CiO Parley | irst Ind ustrial onvention Outlines rogressive Policy PITTSBURGH, Pa—-The new Congress of Industrial Or- Sanizations, over four million strong, tool: its place this week as a stronger force for progress after econecludins in a five-day this city convention which changed its former status from a loose committee cf unions into a close-knit, regularly consti- tuted trade union organization. Before adjourning last Friday, the 501 delegates in at- tendance had approved a new democratic constitution, planned new drives in mass production industries, established a special maritime organizing committee president of the new CIO. “It has been the most extraordin- ary convention in the history of the American labor movement,’ Lewis himself said in Summing up the debate. Elected with Tewis were vice-presidents Phil Murray and Sidney Hillman, Secretary— rreasurer James B. Carey and an ssecutive board of 41 members in- sludings Harry Bridges, West Coast SiQ@ leader. Phe last hours of the convention aw continuation of the proeressive IFOSTam it bezan when it first mer ive days previous. Unanimously the delegates adopt- di a ciean cut peace policy, callins m the United States and all demo- racies to save the world’s peace rom fascism and the warmakers_ Plans were also laid to intensify he unionization drive in public itilities and the siant meat pack- AS industry. a Barlier the convention consid- ered carefully the all-important question of unity with the AFL, declaring unanimously its prin- cipal sesl was “unity in the labor movement,” to be achieved only, hoesvever, on the Dasis of indus- iFial unionism and protecting the mshis of members and affiliated preanizations. Warm response met President Gsevelt’s personal message to the elesates appealins for labor unity. here was a general absence of aarp citicism of the AHI, execu- ve council in direct contrast to l¢ federaiion’s Houston conven- on, at which the CLO was roundly snounced. But all delegates speed the unity program must de- snd on: -preservation..of existiny PO umions on an industrial basis. in his opening address to the mvyention, lewis cited tremendous uns made by the CIO since the St committee was formed in 1935. . that brief space of time, the and elected John L. Lewis as CIO had grown to comprise 42 in- ternational unions and 675 directly chartered local industrial unions with a total membership of 4,037, 877, he said, with 23 state industrial councils and i164 local industrial union councils. “The CIO has been s bulwark for progressive legislation and is determined to press forward to new gains for labor,” he said, continu- ing: “he Cro, by weathering the economic depression and protect ing the rights of the jobless, has eammed an even greater place in the life of the nation. : “We are assembled here to de- dicate a Isber movement, im- pelled by the unguenchable desire to better the lot of fellow men and led onward by the just prin- ciples upon which our nation was founded. “In the CIO lies the hepe of America,’ Lewis conchided as del- egates rose for an ovation. Lewis himself smashed at u newspaper yarn that Bridges anuw himself had split and that ILewis haa smacked down “Bridges left wing revolt” by taking the floor of the convention in its closins hours to sive lengthy praise to both the maritime leader and WHarold Pritehett, Vancouver unionist now leader of the intermmational Wood- ; workers of America. Bridges, who is threatened with deportation sas an “alien,” was hailed by Lewis par- ticularly for his tireless efforts to bring about the 1936 strike settle— Ment and to preserve it since then. One of the important resolutions passed congratulated the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada on maintainine unity of ClO and AFI, uniens in the Canadian movement and urging CrO unionists in Can- ada to continue striving for main- tenance of this unity. sland Miners Win \greement, Wage Boost NAWNATMO, BC, Nov. 24.—Seventeen hundred Nanaimo and amberland coal miners, members of the United Mine Work- Ss of America, were worlkins this week under terms of a far- aching agreement on wages and conditions reached last Friday. Under terms of the union con- ct, miners were guaranteed a neral average increase in wages Seven percent and certain other provements in working condi- ns. The agreement will not ex e before 1940, when either party Ly Call for revisions, and may con- me indefinitely. It went into ce immediately after being rati- l by the membership in Nanaimo Monday by 2 vote of 908 to 269, h 45 spoiled ballots. ignatures of union and company resentatives were affixed to the tract after some three weeks of Special Screen Who has the right to say “No More Babies’? the whole fearless answer evealed in a drama of poig- Mant significance. (Not recommended for children.) ‘On the Stage — 5 All-Star Eastern Circuit Acts VAUDEVILLE THE TRUTH ABOUT acetee’ HUMAN STERILIZATION TOMORROW'S CHILDREN’ negotiations, during which the union was allowed access to the companies’ books. Patrick Con- roy, vice-president District 18, UMW=A, signed for the men and H. R. Plommer, general manager for Canadian Collienies (Dunsmuir) Limited, for the companies. : Other union representatives in- eluded Ed Boyd, Wanaimo local secretary; R. Coe, president Cum- berland local; BE. Webb, president, Wanaimo local; W. Atkinson, dis- trict representative UMW=A; James Robertson and John Stockland, Cumberland local; John Pollock, Union Bay; Thomas Foley, Bevan. — also — Second Screen Feature T STARD ACCUSED’ with Lyle Talbot, Helen Mack, Robert Cummings An Expose of Shackled Justice! ALCONY (Except Saturdays)—15c till 6 - = 25c after 6 Declares For Unity First Sessions Open To Public CP Convention Pians Nearly Ready ROVINCIAL leaders of the Communist Party were busily engaged in preparing reports and arranging final details this week as the opening of the party's annual provincial convention, to be held in the Labor Temple in Vancouver, neared. Loggers from Wancouver Tslana, coal miners from Wanaimo and Cumberland and hardrock miners from Bridge River and the Cari- boo; farmers from the Fraser Val- ley and fruit growers from the Olkanagan all will be represented among the 150 delegates expected to attend the convention. Vancouver will send a large num-— ber of delegates and every import- ant provincial centre will have one or more representatives, party of- ficials stated this week. In addition, delegations from the Worthwest distriet of the American Communist Party and the Alberta district of the Communist Party of Canada will attend. During the first day, when Fer- Sus MeKean, provincial secretary, will present his political report, sessions will be open to the public. Bob Kerr, former political commis- sar of the famous Mackenzie— Papineau Battalion in Spain, will also address the convention during this first session. Other speakers wall include Phil Gibbens, secretary of the Vancouver City Committee, who will deal with civic politics, Charles Stewart, who will speak on trade union organization, Henry Lundgren, who will speak on trade union unity, and Hal Griffin, who will outline the party’s peace policy and deal with Japanese fascist es- pionage in the province. The second day of the convention will be closed, since it will be de- voted to discussion of party organ- ization and development. Speakens on Sunday will include William Ra- venor, Alex Sholdra, Al Parkin and Bill Bennett, all of whom will deal with various branches of party or- Panization. A public rally in the Hmpress Theatre at night will be addressed by Lawrence Anderson, Alberta provincial secretary of the party, Fergus McKean and Phil Gibbens. At the close of the convention Monday night, delesates will be guests of the Vancouver City Com- mittee at a dance to be held in the Labor Temple. THE _PEOPLE’S ADVO ATE VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938 Republican Spain’s famous International Wegrin somewhere behind the Ebro front. Brigade being reviewed for the last time by Premier Juan All foreign units have now been disbanded. FISHERMEN RAP REVISIONS British Columbia fishermen and vessel owners plan to develop a wide protest against revised resu- lations to the Canada Shipping Act recently proposed by Ottawa au- thorities, accordin= to announce- ments this week by organized fish-— ermen affected. Among the principal groups plan- ning action is the Salmon Purse Seiners’ Union, Local 144, which met Sunday for a discussion of the matter. After a preliminary ex— amination of the proposed revi- sions, a special union committee Was Struck off to undertake organ- izing of a mass meeting of fisher- men and independent beat owners, wihich will in turn formulate plans for combatting the regulations and putting forward amendments to meet the requirements of workine fishermen. “We want to retain all possible safety measures as provided in the act,” stated George Mililler, union business agent, “but we cannot endorse measures which will practically mean the elimin- ation of large numbers of seine boats at present operating.” Under the proposed revisions, owners of seine boats will be forced to make many structural changes in their vessels before being al- lowed to fish next year. Many of the changes contemplated would be impractical, others would be too costly for the average independent boat owner. it is understood that in addition to the protests being made by unionists, cannery operators are also contemplating entering r— quests for amendments. Jewelry Dispute Being Arbitrated Employees of George H. Hewitt Ltd., returned to work Saturday when an arbitration board was ap- pointed by the government to set tle the dispute between employers and workers on signing an agree ment with Tocal 42, Jewelry Work ers’ Union. The board, consisting of J. Thom- son, representing the provincial government, C. Cherry and N. Gray for the employers, and W. Richard- son and G@ Farringdon for the em- ployees, met Mondey for the first time. Further meetings will be called by the union and it is ex pected all branches of the industry will be covered in the board’s in- vestigations. Meanwhile the union’s business agent, Gordon Farringdon, report- ed to the Advocate that workers in other shops were “100 percent or-— ganized.”’ Wielder Of Axe Sentenced Unionist Corrects Publicity By Woman’s Bakery Declaring that “peaceful pick- eting was quite lawful’ and that no one has any right to interfere with pickets, Magistrate Gillies at Edmonds municipal court Wednesday handed down a six months’ suspended sentence on this personal security of $200 to W. Gilbert, chareed with assault On strikers outside the Woman’s Bakery in North Burnaby last Thursday armed with an axe. Defense offered by Gilbert was that he was chopping wood in his back yard and only ran out- side to speak to the pickets with the axe in his hand. The gir] at- tendant in his shop testified that Gilbert had purchased the axe a week previously at Woodward's, but this was questioned by the magistrate, who asserted that “it looked brand new.” Meanwhile pickets are still patrolling the streets in front of the various stores of Woman's Bakery. Exception has been talcen by officials of the Bakery and Con- fectionery Workers’ Union to a statement issued by proprietors of the bakery, which tries to prove that more than 69 people, 47 in the bakery plant and others in the various stores, were em- ployed at the time of arbitration. J. Wumphries, business agent for the union, told the Advocate the arbitration award only dealt with 85 employees in the plant at the time of arbitration, 24 male and 11 female the major- ity of whom were union mem- bers. The union has no jurisdic- tion over store employees. When the bakery refused to accept the award, all but one employee at the plant came out on strike. The statement issued by the Woman’s Bakery claims that bakers receive high wages, but the standard called for in the award, $27.50; was considerably higher than the average now being paid to scab bakers. The Woman’s Bakery was operating under a signed agpree-— ment up to May of this year. JUBILEE CAMP SEEKING AID Delegates to the Jubilee Chil- dren's Summer camp conference held recently in O’Brien Hall laid many new plans to further their campaign for funds to provide needy children with a holiday at Orlohma beach next summer. Despite many delegations to the eity hall, the committee reported it has been unable to obtain a tag day or grant from the city to raise the much-needed funds. A special committee has now been set up by the city council to investigate the camp, but nothing has evolved. Al- though many aldermen were favor- ably impressed with the project, the delegations declared that dis- erimination against this particular camp was very obvious in the dis- cussion. More than 180 children visited the camp last summer, Mrs. K. HL Hyslop, secretary, reported to the conference. The committee hoped to be able to cater to many more next season, but unless they re- ceived some assistance to clear off the $1300 debt on the property, they feared the camp would have to be closed. New officers elected to the com- mittes executive were J. Steven- son, Local 452, Carpenters and Joiners, president; Mrs. CG. Dalziel, Carleton CCF club, vice-president; Mrs. K EL Hyslop, WHLL, secretary; Mrs. J. Bown, South Hill -CGF, treasurer; Mrs. Fullford, Alexander PTA, Mrs. Anderson, Mothers’ Council, Mrs. Houghton, Victoria Road Community centre, EE. W. King, Local 882, IUOE, S. T. Wy- bourn, Division 101, Street Rail- waymen’s Union. The next meetings of the camp committee will be held Briday, De- cember 2, in O7Brien Hall, 8 pm. Boilermakers Picket Water Board Job Welding jobs under way by the Greater Vancouver Waiter Board at Stanley Park and False Creek were being picketed today by members of the Boilermakers Union on a demand for higher hourly wage rates. The union “is demanding a scale of $1.12%% an hour, according to Business Agent B. Heatherstone, who pointed out there has been an upward revision in wages since Similar work was done in the past. Present rate paid is $1.00 an hour. “We maintain the civic authori_ ties should show an example in raising the figure in proportion to the new schedule,” stated Peather- stone, “particularly since such work is being done in the Vancouver BARTON EXPOSES SLUSH FUND FOR ‘NON-PARTISANS’ Labor Progressives Fire Opening Shot In Civic Campaign At Moose Hall Meet Opening shot in the labor- progressive election Campaign was fired Monday night at a rally in the Moose Hall at- tended by 800 enthusiastic citizens. introduced by William Stewart, campaisn committee ehairman Dr. A. FEF. Barton, President federated ratepayers and Mayoralty candi- date, told the audience that Van- couver needed a strong and friendly helping hand. “You, the voters, are in a posi- tion to provide that hand by elect ing a progressive slate to the city council,” he said. Attacking the Present system whereby the city had an annual Cash deficit of over four Million dollars, Dr. Barton quoted from a Special committee report on civic administration which, in 1935, ques— tioned “if the city could carry on with such a large proportion of its income, $3,577,544, fo0ing for debt charges.” Barton pledged himself to look after the needs of the small tax Payer rather than those of vested interests and that he would press for federal responsibility for relief and social welfare. “The real fight is only beginning when I am elected,” Barton re- marked. “The more pressure you can put on me, the more ET ean bring to bear on the senior govern-— ments.”’ Barton told his listeners that 325,000 had been donated to ths Non-Partisan League for its elec- Hien campaign, “but,’ he re marked, “you may be sure that money is to be repaid one-hun- dred fold when the League candi- dates are elected.” “We must determine the things we want, no increase in taxes or assessments and no decrease in so- Cial services, and 80 out together and get them,’ he concluded amid prolonged applause. Charles Stewart, ber of the Trades and Labor Coun- ceil, aldermanic candidate, told the people “at no time in the history of Vancouver was the necessity so Sreat to elect a progressive slate in the city council.” executive mem- _Pledging himself to “serve the citizens in the same Manner as fT have endeavored to Serve the trade union movement,” Stewart Said he hoped Sincerely for “unani_ mity among all progressive groups of voters.” Tf elected, Stewart Said, he in- tended to fight for complete re— organisation of the relief depart- ment, a realistic worlks program which would not only put men to work at decent wages, but pro— vide citizens with much needed streets, sewers, parks and water mains, “but not by cne-man streetcars even though they may be stream- ined and modern,” revision of the taxation System, burden on small Mrs. Effie Jones, candidate for School board, told the audience she had been interested in education all her life. “IT can approach the propiez- from four Points of view,” she re- Marked, “parent, teacher, student and taxpayer.” Declarine that every child should have a right to education regard— less of means, Mrs. Jones advo- cated free medical, dental and Op- tical treatment in all schools. “Every teacher’s application Should be considered on ability and experience, nothing else,’ she said, adding that teachers Should not have to work under continued fear REPEAL BILE 39 district.” of wage cuts.