Rage 2 — Saturday, January 27, 1945

4 January 12 and January 31
4 follows: Hastings Hast, $25;
i) Fernie, $75; Red Lake,

| Square,

nar A. Abbors,
view Club $70; a friend, $3;
| Northlands, B.C., $7 (personal

to $16,172.56.

ing work.
clubs are d

which they netted $60.

about the other clubs in

happening?

Greater Wancouver Glubs

they have raised an emergency

are entering the most decisive
This is, therefore, a mo

town clubs,
for. P.A.,
by

=

eate books in circulation ?
people must be reached.

[PP Financial Campaign

TIM BUCK BIRTHDAY OFFENSIVE

Receipts in the short-term drive to raise $3,500 between
since we reported last week are as
; Lake Cowichan, $24; Vernon, $23.75;
$15; South Vancouver, $20.20; Victory
$98.65; a friend, $50; John Czyborak, $5; Lettish Work-
ers’ Club, $7; Mathilde S. Simonds, $5; C. B. Darwin, $10; Gun-
$10; Claude Donald, $2; West End, $38; Grand-

i South Vancouver) $43.11; Jack Newman $10; S.
bringing, the total since Jan. 12 to $1006.32, and our grand total

We have reached just 29 percent of our short-term quota,
and more than half the time is
It can be done! OI Bill has already $150.11 to his credit.

Such individuals as Harold Pritchett,
Dugenes, John Senkiw and Bill Turner haye done outstand-
Where proper organizational steps were taken
oing excellent work collectively. Grandview had
an excellent Tim Buck Birthday
Fairview, West End and Hastings
East have highly promising socials in preparation.
Burrard constituency? What about
East End, Georgia, South Hill, North Van, North Burnaby? .
Will they please break the silence and let us know what’s

their quotas deserve double credit.

standing this undertaking, most
job of raising the election quota, conscious of the fact that we

ost urgent appeal to all out-of-
who were not asked to carry an extra burden
to oyer-subscribe the quotas they promised to fill
Jan. 31 so that we can still go over the top.

Club Election Committees are reminded to:
Continually seek out new sources of support through dis-
eussions with friends of the party, followed up by personal
contact as quickly as possible.

Take up with party members and friends the question of one
day’s pay for the election fund where this has not been done.
Complete collections from, keep a careful record of, and con-
tinually promote the circulation of penny-a-day tins.

Pay special attention to sources of small donations as well
as large. Are the small donation cards as well as the certifi-

Every donation, however
which represents a discussion with a neighbor or work-mate
on our jobs and security policy for the postwar, is a signifi-
cant contribution to our election work.

L. Novikoff, $10; Mike Bozzer,
-$5, collection $2); Ol’ Bill (for
Lisogor, $10;

one.

Nick Kopatic, George

Dinner a few nights ago at

What

who are coming through with
Within the last ten days
fund of $1800 for P.A. Notwith-
of them are buckling down to the

stage of election preparations.

The largest possible number of
small,

For regional (which in Canada
also means National) director the
choice at the time of writing
appears to be between the pres-
ent incumbent C. H. Millard, who
has never been elected by the
steelworkers to this or any other
position, and George MacNeil,
the trusted and honored presi-
dent of the oldest and one of
the largest steel locals in Can-
ada.

Having ben closely associated
with MacNeil since the CIO first
came to Canada, the writer be-
lieves it important that those
who will yote in this election
should be at least as well ac-
quainted with the man and his
work as such an article can make
them.

LONG ACTIVE

No neweomer to the labor
movement, MacNeil, although
quite young was active as: far

Poultrymen Hold

Vancouver Labor Council

Asks Turner’

s Removal

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) at its regular meeting

this week unanimously called

on United Steelworkers of

America, Local 2951, to replace Arthur Turner, CCF-ML A.
as its Council delegate because of statements against the

Gouncil’s no-strike policy made
ever CJOR on the program
“Town Meeting of the Air.”

Move to table the resolution,
made by delegate N. E. Sadler,
was defeated after sharp excep-
tion was taken by delegates to
Sadler’s remarks in making the
motion attacking the council ex-
ecutive. Delegates demanded
that he retract his insult to the
_executive, which he referred to
as a “group . . . not worthy of
membership in this Council,” or

leave the meeting. Sadler then
left the meeting.

Speaking in support of the ex-
-eeutive resolution, Harold Prit-
‘chett stressed that the great ma-
jority of organized labor, espe-
cially the international unions
affiliated to the CCL, had
pledged the no-strike policy and
that the vote in the VLG on the
pledge was overwhelmingly in
favor. He charged that Turner’s
statements had supported strike
action and that he had
even stated that the result of
this would stop the war “on this
side anyway.” Pritchett con-
cluded: “This is a detriment: to
the war effort, to the armed
forces and the labor movement
generally.”

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Pointing out that it was not
| the fault of the council that Tur-

jner and other CCFers had left

|the meeting after the elections
-were held after being warned by
the chair that important business
was coming up, Harvey Murphy
Said that it indicated that “this
group comes just to vote, not to
attend to the business of the
council.” He sharply criticized
Turner’s remarks on the radio
and said the delegates have the
right to say they do not wish “to
associate with such a man until
he makes his position clear.”

ELECTIONS

In the annual elections, which
occupied most of the evening, BH.
EK. leary was elected to ‘the
council presidency for his third
consecutive term. Ernie Dals-
kogz was elected vice-president,
and John Turner was re-elected
secretary. Committee mem-
bers are as follows: Legislative:
Nigel Morgan, Malcolm McLeod,
George Brown, Lawrence Ander-
son, Austin Smith; Organization-
al: Mike Lueas, Roy Palmer,
Coray Campbell, Charles Caron,
Fred MeNeil; Credentials: W. J.
Robson, Adolph Pothorne, John
Frame; Grievance: Stan Wool-
gar, C. E. Render, S. G. Constan-
tine, William Charbonneau, Ed
Simpson.

as

oe

Annual Elections

HANEY. — At the annual
meeting of the Pacific Coast
Poultry Broducers Association
which was held last week,
Rk. L. Hamilton was re-
elected as president, Mrs. F.
Thompson re-elected secretary-
treasurer, and C. Bennetson, vice-
president. The executive com-
mittee will be Peter Bell, A.
Squire, H. Dean and GCG. Lister.
Delegates to the central commit-

tee will be Councillor W. H.
Ansell, Peter Bell, and GC. Joiner.
Representatives to other or-

ganizations are Board of Trade,
R. LL. Hamilton; rehabilitation
committee, Mrs. E. Squire: mu-
nicipal council, W. H. Ansell.

The annual meeting of the
centval executive will be held
on Wednesday, February 21 at

the Russell Hotel at New West-
minster. All poultrymen are
urged to attend this important
meeting. Officers of the central
committee will be elected at this

meeting. Proposed amendments
to the present bylaws will be
voted on.

Celebrating the “Adoption of
Odessa” members of the Gana-
dian Ukrainian Association held
a free dance and social in the
Orange Hall at Haney.

The necessity for helping Rus-
Sia in this way was explained
to the gathering by one of the
members. Two hundred children
of Soviet fliers who. have been
killed in battle are being cared

for in Odessa in a home main-
tained by airmen of the Givil
Air Fleet.

Seven hundred Russian actors
lave been decorated during the
past year for their work in
front line. theatres. In this
period 95,000. concerts and plays

have been staged before army
and navy units with 15,000
artists participating. A collec-

tion taken amounted to $73.50.

A Personal Appeal by

GEORGE McEACHERN

MacNeil- Experienced Labor Lead
Merits Steelworkers’ Support

(Pormer Leader of Sydney, N.S., Steelworkers.)
The steel union elections which take place next month (February) offer the fir
portunity in the over eight years of the union’s existence fi
| voice in the selection of their district and regional officers.

or the membership to h

back as the 1923 steelworkers’
Strike in Sydney, N.S. However,
it Was with the formation of the
CIO steelworkers’ union on the
Sydney plant in 1936 that his
first opportunity for leadership
presented itself. Those few of
us who undertook the job of or-
ganizing the industry at that
time sought out any and all who
might help in the task. As was
to be expected, many fell by the
wayside but there were others
who, like MacNeil, rose to the
occasion and by their self-sacri-
ficing struggle on behalf of their
workmates were accepted as
leaders and placed in responsible
positions by those for whom they
fought.

TRUST JUSTIFIED

In MacNeil’s case, the trust of
the workers has been fully justi-
fied. In his first position as chair-
man of the grievance committee
he was not long in organizing
his department, which for years
kad been notoriously weak, into
the most solid, union conscious
section of the plant.

Such is the regard in which
ke is held by those with whom
he is daily asociated that, al-
though he served several terms
as treasurer and for the past
three years has been president
of his local, they still insist that
he continue as chairman of the

grievance committee. That, in
itself, should be testimonial
enough.

THE LOGICAL LEADER
His practical knowledge of the

steel industry, gained from over
a quarter of a century as a steel
worker both in Canada and the
United States taken -in conjunc-
tion with his honesty, fearless-
ness and experience qualifies
George MacNeil as the logical
leader of the Canadian Steel-
workers in both planning for the
postwar-and aiding to implement
such plans in the interests of the
workers.

There are big issues at stake
for the workers in this election.
On the one hand we have the
present Canadian leadership of
the United Steelworkers of Am-
erica concerned more with poli-
tical maneouvers and schemings
than with active all-out support
of the anti-fascist war. On the
other, we have a worker who has
demonstrated more than once
both by his work in the labor
movement and by his personal
actions, his realistic attitude to
the war and those who direct our
struggle.

SECONDARY
CONSIDERATION

Mr. Millard chooses to believe
that trade unions are secondary
considerations in the betterment
ef the conditions of the people
and serve their best purpose as
adjunets to the political party of
which he is a leader.

MacNeil believes that trade
unions are the basic organiza-

tions of the working class and
have a definite, independent

role to play in shaping
destiny of the nation.

The present director sub:
to the theory that chaos,
ployment, breadlines, will
the war. Ss

; MacNeil, on the other

believes with president

Murray that it is not at
cessary to return to chao
that postwar prosperity ¢
achieved if the trade unior
other progressive people ai
ganizations cooperate to a
it. In spite of all this, thi
porters of MacNeil will un:
edly have. a big job on
hands to elect him. It wot
naive for anyone to. believi
the two dozen or more ¢
izers, field men, etc., who, ir
cases owe their jobs to Mi
partisan selection, will be
sive. In fact the writer

formed by letters from the
times that at least one o
staff men has been active

fluencinge some of the sm:
cals te nominate Millard.
it is unfair for men on the
roll of the workers and wit
time and funds to travel -
sections of the country

there are USA locals to take
action cannot be €xpected {
ter them. Tf this is wides;
then the locals must pi
against such Tammany tac

In any ease, the worke
every local union who wa
see their organization in GC:
follow the fruitful policie
their brothers across the
should show an active in’
in the election and work fc
election of George MacNe
National Director.

Women Demar
Minimum Wag

Calling for organized
fort on the basis of confic
and unity, and declaring |
“if we permitted pesse
to congeal. inte defeatism,
would indeed: be lost.” Mir |
Cooper, representing LPP |
men’s Council, made a sti
contribution to deliberation
the Wancouver Women’s Si
for Citizenship conference |
women’s employment outloo |
the Hotel Vancouver last wi

With 200 attending, inelu
large trade union delegation
conference passed several j
tical resolutions on the prol|
These included the demand]
2 women’s minimum wage oi
‘an hour, Department of |
women’s bureau and support
public ownership of power.

Kayla Culhane was the |
speaker on Jlabor’s perspec f
for postwar employment. Of
who contributed capably to
discussion were Alice Ff
IWA, and Margaret Donalt
the WEA. : 5