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erers alike; @ an eight-hour
day with Overtime pay; @ full
umion recognition with check:
off of union dues and closed
shop; 6 abolition of double
@ecker bunks in favor of single
beds; @ the provision by the
companies of ciean blankets,
Sheets and pillow cases to ali
workers and the washing of
sheets and pillow cases every-
two weeks; @ establishment of
beth shower and steam baths,
central heating system and

SYAUUFEREOEUDAENUVATUUTLTET ATTA

INVITATION

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TO A TOUR

Wigin Ruddell, Candidate in

the aldermanic byelection,
invites you to see our city
{as the Non - Partisans

wouldn’t have us see it—or
do they care?)

Leaving the City Hall
‘At 12th and Yukon

TIME: 3 P.M.
SAT., NOV. 2ND

POINTS of INTEREST
Hin Route

The Goid-Plated Bridge
Housing, 1946
Civic Centre Site
(and what happened to it)
The Sewer That Disgorges
its Contents in the Heart
of the City
And many other highlights

Bring Your Car
Bring Your Friends
For Those With No
Car There Will
Be A Bus

See Vancouver

Beyond The
Non-Partisan
“Tron Curtain’

Civic Reform Committee
517 Holden Bide.

strike

special huts for reading and re-
creation.

Power™=drunk with their swol-
len profits and backed by the
Drew government, employers have
bluntly rejected these demands
and even refused to negotiate.
Their most liberal offer was to
grant a daily wage increase of
$515 with a- proviso to deduct
$1.20 for board and lodging. In
other words, it was a step back-
ward and represented no gain for
the workers at all. They flatly
refuseqd even to consider any im-
provement in living conditions or
to grant union recognition.

Along with the employers and
the Drew government, the reac-
tionary leadership of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joimers (AFI) is sabotaging
and disrupting the strike. Recent-
ly, Strikers expressed prave con-
cern and indignation against the
action of their international rep-
resentative, Andrew Cooper, in
Signing a fake agreement with
the Qntario and Minnesota Paper
Company, in the Kenora region,
without even consulting the
Strike leadership.

This sham agreement provides
for a daily wage of between $4.65
to $5.20. However, employers are
to deduct the cost of board and
lodging. Consequently, it means
no wage increase, at all. Not to
speak of the eightjthour day,
hours of work are not even stip-
ulated in the agreement. There is
to be no improvement in the
camp conditions. The only gain
made by the workers is that of
form of voluntary check-off.

When I argued with the work_
ers that they had at least gained

union recognition, they angrily
replied, “This is not union recog-
nition. it is Cooper recognition.”

Cooper’s disruptive tactics have
strengthened the employers posi-
tion against the workers. Even
in the Kenora area, opposition
is rising among the rank and file,
who were not even consulted,
against this agreement.

The workers are solidly united
around their leaders, all veteran
fighters for organization of -the
industry, Appealing for assistance
from the Canadian iabor move-
ment Quinn, president of Local
2786, declared to me:

‘Wei are fighting this strike
as part of the national wage.
movement of the Canadian labor
movement. We want other
unions to get behind us in our
sirugele. We need financial as—

Sistance. We are in this strug- ~

gle with the British Columbia
Woodworkers whose victory last
Summer has strengthened our
fight here. Here, in the East,
We are eagerly looking forward
to the day when ali woodwork-
ers will be united into one
strong union. Qur Cause is just.

We are united and resolved to
win.”

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South African miners need help

From W. H. Andrews, national chairman of the Communist Party of South Africa
the Pacific Tribune has received an appeal for assistance in fighting a case involving funda-
mental democratic liberties and trade union rights of the South African peoples.

Text of the letter follows:

Arising from the strike of 50)-
000 African mine workers on the
Witwatersrand and for an increase
of their present starvation wages
of 3 shillings per day to 10 shill-
ings per day, the South African
government has arrested 52 per-
sons who are now appearing be-
fore the Johannesburg courts.

They are charged with incit-
ing the African miners to strike
in contravention of War Meas-
ure 145, which makes any strike

Seamen

claim that the captain had refused
the crew’s request to have the ship
fumigated, as a result of which
port authorities at Suva- had de-
nied the vessel permission to load
because she was “infested with
bugs and rats.” The crew, he said,
had been obliged to make strong
representations to the captain in
order to draw pay. Cause of the
trouble at Auckland, he submitted,
was the fact that crew quarters
were overcrowded while there
were vacant passenger berths.

The four sShip’s delegates sen-
tenced to hard labor were Able
Seamen R. C. Whyte and W. Cal-
lander, Wireman C. Brosseau and

Chief Cook Thomas Shepherd.

Sentence was suspended on six
crew members and on nine more
On condition that they pay $10
costs each.

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of Africans a crime. This. meas-
ure is a wartime regulations made
under the Government War Hm-
ergency Powers. Although the
war has ended, it still remains in
operation.

The accused include the nation-
al secretary of the Communist
Party of South Africa, all the
members of the Johannesburg dis-
trict committee of the party and
officials and leading members of
the African Mineworkers’ -Union
(non-Huropean).

An urgent appeal is being made

by the “People’s Defense Fund
Committee, which includes a large
number of prominent citizens,

members of parliament, ministers
of religion and professional men
and women. The committee hopes
to raise £20,000 for the defense
of the accused workers in the
courts, to assist the dependents
ef those who have been killed
by the police and the hundreds

of seriously wounded, many of
whom will never be able to work
again.

All donations should be sent to:
The Joint Treasurers (Freq Co-
hen and A. Reichman), People’s
Defense Fund, 201 Union Center,

31 Pritchard Street (P.O. Box
9090), Johannesburg, South Africa,

On behalf of the brutally ex-
ploited millions of African work
ers, I urge-.every person and or
ganization whose efforts are di-
rected to establishing social jus-
tice for all mankind, to support
this appeal liberally and promptly.

A footnote to this letter was
contained jin a recent Allied Ha-
bor News dispatch stating that
34 people arrested in raids on
African union headquarters have
been sentenced to three months'
hard labor “for helping te pro-
long” the miners’ strike, with 11
others being given four-month
jail terms for distributing Com-
munist literature. All sentences

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