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Contract
Violation

Probed.

The International Wood-
workers of America, B.C. Dis-
trict Ceuneil, is conducting an
investigation into apparent
violations of its agreement
with Industrial Timber Mills
at Cowichan Lake, where 23

employees were laid off by
the company and later rehired
after the union protested to Se-
lective Service; it was stated this
week by TWA District President
Harold J. Pritchett.

The men, all members of con-
struction and maintenance crews,
were discharged by the company
early in the week. One of the
men fired had 11 years seniority.
Immediate protest by the union
to Seleetive Service brought an
order for their reinstatement,
and the company was told to
comply with regulations in fu-
ture. All the workers were mem-
bers of the TWA.

Reason for the layoff as given
by the company was the men’s

refusal to work overtime without

premium: pay, as provided for by

last year’s ruling of the Board of -

Industrial Relations. They were
told that they could continue on
the job if they would forego the
overtime: rate.

Union officials claim the com-
pany has violated the recently-
signed union agreement by its ac-
tion. The agreement provides for
no discrimination against union
membership, seniority rights, and
payment of time and a half for
overtime. :

The IWA is continuing its in-
vestigation into the occurence.

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One of the six American and
British industrialists indicted on
charges of conspiring with a
German chemical trust to di-
vide the world into exclusive
marketing areas for chemicals
and munitions. DuPont is chair
man of the board of E. I. du-
Pont deNemours and Go., also
a defendant in the action
brought by the U.S. Justice De-
partment.

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as
Tim Buck
A. A. Macteod, and a legislative

member in Manitoba, William
eardash,” McKean said.

“In addition, the LPP has a
whole number of representatives
on civic and municipal councils
and boards across the Dominion,
and is a recognized-foree in the
political life of Canada’s labor
movement. The CBC’s reason for
barring Tim Buck from the air
is just another example of the
governments jeactionary stand
against labor and its representa-
tives.”

The Canadian Press report on
the CBC’s action, dated from Of-
tawa, termed Buck the “self-
styled leader” of the party. The
Same news service in August of
last year reported his election to
that position by unanimous vote
of the 500 delegates attending the
LPP’s constituent convention ine
Toronto.

It is expected that Buck will
lodge an immediate protest with
the CBE over its action.

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SPEAKERS ®

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Lenin
Memorial Meeting

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 8 p.m.

HAROLD J. PRITCHETT
President, IWA 3

@ TOM McEWEN
Provincial Organizer, LPP

JOHN GOSS, Directing Musical Program

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Continued from Page One

Real Estate
Prices Soaring

Temper of the meeting was 11-
dicated in the opening remarks
of President Birt Showler. =

“This legislation is vicous and
comparable to that of Germany,
he said. “I can say this, that if
the government doesn't do some-
thing about it, the Trades and
Labor Congress will. We are not
going to take this lying down.

That this opinion was held by
every delegate present was shown
in the unanimous standing vote
which approved the resolution on
the subject introduced by the
council executive. The resolution
charged that the new wage order
“reflects a further intensification
of an anti-labor attitude in offi-
cial government circles that has
stood so long in the way of im-
plementation of a constructive la-
bor policy,” declared that labor
viewed with alarm the “mmereas-
ing influence of big financial in-
terests’ as reflected in the num-
erous orders-in-council adversely
affecting the workers of Canada,
and demanded an immediate with-
drawal of the new order.

As an additional action, dele-
gates voted to give President Ben-
gough of the Trades and Labor
Gongress “full power to make rep-
resentations on behalf of the
council and to support him in any
action he may recommend _us to
follow.”

Discussion on the resolution
saw delegate after delegate take
the floor, while five members of
parliament, among them G. G.
McGeer, Howard Green, FIt-Lt.
James Sinclair, George Cruick-
shank and Angus MaelInnis, who
had been invited to attend the
meeting, sat on the speakers’
Gais and heard labor express its
opinion of goyernment by order-
in-council.

“The government has forced
this on us,” said Charles Stewart
of .. the Street Railwaymen’s
Union. “If strike action is needed
to drive it from the statute books,
then we should support it.”

“We have withdrawn our NOo-
strike pledge until such time as
the government acts on the mat
ter,” said J. N. Ross of the Elec-
trical Workers Union.

Ronald Macaulay of the Sheet

Wetal Workers believed the reso-

Jution proposed by council exec-

utive “does not go far enough.”

“myery trades eouncil across:
Canada should form committees
to fight this order tooth and nail,
he said. ate

“The vicious order-in-council 1s
not going to stabilize labor and
management relations,” said C.
E. Herrett of the Barbers’ Union.
“When the government tries to
enforce it you will see strikes
from one end of Ganada to the
other. : :

With a pointed look at the Lib-
eral M.P.’s on the platform, Dele-
eate Sam Shearer of the Rail-
way Carmen, declared labor
should “judge every M.P. by his
stand on this vicious order.

“Our union has decided to 1g-
nore it,’ he said. “We could not
reopen our agreement with the
railway companies, as we jntend,
3¢ we did not ignore it.”

All members of parliament
present were practically unani-
mous in their opposition to the
order. Both Angus MacInnis and
James Sinclair stated their in-
tention of speaking against if on
the House of Commons floor.

But “Gerry” McGeer brought a
chorus of boos from delegates by
a typical demagogic speech in
which he referred to his “con-
sistent support of labor’—he con-
veniently ignored his vicious
smashing of the 1935 longshore
strike with terror and police bul-
lets—and made an uncalled-for
attack on the Soviet Union.

Closing the discussion, Council
Secretary R. K. Gervin assured -
delegates that all ways and means
of fighting P.C. 9384 would be
canvassed.

“The main thing is to stand
together and fight,” he said.

Polish Consul Opens
Anti-Soviet Campaign

TORONTO, Ont.—Official representatives and “friends”
of the Polish emigre government are busily at work in
Canada in an effort to disrupt United Nations unity. A focal
point in this activity was the visit to Toronto by Tadeauz

Brzezinski, consul-general in the
Dominion for the Polish junta in
London. While the Red Army
was smashing through the Nazi

defences on the HEastern front,
Brzezinski set up a hue and cry
against the Soviet Union, with
veiled insinuations directed.
against the other great powers in
the United Nations alliance. Hint=
ing darkly about some mysterious
“pressure” on Canadian news-
papers on the question, he tried
te depiet a return to Munich in
the present stage of the war. He
even went so far as to hint at new
wars and disasters if the United
Nations hewed to their present
course.

Significantly, his remarks were
carried only in the Toronto Tele-
gram, in whose columns every
false issue is eagerly seized on if
it can be used in the attempt to
drive a wedge into the alliance
with the USSR.

Rumors have seeped out that
Brzezinski is trying to line up
support for his emigre govern-
ment among prominent person-
ages, That is said to have been
one of his reasons for coming to
Toronto, and the story was afoot
that he had had an interview
with a well-known political lead-
er while here.

Another indication of what re-
actiopary little Polish cliques are
up te came from Kingston, where.
it was reported, the Polish Na-

. tional Union was making efforts

to arrange a showing of a film
that, at this precise moment,
sought to stir-.up animosity
against the USSR by picturing
the Polish-Soviet hostilities of
1920. The Polish National Union
is considered to be even more to
the right than the emigre gov-
ernment.

It was reliably reported that
the film has already been shown
in private screenings elsewhere.

-about $2000.

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Labor

only a fraction of the p
asked by the real estate ¢
pany. To further protect
company, loans are only n
up to half of the appraised y
Thus they insure being ab)
resell the house for more thai
value of the loan. So the {
must raise the balance of the
chase price with little hop
getting his money back if i
forced to sell. eee
Real estate companies are’
ing adyantage of the war
shortage of houses to raise p:
out of all proportion to the?
value of the property. The:
estate firm may ask $6000 ¢)
house valued by the mort:
company at $3500, for which
owner can only obtain a ioe
He must ther
personally raise the rema
$4000. - 1
These homeowners, what
the release of materials and |
for necessary home construc
face a sharp drop in the vali
the purchase price of their |.
erty. It is estimated that w.
two years the values will
dropped until the $6000 figu
approximately $3500 to $400
the owner cannot expect to ri
more than a fraction of his —
inal investment if he ts fore ;
sell out through unemploy
or illness. Pu
In two years his original i |
ment of $4000 plus mortgage
ments may shrink to a mere!
The rest has vanished intc
well-lined pockets of the re
tate and mortgage. sharks.
Ss is] Ss
These terms are in sharp
trast to government mortgag
tained through the Na
Housing Act. In an attem
help those who wish to own
own home the government |
much more generous assis’ |
Loans represent 70 to 80 pr
of the value of the house iz
trast to the 50 to 60 perce
fered by the private comp
Interest rates are lower,
loans are more likely to be
on need than ability to pay.
The vested interests str
maintain their strangle-ho
home construction through .
ces with business interest:
civie government. Under
direction the Town Plz
Commission is organized te
teet real estate values rathe
for the best interests of the
munity. Logically the prot
of their interests leads to ~
race discrimination. They |
ganged together to prever-
Chinese, East Indian, and —
citizens from settling fre
the so-called “better” dist
The one thing these —
fear is an adequate gover |
program for low cost h
coupled with a ceiling o1
estate prices. These two ~
together would put an ef
crimp in the present orgy +
estate buying and selling,
super-profits to the big com:
and outright robbery of J
ands of workers and &
families.
To this end, the deme §
erganized labor and othe}
gressive sroups for a ech
hensive housing program 1}
r

eome of extreme importan™
realization will, however, ¢
the full backing of the |
people in every city and p
in the country.

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John Stant«

Barrister, Solicitor, No

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