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Vol. 6 No. 24 Vancouver, B.C., June 13, 1947 SS Fivat@ente

- Dionne could get workers if he paid decent wages

t

e Ludger Dionne, Liberal

M.P. and _  milliomaire
textile mill owner of St.
George de Beauce, imported

_ Polish girls to Quebec mot

because of the labor short-
age he claimed but because
of a shortage of girls will-
ing to work for the wages

: | he paid. This was the charge
‘ | made by President Elphege
' . Beaudoin of the

Quebec
Federation of Labor at the
federation’s annual conven-

' . tion in St. Jerome last week.

“Tf he will pay decent wages
he will get workers right

ra here in the province,’ Beau-

doin declared.

je Shown at left are some
of the 100 Polish girls

brought to Quebec by Di-
onne as they left for the
convent where they will be
housed.

Housewives score lifting

of further price controls

Reflecting the general public reaction to the
federal government's latest decontrol orders, the
B.C. Housewives’ Consumer Association this week
wired Finance Minister Douglas Abbott protesting
the ‘flagrant denial of the people’s will and fam-
ily needs’ and urging ‘‘immediate reconsideration
of the price policy” of the federal government.

Abbott this week announced lifting of price controls on
—Continued on Page 8—See PRICES

Laundry strike tests Bill 39

NANAIMO, B.C.—The Coalition government’s anti-strike
Bill 39 got its first test here this week when 30 workers at
the Imperial Laundry struck to protest dismissal of two wo-
men workers. One, Mrs. Violet Dewhurst, was fired for hav-
ing attended the B.C. Federation of Labor convention as a
delegate last weekend.

CCL Regional Director Daniel O’Brien and general organ-
izer Dan Radford immediately rushed here, from WVarmcouver
to assist the strikers. O’Brien maintains that the company
broke its agreement with the Laundry Workers Union “by
discharging and locking out the employees in question.” *

As the Tribune went to press, picket lines were being
solidly maintained, while union and company officials con-
ferred with John Place, provincial labor department concili-

ator, in an effort to settle the dispute.

TB rate high

Tuberculosis hits

14 times as often among
Canadian Indians as it does
among other sections of the
people. This is revealed in
the brief of the Canadian
Association of Social Work-
ers, to the Commons’ Indian
Affairs Committee, which
has been meeting since the
beginning of March.

The committee also heard
representatives of the Six
Nations Tribe who live in
the Brantford area of sou-
thern Ontario. Briefs have
been submitted by Indian
tribes and communities in
all parts of Canada ihclud-
ing the Native Brotherhood
of B.C.

Something of resent-

ment the Native Indi-
ans feel is mirrored in the
expression of this Indian
lad from Fort Wrigley in
Mackenzie District.

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UNITE AGAINST BILL 39

Labor sets up action committee

~ A major step by CCL
unions of British Colum-
bia to establish a broad,
united people’s movement
for the purpose of defeat-
ing the Anscomb - Hart
Coalition government at the
next provincial election, was
the outstanding feature of the
three-day emergency conven-
tion of the B.C. Federation
of Labor (CCL), held in Van-
couver last weekend.

The 101 delegates gave
unanimous endorsation to an
executive resolution calling
for united labor political ac-
tion “to rally the people of
British Columbia to bring
about the full defeat of the
Coalition government,” and
establishing a 17-man stand-
ing committee with full au-
thority to work for this end.

The resolution noted that
the government, “in their de-
termination to follow a pat-
tern of anti-union reaction...
have failed to properly an-
alyze either the present tem-
per of the working people or
the fact that the trade unions”

were “in the front ranks in
the recent fight to rid the
world from all forms of op-
pression.”

Continued on Page 8
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