Page Four

THE

ADVOCATE

May 3, 1940

- Striking Oshawa Steel Workers Win Wage Increase

Five-Week
Srike Ends
In Victory

Gnitario Malleabie
Signs With Union
After Fittings Pact

OSHAWA, Ont. — (CUNS).
—Two hundred employes of
Qntario Malleable Iron com-
pany won a 744 percent wage
inerease and improvements in
working conditions after a five-
week strike here. The em-
ployes are members of SWOC,
lodge 1817, which won a sim-
ilar raise for 400 workers at
Fittings, Ltd., last week.

The agreement also proyides for
pay while workers are waiting for
jobs to start at the plant, a basic
minimum wage of 60 cents hourly
for moulders and time and a half
for overtime. Another clause pro-
vides for a wage increase as of
Dec. 1 based on the rise in living
costs. Time and a half will be paid
for Saturdays and holidays. Provi-
Sion is also made for seniority, ad-
justment’ and handling of griev-
ances,

Local 222, UAWA, and many
other locals in the province assist-
ed in winning the strikes.

200 Toronto
Workers Strike

TORONTO, Ont. — (CUNS)
Two hundred workers, members
of Lodge 1089 SWOG, have been on
Strike at Dominion Wheel and
Foundry plant here for a week
because of the company’s refusal
to sign a contract providing high-
er pay and improved working con-
ditions. The strikers protested the
police demand that pickets remove
‘union police’ signs, pointing out
that union police had been highly
complimented by city police on
previous occasions for the credit-
able manner in which they had
maintained perfect order.

Although Ald. Harry Hunter,
Hamilton, native-born SWOC as-
sistant director, sat in earlier ne-
gotiations with the company, the
management issued a statement
objecting to ‘foreign interfer-
ence.’

Dosco Board
Ends Hearings

SYDNEY, NS. (CUNS)
Charges that steelworkers in Dosco
sometimes worked as much as 10
and 14 eight-hour shifts in a week,
were made by George McEachren,
executive member of SWOC lodge
at the conciliation board hearing
here on the claims of 3,500 workers
for higher pay and improved work-
ing conditions. The board conclud-
ed its hearings this week after
previous negotiations between the
union and management proved
fruitless.

Dosco management reiterated
its claim that it was unable to

pay higher wages without in-
creasing the prices of its pro-
ducts, although the company’s
financial statement for 1939
showed increased profits over the
previous year. :

President Norman MacKenzie,
of lodge 1064, declared that “the
average hourly earnings of all
workers employed by the corpora-
tion is 55 cents an hour. Obviously
then, the greater number of work-
ers employed are paid 55 cents or
less per hour. This wage is not
sufficient for the worker or his
family unless we are to believe
that the worker and his family
are entitled to no more than a bare

subsistence standard or to just
the bare necessities of life.’
Workers must share in the

benefits created by the increased
produtcivity of machines, MacKen-
zie said, adding that workers
should earn enough to provide a
reserve for slack employment.
Mackenzie further pointed out
that Algoma Steel corporation had
made a profit of $400,000 last year
on 47.2 percent capacity. It had
also made a profit on 2 shipment
of ingots to Great Britain despite
a 1,000-mile freight haul not ex-
perienced by Dosco.

Friday Banned
From Newsstands

BELLINGHAM, Wash. For
publishing a series of articles on
the murder of Laura Law, wife of
an Aberdeen labor leader, the na-
tional magazine, Friday, has been
banned from local newsstands and
anyone seeking to distribute it has
been warned of the ‘consequences’
by a member of the Aberdeen
police department.

William J. Kaigler, socalled ‘fin-
ger-print’ expert on the Belling-
bam force, and chairman of the
American Legion’s Americaniza-
dion Committee, is charged by the
Bellingham Industrial Union Coun-
Gil with threatening them if they
continue circulating the popular
new progressive publication.

Leaders Of Striking Seamen

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PRESIDENT William Winn of Sarnia Canadian Seamen’s council confers with members of
the Canadian Seamen’s union, following settlement of the 6-day strike conducted by 5000
Great Lakes seamen for higher wages and a union shop. It was announced this week that
the 3-man conciliation board set up to arbitrate the union’s claims will open its hearings
May 6, with J. L. Coben, KC, representing the union on the board.

Drive Committee
Issues Urgent

Finnish Benefit Dance

mot yet renewed their subscrip-
tions, and to organize more of the
local affairs which already have
eontributed substantially to the
drive.

It is pointed out that if every
reader of the Advocate raised or
donated only 50 cents, the $3500
would be oversubscribed.

It is also stressed that since
pledges total less than $3,000 as

against the $3500 needed, many
quotas must be oversubscribed if
the objective is to be reached.

This week, Vancouver commit-
tees, which have been slow in re-
sponding, made the greatest con-
tribution, Leading in the city are
Unemployed, West End, Hastings
East, Grandview and the Industrial
section,

Fairview, from which nothing
has been heard since the start of
the drive, this week made its first
tardy but welcome contribution.
Kitsilano, North Burnaby and
Worth Vancouver are still far be-
hind.

A stronger competitive spirit is
a feature of the campaign on
Vancouver Island, where Lake
Cowichan, Nanaimo and Cum-
berland are setting the pace with
all committees well in the run-
ning,

In the Fraser Valley the drive
is meeting a ready response, and
Masqui, previously a question-
mark on our books, erased the
query on May Day by turning in
56 percent of its pledge to place
Haney and South Burnaby on the
spot.

Kelowna in the Okanagan shot
past its mark this week with 138
percent (we hope it keeps on go-
ing) and outstripped all others
both locally and provincial.

Enderby, which in the last drive
Surprised everyone, has been
forced to accept third place, al-
though this, we are assured,
only a temporary standing. Vern-
on, however, is lagging with only
seven percent of its pledge turned
in.

Kootenay committees seem to be
suffering a number of localized
blackouts, apart from Trail. We
have their pledges, and that, so far,
is all.

But there is no blackout along
the coast} Vananda is away over
the top; Sointula climbing, Prince
Ruper not far behind. On the
whole, all committees are doing
well with the exception of Powell
River.

Drive committee standings fol-
low:

—GREATER VANCOUVER—

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Quota Raised Pct
Industrial ....$500.00 $212.04 42
West End . 150.00 65.05 47
East End . 300.00 75.50 26
S. Vancouver 90.00 31.55 35
Mt, Pleasant 90.00 83.70 37
Hastings E. -.- 100.00 8418 84
Grandview 45.00 20.70 46
Fairview ....-- 80.00 6.00 74%
Kitsilano ..... 70.00 10.50 15
Unemployed 50.00 33.80 68
WN. Burnaby 75.00 12.10 16
WN. Vancouver . 40.00 460 1%
OL Bilt 22 os: 305.02 140.05 46

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Appeal To Readers

With only $1210 of the $3500 sustaining fund raised and the
possibility that the extension of the drive it has striven to avoid,
may be necessary unless the next two weeks show a marked
improvement, the central press drive committee this week is
sending an urgent call to all committees.

Committee organizers are asked to review the results of the
drive in their localities, to check again on subseribers who have

Conference
On Civil
Liberties

Delegates From All
Parts Of Canada
To Meet At Montreal

MONTREAL, Que. — Dele-
gates and observers from or-
ganizations in every Canadian

Cuban Workers
Protest US Note
On Ol Dispute

HAVANA, Cuba. — Pro-
test against the recent note
of the US state department
to Mexico concerning expro-
priation of American oil
properties is voiced by the
executive committee of the
Confederation of Cuban
Workers in a public state-
ment,

Declaring that the United
States is exerting diplomatic
and economic pressure on
the Mexican government
and people, the statement
termed the note an “attack
on national sovereignty that
establishes a threatening pre-
eedent for all peoples in Lat-
in America.”

The Confederation is at-
filiated to the Federation of
Latin-American Workers.

province will gather in Mont-
real May 18-19, for a National
Conference for Civil Liberty in
Wartime called by the Cana-
dian Civil Liberties Union and
six other national organiza-
tions.

More than 5,000 invitations in
French and English have been
mailed out to organizations and in-
dividuals by a convening commit-
tee, composed of representatives
of the seven sponsoring organiz-

Glynn-Ward’s letter stated:

“On April 12, an Indian of the
West Saanich reserve, Lawrence
Paul, shot himself to death. He
was 4a middle-aged man, kindly,
and well thought of by everyone
who knew him, and he left a wi-
dow and seven children. He had
not been able to find work for
some weeks, food had been short
in the household and the family
were on the verge of starvation.

“Before dawn on that fatal day
he went out fishing as a last hope.
But there was no luck. He came
back and asked his wife if there
was anything at all for break
fast. There was a little dry bread
and a few spoonfuls of tea. So
he took what money there was,
25 cents, and with that he went
out and bought two cartridges.

“The only gleam of light in this
shocking tragedy is the hope that
it may awaken, belatedly, some
sense of responsibility in the minds
of Vancouver Islanders towards
the Indians, whose country we
Have annexed and whose natural
means of livelihood we have for-
bidden.

Indian, Jobless,
Facing Starvation,
Commits Suicide |

SIDNEY, BC.—How a West Saanich Indian, unable to find
work, his! family on the verge of starvation, spent his last 25
cents on two cartridges and shot himself to death is related by
H. Glynn-Ward of this district in a letter to the press.

“Qur Indians are not, unfortun-
ately for them, treaty Indians;

they do not receive regular rations

nor bounty money as do the In- ~
dians in the other provinces. IJf

physically unfit to work they re-

ceive adequate grocery rations

each month, but no cash.

“Surely there are some
organizations that have
spare for the destitute at their
gates instead of devoting all their
energies and charity to foreign
countries?

“The clam beaches nave been
depleted by the white man’s greed
that were a natural source of
food for the Indians; there are no
free lands in this vicinity for them
to hunt over, and the restrictions
about fishing are so complicated
that it takes a legal mind to un-
understand them.

religious
time to

“There is an iniquitous law
(that the Indian department has)
fought in vain) that forbids am

sell fish without a li
forbids him to sell sal-

Indian to
cense and
mon at all.
his own use an Indian must con-
form to the myriad restrictions set
by the chief supervisor, who telis
him how, when and where he may
Or may not ecateh it. Thus his
native food for centuries is now
restricted by the whim of the
white man in order that the fish
may be preserved for those who
fish for the fun of it.”

ance of their support. Make it

ations. In addition to the CCLU,
these include the All-Canadian
Congress of Labor, Canadian

Youth Congress, Canadian Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization,
Christian Social Council of Can-
ada, Fellowship for a Christian
Social Order, and League for Social
Reconstruction.

The conference, it is stated in
the invitation, is being called “to
give Canadians an opportunity
to affirm their belief that there
must be no loss of democracy at
home during the prosecution of
a war abroad.” Its other purposes
are “to provide a forum for the
discussion of the issue of pre-
serving civil liberty and to
give publicity to the restrictions
that have been placed upon civil

—VANCOUVER ISLAND—

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liberty.”
The program calls for two gen-
eral sessions and four panel dis-

Cumberland .. 100.00 58.60 59| cussions on the topics of ‘The
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SEEEEMD 2230: 75.00 48.86 65) Liberty, and ‘The Rights of Min-
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Lake Gowichan 20.00 17.40 87 Wational, provincial and local or-
Zeballos g00 ganizations of all kinds — educa-
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—FRASER VALLEY— tural, labor, social — are invited
Testmins ry to send delegates empowered to
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Kelowna 10.00 13.85 138 R idk Ch ~
Enderby 25,00 1,00 41 | Seal areces
Salmon Arm... 25.00 19.70 178 NON ue. = Cierees
= against Rodolphe ajeau, omeo
YERRON 3322 DY S00 1 Duval and Ernest Gervais, cam-
Kamloops ——— 2.00 —J| paign workers for Evariste Dube,
Gommunist candidate who contest-
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Rossland — 5.20 —| March federal election, and Jules
Trail 2 ee82: 21.00 6.60 33] Jobin, a voter who was seeking
Nelson 1 12.00 __ | information in Dube’s committee
room when police raided it, arrest-
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Fernie-Michel 20.00 —_  — Judge Amedee Monet upheld the
Cranbrook ek ——__—s- __} contention of Abraham Feiner, re-
tained for the defense by Montreal
—NORTHERN BC— Civil Liberties Union, that the
Cariboo ...... 100.00 10.00 19| charges had been irregularly laid.
Bralorne ..... 50.00 30.00 60
Prince George —— 3803 —|ERief Prepared
Atlin-Yukon =e 7950 — MONTREAL, Que—A memoran-
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= BC CO = changes in the Defence of Canada
Sointula ...-. 50.00 36.95 74! -eculations has been prepared by
Vananda .... 25.00 30.60 122) the Civil Liberties union here. It
Prince Rupert 40-00 2215 55 | will form the basis of a brief the
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