AFL-CIO Committee,
Demands Govt. Act,

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A joint council committee was established this y)
coordinate union support of the members of United:
workers of America Local 2821 at present on strike —
pute with the American Can Co. The committee, un
chairmanship of Alex McAus- : : :

Unionist

eee eee ae

lane, with Harold Pritchett as
‘secretary, sent a telegram to Hon.
Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of
Labor, seeking federal interven-
tion in the American Can Co.
strike.

A supplementary wire was I
sent to Premier John “Hart, now sak as
in Ottawa, urging that Mr. Hart] | ee ee a
press federal authorities for am- ena ? ai cay 2 6 e a
endments to wartime order-in-| ood o PcePing. Leu
council P.C. 1003, in line with|#nd Bennie Smith, ee bf
labor proposals now before the | tional et r oF t
federal government. It was point- ganization; wi E see oi
ed out by ‘the telegram that only tour of the D Cnunion aa
by the amending of P.C. 1003 can | 78 4 mass meeting in the

dix

: ; Sa ss = 3 : makers’ Hall, Sunday,. Au;
Citizens watch as Allied troops move through the silent streets of a town in liber- cee kes be “syoided “ta. the Rendblsh eal ic i
sae ~ : : ms > os 5 andolph will speak ¢

2 ated Europe. Allied soldiers are now keeping “The Watch on the Rhine. Tie Wire asked intaiaites dn: subject “What is the HA

tervention in the dispute in- Labor and the. darker race

volving American Can:Co. and
United Steelworkers Local 2821, internationally knowm fig |
Vancouver “for early and favor- the labor movement of the!
able a eepene embodying the | He has consistently led th.
union shop. | for tl f “Jim-Crow -
The wire also urged “your gov- es = a Sas States :
ernment to amend wartime or! aaa on movement, and 4
der-in-council P.C, 1003 pursuant | branded by Amenean ind
to labor’s demands now before | 5.4. through government}.
lawfal union sccunitye ome #°7| as “the most dangerous M
‘ rLLy | ica” e of his n°
The committee includes re- a oe on
presentatives from the Interna- X - a
tional Woodworkers of America, of Negro American labor, |
The Canadian Congress of Labor As international organi;
Street Railwaymen’s Union, Mine. | has just completed ‘the s

the war ends.” Randolph |

Around The Wor

3 By BRUCE MICK LEBURGH

As the Potsdam Conference wound up its deliberations, with Labour Premier Clement
Attlee replacing Winston Churchill as Brita in’s spokesman at the closing sessions, the
peoples of the world were grouping themsel ves for fresh struggles to wipe out the remain-
ing strongholds of Fascism, and to balk all efforts to rob them of the fruits of the victory
in Europe.

Imperialist circles in| Britain,
the United States and Canada,
freed from the threat of extine-
tion. at the hands of Hitlerism,
are now frightened by the con-

gether, and the process of con-, lieved to be substantially that of
verting this huge productive|a memorandum carried from
plant to peacetime use is already | Washington by President Tru-
under way. man. The memorandum demands
that Japan give up all conquered

Sequences of democratic victory] geores of millions of workers | territories, ac stats d in the Cairo | Mill and Smelterworkers, Ship- of an agreement betwee
at home and abroad. are involved and the’ CIO Politic- Declaration, and rid itself of al] | yard General Workers Federa- Brotherhood of Sleeping
PEACE CHARTER PASSED al Action Committee, along with military and industria] capacity | tion, Retail Clerk’s Union, Plum-| Porters - and the CPR D

such giant unions as the United to wage war, in return for which|bers and Steamfitters Union, | the course of his totr, Ran
United Fishermen and Allied |

Powerful forces tried to dis- Automobile Workers ‘and the the Allied powers would neither will attempt to organize bra
rupt the San Francisco confer- United Electrical Workers, is invade nor occupy Japan but| Workers Union, and the Aero.| of the Canadian League &
ence. The failure of these at- campaigning in the congress. merely send a “supervisory | nautical Lodge 756 International} Advancement of Colored F
tempts, and the strong feeling of | men’s home districts to have the force” into that country to see| Association of Machinists. .
the American public, have forced

recess cut short so adequate re-|that the terms The committee will take care
conversion _ legislation. can be out. of strike publicity and set up fi-|
passed at once. ' FORMAL REJECTION nances for the conducting of the |
PRESSING ISSUES Jap Premier Suzuki has for Se eer , SEezersl Pow

. : : > rej ; r the The homes are to rent be

An equally pressing issue sis| mally rejected the demand but] the Interna 10na ice 90 he homes 3
wages a wit P Temamis being this is being interpreted as mere | Steelworkers Union. $24 and $26 per month. Thi -

préssed far (1) upward revision | Poker-playing. What the Pots- is in excess of the max
of the Little Steel Formula, | 4am Ultimatum actually means lining what some papers foolishly | ‘low-rental” as arrived ati.
which holds wages down to = 15 dubbed “a new offer of freedom

endorsation of the Security
Charter in the American Senate
with only two dissenting votes.
Longstanding arch-enemies of
United Nations cooperation, such
as Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
found that it was more than
their political future was worth
to vote against the charter, but
made ill-concealed threats from

|
would be carried |

Housing

is that the present ruling circles Citizens’ Rehabilitation Co

bercent wartime: increase, while

the floor of the Senate to do

the cost of living rises much

of Japan will be allowed to re-
tain power around the Emperor.

to India.” Because it shrewdly | tee.

divided the people of India on

Alderman Jack Price, in¢é
statement of fact, said the
City Council would hdve t
something quickly, or be
pared to meet a situation-
won’t be healthy for any of ©

The negative feature is
present housing plan is the -
needs of the industrial wi

everything possible to sabotage
its operation.

FLANK ATTACKS

An example of the type of
fiank attack that will be utilized
is seen in Republican Senator
Taft’s motion to delay action on
the Bretton Woods - legislation

It means taking over Japan’s
conquests for redivision among
the Allied powers, while assuring
that the base of imperialism in
Japan itself remains untouched.

Under such circumstances,
Japan could become a poten-
tial instrument against the
Soviet Union and a democratic

faster, and (2) passage of a 65-
cent-an-hour minimum wage bill.
Action is also demanded to en-
sure 60,000,000 jobs in the peace,
to extend social] security, to re-
move discrimination from Amer-|.
ica’s 12,000,000 Negroes, to fully
re-establish veterans, and to
lave the un-Anierican Committee

Teligious lines, the offer was ob-
viously doomed to failure.

Now, with famine: still ram -
pant, and 1200 provincial leaders
of the Indian Congress and hun-
dreds of Indian Communists held
in jail, new demands are being
made for Indian freedom.
LIBERATION FRONT

for an international bank of re-|1oot out Quislings instead of| China, just as Germany played On the liberation front ~ in als ue ee eons
construction and for an interna- patriots. a similar role in Europe after Europe, Greek patriots, still be- man ae completel {or a |
tional monetary fund. The mo- the first world war. ing slaughtered by British-armed , oe 7 “ef
tion was defeated, but 31 out of |; ULTIMATUM ISSUED Australia d New Zealand Royalist Quislings, predicted the completely ee pee %
oy ecnetors voted for it. Bretton Meanwhile aj great deal of an ew ealand | 623) of their oppressive puppet ions now stand of the thoi!

have already denounced the ulti-
matum, while the People’s Pol-

part of the economic

homes that are built only
machinery that will make the

publicity was given to the ulti- regime now that the man who that are not required by ¥

charter work. Men like Taft vote|™matum to Japan issued from itieal Council of China has hese eee peliind the | ons will be rented to civilia
for the charter and then try to Potsdam after Truman, Church- recommended to the Chinese | PUPP — urehili — has been ; mee :
reducé it to a scrap of paper. il and Chiang Kai-Shek had government that  Hirohito be |CUSted from the British premier- While it is recognized
: conferred. Admiral Halsey’s branded as a wa; criminal ship. Spain also moved closer to housing accommodation mus

They can be expected to launch
an even stronger attack on pro-

Third Fleet was raiding the very

liberation. Following on the heels
heart of Japan as the Japs were

‘ found for veterans, a large
of a eall to the Spanish people

Millions of sufferers under Jap ue th ki Lé@
tion of e€ working popul: |

aggression point to the fact that

visions to give the American |told to surrender or see their | there can never be peace in the | 110m the Spanish Communist | of the city have been confrc
delegate to the Security Council homeland utterly destroyed. | Pacific till the Japanese imperial party to organize for a national | with - the housing shortage |
effective power to act against ‘ lists are wiped out as a class, and Uprising that will yet make Many years. The inadequac

Yet it is significant that there

areression. has been no announcement of|# democratic antitaseist Japan ee ve tomb of Fascism, ex- | the housing program will a
Phe American Congress re-| the specific terms of the ulti.|¢™etges from the wreckage of cated Fie ah Negrin has indi- | continued hardship for the
cessed after the Charter was/matum, save that they were | Hirohito’s empire. part in aren eee i viey. his | trial oe The soles
: , - : rQanizine gq * -~|¢ ‘ i i "
ratified in the Senate, but labor eight in number, and that all| INDIA ernment-in-exile "he lead “the plemenianon ‘of eae
south of the line is incensed that reference to Hirohito or the mon- The pre-invasion offensive struggle and take over in Spain program. which would :%
very little practical provision has |archy as an institution is omit- against Japan, and the Labor as it is liberated. closely meet the needs Geet
been made to deal with the enor ted. There have been a series of | victory in Britain’s elections, Prospects for the formation of couver. The 1200 homes ca.

mous reconversion problem grip-
Ping that country. Last year the
United States was already pro-
ducing more war material than
all the rest of the world put to- !

PAGE 2 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

Peace bids issuing simultaneous-
ly from Tokyo and American
quarters for the past several
weeks, and the actual content of
the Potsdam ultimatum is be-

have focussed new attention on
the problem of India. This trend
was already evident: when the
British government on Jue 14
published its White Paper out-

such a government are good, and
the Canadian government will
lose its last excuse for continu-
ing to recognize Franco’s dia-
bolical regime. :

tute a step in the right 4°
tion, but as was pointed. ou |
Elgin Ruddell, Vancouver’s bi
ing situation merits the erec|
of 8000 homes.

ae SATURDAY, :-AUGUST 4, [f