Rupert Unions To Nomina

Continued

Alaska

full development of this territory
in the post-war period building
of a coast highway linking Van-
eouver and Seattle with the
northwest and more completely
making northern British Colum-
bia accessible fer development
was essential.

“Among the various  battle-
fronts of the war,’ he continued,
“that in the Aleutians has been
perhaps more subject to distortion
and misinterpretation than any
other. Stringent ‘censorship has
been to,some extent responsible
for this. Isolationist politicians in
the United States have exaggerated
the Japanese threat in the Aleu-
tians in their efforts to detract
public attention from the urgent
need for the opening of a second
front in Europe. At the same time
official spokesmen have tended to
minimize this threat with the re-
sult that many people have been
unable to understand why the
Japanese on Kiska and Attu un-
der daily heavy bombings have not

been long since been forced to
evacuate their Aleutian strong-
holds.

“The fact is that fighting in
the Aleutians conducted under
difficult climatic conditions is on
a greater scale than is generally
realized. While the Japanese have,
it is true, succeeded in consoli-
dating their positions, US forces
have been advancing from island
to island with the strengthening
of the supply lines behind them
so that now they are facing the
Japanese across less than 200
miles of water. There need be no
fear that the war in the Aleu-
tians is not being vigorously
pressed against the Japanese with
every indication that soon the
Japanese position will be rend-
ered untenable.

“In a speech in Chicago,” added
Griffin, “Father Bernard R. Hub-
bard, the so-called Glacier Priest,
stated ‘either by force or the con-
sent of Russia the government of
the United States must obtain use
of air bases in Russian Siberia in
order to bomb Japan,’ and de-
elared that the United States is
now in a position to ‘get tough’
about them.

“Such statements are calculat-
ed to strain relations between the
USSR and the other United Na-
tions, and can only mislead the
public into believing that a full
understanding in the northwest
has not been reached between

One of the series of connecting roads now under construction
which will link hitherto isolated sections of the Canadian
northwest with the new Alaska Highway.

meeting.

Comprehensive study being
made of all factors involved in the
fuel tangle and a brief is being
prepared for presentation to the
National War Labor Board; out-
lining the difficulties hindering
fue] production and distribution.
The committee chairman, C. W.
Marshall, with G. T. Greenwell, R.
Kerr, R. Noble and R. Stinson com-
prise the committee appointed to

is

ourselves and our Russian allies.”

We also pointed out that in
Seattle this month leading officiais
of several trade unions had issued
a statement branding Father Hub-
bard as “an overt or covert agent
of Hitler and Goebbels, whose prim-
ary purpose is to divide the United
Nations, and make an Axis victory
possible.”

Griffin’s book will be published
by W. W. Norton & Company, New

York, sometime this fall.

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Vancouver, B.C.

Island Labor Prepares
Brief On Fuel Problem

VICTORIA, B.C.—‘‘Labor is going all-out to see that the
citizens of Victoria need not be cold next winter,’ was the
emphatic comment of participants in the Vancouver Island
Joint Labor Conference fuel committee following a recent

draw up the brief.

Meantime a large stand of good
second-growth timber, easy of ac-
cess and easy to cut has been
obtained, and the necessary permit
for cutting will be applied for.

The Chamber of Commerce will
be approached to enlist its: cooper-
ation in supplying trucks and oth-
er equipment required for distri-
bution, and GC. H. Unicume, local
fuel administrator, will be asked
to make enquiries regarding pro-
vision of gas and tires for trans-
portation of cutters and wood.

Much interest has been shown by
other groups who have watched
the progress of the special fuel
committee since its beginning, and
applications have been received of-
fering participation and coopera-
tion in the scheme.

“We hope that in the near fu-
ture we will be able to report cords
of wood being cut and made ayail-
able to the citizens of Victoria
through the efforts of the people
themselves,” Mary Mezger, secre-
tary, stated. “Our .brief which is
now being prepared will throw
considerable light on the situation
and we hope will serve to clarify
and eliminate some of the bungling
and inefficiency which has so far
hindered the supply of fuel.”

Unions Plan
Joimt Action

Joint action on wage demands
by AFL and ABW building trades
workers was suggested in a letter
to the first provincial conference
of the United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners from the ex-
ecutive of Amalgamated Ship-
wrights.

AFL carpenters in convention
are proposing boosting of the basic
rate to a dollar an hour applicable
throughout the province, and pay-
ment of full cost of living bonus.

Lawrence Anderson, Shipwrights’
business agent, stated that a brief
is being prepared by ABWC Local
2 (Shipwrights), for submission to
the National War Labor Board
hearings in Ottawa to outline the
proposals for basic rate increases.

member to the

Prince Rupert.

The following resolution . was
passed at the last meeting of the
Gouncil:

Whereas the morale of the peo
ple is suffering, and the war ef-

fort is being hamstrung in strate-
gic Skeena Riding, as a result of
haphazard handling of supply,
manpower and production prob-
lems, wasted human and material
resources, lack of transportation,
high labor turnover, housing and
sanitation, high cost of living, un-
settled grievances, recreation, etc.;

And whereas direct representa-
tion can be won by labor at Ot
tawa by the united efforts of the
people through their unions, co-
operatives and other representative
organizations;

Be it resolved: that this Coun-
cil call a conference to draft a
program, based on the needs of
the people of this riding, for im-
proved working and living condi-
tions, and Labor partnership in the
War; and to nominate a candid-
ate in the coming Dominion elec-
tion, who will subscribe to the plat-
form drawn up, and carry it to
Ottawa as a member of the Do-
minion Parliament.

The conference call has gone out
to all unions in the Skeena riding,
as well as to such organizations
of the people as the CCF, Fisher-

Ukrainians
Seek Return
Of Property

Increased support for “Canadian
Ukrainians in their campaign for
legalization oof the Ukrainian
Labor-Farmer Temple Association
and restoration of their properties
throughout Canada was seen this
week as widely diversified inter-
ests discussed the injustice of gov-
ernment seizure of the organiza-
tion’s hall and the disposal of these
properties at low prices to pro-
fascist Ukrainian organizations.

Surrey municipal council this
week received a speaker on be-
half of the Ukrainians’ campaign,

Labor Candidat
To Run In Skee

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.—United action on the paz
people’s organizations in the Skeena riding to elect
federal house seemed in the making thi
as several organizations indicated their full support of
vention being called by the Central Labor Council,

man’s Co-op, Housewives
and other groups.
The meeting will take ~™
the Deep Sea Fishermer §
located in the basement &
New Royal Hotel in Pri
pert, on Sunday, June 1
p-m. Three delegates are
from each organization.
The powerful Boilermal
eal No. 4 in Prince Ru;
appointed a committee o
draw up a suggested plat
submission, and the m
(CCL) have nominated th
gates. :
The plan to put a truly i
didate in the House at CF
meeting widespread pop —
port throughout the ridin §
Unionists have learned
of the roots of their prol
at Ottawa, where the fei
partment of labor and o
partments give them
around.
A labor member will bi ;
spot to make firm rep }
tions on behalf of his : ¥
ents, to demand action 9)
inaction on the floor of th
He will also be able to ~
bor’s demands for a dom
bor code, should such b
porated in the platform,
teeing the worker’s right
ganize and bargain coi
through unions of the
choice.
Thousands of workers
Skeena riding have ney
The result has been that t
had no voice at Ottawa. ‘
s0n, an industrialist, has
member for Skeena fi
years.

There is no question
the people’s vote, fully :
Will decisively end this
affairs.

eee
BACK —
THE ATTAC

K

John Chitrenky, and moved sup-
port of a resolution asking for
the return of all ULFTA proper-
ties.

In Vancouver, the Beacon
Theater was packed to capacity
last week to hear speakers on be-
half of the ULEFTA and to endorse
the resolution. William Stewart,
Boilermakers’ president, speaking
in support of the resolution, stated
that an all-out war effort can be
waged only when the Canadian
people themselyés are free. He
urged, however, that the Ukrain-
jan people “withhold not one inch
in their all-out war effort.”

Vancouver city fathers, however,
remained aloof, deciding to take
no action in the matter for fear
of “inviting trouble,” to quote Al-
derman G. C. Miller. Dark, lurk-
ing mysteries were hinted in Al-
derman Corey’s evasive stand: “We
don’t know all the reasons the gov-
ernment had for taking over the
property. If we had access to the

secret files it might be different.”

VICTOR
BOND!

45 East Hastings Si
Vancouver, B.C