Page Two Oe ADVOCATE December 29, 1939 Trail Miners’ Union Protests Attack Victoria Organizes Shipbuilding Industry VICTORIA, BC.—Organization of the shipbuilding in- dustry here is proceeding favorably, with meetings of ma- chinists and sheet metal workers being held, Norman Coe, organization committee chairman, reported to Victoria Trades and Labor Council at its meeting last week. Sheet metal workers voted 100 percent to organize under an international charter rather than a Canadian union, thereby rejecting the Canadian Federation of Labor. Coe also reported that a mass organizational meeting of truck drivers will be held in January. ‘The meeting en- dorsed a proposal to ask for an organizer. - Congratulations were extended to F. Eaton, Truck- drivers’ union delegate, who headed the councilmanic poll in Esquimalt municipal elections. Wominations will be received at the council’s election of officers for 1940. the Jan. 3 meeting for LOGGERS TO AIR PROBLEMS Woodworkers’ Union Prepares For Convention Final preparations for the International Woodworkers’ BC District convention, to be held Jan. building here, 3, 4 and 5 in the Holden are being pushed by district officials. Between 75 and 100 delegates representing the 10 locals in the BEC dis- trict, are expected to attend the three-day sessions. What the convention expects to@ accomplish according to Executive Secretary Nigel Morgan is form- ation of a program to meet the new situation created by the war, retention of civil liberties, freedom ef press, speech aud organization; a definite policy to fulfill the pro- fram annunciated at the interna- tional convention in respect to a wage increase of 2 dollar a day. Of vital interest is the question of securing adequate vessels for shipment of the lumber now glut- fing the mills. The millworkers are supporting the demand for more ships in order to keep some 27,000 millworkers and loggers employed. @ther questions of paramount importance are reforestation, housing and social legislation. MAYOR TO SPEAK. Speakers expected to address convention sessions include Mayor Ibyle Telford, Grant MacNeil, MP, Golin Gameron, MLA, and Sam Guthrie, Mi.A, delegates from Unit- ed Mine Workers, Inland Boatmen’s Wishermen’s and Mine, Mill and READ THE WEEBRLY TIMBER WORKER Official LW.A. Paper 4126 Arcade Bidz. Seattle, Wash. HASTINGS BAKERY High. 3244 Phone: SEymour 1912 GARS STOP AT OUR DOOR Quality Materials Used and Wrorkmanship Guaranteed Vancouver Shoe & Repair Co. P. Bobhonosiuk, Prop. 501 ROBSON ST., cor. Richards Our Motto: “Always a Bargain” Si eee Make it Home! Hotel East 445 GORE AVE. SEymour 0308 Smelter Workers’ Union and Van- couver Housing Association. Representatives from the provin- cial lsbor and forestry depart- ments besides international TWA officers are expected to attend. A public meeting is scheduled for Moose hall next Wednesday at 8 p.m. where Mayor Lyle Telford, Hioward Costigan, WCE leader in the Pacific Northwest, TWA. Presi- dent Harold J. Pritchett and Vice- President O. M. Orton will speak on various aspects of the lumber industry. Organizer Hails Estevan Victory CALGARY, Alta—‘“The best set- tlement that ever was made in the history of Estevan,” was how Jobn Stokaluk, UMWA organizer, char- acterized the recent strike settle ment in the Saskatchewan lignite field on his return here. ‘We sot an increase for the miners,” Stokaluk said, “full recog- nition of a central union with a echeck-off, no discrimination and all men will be re-employed on the basis of their seniority. “Also we have a clause in the agreement,” he continued, “that the cost of living will be reviewed every three months and an increase in wages will be granted accordingly. In my opinion we got everything we asked for except that name of the United Mine Workers of Am- erica, “The meeting held at Bienfait at which the settlement was discussed was the biggest ever held in the district. The agreement was ac- ceptea enthusiastically and the men appear satisfied.” AEE MT. 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Dan Martin, PCHU Vancouver re— presentative, attended the meeting and made final arrangements for the association to carry on as 2 local of the PCHU. Last mtnth the organization had jnutimated a desire for unity, but the question was laid over until the general meeting which would also allow the association dele gate to report on the PCEU con- vention. City Manager Plan Delayed PRINCE RUPERT, BC. — Pro- posals to replace the present com- mission administration of Prince Rupert with a city manager plan will not be acted upon for the time being, according to a statement is- sued this week by Municipal Affairs Minister A. Wells Gray. Gray said an acting commissioner would be appointed to replace Com- missioner W. J. Alder, whose resig- nation becomes effective next month. Recently a handful of Prince Rupert citizens gave majority ap- proval to the city Manager scheme, but inasmuch as less than 200 ot the city’s 7000 citizens voted it could hardly be construed as a democratice decision- Poultrymen Hit High Feed Prices CLOVERDALE, BC.— Unless the government takes action to reduce soaring feed prices, poultrymen in the Fraser Valley face ruin. This was the position outlined by representatives of Surrey Co-oper- ative Association in a recent meet- ing here with Tom Reid, Liberal MP for New Westminster. : Pointing to deplorable conditions which have long existed in the Fraser Valley poultry industry, poultrymen stated that with present low ef prices the rising cost of feed constitutes a serious threa« necessitating immediate govern- mental action, Fishermen Hit Use Of Trawlers QUATHTASKI COVE, BC Strong protest against use of traw- lers as being “much more destruc- tive than ordinary methods of cod fishing and injures the fishing more than if there were no closed season,” was registered here last week by cod fishermen. Fishermen contended that con- tinued licensing of 45 trawlers is liable to raise the friction among fishermen on this coast similar to that already existing on the At- lantic coast The trawlers operate a net which drags along the sea floor catching everything in its wake, the fisher— men stated. A resolution was sent to the federal fisheries department ask- ing that the licenses be not re- newed. Other recommendations drafted cover fishing regulations in waters in this area. A. W. Neill, M.P., addressed the- meeting, speaking on all phases of fishing. Strikers Receive $240 Donation NANAIMO, BC—Strikers at Pio- neer gold mine have received a donation of $240, proceeds of a turkey draw conducted by the union, according to a financial statement published by United Mine Workers local here. Receipts show that James Rob- ertson turned in $30.42 from Cum- berland area; Archie Greenwell, Cowichan area, $62.55; Edward Boyd, Nanaimo area, $185.20, and Wigel Morgan, Vancouver area, $2.20. Disbursements disclose that $16.20 was expended for printing of tickets and $24.60 for five turkeys. Winners of turkeys were John Tusa with ticket No. 4948, John Beck with ticket No. 3891, D. Egger with ticket INo. 5185, J. Bennett with ticket No. 2413 and T. Cuth- bert with ticket No. 5651. CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO Ontario Courts Hand Down Vicious Sentences Contending that the leaflets were not a contravention of defense reg- ulations, Joseph Newman and Da- vid Goldstick, defense lawyers, supplied by the Ganadian Tabor Defense League, stated that the accused were simply distributing the opinion and statement of a re- sponsible political party. ‘Tf we are to afford ourselves the luxury of calling this country a democracy we must put up with the inconvenience of listening to opinions with which we may dis- agree,’ declared CLDIL Defense Attorney Newman. ‘The right to express your opin- jon and to seek to influence the government one way or another on the war should not be arrogated to those having a million dollars to purchase a newspaper, but should also be the privilege of the work- ing people,” he added. ONTARIO REPRESSION. In Windsor, Ont, Frank Spe- wak, a veteran of the Spanish war, was sentenced to nine months’ im- prisonment, while Stanley Kued- man and Walter Hnidie received sentences of six months. At request of Crown- Attorney Jas. Allen, EC, the three men’s naturalization papers were ordered cancelled as a final vicious thrust. Despite every difficulty being placed in their way, CLDIL mem- bers intend to appeal the cases and have the men released on bail. At Kirkland Lake, Eldridge Lee McMillen was sentenced to three months and $200 fine or an addi- tional three months in jail for al- legedly making statements which would influence recruiting. Gitizens are up in arms about such sentences, based on corm- plaints laid by jndividuals that they overheard such statements In Brampton Ont. 2 Dutch-born farmer, aged 60, was sentenced to * WHILE YOU WAIT Men’s Half Seles and Rubber Heels Z OD G5eé Empire Shoe Repairs Ladies’ Half Soles - = 6G East Hastings Street ¢+hree months’ imprisonment after a similar charge had been laid. When J. Il. Cohen, attorney for Cc. H. Millard, CIO organizer, main- tained that the charges should be more precisely defined and chal- lenged the Timmins court’s juris- diction, the magistrate stated: “I’m inclined to agree with you,” but said he would treat the case as an jndictable offense. Pending investi- gation of his jurisdiction, the case was adjourned until Jan. 4 De- fense Attorney Cohen has request-— ed further particulars from the Crown counsel. Despite defeat of the pro-fascist Duplessis government in Quebec at the last provincial election, the Padlock Law, Duplessis’ brain- child, is still being used against the workers by the new Liberal fovernment. In Montreal recently over 1,000 copies of the Mid-West Clarion, Labor weekly published in Winni- pes, were Seized from railway ex- press offices. Winners in a draw for ten tur- keys held Thursday at the Cana- dian Labor Defense League, Van- couver Genter branch, meeting in O’Brien hall, were: Lightfoot, 3437 Euclid Ave., with ticket No. 768; I. Brooker, 3436 Vanness, No. 712; Pelitens, 60 W. Cordova St., No. 382; F. Pozavic, 663 Pender, No. 176; F. © Atkin— son, 3683 Bast 29th, No. 811; Jim SPECIAL! Campbell, 2504 Kingsway, No. 799; P. Lanzon, 177 EH. Hastings, Wo. 224- Mrs. Gratton 3316 Wellington, Wo. 610; E. Plavac, 60 W. Cordova St, No. 364; and Mrs. D. Elliott, 3457 East 24th, No. 776. Those listed above are urged to eall at CLDL office, room 5i—163 West Hastings Street, for turkey vouchers. 7 Continued 7 Pioneer the middle of January, John Stan- ton, counsel for the union, told the Advocate this week. WNotice of the action has been served on Crown Counsel Dugald McAlpine. Hinging his whole case on the union’s telegram to Labor Minister G S. Pearson asking for an arbi- trator more than a week prior to the strike Stanton will seek a rul- ing whether or not it constituted an application and whether Pearson failed in his duty as minister of labor to supply the union with the necessary application forms. Pointing out that while Judge J. ©. Wilson at Lillooet. county court last week had upheld the illegality of the strike, Stanton stated that fines of five unionists had been re- duced by two-thirds. Fines of $125 each imposed on Alex Penman, Sam Womlund and Alex Cameron had been cut to $41.67 each, while fines of $200 each against C. A. Haddreli and W. A. Paterson had been re- duced to $66.67 each. Eviction orders granted the com- pany will be held up pending out- come of an appeal on behalf of W. A. Paterson’s case to retain pos- session of a company cottage. India At ‘Lexington’ LONDON, Engs—(Passed by Bri- tish Censor)—British newspapers last week prominently displayed ar— ticles dealing with India’s refusal to cooperate with the British fSov- ernment in prosecution of the war until the Indian people were grant ed complete selfrule. An article restating the position of the indian National Congress, written by Mohandas K Gandhi, was published in the London News Ghronicle, while the Manchester Guardian featured an article liken- ing India’s demands to the pro- fram of the American patriots be— fore the 1776 Revolution. Said the Manchester Guardian article: “Civil disobedience is bound to come, with fierce despair and re- sentment sustaining it In the American revolution we had 2 strong case, but because taxation without representation is ty-xr- anny history and our own after- judement have condemned us ..- “India has reached the Lexing- ton stage: ‘If there is to be a war let it begin here!” “The break has come over the right of one nation to commit an-— other to war without bothering to consult its wishes and interests.” CFL Blocks Wage Demand Agitation among union carpen- ters employed on a $42,000 con- struction job at Granville and Broadway for a stoppage of work until contractors agreed to pay the union scale of 90 cents an hour was blocked by Jack McKinley, of Amalgamated Building Workers, affiliated with Canadian Hedera- tion of Labor, who urged members of his union to stay on the job. Members of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters have patrolled the block of stores under construc- tion there in an endeavor to nave contractors pay the umion scale agreed to in November, 1938, and recognized by the federal govern- ment, General Contractors” Asso- ciation, city council, school board and many firms. Garpenters’ union officials told. the Advocate that McKinleys ac- ¢ions can only serve employers and drive down wage standards estab- lished by organized labor and which may result in a reversion to Liberties Millard Arrest Scored Suppression Of Labor Papers Also Hit By Union TRAIL, BC.— Infringements on rights and civil liberties of the Canadian people since out- break of war were protested this week by Trail and District Miners’ union in a resolution to Labor Minister Norman Mc- Larty. , Suppression of progressive pub— lications in Montreal, Toronto and Sudbury; banning of progressive and liberal journals entering Can= ada from Britain and the United States; arrest of C. HM. Millard, CIO Secretary; sending of RCMP into Estevan coal fields and to Locke port, NS; the BC Labor Concilia- fion and Arbitration Act as inter- preted by Labor Minister G. S- Pearson as in the Pioneer miners’ dispute, and threats to members of the provincial legislature who were critical of the war in their utterances, are listed by the union as constituting infringements on eivil liberties. Recalling a war policy statement passed in September which read in part “ to the extent that democracy and cooperation is prac— ¢ticed in the rear to that extent will democracy be victorious in the front line trenches,” the union sug- gests ‘that only by expressing: the greatest degree of democracy, with particular attention being paid to the social needs and requirements of the people, can our Dominion government enjoy that degree of support and cooperation vital and necessary in this critical period of time.” Resignation Of Minister Asked TRAIL, BC Resignation of Labor Minister George S. Pearson for his handling of the dispute at Pioneer gold mines was called for this week by Trail and Dis- trict Miners’ union in a letter to the provincial government scoring the minister’s attitude on five points. The union resolution condemns the minister for refusing to have recognized as the official bargain- ing agency those men duly elected by the miners, aS was done in a previous dispute. Tt further assails Pearson: “For not prosecuting the employ- ers at Pioneer as you did the em-— ployees, thereby establishing the fact that you were biased in your judgment. “Wailing to make any attempt to bring about a settlement in this dispute which could have been done in the spirit of the ICA Act and in the interests of the work- ers concerned. ‘Using a private letter, held in custody of the court for the at- torney general’s use, to enter into a bitter attack on the miners at Pioneer. “For your attacks on members of trade unions by deseribing them as outside ‘agitators’ and your abuse of international unions.” Declaring that honest efforts on the part of labor are useless while such disgraceful attacks are being. made, the union suggests that the minister make public how the let- open shop methods. =) LOGG SS ze : 3 Hat, and a bottle of Scotch. “Two things are necessary to ing and how to get there.” ea = New Age : FRIDAY, DEC. EMBASSY BALLROOM Good Music, Refreshments, and... 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