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association. Sales of other com-
modities are meeting with an in-
creasing buyers’ resistance.

Vancouver Island towns of
Courtenay, Cumberland, Campbell
River, Port Alberni and Nanaimo,
_ where mass protest meetings were
held last week are also giving
_ strong support to the buyers’
strikes, which will continue until

a June 10.

Mrs. Mona Morgan, organizer
for the IWA Women’s Auxiliaries,
has been on the Island this past
week, speaking in support of the
campaign. ;

Last Saturday, 150 housewives,
aided by a group of 100 support-

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ers from the militant Marine
Workers and Boilermakers’ Union
(CCL) and several locals of the
International Woodworkers of
America, paraded ‘up and down
Hastings and Granville streets
with eye-catching placards, urg-
ing the public to refrain from
buying jams, preserves and pea-
nut butter. They picketed larger
food and department stores for
the entire .day.

* * *

City teen-agers, who initiated
the buyers’ strike wave by their
candy bar strike, continued their
activities this wek. They com-
pleted collection of thousands of
signatures of city public and high
school students, who backed them
in the fight for the nickel bar.

Sixteen schools signed petitions
which were forwarded to Toronto
this week for presentation to the
federal cabinet.

Vancouver City Council revety-

ed a letter from the National Fed-
eration of Labor Youth on Wed-
nesday asking for council’s sup-
Port of the NFLY campaign for
the lower-priced chocolate bar.
The letter was receivéd without
*
_ (Aldermen this week have been
pre-occupied with the fine points
of a proposed bylaw to control
dogs- roaming city streets.)

Vancouver Branch of the House-
wives Consumers Association an-

nounced this week that it has

established community headquart-
ers in 25 homes throughout* the
city to facilitate organization of
the buyers’ strike action,

Wallace

in the open.” He made the lun-
cheon speech after a news con-
ference in which he said he would
be willing to run for the presi-
dency if it would help the liberal
cause.

Referring to Truman’s loyalty
order for U.S. employees, Wallace
said that “99 percent of those
called Communist actually are not
Communists.” 4

“I have often been called a
Communist,” he said, “and was
called a Bolshevik after the first
world war.” :

“The trembling fear in the
United States today,’ he Said, “is
a disgrace. It should be replaced
by creating a healthy atmosphere
where all cards are on the table.”

At his new conference: he said
it was his job “to sell liberalism.”

He said the presidency holds
no glamor for me,” but he added:

“But if it would help the lib-
eral cause I would be willing
to run for it.”

At the news conference Wal-

lace called for restoration of con-
fidence between the United States

and the Soviet Union. He said
that the Soviet Union was ° re-
luctant to cooperate with the U.S.
now because she feared it was
due for a depression. :

He said the “present lack of
confidence” between the U.S, and
Russia was a delaying factor in
the success of the United Na-
tions. *

Coldwell opposes
bill to ban LPP

OTTAWA—M., J. Coldwell, CCF
national leader, said here this
week that his group would not
support second reading of Bill
133, designed to illegalize the
Labor-Progressive Party.

“Our position on this matter is
crystal clear,” said Coldwell. “We
wouldn’t support second reading
of the bill. I really think that

there isn’t sufficient ‘support in Vj

the House to give the bill ap-
Proval in principle.”

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Negotiations for 5,000 woodwork-
ers in British Columbia’s Interior
between the IWA and J. H. Rud-
dock of the Canadian Manufac-
turers’ Association last week were
termed “futile, useless and insult-
ing” by the union, in a statement
last weekend. :

The union statetnent declared
that Ruddock “has entirely ig-
nored the union’s demands for just
wage increases in the face of
greatly increased production and
increased profits to the employers,

and increased cost of living of the
workers,

“The union’s Proposal of the 40-
hour week to avoid a depression
was flatly rejected, and the in-
terior employers proposed we re-
turn from the 44-hour week to the
48-hour week. In addition, adding
insult to injury, Ruddock insists
the union membership post a $10
bond with the employers to guar-
antee fulfillment of contract,
while at the same time their pro-
posed agreement consists mainly

of company working rules and ae
ployers rights, with® former a :
rights established under . a
year’s agreement reduced to noth
ing or to the state of a company
union.”

This week the union repos
it had received an offer of a :
Percent across-the-board increas
for interior members.

Ernie Dalskog, IWA na
tional board member, estimat
that this would mean a Pay

boost ranging between 5 and 16

cents an hour. =

“We're going to Prince Geornys
he said. “We can’t get anywher
negotiating with Ruddock. .
want to deal directly with oper
ators who are prepared to com
mit themselves,”

To give B.C. workers a first
hand account of IWA negotia-
tions, Al Parkin, well-known 1a
bor radio commentator, Bc
broadcast each Monday and i
day over CJOR on the dial, #
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