THE PEHOPLE festifying at prosecution pro- dings against Canadian stern Lumber Company by iernational Woodworkers of erica, last Thursday, Adam il, provincial deputy labor er, declared that provin- ons do not restrict or limit choice of persons who may lected to employees’ collec- > bargaining committees. he union brought proceedings inst Canadian Western Lumber ‘“Sipany for its refusal to nego- 5 with a committee elected by ser Millis employees of which A President Harold Pritchett “= Organizer Jack Greenall were Wabers, om the grounds that the mittee SMS os not peu rreERe Toyees. = H2ll’s evidence sibstantiated the t of employees to elect any per- they wanted to a bargaining mittee. He admitted it was not sssary to have any employees such a committee, the only re- ement being that such persons t be elected by the employees Ived in the dispute. sll defined collective bargain- Sas “an attempt to reach an erstanding, customarily be- #2n employees and employers,” remarked that “no particular jority’ was necessary for elec- -of the committee, so long a nite majority was obtained. eee given in aster had endorsed the com- tee. This constituted a major- of the 1677 workers employed Fraser Mills at that time. laborate precautions “had been ©-n by the union, witnesses testi- , to ensure only company > loyees participated in the votes. }b person was scrutinized at the ;)° and then directed to employ- seats in a reserved section of } hail ‘ise has been adjourned till “inesday to allow John Stanton, im attorney, to attend another To Reack Victory Burrard Dry Docks South Shore shipyard was the first in the coun- try to reach its quota in the current Victory Loan drive, it was an- nounced last weekend. In less than five days the ship- yard’s 3400 employees attained and oversubscribed their $200,000 quota, and it is expected they will top the quarter of a million> mark before the drive ends. With all unions actively support- ing the campaign, employee sales- men were used to. _man booths South Burrard Shipyard First Loan Quota : established in the yards and a woman canvasser contacted women workers. Passerboys subscribed practically 100 percent and every Chinese on the ‘bull gang’ con- tributed without waiting to be approached by canvassers. In appreciation of work in the production field being done by Vancouver Communist-Labor Total War Committee, sympathizers in the South Burrard shipyard are presenting the committee with a $50 war bond. Deadlock May Force Herring Fleet Tie-up Unless agreement on prices to be paid for the 1942-43 herring catch is reached by Saturday this week,, the herring fleet may have to be called in to discuss prices. This possibility loomed this week as members of the United Fishermen’s Union here elected a negotiating committee to confer with operators in an effort to break the present deadlock and conclude a satisfactory agreement before the week is out. Members of the negotiating com- mittee are: W. T. Burgess, secre- tary, H. Stavenes, Kurt Larson, W. Purvis, Collin McKee, W. Steen, Worman White and Peter Wigham. Representatives of the Deep Sea Hishermen’s Union, Prince Rupert, are also acting on the committee. Operators’ offer is $4 per ton for that part of the catch used for reduction plant purposes, and $475 per ton for that used for cannery purposes. The union is asking that herring prices be negotiated on the basis of $6 per ton for all herring caught, Since negotiations were entered upon by the union toward the close of the pilchard season, in order to ensure no Slackening of fishing eperations during the herring sea- son, union officials feel that they have done their utmost te get a fair agreement signed in good time and thus eliminate possibility of a tie-up. Basis of the operators rejection of the union proposal of $6 per ton for all herring is that in 1941 the price for herring was $4 per ton and prices for fish meal and fish oil were pegged by government regulations in that year. Therefore, they claim, there is no justifiable reason for the fishermens demand for a higher price for this year’s catch. Fishermen maintain that since ‘the greater part of the herring catch will be bought by the British Food Mission, at a price yet to be negotiated between the Canadian government and the mission, the prices of fish oil and meal do not affect negotiations. They charge that operators are supporting a move to freeze prices, wages and vessel charters within the fishing industry, and believe that the eventual settlement on herring prices may be frozen by the government for the duration of the war. Further meetings will be held be- tween the negotiating committee and operators this -week, and a special meeting of all herring fish- erment has been called by the union for Saturday, October 31, at 4 pm. at the Fishermen's Hall, 138 Cordova street. British Shipyard Manned by Women NEW YORK, N.Y¥—There is one shipyard in England which is “manned” entirely by women. The only men in the place, according to Arthur Hale, radio commentator, are the manager and the foreman. While British shipyards admit they cannot touch Kayser’s 14-day record for turning out ships, Hale recently quoted an authority who pointed out that shipyards simply cannot work under blackout condi- tions, and that as blackouts are necessary, the British think their record of building Liberty ships in thirty days is “quite a stunt.” Transfer Of Mill Protested DUNCAN, BC. — Claiming that three months’ production of lumber, estimated at more than 15,000,000 board feet, will be unnecessarily lost, em- ployees of Hillerest Lumber Company last Friday wunani- mously expressed “strong dis- approval” of the company’s proposal to move Hillerest mill to Cowichan Lake. Pointing out that other mills in the vicinity, Mayo and Victoria Lumber companies, have hauled their logs just as far as Hillcrest would have to from its new log- ging claim, the crew, all of whom are members of IWA. Sub-Local 1-80, declared that “an extension of steel to tie up with the Mayo railroad line’ would be a much better solution to the problem from the war effort viewpoint. “Tons of steel, nails and other vital war materials, including lumber, are going to be necessary to reconstruct this mill at the new site,” the union statement said. ‘In addition, considerable supplies of rubber and gasoline will be neces- Sary to transport workers 26 miles each day to the new mill from their homes.” Under the proposed plan, the old mill will close down in a week’s time, and men will be occupied for more than three months on con- struction of a new mill at Duncan. “We have no desire to interfere with any of the management’s plans,’ the statement concluded, “except insofar as those plans delay or block the immediate provision of badly-needed supplies for win- ning this war and saving unneces- sary loss of life.’ New Deal For Teachers Urged CHILLIWACK, B.C.—A. T. Als- bury president of the B.C. Teach- ers ederation, speaking to a meeting of teachers here last week, de- elared the provincial government should recognize it was time for a new deal in education and for an increase in teachers’ salaries. Many teachers in the province, he said, were earing as little as $17 a week, Page Three 4.... Women will .. .