LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY

EF PEOPLE

de L No. 1

VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13th, 1942

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RONTO, Ont.—Delegates {fe American Federation of rs 62nd annual conven- iere last week heard Jack er, delegate from the Brit- Frades. Union Congress, # a ringing appeal for Snug of the second front in de “as soon as possible.” wr the British people, the ‘© of an early second front is iW issue. The British workers it our people stand ready to ¥ supreme sacrifices. Our ers fully realize that this is var, If we fail now, we shall 0 second chance to maintain rays of life,” he said. , aer is president of the Am- ated Engineering Union of Britain. ier, in opening the convyen- FL President William Green 7 elegates he hoped Europe’s sed peoples would soon hear rund of marching feet’ of Am- liberating armies:

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DON, Eng-—British workers ot concerned with increased tion for itself, but with the jig of the war and the defeat tism,” Jack Tanner, president Amalgamated Engineering wrote recently in Reynolds stating that workers in Brit- uctories and shipyards are #ical when-inadequacies and wities in war material are S arguments by opponents of #2ond front” is article for the British Co- ive movement's Sunday news- Tanner stated: have to remember that in campaign, from Norway to <, in which our military forces }been engaged, inferiority or £ war weapons has been ad- i as the reason for defeat. . we know, for°example, that ritish tanks which were not 2nough to vanquish Rommel western desert in June this were £ood enough to help nold von ieeb on the northern front. => Red Army indeed, far from Bining of our British tanks uns, has praised them very. *, to the great satisfaction of dustrial workers, who, as may agined, could hardly be ex- to derive much encourage- from the perpetual govern- excuses about ‘inferior’

Declaring appointment of Major-General Leo Richer La- Fleche as Minister of National War Services to be a “powerful Stimulus to Canada’s war ef fort,” Tom Barnard told The People last weekend that he himself and the BC Command of the Canadian TLegion had wired congratulations to Gen- eral LaFleche and pledged their full support to his efforts on behalf of Canada’s part in the war.

Fleche since the First Great War and have always consid- ered him a fine man,” Barnard Stated. “He is an advocate of total war and consequently for conscription. He has backed to

the limit the “Canadian Legion Total War Effort” plan which was instituted by our organiza- tion last October.

“I believe his appointment will give impetus to Canada’s wa reffort, particularly in Que- bee.”

“I have known General La-|

Appointment Wins P

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Major-General Tos Ri as Fleche, new minister of na- tional war services in the

King government.

Fraser Mills

the Canadian Western Lumber

Second Front Urged By CCE

NELSON, B.C.——Immediate open- ing of the second front in Europe was urged in a resolution sent to

Prime Minister Mackenzie King from the recent meeting of West Kootenay CCE Council here.

The council also sent greetings to Fyodor Gusey, newly-appointed Soviet ambassador to Canada. Attended by 82 delegates frem Nelson, Trail, Rossland, Silverton, Fruitvale and other West Kootenay points, the meeting was addressed by HE. W. Herridge, MILA for Ross- land-Trail, who expressed his full Support of the second front resolu-

ms.”

tion,

Court Action Taken In

Dispute

Prosecution proceedings against H. J. Mackin, president of

Company, by the International

Woodworkers of America, for refusal to bargain or meet with elected representatives of his employees, opened this week in City Police Court before Magistrate McQueen.

Mackin had declared, through his attorney, that “doubt existed” in his

mind as to the legality of the elect- ed committee. After consultation with Labor Minister George Pear- son, IWA officials proceeded with prosecution in order to eliminate further delay.

The case adjourned until next Thursday, when the company has been instructed to produce its pay- roll to establish validity of workers who voted for the negotiating com- mittee.

In an attempt to avoid further delay employees had offered to elect two representatives, with two from the company, to conduct a secret ballot as to whether the present committee was to continue to bar- Zain for them. This offer was re- jected.

Obstructs

Of Other

With Justice S. E. Richards expected here this week to implement findings of his commission’s majority report arid several shipyard unions still undecided on the question of

continuous production, a numb

operation of the shipyards” in

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68-HOUR WEEK URGED Y SHIPYARD LEADERS

Delay In Accepting

Settlement Questions

er of union officials are urging

general acceptance of “the principle of 168-hour continuous

order to enable settlement of

outstanding wage and other questions.

“As war workers bearing a great responsibility to the Cana- dian people for our contribution to the war effort, we cannot allow ~ ourselves to be placed in the po- sition where our just wage and other demands obstruct the war effort. And that is just what we are doing if we fail to support the All-Union Conference resolu- tion for acceptance of continuous production in principle

“In fact, it Should be evident that we cannot settle any of these other questions satisfactorily until the ob- stacle constituted by opposition to continuous production is removed,” Ed. Simpson, executive member of the Boilermakers’ Union, stated to The People.

Bob Stewart, business agent for the Shipwrights, Caulkers and Join- ers, expressed the opinion that evi- dence submitted before the Rich- ards commission had shown con- clusively that seven-day continuous operation will produce more ships than any other method of operation. “At this critical time,” he de- clared, ‘““workers must, in their own interests, support the commission’s majority report and press for im- plementation of its unanimous rec- ommendations.”

At its meeting a week ago Sun- day the All-Union Conference voted to submit a resolution to the unions for endorsation urging that “we adopt the principle of 168-hour continuous operation of the shipyards, and that where this is not feasible, or will not operate at the moment, that the particu- lar problems of these departments or crafts be referred to the labor-

McKean.

Released

Fergus McKean provincial Gom- munist leader arrested here in June, 1940, and subsequently in- terned, has been released from Hull jail and is expected to return to Vancouver this Wednesday morning, his wife, Mrs, Nellie Mc- Kean, who is secretary of the Na- tional Council for Democratic Rights here, informed The People this week.

Released at the same time as Mc- Kean and returning to Vancouver with him are Tom Ewen and Bill Rigby, whose wives are resident here, Bob Kerr, and Harry Asson.

Next Monday, Oct. 19, at 6:30 p-m., they will be guests of honor at a banquet to be held in Hotel Georgia. The banquet is being arranged by 4 committee headed by Hal Griffin.

object of attaining our aim of maximum production.”

Second clause of the resolution urged the unions to place their de- mands before the conference and included recommendations for wage revision and reclassification of ca- tegories in line with the commis- Sion’s report; raising the premium for the sixth day to time-and-a- half for the whole day for all three shifts, equivalent to a 52-52-57 basis

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management committees, with the

See SHIPYARDS

LONDON, Eng.—Mlade Geskoslo- vensko, Czech paper, recently pub- lished a letter addressed by Czecho- slovak workers at a London engin- eering works to President Benes.

“We belong to a nation which suffers, but is nevertheless fighting back and expects kelp in the front

line from you representatives of an

internationally recognized goverr-

Czechoslovak Workers In London Urge Immediate Seeond Front

ment. The most speedy way to help matters is the immediate openine of a second front on the European continent. We ask you to appeal to the British government in this sense,” the letter declared, conclud- ing:

“Today it is possible to save our country, tomorrow we may be able to save only its ruins.”