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36,000 on strike

TORONTO

A “To those who are anxious
t ae the present worsening of
Say yternational situation, we
ave confidence,” Dr, James
Baa oott chairman of the
ala ae Peace Congress de-
Ma statement issued here

ic Opinion, most potently

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® movement has already

Endicott to speak
on visit to China
at B.C. meetings

shown that it can be decisive.
Public opinion prevented use of
the atom bomb in Korea, brought
about truce talks, put disarma-
ment prominently on the agenda
of the UN, and is pressing
strongly for a Pact of Peace.
“At the same time, if the de-
fenders of peace become com-
Continued on back page
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By BERT WHYTE ,

In the midst of a post-election
eonfusion unprecedented in
(British Columbia’s history (no
one will know until approxi-
mately July 10 whether the CCF
or Social ‘Credit will emerge
ifrom the June 12 elections with
the largest number of seats)
some 36,000 industrial workers
have hit ‘the picket lines ‘to chal-
lenge ‘management’s united
front aimed at ‘blocking wage
increases in 1952.

More 'than 32,000 loggers and
millworkers, members of ‘the
province’s largest union, Inter-
national Woodworkers of ‘Am-
erica, ignored technicalities of
the ‘anti-labor Industrial ‘Con-
ciliation and Arbitration Act to
back up their “Noo ‘Contract, No
Work” slogan when their con-
tract expired at midnight June

14, and shut down every camp
and mill on Vancouver Island
and the coast.

‘Close to 2,000 Vancouver c&r-
penters are on strike and more
jobs are being shut down daily
in reply ‘to. management’s in-
timidatory lockout tactics. On
Vancouver Island another 1,000
carpenters are out. Supporting
the carpenters are 1,000 striking
painters, and every union affili-
tated to the powerful Building
Trades Council, whose members
are refusing ‘to cross picket
lines.

On June 22 some 5,000 salmon
fishermen, members of United
Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union, will take strike action
unless ‘operators abandon their
present attitudes and submit
satisfactory salmon prices to
the union’s bargaining commit-
‘tee.

CARPENTERS, IWA SHAKE
GANG-UP OF EMPLOYERS

Management, which planned
and provoked strike action quite
deliberately, in anticipation of a
Liberal election victory and gov-
ernment support for its “hang-
tough” policy, now shows signs
of uneasiness and a reluctant
acknowledgment that its “no
wage hikes” stand may have to
‘be changed.

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@® The whine of saws ceased in
the woods and in the mills as
2,000 IWA workers tied up

Coast operations this week.
Sawmill workers (lower left)

are shown walking off the
job, while from Coast and Is-
land camps streams of log-
gers (lower right) head for
Vancouver.