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IN CITY

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| 2500 B.C. hardrock miners on strike for higher wages,

40-hr. wee

Voli. No. 22

Five Cents

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Vancouver, B.C., Eriday, July 12, 1946

Formerly PACIFIC ADVOGATE _

Hardrock miners’ sts ike

solid in all mine camps

On July 3, 2,500 hardrock miners struck 12 B.C. mines,
demanding a 29-cent increase in Pay, 40-hour week, and

union security. Immediately the Metal Mine Operators’ sec-

tion of the CMA swung

into action with a pre-arranged

pubiicity campaign in press and radio.

Cc. HH Locke, RECS spokes-
man for the operators, followed
the well-established technique of
branding the strike “illepal.” He
then developed a new angie.
“What may not be well enough
understood,” he frothed, ‘is that
the hardrock mines on _ strikes
have approximately 45,000 share-
holders.” :

This
erators’

is the theme cof the op-
press campaign — “a
Strike against 45,000 small in-
vestors in B.C. mines.” How
teuching! The mine owners and
management are pictured as
trustees for the 45,000 small in-
vestors, The miners, the men who
drill and muvek and live and die
with silicosis for wretchedly low
wages, are portrayed as an un-
reasonable body of ingrates who

spurned a 50c per shift offer
from ,the operators (an offer
which was declared-to “adequate-

ly cover the rise in living costs”)-

The fact of the matter is that
profits in the 12 struck mines
amount to 60 percent of the wage
bill and that’s a high rate of

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Tune in August 28

; Tim Buck, national leader of
the WLabor-Progressive Party
will speak over CBC stations
On August 28th at 8 p-m., in
one of a series of political
broadcasts over the CBC.

in the Western network the
broadcast of Tim Buck will be
heard on CJCA Edmonton;
CJOC Lethbridge; CKLN Nel-
son; CJAT Trail; CFIC Kam-
loops; CKOV Kelowna and
CBR Vancouver.

i-PP clubs are urged to or-
Zanize the widest listeners’
greups on August 28th, since
the message of Tim Buck over
CBE to the Canadian people
on the struggle for peace and
postwar progress is of yital
importance.

Note the date and time on
your radio program and make
Sure to tume in on August 28th

at 8 p.m.

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INCREASE

MEANS INE:

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Stake headquarters, Vancouver Local 289, Metal and

Chemical Workers,

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(€iO). The moulders

ave been on strike since May 17th, and in face of CMA
Violence directed against them, together ith the splitting
tactics of certain leaders of APL unions, they need labor’s

full support to win.

“A great fight,” declared Mc-
Donell the next day as he tried
to put the best face on his ac-
tion.

Comment of John Frame, Metal
Workers’ business agent, was
more to the point.

“When the woodworkers made
their trek to Victoria, not a Single
Conservative member was at the
parliament buildings to meet
them,” he said. “But apparently
the Conservatives are not too busy.
to break strikes.”
~ MeDonell’s, Westland Iron and
Steel and Terminal~ City Iron
Works, in all of which a policy
of weeding out union members
had been followed even before
the strike, were the three select-
ed for the attempt to break the
strike. ‘

At Westland Iron and Steel,

where the AFI, Moulders Union,

has signed an agreement for 10
cents an hour wage increase,
Fred Abernathy, union president,
instrueted his members to go
through GiO picket lines. In vio-
lent fighting with Pickets some
broke through but their success
was short-lived. Next day the
plant was closed down again.

Qnly four of the 35 plants af-
fected by the strike were operat-—
ing at mid-week and all four
were under Signed agreement
with the CIO union for fifteen
cents an hour wage increase.
- On Wednesday, however, *
Regional War Labor Board
struck at the union with its di-
rective allowing only a | 10-cents

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CMA PROVOKES VIOLENCE
FOUNDRY STRIKE.

CMA- inspired attempts to open Vancouver metal
eight weeks ago by Vancouver Metal and Chemical
failure this week after scabs wielding b!ackjacks
side McDonell Metal Manufacturing Company's

plants, closed down
Workers’ Union, ended in

clashed with ClO pickets out-
plant on West Third Avenue.

Striking moulder Ralph
to a finish and win.”

Hamilton: “Weill fight

it out

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La Guardia halts UNRRA~

aid to Chinese

government

One of the most colossal swindles and grafts in history

Was abruptly stopped Tuesday

when UNRRA Director Fior-

ello La Guardia halted shipments to China of all but the

most vital foodstuffs.

The move was the result of a
mass protest from the overwhelm-
ing majority of UNRRA officials
in China who had flooded La
Guardia with wires pointing out
that such ports as Shanghai were
clogged with rapidly deteriorat-
ing supplies, while the Nanking Na-

Noted union leader,
Sidney Hillman, dead

Sidney Hillman,
Clothing Workers’
Action Committees died July
age of 59.

In recent years Hillman has
been one of the most active fig-
ures in the leadership of Ameri-
can and world laber trade
unity and aé_ée relentless
struggle against fascism. He was
a member of the late President
Roosevelt’s labor advisory com-
mittee, and an active participant
in the last presidential election
as head of PAC.

Chairman of CIO’s delegation
to the first world congress of
trade unions out of which de-
veloped the World Hederation of
Trade Unions, Hillman was a
strong initiator and exponent of
world trade union unity. He was
an ardent exponent of the closest
unity and friendship between the
peoples of the USA and the So-
viet Union, and had visited the
latter country on a number of
Oceasions. and was deepely im-
pressed with what he saw ana
learned.

president

for
union

Union and chairman of CIO’s Political

of the powerful Amalgamated

10 from heart attack at the

SIDNEY HILEMAN

tionalist regime
of Chiang - Kai
-Chek was mani-
pulating the ship-
ments for politi-
cal purposes, al-
lowing less than
2 percent to get
through to the
vast Communist
areas where the
need is greatest.

American goy-

CHIANG KAI-SHEK

ernment mis-
sions to Ghina
have not distinguished them-
selves by any great concern

for the welfare of the Chinese
people as a whole, but reports
from several to date confirm the
UNRRA officials story—includine
€ven the Hoover mission.

Washington spokesmen for Wall
Street as Senator Tom MicKellor,
chagrined at this world-wide ex.
pose of their puppet government in
Nanking, exploded in wath at La
Guardia’s announcement, and are
sharpening their knives for his
political scalp. A showdown is im-
minent. =

It has been obvious for many
months that American “relief” for

China has been relief for the
Chiang Kai-Chek dictatorship
against the overwhelming senti-

ment of the people for a fulg7 demo-
cratic government. It is not in any
sense relief for the Starving mil-
lions.

The world-famed leader of the,

Chinese peoples’ armies, General
Chou En-Lai, recently told the
world that American policy in
China was leading to large scale

civil war. The Chinese people will —
have no more of Atnerican puppet —

sovernments than they would of
the Japanese marionette-emperor
Pu-Yi.

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