weeks ago the high school girls thought a scab was just something that formed on a sore. Today a grade 11 girl said to me, “See that feller over there? He tried to scab, and now none of the girls will go out with him.” “Napoleon” Martel, a Erench Canuck, who can tackle any job in the woods, hitched his thumbs in his trousers and said, “These operators, they try now to or ganize a little blacklist! But when the boys send a committee to tell them they may be going to have another strike on their EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS Fully Insured——24-Hour Service 613 EAST HASTINGS St: Gor. Princess and Hastings HA. 0334 the round celluloid disks that \their ears in 1928 when Litvinov hands they start to sing a dif- ferent tune.” “None of these organizations in town ever seemed to have any place for a working man,” added Shaw. “They acted like they wanted to keep everything secret.” “Why last year when some of the boys wanted to give me don- ations for a Christmas tree for the kids, these guys up town really blew ap. “But times have changed now —we're the fellahs that keep this town going and weve got our own organization to speak up for us. “After 37 days on the picket- line, we've got no intention of going back to where we started.” Here and there in Terrace, in bunkhouses and at home, men are reading new books—books by Marx, Engels, lenin; they’re look- ing for answers to questions that have come into their heads since the strike started. “Some of these books are pretty tough at first,’ they say, “but were finding what we're look- ing for.” Atom plan tion use the bomb to force its views on the franian, Spanish or any other issue on the rest of the world. Eliminating the veto power in the Security Council would make possible those policies which the atom bomb diplomacy is now try- ing to achieve. “ The diplomats couldn’t believe proposed disarmament to the World disarmament conference. In 1946 they are startled by Gro- myko’s proposal to destroy exist- ing atom bombs and remove the threat of atomic destruction for- ever. vee UNIVERSAL Aarne NEWS STAND 138 EAST HASTINGS STREET ay Progressive * IF WE DON’T STOCK -.. features... Language and Home Vown Newspapers and Literature IT, WE CAN GET IT * Moulders plant, however, did not return to work, Claims made by Fred Abernathy, business agent of the AFL FHoun- dry Workers, that similar agree- ments had been signed with 16 other plants could not be substan- tiated. The CCL union has asked the provincial labor department to take a vote in plants closed by the strike to determine the’ bargaining agency, since all certifications have been held up during the strike and in many plants applications for certification have been sent in by both unions: James Thompson, pro- vincial conciliation officer, is re- ported to have agreed to recom- mend this to the department. Hirst violence in the strike was reported by pickets at Canadian Sumner Iron Works where the management has been flooding the mails with anti-union propaganda. Roy Halverson, 29-year-old strik- er, was knocked down and injured by a hit-and-run auto leaving the plant, allegedly driven by a non- striking employee. Halverson was taken to Vancouver General Hos- pital, treated for a knee injury and later discharged. At strike headquarters this week, John Frame, business agent for Vancouver Metal and Chemical Workers’ Union, renewed his ap- peal for contributions to the union’s strike fund. “The protracted fight has put a heavy strain on our limited re- sources and we need all the assist- ance other unions can give us to help us win the victory that is now in sight,’ Frame said. BCER Association Non-Partisan rules the city hall. Minor concessions to public pressure are reflected in the new agreement in provisions for estab- lishment of new services at the council’s request, for increasing the citys percentage of revenues out of B.C. Electric income to the amount of $100,000 a year and for extending the B.C. Electric’s share of the cost of maintaing city streets and the present dangerous condition of street car tracks is itself a commentary on the. way in which this responsi- bility has been met in the past. Before the new franchise can become effective it must go be- fore the provincial legislature in the form of a special act to give the city the power it now lacks to grant an exclusive franchise for trolley cars or busses. There is no .doubt that it will meet strong opposition from ratepayers and community organizations as well as all sections of the labor movement through the popular demand that the issue be sub- mitted to a plebiscite. CANADA’S DESTINY AIMS OF U.S. IMPERIALISM FOURTH 5-YEAR PLAN . e Order from 337 WEST PENDER STREET Read the July Issue of the National Affairs Monthly PEOPLE’S COOPERATIVE BOOKSTORE By TIM BUCK By WILLIAM FOSTER VANCOUVER, B.C. SHILIUUUSIVUUSETUNUUTUUETUUUUEEUTTUTVAEATUUT TE Refreshment Social— Olympia: Hall, Saturday, July 7, 9 to 12 o’clock. Auspices Hast- ings Hast Ukranian Organization. AUTUUUUUUUIERHAEVAN AVATAR Against the shattered background left by war, two Polish women plant seeds provided by UNRRA to help build up the nation’s food resources. Qutside of Poland reactionary emigres work overtime to plant the seeds of a new war. factories to assure themselves a secure existence. This not being to the liking of the wealthy mon- opolists in our country, in Bri- tain, and the United States, the Goebbels’? trick is resorted to— Communism and Soviet Russia are slandered and vilified. To do that more effectively, Hitler re- sorted to the Reichstag fire and we have our ‘spy scare.’ “But let us remember that the Reichstag fire lit the fuse that set off World War II. The Cana- dian spy scare can easily become the match that sets off World War iil, an atomic war that will end all wars for it can only end in the destruction of humanity. “The people of Canada togeth- er with the people of the world Want peace and security; they want to enjoy life under decent conditions in decent homes. They want no destruction, “Bor these things, I have al- ways fought. For this my best jury, the people of Cartier, Jew- ish Canadians, French Canadians and others, have rewarded me by sending me to the House of Com- mons in 1943 and again in 1945 with nearly double the vote. I will say that the sentence im- posed upon me ican oniy be sce- ondary to the importance of the welfare and peace of Canada and the world. ATTNUUOUAUUOTTT HUHNE For a Successful Jubilee Picnic, Sell Your Tickets NUNEATON =~ ~~ WAND STUDIO “Anything With a Camera” 8 E-. Hastings St. — PAc. 7644 Vancouver, B.C. JOHN STANTON Barrister - Soltettor. 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