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FTER less than one year of existence, the British Columbia Labor Youth Federation will hold its first province-wide convention May 23, with delegates present from labor unions, student clubs, farm organizations and LYF clubs in Worth Vancouver, White Rock, New Westminster, Victoria, Prince Rupert and other centres. The convention is dedicated to “the

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Olga Walker, Secretary LYF City Council, secretary to Bill Burgess, United Fisher- men’s Union, member of Of fice Employees Union, AFL.

Duncan Russell, LYF presi-

dent, well known to local trade unionists for his work in Hospital Employees Union, which he left to en- list in the Canadian Army. Now honorably discharged, Russell is entering war work.

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defeat of the greatest enemy of free peoples— fascism,’ and the official slogan chosen is “Fight for Your BPuture Now!”

The convention will open with a dance May 22 at Georgia Hotel. On May 23 sessions will begin at 10 am, After the formal opening the convention will break up into discussion panels on war seryices, educational programs, and work among trade unionists and labor groups.

On the subject of education, delezates will consider methods, types of literature, issuance of leaflets, libraries and war news- papers. Special attention will be placed on the importance of New Advance Magazine in connection with youth work. This section of the convention will also discuss club organization and efficient running of club meetings, and draw up a general plan for new elubs to follow.

The panel on war services will map out plans for LYFE work, with a view to strengthening the relations between the fighting and production fronts, and supplying recreation for men and women in the armed forees amd war work- ers. Necessity for support of the Fourth Victory Loan will also be stressed.

“This convention meets at a time when our generation faces its greatest test,’ states the con- vention call “Many young Ca- nadians have answered the call of their country. We realize that the outcome of the war against Hitlerism will decide the future of Canada and of the world. Be- cause of our belief in the future we will fight to the death to wipe out the menace of fascism. But the struggle is grim. Much is expected of us.”

Jessie Storrie, well known youth leader and co-editor of New Ad- vance, will address the conven- tion. Local trade union leaders will dlso speak.

Soviets Report Canadian Aid

Moscow newspapers published a story this week under an Ottawa dateline announcing that over $2,646.00 had been spent by Cana- dian Aid to Russia for the purchase of medical supplies for the Soviet Union.

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Trades Council To Sen Brief To Labor Board

5 \ oes strong discussion on rising living costs and rest- lessness in the ranks of labor, Vancouver Trades and” Labor Council last Tuesday night unanimously decided to prepare a brief for presentation to the federal government

on the whole question of cost of living, labor relations and gov- ernment labor policy. These prob- lems, which, unionists feel, are directly responsible for much dis- satisfaction among workers re- sulting in absenteeism and de- creased production, must be brought to the attention of the government immediately, and some solution found.

While it is not yet known whether the Trades Council plans to work with CCL unions in com- mon protest against skyrocketing living costs and the apathetic at- titude of the Labor minister to- wards such necessary moves as

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the establishment of sound labor- management committees, war workers in Vancouver and else- where hope that both councils, AFL and CCL, will cooperate on a joint brief to Ottawa.

The Trades Council meeting was held last week in the Legion Hall in New Westminster, with 100 delegates present. ;

The Council also approved a motion that the matter of having every employee furnished with a full statement on his pay check deductions be taken up with the proper authorities.

A resolution that the Council lead the way in establishment, by

labor of a recreational ce service men was amended © a committee appointed to into costs of such an e ment. Delegates made cle ever, that they felt so. should be done for serv) along these lines. : «Since labor supported ‘| ernment in asking thesey go to war we should do i @ what we can in a recr jp way,” said one delegate. © Organizing committees ) that Undertakers and Em of New Westminster had ~ ganized, and would apply filiation to the Trades in two weeks’ time. —_ “Now we can start i @ union milk and die wit! embalmers,’ remarked chairman Birt Showler.

Chilean Labor Raps Cargoes To Spa |

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| Ge leaders in Antofagasta, most important embarka- tion port for Chile’s essential war metals, last week urged longshoremen to refuse to load copper and nitrate on ships bound for Franco Spain. “Labor in Antofagasta demands that the government stop the delivery of Chile’s copper and nitrate to the Axis,’ Dagoberto Ceraceda, secretary of the Building

Trade Workers of Northern Chile, said. “It is absurd that our country should still be ggn- gaged in this trade after we have broken relations with the Axis and are cooperating with the United Nations.”

Abel Hidalgo, another Building Trade Workers leader, said: “If the government will not listen to our protests, labor itself, in the interests of democracy, must stop this traffic. We must ask for the Aid and support of Argentine labor, as copper and nitrate which goes to Argentina is imme- diately forwarded to Spain.”

“TI am in possession of cate- gorical information that contra- band traffic still exists between Chile and the Axis,” Salvador

Qcampo, former leader of the miners’ union who is now assist- ant secretary of the Confedera- tion of Chilean Workers, said this week in Santiago. “It did not stop when we broke diplomatic relations with the Axis; on the contrary, it increased. Wazism, to obtain Chilean minerals, has availed itself of the eagerly ten- dered services of the Franco gov- ernment.”

When he was in the United States last year, Ocampo recalled, he protested energetically against the readiness of “some officials of the State Department” to ap- prove shipments of oil to Franco Spain.

In current negotiations ~ with the U.S.-owned Witrate and

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Iodine Corp., the Nation eration of Miners is d@ that the company sell ii ucts only to the United “I have talked at length 1 vice-president of the Nitz Iodine Corp.,” Ocampo sé! told me that only insig § amounts of nitrate and } are sold to Spain. But i

Corp. that the followin have left recently for Sp: cargoes of nitrate and the Icar, Viscaya, Santi,

Rita, Garcia, Saturno,

Alonzo, Monteteide, ; Montenegro and Montedi

Portugal has receivec tons carried by the Nelh, bene, Luzo and Mello. Th: been shipments of copr least 11,000 tons—to the tine; we should like to h were used in that countr

In the opinion of Chilez’ ers, either we are aga Axis and do not have with it, or we become plices in its crimes.”

Soviet Trade Union He: Probes Nazi Atrocities

KUIBYSHEV.

Ne SHVERNIK, general secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and chairman of the Extraordinary State Committee which is tabulating the crimes of the German-fascist invaders, returned last week from a visit to Vyazma, Gzhatzk and Rzhev, recently recaptured-in the Red Army’s offensive on the Central Front.

He was accompanied by Nik- olai, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galisz, a high dignitary of the Russian Orthodox Church, who said: “Everywhere on the roads we met people pulling small sleds and carts with the pitiful re- mains of their possessions. They had taken refuge in the forests during the German occupation and were now returning to their homes—heaps of charred bricks and ashes. We found the town of Wyazma one huge graveyard.

In a gigantic ditch outside what had been a German prison camp we found more than six thousand corpses, all bearing traces of hor- rible torture. Before the war Rzhevy had 55,000 inhabitants. Every worker captured in Rzhev was transported to Germany for slave labor, and those who re- sisted were slaughtered. The Red Army found only 200 sur- vivors.”

A joint statement by Shvernik and Metropolitan Nikolai re-

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In a village in the Gzh: trict two hundred old = men and children were li a collective farm house house was burned dowr Kholmets the residents village were driven <= mined road; all perish December 10, 34 citizens ma were forced to dig tt praves and were shot.

The statement names f man generals and officer Gestapo who. will be hel count “for the torture termination of peaceful and war prisoners, for th tion of Soviet people to slavery, for the destru the towns of Vyazma, Sychevka and Rzhev.”

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