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BC LonceetWonnen

mnday by
INTERNATIONAL \ WOODWORKERS or A AMERICA (CIO)
MELSNESS

THE B.C.

DISTRICT saa ae

Room 504 Holden Building — Phone yee 4151 — Mees BC.

The deadline for stories for the Comming issue is 4 p.m., Thursday,
June 22.
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Govt. Should Return.
Ukrainian Halls

I Sunday in Nae ra ie meeting was held to
= eae a Peau in which the Custodian of

y Properties and the eet of State have discharged eux They'll come stamping and a-
tin tes t in connection with the Vancouver hall of the FORWIE, aring
ee io sner-Labor Temple Ses a - delegation | asi, says sha ears a the shipyards and before sha knew %—swq | From the docks and station tear
re Tberat M.P.’s and the ew Liberties Associat: e also e launched and ut to 8
matter up with Prime sit ister eae in aoe With fea Pen and grips of
In June, 1940, the Ukraini er-Labor Temple black an
tion was declared an illegal oreanication under the U s Leh} H 1 They'll be prey up and shining.
of Canada Regulations. At n ie Wi vidence produced or nion H ring (Z ps ‘And their modes of speech re-
charges laid against any officer or member of the associatio: r r t
Inder the peewatons 108 community hall across Canad: W Eff e
seized and placed under control of the Custodian. The halls’ a O Fe eae om thats: drawing
conten {ABBE eg ibieies stage equipment and musical in- By DON BARBOUR, IWA Hiring Hall Manager en bes
struments, were als Caulked boo!
S e rolls on new developments occur, on the w: ‘ont
a et PTS noe ie aaa ey Europe D-Day has come.and must forever brand the arm chair critics ee 7 ee rte mee
ed from the Association and their seized properties a GX@R Ge ree aa pane ca ester ie to fies
oedeed ret turned. whom lave been 0) 0 r
A halls had b 1d and those who have advocated such milit strategy and organized labor ieee te ventas bated
£ them, fake gies yeriod He pa fate fants wae Ge ES cl eee GR EE Gori: irst is the in-|Fingernails chewed back and
THERM Deed “Stripned Of thee onto 'e Custodian | evitable destruction of the main link of the = Powers in the very ed,
7 e halls at a fraction of thei din one} near f secondly the mainte So hie the name

the mai fu

| tion of vital war materials to our hae ane at this er!

as forman Mc! ty,

etary of State, explained that in each case the sale was made
quity.

Re protect the owners’

ie last aouearen it becomes insrensingy clear that
mn the

But the evidence gat ae by the government’s investi-
gating committee made it appear that in the majority of the
cases halls were sold that had no encumberane ces and c ould take indus d play their part in this

d by sae | teat world embracing struggle. Te ‘pect of labor” has done much
oa in Vancouver, ‘built at a cost of tweni re tho usand. dol. to secure the landings in
lars i 1938. At nd | even ersten degree to Bae ee. ee
aia V.L. & M. Saw Mill at Chemainus have ae set an excellent ex-
ample fai what organized labor can do

bull
was sold eae six thousand dollars

on a down payment Ae ut. five hundre seem rather a far cry from ie aie Hall to the
re eiicarineshetore Justice NcPlice, revealed ea ata events now taking- place Ba we a Z a very good
it could feat nee rented for seventy-! eee dollars a eae an} Job at placing men in the logging industi ict 4 an integral
income sufficient for the Custodian to manage it properly. part of war effort. Records w an increase of over 100 percent
Be cone during the second quarter of the first half of 1944 at
ir-minded people can but oe when most men are working and waiting for the mid-season

one of Canada’s large national minority gro os should have mite In conelusion ae I make this appeal to all union memb

pe:
to utilize the Union ‘ing at 206 Holden Building £&

have a pani

ae ' Hall
lab d-worki express pees of Mee with their labor in the final analysis our
S. eir treatment is al e more reprehensible when it is} brothers in arm:
considered that not only are many of ons an ght rs
da’s armed forces, but millions of thei

if we allow old unfounded prejudices against wnational minori-

erat

of Sian pies "i and heat
Tall ai shor
een,

s
may There'l be dark ones, also fair

Plump and meaty, also spare ones,

Some that dance discreetly dis-

tant, some that lean,

Some corsaged and perkunat

ladies

For the logging sons of Hades

To lea all their splendor

‘round the

There’ll be others, cute and fetchy
r pias boys whose dancing’s

‘hy,

a To a ‘ond ten white lies to round

The dance isn’t in the Palomar
this year as a matter of fact, I
understand the boys have arrang-
ed three halls, thi

nt sho uid see to it that this matter
humanity.

is rectified with justice and nal se was used by Hitler’s agents to so divide the nations of

Ye ean itis talte eute onportunity orappealing og every IWA re is to make them easy prey for the armies of the third
Local and Sub-Local in B.C.; to every one of the eighteen AC.
thousand of our unio: make their voices heard in protest n the Atlantic Charter was signed it Hk to all people
to the Prime Minister of Canada against this injustice and Gu as of freedom of religion, i: SRG f speech, and free-
ones for the return of these Ukrainian Halls to their rightful] dom from want and fear. ¢ Atlan ic Charter re included every-
ne and that means wish een le, the Orientals and the
Negro people in the deep South, The Re ‘Charter did n
supulal ite that t6 receive these assurances that racial Bae

ust return to their pemeland Ee)
ae well as the people

apes to those in Canada

; Unity Is Key To

° The constitution of the ee Woodworkers of Am-
Complete pa ord an requires that each me ember shares equal responsibility
is = ahee ony

i ope by sis on which democracy can aneeraey and it musi
spot not only to Can: ada but every gemorato. ation

the world is to succeed in implementing the decisi:

ITH the coming of the invasion

ti
maximum degree of unit tween all aces a nae Secale

Te x
it's

was just Bere and it goes like
this:
But, no matter when you strike it,

The main idea is—tiki
For ee rete
without

So join ae Uni a Party
Where your

welcome will be

hearty,
you a * bie doggone you,

See you at the dance!
So long, boys!

When in town Register

regardless of race, 2ee or pia ttonal ty This cannot be achieved | common interests of ale

at
UNION HIRING HALL
204 Holden Bldg.

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