3

With production of vital PBY flying boats halted for the
hird day by a government and company-enforced lockout of
000 Boeing Aircraft employees in Vancouver, the followings
ast-minute developments were reported by officials of Aero-
autical Mechanics Union, Lodge 756:

M45 1. Company officials late Thursday night refused an offer
- | y employees, endorsed by a mass meeting on Powell Street
4) Grounds, to return to work Friday and to turn over to the
\) @fational War Finance Committee the entire day’s wages of all

mployees for use in purchase of Victory Bonds.

2. A new proposal by the union urging the management
> take part in a joint submission to the National War Labor
joard asking settlement of the rest-period question was again
armed down by the Boeing firm.

3. A mass meeting of workers urged the immediate resig-
ation of Ralph Bell, director-general of aircraft, and his re-
lacement by a director interested in production matters more
aan interference with strictly labor department problems.

Locked-out workers of the four Vancouver plants of Boeing
reraft, including the giant manufacturing unit at Sea Island,
e sharply critical of a company-government policy which has
liberately closed all operations , wages to the Victory Loan Drive.
ther than grant ten-minute rest | — “We made that offer in all sin-
riods which had previously been coy Sal FaS POETRY S merasel
é to b act Hoos constitutes nothing more tkan a
Wage eon ucton Hoosters.) | sabotase of the Victory Loan cam-
Slants were closed Wednesday | paien, which all employees are sup-
ming by company officials

porting,’ they declare.

sen employees called a rest period Tom Parkin, union executive
a means of protesting Ottawa's beard member from Plant One, ri-
>usal to appoint an investigating diculed government EHITaS EBDE by
letmiscion fo go into the matter instituting ten-minute rest periods
pa fRedochonE wasrealled ion the company would lose over 2,000
Te 2. man-hours of work.
icials lodged a sharp protest, eee ee
da majority of workers attempt- Opinion by labor experts of both

to continue their work at the US and Canadian governments
aches and on the assembly line have proven conclusively that rest
til the power was cut off. periods stimulate production. They
Jnion spokesmen were also at

are in effect in many plants in

Nor i i =
Hoss fo explain Thursday night's orth America with excellent re
sal by the company to allow

sults, and there is no reason why
h : i

Seminlovess tolpubin & fail Suet such a setup can’t be applied here,

iday and turn over their entire

particularly in view of the fact
that elimination of production bot-
tlenecks is one of the biggest prob-

lems facing both management and

3 THE Jabor at the Boeing plants.”
ni =e é = Meantime other Vancouver
-innish-Canadian unions entered the dispute when
. D e shop stewards of several shipyard
a emoc ratic unions met Thursday and endorsed
by resolutions placing full blame for
ae Leag ue the dispute with Labor Minister

Humphrey Mitchell and Munitions
Minister Howe, and demanding an
immediate reopening of the plants.
Similar protests were wired Ot-
tawa by the Dock and Shipyard
Workers Union and the Boiler-
makers Union.

Extends May Day
Greetings to

The PEOPLE

The Committee for the Defence
of the U.L.F.T.A.

)-.- extends MAY DAY GREETINGS and expresses appreciation
| 0f The People’s tireless support of the campaign to lift the ban
On anti-fascist organizations.

‘United Fishermen’s Federal
Union, Local 44

Greets The People on May Day !

Qur Members Approve the Demand
q] —~ For a European Land Offensive

| This Year — BACK THE ATTACK!

Ss

FERGUS McKEAN

Secretary of Provincial Com-
munist - Labor Total War
Committee, who will address
the May Day gathering at
Brockton Oval. McKean will
be a candidate in the next
federal election for Vancou-
ver Center.

Minimum
Wage For
Canneries

VICTORIA, BG. Minimum
“wages for women working in the
fish canning industry were pre-
scribed in an order brought down
this week by Board of Industrial
Relations under the Female Mini-
mum Wage Act,

The new order takes in women
engaged in washing, drying, pre-
paring, conserving, canning, cun-
ning, smoking, packing, labelling
and reconditioning of containers or
otherwise adopting for sale or
shipment any kind of fish or shell
fish.

An hourly minimum rate of 33
cents is prescribed for all such
employees, but provision is made
for learners of any age with less
than 200 hours employment to
work under license from the
Board at 28 cents an hour. The Act
limits the number which may be
paid at the lower rate.

The wage clauses in the order
do not apply to women engaged
in heading and filling, but their
working hours will be regulated
by the new order, effective May 3,
which limits hours to ten a day
and forty-eight per week, except
when a permit in writing for
longer hours has been obtained
from the Board,

Record Turnout Expected
For May Day Parade

A record turnout is expected for the May Day victory pa-
rade, assembling at Cambie Grounds at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday,
May 2. The marchers will leave the grounds at 1 p.m., going
down Cambie to Hastings, along Hastings to Burrard, along
Burrard to Georgia, and along : :
Georgia to Stanley Park, where
a huge labor pylon will be un-

veiled, later to be moved to a
permanent site opposite the BC
Blectric depot.

With the Esquimalt Naval Band,
City Firemen’s Band, and Ship-
yard bands in attendance, thous-
ands of trade unionists will assem-
ble at Brockton Point Oval to hear
speakers including Pat Sullivan,
vice-president Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada, Hugh DeLac-
ey, president Washington Common-
wealth Federation, H. W. Herridge,
CCR MLA for Rossland-Trail,
Major General G. R. Pearkes, offi-
cer commanding Pacific command,
Fergus McKean, secretary BC
Communist-Labor Total War Com-
mittee, Mrs. Effie Jones, House-
wives’ League, William Stewart,
president Boilermakers Local No.
i, E. E. Leary, president Vancouy-
er Labor Gouncil and Norman
Whittall, chairman of the “payroll
division,” National War Finance
Committee. Nigel] Morgan, interna-

MAJ.-GEN. G. R. PEARKES

tional board member IWA-CIO
will act as chairman.
Commemorating the dedication

of the labor pylon, ribbons will be
printed carrying labor’s pledge and
symbolizing the pylon with its
burning flame of determination for
victory. These will be on sale at
Cambie srounds and at the Oval,
proceeds to defray the cost of con-
struction and decoration of the
labor monument.

A circular issued by the commit-
tee calls upon Vancouver workers
to “Make May Day 1948 a United
Wations day,” stating that “on this
May Day labor will express its de-
termination to achieve nothing
less than the complete destruction
of fascism, to attain a decisive :

victory over the Axis powers.’ PAT SULLIVAN
$2.15 per Gallon |

PAINT fae 2 eee
MR s?

Union Presents
Free Movies

Free showing of motion pictures
in institutions whose inmates are
not able to attend theaters will be
given by Projectionists’ Union,
Local 348, according to George
Gerrard, secretary.

A new and up-to-date kind of
projectionist machine has been
purchased by the union for this
purpose and shows will be put on
at the Crippled Children’s Home,

156 West Cordova St.
Buy now while buying is good!

(7

John Stanton

Barrister, Solicitor, Notary
503 Holden Bldg.

1G

Slavs To Arms! deadliest enemy — Nazism.

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Marine and other institutions. Op- Jj
erators will donate their time for
the shows and films will be ob-
tained from film companies and | Communist-Labor
, educational societies, Gerrard Total War Committee es
stated.

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