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March 29, 1949 -

Victoria Bus Drivers Win Increased Wage Demands

Merger Referendum
Ordered By Fishermen

Referendum ballots on the question of accepting Salmon
Purse Seiners’ union, local 141, into membership with the
United Fishermen’s union, local 44, were sent out this week to
the latter union’s 500 members following a joint meeting of the
unions’ executive boards. This step was ordered by the UFU
second annual convention held in Croatian hall last Monday,
where the SPSU application was unanimously approved.

Results of the vote, which re-
quires a two-third majority, will
not be known for three weeks, but
if carried the SPSU wll be accept-
ed as a salmon purse seiners divi-
sion. Tentative plans call for cre
ation of five divisions or categories
of fishermen under the UFU char-
ter such as salmon, halibut, her-
ring and pilehard fishermen, ten-
dermen and an association of fish-
ing vessel skippers.

Convention delegates endorsed a
resolution asking that the Work-
men’s Compensation Act be revised
to cover all fishermen. This reso-
lution also was endorsed by the
Salmon Purse Seiners convention

and the Provincial Youth Con-
ress. :
Establishment by the federal

gSovernment of a broader conser-
vation scheme than at present in
operation to safeguard future runs
and restore present fish runs was
asked in a resolution adopted by
delegates,

increasing of federal grants to
the University of BC for educa-
tional work among fishermen was
sought in another resolution. 5

The convention reiterated its
demand for repeal of the War
Measures Act as being undemo-
cratic and a threat to union or-
ganization.

A weekly closed season for her-
Ying fishing in northern areas, as
is the custom in other waters was
asked in a resolution addressed to

the fisheries department. At pre-
sent there is no closed season in
northern waters,

MAYOR OPENS MEET.

Mayor Lyle Telford, in an open-
ing address, stressed the need for
unity among fishermen’s organi-
zations to deal effectively with the
industry's problems. Citinjr unity
of the medical profession and fin-
ancial interests as examples, the
mayor expressed hope the delce-
gates would adopt a program bene-
ficial to all fishermen.

Worman McKenzie, UBC exten-
sion branch, W. Stewart, Hotel
and Restaurant Employees’ union,
and John Wigdor, director of
Pacific Coast Labor Bureau, deliy-
ered short addresses,

President H. Staveres, Vice-
president G. Knutson, and Secre-
tary W. T. Burgess were re-
elected by acclamation, and Nick
Kopatic, J. Pedersen, J. Meister,
C. Hansen, W. Olsen, J. Penny,
EF. Jacobsen and Hans Stollen
were elected to complete the exe—
cutive board.

At present the executive is
charged with the task of purchas-
ing suitable union headquarters.

Union members, wives and
friends were entertained at a ban-
quet, concert and dance Monday.
following convention sessions and
two sittings were required to ac-
commodate the large number at-

tending,

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Daladier Hides Behind

Napoleonic

“How do you pretend to be
able to destroy an evil regime by
adopting its methods?” adding,
“St is not only Germany and
Italy that have stamped out the
liberty of the individual, of the
press, of the trade unions, of the
people’s representatives.

“While these men stand in the
dock, the hooded men, the Cagou-
jards, who stocked up German
arms to attack the French people,
the agents of Ribbentrop, are free
—in fact, they are to be found in a
certain ministry of the present gov-
ernment.”

The military tribunal refused to
serve subpoenas on US Ambassador
to France William A. Bullitt, for-
Mer Prime Minister Daladier,
George Bonnet, former French
ambassador to the US, and other

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Decree

Imembers of the Daladier govern-
ment whose evidence, the deputies
held, was essential to their defense.

Marcel Williard, one of the de
fense lawyers, said he wanted the
former prime minister to produce
proof of his accusation that the
Communist deputies were traitors
to France and agents of the enemy.
He recalled that in July 1935 Dala-
dier, representing the Radical So-
cialists, was a partner to the
people’s front pact with the Social-
ists and Communists and that he
later solicited Communist partici-
pation in the cabinet.

Evidence of Bonnet was sought
in connection with a statement
attributed to him in the French
yellow book (p. 170). This state-
men was made in a conversation
with German Ambassador to
France, Count Johannes von
Welezeck, seven weeks before
conclusion of the Soviet-German
non-ageression pact at a time
when Britain and France were
engaged in discussing the possi-
bility of a collective security
agreement with the Soviet Onion.
According to the yellow book,
Bonnes told von Welezeck that
the Daladier government had de-
cided “to bring the Communists
to reason” in time of war.

Both Daladier and Bonnet took
refuge behind a Napoleonic decree
of 1812 excepting ministers from
obligation to testify before a court.

This drew from Zevaes the ex-
clamation, “Do they think they are
still living in the empire?”

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Prior Re-elected
President @f
Youth Congress
Officers elected to head
the Provincial Youth Con-

gress were lL. John Prior,
member of Oliver School

Teachers association, who
Was re-elected president;
Val Bjarnason, Canadian

Student Assembly, vice-
president, and Donald Mc-
Bean, Young Liberals, sec-
retary -treasurer. Regional
directors elected were: Phil-
lip Howard, Penticton; Mar-
tin Greer, Kamloops; Freda
Horlick, Nelson; George Mc-
Taggart, provincial United
Church groups.

John Jopson, Anglican
Young People’s Society, was
reelected president of Great-
er Vancouver Youth Coun-
cil; Nigel Morgan, BC board
member for International
Woodworkers of America,
first vice-president, and May
Isenor, YWCA, general sec-
retary.

tury. Many

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Congress

of nurses, domestics and employees
of banks and dominion corpora-
tions under the Minimum Wage
Act; enatement of a federal mini-
mum wage law; abolition of split-
Shifts for these employees — wait-
resses, telephone operators and
Sales people.

Weed for an impartially adminis-
tered provincial labor department
free from political pressure, was
Stressed in the report which stated
that present interpretations of the
Industrial Arbitration and Concili-
ation Act had a tendency to favor
employers.

it was pointed out that not one
strike had been won by workers
since the law was enacted, al-
though in three major instances
unions won awards which later
proved meaningless.

Hnactment of health and unem-
ployment insurance, increase in old
age pensions and reduction of the
age limit to 60 years were meas-
ures also approved by the as-
sembly.

On economic problems the con-
gress recorded itself in favor of a
reforestation program, banning ex-
port of raw logs while Canadian
workers and mills are idle, and
scored present wasteful methods
of logging. Establishment of elec-
tive safety committees in logging
camps to enforce regulations and
prevent the high death rate was
recommended,

Inclusion of all fishermen under
the Workmen’s Compensation Act
Was urged by the congress.

The federal government was
called on to vote sufficient appro-
priations to ensure carrying out
the necessary program for consery-
ation of salmon, the congress re-
port pointing out that heavy loss
resulted when watersheds were de-
nuded of trees.

“Throw off the shackles of the
past,” was Mayor J. Lyle Telford’s
advice to 200 youthful delegates at
the opening session of the second
Provincial Youth Congress at Pro-
vincial Normal school last Friday.

“The present economic system is
not human, scientific or ehristian,”
stated the mayor amid prolonged
applause as he urged delegates to
make a break with tradition and
apply their own intelligence in solv-
ing economic problems in this
country which has natural re-
sources, railroads, factories, while
capable men and women are denied
the opportunity of working or using
them.

Delegates were reminded that
the present age has no monopoly
on wisdom. “See what a mess has
been made of things. You can’t
make them any worse by taking
them into your own hands,” the
mayor continued and advised his
audience not to wunderrate their
Own ability.

Real patriotism was not in way-
ing flags or speaking from po-
litical platforms, but in working
quietly for the benefit of humanity,
the mayor concluded.

Continued

Bulgaria

“Russian social ideas have great-
ly contributed to the rebirth of the
Bulgarian people which started in
the second half of the 18th cen-
outstanding cham-
pions for national, cultural, and
political emancipation of the Bul-
garian people received their edu-
cation in Russia and were given
great support by Russian public
opinion.

“The development of Bulgarian
science and literature was greatly
influenced by Russian culture.
Many works of both Russian clas-
Sics and contemporary Soviet writ-
ers have been translated in the
Bulgarian language.

“The sympathies of the Bulgar-
ian people for the USSR were par-
ticularly clearly manifested in
1934 when normal diplomatic rela-

tions between the Soviet Union and

Bulgaria were established.

“Friendly relations between
Bulgaria and the USSR are stril-
ingly expressed in the economic
agreements signed between the
Soviet and Bulgarian govern-
ments in Moscow on Jan. 5. Be-
fore this the volume of trade be-
tween the two countries was
very inconsiderable. Now the
trade with the USSR will occupy.
approximately a tenth of Bul-
§aria’s foreign trade,

“By concluding this agreement
with the USSR, Bulgaria now has
the possibility of curtailing her m-
ports of a number of knds of goods:
necessary to her industry and aegri-
culture Which she received from
other countries under very unfay-
orable conditions.

AID BULGAR WORKERS.

“The fact that the two countries
are close neighbors and that there
is a convenient and cheap water-
way for the transport of goods,
will undoubtedly contribute to the
development and strengthening of
these relations.

“According to the agreement the
Soviet Union will export to Bul-
garia predominantly industrial
goods, whereas Bulgaria will sup-
ply the USSR wth agricultural
products,

“Opening of an extensive Soy-
iet market for Bulgarian goods,
declared Bulgarian minister of
? agriculture Bagrianoy, creates
favorable prospects for develop-
ment of Bulgaria’s agriculture.
Due to the naval blockade, im-
port of raw materials to Bulgaria
was curtailed. A number of
textile mills were obliged to close
down or go over to a shortened
working day. The workers’
wages were cut.

“Now as a result of economic
collaboration between the Soviet
Union and Bulgaria, the textile
mills will once again start operat-
ing at full capacity and unemploy-
€d workers and office employees
will once again receive work,

“The Bulgarian public greeted
these agreements as proof of close,
friendly ties between the Soviet
and Bulgarian peoples.

“In the conditions of raging
war in Europe, wrote the Bulgar-
jan newspaper, Cvhera Idnes, ‘Bul-
Zaria and the USSR mark a big
economic victory directed towards
the flourishing of peaceful labor.

““This victory particularly glad-

dens the Russian and Bulgarian

peoples for it is a warm ray of
sunshine in a Europe which is
enveloped in cold and war.”

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Conscription

WINNIPEG, Man—A mass anti-
conscription rally of young people
in the Palace theatre here last
week launched an organized Anti-
Conscription Youth movement. The
rally was addressed by various
party candidates in the election and
R. ©. MeCutchean of the trades
and labor council, Ken McCaskill
of the Young Liberals and Louis
Hebert of St' Boniface college.

Declaring that the course of the
war will force conscription, Leslie
Morris, Communist candidate in
Winnipeg North, stated that the
governing circles will try to en-
force conscription in order to “co-
ordinate” and regiment the people.
His appeal that “it is the duty of
every Canadian to resist conscrip-
tion” met with a wide response
from the audience.

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VICTORIA, BC—Wage increases, amounting in some in
stances to 100 percent, were gained for bus drivers of

this cit

through efforts of Victoria Trades and Labor council, it wa
reported at a meeting of that body last week. In addition th
bus drivers will be supplied with uniforms. 7

Trail Workers
Reinstated

TRAIL, BC.—FExpulsion of four
members of the Workmen’s Coop-
erative Committee two weeks ago
because they were alleged to have
had dealings with the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers, was quashed here this
week when the men were reinstated
by an overwhelming confidence
vote as representatives of their de-
partments, They were returned by
an aggregate vote of 428 to 56.

The men, Sivorot, representing
the lead refinery; Drake, oxide;
Lypehuk, furnaces; and Black,
oilers, were members of a five-man
committee which presented 4 bnief
to the management for a $1 a day
wage increase for employees of the
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
ccmpany’s plants at Trail and War-
field.

They were charged with having
permitted a leakage of informa-
tion when the Commentator, a
union bulletin published by Trail
and District Organization commit
tee, printed and circulated the brief
in its columns.

The union bulletin has constantly
kept the smeltermen informed of
what was being decided by the com-
mittee and has consistently raised
the demand for a $1 a day wage
increase.

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Elections

rooms in Montreal raided and a
general policy of intimidation car-
ried out by police.

Of the 10 candidates Leslie Mor-
tis, Winnipeg North, polled the
largest vote of 5260 .In Toronto
Spadina, Stewart Smith received
2720. In Vancouver East Fergus
McKean polled 1356 votes, a drop of
200 from 1935 as compared with the
2000 fall in the CCF vote in this
Tiding,

Tim Buck, who was prevented
from appearing in Hamilton Bast
during the campaign, polled 681
votes. In Montreal-St. Mary, where
police intimidation was particularly
severe, Evariste Dube polled 656
anti-war votes.

A. C. Campbell, who campaigned
in Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s
riding of Prince Albert, polled 221
votes. Other Saskatchewan candi-
dates were W. E. Wiggins, Macken-
zie (665); J. I. Guest, Regina (603).
T. G. McManus’ vote in Yorkton
was not available.

Lawrence Anderson, who con-
tested Bow River constituency in
Alberta, received 861 votes. In ad-
dition to these candidates William
Halina, Vegreyville, running on a
United Progressive ticket, received
2104 votes, and Douglas Stewart,
former business manager of the
banned Clarion, recently sentenced
under the War Measures Act to
two years imprisonment, polled
1052 votes in Toronto-Trinity.

Tom Church, organizer for the
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’
union, contested Temiskaming on
a Farmer-Labor ticket and polled
3524 votes.

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Cc. N. Coe, organization co;
mittee chairman, announced the
favorable progress of an intens”
fied organizational drive among rj i
tail clerks was reflected in atte.
dance at union meetings. %

Carpenters’ union has elected 4
Sims as business agent and antic |
Pate considerable Progress in unig”
activity during the year, Carpe
ters’ delegate reported. :

E. EF. Fox, Street Railwaymen'
delegate, stated his union is no;
in progress of negotiating 2 ne;
union agreement with the BCE lec
tric. ;

Delegate &. Belton reported em
ployees of another trucking firn’
had been signed up with the Team
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Pioneer Debt I

CUMBERLAND, BC. — Unite
Mine Workers of America | :
union here unanimously assesset
members 25 cents towards defray.
ing debts of the Pioneer Minerg |
union during their protracted five
minths strike. It is understood the
miners received large credits fro:
a Vancouver department store ang |
are endeavoring to liquidate the
debt. >

The miners also endorsed an as
sessment of $1 on each member fh
make May Day 2 bigger success
than any yet held here. A com
mittee of five was elected te pre
pare plans for the day which has
been celebrated here for many

years. The day is usually marked
with a civic holiday.

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Shipyard Union
Drive Launched

_ VICTORIA, BC.—~a Public meet
ing to organize the shipyards berg
was held Wednesday sponsored 6}
the Metal Trades council and Vic
toria Trades and Labor council.

International represen tative
Shields Clise, A. Milligan and J
Duncan presented sound reasons
why the workers should organize |

W. Page, Carpenters’ organizer _
told the meeting that there were
better opportunities here to organ:
ize the shipyards than in Vancou
ver.

Considerable discussion on. the
Tole of international unions, pay
Ment of insurance and pensions
Showed keenness of workers tc
know all about unionism befort
they joined.

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