Maurice Rush To Join Army In January A wave of applause greeted Tim Buck's an nouncement at the Capito Theater Sunday night tha Maurice Rush, young or-} ganizational secretary of} the Vancouver Communist-} Labor Total War Commit- tee would enlist in the armed forces early in Janu- ary when arrangements had been made to release him from the’ important work he is now conducting through the committee for the war ettort. In joining the armed forces, Tim Buck declared, Rush was following the ex- ample of scores of other leading Communists throughout Canada who have already enlisted. “Since I have been en gaged in anti-fascist activi- ties all my life,’ Maurice Rush told The People Monday, “T now consider it my duty to take up arms in the fight against fascism.” : Although only 26 years of age, Rush has been active in the labor movement for the past ten years, attending his first communist meeting when he was 14 years old. Born in Toronto, the son of Polish immigrant parents, he came to B.C. in 1926 and has been in this prov- ince ever since, taking a leading part in the youth move- ment here. He helped to organize the unemployed movement in. 1934 and addressed the first public meeting in 1935 to rally support for the famous “On to Ottawa’ trek of un- employed single men. Rush came to Vancouver at the time of the notorious Ballantyne Pier riot, and it was here that he met Fergus McKean, who was then chairman of the relief committee. After being organizer for the Provincial Workers’ Council, Rush in 1936 was elected provincial organizer for the now disbanded Young Communist League, and a year later he became secretary, holding this position until 1939: In 1938, Rush was arrested with several other young communists for picketing the Italian consulate here in protest against Italy’s intervention in the Spanish war. — and file workers but being taken up more widely each councils. Winner of this week’s aircraft industry is a large bomber plant in over the previous week. Mobile Units To the northwest, which plant such slogans as: and “Theyre over the draulic department was Factory Competitions Help Increase Production LONDON.— (ALN) .—Largely responsible for the tremendous production increases now br ing registered in Britain are inter-factory output competitions, spontaneously organized by ran week by unions and local shop stewa “5roduction banner’ for the competition among plants in < The workers in this northwest factory posted all over “It’s not the you put into the hours,” “Don’t go slow—this week’s for Joe, - top in Afriea—tlet’s go here!” ge Each department in the plant succeeded in smashing th production objective it had set for itself. Objective in the hy } increased output 40 percen | hours you put in, it’s whe (fou Lik Combat TB Greatly increased scope of pipebending shop produced 6000+ units instead of 5500. Another shop fourteen pulkheads, 450 units; 530 were produced. 4 \inereased production 7 percent. preventive measures is seen by Dr. S. Stewart Murray, Medical Health Officer for Vancouver, as essential to combat a prob- produced whereas its previous average had been-ten. In this department one worker did a 100-hour job in 20 hours. Workers in the fitting shop increase could be maintained. Fir ing that lack of cooperation | set themselves a target of 20,000, as against a previous weekly aver- age of 18,000; output was 30,000 for the day shift alone. The night shift, with a target of 10,000, produced able increase in the incidence of tuberculosis this year. Mobile units for tuberculosis diag- nosis are being proposed and these will be available for thorough-going xaminations of shipyard employees, Dr. Murray told a People representa- tive. Due to the fact that no pen- sion or allowance is provided for families of tubercular wage-earners, there has been no law passed mak- ing it illegal for these people to work, he explained, and many posi- tive T.B. cases are now working among healthy workers, increasing 15,000 by the end of four nights. in the undercarriage shop, five. women workers produced a com- plete set of doors every 24 hours instead of every 40. Two women in the engine controls shop finish- ed a 176-hour job in 98 hours. Second place in this week's fac- midlands airplane engine plant. | Last July, during a special pro- tween the production and insp tion departments : pbottleneck in the plant, they toi the matter up in their labor-mar agement committee, had two me inspectors hired and thus straigh © ened out the difficulty. Last > they over the July record. the response of one big Russie | tory competitions was taken by a | viet offensive east of was a production increase of | i percent in one day-) oS was a ™ increased output 43 perce (It is reported from Moscow tit arms plant to the news of the § frat Stalingre pit the danger of spreading the disease during the war. British Columbia has never had enough beds to care for its tubercu- lar patients, and due to this fact many people who are actually be- low par are not hospitalized. Commenting on relation of the housing problem to tuberculosis, Dr. Murray said that “if we had had vision enough during the depres- sion to use monies paid out for ce- lief to provide a low-cost housing scheme for the people, we would not be in the position we face to- Company. A brief has been prepared asking » for inereases in basic wage rates Crews Designate IBU As Bargaining Agency Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific has been desi as sole bargaining agency by the crews of the Kootenay Pai |; and Mount Robson Park, operated by the Park Steamsh i ert be gett! oth Yeats ane lhe: ys 131 g : Overtime pay is also much K q day, where the housing and during an epidemic, overcrowding.” living in two rooms. problem threatens the health of the people, if one should arise, would be responsible for thousands of deaths due to Cases were on record in his de- partment, he said, of eleven people “The lower the economic and so- On coastwise steamers the Gy § time rate is 50 cents per hour, wh § the SS. Edna pays overtime at and cost of living bonus, and giv- ing a comparison between wages paid on the Kootenay Park and ; Mount Robson Park and those paid | cents per hour, in comparison w ff on similar vessels for the same 49 cents per hour paid on the Ka fen ecatefories of seamen. z | enay Park and Mount Rob No cost of living bonus is being Park. : paid on these two boats, while| The brief requests a Wage | seamen. on other boats receive a crease of $15 a4 month to & pf cost of living bonus of $18.40 jin classification of seamen and p & addition to a war bonus of $44.50. ment of the full cost of liv — defeat fascism.” He was released on suspended sentence. Rush told The People he was entering the army because he felt that “every young person who is able should take up arms in defense of the freedom of our country and to Civic Labor cial standards, the higher the in- cidence of tuberculosis,” Dr. Mur- ray stated. “Among unskilled work- ers the rate is considerably higher than among skilled, and this con- nection between living standards and the incidence and spread of On the Kootenay Park and Mount Robson Park only the war bonus is paid, while wages jn all categories are much less than those paid cor- responding categories. on other vessels. bonus to unlicensed men. It is @ ed that these increases be i) retroactive to signing on of erews for their last trips, SS &. eneay in. August, SS Mount B Son Park in September. tuberculosis should make us think Committee Endorses Election Slate “After careful consideration of qualifications and programs of candidates in the coming civic election,’ Vancouver Civic Labor committee, through its secretary, John Stanton, has issued a statement endorsing a slate. “Our committee, which is made up of representatives from many local trade unions,” said Stanton, ‘has carefully considered the quali- fications of all candidates from labor’s point of view, and unhesi- tatinEly commends the following slate as meriting the support of organized labor.” = e For City Council: Harold Prit- chett, Magnus Eliason, Austin C. Shaw, and W. Ewart Turner. e For School Board: Mrs. Effie Jones and Sidney Wybourn. © For Parks Board: Ronald Mac- aulay, Arnold Webster and Mrs. Mildred ©. Fahrni. “Our committee is convinced that the people, who are working untiringly for victory, must be given that inspiration which alone can come from progressive leader- ship which justly deserves their confidence, and which has proved its sincerity and capability in the past. & Union Man Dies From Exposure PRINCE RUPERT, B.C—In 2 bad storm off the Queen Charlotte Islands recently, the Kelly Logging Company’s motor boat was dis- abled in Cumshewa Inlet. The time- keeper, Jimmy White, member of the International Woodworkers’ Union, and the superintendent, Jack Hanson, were left drifting for two and a half days. White died of exposure, and Hanson is reported to be recovering in the Alliford Bay RCAF Hospital. ‘With labor's strength steadily frowing, all citizens who desire to see Vancouver fully behind the ereat offensive to come have a splendid opportunity to elect a group of men and women dedicated to placing Vancouver foremost on the production front.” very seriously about the future of our population.” | A great degree of cooperation had been given his department in deal- ing with this problem by the health committees in local shipyards, he observed, but measures on & much larger scale are necessary. He be- lieved the federal government could do much to help in combatting the rising prevalence of tuberculosis by sponsoring health insurance meas- ures. “Financial considerations should not be the primary concern,” he said. “While infected persons are forced by circumstances to go on working, endangering the health of other workers, production must suf- eouver Labor Council. that “in the interests of co-opera-< tion between AFL, CFL and CCL, | that where a dispute on jurisdic- tion arises, the two organizations concerned refer their problem to fer and efforts to wipe out this |a committee formed of representa- dread ~disease will constantly be |tives of both councils.” hampered.” The resolution arose following the organizing of BC Distillery Com- pany workers in New Westminster recently, when Paul Fournier, presi- dent of Montreal Trades and Labor Council (AFL) came west at the request of the international head- ‘quarters of AFL Distillery Workers’ and Wine-makers’ Union and ob- Troops Welcome Shipyard Gift A letter of thanks has been re- ceived by the Dock and Shipyard Workers’ Local 2, for a shipment The resolution, a recommendation from the executive, asl | Propose Committee In — Inter-Union Disputes | Measures to prevent jurisdictional disputes between uni § of AFL, CFL and CCL affiliation were proposed in a rect mendation unanimously endorsed at the last meeting of V. i tained a signed agreement ¥ the company. 1} CCL officials stated that they / been conducting an organizatic drive for some months among fillery workers, and had set local of the Distillery York © Union, which had presented agreement to the company, giv it until Nov. 14 for reply. Fournier stated that his up had negotiated signed agreemet with Seagrams covering 21 out. their 23 plants, and that this pl was the 22nd to be organized i the AFL Distillery Workers. of cigarettes sent to the 6th Field Company, Royal Ganadian Engi- neers, “somewhere in England.” The letter stated that cigarettes are very hard to obtain in Eng- Jand, and that those available are not up to Canadian standards. The cigarettes will be distributed oes UNIVERSAL NEWS STAND 188 EAST HASTINGS STREET Mail your Order for all PROGRESSIVE LITERATURE MOSCOW NEWS WEEELY “pH SOVIETS EXPECTED IT” by Anna Louise Strong among all ranks. .