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Operators won't hear union case

Negotiations for the
1947 contract for British
Columbia’s 35,000 coast .
loggers and sawmill
workers reached a_ vir-
tual stalemate this week
when lumber operators
represented by Stuart
Research, stated they
were “not interested” in dis-
cussing wage increases above
the 10 percent offer made to
the IWA last Monday.

Although operators claim
that their proposed increases
would raise wages 10 to 25
cents an hour, IWA estimates
place them as amounting to
only an average of 11 cents
for each worker. The union is
asking a general wage raise

Five Cents

Farben heads indicted for crimes

@ A 20,000-word indictment submitted by, Brigadier General
Telford Taylor, chief American war crimes prosecutor,
Tges 24 top-ranking executives of the six-billion-mark I.

G. Farben chemical combine with equal responsibility for

azi crimes, Farben explosives were used to kill civilians in

Rotterdam and Belgrade alike when Goering’s Luftwaffe still

held Mastery of the air. Farben gases and poisons were used
Murder thousands in the death camps at Belsen, Dachau

and Oswiecim. ane

i Five broad counts brought against the Farben executives
e:

1—Conspiring with Hitler to wage aggression.
2.—Plunder and spoilation: of 15 countries.

3—Use of slave labor in Farben plants.
4—Membership in the SS (against three defendants).
5.—Participation in a common plan or conspiracy.

@ Heading the list of those indicted is Karl Von Krauch
(right), Another is George Von Schnitzler (left).

Ree: of 20 cents an hour across-
: the board.
ay? Statement issued by the

union’s wage policy commit-
tee at the conclusion of this
week’s negotiations; declared:
““Since the wage offer of the
employers falls far short of
the union’s demands, coupled
with the fact that no consid-
eration was given to all other
important union demands, and
the furniture industry was
entirely excluded, it is likely
the district policy committee
* will recommend to our mem-
bership non-acceptance of the

Buyers’ strike cuts sales
In several B.C. centers

Acti ;
tion of housewives and

Sor ESS a a PS employers’ proposals.”
of Recta 2 aNd g W ill ( a cj Other demands submitted
ver stores last sat- t by the union for negotiation

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oe 1S_ considered to be a ace may run or p resi en and rejected by operators are
"gely responsible for the establishment of the 40-hour

week throughout the industry,

In his speech here last week to an independent voters luncheon,
a company-financed welfare

Henry A. Wallace said that the United States anti-Communist talk is @| fund, and a union shop.

“disgrace’’ and denounced President Truman’s loyalty test for govern- A full meeting of the IWA
mental employees as “a he a : district policy committee will
$25,000,000 witch - hunt.” put in jail.” Wallace said} be held this Friday morning.
The former vice-president that in countries he visited Meanwhile District President
said he believed that “Com- on .his recent European | Harold Pritchett flew to Tor-

“tp drop in sales of many

as we
tc staple commodities this
Week,

Sa ;
les of jams, preserves

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ee Peanut butter, which are

* the buyers’ strike boycott
© Housewives Consum-

Ore cei munists should be treated tour he found “they had a} onto Tuesday to report on
av Ssociation this week, | a, human beings rather healthy political climate | negotiations to the CCL na-
according’; varies Sees than people who should be where everything was out tional ig wage co-ordinating
fo) rs. orothy (Continued on Page 8. ) committee.
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Union seeks Malarctic probe

My A B.C_The B.C. district union of the CIO Mine,
We and Smelter Workers, at a policy conference here this
dic? Called for a full investigation into the recent mine
The ter at Malarctic, Quebec, where 11 men lost their lives.
Touna on. _asked for a “report of the circumstances sur-
ay g the disaster, and extent of rescue equipment
ailable at the time.”
ac conference expressed “complete disapproval of the
mon taken by the management in sealing off and flooding
© mine,” declared K. A. Smith, union secretary-treasurer.

Smelter workers reject offer

TRAIL, B.C.—In balloting last weekend, workers here
and at Kimberley overwhelmingly rejected a first offer from
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company for a wage
increase’ of eight cents an hour. The workers, members of
the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
are asking a wage boost of 25 cents an hour across-the-board.

The district policy committee of the union met here last
Monday to discuss the CMS offer and general progress of
negotiations, but its decisions were not available as the
Pacific Tribune went to press.

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