ACIFIC ADVOCATE PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS , No. 20° 5 Cents " VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1945 hermen lerge in 1e Union ish Columbia's fishing sty — the uniting of all mnen and cannery work-— te one organization—was id this week with estab- int of the United Fisher- 4d Allied Workers’ Union. eetine in its first constitu- convention m Vancouver. © new all-inclusive union, combines the former Uni- "shermen’s Federal Union, 714. and the Fish Cannery, Bion Plant and Allied Work- jon, Lieeal 89, brings some weanized fishermen and yorkers into one powerful 1 body for the first time Plone history of fishing on sifie Coast. The UFAWU lave jurisdiction over all es in B.G’s. third largest — ccupation, including fish- Sand tendermen, and those Bd in fish canneries. reduc- ants. fish cold storages, ts. fish camps, fresh fish’ ‘or any other occupation ed with the fishing indus- final acts which prepared y for the historic merger arly this week. sunday the Fish Cannery eduction Plant Workers’ met in its fourth annual ion, received and ap- the reports of officers Cumittees. then voted una- ly in favor of a resolution Ugamation, then adjourn- one day prepared to re- le at the joint convention new union which opened y. Monday the United eaen’s Union, meeting in Pnth annual gathering took 4 steps. : Mamalgamation is the re- ' industry-wide discussion Fs the past two years and S the long-obvious need adustrial union setup. The U, while affiliated -with iE Trades and Labor Con- Initiates Campaign For Amendments To Federal Labor Legislation Beginning March 15 the Labor- Progressive Party is launching a nation- wide campaign for one million signatures of trade unionists and others in support of needed amendments to Orders-in-Council PC 1003 and PC 9384. The objective set by the British Columbia LPP is 150,000 signatures in support of these amendments which will give a guarantee of trade union se- Delegates to the World Trade Union Conference in London took time to cross the channel to study conditions on the Western front. center two of the delegates are seen here, mess. From left to right are: Nigel Morgan, Vancouver: J. A. Whitebone, St. John, N_B., and Lt —Col. After visiting a Canadian army leave with senior officers, having tea at a headquarters Lt.-Col. ©. P. Gilday, Montreal: K. H. Brown, Montreal. It also means that the Canol pipeline and refinery, costing over $55,000,000 are headed for the serap-pile, or to be picked up for a fraction of their real worth to the Canadian people, unless the government of Can- ada, taking advantage of the original agreement between the U.S. and Canadian governments, purchases the great project and operates it in the interests of the people. Tom McecHwen, provincial chairman of the British Colum- bia Labor-Progressive Party, and labor candidate for the Federal elections, has forwarded —C€ontinued on Page 7 Yukon Territory in the coming | the following letter to- Prime | McEwen Requests Government Continue Operation Of Canol Ottawa press despatches reporting on the possibility of the closing down of the great. Canol project, now operated by the U.S. War Department, will mean that 800 skilled workers in the Whitehorse refinery, and several hundred others in Standard Oil camps between Whitehorse and Norman Wells will be out of a job Minister King, urging that the government take over the proj- ect and operate it as a national | utility. Right Hon. W. LL. Mackenzie King, : Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Canada. Honorable Sir: Under date of March 9 in the Tcronto “Globe and Mail” an Ottawa press release re- ports that as a result of a new USA-Canada agreement, the U.S. War Department has announced that the Canel De- fence projejct will be discon- tinued on June 30 of this year. tn this press report the Prime Minister of Canada is quoted as being in agreement “because of anticipated improvement of the tanker situation” and that the progress of the war in the Pacific is sufficient warrant for the closing down of Canol, with its refinery at White- horse and other distributive fa- cilities. I submit, Sir, that in line with the provisions of the original joint agreement under which the Cano}l defense project was built by the Canadian and U.S: governments, that your goy- ernment statement giving public assur- ance that in the interests of —Continued on Page 8 3 immediately issue a curity and a greater meas- ure of labor partnership in victory and peace. This campaign for signatures will | coincide with the distribution of an open letter from Tim Buck, National Leader of the Labor-Progressive Party to the Right Hon. W. L. Mac- kenzie King on the pressing need of a stronger federal la- bor code, and the need to “unfreeze sub-standard wage levels and other wage ine- qualities operative under the Wage Control Order P.C. 93 84. - Tim Buck's letter was pub- lished in full in the March 3 issue of P.A. In this letter the LPP Leader pointed out that the trade unions had loyally accepted the Wartime Jabor Code and the wage regulations despite the fact that the poli- cies laid down fell far short of what had been hoped for. The unions, he stated, had “tried earnestly to develop collective relationships the employers under the poli- cies thus established.” The Prime Minister was reminded that since the enact- ment of the two orders-in- council organized labor had encountered many difficulties arising from the weaknesses and loopholes in the act and from attempts of “a section of industrial management, led by tory-minded indus- trialists,’ to nullity the in- tent of such policies. The British Columbia LPP will canvass the trade unions and other organized bodies of the citizens in sup- port of such amendments, convinced that the widespread support for a democratic la- ber code, union security, and more equitable and just wage levels can be best secured through the medium of non- partisan political action and effort. In many B.C. centers pub- lic facilities are already being organized to secure the maxi- mum number of signatures. Unions supporting this cam- paign of the LPP for signa- tures in support of an advanc- ed labor code and union se- curity are in no way com-= mitted to the support of LPP political policies as such. with - :