rendered

troops trapped at Stalin-
continued to fight at the in-
tence of Adolph Hitler after
D German generals there had
soncluded that, further resistance
was “senseless and criminal,” Maj.
Gen. Moritz von Drebber, com-
mander of the 297th infantry divi-
sion, told Red Army officers who
ho captured him.

“We believed further resistance
Was senseless and criminal,” Von
‘Drebber said, “but the Fuehrer did
“not take our opinion into consid-
eration,”

A correspondent of the news-
“paper Pravda gave this description
of the surrender of Von Drebber:

_A Soviet Colonel was waiting for
_ them, Von Drebber sent envoys to

the Colonel and one of the German
officers said:

“Maj. Gen. Moritz von Drebber
4s ready to lay down his arms
before his conqueror and wishes
to be informed about the place

_ at which he should surrender.”
| TERMS OF SURRENDER.
After discussing the terms of
Surrender, the German envoys, es-
corted by Soviet officers, went to
‘a school house inside Stalingrad to
await Von Drebber’s arrival.
‘Meanwhile, the Red Army Colonel
ordered his troops to cease firing.

‘Von Drebber and his staff arrived
shortly before 2 a.m,

“Where are your regiments and
soldiers?” the Soviet Colonel asked
him.

“You know better than J,” Von
Drebber replied. “Everyone still
Alive is here now. I gave the order
for the troops to lay down their
arms, but they had done so long
ago.”

Von Drebber, who has gray hair,
expressed surprise that he should
_ be surrendering to a Colonel who

was only 35 years old,

_ “Iam the first German General

to surrender to you here at Stalin-

grad,” Von Drebber said.

NOT THE LAST.

“You are the first,” the Colonel

_ replied, “but I hope not the last.”

A telephone call interrupted the
conversation, News was given that
a Rumanian general had surrend-
_ ered with his entire division.
Shortly before daybreak the Red

Army Colonel ordered Von Drebber
and his staff to be taken by auto-

bile to Soviet headquarters, The

Bctinionites travelled through
country littered with thousands of

German dead, the skeletons of

scree which the Axis troops had
eaten, and abandoned trucks and

Gazing at the ruin, Von

'g aide-de-camp said:

ve is the road of shame for

man Army.”

Drebber nodded,

:

BAY, Ont.— Thirty-one
were laid today in Sud-
nt., against the Internation-
‘Company of Canada Lim-
‘the Prices Board, Walter

0 ent officer for the

ounced today, in conneec-
alleged infractions of the

Accidents in British Columbia
woods have materially decreased,
according to the Safety Branch of
the Department of Labor.

There were 4936 compensable ac-
cidents in 1942, of which 45 were
fatal. In 1941 there were 78 fatal
accidents and in 1940, 7.

‘The decrease in production from
1941 to 1942 amounts to approxi-
mately 15 per cent. Even consid-

injuries during the year, 21 of
which were fatal, emphasizing
the importance, says the Safety
Branch, of wearing protective
helmets.

Considering the increased num-
ber of inexperienced men in the
industry the lesser accident inci-
dence is regarded as highly satis-
factory by the Labor Department.

Officials of the International

ering this factor the decrease is
very evident, says the department.

Deaths in falling and bucking
dropped from 27 in 1941, to 15 in
1942, and in rigging, yarding and
loading, from 25 to 16. The only
increase in any category was among
chokermen, eight of whom were
killed as against six in 1941, al-
though eight was also the figure
for 1940,

There were 208 serious head

Woodworkers of America also ex-
press satisfaction at the decrease.

“Tt is largely due to the fact
that workers no longer work under
constant apprehension they may
lose their jobs,” said Ernest Dal-
skog, secretary of Local 1-71, ‘‘they
are consequently cooler, and have
time to take more care.”

Nigel Morgan, IWA Interriational
Executive Board Member, express-
ed a similar view.

‘Gun Wood’ Now,

Development of the new powder
lprocess was credited to Ralph L.
Stern, chemical-superintendent at
the Parlin plant, whose experl-
mental work on wood cellulose
'made possible the use of wood
| pulp for rifle and cannon powders.
The Hercules company made
available the wood pulp develop-
ment without cost to the govern-
ments of the United Nations and
to all American producers as soon
as it had been found effective.
Research of Hercules Powder
Co. adapting wood pulp for the
manufacture of smokeless powder
has increased powder output about

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one quarter wherever it has been
used, and freed Canada and Aus-
tralia from dependence upon cot-
ton, the company says.

Boilermakers
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dual charters remained as a pos-
sibility in the yards, and while
they were powerless to collect dues
or initiate new members, the union
could not function in a business-
like manner.

They are ready to discuss affilia-
tion with the Congress at any time,
it was stated.

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AUXILIARY CORNER

On February 7 the B.C, District Council Ladies’ Auxiliary
held a very successful meeting in Nanaimo attended by ten
delegates and one visitor. The Lake Cowichan Ladies’ Aux-
iliary reproted having held a basket social from which they
donated ten dollars to the Russian Aid Committee. This Aux-
iliary is also planning a monster dance to be held some time in
April. Mrs. Brown reported on a meeting she had attended
in Duncan where she had gvien a short talk on Auxiliaries
to the eight women who were present. It is hoped that in the
near future an Auxiliary will be set up in this area also. Both
the Victoria Ladies’ Auxiliary and the Port Alberni Ladies’
Auxiliary, which hold one business meeting and one social
each month, recently donated five dollars to the Russian Med-
ical Aid Committee. In addition to their one social each month,
the Port Alberni Auxiliary holds very successful dances every

Saturday night.

The New Westminster Ladies’ Auxiliary held a whist drive
and social Friday, Feb. 12. Prizes for whist were won by the
following: Ladies’ first prize ($2.50), Mrs. Farris; gent’s first
prize ($2.50), Roy Reed; ladies’ second prize ($1.00), Mrs.
Robson; and gent’s second prize ($1.00), Bonnie Theel. Con-
solation prizes of 50c each were won by Mrs. Marshall and T.
Wansen. A seven-pound beautifully decorated Valentine fruit

cake, baked by Mrs. Kipp, was

won by E. Guthrie of Burnaby.

Proceeds from this affair amounted to $33.90.

Army Hails Union's

Production Ideas

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—From one CIO union’s relentless

and successful fight for greater
week had derived experience

production, the U.S. Army last
data which may provide the

solution to a critical manpower shortage in West Coast

foundries.

The union is Local 1440, United
Steelworkers of America at Pitts-
burg, whose hard-driving produc-
tion soldiers helped win the Army-
Navy “E” pennant for outstanding
production effort which flies over
the Columbia Steel plant there.

To get the blueprint of the union's
production leadership, particularly
in metting manpower problems in
the foundry department, two Army
representatives met with a group
of key men in the local. The Army
men were Capt. P. M. Kenefick
of the Services of Supply, and
Walter Burroughs of the division
of industrial relations, Army ord-
nance.

STREAMLINING.

They learned how the union was
shortcutting the training of skilled
men, streamlining production tech-
niques and getting “extra mileage”
out of the highest-skilled men in
the department by a process of ex-
tending skills.

At the conclusion of the session,

Burroughs told the unionists:

“We came here because you
seemed to have solved the prob-
lem of labor supply in an indus-
try where there is a notable short-
age of labor.

“You have given us a great dea)

more information than we had
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interest to us. It becomes our job
now to see that some of this in-
formation is put to use in plants
where production is not quite on
such a high level.”

TEAM METHODS.

Outstanding innovation of the
union is the “team method” of
molding, in which the men with
the greatest degree of skill are
able to work continuously and ex-
clusively at the highly-skilled op-
erations, moving from job to job.
The less-skilled and unskilled op-
erations on these same pieces of
work are handled by workers with
less experience.

The shortage of highly-skilled
journeymen molders which has be-
come a production bottleneck in
some foundries is thus overcome
at the Pittsburg plant because the
union has recognized the wartime
need for temporarily setting aside
the job standards so carefully
guarded in peacetime.

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