ber 13, 1942

THE PEOPLE

Page Three

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,#. provisional committee of
ser Mills employees, with
™ sanction of IWA Local
"7 and District Council, has
je application for a separate
rter to the sixth annual
vention of the International
odworkers of America,
sting in Spokane, Wash.
ith Fraser Mills organized
dy 100 percent,-mill workers in
(Royal City have established
c Own office under direction of
: Greenall, who was recently
Minted sawmill organizer for
® district by the IWA interna-
al office.

derating in the past under IWA
il] 1-217, with headquarters in
Holden Building at Vancouver,
new local, when it receives its
‘ter, will be located in New
tminster, and will elect its own
> of officers independently of
former Sawmill local in YVancou-
It will operate under District
neil Wo. 1 of the TWA as an
pendent local.

Jorm Civic
aborGroup

jormation of a Civic Labor Ped-
jon to participate in the forth-
ing civie elections was an-
need this week by E. E. Leary,
sident of Vancouver Labor
neil.

urpose of the Federation, as
ined by Leary, is to guard the
rests of Jabor in the civic field,
sxamine the program and plat-
n of each candidate and recom-
id support for those candidates
) will best serve the interests of
? working people of this city and
ngthen the important part Van-
ver is playing in the national
%- effort,

7 have been asked to become
firman of this ederation by a

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aber of trade unionists,’ Leary
| The People, “and I have ac-
ted because I believe such a

imittee will be of great service
/ our city. For many years this
\* has suffered from a lack cf
orous progressive government,
| I fee] that the present city
meil has failed to give the in-
ration and leadership so neces-
y at this time.
With the growth of the trade
on movement, with labor play-
* an increasingly important part
the war effort and our national
generally, it is important that
or should take a much more ac-
e interest in the administration
four civic affairs.”
Sommittee members include rep-
sentatives from all important in-
stries, including W. Stewart,
ilermakers and Tfronshipbuilders
lion; Bob Stewart, Amalgamated
ilding Workers; Aubrey Foster,
ilermakers; John McPeake, Boil-
makers; Lang Mackie, Dock and
ipyard Workers; W. Burgess and
orge Miller, United FPishermen’s
uion; W. Gateman, Fish Cannery
d Reduction Workers; Nigel
organ, International Woodwork-
5s of America; Herbert Watson,
uited Steelworkers of America;
m Shearer, Canadian SBrother-
od of Railway Carmen; Charlie
ewart, Div. 101, Street Railway-
en; Howard Lyons, United Car-
nters and Joiners;- Miss Sheila
aye, Hotel and Restaurant Work-
s; John Stanton, legal advisor to
any city trade unions.

raser Mills Workers Ask Separate Charter

|Councit Delegates

Laud Pearson

On Collective Bargaining Stand

Delegates to Vancouver Trades
and Labor Council last week in-
structed Secretary Chris Pritchard
to send a letter commending Ifon.
George S. Pearson, previncial labor
minister, for his recent stand in
favor of compulsory collective oar-
gaining.

In the statement referred to,
Pearson said he recognized that
“most of our disputes are over the
refusal of companies to properly
bargain with the properly elected
representatives of their employees,
and further by the positive refusal

of all employees to accept union
agreements,” and declared he had
“come to, the conclusion that the
time is now ripe to seriously con-
sider amendments to the act so that
employers shall be compelled to
bargain with the properly elected
committees of their employees and
where the majority of the employ-
ees can be shown to be bona fide
members of a properly constituted
trade union employers shall be com-
pelled to recognize the union as a

bargaining agent for his em-
ployees.”

WEA Sponsors Series
Of Labor Broadcasts

TORONTO, Ont—A series of broadeast discussions on
questions directly concerning labor has been arranged by the
Workers’ Educational Association and the National ESOS

Council on Labor Forum.

Presented by the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation over its na-
tional network each Wednesday
night, workers and gd0vernment of-
ficials will discuss such problems
as selective service, cost-of-living
bonus, collective bargaining, pro-
duction councils, wage ceiling and
compulsory savings.

Basie idea of the series, according
to WEA Secretary Drummond
Wren, is to give workers a platform
from which they can state their
case to the government and country
generally, to Increase war produc-
tion by ironing out present mis-
understandings and by promoting
better understanding among work-
ers, employers and the government.

Listening groups to discuss the
broadcasts will be formed by work-
ers all across the Dominion send-
ing reports to their Labor Forum
regional representatives and to the
Forum’s national office. These -e-
ports will be used in making up
local newscasts to be given region-
ally at the end of each Wednesday
evening broadcast.

Regional representatives have
been appointed throughout the
country. Those in Vancouver will
be Lawrence Anderson, Ship-
wrights, Caulkers and Joiners Sec-
tion of the Amaizamated Building
Workers of Canada; Nigel Morgan,

We, as TRADE UNION REPRESENTATIVES, Welcome

The PEOPLE

because we know it will add strength to the
labor movement as a whole.

— Business Agents —
@ M. McLEOD, North Van Ship Repairs & Burrard Dry Dock

@ J. WILSON, Welders
@ A. FOSTER,
@ A. C.

Radio Speaker

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DRUMMOND WREN

District Secretary, International
Woodworkers of America; and Tom
Price, Secretary, Vancouver Aero-

nautical Lodge.

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and Burners
Hamilton Bridge
STAUB, West Coast Shipyard

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LOCAL NO. 4

Greetings to

THE PEOPLE

Labor’s New Voice
in British Columbia

Boilermakers’ & Iron

Shipbuilders’

Union
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

Shipyard
Union Hits
Absenteeism

Concerned because absentee-
ism appears to be “assuming

the proportions of a major
bottleneck in the shipyard in-

dustry,” officials of the Dock
and Shipyard Workers’ Union,

Local 2, have issued an urgent
appeal to their membership to
take no more unauthorized

time off.

“Without speedy construction of
the ships we are now building we
can lose the war,” declared the
union’s leaflet. “The possibility of
an immediate offensive, the success
or failure of a Second Front may
depend on us who furnish the tools
of war. Shall absenteeism cost us
Victory?”

Declaring that workers have many
justifiable grievances still to be
settled, the union urged that these
matters be taken up jointly in labor-
management committees and not by
individuals who feel they should
take out their grudges against the
companies by staying away from
work.

‘In Stalingrad the men and
women fighting with superhuman
courage to protect the whole
democratic world are not talking
time off whenever they feel like
it,” the statement said. “‘There is
no absenteeism amongst these
men and women fighting our
enemy. Shall we fail them be-
cause ‘we don’t give a damn’
whether we work or not? Or
shall we help them to fight for a
better world for all of us?

“Right now there is only one
Major problem before us—the de-
feat of Hitlerism. If we fail in
that, we ourselves, without unions
and our democratic rights are lost.
So let's get on with the job! No
more lost time! No more absentee-
ism! Every ship that hits the water
is another nail in Hitler’s coffin.”

Greetings to

Dock &
Workers

703 HOLDEN BLDG.

Meet To Discuss
Day Nurseries

Goncerned with the many war-
time problems of consumers, the
Housewives’ League of British Co-
lumbia has called on Open Forum
meeting, to be held Monday, Oct.
19, in Burrard Hall.

Among things to be discussed will
be shortages of housing, fuel and
beef, and the need for day nurs-
eries in Waneouver for working
mothers and those engaged in vol-
untary war work.

Mrs. G. Selman, from the Co-
ordinatinge Council, will lead dis-
cussion on housing; Mrs. J, Bird
on Day Nurseries, the Fuel Admini-
strator of the Wartime Prices and
Trade Board on fuel, and Ross
Chetwynd, formerly of the Cariboo
Stockmen’s Association, on beef.

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Greetings
to
First Issue

The People

We wish you every suc-
cess, knowing that the
labor movement will
benefit accordingly.

DOCK & SHIP'YD
WORKERS’
UNION

Local 1

1116 Broad Street
VICTORIA,

B.C.

The People

Labor’s New Voice
for

“Maximum Production
Behind an All-out
War Effort’

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Shipyard
Local 2

VANCOUVER, B.C.

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