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THE PEOPLE

October 13,

Unions Will Enter People’s Battle Parad

The People
To Sponsor
Production

To its productions of political
significance, which in past
years have included Stein-
beck’s ‘Mice and Men’ and El-
mer Rice’s ‘Flight to the West,’
Vancouver Little Theatre is
adding Lillian Hellman’s
‘Watch on the Rhine’ as the
first play of its 1942-43 season.

Because of its significance and
the timeliness of its message, The
People has undertaken to sponsor
a performance of this play, sched-
uled to open in mid-November.
Details will be announced later.

‘Watch on the Rhine’ has two
themes: the unflinching courage of
those who lead the anti-Nazi under-
ground movement in Germany and
the slowly disintegrating compla-
ceney of typical American liberal-
ism. A down-at-heel Rumanian
aristocrat turned Nazi spy provides
the catalyst that brings the struggle
of these Opposing forces to its in-
evitable and powerfully dramatic
conclusion.

The role of Kurt Miller, the anti-
Wazi leader, will be played by John
Goss, the noted singer.

Editor Of People

Appointment of Hal Griffin,
former editor of The Advo-
eate, as editor of The People
was announced this week.
At the same time it was an-
nounced that Kay Gregory
has been appointed manag-
ing editor.

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Shipyards

of hours paid for as compared to
the present 50-54-54; inclusion of
double-time for the six national
holidays in agreements; and one
week's holiday with pay.

Three unions, Dock and Shipyard
Workers, Shipwrights, Caulkers and
Joiners, and the Patternmakers,
have endorsed this resolution, while
the Engineers, both AFL and CCL,
have agreed to work in harmony
with the conference, although tak-
ing no definite stand. The Painters,
favoring the six-day week for its
own members, has accepted con-
tinuous production in principle and
will also work with the conference.

Only two unions, the Blacksmiths
and Plumbers and Steamfitters have
rejected the resolution to maintain
their advocacy of the six-day plan,
and it is believed that, once the
other shipyard unions have accept-
ed continuous production, they will
reconsider their position.

The Boilermakers, largest and

most influential of the unions, is
planning to conduct a referendum
on the conference resolution within
the next few days.
Expressing his views to The Peo-
ple, Malcolm Macleod, one of the
Boilermakers’ business agents, stat-
ed that “the result of the referen-
dum will have a tremendous bear-
ing on the future of the trade un-
ions in the shipyards.

* *4 vote for the conference reso-
lution will enabie continuous
production to preceed under con-
ditions most likely to ensure har-
mony. A vote against the con-
ference resolution will only place
the unions in a most unfavorable
light and leave them without a
basis for negotiations,” he said.

Aubrey Foster, another Boiler-
makers’ business agent, toid The
People that his sub-local at Hamil-
ton Bridge had already endorsed
the conference resolution, although
it would have to be bound by the
referendum result.

termination for victory.

and Shipyard Workers.

Will Mark Start Of |

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Victory Loan Drive
When the People’s Battle Parade for Victory is held in Van»
couver next Sunday, Oct. 18, thousands of workers from thi

city’s war industries will be marching with contingents of thi @
armed forees in a demonstration of the people's unity and de -

-A majority of trade unions in ie city have already an
nounced their intentions of participating in the parade, eithej
with a float or with their union banners and slogans.

Among those unions whose preparations are well adyancec.
are the International Woodworkers of America and the Dock

Nazis Arrest
1200 Danes

STOGKHOLM, Sweden.—Reports
from Denmark indicate that the
struggle against the Danish Quis-
lings and German occupationists is
increasing throughout the country.

There are now about 1,200 Danish
patriots in various prisons, some of
whom have already been tried cn
charges of sabotage, while the rest
are awaiting trial.

Many leading Danish citizens a
short time ago were fined for tear-
ing off placards issued by two Dan-
ish anti-Semetic newspapers.
Recently a two-day strike took
place at a brewery in Copenhagen,
resulting in removal of a fascist
propagandist particularly hated by
the workers. Strikes have also oc-
curred in Denmark’s largest st.ip-
building docks, the Burmeister and
the Wain.

Material conditions of the Danish
people are deteriorating rapidly.
Prospect of a good potato crop is
not cheering the people, since they
know from bitter experience that

it will be “exported” to Germany.

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_ The IWA will enter a float, rep.
resenting several locals, and has
mamed Bert Melsness, assistant BC
District Council secretary, as its
parade marshal. ;

Members of the Dock and Ship-
yard Workers’ Union intend to
march with their banners and
slogans, while members of other
shipyard unions will participate
under their respective union ban-
ners, in some instances as units |
representing workers and man-
agement in the various yards.
Workers at Boeing Aircraft, mem-
bers of the Aeronautical Workers,
will participate jointly with the
management, as will workers at”
Dominion Bridge’s Burnaby ord-_
nance plant, organized in the United ~
Steelworkers of America.

The War Finance Committee
anticipates that this will be the
biggest parade ever held in Van-
couver, !
$75,000,000 OBJECTIVE.

Marking the opening of Canada’s |
third Victory Loan drive ,objec- |
tive of which is to raise $75,000,000
in British Columbia and the Yukon, |
the parade will be heralded by ©
sounding of air raid sirens through- ©
out the city.

Parade route will be from Sno
CNR depot along Main street to
Georgia street viaduct, along
Georgia to Cambie, Cambie to
Hastings street, Hastings as far as
Burrard, along Burrard to Georgia
Street again and along Georgia to

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Stanley park.
Wational groups participating in

Great War veterans, who are fore-
going their Nov. 11 parade, ARP,
community and other organizations, *
with workers’ organizations and
men and women in the armed
forces, will compose what is ex-
pected to be an outstandins demon-
stration of unity behind a common
cause.

Canada’s army, with mechanized
equipment, will be represented by
some 4000 men and women, includ-
ing contingents from the Reserve
Army and the ©CWAG. The air force
will have between five hundred and-
.a thousand of its personnel in the
parade, in addition to a float carry-
ing bombs from 1135 to 1000 pounds.
Personnel available will determine
the size of the navy’s representa-
tion, but it will include a drum and
bugle band and an armed party of
seamen.

it is also hoped that United States
military and nayal units will par-
ticipate.

Conroy Predicts
New Labor Law

TORONTO, Ont.—The province of
Ontario will have “a proper col-
lective bargaining law’ within the
next three months, Pat Conroy,
secretary-treasurer of the Canadian
Congress of Labor, predicted at a
recent meeting of Toronto Labor
Council.

Conroy also expressed his belief
that the federal government and
other provincial governments would
follow the Ontario government's
lead in passing collective bargain-

ing legislation.

the costumes of their native lands, —