Czech workers, like those from the Kladno steel mill near Prague shown here, will not be taxed on Overtime wages umder a bill now before the National Constituent Assembly. A plan for a new Labor Temple, to be erected on the present site ' on Beatty street, was discussed at "the Trades and Wabor Council 4 meeting this week. Approximate 4 cost was given as $226,000.00. a Labor Headquarters Ltd. pre- sented the plan in a letter to the council, enclosing blueprint and exterior views. Provision for 37 offices, two large halls and three small halis are embodied in the plans, with space available in the “basement aside from the heating " plant. To finance the project, mem- “bers under the jurisdiction of the ‘council would be assessed six dol- Mars over a period of six months with shares being issued te local » unions. Those holding shares in | the present Labor Temple would _j2¢quire equal value on a share basis in the new building. $ ' Some delegates were of the opin- ‘ion that consideration should be given to forming a cooperative in- ‘stead of a joint stock company. _ After discussion the council unan- | imecusly agreed to place the pro- ; ‘Posal before local unions, in or- ‘der to obtain their recommenda- ‘tions and suggestions. Five-day week first step in British miners’ charter NEW YORK — (ALN) — British miners will soon be i five-day week, 74 hours a day, with no cut in wer Wal Lawther, president of the British National Union of Mineworkers, told ALN this week. The new schedule, which cuts a half-hour off each day and reduces the work week by a full day, marks the first step toward implement- ing the Mineworkers’ Charter, which the government has agreed to apply in nationalized mines. Other points in the charter, to be applied in progressive stages, are: @ Modernization of pits. @ Construction of new towns and villages to end segregation of miners. ean @ introduction of training programs. @ Better safety laws, acci- dent compensation and broad health ang welfare plans. @® Iwo weeks’ vacation and six public holidays a year. q @ Pensions for those unable to work aiter the age of 55. The charter aims not only at raising miners’ living standards, but also at relieving the acute manpower shortage in British mines, said Lawther, who was in the U.S. for the recent World’ Federation of Trade Unions’ meet- ing. Gohaitions are so bad, he said, that not a single one of the 25 members of the mine union exec- utive committee — all of whom came out of the pits—has allow- ed his son to become a miner. The fact that the private own- ers had failed to live up to their responsibility to the country was so generally recognized, Lawther said, that practically everyone in Britain agreed on the need for nationalization of the mines. The British National Union of Mineworkers now has 49 of its members in Parliament, Although all miners belong to the union and the technical staffs are now negotiating to come in, the union is seeking government acceptance of the principles of the closed shop and check-off. The millions of people are threatened by cancer got es. Experiments by Soviet sci Roskin, husband and wife, of the skin. periments. - ERAN AL TT Soviets find cancer serum throughout the world whose lives a new ray of hope this week when Soviet scientists reported the discovery 0 : which can dissolve cancer tumors without affecting entists Nina Klyueva and Georgi started in 1926. Last year, discoveries were tested on human ts effectively on and the results show that the new serum ac several types of cancers, although it has little effect on cancer - The discovery, called KR after 1 is now being studied by U-S. scone are reports sent to them from the Sovie 3 : 2 sample of KR is being shipped to the United States for ex SUA PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3 f a new serum healthy _their beings for the first time, the initials of the scientists, sts on the basis of techical It is reported that Victoria lnbor endorses Sced VICTORIA, B.C.—Victoria La- bor Council this week gave unai- mous endorsation to the candid- acy of B. J. Sced, who is run- ning for alderman in the civic election to be held in December. Sced, a member of Local 1-118 of the International Woodworkers of America, has long been ac- tive in the labor movement in Victoria. Addressing the council, he stat- ed, “I have been a member of the trade union movement for 30 years. I have always fought for labor and I shall continue to fight for Labor.” : A committee composed of J. Maher, R. Mazger, and T. A. Mit- chell was elected to head Sced’s aldermanic campaign in coopera- tion with delegates from local unions. - Workers in electrical, auto industries win TORONTO—The CCL-CIO wage drive resulted in three more Ontario victories last week when two WAW-CIO and one UE-CIO© strikes were won. The UAW-CIO scored victories at the CIL plant in Windsor and the Brunrer-Mond plant at Amberstburg after hard-fought strikes lasting since the end of June. The Brunner-Mond settlement workers wage increases ranging from 12 to 16 cents while the Ci settlement won increases ay- eraging 12 cents an hour. Last week’s outStanding victory. was that gained by the UE-CIO at the Plectro-Metallurgical Com- pany at Welland, Ontario. The union won a general wage- crease of 13 cents an hour, plus shift bonuses of three and five cents an hour, and time-and-a- half for seven Statutory holidays. The settlement means an ac- tual increase of close to 16 cents an hour for 1,300 workers. The Wage gains are retroactive to June 8. Phe Welland victory is addition- al evidence that the Westinghouse Management is hedging on settle- ment of that strike in the hope that its sitdown will result in a back-to-work movement which will break the union, However, the wage victory at Welland has helped to clarify the issues at Westinghouse ana iiuc UE-CIO campaign to win mass opinion in support of the Hamil- ton strike is gaining momentum. Ten thousand rubber workers striking in nine Ontario plants are still on the picket line and are prepared to fight out their ‘wage battle until the companies offer a fair settlement. The URW-CIO strategy com-= mittee which met over last week- end unanimously rejected the lat- est offer of the companies and emphasized: “We are not pre- pared to make any settlement which would put rubber workers on a substandard (wage) basis in comparison with workers in oth— er industries.” This week also the membership of €hrysler Local 195, UAW-CIO, voted to accept a settlement offer, terms of which had already been approved by union shop stewards. pbclos strike and the | Vancouver gives 400 Ratepayers’ groups unite South Vancouver, which its resi- dent feel is “the district the city hall forgot/ served ‘®otice this . week that it has not forgotten the city hall. A committee of delegates from community associations has called a joint meeting of South ratepayers and com- munity groups for Tuesday, Oct- ober 22, to put the pressing needs of the district before candidates in December’s civie elections. Lack of a ward system in Van- couver has resulted in an accum- ulation of particularly acute prob- lems in this area, which once had its Own civic administration, while the Non-Partisan administration has given preferred treatment to such favored areas as Shaughnessy Heights and Kerrisdale. Faced with a stonewall city hail defence against attention to South Vancouver's needs, citizens in that part of the city have organized a number of community and rate- payers’ groups. Several of these have now merged to form the As- sociated Communities Council of Vancouver South, embracing the Riverview Improvement Associa- tion, Victoria Road Ratepayers As- sociation, and Victoria Road, South Hill, Norquay and ~ Carlton’ Gom- munity Associations. Officials elected are William Webster, chairman; L: €. Cunning- ham, vice-chairman; Mrs. | Effie Jones, secretary; Archie EF: Proc- tor, publicity director. The October 22 meeting will be held at the Legion Hall, 48th and Fraser, open to the public. Quebec trade unions map campaign to counter Duplessis’ union-busting | By FRANK ARNOLD MONTREAIL—A three-fronted attack will be made on Duplessis?’ attempts to smash the trade union movement in Quebec as a result of a recent meeting here which was attended by AFL, CIO and Citizens’ Committee representatives. Called by ,the United Textile Workers of America, the meeting moved swiftly to set up a per- manent executive committee to: @ Conduct the defence of labor leaders who have been arrested on charges resulting from strikes: e@ Arouse public opinion to the dangers facing Quebec workers and people; e@. Carry on a consistent bat- tle to have provincial labor legislation changed; e Send delegations te Duples- Sis and to local MILA’s to de- mand an end to anti-labor ac- tivity. Madeleine Parent, UTWA or- ganizer, warned that today “there is one law for Blair Gordon and another for the textile workers. And the man who is administer- ing the law in favor of Blair Gordon is Premier Maurice Du- plessis himself.’ She accused Duplessis of havyv- ing provoked violence in Valley- field by sending in two-gunned provincial police, and of persist- ent efforts to break the great 100-day textile strike. Referring to present negotia- tions between Montreal Cottons and the UTWA, Miss Parent de- clared that collusion still existed between the textile barons and Duplessis to keep the cotton workers’ pay envelope as light as possible. JACK KROLL chairman of the CIO’s Political Action Committee, declares that during his three months as PAC leader he has found the people as eager as éver to work for the principles expounded by the late president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. : 1 Ruddell hails new ruling Building of basement suites in Vancouver will be banned by a zoning bylaw amendment initiat- ed at the city hall this weelx. Elgin Ruddell, secretary of Van- couver Housing Association, which initiated the campaign for such action, expressed satisfaction at the move, stating, “Our informa- - tion is that such cellar dwellings are definitely a health menace.” While the council’s action stops the building of any fur- ther basement suites, thousands of Wancouver families remain cooped up in those that already exist, The only solution to this situation is a public low-rental housing scheme that will give these families a decent place to live in. The council’s action was a sharp rebuff te the Apartment ~ | House Owners’ Association, which had demanded that the allotted basement area for living quarters be boosted beyond the one-third allotted up till now. FRIDAY, GCTOBER 158, 1946