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\is week the Red Army, advancing on all fronts, had re-
aed nearly all the territory captured by Hitler in his great

snsive last year. Announcing that they had retaken
coshilovsk, key city in the Trans-Caucusus, the Russians
sweeping on towards Rostov, Kharkoy and the Kaikop

Steel Mill For
Coast To Come
Before House |

C@L national executive to enquire

New Election
Proposed By
Boilermakers

Holding of a new, properly supervised election in the Boiler-
makers’ union was asked by a delegation including the shop
stewards’ working committee and members elected at Wed-
nesdays general union membership meeting to interview Pat
Conroy and J. E. McGuire, commissioners appointed by the

into the dispute involving newly
elected officers of the union. Jock
MeColl and ©. Gaywood, veteran
members of the union, acted as
spokesmen for the delegation,
which included many charter mem-
bers -of the organization.

The enquiry has proceeded with-
out participation of officials rec-
ognized by the union membership,
due to the commission’s refusal to
consider shop stewards’ request
that hearings be open to Boiler-
makers’ members and that charges
be subject to refutation or proof
based on the laws of evidence.

Shop stewards maintain that the
contentious question of whether
the recently-elected officials ac-
tually represent the great majority
of the union’s members could read-
ily be settled by holding a second
election, under proper supervision.
So far there has been no indica-
tion that the commission intends
to accede to this request.

Executives of IWA, Vancouver

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Selds in their widening winter offensive.

Aid Rally

ANTREAL.—In the new world
‘Gforged by air power, Russia,
hver the northern horizon be-
| the Pole, is becoming Can-
| closest neighbor, after the
ad States, Prime Minister Mac-
ge King told a Canadian Aid to
4a rally here this week when
atroduced Mrs. Eleanor Roose-

{| we become neighbors we de
Wore than ever to become also
most helpful of friends. The
2 wastes, so long an im-

rable barrier between us, now
Soeming fo join us closer to-

d ir,” Prime Minister King
d, adding that “in this great
W3ve-of the United Nations are
iiebtors one of the other. We
| the help of Russia and Rus-
gies our help.”
continued:
45 begin to understand the
tion at all, we need to think
aie thousands upon thousands of
Hiies—old men, old women,
4 mothers and little children—

s. Roesevelt Addresses Russian

driven from their burning homes

by barbaric invaders. ... We need
to think of a people scantily
elothed, severely rationed as to

food, with nothing but wood for
fuel, fighting famine and disease
as well as the most ruthless enemy,
and all this in weather much colder
than most of us in Ganada have

_@€ver been called upon to face.

Mrs. Roosevelt, who journeyed
specially to Montreal to address the
rally, stated:

“We can rejoice with the Rus-
sians that at last the time has come
When they can turn the tide of
battle and again begin to recon-
quer their land.

“We do not know how long this
war will last, but as long as it does
last, the Russian people will en-
dure hardships. ... All that Russia
faces is also faced by China whose
war has been an eyen longer or
deal, and fT think the Chinese and
Russian people have been drawn
closer together by suffering.

“¥ do not think that peace can

loser Ties With Soviet Seen

be the result of a document, but
I think it can grow out of atti-
tudes of people towards each
other, and our mutual helpfulness
today will be our best assurance
of a more lasting peace in the
future.”

After her main address, Mrs.
Roosevelt spoke briefly in French.

Premier Godbout of Quebec and
Fyodor Gusev, Soviet minister to
Canada, also spoke before the
sereen of flags of Russia, Canada

and the United States, which
formed the background for the
meeting.

“The Russian people have done
most of the fighting and most of
the dying in this struggle against
our common enemy,” said Premier
Godbout.

Lauritz Melchoir, Metropolitan
Opera tenor, famous for his Wag-
nerian roles, sang two groups of
songs, and two service bands
played The Stars and Stripes, God
Save the King, O Canada, and The

Closed Shop
Union Aim_

As a means of strengthening
its ability to carry out its
pledge of achieving maximum
production this year, Lodge
796, Aeronautical Mechanics’
Union (IAM), will launch a
drive next month for full union
organization in Boeing Aircraft
and Canadian Pacific Airlines
on the Coast.

Starting February 10, the or-
ganizational drive will have as its
aim obtaining of a closed shop
agreement, with provisions for
holidays with pay, rest periods and
wage adjustments, including estab-
lishment of a basic minimum start
ing rate of 50 cents an hour for
both men and women workers.

Union officials state that be-
twen 60 and 65 per cent of the
6,000 employees in Boeing Aircraft’s
three plants here are already or-
ganized, while in the Canadian
Pacifie Airlines plant at New West-
Iainster the percentage of union
members among the 800 workers is
slightly higher. Formation of a
sub-local for the CPA plant has
already been suggested.

At last week's meeting of the
union executive, George Sangster,
TAM international representative
here, was censured and instructed
to write a letter to Boeing Air-
eraft retracting certain statements
made against union secretary Wil-
liam Turner at a joint meeting be-
tween union officials and company
representatives called after Turner
had issued a press statement com-
Menting on correspondence ex-
changed between Ralph FP. Bell,
director of aircraft production, and
John McGraw, personnel director
for Boeings. The correspondence,
Turner charged, reflected on the
sincerity of the union’s production
efforts.

A statement on the question was
ordered sent to the International
Grand Lodge.

Union shop stewards, meeting
later last week, passed a unanimous
vote of confidence in Turner and

Internationale.

endorsed the executive’s’ action.

Committee
Prepares
Report

Determined representations
for establishment of a steel mill
on the Coast to feed British Co-
lumbia’s war industries are for-
seen now that a committee rep-
resentative of all fields of civic
life has completed its sittings
here on preparation of a brief
to be presented to the provin-
cial cabinet before the coming
session.

“Cabinet ministers will have this

brief in their hands before the
session in order that they may
study it thoroughly,” Harold J.

Pritchett, secretary of the Vancou-
ver Labor Council, who is a mem-=-
ber of the committee, stated this
week “The brief as drawn up will
now go before the city council for
endorsation, following which a del-
egation will be selected to appear
before the legislature on this ques-
tion.”

“The establishment of a steel
mill in B.C. would mean a good
deal to Canada’s war production,”
stated E. EH. Leary, president,
Vancouver Labor Council. “I un-
derstand there is ore available in
the province, to say nothing of
scrap iron lying idle.

‘It would be a great help to our
war effort and to the shipbuilding
industry here. The time is Jong
overdue for such a project to be
undertaken.”

Harold Winch, leader of the CCE
Opposition, said:

“This matter has received very
thorough consideration of our com-
mittee, the Post-War WRehabilita-
tion Council. Set up by authority
of the legislature, this committee
includes members of the MLiberal
and Conservative parties and the
CCE.

“In our report, which will be
filed with Premier Hart, possibly
this week, we have made recom-
mendations concerning the estab-
lishment of a steel mill here. I
think itis absolutely definite that
there is a very good possibility
of this project being carried
through in the near future.”

“A steel mill here would make
a great deal of difference to our
post war industries,” stated Nigel
Morgan, IWA international board
member. “It is very unlikely that
shipbuilding here will continue af-
ter the war unless steel is more
easily available than at present.
Consequently, people in this prov-
ince would receive great benefits
from such a project, through the
stabilizing of shipbuilding as well
as other essential industries here.’

Under present conditions, ore
produced in B.C. is shipped east,
converted into castings and

Shipped back to the coast again,
involving expense in shipping and
a burden on transportation facili-
ties, making the establishment of

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