sion oY in Canada, paid at the same mabe © of pay as other services, will urged by Mrs. Dorise Neilsen, ity member for North Battle- dg, Sask, at this session of par- nent. have thousands of big Siky girls who are used to milk - and to driving tractors. Their ee is in the women’s land army,” js. Weilsen stated. “They’re hap- jt out on the land than they'd r be in a factory or office. They peld do a magnificent job there. #iat better place could they figat | 24 had shown that in the prai- Provinces there were “more nm 37,000 available for war work,” said. the average small- fie farmer couldn’t pay at the te rate of pay as the other serv- i receive,” Mrs. Neilsen con- gied. “Thai's why he’s having def#h a hard time now; he can’t af- of pay for a corresponding in the Canadian Women’s ay Corps. ' know of one girl in Northern katchewan who looks after 18 id cf horses and cattle, more Rh a dozen hogs, as well as tkens and turkeys, and does a dred other jobs besides, lie ‘Ping the barns clean and loo‘x- AS after sick animals. She's taking the place of a son —=. her father’s farm and saving a= land. m on the food front?” |B MRS. DORISE NEILSEN, W.P. the farm. It shows what girls can do.” Commenting on Mrs. WNeilsen’s ery for immediate formation of such a land army, Mrs. Effie Jones, organizer of the Vancouver House- Wives League told The People: “Sufficient food for our people is the urgent need of the future. Qur men will be needed for actual warfare. Therefore our women must come forward to take their places on the farms. It is their patrictic duty.” Sty a sit oa : ch@Viembers of Boilermakers oe i Iron Shipbuilders, Local 1, their union meeting this ursday decided to call a *cial meeting next Thursday Hastings Auditorium to dis- iss the possibility of an elec- a of officers, and to give com ice of motion regarding se- het sion from the Canadian Con- *ss of Labor. Notice of motion to be placed tore the meeting states: ‘That we, the Boilermakers i Iron Shipbuilders Union, eal 1, forthwith secede from d sever our connections with pH? Canadian Congress of i, and that if we are i 0 bor botlermmakers Will “DISCUSS Secession chartered by it, we surrender our charter, and that our of- ficers and executive committee be nStrugied to act accord- ingly.” The meeting also heard the report of a delegation that went to Victoria to place the case be- fore Labor Minister Pearson, asking support of the provin- cial labor department in their fight against reorganization -f their 13,000 members into sev- eral industrial unions. Members discussed certain recommendations of the Rich- ards commission and decided to ask clarification on some + Shipbuilders,-Lbocal No: 1, was; Union Protests New Charters In Shipyards Reinstatement of the Boilermakers’ Union ifito the Canadian Congress of Labor was asked in a resolution unanimously en- dorsed by members of the Dock and Shipyard Workers Union, Local 2, at their meeting Thursday. Pointing. out that the proposed | new industrial charters will in- fringe on their cause friction in the yards, resolution in full declared: WHEREAS the report of the special two-man commission of the Canadian Congress of Labor, sus- pending the Boilermakers and Iron in view of the fact no representations were made by the officers or shop stewards concerned, based on in- adequate information, and WHEREAS the recommendations of the commission to install separ- ate industrial charters in each yard will infringe on the jurisdic- tion of the Dock and Shipyard Workers Union, Local No. 2; the National Union of Operating En- gineers, Local No. 3, and the Black smiths and Helpers Union, Local the jurisdiction and | No. 1, which hold closed shop agree- 'ments in all-but one of the Vancou- ver shipyards, and will further ae ‘velop jurisdictional warfare within the yards among many unions with other affiliations, which action can only lead to confusion, resentment and disruption in the shipbuilding industry and a possible serious set- ‘back to this-vital part of our coun= try’s war effort; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that this union, Dock and Shipyard Workers Union, Local 2, affiliated to the Canadian Congress of Labor, goes on record urging the Canadian Congress of Labor executive to: the Boilermakers and Iron Ship- buliders Union, Local No. 1, (2) Reconsider the recommendations of the special commission of the issu- ing of industrial charters for each yard in this arbitrary manner. "Urged For B. C. Pipeline, (4) Reinstate | fore the legislature, | Mighway Under Way Recommendations of the Re- habilitation Council, now be- include several of those proposed and endorsed by the labor move- ment. In particular, the Coun- ceil recommended construction of a steel industry in B.C., ex- tension of the PGE to link up the Peace River district, pos- sible electrification of rural areas through hydro-electric power development and ‘exten- sion of better farm production methods.’ While the proposals made by the Council were presumably. for post-war reconstruction, the debate to follow will un- doubtedly bring out the bene- fit such projects could be now to British Columbia’s war ef- fort. (Continued on Page 3) See HIGHWAY A typical example of territory in the northwest where United States Engineering Corps are forging ahead with construction of new highways and an oil pipeline ‘across the top of the points. world.’