[ABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY 5 Cents s IL. No. 20. = Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, May 22, 1943 A Convincing Trium ; g i p HE workers of Boeing Aircraft of Canada have won | their rest periods! That’s the important fact emerg- if out of the return of Aeronautical Union delegates fim Ottawa and this week’s negotiations with the Boeing smagement. Government spokesmen and the manage- pnt prefer to call them “smoke periods,” in which the trkers will stop work twice a day for ten minutes to ive a smoke or just relax. Calling them “smoke periods” fof course, just an attempt to save face. The essential it is that the principle of rest periods as a means of isting production are recognized, and the union has won s:onvincing victory. ' = Now the full stupidity of the government’s action in sing the plants becomes apparent. In order to show » workers “who’s running this country’ Ralph Bell and fo. ©. D. Howe*shut down a vital war industry for five Ws over a dispute which they later recognize as war- ited. Over the protests of the workers, who took the ition of maintaining production at all costs, and who intained that rest periods actually boosted production, i ph Bell revokes the rest periods in effect at CP Airlines )| extends that ruling to cover the Boeing plants. Two seks later, after the locked-out workers have shown their d faith by returning to work, these same government * kesmen recognize the justice of the union demands by. e ceding what should have been recognized before the ute was forced to a head. ‘Nothing could serve to reveal more clearly the con- son twice-confounded that prevails among Ottawa of- fels. Certainly it emphasizes the need for a drastic -<€-up in personnel, particularly the replacement of 4 individuals as Ralph Bell, plus the immediate enact- at of federal labor legislation that will settle all such gutes by arbitration before they can hinder the war wrt. ‘bor " for the same purpose. National War Labor Board at ing federal labor regulations by rolling up a campaign backed by every provincial trade union and central labor council in the coun- try. When the NWLB hearings were first announced several weeks ago, it was thought the inquiry was Simply an invitation to labor to present its proposals on labor re- lations. Since then it has become clear that the hearings have de- veloped into a contest between the labor movement, which is at- tempting to prove the need for a thorough overhaul of existing la- legislation and methods of dealing with labor disputes, and the employing groups, who are at- tempting to prevent at all costs changes that will benefit the work- ers’ interests and therefore the war effort. Already the CMA representa- tives at the inquiry have at- tacked the unions and are direct- ing & smear campaign against what they term “labor’s selfish demands for higher wages at the expense of the war effort.” A number of other powerful anti- labor lobbies are now in Ottawa As a result union leaders throughout the country were speed- Unions Press For National Labor Code Big CREA. Lobby |NA Editor Menaces Inquiry A straight fight between organized labor and employing interests represented by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Associ- ation and the Canadian Chambers of Commerce seemed to be looming this week around the hearings being conducted by the Ottawa, and labor prepared to meet the threat to its demands for a complete revision of exist- for presentation to the inquiry Which now appears heading for a decisive struggle that will have far-reaching effects. Meantime the hearings stood ad- journed this week until May 25. Prior to adjournment the board members — Mr. Justice MeTacue, L. Lalonde and J. L. Cohen, labor representative — received briefs from the three main trade union eenters, the Standard Railway or- ganizations, International Associ- ation of Machinists, and the CCF national council. Angus MacInnis, CGE-MP for Vancouver Hast, told the Board on behalf of the national council that “harmonious relations be- tween the employers and worl- ers are not only necessary be- Cause of the urgent war needs of the present, but equally neces- Sary because of reorganization and readjustment which will eon- front us after the war is ended.” MacInnis submitted a CCE five- point brief urging compulsory col- lective bargaining, Provision of ef- ficient arbitration Machinery, ex- clusion of company “unions,” and an authoritative War Labor Board setup. In all submissions to date, pro- ing the work of preparing briefs See LABOR CODE — Page 8 HSSIE STOREY, co-editor of J New Advance Magazine, in Vaneouver this week to address the first province-wide convention cf the Labor Youth Federation. Miss Storey is touring Canada from coast to coast, speaking at union meetings, church organizations and YWCA groups on the important role New Advance ean play in ral- lying Canadian Youth in the fight against fascism. While in Van- couver she will also address Rus- Sian and Scandinavian youth €roups, and will be a guest at cele- brations of the Hast Indians in Sikh Temple here, where she will attend a meeting of Hast Indian Youth Association. ilermakers Organizing ist ‘Open Shop’ Yard “fight to the finish for closed shop agreements as the only. > of preserving harmony in the shipyards” went into the lround late this week after a conference between a ne- ing committee from Boilermakers Union Local No. 1 and S Of West Coast Shipbuild- explained the necessity for closed land Hamilton Bridge Wes- Shop conditions. While future ne- itd; which ended in a dead-| gotiations are unsettled, the union 4 : will continue with the organizing (. Boilermakers Union exec- | drive in both yards where well over imembers came assurances | 50 percent of the men have joined mployees in the two com-| up. ; | would carry on the battle The Boilermakers Union, which ‘the most important factor] a few months ago, under faulty ide union democracy, the] leadership, was one of the weakest shop” is won. Unions in the yards, has become | company maintaining an] one of the best under the leader- hop can’t be sincere in its| ship of the new executive. tion of a union when it “In the past month alone, 3,700 agree to make the closed| new members have joined up,” ‘Sal and binding