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Shipyards
‘oeram for the union, stated:
“There are still some yards op-
jating without union agreements.
he most noticeable of these is the
Chest Coast Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
| this yard the SBoilermatkers’
Ct Of galaion made application for an ar-
dior witration board nearly a year ago.
) far the minister of labor has
enactiinored this application. We feel
all seiiie workers in this yard, given
" saldjirrect leadership, ‘would soon

nt of @hieve the conditions enjoyed by
TESS, Hy workers in other yards.
ind th} “The Shop Stewards’ Commit-
: xe will not countenance any
lation Gj ipen shop agreements or any
unetinghoney closed shop agreements.
a ‘It will be necessary that we
OMeactly enforce those which we
sainine@id with small shops and yards.
3 2 maintain that if we are to be
es party to signed trade union
= Je@?reements, that we should live up
‘d Elec} Gur share of the bargain. We

:. We li also see that the operators live

a | to their part.

ie “The closed shop agreements al-
criuijmlayY held give us the right to
ant side who shall or shall not
prodii Tk in the yards and shops under

¢ jurisdiction. To accomplish this
rwill be necessary to establish a
‘ing hall through which mem-
Vs may. seek employment and by
sans of which we may issue
rk permits to workers required
+ temporary jobs.

“Provision is made under the
ational Selective Service Act for
zions such as ours which hold

0

232.70 @osed shop agreements, giving
consiiem the right to issue employ-
om iif ent slips to members.

ginal 4 ) The maintenance of a hiring
Wi is essential if we hope to
jure continued employment of
in G0uN mbers, and to maintain a correct
<i We.ord of the abilities and employ-
, 1 WEEnt records of members.

“3, ‘One of the biggest defects in
@° organization has been the in-
lity of the office to provide busi-
is agents, shop stewards, or other
erested parties in the various
Pach ‘ds, with Gata regarding the
'>S payments, work records, etc.,
members in those yards, and I
‘A {Pl that, through the establishment
this hall we will overcome to

a lereat extent these difficulties.

=. there are hundreds of unorgan-

aE D. d workers in the metal industry

rect Vancouver, both in the ship-
‘ds and in the small shops,

pie it we maintain the efficiency

= at hich has been developed in the

ep stewards’ organization and
) Lt ace on the staff one or two
ad al organizers, within six months
eam e will have the industry com-
a etely organized,
dn the past, our business agents
ve spent three-quarters of their
ze collecting dues op the job
a attending to petty srievances
D it in any efficient trade union
| ranization would have been
adled by the shop stewards.
URE ‘The recommendations of the
op stewards’ committee will in-
ide a drive for closed shop agree-
mts i all yards and shops, or-
nizing of the unorganized work-
3, re-organization of our staff,
ang of efficient organizers, a
ve for the establishment of a
eck-off in closed shop yards, es-
slishment of a hiring hall, pro-
Hien for recreational and social
2ilities for all members of our
Zanization.

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Personal “Coneratulatons

Rokossovsky, one of the

shifted to the south.

Colonel-General Filip I.
General I. V. Tulienev,

Red Army Generals
Receive High Honors

given to Marshals Gregory Zhukoff and N. N. Voronoff
and Colonel-General Konstantin Rokossovsky recently
for the execution of his orders in holding Stalingrad at all
costs. It was here the German Sixth Army was liquidated.

Army is now the hero of the sweeping offensive in the
Don Area. During the defense of Moscow he commanded
the central sector on the Smolensk highway, and was later

Rokossovsky, with several other generals, recently re-
ceived the Suroroy Order, First Degree, one of the Soviet
Union’s highest military Honors.

A recent Moscow broadcast disclosed that Colonel-
General Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, leader of the
vital Voronezh offensive, has been promoted to the rank
of marshal of the Soviet Union.

Others to receive the Suvoroy Order were:

Colonel-General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, com-
mander-in-chief of armies threatening the German flank
in the Caucasus, who has been wounded seven times, and
whose wife and youngest son were killed in the Ukraine.

onezh and the drive on Kursk and Kharkov.

fare, whose army captured the Maikop oilfields.

from Premier Stalin were

tallest officers in the Red

Golikov, prominent at Vor-

an expert in mountain war-

Civil Servants Form

Permanent

VICTORIA. —Local branch
of the newly-formed British
Columbia Civil Servants and
Government Employees Asso-
Ciation at a meeting here last
week ratified the constitution,
considered a brief prepared by
Vancouver civil servants, and
made arrangements to elect
permanent officers.

The brief, asking for amend-
ments to the Civil Service Act,
declared, “employees have worked
for periods as high as ten years
without receiving an increase.
There are cases where appoint-

ments have been made to senior
jobs over the heads of efficient em-

ployees with long service who
might reasonably have expected
promotion.”

The government, it continued,

“has igmored to a very large ex-
tent the recommendations of the
heads of the various offices, the
whole matter of recommendation
by the heads of offices lacks uni-
formity and leaves the door open
to prejudice and favoritism — wo-
men doing the same work as men
are discriminated against in the
matter of salaries.”

The Givil Service Act should -be
amended to provide for a three-
man Civil Service Commission, one
member to be nominated by the
employees, the brief lasked; to
insure that “no person shall directly
or indirectly endeavor to influence
corruptly the commission with re-
spect to the appointment of him-
self or any other person.”

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The association, pledged to work
for the abolition of political patron-
age and substitution of the merit
system, recognition as the agency
to negotiate with the government
on matters concerning civil sery-
ants, and appointment of elected
representatives on all boards and
commissions dealing with civil
servants, was warned by B.C.
Premier John Hart at a session of
the legislature last week that “if
the government finds any civil
servant introducing politics into
that organization, that man will
not be a civil servant the next
morning.”

The Premier, who pointedly re-
ferred to the possibility of “CCF
influences” in organization of the
civil servants, stated that the gov-
ernment did not propose to object
to its formation. However,
understood that “a certain Mr.
Logie” (James Logie, Department
of Public Works, who was named
president at the first meeting of
800 Victoria civil servants) “was
active in the new organization.
He was once a socialist candidate
for the provincial legislature,” and,

implied Hart, Logie’s steps were
being carefully watched.

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First Prize, $50.00: W. A. Hough,
1179; G. Lovatt, 2.

Second Prize, $25.00: Mrs. F.
Chattell, 625; T. Henning, 653.

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Dr. J. Marthandum Gnaniah,
Hindu lecturer and traveller,
whose reactionary attitude has
been soundly attacked by the
Khalsa Diwan Society here,
declared this week that he
eould not at the present time
set any date in reply to their

challenge of open debate at a
public meeting, where the Hindu
philosopher will “have to talk poli-
ties without the protection of the
church.”

“I have nothing against the Sikhs.
This is purely a quarrel between
me and the Indian National Con-
gress. Some of my best friends are
Sikhs,” he added.

“Tf he wants to talk about Indian
political questions, why doesn’t he
do it in the open, where’ his state-
ments could be questioned?” said
Wagindar Singh Gill, secretary of
the Sikh organization issuing the

challenge. “We will provide a hall
and pay all expenses.”
Elmore Philpott, editorial di-

rector of the News-Herald, has of-
fered his services as chairman at
the proposed meeting.

Dr. Gnaniah, who is unable to
promise to set a date for such a
meeting until he consults “his min-
ister” (Rev. McEwen, of Foursquare

Women Celebrate
International Day

International Women’s Day will
be commemorated this year by a
Meeting on Sunday, March 7 in
the Beacon Theater, at 8 p.m,

sponsored by a committee compris-
ing representatives of more than
15 national groups in the city, ac-
cording to Mrs> Jean Mason, B.C.

Sikhs Question
Speaker’s Facts

ehurch, under whose auspices
Gnaniah has been lecturing on yogi,
reincarnation, race problems, and
such questions as why Jesus Christ
was born a Jew instead of a Hindu
or Christian) has declared that
British government is the best thing
for India and the Indian people.

“T will not change my attitude,”
he insisted this week. “I believe I
have a democratic right to tell the
truth about both sides of the Indian
question before it is settled. ...f
am not against independence for
India. My reason for supporting
the British attitude is that the In-
dian people do not have the inher-
ent qualities for self-government.”

Local Sikhs maintain that
“there are too many merely selfi-
appointed mouthpieces, the so-
called lecturers and philosophers
who speak on our behalf. They
are always connected with some
sort of anti-Gandhi movement.

We can prove in open debate that

India is ready for self rule,” Gill

told The People this week.

Other questions which an audi-
ence of Sikhs would like answered
In open meeting are:

Where did Dr. Gnaniah get his
information to back up his opinion
that Britain had given India i100
years of peace, and that British
rule had been beneficial to India?

How can the Doctor reconcile his
statements, “I support the British
position” and “I am not against in-
dependence for India?”

The subject of his lecture this
Sunday at the Hoursquare church
will be ‘‘Hitler versus Gandhi.”

Any public meeting arranged by
the Khalsa Diwan Society must be
carried on “in friendly spirit,”
Gnaniah insisted Thursday. He
added that he would know defin-
itely when he would be able to
speak after he has conferred with
Rev. McEwen this Sunday.

“I think an open meeting would
be a very good idea,’ commented
Elmore Philpott, repeating his of-

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fer to act as chairman.

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