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Sisters Carry Torch

It’s a welding torch that the Portas sisters, Isabella, Ruth,
Marie’and Mildred, carry. They're welders at Port Newark,
N.J., and members of the Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers (CIO).

Aid Russia Clothing
Drive Now Under Way

Across Canada during the month of April, the Canadian Aid
to Russia clothing drive will be carried on by committees in
every city, town and village. The drive will last until April 22,

it has been announced by the
mittee.

The last three shipments of
clothing sent to the USSR have
arrived, and most of the goods
were delivered to their destina-~-
tion within 21 days after they left
Vancouver. To date, Vancouver
has shipped 23 tons of supplies
to Russia, and 10 tons are now
being packed for shipment.
From the time clothing is collect-

ed at local fire halls, which are
acting as collection depots through-
out the drive, not one minute is
wasted until it reaches the people
of the USSR. Local women’s com-
mittees clean and mend all cloth-
ing and sort it into crates according
to size and usefulness, and the huge
boxes are loaded on Russian ships
at western ports. When the crates
arrive at the Russian port they are
unloaded and many of them turned
over te one of the most amazing
organizations to come into exist-
ence during the war — the Timur-
ites. : a

Wot long ago a Soviet film com-|

pany produced a miovie called
“Timur and His Gang,” which told
the story of a thirteen-year-old
Moscow boy who assembled a secret
band of children to help families
of Red Army men at the Winnish
front.

When the German
fan, hundreds
“Timurs”
in real life. Practically overnight,
on almost every. city block and
village square, child commanders
found cohorts ready to defend the
home fronts. They started out by
running errands and doing house-

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|hold chores. At the present time
|\they act as couriers for air raid
wardens, as guerrilla scouts and
leokouts. They serve in military
hospitals, help on the farms, and
operate their own workshops,
where they produce many articles
for the front, such as box-kites
te disseminate propaganda leaflets
over enemy lines.

Many a little girl now starts her
day by scouring the woods for
fragments of anti-aircraft shells,
shot down during the previons
night raid. In Rostov, when the
city was last recaptured, the Tim-
urites salvaged 40 tons of scrap
iron in one day.

In other workshops vocational
school pupils are producing camou-
flage coveralls, oars for pontoon
boats, shell cases and snow shields.

The Timurites of Murmansk
spent last summer in the Arctic
hunting game to send back to
the hospitals. They braved rain,
mist and snow to bring back 35,-
000 duck and 60,000 guillemot
eggs. 2
The older boys in the larger
cities made the rounds of railway
stations in search of lost or wound-
ed children from the occupied area.
Despite the migration of millions,
Russia has few wandering children
today; homeless children belong to
one great family, and the Timur-
ites lead them to hospitals and
refugee camps.

It is the Timurites who do a
freat deal of the sorting of medical
instruments sent to the Soviets by
Canadian Aid to Russia. In work-
shops -in every oity, girls mend
clothes and underwear.

The warmer the clothing, the
more useful it will be for Russian
civilians, say officials of the Cana-
dian Aid to Russia clothing drive.
Underwear, dresses, suits, stock-
ings, overcoats, gloves, parkas,
scarfs, and even shoes are being

collected at every fire hall within
the city and province.

Montreal
Aircraft
Wins Bonus

MONTREAL, Que.— Robert
Haddow, Grand Lodge repre-
sentative of the International
Association of Machinists, de-
elared this week that the whale
labor movement has won a
victory in the National War

Labor Board decision granting
Montreal aircraft workers the full
cost-of-living bonus.

The Board, in a ruling on repre-
sentations- from Aircraft Lodge 712
and three Montreal aircraft com-
panies, directed the companies to
increase the cost-of-living bonus
paid te their employees from $1.50
a week to $4.25, which is the maxi-
mum allowed. The companies af-
fected are Vickers, Fairchild, and
Woorduyn.

“Specific authority to make that
adjustment,” the Board's .ruling
said, “did not come into effect un-
til March 23," and it was not abie
to’ make it retroactive beyond that
date because of its limited powers.

The demand for back pay, as well
;as the closed shép, will be pushed
lat an all-aircraft conference of
|the I.A.M. to be held next month,
| Haddow said.

| ‘The Board’s ruling was present-
jed te Lodge members at a meet-
ing Sunday. The meeting decided
to press Ottawa for legislation to
allow the Labor Board to make the
bonus adjustment retroactive to
last June. It is believed the Board
jwill agree to grant back pay if
the government introduces enabling
| regulations.

The IAM aircraft leader con-
eratulated the Labor Board and its
labor member, J. L. Cohen, K-C.,
for the despatch with which it had
handed down its decision. He em-
phasized the fact that the Mont
real aircraft workers had won the
increase in their cost-of-living
bonus by peaceful methods.

He warned Montreal aircraft
workers agpaim:t what he termed
the splitting tactics of A. R. Mosh-
er, president of the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor, one example of
which, he said, was the recent
tramways strike. °

The IAM, he declared, would
continue to work for national unity
| through trade union organization
and the fight for equalization of
the wages of French and English-

speaking workers.
| The May union conference will
(consider all organizational prob-

jlems connected with aircraft as a
national industry.

Communist-Labor
Total War Committee ...

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$1800 this week.

boosters in the shipyards get their
teams into action, we sheuld reach

our objective almost according to
schedule.

The Press Committee has decid-
ed to extend the drive until the end
of April but all committees are
urged to turn in receipts as rap-
idly as possible so as to bring the
total close to $4000 by April 15.
Let's remember in the closing
weeks of the drive to maintain the
emphasis on winning new readers
as well as swelling the paper's

Drive Totals Close
To Halfway Point

By MINERVA COOPER, Business Manager
Handsome donations of $250 from the Dock and Shij ;
Workers, $50 from ithe Amalgamated Shipwrights, an
lections from the Chinese merchants, lifted the drive

While still short of the 50 per cent mark in the 23rd :
the drive, receipts have doubled during the past week, <

fighting fund.

People who sell the progressive
press should be the best, the most
confident salesmen in the world,
for through every sale they are
promoting and strengthening the
principles which give meaning and
purpose to the lives of all conscious
progressives. Fearless and con-
structive in its criticism of every
obstacle impeding production, re-
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movement and rallying to new
achievements in wartime tasks, The
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apply the extra pressure that will
sweep our press drive to a trium-

paper a mightier voice for victory
in the coming year.

Broadeasts Deal

With War Effort

Weekly broadcasts to deal
with current political events
and their effects on our na-
tion’s war effort, with partic-
ular emphasis on the tremen-
dous role played by labor in all
phases of this effort will start this
week, the Communist-Labor Total
War Committee states in a press
release.

Suggestions, criticism or advice
from listeners will be welcomed,
the statement says.

Over CKWX, the broadcasts will
feature well-known Vancouver
labor spokesmen, and will be heard
every Thursday at 7:15 p.m. for a
15-minute period.

the accomplishments of the labor}

phant conclusion and make our}:

Drive Standing

Receipts
City Press

Committee _.$265.75
Croatians ......_- 50.05 —
Ulirrainians —_..--.. 57.50 +
North Burrard —-. 173.35
South Burrard ___. 151.00
Salvage __.._... 150.50
West Coast-

Hamilton Bridge ~ 63.50
Fishermen _._...__ 7.00
Loggers _....,—-. 34.00
Transportation and

Blectricians _.... 8.00
Aircraft, = == 1208
AFL (misc.) ——... 20.05
OP: Bul 185.08
New Westminster _ 17.00
Fraser Valley —.-. 8.09
Fernie - Michel _._ 10.75
Princeton _..._ 27.70
rallye aS See = 1.08
Prince Rupert __.._ 10.00
Powell River 5.00
Victoria: 123.08
The Albernis __.._... 3.00
Gen. Miscellaneous. 124.00

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Amalgamated Shipwrights
dewelry Workers _.__-_-_
Firefighters (subs) ~~.

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