So + November 4, 1942 : : Page Two Will Be Heard On Broadcast Lad bS IE SS Leading singing November 7 will be taken by artist, shown above. part in CBR’ s special broadcast to mark Gerhardt Olly, popular radio ‘This Is The Enemy To Be Shown In City “This Is The Enemy,” which November 6, is a timely episodes, each a story Soviet film made up of in itself, and each a picture of “Not Rus- opens at the Plaza Theatre here, a series of little sia’s alone, but humanity’s foe.” In an animated cartoon 4 beginning, Hitler is shown very realistically as the hog who poked his snout into the Soviet cabbage patch. From there the picture goes on to show “the stuff that victory jis made of.” One little playlet shows Poland, | where a half dozen people are shot because they milk for a sick child and refused to give it to German officers quar- } tered at the house. One man es5- capes, sia, fighting against the advance in June, 1941. Another shows the very and the very old, a young Soviet jad and his grandmother, outwit- ting a German officer. A wounded | German soldier tries to shoot the nurse who dressed his wounds. A hundred people, picked at random throughout the town, are con- demned to death and forced to dig} their own graves, because a Ger- man soldier has been shot. There's humor too, though one would wonder that the Russians ean remember laughter. Wapoleon in person walks up to a telegraph office to send a wire to Hitler: “Take warning stop Tried it once stop Can’t be done.” Theyre powerful lite sketches, simply told and skillfully presented. The brutality they expose would Entertainment t the© wanted to save some | and later we see him in Rus- | German } young | Dock & Shipyard Workers, Local 2 SMOKER FOR THE MEMBERSHIP will be held THURSDAY. NOV. 12 8:00 P.M. FISHERMEN’S HALL Admission by Union Card ‘Fergus McKean } | New Secretary Of Committee Fergus McKean, former provin- cial secretary of the Communist Party recently released from Hull prison after two and a half years of internment, was named secre- tary of Vancouver Communist- | Labor Conimittee at a meeting of | the committee last week and took | over his new duties Nov. 1, it was | announced this week. | The release stated that Maurice Rush is remaining as organiza- tional secretary of the commit- tee. } | Buck To Speak | Supreme Court Justice J, M. Coady |of an injunction to r | pth ath ae BC’s herring fishing industry during war time, a special meeting of fishermen in the Fishermen’s Hall last week accepted a compromise agreement pro= | posed by operators to a negotiating committee of the Union during the preceding week. at The agreement will be signed by officials of the United Fishermen’s Union, Local 44, during’ the coming week. : Prices agreed upon are $4.50 per canning and reduction purposes, and $5 per ton for used for cannery purposes only. This is a sub stantial increase but represents a reduction in fishermen’s demands for $6 a ton —> is fish, was causing considerable dis recognition by operators of the satisfaction among tendermen. | United Fishermen’s Union as repre- Reporting ior the negotiating EE sentative of herring purse “seine committee, elected at the last creel fj To avert possibility of a tie-up in ton for all herring caught where it may be wftilized for both. herring caught in areas where they will be} “nm the operators’ former offers | for all herring caught. ~ Included in the agreement fishermen and tendermen engaged ing, W. T. Burgess, Union secretat in fishing and tending, who are told fishermen they should suppor © members of the union and who | the progress represented 1 have designated the union as their; bonus plan for tendermen, authorized representative. gave them a better share in Apart from herring prices to be earnings derived from herring fish” paid to fishermen, outstanding jing. Burgess also stated that fo feature of the agreement is the |their part, the tendermen ha | $1 per ton bonus plan that has shown that they re been introduced for tendermen. practicability of a strai The proposed bonus plan will) being paid to every tender in tk close the gap between earnings of industry. ay At the close of the meeting, a ret By Court Injunctio Commenting on denial n of B.C. estrain a duly | elected : arbitration board from |iendermen and fishermen. Wide [considering & dispute between the | qiscrepancy between their carnings | ommendation was made to the B® |aw so end Bloedels, obtained bY}|an dthose of fishermen, which |ecutive board members of the Gs {f° [esis at Counsel C- McAlpine,|}ave ben growing greater with jon that they purchase $1000 44 : Harold J. Pritchett, Iwas district | every increase in the price of raw! Victory Bonds from Union funds, — | president, said that the decision of = i |the Supreme Court upheld, in ef : at | fect, workers’ right to choose their 2 : _B /own union representatives to nego- ed rson G i re Gg ré ; ftiate on. their behalf, whether or an jnot such representatives are em- de : |ployed by the company- A A t Ee | Phe whole trade union position, O ange Cc if under the accepted interpretation of i ; the Industrial Gonciliation and Ar- At a conference called by the© - ft bitration Act of B.C., was upheld | CCF Economic Council Sunday at se it | by the Court’s ruling, Pritchett said. CCF headquarters here, wilkinson Decision En if | The question of trade union rec- of Victoria stated that Labor in- = 2 : | ognition, Justice Coady decided, ister George S. Pearson had signi- Fraser Malls i | was only one of the questions to be fied his intention of changing the Case Seored 10 larbitrated. Questions of grievance Industrial Conciliation and Arbi- Lit | committee procedure, vacations | tration Act, and was willing to meet “Jn my opinion, Magistrai , | with pay, overtime pay, and safety | 2 labor delegation to discuss the| wackenzie Matheson has a f jand health conditions will all be question, ze HAS : eX |considered when arbitration pro- The conference, which WAS at- sce retie ae | | ceedings reconvene, tended by delegates from Arb. ClO) os given a fair judgmen ad | It is expected that this reopening and Amalgamated Building Work- elaread IWA President Harold lof the arbitration hearings will | ers’ Unions, discussed changes in| Pritchett, commenting on |take place shortly, unless the com- the Industrial Conciliation Act| “very biased” decision hands | pany decides to appeal to a higher which were recommended by a2| down in city police court in | court. joint labor conference which took| dispute between Canadian Wes | Arbitration proceedings origin- place in Victoria in September. ern Lumber Company, Fras |ally began Oct. 13, before a board The labor eonference’s recom= Millis, and TWA Local 1-217. 2 | consisting of Justice H. B. Robert- mendations were that there should Stating that the matter will discussed at an executive bos — meeting this Wednesday, Pi chett declined to state definit if the judgment, dismissing ~ charge against the company refusal to bargain collective | would be appealed to a higt be compulsory recognition as bar- gaining agency of any union when 51 per cent of the employees had voted in its favor, and that con- ciliation and the waiting period for arbitration be abolished. A discussion ensued on the en- |son, chairman; R. V- Stewart, rep- | resenting the company, and Her- | bert Gargrave, MLA, for employees. | Proceedings were halted when Mc- . Alpine announced his intention of | moving to restrain the board. 4 Establishment of the board came | — NE as . ; = ; In City. Nov. 29 ase result of a series of unsuc- forcement of the act. Most oF the | court. : | im Buck, new = ational secre: cessful attempts by the workers delegates felt that the onus of en- Ignoring the fact that a nD \aaeycor th pera nist.Labor Total committee to have the employer, forcement of the act should be| jority of Fraser Mills empley: . yo e unist-e Bloedel, Stewart and Welch, nego-}on the government. had elected the bargaining ¢¢ | War Committee, Ww | rally in Vancouver, Victoria, Dec. 1, local officials stated this week. ill speak at a Nov. 29, and at committee mittee under dispute, Magistr: Matheson stated that apparen “the committee was not satisi tory to the company and to so of the employees.” this discussion, 4 dele- gate from the Firemen’s Union pointed out that in Nelson the act had been violated by the municipal- tiate a union agreement with local During 1-217, International Woodworkers of America. | | | { } } | | seem unbelievable beets were not ity; that the minister of labor had lagreed that the act had been vio- Hold Banquet “yj find that there never wa: | that we have the evidence of Spain : . . = = ‘ ted, b d te th the Fire- yisal t 37 sai | Gzecholslovakia, France, Poland, For MeKean sete eee oSP cougar == faa refusal to bargain,” he d. and too many others, to testify 2 = that here is the truth about the NEW WESTMINSTER, BC. — fo Ae ae ee to Nene ee . ea e enemy, “humanity's foe.” Fergus McKean, newly-appointed saunicipality. = at Refreshments secretary of Vancouver Communist- Labor Total War Committee, will be the guest of honor at a banquet to be held in Russell Hotel here, Monday, Nov. 9. Following the banquet, a meeting to mark the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the USSR will be held in the banquet rooms, starting at 8:15 p.m. php ph hs eoeoeooooe? BDSOCCOCOCOSCOVS CVI VV YY VETERANS of the MAC-PAP BATTALION Meetings Held Every ist and 3rd Sundays —— temporary meeting place IWA Clubrooms, 516 Holden Bldg. All Members of the I.B. Eligible for Membership Wwe PRESIDENT: J. LUCAS — 5389 Victoria Drive, Vancouver, B. OVER 40 YEARS Friendly Service to the Working Man of B.C. As an outcome of the discussion, Jack Humphries, Sam Shearer, Malcolm Bruce, Pat Ryan, and WwW. Woffer were elected aS a policy committee, to contact labor bodies, with the objective of drafting an act which would be acceptable to Home of UNION MADE CLOTHID