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| In Aid To Russia

“It is mainly through the battle the Russian people are put-
ting up that we are sitting pretty this winter,” Birt Showler,
president of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council reminded
delegates at the last meeting. “Don’t forget—the only reason you

can sit at home is because those
Russian peasants and working peo-
ple stopped Hitler before he got
this far.”

Asking support of delegates and
affiliated unions fer the Canadian
Aid to Russia Fund, he outlined
steps taken by the committee re
cently established locally, on which
organized labor is represented by
Harold J. Pritchett and himself,
Support of all organizations would
be sought for a large-scale enter-
tainment now being planned, he
said.

Vancouver Aid to Russia Com-
mittee, headed by P. A. Woodward,
of the Regional War Labor Board
tional quota has been set at $1,000,-
000.

Clothing Shipped
To Soviet Union

Within the last few days, over
150 tons of clothing, surgical sup-
plies and blankets have been ship-
ped out of a western port on their
way to Russia, according to the

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Provincial Coordinating Committee
of the Canadian Aid to Russia
Fund. The shipload of Supplies, the
commmntce reports, is worth $100,-

Each day since the address of the
coordinating committee, which has
opened offices at $06 Royal Bank
Building in Vancouver, was made
public, donations have been pour-
ing in, Roy A. Hunter, publicity
director of the campaign told The
People, Contributions reach the of-
fice in every mail, and envelopes
containing one or two dollar bills
have been slipped under the door,
unaccompanied by either name or
address, he stated.

“The campaign will really get
under way in January,” promised
Hunter, “and a number of monster
events are planned for early in the
new year. Every person wanting
to make a contribution will have
Inany opportunities to aid our jRus-
sian ally.”

Plans are also underway for rais-
ing of money by individual groups,
and are being discussed by the co-
ordinating committee, which will
centralize all publicity and direct
the activity of groups participating
in the Aid to Russia drive.

$500 Collected
For Russian Aid

BRILLIANT, B.C —Employees of
Kootenay Engineering Company
here recently sent a contribution of
$500 for Russian relief to Canadian-
Russian War Relief at 1122 West
Pender.

The money was raised among the
employees for medical aid, clothing,
and “te assist our brave allies of
the; Soviet Union in their heroic
defense of their country against the
ruthless Nazi invader.”

Canadian-Russian War Relief is
now working with Canadian Aid to
Russia in order to coordinate the
work of all groups,

Royal City Gives
Greenall Big Vote

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. —
Aldermanic runner-up in last
week’s Royal City election was Jack
Greenall, popular sawmil! organizer
for the International Woodworkers
of America, who polled 1243 votes
for city council, nearly double the
vote he received last year.

John Anderson, another Labor
candidate for council, running for
the first time, polled 825 votes.

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Aircratt Union To Launch Drive At
Boeing's, Canadian Pacific Airlines

A campaign “to bring all workers
at Boeing Aircraft and Ganadian
Pacific Airlines into the Aeronau-
tical Workers’ Union’ will be
launched on February 1, according
to the current issue of the ‘756’

into the union in two months.
The union is now campaigning
for an improved transportation ser-
vice for workers at Boeing’s No. 3
plant on Lulu Island, and is propos-
ing that the present Oak Street car-

Company proposals for stagger-
ing of hours’ are not considered sat-
isfactory by employees, who feel
that in view of the long distance
daily travelled by the majority this
would entail too early a start.

Review, organ of Aircraft Lodge
756, International Association of
Machinists.

The union’s executive board has
announced a poster competition,
open to all aircraft workers, and
is offering a $25 prize for the best
slogan or drawing depicting the
need for a strong union in the air-
craft industry here.

A: membership drive in February,
1942, brought 2000 new members

line be double-tracked.

Present services, the Marpole in-
terurban line, South Granville bus
and Q@ak Street No. 17 car, con-
necting at Marpole with company
busses, are inadequate, it is claim-
ed, and double-tracking of the Oak
Street carline would provide better
service on this, the quickest route,
and relieve overcrowding on the
other routes.

Claim Dup
In Accident Rate

Unavoidable duplication in figures of first aid stations was
this week stated by J. H. Pillsbury, director of industrial health
for the Workmen’s Compensation Board, to be a factor compli-
cating estimates of accident rates in B.C. shipyards. Frequent

redressings, and many repeat visits
for non-industrial causes tend to
Swell the total, since each visit is
recorded separately by first aid
attendants. This in his opinion
gives a distorted picture of ship-
yard accident rates, pyramiding
available figures.

Time loss accidents from January
1 to October 1, covering seven yards
in B.C. engaged in steel ship con-
struction, amounted to 4239, he said,
with 12 fatalities on ship construc-
tion itself and one additional death
on ship repair work.

“There is considerable careless-
ness, too,” he added. “When so
many men previously unused to in-
dustrial occupations are employed
there is bound to be at first an
underestimation of the value of
safety precautions. This careless-
ness endangers the safety of all the
men.”

The campaign presently being
carried on in several yards with
shop stewards making themselves

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responsible for checking on safety
hazards and where possible remedy-
ing the condition on their own
initiative, he considered to be the
best possible means of making
the workers themselves safety-con-
scious.

“Cooperation between the men
and the managements is the only
possible way to reduce the accident
tate,” he insisted. “In terms of
man days lost and for the sake of
the health and welfare of the men
it is essential that all concerned

work together on the question.”

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sought by the union and promised
by the company are reported to
have been held up through lack of
materials. The present lunchroom,
Seating some 400, is too small to
serve an increasing number of
workers and the addition, seating
another-250, will relieve the present
congestion. It is expected to be
ready in six weeks.

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