| Trades Council

A trial committee recently set
up by Vancouver Trades ang La-
hor Council to hear the charges
against Local 68 vf the Inter-

national Printing Pressmen’s
Union in its interim report to
the council this week Strongly

condemned George Berry, inter-
national president of the union,
for his strike-breaking directives
to members of Local 69.

fhe report further condemn-
ed members of Local 68 who

condemns Pressmen’s leader

Passed through International
ical UWnion picket
lines to resume worl: at the
Vanceuver Daily Province, de-
Spite the stand taken by both
TLC and CCL councils in the
City_to suppert the ITU in its
strike and place the Daily Prov-
imce On the unfair list.
Delegates were informed that
representatives of the ITU and
the International Printing Press-
men’s Union Sitting on the com-

mittee attended meetings of Local
69 on September 10 and 13 where,
by majority vote, members con-
curreqd in 2 recommendation “to
instruct the pressmen to goa back
to work but not to handle ‘hot’
plates.” International President
Berry ignored this decision and
ordered the pressmen to resume
work through individual wires to
members employed by the Daity
Province.

Unanimously endorsing the com-

mittee’s recommendation,
gates instructed their executive
to send copies to Berry and to
the trades and labor councils ‘of
the four cities affected by the
dispute with the Southam Com-
pany.

The council also ordered that
letters be sent to all affiliated
unions asking them to ascertain
What, if any, of their members
were still subscribing to the Daily
Province.

LPP opposes
rate increase |

REGINA — Qpinion that the
“Canadian railways have chosen
2 very poor time to demand a
30° percent increase in freight
rates,” is expressed by the Sas-
kkatchewan Section of the Labor-
Progressive Party in a statement
issued by Nelson Clarke, its pro-
wancial leader, this week.

“Such action is enough in it-
self to fully justify a resumption
of the farm strike,” Clarke as-

Serts.

The statement continues: “As
everyone knows, the West has
been discriminated against for

Many years. in the matter of
freight rates. The present pro-
posails of the railways, coming on
top of all the other price in-
ereases, would place unbearable
burdens on our prairie farmers,
as well as all other Western
people.
' “Railway operating costs have
~ probably YFisen in recent years,
but so also has the efficiency
of railway operation, a fact
which the railways are very
anxious to have overlooked.
“Certainly, the railways cannot
claim that the wages they are
paying are teoo high. All during
the war the wages paid to trades-
men and laborers who make up

a large portion of railway per-
sonnel lagged well behind those

paid in other industries. The i0-
cent increase now granted to
GNR workers does not in any

way bring railway wages up to

Showing no signs of wilting, these three girls from the
Los Angeles Newspaper Guild (CIO) continue picket-

ing Hearst’s Herald-Express, despite ‘unusual’ California *

weather.

Nanaimo organizations unite
in sponsoring milk petition

NANAIMO, B.C.—A recent conference uniting labor,

farmer and consumer groups

of the Nanaimo district in a

campaign designed to force the provincial governments to
reconsider its refusal to assume the cost of the recently

removed milk subsidy has
port here. The conference,
attended by representatives of the

adéquate levels.

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attracted considerable sup-
Sponsered the conference, TWA
sub-local 1-80, United Mine Work

ers. and the UMWA Women’s
auxiliary, Old Age Pensioners,
Nanaimo Producers’ Co-op, the

CCF and the LPP; elected a dele-
gation instructed to seek sup-
Port of Nanaimo City Council for
a mass Signature campaign to be
held this Saturday. The petition
will demand that the provincial
gevernment assume the cost of
the milk subsidy.

E. Balo, provincial president
of the B.C. Farmers’ Institutes,
who attended the conference.
with a watching brief, assured
delegates that his organization
would give full support to the
demands of the conference.
Invited to send one of its mem-

bers to the meeting but not rep-
resented was Nahaimo City
Council, which did not even see
fit to acknowledge the invitation.
Also invited but unable to attend
because of other duties was the
labor minister, George S. Pear
son, the member for Nanaimo in
the provincial legislature,

Orders opposed

LONDON— (ALN)— All controls
restricting the movement of work-—
ers should be dropped by the end
of 1947, according to the report of
the British Trades Union Congress
general council, to-be presented
to the TUC annual convention.
Wearly 2,000,000 workers in agri-
culture, mining and building are
still tied to their jobs by wartime
regulations, the TUC report points
out.

JOHN STANTON

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Island LPP
maps drive

NANAIMO, B.C—Delegates re-
presenting all labor-Progressive
Party clubs on upper Vancouver
Island, meeting in the Miners’ Hall
here last weelrend, condemned the
Hederal government’s policy of re-

| moving: price ceilings and subsidies

on consumer goods and demanded
that the provincial government as-
sume responsibility for restoring
the recently discontinued Federal
milk subsidy. This action was en=

LPP provincial organizer.

vigorous campaign on this issue,
of all main centers by Mrs. Effie
Jones, president of the Home
Owners’ and Tenants’ league. Mrs.

vember, will be sponsored by the

LPP Women’s Council.

‘The conference appealed-to all
labor, farmer, consumer and fra-
ternal organizations to join togeth-
er in a united campaign to demand

that the price line be held.

Delegates endorsed a number of
Proposals for strengthening their
party's political work on the Is-
dand, made by Alf Dewhurst, L.PP
island organizer, and set a date for
their first regional convention to
be held in Wanaimo, December 14
26.

Oregon cio approves
third party principle

PORTLAND — Formation of
a third party on a national basis
immediately after the 1946 elec-
tions was urged by the Oregon
€tO@ Council convention here.

“This period has shown how.
labor and the people are being
betrayed and sold out by the Re
publicans and “Democrats,” said
the resolution, which was Signed
by Regional Director Al Hartung
and Council Secretary Stanley
Earl. s

“Only a party of a new tyne, a
major national party of workers,
farmers, veterans, women, Nie-
groes and other liberal

ing a major and leading role can
serve and protect the interests
of labor and the people.”

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dorsed by a public meeting held |
at the conclusion of the conference
and addressed by Maurice Rush,

island LPP clubs are planning a

highlight of which will be a tour

Jone’s tour, to start early in No-

5 sections
of the population with labor play-|

EST. 1905

Play feature of
miners’ benefit

Portrayme the vatiant Struggtie
of simple farm folk te retsin
their land despite 2 crooked
mortgage company, which even
resorts to murder in an attenzpt
to run them off, Koztenko's three-
act play, “The Barth is Ours,”
Produced by<«the Labor Arts. Guild
will be the main presentation at
the Miners’ Benefit Conéert, to be
held in the Lyric ‘Theater: this
Sunday at 8 p.m. :

The fine musical. program .for
the concert includes | Dougias
Stewart directing his highly Jae-
Claimeq Junior Philharmonic Or-
chestra, John Goss: singing “Jee
Hill? and a member of the Weitsh
Chorus giving some traditional
numbers. 2] ae

Another feature will be a dra-

matic film en industrial workers ~

“Men and Dust,” the life of the
hard rock miners in the Southern
States, This is the first film of
this kind. : pete STS

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