Page Six THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER December 14, 1940 , REESE THE BARBER SHOP in Balmoral Hotel 159 East Hastings St. ALWAYS GOOD SERVICE UNION SHOP Alf Lindahl, Prop. ee aan W. G. MANSON, D.C. CHIROPRACTOR PALMER GRADUATE The latest technique in X-Ray Service used in this Office 4 301-2 Burns Block 18 W. Hastings 4 (Next door to Beason Theatre) ; 5 SEymour 5360 i oo ann eenn! SS oCeceeeoey prrsaaet teste tees tees es ALL WORK GUARANTEED SERVICE JEWELERS és s és s s 4 Dealers in Diamonds , Watches and Jewelry 4 s s g Ud s EXPERT WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING H. ZLOTNIK, Manager 28 E. HASTINGS ST. _VAN,, B.C.4 grreeasceecccene: Pennsylvania Hotel UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Carrall & Hastings Street “The Loggers’ Hub” FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODA- TION at REASONABLE PRICES Kenneth Campbell & Sons Proprietors e MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT THE PENN.! eS Preseescese ees eeeeeeeneenees When In Vancouver Stop at COLUMBIA HOTEL Licensed Premises 303 COLUMBIA AVE. Sey. 1956 pameeecnennecencennecnnnnad parmaneenennunenenccees PALACE CAFE 47 WEST CORDOVA STREET 988 GRANVILLE ST. A Satisfied Customer is Our Best Advertisement 100% UNION HOUSE When propaganda is dished out through the daily press, workers under stand the obvious fact that the daily press is controlled and operated by and for business interests. We understand that the daily press is a monopoly and that’s that. But when the moving pictures start handing out the same poison as the press, then it’s time to make our enter- tainment money talk. Last week, after a flash of the Vultee Aircraft plant, Paramount newsreel pic- | tures turned out a talk by Senator Cox of Georgia, charging “strikes in defense industries are treason.” Workers who attended the movie or who attend at one time or another, do not pay their hard-earned money to hear a poll tax, lynch-lisp, anti-labor Senator at- tack labor's basic rights as “treason !” Workers should protest to -he man- agement of any theatre showing tnis type of vicious anti-labor propaganda. This particular incident happens to be against our brothers in California, but those same guns can and no doubt will be turned against Canadian workers and even perhaps ourselves, Let’s demand en- tertainment and not propaganda to de- stroy our civil rights and living stan- dards. Attorney General Jackson of the Roosevelt inner circle yelped that the Vultee aircraft strike was a “Commun- ist plot.” But when the smoke cleared, it showed the issue was one and a half million dollars in wage increases—which the workers won. Proving beyond the shadow of a lout or a doubt, that where there's profits to be lost, there's propaganda to be tossed ! Now the pay-through-YOUR-nose pa- triots are clamoring for legislation out- lawing strikes in “defense industries. ‘And what are “defense industries?” They are factories that employ more than one worker, produce goods for sale and have at least one entrance with a special door for the bass! When an employer gets bigger pro- fits, he calls it “prosperity,” but when a worker asks for better wages, employ- ers and government spokesmen call it “treason !” ‘The employers’ philosophy says: “What is good for me 1s good enough for you, but what's good -or you is bad for me; so what’s bad for you is good for me, so i. better be plenty good for me and plenty bad for you.” ROME, — (UP) — Roberto Farinacci, former secretary-general of the Fascist party, recently praised Father Charles Coughlin for his understanding of Fas- cist principles. 3 119 Cordova Street CIO To Organize Aircraft Plants; Wins California Strike DOWNEY, Calif—Four thousand em- Ployees of the Vultee Aircraft Co. were back at their jobs today after success- fully withstanding one of the fiercest red-baiting campaigns in recent history and winning 12%c hourly wage increases. The union victory followed shortly after Pres, R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile Workers arrived here for ne- gotiations, The auto union leader flew across the country from Atlantic City, NJ., where he had been attending the C.1.0. convention, The settlement which accepted enthus- istically by the strikers provides that minimum wages be raised from 50 cents to 60 cents an hour, and that the in- creases be made retroactive to November 1. Officials estimated the total lift in the company’s wage bill would approxi- mate $1,300,000 a year, 16:MONTH PACT. The contract signed by the union and the Vultee management—which had pre- viously refused to enter an agreement— runs for 16 months. It sets up machin- ery for arbitration of disputes during the life of the agreement, The pact was signed in the Vultee of- fices while movie and newspaper cam- eras recorded the scene. Outside hun- dreds of strikers sang “America” and cheered their victory, the biggest so far in the C..O. campaign to lift the sub- stantial wage rates of the nation’s air- craft industry. Wyndham Mortimer, representative of the UAWA who has directed the south- western organization campaign, remind- ed the crowd “that this is only the be- ginning. We are going to organize the aircraft industry all over southern Cali- DENTISTRY Dr. R. Llewellyn and ASSOCIATES C) MODERN METHODS at MODERN PRICES ° 470 W. Hastings, at Richards SEy. 5577 Seasons Greetings... from JACK MATSUI 445 Gore Avenue HOTEL EAST VANCOUVER, —- AND —— RANCHO HOTEL VANCOUVER, WE SAVE YOU MONEY! fornia in the next two or three months.” ‘The walkout, which was caused by flat refusal of the Vultee management to consider wage increases, found thou- ands of the employees—most of them boys and young men—enthusiastically picketing the aircraft firm’s property. Their ranks held firm despite red- baiting blasts from the Dies Committee, from the usual antilabor bloc in Con- gress and from Attorney General Robert Jackson. Union officials steadfastly maintained that the strike had no motive other than to lift the sweatshop wage rates, which are far below the amount paid workers doing comparable jobs in automobile plants. Walter Smethurst, chief of the C.L0.’s aircraft organizing campaign, who was on the scene throughout the strike, point- ed out that of 3,783 workers in the union’s jurisdiction, some 1,600 received less than 60 cents an hour, with large numbers getting 55, 52% and even 50 cents. The strike call came, he noted, only after eight weeks of patient negotiating. 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