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_ Bi-monthly
aaa, No. 12.

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VANCOUVER, B.C., JUNE 4, 1945

East End <@% Printers

by The B.C. District Council, _International Woodworkers of America, Affiliated to Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

(345)

Canadian Labor Unions Taking

Result Considered
To Be Determining
Factor In Postwar

s Car
in iis tae Se aions. now ‘being conducted. Mos:
Co;

in British Columbia ha

Dominion,

s
widely distributed. Ty; Bical es see a one issued by the
and MW i Pe art:

in Toronto whic!

Death Toll
Still Mounts

We regret to report accidents | fou

nada are actively par icipating:

Saicties

position are being
UER

ae union of working
eople. We nga to secure
hour:

lumberworkers in the past two
weeks. os

Tom Hardie ,
mill at Red Lake, 35 miles north-
Kam-

e.
to use a se aeaan abilities to

the full. jough money

st of give au arene ce our cla
loops, was kill- 24 ity and to give opportuni
uesday, our children. We have j

8th, eR our unions to achieve these min-

struck by a slak imum pilecte!

of wood whi fod te BG's “Maximum production in the

had caught ina | lumber in- Haas means maximum em-
saw and was | dustry since || ployment. Strike action at

hued through | Jan. 1, 1945 ane would interfere with

the air. employment because it

air.
Ifred Roy Olsen, 44, general

A
superintendent of Bloedel, Sir
and |

Welch logging

aimum
vould provide opportuni tea to
A Senate employers eed
fig! nea ig and rc reesivare eine

ad Saturday, May 26th, nek
a fall from a 60-1 foot trestle. ot

him ste the Sale Y gorge,

the head

of ‘Aer bine and ‘rout by
Port Alber

stant-

pabest eurb such r

his aie us into politics.”

«| Draw Held For

9: was eee _ by Thy work.

WE

uncement was m:

Harry

Prank Mines, Montreal,

made by Mr.
uh Mekensic vice-president, |

« Federal Elections Seriously

Home after a 23,000-mile

\e job through the long tough fight ahead. Left to ri

oe CIO; Orrin urrows, A.
s Council AFL; ii
it]

il-CI
AFL; Vice Dae Roscoe Caveratt
. Crowe, International Brotherhood of Boilermak-

aur an Pacific meee ten West Coast Labor Leaders are ger

ht:

ILWU-

dunt cf Loe
- | (CIO).

of
made set Res
spiri

|, Ont; ticket No.| d

Planks
catentintinettorites
minute speechm

ming Feder:

in the political platforms of the fi
‘al el

aking periods and tl

e Victoria candi- |

io}
periods Thursday night at an ae rally held under the spon-

The meeting, unique in
present campaign in ¢

ight the five candidates to-
gether on one pl , attract-
ed an overflow crowd to the
Chamber of Commerce audi-
orium. E. H. Cl

and kep'
rx control on!
rough frequent Eee St staiae.
Out cheers os punc-

tuated the aadeeates Atanas
phasized ie ae Se

About 1 jestion: sub-
by the estimat

pitied in waite
ed 450 present. After ral
rounds of stion ciara

al 1-118 of th2 International Woodworkers of America | 1),
4

% ti That policy was the only
policy to fully subse:

‘ime.

ribe to the

principles of the Atlantic Char-
ter, he said.
MILLARD F. LOUGHEE)

he speaker, eee

on
FE Fougheed, Stastl Credit, em-
'y| Phasized t did not repre-

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which was not eats! i oa
political power but
e for e auth financial “ana
economic i

R. W. MAYHEW
_No nation of the United Na-

organized fo:
cu. se

zi = Victoria Cane Heard
NAt Forum Sponsored By IWA

_| FO. MURRAY BR’

The basic ae eS “the election
was whether

services and war in
aid FO. Murray Bryce,
the third speaker.

‘0 meet an’ othe:
able depression,
lieved Canada s|

eace, jus:

ect oa ouieacen to war than Can-

said R. W- May ayhew, Liberal
He sui

Ab :
either consolida te gain
‘ing tl

gon to be proud of their war

elias a she iia of mae

mystery his party si
concerning labor legislation. The

Labatt’ Ltd, in Toronto.

party’s policy had been ieee down |
in 1942 and added to since that’

tut 0 on the production front. The
Liberal govern: it, he coi

tinued, did not eat credit for
that effort, but did take credit

The nares ive Party
elie haatge a democratic coalition
government “Labor is ae
ac place in government,”