img and able to work, the right
to gainful employment.

The people of this country, es-
pecially the people in the organ-
ized labor movement can be
proud of the part they have
Played im the winning of this
war, but it was emphasized by
our Congress, although victory
had been declared, we have not
as yet, won the peace. With the
eancellation of millions of dol-|
lars of war orders, and the cut |
back of war production, many)
thousands of Canadian workmen
amd women must be provided
with peacetime jobs. In meet-
ing with members of the Federal
Cabinet, the Congress empha
sized the necessity of maintain-
ing wage levels and incomes of
workers still employed, and pro-
viding severance pay gratuities,
or temporary augmentation of
unemployment insurance pay-
ments in order to tide over the
period between wartime and
peacetime employment.

PAC. 1003

Amendments to Order - in-
Council P.C. 1008 of the Wartime
Labour Relations Regulations,
establishing a Federal Labour
Code, embodying full union se-
eurity was urged, and it was
recommended that all Congress
unions, Labour Councils and
Provincial Federations immedi-
ately advise their Provincial
Governments that labour wants
such a code, strongly recom-
mending that each province en
dorse the proposals. While the
Congress considered the neces-
sity of maintaining wage and
price controls for the time being,
at least it was recommended to
the Government, that amend-
ments be made to P.C. 9384,
Wartime Order in Council on
wage control, to unfreeze wages
now frozen below 50c per hour,!
and that the Government enact!
a minimum wage scale across
Canada, of not less than 55¢ per |
hour.

|

PARIS CONFERENCE

The Council also decided to
participate in the coming world
teade union conference which
will convene in Paris on Septem-
ber 25th, for the purpose of
completing the formation of a
world Federation of Trade
Unions, deciding to fight for Ca-
nadian representation on the ex-
ecutive and electing Seeretary-
‘Treasurer Pat Conroy, as our
delegate,

In view of Government travel
restrictions, and the difficulty in
obtaining hotel accommodation,
it was decided that the next
regular Congress Convention be
postponed until September,
1946, in the City of Toronto,

give every Canadian citizen, will- | ;

Part of + 000 CIO members who rallied in Chicago to de-
mand government action for full employment. The workers
marched through Chicago’s streets shouting, ““We want jobs!"

Europe's Millions Face

Winter Without Clothing

“LOST—Women’s left shoe, black, oxford, size 544;
round patch on left side. AMPLE REWARD for its return
to 112 Alexander Street, Belgrade.”

This advertisement is from “Polinka,” leading newspaper of
Yugoslavia’s capital.

Behind its offer of “ample reward” for a patched old shoe is a
grim story; a story that applies, not only to the woman who caused
the advertisement to be published, but to millions of men, women
and childven in war-ravaged lands abroad.

Health cannot come to their sick, nor can strength return to
their weale until they have adequate clothing. In Europe alone,
125,000,000 of whom 30,000,000 are babies and little children, still
are suffering for want of these things. In China and elsewhere.
the situation is equally tragic.

That clothing is available. Millions of pounds of it now re-
pose, forgotten, in the atties and other storage places in our Ca-
nadian homes. Its mode and style does not matter to those in
need. So long as it will cover the naked, war emaciated bodies,
or protect the bare and bruised feets of the destitute, it can play
a glorious part in lifting the hearts and the hopes of the stricken
and in enabling them to join us actively in creating the brave, secure
and peaceful world to which all true humanity aspires.

‘The effort to obtain it, to collect this forgotten but stillusable
supply of clothing, shoes and bedding, now is under way.

Sponsored by the Canadian United Allied Relief Fund on behalf

of UNRRA, assisted by all other Canadian humanitarian groups, |

2 National Clothin;
Dominion.
this year.

hing Collection is being conducted throughout the
Tt is the one nation-wide drive for overseas relief

Every man, woman and child in Canada can and should help
to make ‘this collection an outstanding success; to help the war-
ravaged millions to help themselves.

sentative on the World Youth
Conference.

FORD DIFFICULT
Representatives of the United

New Uses For

‘Woed Waste

CIO FIGHTS UNEMPLOYMENT THREAT

In the U.S., CIO’s non-partisan Political Action Committee is
initiating a powerful coast to coast campaign for Federal legis-
lation to protect American workers from the reconversion crisis.
Alarmed by the reported cancellation of billions of dollars in war
contracts, and the prediction from reliable sources that 8 to 10
million war workers will be unemployed in the next few weeks,
the CIO is pressing for prompt adoption of the U.S. Congress of
Labor’s reconversion program.

Said CIO-PAC Sidney Hillman: “In winning the last rounds
of the war in the Pacific, we must not lose the first rounds of the
Peace in Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. For oun men and
women in the armed forces, as well as our great armies on the home
front, we shall consider ourselves victorious, only when we are
assured of victory over poverty and the fear of insecurity.”

PROVINCIAL ELECTION OCTOBER 25TH

There are just 44 more “chopping” days, or for our Auxiliary
members “shopping days” before the people of British Columbia
will be asked to mark their ballot for the type of men and women
| and policies they want to govern postwar British Columbia for the
| next five years. Regardless of what political party a union mem-
| may belong to, or what candidate he or she votes for, there are
issues in this election of very vital interest to each and every one
of us.

What is British Columbia’s next government going to do to
| assure sufficient jobs at fair standards; what about the long
needed amendments to labor legislation to grant workers union
security, check off rights. ete. What about needed social legisla-
| tion, a health plan, maternity benefits and more adequate com-
pensation provisions. These are all issues in which every worker
has a vital and common interest.

However, regardless of how we may wish to use our influence
in the Provincial Election( which comes but once every five years),
we shall be unable to do so unless we each make sure we are on the
Provincial Voters’ List before September 17.

REMEMBER, THE LISTS WHICH ARE NOW BEING MADE
|UP FOR THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS, HAVE NOTHING
|TO DO WITH THE LISTS USED IN THE FEDERAL ELEO-
| TIONS, LAST JUNE,

Unless you are residing in the same place that you were in
1941 and voted in that’ election, or unless you register again, you
will not be on the list.

THE LISTS CLOSE SEPTEMBER 17th NEXT.

See the Registrar for your district IMMEDIATELY, and make
sure you are registered before September 17th, so that you can vote
| October 25th. Remember the slogan: Be a good unionist and be-
come a citizen; and carry that slogan further by saying, that every
member is a citizen—every citizen a voter—every voter votes for

Labor.

To work for higher wages, shorter hours and better conditions
only through negotiations, is to work with one hand tied behind our
| back. Let's strike out with both hands and win for labor that rec-
| ognition from our parliamentary representatives (regardless of
| their political party). which will win for labor and the people legis-
lation so urgently required.

What Does Community
‘Chest Mean To You?

| Automobile Workers of America,
C.1.0., submitted a complete out-
| line of the conditions in the au.
|tomobile industry, particularly |
the position of the Ford Motor!
Company to ‘signing an agree-
jment. The United Automobile
Workers are now in the process.
of taking a strike vote, and a|
special advisory committee of |
the Canadian Congress of Labour
was elected to assist the United
Automobile Workers in bringing
about a favorable and success-
ful conclusion in this dispute,
While attending the Congress
meeting in Ottawa, I appeared
before the National War Labour
Board in a joint appeal with R.|
V. Stuart of Stuart Research,’
representing the employers, inj
“requesting a reversal of the B.C!
; Regional War Labour Board’s
(Tuling against premium pay for

Dan was 19 that night a few
Important new industries for | the “Club.”
the Pacifie Coast may result |
from adaption of secret Nazi|
for converting wood

liquor from wood- | HOD
1 | Place for a boy like him.

he

eyesight was bad too.

processes
Waste and

pulp mills into sugar, alcoh

and yeast. Use of these processes} I don’t know how heard

| soon to be disclosed to the pub-| shout the “club”—but he did—|!

le, would turn what heretofore | - i
have been troublesome disposal | 274 from then on life had a new

higWecou Omniesankts: jmeaning for Dan. Because the
George W. Trayer, chief of | “lub” was interested in him he
Washington’s Agriculture De |spruced himself up—his bearing
partment’s division of forest |rew more confident. No longer
products headed a group who|was he just a deaf boy nobody
made a comprehensive survey of | wanted or cared about. Because
Nazi methods of utilization of | the “club” was interested in him
woodwaste products, categoriz-|an eye operation which cured
ing their uses into seven groups; | his sight deficiency was arranged
woods and plastics; glues and | and an instrument was purchased
glue products; chemical conver-| to help his hearing, and then he
sion; pulp and paper; seasoning,| got a job. And Dan is an excel-

An official delegate member loggers employed in the Queen| preservation and protection of|lent worker, He holds his head

ofa

a

union, now in the Charlotte Island area, under the woods; timber construction and|up with the best of them now.
elected as our repre- jurisdiction of IWA Local 1-71.’ shipping containers,
ba sagt i

Self - respecting, self - confident,

whole appearance had a seedy air.
too—nobody wanted to give a deaf boy a job—specially when his
He'd been on relief and he’d been sick a lot
—and just about then Dan figured that the world was a pretty grim

years back when he happened into

His clothes were shabby, his shoes run down—his

He was pretty low in his mind

elf-supporting. And that is what
the “club” is for.

The League for the Hard of
\Tearing, a. member agency of
‘the Welfare Council and Com-
hmunity Chest, was begun in 1933
jas an aid to people whose hear-
ing is impaired. They give lip
reading classes and offer a re-
creational program of social ac-
tivities. They give advice and
help.

Dan is one example of the
wonderful work done by the
League.

This is one of your Community
BeOS, did you know about
it