TLC Gains 18,000 Memb

Continued

Showler Named
Head Of Couneil

Keeping pace with a national rate of trade union increase
that has boosted membership from 300,000 to 600,000 since
1940, unions affiliated with the Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council have extended their membership by 18,000 in the last
12 months, Council delegates were informed. #

Since June of last year, 13 new; members now on the books—and
local unions have joined the coun-| that was during the close of World
cil, five of these since January of | War L
1943; CG. Herrett, chairman of This week’s meeting saw the an-
the organizing committee, an-| nual election of officers for the
nounced to applauding delegates.) next term, with Bert Showler, sec-

At present, he said, further appli-
cations are being consdered, among

them one from the Chilliwack lo-
cal of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners.
Old-timers on the council can
recall that at only oné other period
Since the Trades and Labor Coun-
cil was first organized on Decem-
ber 5, 1889, had the council ap-
proached the number of affiliated

Gains Reported
By Brotherhood

“Plant committees of Native In-
dians are now functioning in every
cannery on the coast,” reported
Andy Paull, Native Brotherhood
pusiness agent this week

On Tuesday, Paull and Assu vis-
ited the Steveston plant of Imperi-
al Canneries, and in a few hours
125 Indian women workers — the
entire number employed there at
this time—became Native Broth-
erhood members. A plant commit-
tee was set up to operate under
the recent agreenient signed by the
Brotherhood and Salmon Canners’
Operating Committee.

“Our aim is maximum and
smooth production,” stated Paull.
“Continuous production of food is
a prime necessity at the present
time, and Native Brotherhood
members are determined to do
their share in winning the war.”

retary of the ‘Teamsters’ Joint
Council, elected by acclamation te
his second term as preseident of
the council. Showler, who has been
business agent of the Milk Sales-
men’s Union since 1919, is a mem-
ber of the Regional War Labor
Board and also serves on the ad-
visory committee of National Se-
lective Service.

G. Gerrard of the Projectionists’
Union was elected vice-president,
and C. K. Gervin, acting secretary-
treasurer for the past period, was
elected to the post for the coming
year. Bill Burgess of the UFFU
was elected warden, Bob McDon-
ald, Gasworkers’ union delegate,
statistician.

Ways and means chairman is C.
E. Herrett of the Barbers’ Union,
legislative committee chairman R. |

while Tom Parkin of the Aeronau-
tical Mechanics Lodge 756 was

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elected as chairman of the press
i committee and Ernie Holmes, bak-
| ery salesmen, heads the grievance
| committee.

Protests of delegates about the
“ynreasonable” amount of froth on
beer, referred to the Hotelkeepers’
Association president, will be taken
|up before the executive of the
| hotelmen, delegates were advised.

A motion was approved calling
for the matter to be referred to
the inspector of weights and meas-
lures. if no action is forthcoming
from the hotelkeepers.

Ernie Holmes, delegate of the
bakery salesmen, reported a fay-
| orable decision of the Regional
| War Labor Board granting an ad-
justment of $2.40 a week to sales-
men, retroactive to June 1

Typographical Union delegates
drew council’s attention to the cam-
paign now being conducted by the
international union against Time
and Life.

Retails Clerks’ delegate reported
F. W. Woolworth in Victoria had
refused to sign an agreement un-
less the maintenance of member-
ship clause is deleted. The case
will go to arbitration. The manage-
ment hopes to find a loophole in
the ICA Act that will permit them
to throw out this clause, Harold
Box charged.

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Herbert C. Pell, who will act
for President Roosevelt to
tabulate Axis crimes against
civilian populations.

Boilermakers
Ask Pay Boost

Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuild-
ers Union, Local No. 1, is asking
increases in wages for women em-
ployed as plate markers in the
north and south yards of Burrard
Drydock Co. The request was made
at a union-management labor con-
ference on Tuesday.

Markers’ work has in the past
been done by boys, and prevailing
rate is 45 cents per hour. Women
are also employed as fitters’ help-
ers, electricians’ helpers, and bolt-
ers-up at 67 cents an hour, which is

through the gates leading to the
playing field, jammed their way
around the platform out near the
pitcher's mound, and stood almost
motionless in the darkness for an-
other 45 minutes or so while Tim
Buck answered several important
questions, questions which could
only be read by the light of
matches. Meanwhile scarcely a
person left the park, and only af-
ter the speaker appealed for an
end to the meeting did they break
ranks and file out through the
exits.

What was the audience’s reaction
to Buck's appeal for membership
for the new party? ‘The scores of
ushers who covered every section
of ithe stands and grounds had dis-
tributed application blanks for
membership early in the meeting.
Before the evening was out many
of them had whole sheafs of the
small printed application forms in
their hands. When the applications
were exhausted, names were hand-
ed in on sheets of paper torn from
notebooks. And they came from
all sides—from young shipyard
workers, loggers, steelworkers, fish-
ermen, middle-aged trade unionists,
elderly women. One applicant ask-
for extra blanks so that she could
“hand them out among her friends
and neighbors.”

The collection, which will aid in
financing the new party and send-
ing delegates to the national con-
stituent convention in Toronto on

the rate the markers are asking.

August 21, was equally noteworthy.

Overtime Pa
For Logging

in the legging industry. Some 12,-
000 loggers will be affected.

The overtime ruling came as a
result of representations by the
IWA before the Board of Industral
Relations seeking to extend the
overtime pay order put into effect
over two weeks ago for sawmills.
Box factories and detail woodwork-
ing plants are also included in
this week’s ruling.

Only exceptions to the order are
those applying to cookhouse em-
ployees, night watchman, and men
operating speeders for transport-
ing crews and supplies.

Of particular significance is the
inclusion of trainmen and donkey
operators. For years it has been

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the accepted practice that these
categories work a 10-hour day at
straight time, and in many cases
the working day stretched to as
long as 12 and 14 hours. Removal
of this discriminatory practice
was stressed recently by IWA
Vice-President Mark Mosher
when he appeared before the in-
dustrial relations board along
with other union spokesmen.
“The overtime provisions an-
nounced this week are a great step
forward,” Nigel Morgan, interna-
tional board member for the union,
told The Peaple.
“The labor department is to be
commended for the excellent lead
they have given on this question.
We feel, however, that similar pro-
vision should be made for categor-
jes excluded in the order, in par-
ticular, cookhouse employees.
There the split shift creates a prob-

Climaxing a long and persistent campaign by the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America, the provincial department of
labor announced this week an order establishing overtime rates
of pay for all hours worked over the regular eight-hour day

y Ordered
Industry

atively the poorest paid in the in-
dustry.”
Morgan said the union intends
to make further representations on
those categories excluded with a
view to haying the industry entire-
ly covered by the premium pay
ruling.

$1,700, many hundre
twenty, ten, five
bills. Donations from
the stands alone totall |
$200, The money pc
members of the
Union, Dock and Skip
ers, Machinists, Steelw
nautical. Chairman
made only one brief
start of the collect
on the money came in
form too fast to be full

edged.
What did the meeting ~
lt was more than jus! j
mass rally. You could se
the importance of the
You could see they wer
ing the opportunity to o
clare- their politcal vi |
more after three year ©
forced silence. ;
The occasion was hi
opening gun of a cal
launch a new party 0
wing in British Columi-
the leadership of C™
whom they knew had bei ©
standing leaders in lak
union and political siru
ing the past 15 years. :
The meeting provided -
tus for the organization —

ada, with a membersh
words of Tim Buck

Canadians pledged to

complete victory in thr
for a post-war policy

friendship between the
Canada, the USSR and:
nations, a win-the-war
policy that will maintai
tional income of Can

that will guarantee job:
paid today for every mia:
from the army.”
Organization of the ©
movement will be a bic
bringing these thine
Buck declared, and if
prevent Canada from
to the days of 1939, —

to an extension of ¢
and toe that Socialist br
of man that we are ai
to achieve.”

Fellow-Canadians:

portant, a party that holds to

are the policies which correspon
people in winning the peace, and building the kind of @
tomorrow that we fight for today.

In our recent Initiative Conference on July 17. to laun-
a party in British Columbia, an Initiative Committee was
to direct this work. We are extending a cordial invitation —

ATTENTION! :

Under the initiative and leadership of Mr. Tim Buck, < |
wide effort has been launched to form a new political j ;
Canadians, a party that first and foremost will work for 4%
mum of unity in our country to carry the war against Hit
speedy and successful conclusion. Sec ndly,
the idea

and no 1
at Communist
d with the needs of the €

next few months—even ¥

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‘a new party of Communi }

present level; and a p
rehabilitation and ree |

people can really loo! —

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worker, farmer, professional or middle-class citizen—wh
with us that such a party is needed for the betterment of

a party that will achieve the enactment of policies leading —
victory in the war, and prosperity in the peace, to JOI &
PARTY NOW.

Tom McEwen, Chairman,
Fergus McKean, Secretary,
PROVINCIAL INITIATIVE
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ADDRESS

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