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LUMBER WORKER

October 22, 1945

To Start November 13

The second annual $500 competitive art exhibition, “British

at Work,” to be conducted by the Labor Arts Guild in|:

the Vancouver Art Gallery from November 13 to December 2, will
offer the following cash prizes contributed by B.C, Trade Unions:

Oil Painting $100; Water
Color $100; Sculpture $100;
Black and White $50; Poster or
Pastel $50.

The competition is open to
any resident of British Colum-
bia. Each entry must depict the

Chest Drive
Short of Goal

By MRS. SALLIE PHILLIPS
Public Relations Secretary

With the failure of the Com-
munity Chest campaign to go
over the top, the social agen-
cies are tightening their belts
and facing a lean winter.
Whether or not you and I ever
fully realized the implications of
the failure of the campaign—
the agencies certainly did. It
is their business to keep a finger
om the health and welfare pulse
of Mr. and Mrs. Vancouver—and
the sigas are unmistakable. We
are facing a period in our his-
tory when the services of the
Community Chest Agencies are
going to be more a necessity than
ever before—a period when the
agencies should be able to go
forward without the pinching
need of counting non-existent
pennies, without the feeling of
frustration that the knowledge
of financial lack lends to their
every action. If there are not
enough Victorian Order Nurses
to visit young mothers, if there
are not enough visiting thome-
makers to fill in when an emer-
gency occurs in your family or
mine; if some child cannot be
taken from a tubercular home
and placed in the body-building
surroundings of the Preven-
torium—it is because we have
failed in our obligation to our
friends and neighbors, to our
fellow men. to ourselves.

Now is the time to resolve that
such a situation never again
arises. Failure has a_ bitter
taste, and Vancouver should not
have to taste it.

Contract At Plywoods
Spurs Activity

Considerable activity is* now
in progress at B.C. Plywoods as
a result of the signing of the
Master Agreement a short time
ago. This operation as the larg-
est within jurisdicition of Local
217, is one that presents consid-
erable difficulty for the Shop
Stewards as it is working 3 shifts
with only a half hour at lunch
time and also the scattered area
in which the employees live,
However, in spite of these un-
favorable conditions the Shop
Stewards can be congratulated
for the excellent job they are do-
ing.

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industrial or economic activities
of the province, such as agricul-
ture, shipbuilding, fishing, lum-
bering. dairying, aircraft pro-
duction, mining, construction, or
any other phase of B.C. working
life.

Each exhibitor is limited to 3
entries. The largest measure-
ment of any picture must not
exceed 48 inches.
mitted must be done by the ex-
hibitors; copies of existing pic-
tures will not be accepted; and
work previously exhibited in the
1944 “British Columbia at Work”
Exhibition will not be eligible
for re-entry. Framing of pic-
tures is optional but any picture
not framed must be mounted.
Entry forms are to be forwarded
not later than October 30, and
all entries received not later than
November 6. Regulation entry
blanks and further particulars
regarding delivery and shipping
are obtainable from the Labor
Arts Guild, 641 Granville St., or
from the Vancouver Art Gallery.

It will be recalled that four
of the 1944 major prize winners
were members of trade unions,
and the large number of entries
from worker-artists and trade
unionists exhibiting for the first
time received the high commen-
dation of press and public. Spe-
cial appeal is again made to the
workers of British Columbia to
participate in this year’s exhi-
bition.

Young Workers
Urged To Vote

Importance of first-time and
other young ‘voters in industry
casting their ballot in the pro-
vincial election was emphasized
in a statement issued to the la-
bor and daily press by the B. C.
Provincial Executive of the Na-
tional Federation of Labor Youth.

The NFLY (formerly Federa-
tion of Democratic Youth) has
been set up primarily to lead the
fight of young trade unionists
and workers for jobs at good
wages without layoffs.

In the interests of the strug-
gle for labor unity, this organ-
ization of progressive youth
urges every first-time voter
among the woodworkers to go
to the polls Oct. 25 and vote.

Green Haven

QUALITY LUNCHES

SODA FOUNTAIN
AFTER SHOW SNACKS

Also a Full Line Of
TOBACCOS and
MAGAZINES

(JOHN KERRONE — Prop.)
DUNCAN, B.C.

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- WINNIE WILLIAMS

District Poses
Staunch Worker

Winnie Williams, well known
receptionist in the District Of-
fice of the IWA and secretary
to Nigel Morgan for four years,
has left to work for the Labor-
Progressive Party.

Winnie had become almost an
institution in the IWA and has
given unstintingly of her time
and effort toward building this
union to the power it has now
become, She was not one to push
herself forward nor did she de-
mand recognition for her serv-
ices. She will be missed by those
readers of the B. C. Lumber
Worker who enjoyed reading her
column “Without Apology,”

written under the pen name of
Teredo.

Australian Govt.
Opposes Dutch Policy

SYDNEY — The Australian
Labor government took an un-
precedented diplomatic action
this week by allowing 702 strik-
ing Indonesian seamen and poli-
tical internees to return to the
Netherlands Indies in the British
ship “Esperance Bay.” The ac-
tion followed representations
from Australian trade unions
and other labor and liberal bodies
who are supporting the Indones-
jans in their fight against the
restoration of Dutch colonial
rule, :

The Indonesians are oficially
subject to Dutch authority and
since they walked off their ships,
they are also prohibited immi-
grants under Australian law and
should technically be held in jail

till they are handed over to
Dutch authorities,

agree on how to consolidate

Trud, the daily organ of the
All-Union Central Council of
Trade Unions, has given consid-
erably more space during tho
past week to the Paris successes
than to the London failure. Con-
sideration of the latter is con-
fined to printing Foreign Corh-

Victoria Labor
Wants Unity

At the regular meeting of the
Victoria Labor Council, CCL, on
Tuesday. October 9, delegates
from the Boilermakers’ Local
No. 2, SGWF, were seated. The
new delegates were D. Fitzger-
lald, W. B. White, J. Smith, F.
H. Dyke and H. Farmer.

Dealing with the coming elec-
tions the Council decided to pub-
lish a large advertisement in
jboth local newspapers, carrying
in full the resolution on. elector-
al unity as passed by the last
Convention of the BC. Feder-
ation of Labor. This resolution
calls for electoral unity between
the CCF, the LPP and the trade
union movement, with the object
in view of placing labor support
behind one candidate in each
electoral constituency.

Housing Film
To Be Shown

On Monday evening, October
29, the Vancouver Junior Board
of Trade will be holding a Film
Forum on a subject of vital in-
| terest to all Vancouverites —
“Housing.”

They are showing two very
fine films: “War Where You
Live” and “A Place to Live In.”
These pictures deal with certain
phases of the present housing
situation, which they feel will
result in an interesting discus-
sion. Nigel Morgan has been

chosen as chairman of the meet-
ing by the Board. The meeting
will be held in the Boilermakers’
Hall, 339 West Pender Street at

8:00 p.m.

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‘Soviet Labor Hails |
Results of Conference

By ANNA LOUISE STRONG
MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (ALN)—In the midst of shock
and disappointment over the breakdown of the foreign min-
isters' conference in London, the remarkable unity of world
organized labor achieved in Paris comes to the Soviet trade
union as considerable consolation. If the diplomats can’t

postwar democracy, at least

the world’s workers can, is the view here.

missar Molotoy’s press confer-
ence statement and those of some
more friendly American and
British commentators. This jis
not caused by an underestima-
tion of the seriousness of the
London failure, but apparently @
by the belief that it is better
for public morale and interna-
tional good will to play up»
agreements, not disagreements.

Trud goes lyrical over Paris.
Never in the history of the la-
bor movement, it says, has there
been such an all-inclusive inter-
national labor . organization,
which unites for the first time
the many-millioned trade unions
from the industrially developed
lands with workers’ organiza-
tions in the more backward
countries and even from the de-
pendent colonies.

“The constitution of the new
federation gives the internation-
al working class a mighty wea-
pon to fight for its interests and
rights in the postwar world,”
says a long article in Trud. List-
ed among those rights are “all
democratic freedoms” and such
social and economic rights as
jobs for everybody, higher
wages, shorter hours, better
conditions of work and life,

| To Retain Control

Over Housing

LONDON—Britain’s wartime
controls over manpower, prices.
housing and other phases of the
nation’s economic life were ex-
tended for five years by the
House of Commons last week.
The vote, 258 to 189, followed a
heated controversy between the
Labor government and the Con-
servative opposition. The con-
tinued controls were asked on
the grounds that the urgent need
for shelter for bombed-out fam-
ilies and shortages of labor. food

and materials make planning es-
sential,

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