Westminster S$ awmill Strike Continues Members of International Woodworkers of America, Local 1-35, were still on srike this week as the Keystone Shingle Mills remained adamant on the question of signing an agreement with their eployees: no serious effort to settle the strike in an amicable manner, and only one short meeting has so far been held by union Beach, representatives wtih Mr. IWA Organizer Now Recovering John MacCuish, president of Local 1-71, International Wood- workers of America, and one of the most popular and best known labor figures on the Coast, is recovering in General Hospital this week from a sudden illness which removed him from all ac- tivity last weekend. By Wednesday his condition was so much improved that he was permitted to have visitors, though hospital attendants are still restricting visiting time. His illness, which came as a real shock to his literally hun- dreds of friends and acquaint- ances, has not yet been fully di- agnosed by attending physi- cians. As the president of the IWA’s “loggers’ local’? for many years, MacCuish is best known for the years he spent as skipper of the union’s organizing boats, in which time he has covered al- most every foot of B.C. coastline from Vancouver to the Queen Charlotte Islands and the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The staff of PA, and with them hundreds of his friends in the labor movement, were united this week in wishing him a speedy récovery. The company has made manager of the company. Beach requested copies of the IWA Master Agreement, which is in effect in all operations cov- ered by the Union, for study. He has made no further com- ment as to his attitude toward signing an agreement since that meeting. Officers of District Council No. 1, IWA, and officers of the striking loca] issued an appeal to all locals of the IWA to give generous financial and moral support to the workers on strike. Members of Street Railway- men’s Union, Local 134, indicat- ed their support of the striking sawmill. workers on Wednesday ( this week by refusing to break the picket line and take a car- load of materials into the mill. Unemployment gates as dangerously racist, and an attempt to confuse the issue. While labor welcomed the con- ference as a realistic move in the direction of forcing belated ac- tion on reconversion, it remained clear that only unity of labor and veterans with strong pressure from unemployed workers would assure implementation of a program designed. to meet the dangerous unemployment situ- ation. PEELE EEE EEE EEL ELLE EEE EPL ELE EEE EEE ELELL EL EE?! i s = UNIVERSAL NEWS STAND 2£: = 188 EAST HASTINGS STREET ct & ‘ Be = -.. features ..-.- <2 3 Language and Home ‘town Newspapers and cs = Progressive Literature Zz = .* IF WE DON’T STOCK IT, WE CAN GET IT x SEPEEEPLEEPEE LEP ELE Sh beh bbb hehehhhiebhbebbehehbar =a te 9 | 2 a [akc Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis YOUR School Board Candidate ON December 12 VOTE EFFIE JONES . plans. Turn On The TH= score on the drive to date stands at 74 percen: > 46 percent on cash. Outstanding performance of # still Victoria who now -have 218 pereent of their sub 100 percent of their cash. : Among the Greater Vancouver Clubs South Hil Industrial are over the top in cash and subs, with No top in cash and East End, Georgia, Grandview and W. the top in subs. OI’ Bill boasts, with a twinkle in hi is over the top on both counts, and no fooling. Among outside points Cowichan Lake, Duncan, Langley and Malakwa are over on cash, while Brita land, Gibsons’ Landing, Grassy Plains, Lumby, Lad naimo, Salmon Arm, South Burnaby, Sointula, Vernon knife are over en subs. We greatly appreciate a contribution of $25.00 fr uanian Literary Society, which added to our drive retur Local clubs are planning follow-through canvass expiring subs. We have set December 20 as the da hope to complete this check-up. All drive workers return the cards to this office with a report on resul not a renewal is obtained. Percy Budd’s individual score on the drive stands with the same pace until the end of the drive, he may score in the last drive, which was, we believe, a reco Here’s hoping, Percy. Next week we would like to hear from all elu We would like to see the sale of dance and ¢@ pushed to the utmost, and would like to register sub; vances in both cash and subs by next week. So all yoy the labor press, now is the time to send in your can help kéep P.A. rolling off the presses each week .../ paper and it needs YOUR support. Don’t fail to boos DO IT TODAY! Now peace is with us the than ever, Here is one way British ‘ co-operative task . can play a part. WESTMINSTER COAST BRE Vancouver PACIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 8 A Peaceful World Needs B.C.'s Out of this Pacific province has poured a steady stream of what became a vital material of war. both at home and abroad. . that we are so well fitted to supply. post-war problems. Building a better Canada is a great . . a task in which all real Canadians British Columbia is equipped by destined to reap a legitimate benefit. nature to play a leading part, her sons and daughters ing to th most Int * Published as «@ contribution to the discussion of Canada’s post-war future by NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. 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