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THE ADVOCATE

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Delegation

Wants Act Amended

Previncial Gov’t Urged To Provide Iimcreased Benefits

VICTORIA, BC. — Amend- ments to the Workmen’s Com- pensation Act giving wider benefits to miners and changes in the Coal Mines Regulations Act aiming at greater safety control measures in provincial mines were sought Tuesday by

representatives of BC locals of United Mine Workers of America in an interview with the provincial cabinet.

Headed by Island Representative W. S. Atkinson, the delegation comprised James. Robertson and John Bond for Cumberland; Ed. Boyd and Percy Lawson for Na- maimo jand Simon Weaver repre—

sentine Fernie and Michel Pat Gonroy, District 18 representa- tive, scheduied to be with the

delegates, was engaged in Este- van, Sask. where a strike is in ?proeress.

Payment of full compensation from date of injury until work is resumed, an increase from $7.50 to $10 a month in allowances for dependent children up to 18 years, and establishment of vo- cational schools for miners dis— abled in the industry were asked by delegates.

Semi-monthly payment of com- pensation and pensions and elim- ination of the maximum 365 a mouth for pensions were sought

Limitation of the work week to 49 hours, two weeks’ holiday with pay, and calculation of tonnage on the basis of 2000 pounds, together with several changes in the Coal Mines Regulations were asked.

Following the interview Atkin- son said the delegation was satis- fied its request would receive full consideration.

Producers Loss Heavy

CGharseing that deplorable condi- tions existing in the dairy industry keep producers “divided into hostile groups, causing them to lose col- lectively a2 sum approximating $30,000 per month,” directors of the Milk Clearing House, TAd., single agency of the Lower Mainland Dairy Products Board, in a state- ment issued this week, urged all dairymen to get together to reap the benefits they are “entitled to and sorely need.” ;

Manipulation by distributor in- terests benefitting by existing con- ditions, caused breakdown of previ- eus plans and agreements, the statement said, adding:

“Tf the single agency marketing plan had been in operation since May, when it was proposed to start,’ dairy farmers generally would have benefitted to the extent of approximately $30,000 per month and this at absolutely no extra cost to consumers of milk.”

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SIDNEY HILLMAN, CIO vice president and Amalgamated Clothing Worker head, declared at second CIO convention, “We meet after a year of sharp de- pression ‘with our organization intact and with greater gains, which is proof of our vitality. We can now move forward in a way not only to shock our enemies but also te surprise our friends.”

BC Parley On Wages Sought

Representations To Labor Department Made By Miners

Representations were made Thursday to James Thompson, provincial department of labor official, by George Price, sec- retary of International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, for calling of a pro- vincial wage scale conference by the government.

This request was made in view of widespread sentiment of hard- reck miners for wage increases to offset rising living costs and ad- vanecinge gold prices, Price told the Advocate,

Miners at Reno, Queen, Gold Belt and Kootenay Bell mines in the Sheep Creek area near Nelson, and Yankee Girl miners at Yumir, are asking wage increases.

Bralorne miners seek $1.50 a day increase and island Mountain miners want 50 cents a day raise, while muckers seek $1 a day in- crease, which they expect to get Pioneer miners in Bridge River Valley and Privateer in the Zebal-

los area also demand wage in- creases.

Thompson said he would send the

proposals for such a conference to the government for answer.

Miners’ Leader Postpones Tour

Reid Robinson, president of In- ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, who was sched- uled to arrive in BC about the middie of this month for a tour of metaliferous Mining camps, has informed Yancouver District Min- ers’ union that his projected visit here has been postponed until after the new year.

Reasons given by the union head for postponement were due to the CIO convention and the many controversies and strikes for in- creased wages or contract renewals coming under his jurisdiction,

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Kootenay Company Named By Cameron As War Profiteer

ROSSLAND, BC. — Speak- ing in defense of civil liberties, two CCE elected representa- tives, both veterans of the last war, Colin Cameron, MILA, and Grant MacNeill, MP, \told a well-attended meeting here that “winning peace must be our main issue.”

Colin Cameron stated that war was the logical outcome of capi- talist-imperialism, although Can- adians and particularly the youth of the Dominion, were beins told without a change even in the wording of 1914 slogans, that they were going to fight for democracy.

“We cannot be satisfied to fight for democracy under the leadership of those who betray- ed it in Spain and Czechoslovak ia and are destroying it in Eng- land and France,” he declared.

Cameron stressed the necessity of organizing and opposing reac- tionary attempts to make unjusti- fied curtailments of civil liberties and to shift unnecessary sacrifices onto the backs of the people.

in illustration he cited the in- stance of Kelowna and Penticton citizens being denied sufficient electric power for the city and the fruit dehydration plants.

When Kelowna’s Mayor O. L. Jones protested, an official of the West Kootenay Light & Power stated that the Allenby company had trouble with its own power supply and consequently had to get power from the power com- pany since it was producing coap- per for war use.

After a determined inquiry Mayor Jones learned that all the Allenby company’s production was going to Japan.

A task confronting the people today, Cameron said, was setting up of committees representative of all working class and freedom loving organizations for the ex- press purpose of defending civil liberty and the victims of this de- fense.

SCORES GRAFTING.

In contradistinction to the capi- talist jingoists who exhausted themselves with vulgar and child- ish abuse in stating their war aims, stated Grant MacWeil, “win- ning the peace must be our main issue.” He warned that conscrip- tion would come “as surely as night follows day if an expedition- ary force is sent overseas.”

When stories of atrocities and casualties cante home, public sen- timent would be aroused by polit- ical demagogy and conscription ecould and would then be slipped over, he opined. Therefore, those who were opposed to conscription must also oppose sending of an expeditionary force.

MacNeil also stressed the grave responsibility that would devolve on Canada if it drag- ged the western hemisphere into war.

MacNeil devoted considerable attention to the profiteering and racketeering of great Canadian corporations in the last war. So scandalous were these revelations, exposed in Who Shall Rule? pub- lished by the Liberal party in 1917, that an MP cried, “For God’s sake, is there nothing that can be done to turn the eyes of the boys at the front from the corruption at home?”

Already the vultures were again swooping down on the seats of the mighty, he said. The federal gov- ernment had by order-iIn-council, set aside the War Defense Pur- chasing Act in spending $8,000,000 because no co-operation was forth- coming from industry. Yet the Act, arising out of the Brenn gun scandal, was passed for the ex- press purpose of preventing war profiteering.

MacNeil gave as another ex- ample of profiteering raising of $100,000,000 by taxes on actual pro- Gucers while corporations were exempted for another ‘year and there was no capital gains tax.

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MINERS LOCKED OUT.

Commission

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In Privateer Dispute

Appointment of a commissioner to conciliate a lockout of miners from the closed Privateer gold mine at Zeballos has been made Wednesday by the provincial government, George Price, secretary of Vancouver District Miners’ union, informed

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Either James Thompson or M_@ WN. McGeough will mediate the dis— pute precipitated by D. S. Tait, mine manager, who fired 89 miners and closed down the mine following presentation of a petition signed by miners for reinstatement of Herb. Richmond, a shift boss, fired by the management for an alleged attack on a bulicook.

According to miners, the bull- cook had been a continual source of trouble in running to the man- agement with stories and prying into the miners’ belongings for high grade. Several efforts had been made to have him removed without success, but he is now be- lieved to have left.

Zeballos Miners’ union, 450, af filiated with International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, immediately after notices were

posted that all signatories to the petition weye discharged, filed ap— plication for a conciliator and it was on this information that pro- vincial labor department instructed the company to reinstate the miners, =

A vote taken October 11 with Magistrate Ralph Thistle acting as returning officer found 80 miners in favor of Zeballos Miners’ union acting for them as the sole bar- gaining agent in all labor relations with the management of Privateer Mines, Ltd. William Murray acted for the company and Fred Ma- honey for the union.

The company prior to the vote agreed to accept decision of the miners and deal with the union, but once the vote was known reversed its stand.

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City Resident Recalls Days Of 1837 Rebellion

Hale and hearty at the age of 99, a retired railway- man who remembers the Family Compact and the years following the Rebel- lion of 1837, is living in this city.

He is Eli Cummer of 1424 Graveley street, where he resides with his two daugh- ters.

His two older brothers took part in the Upper Can- ada Rebellion, evading exe- ecution only by chiselling with a knife through the walls of the jail into which they were thrown, and es- caping.

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Union Hits Profiteers

Opposition to any increase in food costs whereby a few exploiters would line their pockets at the ex pense of the people was expressed in a letter read out at Vancouver Trades and Labor council Tuesday from Paper Makers’ union at Pow- ell River informing that body of its plan to circularize all organizations with letters.

The union also asked support of its demand that the governments bring in legislation to prevent un- due rises in food prices.

Perey Bengough in reporting for the executive stated this question had been given attention by the Trades and Labor Congress conven- tion and further action was being taken.

Beban Coal Miner Killed

Take Special Measures As Climax Nears

MONTREAL, Que.—A record number of candidates are participating in the Quebec provincial election campaign which will reach its climax at the polls next Wednesday.

With 85 seats at stake, 251 of- ficial candidatures had been hand- ed in when nominations closed.

These candidates included 8&6 Union Nationale (Duplessis”’” per- sonally selected candidates), 85

Liberals and 56 Action MLiberale Wationale. There were 24 other candidates including one Com- munist, Evariste Dube, one CCF, R. H. Calder, and two Labor.

Special measures have been taken to suppress expected anti- War parades and demonstrations as election day draws close.

It is rumored details of certain units of the CASE will be given special instruction in riot duty.

They will be held in readiness to Give immediate support to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police:

Asa first safeguard against seri- ous election troubles, city au- thorities are expected to refuse requests for permission to hold parades. Fear is that any parade, either of victory or protest, by one of the student Nationalist groups would precipitate a crisis.

Whatever the immediate out- come of the present election in which issues and personalities have been exceedingly, even deliberately, confused, there can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of the Quebec people are opposed to the war and there is no indication

that their opposition is diminish- ing.

Padlock Law Used Against Opponents

MONTREAL, Que—Premier Du- plessis on Thursday used his in- famous padlock law against his political opponents, provided Que- becois with an example of the unlimited flexibility of his inter-

pretation of ‘communist ganda.’

copies of a cartoon linking Hitler, Stalin and Duplessis. Premier Du- plessis ignored the anti-Soviet side of the cartoon, seized on the fact

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Leckie’s Contract Protested

Trades Council Raps Award To Unfair Company

Awarding of a federal gov- ernment contract for army boots to J. Leckie company while that firm is still on the non-patronage list of Vancou- ver Trades and Labor council was protested by delegates this weels with unanimous en- dorsation of a motion by C. M. Stewart, organizing committee chairman.

Employees of this company were locked out last April when they at- tempted to form a union to win back a 10 percent wage cut imposed on them late in March.

Following several weeks of ne gotiations by Stewart and other oF ficers of the council to reach an amicable settlement 25 workers were refused reinstatement and when seeking work at other boot factories were informed they were not wanted after prospective em- ployers had learned they worked at Leckie’s,

About the middle of May the firm, because of its anti-union at titude, was placed on the coun- eil’s “We do not patronize” list. Workers claimed they received fair rates for piece work, but their earning power was cut down through changing over from one job to another and with the 10 per cent wage cut earning power was reduced still further.

Some workers did not receive wages to equal relief issued to city residents, it was stated.

The company has received con- tracts which, with the normal orders, will step up production ta 1000 pairs daily until the end of the year.

Typical of the cynical manner in which employers are attempting to use the war situation for profit- making ends was the statement in reply to the trades council’s reso lution made by Harold S. Leckie, president of J. Leckie Co., Ltd. Said he, tengue in cheek:

“We cannot understand the at- titude of the Trades and Labor council at this time when the co operation of everyone is required to complete the war.

“We have no quarrel with the council and never have been un- fair to labor, as is shown by our labor rates in comparison with other factories of similar type.”

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NANAIMO, BC.—-—Alex Webster, 44-year-old miner, was instantly killed Tuesday by a fall of rock while working in the Beban coal mine near here.

Fatalities In Woods Reach 50

VICTORIA, BC.—W. Gustavsen succumbed Sunday to injuries sus- tained the day previous while work ing for the Malahat Logging com- pany. His death brings the toll of fatal accidents in BC logging camps to 50 since January 1.

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