TLC © in the absence of Birt Showler, to rule the motion out of order as being contrary to the consti- tution of the council and the Trades and Labor Congres, cre- ated an immediate uproar, with aS many as 20 delegates at a time springing to their feet demanding - the floor. “It’s time this council) woke up to it responsibilities,” as- serted Delegate Wear in a mo- ment of quiet. “These layoffs “and the completely callous at- titude of the federal govern- ment and employers, affects all workers—barbers, bakers and even union business agents. It’s no time to allow petty jur- isdictional jealousies to inter- fere with the crying need for united labor action. “We've been through one de- “pression and two wars in 380 _ years. We’re not going to: stand for any more,” he concluded as delegates houted their approval. With the uproar at its height, the ruling of the chair was ap- pealed, and in the voting that fol- lowed, the ruling was defeated. The orginal motion, calling for joint AFL-CCL action against layoffs, was then carried by a big majority. SHARP CRITICISM Earlier in the meeting sharp criticism of the various govern- ments developed out of a resolu- tion’ presented by Division 134, Street Railwaymen’s Union, which proposed that the B.C. executive of the Trades and Labor CGon- gress sponsor’a broad conference of all AF'L unions in the province to discuss the acute problems of the postwar. Delegate R. Cormack, sponsor of the resolution, pointed out that in view of the postponement of the annual Trades Congress convention due to travel restric- tions, Congress unions in B.C. would have to have some means of discussing their situation “if labor is going to survive the com- ing period.” Turning to the position taken Come to the NIAGARA CAFE for STEAKS, FISH, OYSTERS 425 West Pender TUCCATUCUCUCQUUEEOCSUOLESTORUAACCOEESOLELIESEERSSUCESUSSCCRES ERE, SUPUPUTP OCC CTOUTEUOUD ODOT CUE ORe Oa Ona) Quality and Purity As HOMEMADE HASTINGS BAKERY 2716 E. Hastings HA. 3244 fp “MOVING-TRANSFER’”’ ASH BROTHERS CARTAGE 2239 CAMBIE — FA. 0469 HAst. 0340 766 E. Hastings Hastings Steam Baths Vancouver, B.C. OPEN DAY and NIGHT Expert Masseurs In Attendance WAND STUDIGC “Anything With a Camera” 8 E. Hastings St. PAc. 7644 VANCOUVER, B.C. Japanese troops, marching into Manchuria in 1931, com- mutted the first aggression of the war. by various federal and municipal government leaders, Cormack ri- diculed the statements of Mayor Jack Loutet of North Vancouver, who -had referred to the Athletic Park layoff meeting as a “group of rabble-rousers.” “I used to have the impression,” Cormack asserted, “that if a man wanted to qualify as mayor of a city, he at least had to be intel- ligent. I was wrong. Mayor Lou- tet should know that it isn’t the rabble-rousers who are rocking the boat, but the various govern- ments whose failure to plan against layoffs has not only rocked the boat but dumped the Canadian people into the sea of unemployment.” The problem of layoffs is too big to be tackled by a divided la- bor movement, claimed Delegate Dave Reese, business agent of the Civic Employees Union. “In this age of the atomic bomb, we are going to have to do much more than merely pass resolutions,” he declared. APPEAL FOR WOMEN A plea for special council con- sideration on the laying-off of women workers came from Dele- gate Eveleen Arton of Lodge 756, Aeronautical Employees Union, in the form of a letter read by Secretary Gervin. Her letter pointed out that while women members of the trade unionst were numerically significant, their special prob- lems had-not been given proper consideration in the whole fight against layoffs. She proposed: @ That the Trades Council refuse to permit job discrimina- tion because of sex and condemn the press statements of National Selective Service which offered 1200 domestie service jobs to dis- charged women workers. @ That no woman who has worked in war industry should be debarred from full employment insurance benefits through re- fusing domestic or other low wage labor. % “Boeing women workers have already been offered domestic service employment by Selective Service and factory jobs at wages as low as 30 cents an hour,” the letter concluded. 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Th layoffs and terminations in war | ee SEOSE: was requested ercurrent of uncertainty: | @ e mayor w t 6 vs to meet mnediately with C. cope ee eee oe fut L. Dewar, Wartime Shipping Pp cer: df Ltd. President, who arrived in’ The trade union mo’? Vancouver from Montreal last | springing into the leaded) Sunday to discuss the govern- | the fight for maintained | ment’s shipbuilding plans with ment, again gave: eviden | the shipbuilding company rep-|even as it was in the fi: resentatives, to secure infor- |of the battle for full prc mation as to steps the govern- and all-out effort during: | ment intends to take to cushion it would lead in work, © the shock of cancellation of |mands for the mainten | war shipbuilding contracts employment and all-out ~ e The mayor was requested |in ‘the peace for better 3 to accept the responsibility of |staridards and a prosper calling a conference of labor- | ture for Canada’s thous” management, provincial, feder- worworkers. It became | al and civic representatives to | ingly obvious that in taki discuss ways and means to |ership in the layoff situaj meet the layoff crisis. unions were prepared i , © The request was made for |into a struggle for th an immediate meeting of the | lishment of peacetime in | continuations committee of the | for the coast and to dem: — trade unions and the City |ermment action where Council to discuss future plans | enterprise fails. in the face of the present situa- tion, and the calling of a con- ference on reconversion. Despite assurances of Selec- tive Service officials that there were “lots of jobs’”:for Vancou- ver’s displaced war workers, the trade union movement foresaw a future of uncertainty unless broad plans and immediate ac- many other factors lent ; a y | ae Dr. R. Llewellyn De | - RICHARDS and HAST. | Vaneouver, BG. _. 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