Premier Drew of Ontario has no mone
break picket lines. A striker being arr
been on strike for decent wages and

Stand firm.

y for social security needs, home-building projects, etc., but plenty for police to
ested at the Anaconda picket line in New Toronto, where the IUMM&SW. have
a 40-hour week for nearly two months. In spite of all provocations the strikers

Commons committee will
study industrial unrest

Alarmed at the rising strike wave across Canada the
government has resurrected its parliamentary ‘industrial re-
lations committee.’ Defunct for a number of years, the com-
imittee’s first assignment in studying general industrial un-

rest will be directed towards

Gabinet ministers Howe, Mitchell
an@ MacKenzie attended the hur-
ried first session of the committee
July 15. Ian MacKenzie termed the
erowing strike movement as “a
national crisis.”

Labor minister Mitchell, in seek-
ing support for his strike-breaking
activities recommended that the
committee should include on its
agenda, “evidence from the Prices
Board, and from the many people
in @anada not on strike.” In this
Mitchell hopes to “prove” through
the medium of the Industrial Rela-
tions Committee that the big mon-
opolists cannot afford to pay wage
inereases above his pre-arranged
i0c per hour limit, and that high
wages result in inflation?

Meanwhile the strike situation
across Canada is growing in volume
for wage increases and shorter
hours. The Quebec textile strike
iS in its fourth week involving
6,000 textile workers, with an addi-
tional 600 textile workers on strike
in Toronto.

Bocal 811 of the TUMMES at the
New Toronto Anaconda Brass in-
yolying 1,400 members, is in its
ninth week, with police intimida-
tion on picket lines growing and
many of the union leaders arrested.
@he strike holds solid.

Local 289 of the LUMME&S, with
800 moulders, has been on strike

Since May 17th. The CMA have re-]|,

serted to every ruse to break the
Strike of the moulders, but with-
ext success. A number of operators
have agreed with the TUMM€&S for
a i5¢ per hour wage increase, the
4-hour week and union shop.
Meanwhile API. moulders’ leaders

British unions

back WFTU

LONDON.—Full endorsement of
the World Federation of Trade
Unions’ program to compel the
United Nations to “outlaw” the
Franco regime was voted this week
by the general council of the Brit-
ish Trades Union Congress. The
WED program calls upon all af-
filiates to organize anti-Franco
demonstrations and to press their
gevernments to break relations

-With the Spanish dictator.

PACIEIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3

the present stee] strike.

have sought to settle for 10c per
hour, and an award to this effect
has been hurriedly brought down
by the Regional War Labor Boara,
Placing this body in the category
of strike breakers. API, rank and
file moulders have refused to cross
C€iO picket lines in spite of the
actions of their leaders.

Local 800 of the LUMMeé&S, Gal-
gary, haye been on strike since
June 20th. Since July 3rd 2,500
hardrock miners of B.C. in 12 of
the province’s major hardrock op-
erations, have been on strike for
a 29c per hour wage increase, and
the 40-hour week. In every mining
camp the enthusiasm and deter-
mination of the miners to win is
very high.

in Ontario 11,000 rubber workers in
ten plants are in their fourth week
on strike. The United Auto Work-
ers at the Chrysler plants in Wind-
sor and Chatham have been out
since June 18th. In Windsor also
the workers of Canadian Industries
Ltd. and Tuscon Steel have been
eut for weeks. In Hamilton the
two plants of the Canadian West-
inghouse, involving 4,000 United
Electrical Workers, have been on
strike since July 3. On July 8.
3,000 workers at the Canada Wire
and Cable went on strike.

The ITU in Vancouver is in its
fourth week at the ‘Daily Province’
key west point in the Southam
chain of newspapers. in Ottawa,
Hamilton, Winnipez and Hdmon-
ton, the Southam monopoly has
been able to publish with scab
printers. A few days ago this com-
bine began the importation of pro-
fessional scabs to its Vancouver
plant. To date there has been no
publication of the “Province” since
the strike began. A vicious injunc-

_tion has been issued against ITU

picketing, and picketing is now
taken over by other AFL and CIO
unions.

July 15, 415,000 steel work-
ers went on strike at Syd-
ney, Algoma and Hamilton.

The issue in every strike struggle
now in operation or pending is in-
ereased wages, Shorter hours. and
a greater measure of union secur-
ity.

Government policy has been to
ignore these basic needs, to pro-
erastinate in effecting settlement.
by the creation of machinery speci-
ally designed for the purpose, to
maintain a freeze on wages, while
removing ceilings on prices. The
resurrection of the industrial rela-
tions committee may indicate some
changes In government policy in
the growing wages, hours and se-
curity struggles. :

Tenth anniversary of
Spain’s glorious fight

By ROSALEEN ROSS

JULY 18, 1936.—Qne day, ten years ago now, a shep-
herd in the Catalonian Pyrenees told mex “They Say there is
hghting down on the plains, but it is nothing—an affair of

kings and princes.” This old

man, who lived the summer

long among the high peaks and whose only contact with the
outside world was a village boy who came once a week
bringing him bread, wine and omelette, was wrong. He

could not see the long years of

bloody terror, and. suffering being
born there on those plains.”

But there were others who could
and did see but would not act to
avert the coming catastrophe. So-
called statesmen in Britain and
France mouthed pious phrases and
watched while fascism sharpened
its weapons and used Spain as a
testing ground to perfect its tech-
nique of mass murder.

Heedless of the warnings of pro-
gressive people in all countries, the
Chamberlains and the Blums con-
cocted their devilish “non-interven-
tion” policy—non-intervention on
the side of democracy and free-
dom.

The magnificent fight of the
Spanish people against the armed
might of German and Italian fas-
cism set the pattern for the resist-
ance movements soon to spring
up as the flames of war spread
over the continent of Europe. The
Spanish people,
ternational Brigades, symbol of the
solidarity of freedom-loving peoples
the world over, including our own
Canada, tried valiantly to stem the
flood of fascism before it rose ana
engulfed the civilized world. His-
tory has proven their cause just,
their estimate of the consequences
of “non-intervention” and appease-
ment correct, but ten years of the
wanton brutality of fascism appar-
ently has not convinced the Bevins
and the Byrnes of the necessity for
extirpating every last vestige of
fascism from the world.

The warmongers are at their old
game and Generalissimo Francisco
Franco is their white hope. Win-
ston Churchill not so very long ago
declared that he had no quarrel
with France and Byrnes and Bevin
have made it very clear that they
are prepared to follow his lead.
Desperately they are trying to pre-
vent the situation in Spain from
being discussed by the United Na-
tions, knowing full well that
Franco stands condemned already
a hunderd times over. and know
too that their own evil machina-
tions will be brought to light.

aided by the In-|].

Spain today is still the bulwark
of the reactionaries and warmong-
ers against the peace-loving peoples
of the world. It must not remain
so. Franco must go and the people
of Spain must be allowed at long
Jast to enjoy the democratic free-
dom for which they have fought

and suffered through ten long
years. It was not to provide 4
haven for fascists that thousands
of Spaniards, Frenchmen, Britons.
Canadians, courageous men of all
nations fought and died.

The evil plans of the warmongers
must be stopped. The lead of the

Buy - no- beef
say Manitoba
Housewives

Thousands of Winnipes
families will go without beef
for one whole week Staring
Saturday, as Winnipeg house-
wives get the second major
Step in their campaign against
high prices underway.

Protesting high meat prices, the
Manitoba Housewives Consumers
Association. at a special meetins
in the Hugh John Macdonald
School yesterday, laid plans for 4
“Buy-No-Beef”’ Week, Saturday,
July 20 to Saturday, July 27.

The Association plans to mobil-
ize support through its distribution
of 30,000 public circulars, press ap-
peals, and special telephoned ap-
Peals. Indications are that wide
Support will meet this move by
the Association.

“We are confident that the wo-
men of this city will make “Buy-
No-Beef” Week a strong register
of protest against steadily inereas-
ing prices on meat lines,” Mrs, Mar-
tin, president, told the meeting.
“This action is directed against the
beef trusts and government price
policy, who are combined in a con-
spiracy against the housewives’
dollar.”

In a special letter to the meat
retailers of the city, Mrs. G. Stei-
man, secretary, told the butchers
that “throughout the planning of
this protest action, we have made
it clear that the fight is not
against the meat retailers.” In her
appeal for the co-operation of meat
retailers, Mrs. Steiman stated that
“you, too, have an important stake
in the fight against inflation. The
ruination of the consumer is your
ruin as well.”

The public appeal, headed ‘Mrs.
Housewife: It’s Downright Rob-
bery!” will carry six Protest Tok-
ens, one for each day of the boy-
cott, which are to be detached by
the housewife and handed to the
buteher every time a meat pur-
chase other than beef is made. The
token carries the words “TI Bought
No Beef Today” and is addressed to
the prices and trade board.

delegates to the last meeting of the
Vancouver Trades and Gabor Coun_
cil, demanding that action be
taken “to express opposition to
Franco” should be followed by
every democratic and peace-loving:
organization. The cry of the Re-
publican militia on their way to
the fronts ten years ago still lives
today: Abjo Franco! Down with
Franco! Viva la Republica! Long

live the Republic!

“cc

- + + - We are not convinced that the Franco government

is a menace to world peace,” say the Brynes-Bevin ‘in-

vestigators.”

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1946