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TOM BARNARD
-ON LAKE L0G
- ARBITRATION

‘The Ladies’ Auxiliary, IWA, Lo-
cal 96, sponsored a well-attended
mass meeting at St. John’s Hall,
Duncan, on Tuesday evening when
sugar for canning was discussed.

Speakers in support of a more
even distribution of sugar for pre-

serving were: Reeve D. D. Chap-
man, chairman of the local ration-

and Arbitration Act for the dispute
with the Lake Logging Co., Ltd.
over the consummation of a union
agreement, was filed by the offi-
cers of IWA-CIO. Local 1-80 iast

week. Union nominee for the ar-
bitration board is Tom Barnard,
president of the B.C. command of
the Canadian Legion.

DUNCAN, B.C.—Application for
a provincial board of arbitration
under the Industrial Conciliation

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The Ladies’ Auxiliary Local 96 of Duncan, B.C., held their
regular meeting on June 29 in the union office.

During the month of June several new members were wel-
comed into the Auxiliary. We now total 21 members.

Sister Lowe was elected financial secretary due to the
resignation of Sister McQuarrie.

As the dance held by the Auxiliary on June 10 was such a
successful and enjoyable one, it has been decided to hold
another on July 10 in the K.P. Hall in Duncan.

Sisters Parlee and Widen were the delegates to represent
Local 96 at the District Council meeting in Nanaimo on July 4:

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Mass Meeting Calls For
Fairer Sugar Allotment

‘ing board; Mr. Sam Guthrie, MLA;

Mrs. L. Godfrey, Lake Cowichan,
president Local 30, and Mr. Owen
Brown, Duncan, president, Local
1-80.

. It was decided unanimously that
wineries and soft drink factories
were receiving more than their
share of sugar, and that jams, jel-
lies, honey and canned fruits should
be rationed so that all could get
a fairer share of these commodi-
ties. i

Halt Axis-like
Mob Violence
CIO Demands

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Strongly worded demands that the Federal
government take immediate steps to halt mob violence over the nation
poured into the Capital last week as Detroit counted its 31 dead and
more than 700 injured—toll of one of the worst riots in the country’s
history.

Protesting CIO unions and other liberal organizations saw the hands
of Axis sympathizers dripping with the blood of innocent victims, Negro
and white, who were set against each other by terrorism and rumors
that helped make Detroit a bloody battle ground.

A resolution” to this effect will
be sent tot the Wartime Prices
and Trade Board and to Mr. R. W.
Mayew, M.P., Victoria.

The meeting was attended by a
large number of housewives and
there was a good representation
from various district organizations.
Mrs. George Hawk was in the
chair.

Smith-Connally Law
Stimulates Strikes,
Roosevelt Veto Declares

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s veto of the

As
streets to protect residents from
Nazi-minded hoodlums, —_labor
unions and other organizations
charged that behind the riots
lurked the influence of the Ku
Klux Klan, the Christian Front,
the Black Dragon Society, the Na-
tional Workers League, _the

soldiers

last week, sharply criticized the bill for actually fomenting strikes in-
stead of preventing them. Pointing out that the bill completely ignores
labor’s splendid record of uninterrupted production during the war, the
President, said:

“Section eight ignores completely labor's ‘no-strike’ pledge and pro-
vides in effect for strike notices and strike ballots. Far from discourag-
ing strikes, these provisions would stimulate labor unrest and ‘give
government sanction to strike agitations.

“The 30 days allowed before the strike vote is taken under govern-
ment auspices might well become a boiling period instead of a cooling
period. The thought and energies of the workers would be diverted
from war production to vote getting.”

Declaring that he sympathized “with the general purposes” of the
bill in its efforts to prevent stoppages of production, President Roose-
velt pointed out:

“American labor as well as American business gave their ‘no-strike,
no-lockout’ pledge after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

“That pledge has been well kept except in the case of the leaders of
the United Mine Workers.

“For the entire year of 1942, the time lost by strikes average only
5/100ths of one percent of the total man-hours worked.”

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patrolled Detroit’

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Knights of the White Camelia, the
Southern Voters League and simi-
Jar organizations based on a policy
of terror and of “white suprem-
acy.”

A warning that the riots have
seriously disrupted war production
was brought to Washington by a
committee of white and Nego

unionists, among them Shelton
Tappes, recording secretary of
Ford Local 600, United Auto

Workers Union of Detroit.
CALL FOR ACTION.

The delegation, which numbered
among it CIO, AFL, Negro and
Jewish organization leaders, called
upon President Roosevelt to “put
down with a firm hand” the or-
ganized campaign of violence which
is being carried on “against Ne-
groes, the Mexican population, Jew-
‘ish people and other minority
groups and against organized labor
in industrial centers.”

The delegation called for the ap-
prehension of riot leaders and their
imprisorfment, and said that FBI
officials declared that they are
working on the case.

The fact that the Detroit violence
followed a pattern written in blood
in other war production centers
was pointed out by CIO President
Philip Murray, who called on
President Roosevelt to issue orders
to the Department of Justice, War
and Navy Departments, and the
Office of War Information “to off-
set the plotting of disruptive agen-
cies that have fomented this hys-
teria” and “with a view to severe
punishment of these found guilty.”

President R. J. Thomas of the
United Auto Workers Union, with
headquarters in Detroit, declared
that “there is a substantial nucleus
of KKK and Black Legion ele-
ments here, and nobody in politi-
cal life has the intestinal fortitude
to move in and prosecute. It’s no
secret that the KK whooped it up
here during the last couple of
days and I’m willing to give names
before a grand jury.”

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