rtists ouncil

ids War

on, shipyards, aircraft jories and war services have Yset up by Vancouver Al- ‘War Services Council, an mization of local authors, lters, musicians, journalists, stors and broadcasting and mre groups. -Purpose of each aittee is to contribute artistic- in every way possible to aid ‘da’'s war effort. eady one project—the obtain- f a rousing war song for Can- -is underway, with 150 en- already received and the clos- date of the contest two weeks

us la. After the lyric has been S32n a second contest will be > to obtain music to which it

i Canadian journalist and co- or of “‘Soviet Asia,” addressed dup of Vancouver artists and Ts on the importance of such sf '"panization in wartime. Davies ms cretary of a similar group in fF ato, the Writers, Broadcasters f Artists’ War Council, which sorking at the present time on ural depicting Ganada’s role 1e war. The mural is to be td in Toronto’s Union Station. 2 aims of the Council, as out- by Davies, were to discuss educate artists and public as to the nature of the war the sacrifices required to bring f+» a suceessful conclusion; ta the people informed about tasks: of the war; to awaken tem a sense of their responsi- es; to destroy despair and itism; and to assist the gov- tent, armed forces, industrial *gement and labor in public- ‘their war work, to heighten de in workshops and com- ties, and in every way drama- 211 phases of the war so that one becomes seized with its acy. aded by W. Gordon Stephen, utive committee includes John ; Stanley Bligh, Julia Chris- sn, Arthur Benjamin, Dorothy erset, Yvonne Firkins, Dorothy hair, Browni Wingate, B. C. dngs, Fred Amess, Mildred 2y Thornton, Alex Crawley, ist Morgan, Mollie Koshevoy, Doris Milligan. Dean Dan- Buchanan of UBC is honorary ident. ext meeting of the Council will held 8:30 pm, Monday, April it 641 Granville Street. —

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ircraft Dispute Provoked

Gow’t Policy Is_ Blamed By Union

Further action by Vancouver aircraft workers to maintain a system oi rest periods granted them under terms of a union agreement with Canadian Pacific Airlines was seen likely this week unless the federal labor department grant their demands for immediate establishment of an investigating commission.

The dispute, touched off early

director-general of aircraft produc- tion, issued an order cancelling the two ten-minute rest periods in effect for the last three months,

has now spread to include the four plants of Boeing Aircraft where workers are demanding, through their union, that rest period priv- ileges be extended to them as well.

Giving point to their demand, a work stoppage was called Wed- nesday morning at all plants where union representatives spoke to meetings of the employees and urged that the issue be fought through to a finish.

Decision to call off further action on the job at plants of the two companies was made pend- ing appointment of an investi- gating commission, but union members made it plain that they would be forced to take further steps unless the government moved quickly. _

Executive members of the Aero- nautical Mechanics’ Union, AFL, were sharp in their condemnation of what they termed “the unwar- Tanted interference by Ralph Beli in the labor relations between CP Airlines and the employees.” They.

in the week when Ralph Bell, take the position that Bell’s job should be confined strictly to the task of coordinating and speeding airplane production, that matters affecting labor policy should re- Iain with the federal department of labor.

Bell’s order cancelling the rest periods at CP Airlines plant in New Westminster, which result- ed in the workers calling brief protest work stoppages, came in the face of .statements by the management that the rest period system had resulted in greatly improved production.

The dispute is also linked with curent negotiations in~ progress between the union and Boeing Air- craft for a new union agreement calling for wage increases, holi- days with pay and rest periods. De- Mands of tke union haye contin- ually been stalled between the Management and the Regional War Labor Board, and the workers’ im- patience at this situation has been erystallized by the present dispute.

Meantime a special meeting of shop stewards been called, at which their future course of action will undoubtedly be mapped out.

Burnaby Employees Get Closed Union Agreement

BURNABY.—First closed shop agreement in British Co- lumbia between a municipality and its civic employees was signed this week by Municipal Council and Burnaby Civic

Employees Union, Local 23.

The agreement, which provides that all workers must become members of the union after six Months’ service, affects 150 mem- bers of the fire department, which has its own union. Negotiations were carried on by William B. Black, president of° Vancouver City Hall Employees Association and president of the Joint Council of Public Employees, BC division, on behalf of the employees.

Other clauses in the agreement provide:

i. Appointment of a personnel committee, similar to Vancouver Conciliation Board, to include the reeve, three councillors and three employees representatives, the reeve to act as chairman.

2. Adjustments under the new personnel committee of a new sal-

ary schedule which has been ap-

|= imtends to cover the camps Aero Timber products, which S2 Crown company producing | famous Stika Spruce used in struction of bombers and fight- — Planes planes, where he will 2 in setting up a “production Victory’ committee with a fy to increasing output of this

lroduction For Victory iim Of Pritchett Tour

District IWA President Harold Pritchett left Vancouver this 2k for an extended tour of Queen Charlotte Island logging aps. Purpose of Pritchett’s visit is to assist loggers in that a in establishing more harmonious labor-management rela- sas through the signing of a union agreement.

vital war material. Meanwhile, arbitration case between IWA and operators in the Islands will con- tinue.

Pritchett will travel from camp to camp aboard the MV Annart, aboard which are IWA Organizer John MacCuish and Duane Prit- chett, son of the TWA leader.

proved by the council, to provide minimum and maximum wages with increments, the administra- having agreed to increases plus a cost-of-living bonus.

in all plants has f/f “ployees of Hammond Cedar Com-

Food Expert

= Se

U.S. Judge Marvin Jones will head U.S. delegation at the United Nations food conference to begin May 18 at Hot Springs, Va.

New IWA Charter

HAMMOND, BC—Over

200 em-

pany here will apply to the Inter-

national office, IWA, for a local eharter for this area, it was de- cided at a meeting of union mem- bers here last Wednesday. Ap- plication will be made to tempor- ary officers chosen by the meet- ing.

Definite boundaries over which the new local will have jurisdiction have not yet been established. However, it is expected to include members in Mission ad in a num ber of mills around Silverdale and Ruskin who are at present under the jurisdiction of IWA Local 1-217 in Vancouver.

The meeting was addressed by Bert Melsness, TWA district sec- retary.

Allenby Crew Joins

ClO Union.

ALLENBY, B.C. — Majority of employees at Allenby, site of the milling operations of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. Ltd., have been signed aip as. mem- bers of Copper Mountain Local of International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers. Ninety- Six members, approximately 80 percent of the men, were sworn in at a special union meeting on Wednesday, April 14. The other 20 percent, on shift at the time, have declared their intention of becoming union members as soon as possible. Also present was a representative from the 16 work- ers of Granby power plant, who through him expressed their inten- tion of joining the union.

Officers of Copper Mountain Local 649 who journeyed to Allen- by for the meeting were J. Og- bourne, local president, G. Fichter, financial secretary, D. Parsons, re- cording secretary, and Trustees D. Ogren, W. Frew and D. Dodd.

An Allenby executive was chosen and plans were made to have Cop- per Mountain Local 649 speed out to embrace the Allenby and Pow- er Plant branches with the execu- tives working in conjunction with each other. Representatives from Allenby and Power Plant locals will go to Copper Mountain on Sunday, April 25, to attend a meet- ing to be held there.

CCL Union Wins Vote at Inglis

TORONTO, Ont—United Steel- workers of America requested this week a conference with the man- agement of the John Inglis war plant to discuss a collective bar- gaining agreement. A vote con- ducted earlier this week showed a majority of empleyees in favor of

representation by the CIO union.

Convention of BCIF April 26

Major Issues Face

Resolutions urging that all BC teachers refuse to accept ap- pointments unless a minimum of $900 yearly with three $60 increments are guaranteed will be considered at the BC Teachers’ Federation annual convention in Kitsilano High

School here April 26 to 29, it has been announced. Among other resolutions to come before the meeting are:

That some form of compulsory membership in the BCTF. be adopted.

That the report of the commis- sion appointed by the provincial government in 1935 to study redis- tribution of educational costs in BC be given proper consideration and implementation without delay, and that the whole question be reviewed in the light of the pro- vincial government’s responsibility for equal educational opportunity to all citizens.

Other resolutions advocate trav- elling dental clinics for schools in districts where dental care is not available, the institution of state medicine as soon as possible, en- larging of courses to provide more education on social studies, and the equipping of Industrial Art Cen-

tres wherein work of practical value to the community could be carried on during and after school hours. ie

Two important reports of com- mittees will come in for lively discussion, it is agreed. They

are the report of the Committee on Labor Affiliation and the re- port of the Committee on Total War. The report from the first group, as grinted in the BC Teach- er magazine, states “that organ- ized labor will welcome the BCTE to its ranks, and that affiliation will not affect the autonomy of the organization.”

The report from the Total War committee declares:

“Mr, Churchill's timely not to let our eye get off the ball even for a moment applies to all of us. Teachers would be ill-ad- vised to dissipate time and energy blue-printing for the future. Oun part in the post-war world will be

warning

Teachers

determined by our actions as class- room soldiers now. Our classrooms must become living laboratories of victory. . Education of a new, distinctly higher type is needed to produce stalwart, able, thinking and fighting democrats.

“Basie to the achievement of these tasks is the teacher’s under- standing of the war. The deeper this understanding the better we shall be able to direct our blows. - .

“The committee believes, in the words of a message of greet- ing to overseas teachers from England’s National Union of Teachers, that in a very special sense, teachers are involved in this great conflict, for they in

themselves carry the light of

learning and the torch of free- dom — which nazism and fas-

cism seek to extinguish, for if these tyrannies succeed, educa- tion ceases and

propaganda takes its place. :

“Between these two conceptions

lies “the world of difference he-

tween democracy and diciatorship.

| There can be no meeting place or compromise between them.”