a li CIO Women Act Against Black Market PHILA DELPHIA+CIO women are beginning to move on the food front. The Women’s Aux- ilbary Workers has starteda peti- tion drive demanding the exten- sion of the Price Control Act, and delegates are scheduled to go to Washington to tell Congress te continue and strengthen OPA. They are bringing their campaign before the CIO Women’s Division ef PAC this week, which is ex- pected to join the drive to keep down food prices and eliminate Black Markets. PETITIONS AT SHOP RALLIES Sylvia Hall, organizer of the UFW drive on food prices, said the women are bringing petitions into shop meetings and commun- ity organizations, and that she hopes the men of the CIO will join in and lead the campaign. An overall survey shows that the food supply is sufficient at this time in this area, with a surplus of milk, and with the exception of meat and poultry. Poultry has been practically off the open market for housewives for months. Meat is searce. The chain stores sell at OPA ceilings, when they have it. The independ- ent grocers have been obliged to go along in many cases with Black Market operations, often charge exorbitant prices, and are .reported frequently taking a cent or two a pound in place of red stamps. WHAT ONE WIFE SAYS One wife of a CIO Sun ship- builder prefers to stand in line at stores obeying ceilings. “But there is a lot of abuse. Many stores put away for fa- vorite customers, who will pay extra prices for the favor. These announcements from Washington too, that shortages are expected In ‘this or that item, start ru- mors, and people start hoarding. The high prices have not hit too many people as yet, because of better pay envelopes. But with overtime earnings about to be cut, a lot of us will wake up about the.need to obey OPA rules our- selves, and pitch in to help. en- force the whole price control s€t-up.” STYLES VALUES QUALITY Always at the Home of— UNION MADE Clothing — and Friendly Service. H — Established — For Over Forty Years 45 EAST HASTINGS ST. Vancouver, B.C. Xx HAROLD PRITCHETT He rolled up over 4,000 votes. Union Wires King Protest TORONTO, Ont.—Canadian la- bor is rising to battle against the dangerous role played by the Canadian delegation at the San Francisco Conference. A strongly lettered wire of criticism re- garding Canada’s role in the Con- ference has been sent to Prime Minister King on behalf of 30,- 000 UE members from that un- icn’s District Council meeting. “Raising the issue of ‘Middle Powers’,” states the telegram, “has only added to the confu- sions and divisions. Supporting the admission of Argentina, which is obviously a fascist- governed country, is viewed with considerable alarm.” The UE wire-also deplored the Canadian delegation’s “failure to support the inclusion of the World Labor Federation representa- tives,” which it said “negates the imperative recognition of la- bor’s role in the war and in peace.” A public committment on the part of the Canadian govern- ment that it would unreservedly oppose the seating of - “fascist Franco Spain in the world sec- urity organization,” was demand- ed. Sims Charges Use Of Soldiers As Slave Labor TORONTO, ONT I hold the Minister of fabor, Humphrey Mitchell, over a Toronto Municipal Forum broadcast, Canadian soldiers are being used as slave laborers on “construction jobs and in bric yi One of the -most scandalous parts of the entire charges was the further revelation that Min- ister of Labor Mitchell was okay- ing the paying of the slave labor forces at army pay! “They tell me,’ Sims re- vealed, “that they (the soldiers) sign the pay-sheets of these pri- vate firms for-60 cents an hour. They work eight hours a day. That adds up to $4.80 a day. Do they get the $4.80? Not on your life they dont. They only get straight army pay. I want to know who is pocketing the dif- ference. What happens to the $3.30?” “Wounded men,” the labor al- derman stated, “have been sent out to these jobs. Think of it, men wounded in battle, back home recovering their strength, forced to go out to hard, back-breaking labor in brickyards, cement-block plants and on construction jobs.” Sims said the soldiers could be seen working at the Toronto Brick Gompany plants located on Greenwood Avenue, Toronto; at the Swansea plant in the Don Valley. “The Redfern Construction Company has soldiers out on the Sunnybrook Hospital job do- ing hard, back-breaking work. So has the Milton Brick Com- pany at its plant at Trafalgar, Ontario.” The soldiers, Ald. Sims’ start- ling story revealed, were part of a Canadian Army formation called the No. 2 General Employ- ment Company. Located at the Toronto Exhibition Barracks, the No. 2 General Employment Com- pany has 300 soldiers under the command of a Captain Bouckley. The senior NCO is a Sergeant- Major Samuels. RETURNED VETERANS “Many of these soldiers,’ said —‘Who is to blame for the active service ford: labor scan responsible!’’ charged Ald. Chas: Tim Buck’s revelation — if 4 a 4 dealing with into these brickyards and these construction jobs? Of q| we have. There are tens of i] ; sands of German prisoners-o} i living the life of Riley. | wrecked Europe. They mur: millions of innocent women | children for Hitler. I am sure! will agree with me when I | put these German prisone war to work making bricks cement blocks, tions, carrying lumber, and wheeling cement. this forced labor Battalions at | hibition Barracks!” Ald. Sims, “‘are men who have served in the front line over- seas. Some of them, like the man who first told me the story, were wounded overseas. My check-up shows that the majority of these soldiers are low category men, not eligible for service in the war against Japan, not fit for occupation service in Germany.” But why, asked Ald. Sims, were not these soldiers honor- ably discharged instead of being forced to perform slave labor for army pay? Discharged, they could obtain civilian jobs at good Alderman Cae urged his. wages. Or why were they not teners to help him- in the 1® given the opportunity to take | (, end the forced labor sea: vocational training or to study by protesting to Labor Ming at the university? Mitchell and to Prime Min Mackenzie King. As far aij was concerned, he stated; Council must play a leading “That’s what they want. That’s what we promised them.” Sims stressed the fact that millions of bricks were needed for such high priority jobs as Sunny- brook Hospital and for soldiers and war workers’ homes. The blame, he stated, did not lie with the brick companies. “This scan- dal of forced labor lies at the door of Humphrey Mitchel] and! National Selective Service.” “Have diers and their families. } criticized some members of € cil who had told him. that; matter was “not civic busin }, “I am determined that } boys who won this war ag: | homes, happiness and pros} ty. 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