iE PEOPLE LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1942 VOL. L. No. 11. < OSs Labor Council Elected In Rupert PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.—iIn the first civie election held in Prince Rupert since 1932, when the city was placed under a provincial commissioner, labor has Scored a sweeping victory, electing six of eight aldermen and two of five school trustees. The labor candidates were Placed aldermen would have the time to in the field by Prince Rupert Civic Tun the city in these times and jfavored retention of commission 5 Cents Labor Breaks Fraser Mills? Stranglehold By KAY GREGORY Apes mighty sweeps of the Fraser River are Synonymous with all phases of the logging industry. Logging camps on its bank utilize the rushing torrents of its higher waters to bring 'eunenee2*=E) pp ESDoY ae Ss hele Ds © E€P- | government.” down logs to be boomed and towed to the cities at its mouth nd AFL 5 : gs ROLE Hon a ee oci.| Results of the elections were: for conversion into the wood products on which a hundred ation and Prince Rupert wicher- GELY GCOUNGH. industries depend. And on its north bank, just above the arched men’s Cooperative Association. (First Fight Elected) . | curve of the Pattullo Bridge, is the largest sawmill on the “This striking success could not| wy. yy Brett (Labor) ........ 424 | Pacific Coast, Fraser Mills, the industrial barony of Canadian have been achieved without the George Hills (Labor) ....._. 391 Western Lumber Company. ; : »| J. S. Black (Labor) ...___.. 363 : z . Bare ce oe a labor eee H. M. Daggett (Labor) 346 A view of Fraser Mills from the Pattullo Bridge at New BUCE ac teh, (secretary, 6 Robert McKay (Ratepayers) 355 ; 7 * 2 * . the! Civic Tabor Federation. Stated TLOTEENIGE, (GO aoe Westminster gives an impression of a vast residential area dom- this week. “Labor recognized the Mrs. Norah Arnold inated by and dependent upon the industry represented by the need for uniting its forces to rem- = COED) Ce ore smoking chimneys of this one large mill. =n : 5 age Sorensen IO) Ss eeses > : : edy concious in Bi8e2 FLUPERL J. = Jack (Ratepayers) ____ 266 Thirty-three years of bitter struggle have elapsed since such as dilapidated civic Sttvices, | R. A. McLeod (Ratepayers) 254 Father O’Boyle brought out two trainloads of French-Canadian which were actually SAREE DE ae A. D. Ritchie Gace eee settlers from Sherbrooke in the Ottawa Valley and St. Romuald, war effort and which could not be T. QO. Morgan (Labor) ...... By = S z remedied under the commission| Rw Mortimer (Ratepayers) 234 Snebee: to eS for the Fraser River Lumber Company, as it form of government. SCHGOL BOARD TAS en caileqd. ; “The Labor candidates pointed (First Five Blected) Through three decades the company has maintained its iron- out that the salient issue of the] j.0), Deane (Labor) ........ 449 | clad rule over the whole economic and political life of settlers JACK GREENALL election was that peer ace Mrs. Kathleen Hill in the small community. And through the same period, un- ministration was essential to e 1). (Ratepa rers) SARS eee ¢ : 2 0 polled 1248 votes as Labor | cient aon work. Candidates of the| , © EEE RS (ae ae pecewed by the company’s paternalistic’ policy, the millworkers \didate for New Westminster | Liberal-dominated Ratepayers’ As- ave conducted a constant struggle for better conditions and Cound sociation were roundly defeated be- (Continued on page 8) union recognition, a struggle which in this past year has brought ! ~ cause they took the stand that no See ELECTIONS Named after the first parish priest, the settlement Was called it was not until later that the present Fraser Mills townsite broke away from the Coquitlam municipality, of which Maillardville is still a part, and became a separate (Continued on Page 5) Teams To Combat Absenteeism Urged Lost time committees are being considered in many war plants here in an endeavor to reduce absenteeism, Gerald Heller, chairman of the War Industries Committee, stated here this week. Dominion Bridge employees, ler explained, and will through their union, United Steel- Sponsor dinners for workers of America, are working of workers. arrange to winning groups Te is the DeHavilland Mosquito long-range bomber, now being produced by DeHavilland ceraft of Canada, Ltd., Toronto. Constructed almost entirely of wood, meuverable and can be used both on day and night operations. it is extremely out plans for committees to visit absentees and teams to check on absenteeism throughout the plant. Teams will be rated for their achievements in reducing the num- ber of absentees in their section of the plant, and competition will be encouraged between the various | teams, pennants belng awarded to Winning teams. Groups in various Sections will choose their own committees, Hel-| Until now it has not been pos- sible to establish the rate of re- duction in absenteeism, Since the Plan is only operative in one Plant, and has not been long established. Both Heller and union tives when questioned believed the eastern war plants with gratifying results, ji stated.