THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

BER WORKER
ly Bulletin Published by
‘Bo. DISTRICT COUNCIL
st ‘Woodworkers of America
Managing Editor
NIGEL MORGAN
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n Second Front

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tered an overwhelming “YES” vote in
favor of TOTAL WAR. The results of
the plebiscite were encouraging for the
democratic people and a severe blow to
‘the appeasement forces of fascism and
reaction everywhere. Encouraging as that
vote was, much still remains to be done.
Unity for the “yes” vote was still not
the UNITY IN ACTION which is re-
quired if fascism is to be destroyed.

If that unity is to become a reality,
everyone of us must work with grim
determination to keep ‘em rolling and
flying. It means we must stand shoulder
to shoulder with the government, with
our employers, in a common fight against
Hitler and his gung in Europe and Asia.

Lord Beaverbrook, in a recent speech,
declared that the second front is im-
mediately feasible and necessary. In his
address before the Bureau of Advertising
of the American Newspaper Publishing
Association, he said: “I believe in the
. Russian system which holds to the fact
that the best form of defense is attack.

5 And I believe that Britain should adopt
{ it by setting up, somewhere along the
two thousand miles of coast-line now
held by the Germans, a second front in
____ Europe. . . . This is a chance, an op-
4 portunity to bring the war to an end

here and now.” And Lord Beaverbrook
P testified further: “How admirably Bri-
_____ tain is now equipped in weapons of war
for directing such an attack on Nazi
Germany, I well know.”

Today everyone is waiting breath-
lessly to see if the Soviet Armies can
hold out against Hitler’s widely pub-
licized spring offensive.’ Once he
launches this drive are we to stand
by and patiently wait the outcome,
content with sending supplies to the
Soviet Union? Hitler will never be
destroyed until his troops are driven
‘out of the occupied countries of Eur-
ope. It is the only way this war can
he won and peace restored to the world.
The hour has arrived when the fight
must be carried to the enemy and
won on his own soil,

The results of the plebiscite campaign
were excellent, The Canadian people
answered the government with a resound-
ing “YES” for total war to wipe out
_ fascism completely, for vigorous offen-
‘sive action against the enemy, for a
“mass army for an offensive against

‘Hitler on the western front to end this
_ war against fascism victoriously in 1942.
“This expressed desire must be made a
ity, and in doing that, we, the peo-
, all have a part to play.

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PRODUCTION

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to devise employment and production
policies which would maintain industrial
harmony with the highest efficiency; to
provide for the pooling of experience,
patent rights and processes of manu-
facture, and the transfer of labor or in-
dustry where necessary; to establish ef-
fective machinery, the lack of which
causes interruptions of production; to
cooperate with similar councils in other
industries for all-out production, and to
consider proposals for the re-conversion
of industry to peace-time production after
the war is won

‘The first step in the opinion of the
Congress, is the calling of national con-
ferences in each industry by the Federal
government, and the subsequent estab-
lishment of national, regional, and plant
councils as the plan is generally adopted.
Organized labor in every industry has
plans and suggestions ready for immedi-
ate consideration, but it is obvious that
the initiative must be taken by the gov-
ernment. Canadian labor in this respect
finds itself in the same position as British
labor after Dunkirk. It was only through
the strong and united support of the
British public that labor obtained rep-
resentation on war-production councils.
YOUR SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL.

In order to obtain the widest possible
public support for this plan, the Con-
gress wishes to bring it to the attention
of every individual or group in Canada
which is deeply concerned with the ef-
fectiveness of the war effort. Labor
unions, service clubs, veterans’ organiza-
tions, and similar bodies, as well as indi-
vidual citizens, are urgently requested to
wire or write to the Prime Minister, the
Minister of Labor, the Minister of Mu-
nitions and Supply, and the Member of
Parliament for their constituency,
dorsing the plan, and asking the govern-
ment to call national conferences in the
basic industries, out of which industrial
councils would emerge. Labor has no
selfish motive in promoting this plan,
but it sincerely believes that it will give
a tremendous impetus to the war effort,
and perhaps prove a decisive factor in
the attainment of victory.

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CALL CONFERENCE
FOR TOTAL WAR

A conference to discuss ways and
means of arousing support for a total
war effort in Canada has been called by
the B.C. Section of the National Council
for Democratic Rights on Sunday, May
31, at the Hastings Auditorium, 828 East
Hastings Street, at 10:15 am.

Various reports on different aspects of
the war effort will be given. Labor's role
in the necessity for increased production
to assist in preparation for opening a
second front this spring through labor-
management-government industry coun-
cils will be given by Charles Sounders,
president of the Dock and Shipyard
Workers’ Union.

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ference, and every interested individual
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PLYWOODS

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bers of the Committe being invited to
attend; (8) continuing to attack the
union although the overwhelming ma-
jority of the plywood workers have join-
ed up. The meeting voted to instruct
the Union. Executive to take a secret
ballot at the plant Monday to vote out
the Company “Employees Committee”
and to elect a new “Union Committee.”

Application is also proceeding for the
establishment of Conciliation and Arbi-
tration on (1) the rehiring of all former
employees and (2) negotiation of a union
agreement.

Plywood workers at yesterday's meet-
ing voted to place President Bert Mels-
ness and Secretary William Bennett on
the payroll of the Local Union as Busi-
ness Agents to lead an organizational
drive in Vancouver and New Westminster
mills. Melsness and Bennett, leaders of
IWA Local 1-217, were both formerly
employed by McMillan Industries. Ar-
rangements were made for regular
monthly union meetings in the Fisher-
men’s Hall,
Vancouver, on the second Sunday of
each month. The next regular meeting
of Local 1-217 will be Sunday, June 14,
at 2 p.m.

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RCMP Intern
Lawson, Steele

TORONTO, Ont—Despite dismissal by
the court of charges against him, William
T. Lawson, ex-Toronto school trustee,
was interned by RCMP officials on April
18.

Arrested on April 4 under an old 1940
internment order, Lawson was hauled
into court on April 13 on a technical
charge of “non-registration.” The court
dismissed the charge on the grounds of
insufficient evidence, but immediately
afterward Lawson was re-arrested on a
new RCMP internment order issued
April 7.

Habeas Corpus proceedings have been
started by J. L. Cohen, attorney, but in
the meantime both Lawson and Dick
Steele, Toronto trade unionist, arrested
several days earlier by RCMP, remain in
internment camps unable to give of their
valuable services to Canada’s war effort.

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