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Bafety regulations demand
iat the hat worn by Boeing’s
omen employees have a
Bak and cover all the hair.
the design pictured above

i}i keep up morale, thinks Lily
@oderas, Shop 56, Plant 3, who
asisned it.

Women employees, asked
y the Women’s Committee
#: Aircraft Lodge 756 to send
i ideas for headgear, sub-
~sitted two types: the cap-and-
zood (pictured above), and
fae ski-cap. Ideas will be
assed on to shop stewards, -
id from them to plant offi-
vals, who will discuss the
joption of a uniform style
t the possibility of women
anig allowed to choose
hichever style they prefer,
roviding it conforms with
picty regulations.

uel Board
? roposed

Proposed establishment by Van-
aver city council of a metropoli-
2 fuel supply board covering the
wer mainland to arrange supply
id distribution of all fuel through-
t that area was endorsed by dele
tes to the Vancouver Labor
uneil this week.

introducing the motion, Arthur
irner, CCF MiA, charged that
‘esponsibility of fuel dealers and
2k of a distribution policy on the
tt of authorities had resulted in
“ious shortages creating a men-
€ to health. Establishment of
ch a board would prevent any
currence of this year’s “disegrace-
i fuel crisis, Turner said.
International Association of Ma-
inists, AFI, at their last meet-
=, set up a committee to visit
fal fuel board offices comprising
oman Cummings, Allan Hudson
id EH Reid. Emergency forms
pvided on the job at local ship-
tds had been filled in by many
wkers, Cummings said, but no
sults were known.

“Men released from the army
We been unable to find work in
ming camps,” Cummings alleged,
claring that a hit-and-miss man-
Wer policy had undoubtedly been
fatly responsible for fuel short-
es which were now hitting the
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Urged on by an we order
of the day, signed by Prem-
ler Joseph Stalin as supreme
Commander of the Red Army,
Russian fighting forces pushed
further forward towards Rostov
and latest reports indicate that

*the Red Army was only fourteen
miles from Kropotkin, which is
only 35 miles down the Gaucasus
railroad from Tikhoretsk.

Group after group of German
soldiers were yeported to have
laid down their arms on the
Voronezh front, while the entire
German 534th Infantry regi-
ment and part of the 609th were

| said to have surrendered on the

{ Stalingrad front.

Full text of Stalin’s “order
of the day,” urging a complete
“routing of the German invad-
ers” follows:

“As the result of a two-
months’ offensive the Red Army
broke through the defenses of
the German fascist troops on a
broad front and routed 102 en-
emy divisions, captured more
than 200,000 ‘prisoners, 13,000
guns, and a iarge quantity of
other equipment, and advanced
about 400 kilometres (245 miles).

'  *Qur troops gained an im-

portant victory. The offensive
of our troops continues.

Stalin Issues New
‘Order Of The Day’

“I congratulate the Red Army
men, the commanders and po-
litical workers of the south-
western, southern, Don, north
Caucasian, Voronezh, Kalinin,
Volkhoy and Leningrad fronts
on their victory over the Ger-
man fascist invaders and their
allies, Rumanians, Italians and
Hungarians, near Stalingrad, on
the Don, in the northern Gau-
casus, near Voronezh, in the
area of Velikie Luki and south
of the Lake of Ladoga.

“I declare my appreciation to
the command and the gallant
troops who routed the Hitlerite
army at the approaches to Stal-
ingrad, who broke the siege of
Leningrad, and liberated from
the German invaders the towns
of Kantemiroyka, Byelovodsk,
Morozovsky, Millerovo, Staro-
belsk, Kotelnikovski, Zimovniki,
Elista, Salsk, Mozdok, Nalchik,
Mineralnyevody, Pyatigorsk,
Stavropol (Voroshilovsk), Arm-
avir, Valuiki, Rossosh, Ostro-
gozhsk, Velikie Luki, Schulues-
Selburg, Voronezh, and many
other towns and thousands of
populated places.

“Forward to the routing of
the German invaders and their
explusion over the boundaries
of our motherland!

“Signed, the supreme
mander, J. Stalin.”

com-

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greatest wastage occurs in news-
stand sales, in the number of copies
returned unsold, it is more than
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MLA’s To Discuss
ICA Act Changes

Proposed changes in the ICA
Act and suggested revision of
Workmen’s Compensation Act
will be two very important
items to be discussed when the
CCF legislative committee
meets this weekend in prep-
aration for the coming session
of the legislature, according to
Harold Winch, leader of the

Opposition in the House.

Main changes proposed in a brief
jointly submitted by a labor dele—
gation representative of all labor
councils on the lower mainland
and Victoria district were amend-
ment of the ICA Act to ensure col-
lective bargaining rights through
unions of workers’ own choice, ban-
ning by law of unfair labor prac-
tices such as organization of com-
Pany unions, and speeding up of
processes of arbitration to provide
rapid and just settlement of legiti-
mate disputes involving wages and
working conditions.

Commending Labor Minister
Pearson for his recognition of the
complete inadequacy of the pres-
ent ICA Act in meeting B.C.
labor programs, the brief urged
complete revision of the Act to
embody “the necessary funda-
mental principles that will. end
the delays and confusion now
existing.”’

Compulsory acceptance of arbi-
tration awards was not favored by
the delegation, but punishment was
asked for refusal of any employer

to bargain collectively with his em-
ployees.

Setting up of a permanent Labor
Relations Board, with adequate
labor representation, was called
for, whose purpose would be “to
advise the labor minister and fulfil
Such duties as the minister places
upon it in connection with the ad-
ministration of this act.”

Adoption of the Sloan report on

irs. F. J. Rolston, Conservative

MILA, expressed herself as “ex-
tremely and vitally interested in
legislation concerning the right
of collective bargaining.”

Vancouver Labor Council at a
recent session endorsed the pro-
posals contained in the brief and
asked that affiliated unions make
a study of the proposals so that
they would be prepared to guard
the interests of labor during dis-
cussion on the Act in the course of
the session.

The delegation sponsoring the
brief included EF. &. Griffin, chair-—
man of the B.C. Executive, Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada,
Birt Showler, president of Vancou-
ver and District Trades and Labor
Council; and E. E. Leary, Vancou-
ver Labor Council (CCL) president.
Island Labor Councii was repre-
sented by Percy Lawson, secretary,
Victoria Labor Council by R. Noble,
secretary, and Victoria District
Trades and Labor Council by Geo-
rge Wilkinson. Vancouver Island
Joint Labor Conference, comprising
unions of AFL, CCL and ABWC
affiliation, was represented by
James Walker, secretary.

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