THE B.C. LUM BER WORKER * guly 25, 1942 LOCAL 1-80 MAKES MEMBERSHIP GAINS NANAIMO, B.C.—A meeting for the employees of Industrial Timber Mills’ big Youbou plant has been called for Sun- day, July 26 at 7 p.m. Almost 100 per cent turnout, resulting in complete unionization of this sawmill town can be expected, according to comments by millworkers. Sponsored by IWA-CIO Local 1-80, the mass meeting will be held in the Youbou Community Hall and will be addressed by District Vice-President Hjalmar Bergren and Nigel Morgan, IWA Intl Executive Board Member. On July 20, a meeting was held at Robson’s camp between Ladysmith and Chemainus as the crew came off the Job. Voting unanimously to join the TORONTO, Ont.—Continued int A committee of prominent trade IWA, the crew elected a joint Shop Steward and Safety Committee, and re- quested the assistance of IWA B.C. Dis- trict Council in the preparation of a brief to the Regional War Labor Board for a wage adjustment to what is be- lieved to be one of the lowest scales in -B.O, logging. Two days later a similar meeting was held at the Shawnigan Lake operations of the same company, where similar matters were taken up and acted upon. Ships Vital to Second (Continued from Page Three) The shipping difficulties now being ex- perienced in transporting supplies to the Soviet front, and to the Egyptian and Pacific fronts, will be immeasurably in- ereased with the opening of a second front in Europe dependent on sea com- munications. Victory on the second front and ability to open it will depend as much on maintenance of sea communications as it will on a successful landing in Europe. A ship launched this summer has far greater value than two ships launched next, for it is now, even as I am speaking tonight, that the decisive battles of the war are being fought. The disturbing fact is, however, that ships are being sunk faster than they are being built. In the past year the United Nations have lost between four and five million tons of shipping. In the past six months more than three hundred ships have been sunk in Am- erlean waters alone, The need for ships Is So great that contracts haye been let for construction of one thousand wooden schooners in Central American yards to release steel freighters now on the Caribbean run for other runs. Front These facts are sufficient to convince everyone of the urgency of the need for ships and the importance of our own shipyards in British Columbia, supplying sixty percent of Canada’s shipbuilding program, No one, in face of these facts, can dispute the need for continuous pro- duction in our shipyards without denying his own interests, for if the workers’ in- terests are inseparably linked with vic- tory, so also is victory jeopardized if shipping routes are not maintained. All shipyard workers have now agreed to give the government's seven-day con- tinuous production plan a further thirty- day trial. If this period is to be fully utilized in the interests of the nation, of organized labor as a whole and of the shipyard workers themselves, there can be no attitude of toleration towards ex- isting admitted difficulties and short- comings in the yards, As a trade unionist and speaking for the Vancouver Communist-Labor Total War Committee, I urge all shipyard work- ers to bend their unsparing efforts now to smash the bottlenecks to continuous production in the yards and set new records, in shipbuilding. Enquiry Offers Opportunity Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell's speech to the House of Commons last week, his announcement that a full en- quiry, with labor representation, will be held into the shipbuilding industry here, affords shipyard workers a guarantee and opportunity that their grievances will be heard and inefficient practices elimin- ated, It is a guarantee that the workers’ opinions on production, their suggestions for improvement in methods, will re- ceive the attention they deserve. In the meantime, assured of this oppor- tunity, organized workers in the ship- yards should accept the full responsi- bility they bear to the trade union move- ment and the Canadian people, and al- low nothing to impede their collective efforts to make continuous production @ success in operation, There is no obstacle to production under the present plan that cannot be overcome by determined efforts, par- ticularly if the newly-established Iabor- management production committees in the yards receive the enthusiastic co- operation of every man on the job. These committees will be what we in the organized labor movement make of them, With full support and our demo- cratic initiative, they can be our in- struments for setting new production records, establishing in practice the equal partnership of labor in the war effort and advancing the trade union movement to new levels of responsi- bility and influence in the nation. This is the task facing Vancouver's shipyard workers, to allow nothing to stand in the way of continuous and maximum production, but to set the pace for the nation in the building of ships. In overcoming the problem of “how to build the utmost possible number of ships in the shortest possible time, shipyard workers can not only strengthen every existing fighting front — they can make Possible the opening of the long-awaited second front in Europe, Join Your Friends at COURTENAY HOTEL Headquarters” “The Loggers’ G.TATER - - PROP. Courtenay, V.L. Committee Urges Immediate Release Of Ex-Ald. Salsberg ernment of Ex-Alderman and trade unionist, J. B. Salsberg, has aroused public opinion against such anti- labor policies when the full co-operation of the working people is being sought for increased production to defeat Hitlerism, unionists has been formed, pledged to work inceasingly for Salsberg's re- lease, headed by Russell Harvey, of To- ronto; George Burt, of Windsor; Drum- mond Wren, Secretary of the Workers’ Educational Association; Pat Sullivan and C. S, Jackson. In a letter sent to all trade unionists across the country, the committee stated: “J, B, Salsberg, well-known throughout the trade union movement in Canada, was arrested and held for internment on July 3, 1942. His detention on a warrant issued originally by the late Hon. Ernest La- pointe and reissued by the present Min- ister of Justice, Hon. Louis St. Laurent, is a continuation of and even worse, a hardening of the attitude of the govern- ment towards a section of the working class movement which is publicly known to be in full support of this war. This is a danger to the whole trade union move- ment. “The continued suppression of a politi- cal movement and especially one which is grounded in the working class is con- trary to everything for which this war is fought. No other country within the United Nations carries out such an un- reasonable policy. “The Trade Unionists who are listed on this letterhead are but a few of the leading unionists in this country who are alarmed at this policy of interning work- ing class and union leaders. Many others have signified their desire to aid in bringing about the release of J. B. Sals- berg. This National Committee has been formed in answer to the demand for action along these lines. “This committee appeals to your union, council and congress, to give full sup- port to the movement to free Salsberg and make it possible for him to make his contributions towards winning this war. We ask that you take immediate action through your officers and through your membership, individually and collective- ly.” A plan of action was also circulated, asking that organizations: 1.Despatch funds to Drummond Wren, Sect’'y-Treasurer, 27 Parkhurst Blvd., Toronto, 2, Despatch-wires of protest to Hon, Louis St. Laurent, Minister of Justice, Ot- tawa, Canada, and to local MP's. 3. Organize a “Free Salsberg Committee” to support the struggle waged by the National Trade Union Committee for the release of J, B. Salsberg. Office & Stand: 404 COLUMBIA AVE. COMFORT AND SERVICE AT MODERATE PRICES > OS 0 0a 0 > 0D 0 GED 0a 0 GED 0 GED (0) Gam 0 Gm 0 GO 0 Oe ae OS OS™ REGENT HOTEL 160 East Hastings St. - Vancouver, B.' 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