3 ' Labor Must ... By HAROLD J. PRITCHETT Secretary of Vancouver District Labor Council The year 1942 closes one of the most outstanding years for the Canadian Congress of Labor since its inception. Throughout the year there has been no major disturbance of produc- tion. We have signed agree- ments improving working con- ditions and raising the prestige of the organization, and are taking the first steps towards true labor partnership in Canada’s war ef- fort. Vancouver Labor Council has grown from six affiliated unions in 1940, taking in around 500 mem- bers, to 30 affillates in 1942, having a total membership of more than 20,600 workers. One reason for this spectacular growth is the national amalscamation of the Ali-Canadian Congress of Labor with the CIO. The council now represents organ- ized workers among woodworkers and shipbuilders, steel and foundry workers, newspaper employees, and other essential industries. The CCL is convinced that changes must be made in the pro- vincial Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and I believe I ex- press the sentiments of all organ- ized labor when I say that the growing unity of labor in the proy- inee brought about through our striving for a total war effort must impress the authorities with the realization that the unions must be recognized by employers and labor taken into the confidence of management and government alike. Establishment of labor’s rights and provision of adequate means by Which labor's grievances — the grievances of the man on the job — ean be properly considered and rectified, will strengthen the war effort and help to bring victory in 1943. The council has taken part in many patriotic drives, including the Red Cross campaign, Victory Loan, ARP, Vancouver Welfare Federa- tion, the salvage campaign, and many benefit projects for the armed forces. It is now engaged in a campaign for better safety condi- tions in war industries, in an en- deavor to cut down accident rates and bring about improved health conditions. @ur objective in 1943 is total vic- tory over fascism, and to achieve this there must be full war partner- ship for labor to strengthen na- tional unity against all who seek to obstruct the people in their de- termination to destroy fascism. To strengthen labor's role in this national unity we propose to triple our membership in the coming year. !\PAIN $2.15 per Gallon Kalso, 4 Ibs. 25c¢ 6 Mitts’ 156 West Cordoya St. Buy now while buying is good ! B.C. Labor Will Break Records victory. Workers the world over are looking for- ward with greater confidence to victory in 1943. We must labor for democracy, just as the men in the armed services fight for de- mocracy. Victory for the democracies is our Labor must work to expand its share in the fight and ‘Our Part Is Production’ By MALCOLM MacLEOD Secretary-elect of Boilermakers and Iron Ehipbuilders Union to win its rightful role in the coming victory and in the peace to follow. Our part now is production. In the British Columbia shipyards we have established records in the production of ships to maintain the flow of supplies to the armies of the United Nations. We can and will break all these records in 1943, both in the produc- tion of ships and in the building and extend- ing of labor organization. which embraces a vast territory on tending north to the Queen Char- lotte Islands. “Production was relegated to the background,” the joint organizers’ report stated. “The experience of production committees in other in- Canada has been that there must be co-operation by both manage- ment and workers, and to be most effective they must deal only with production problems.” The meeting endorsed a number of resolutions to go before the dis- trict conyention opening this week- end. : Among these was one urging es- tablishment of a national produc- tion board similar to OPM in the United States. Another asked for | implementation of the recommenda- ; tions tabled in the House by the | 1942 parliamentary committee on the Defense of Canada Regulations. Production boards for essential industries, to plan and co-ordinate the country’s production effort, were sought in a resolution which urged that such boards be com- posed equally of representatives of labor, management and govern- ment. Delegates welcomed establish- ment of Anglo-Soviet trade union councils, and in the resolution adopted called for closer fraternal relations between Canadian trade union centers and the Anglo-Soviet trade union council, “so that labor will be better able to coordinate its efforts along with the workers of the United Nations to fulfil their role of being the driving force for an offensive policy and the defeat of Hitler this year, and to play an effective, democratic role in world affairs after the Axis powers have been defeated.” Main point of concentration in the local’s 1943 organizational cam-— paign will be Aero Spruce Products operations in the Queen Charlotte Islands, it was decided. A resolu- tion on the Queen Charlotte Islands dispute asked the meeting to g¢o on record as demanding that provincial and federal governments enact legislation guaranteeing col- lective bargaining rights. This, it was felt, would facilitate production by eliminating disputes now hinder ing the logging industry. Mayor To Open District Meet More than 150 delegates from log- ging camps and sawmills through- out the province will be present this Saturday when Mayor J. Ww. Gornett makes the opening address at the sixth annual convention of British Columbia District Council Wo. 1 of the International Wood- workers of America. Birt Showler, Vancouver Trades and Labor Council head, will also address the gathering. the British Columbia mainland ex-— lproduction, dustries in the United States and | Charge Operators | Obstruect Production Operators’ attempts to convert labor management produc- tion committees into bargaining agencies and grievance commit- tees, “to obscure the question of collective bargaining through the union’ were charged by union officials to be responsible for lack of success of the committees at the annual meeting this week of Local 1-71, International Woodworkers of America, Among the many resolutions to go before the convention for en- dorsation are those dealing with labor-management committees, collective bargaining, health insurance and labor legisla- tion, upward revision and stabiliza- tion of wages, and proposals for an industry council for the lumber in- dustry. In addition to Mayor J. W. Gornett and Birt Showler, the meet- ing will hear International Presi- dent Worth Lowery, international vice-presidents Carl Winn and Red Fadling, and assistant TWA District Organizer George Brown, coming from the United States to attend the meeting. : @ther speakers include Harold Winch, MLA, and Major Gus Siey- erts, officer in charge of public relations for Vancouver Military District. Speakers have also been invited from the federal office of timber control and selective service. BG. District Council President Warold J. Pritchett will preside. Qn Saturday evening a banquet for delegates and their wives will be held at Ghris’s Grill. Local Signs Up 1000 New Members More than 1000 new members have been signed up in the Imter- national Woodworkers’ Local 1-85, comprising Alberni district, since August, according to Hjalmer Berg- ten, vice-president of the B.C. Dis- trict Gouncil of the TWA. Telling of the work being done by production committees now Op- erating at Pacific Lumber Company mills in Port Alberni, Bergren, in an interview with The People this week, said that sweepstakes have been arranged with prizes amount- ing to $150, going to those who have no unnecessary time loss against them when their names are drawn. Employees and man- agement are working together through labor-management produc- tion committees in an attempt to reduce absenteeism. Officers for 1943 elected by rei erendum ballot include Walter Yates, given acclamation, Owen Copley, elected viee-president, Al Dewhurst as financial secretary, and recording secretary, Mark Moshre. Elected as conductor was James Hamilton, and Eddie Creel- man becomes warden. Trustees elected for three-year, two-year and one-year terms re- spectively were Jeff Ferguson, wil liam Goddard and John Edgett. John Stanton Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 503 Holden Bldg. 16 E. Hastings St. MAr. 5746 —) Ferrymen May Get imcrease Ferrymen organized in the Deep Sea and Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific may be given an increased wage in the new year, according to North Vancouver Commissioner G. W. Vance, J. M. (Digger) Smith told The People this week. A signed agreement with the union has been refused. Previously known as Inlandboat- men’s Union of the Pacific, the union recently expanded to take in deep sea seamen. : The union’s resolution calling for tax exemptions for men of the merchant marine, widely circulated among unions locally and endorsed by Vancouver Labor Council at its last meeting, has been referred to Finance Minister J. L. Isley, Smith has been informed by Prime Min- ister King’s, office. War risk. bonus paid merchant seamen is largely eaten up in taxes, ; bringing their wages below the level paid to members of the armed forces, Smith asserted, adding that many unions had responded favor- ably to the resolution. “Tt is a well known fact that in the last war there were more casu- alties in the merchant marine than in the regular navy,’ Smith de- elared. “These men are just as brave and courageous.as any of the three arms of the fighting forces -and should be shown the same consid- eration by the government as the others. Sailors and officers of the merchant marine carry munitions of war in the form of materials and foodstuffs through the dangerous sea lanes of the different theatres of war and run every risk known to front line fighters. They should be treated as such.” -.. Unite Forees By BIRT SHOWLER President of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council More than ever it is labor’s duty to unite its forces, to for- get everything else but that. 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