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LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY

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DL. L. No. 7.

: VANCOUVER, B.C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942

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board Of The People ,

—YVancouyer Sun Photo

‘his charming young lady is not intentionally indicating the
josters. She’s salvaging thumb tacks for her office.

Committee
Increases
Production

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
—Sinee the institution of a
joint labor-management pro-
duction committee in Allards
Foundry here, production, on
some castings, has increased as

much as 500 percent.

An outstanding instance is truck
wheels. Formerly these took one
hour and forty minutes. Now the

time has been cut to twenty min-
utes. Greater cooperation between
moulders and helpers has been
mainly responsible for achievement
of this outstanding increase in pro-
duction.

Success of the joint production
committee at Allards has encourag-
ed workers in other (Royal City
foundries and steps are now being
taken in Heaps Engineering and
Westminster Foundries to organ-
ize similar committees. Both CCL
and AL unions are cooperating in
this work,

Bob Skelly, prominent in trade
union work in this city, did much
of the preliminary work in organ-
izing the committee at Allards.

Ask $50 Month
Pay For Soldiers

Vancouver Trades and MTLabor
Council at its last meeting passed
a resolution asking that soldiers’
pay be raised to fifty dollars a
month, the same as the allowance
given soldiers in the U.S. Army.

This resolution had previously
been sent to Ottawa, Secretary
Chris Pritchard reported, but no
reply had been received, It was also
asked that excise tax be removed
on tobacco, drinks and candy sold

in soldiers’ canteens.

apacity audiences, it is expected;-
pack the Orpheum and Capitol
atres this coming Sunday night
m1 Tim Buck, secretary of the
inion Communist-Labor Total
cr Committee, now on a national

5 addresses a public rally in
city for the first time since

(&

Tim Buck is always a challeng-
speaker, rich in ideas,’ a
Kesman for Vancouver Commun-

Labor Total War Committee,

‘apacity Audience Expected
‘o Hear Tim Buek Sunday

which is sponsoring his meetings
here, told The People this week.
“We are sure the people of Van-
couver will welcome the opportunity
to hear his views on wartime pro-
duction, the offensive in North Af-
riea, the second front and other
vital issues.”

Speaking with Tim Buck at the
@rpheum Theater will be Fergus
McKean, secretary of the Vancou-
er Communist-Labor Total War
Committee, while Maurice Rush,
the committee's organizational

secretary, will speak at the Capitol
Theater. Buck will make a per-
sonal appearance at both theaters.

After speaking at a meeting in
the Arenex, New Westminster, on
Monday, Nov. 30, Buck will go to
Victoria for a meeting on Tues-
day, Dec. i, and from there to
Nanaimo where he will speak on
Wednesday, Dec. 2.

On Thursday, Dec. 3, he will give
a 15-minute radio address over sta-
tion CJOR in Vancouver, from
6:15-6:30 p.m.

rges Centralized
’t Manpower Policy

Resignation Of
Elliott Little
Draws Protest

Trade union leaders in British Columbia this week were out-
spoken in their demand for an efficient government labor
policy to solve Canada’s manpower problems in view of the
increased urgency of supplies for Allied forces passing over to

the offensive.

Resigns

Elliott M. Little,
signed from National Selec-
tive Service charging that
his work for labor-manage-
ment cooperation had been
“hindered and blocked” by

who re-

the federal labor department.

Anxiously awaiting outcome of the government’s avowed
consideration of new proposals, following Elliott Little’s dra-
matic resignation and announcement that Arthur MacNamara
would act in his capacity as head of National Selective Service,
labor leaders lost no time in making labor’s protest heard
against the present manpower and labor policies which pre-

cipitated Little’s resignation.

In statements to The People this
week, local trade unionists stated
their demand for a labor policy
which will mobilize Canada’s whole
resources without further delay.
They indicated that they had no
time for personal feuds or antagon-
isms, that the issue was much
broader than that concerning two
people, and held the cabinet, partic-
ularly the labor minister, respon-
sible for the present debacle in
Selective Service.

Harold J. Pritchett, secretary of
Vancouver Labor Council, and dis-
trict president of the International
Woodworkers of America, declared:

"What is required now is 2
clear-cut policy by the federal
government for stabilized labor
relations, embodying compulsory
eollective bargaining, which, FE
feel, is one of the most outstand-
ing factors in improving morale
and providing the means for
workers to consider themselves
an integral part of Canada’s war
effort. It is to be hoped that
Labor Minister Humphrey Mitch-
ell learned something in his trip
to England of the better methods
used in British labor policy.”

D. O’Brien, CCL general organiz—
er, declared that “the government’s
labor policy certainly meeds to be
changed if we are to get any-
where.

“There should be real labor rep-
resentatives on these boards, not,
as is the case most of the time,
just people who need jobs, but
labor people who for years have
demonstrated their loyalty and will-
ingness to work for the labor move-
ment, and they should be selected
through the trade union movement,
not appointed by the government.’

Bill Gateman, secretary of the
Fish Cannery and Reduction Plant
Workers’ Union, was outspoken in
his objection to the labor depart-
ment’s action.

“The government’s task now is
to put forward a clear perspective
that will make Selective Service
what it is truly intended to be. In

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