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Five Cents

LABOR. UPS DEMANDS

TO MEET PRICE HOIST

Says gov’t brings depression closer

Throughout the country this week workers took

“nother pay cut as the King government ended
ts flour subsidy and bread threatened to follow
mi

in a four-cent rise.

Nor was this all. Lifting of contro!s on canned

woods and breakfast foods meant that more of the
eekly Pay envelope would go on food and still less would
available for clothing and shoes, which would also cost

™ 10 to 25 percent more.

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t “All the government needs to do now is to put a luxury
aX on food,” was one bitter labor comment here.

Want controls restored

h Leaders of trade unions and consumers’ organizations
“te met the latest decontrol order with the charge that the
eavetnment was bringing closer “the grim prospect of un-
"ployment and breadlines.” Government policy, they as-
Serted, Was facilitating the huge profit-taking of big business,
int aS draining the people’s purchasing power to the
Point where many wage earners and pensioners could no

On, :
Ber buy even essentials,

They voiced the general demand’ that the government

Should immediately reimpose controls to bring prices back
Nto line,

fy On Picket lines here, where steel, packing house and
at iture workers are striking for higher wages, meetings
mie Reing held this week to reconsider wage demands in

be € government’s action. :
Ste, Eamon Park, international representative for the ay i
Ste €] Orkers, reported that the 350-odd employees of a

*l plants involved in the strike would meet Wednesday

pee on page 8—see
Here's what you can do

®
Write, wire, telephone your MP, MLA, ee
mayor, Send a wire to Prime Minister King.
nd reimposing of price controls,
Get your trade union, ‘lub, lodge or ia cane ata a
¢ same—or get a group of neighbors together
e EER: 2 protest,
Cut your purchases of all but essentials. Unless
Prices are forced down, you'll have to anyway.

® ‘ aa
e Join your local consumer association.
e Tite letters to your daily and weekly BORED ERS
Organize public meetings, petition campaigns, pro-
@ St rallies,
e Patronize and support cooperative stores.
Support the steel, packinghouse workers’ strike
e °t higher wages to meet increased costs-of living.

*POn in the fight to lower prices.

member —__ . inion is your strongest o
We r public op

r) Here Henry A. Wallace is

troit
Cadillac Square, where he told
@ rally of 140,000 workers that
“reactionary capitalists are in
the saddle today with a pro-
gram _ that
ment and breadlines.” By try-
ing
baiting Republicans,” he said,
the Truman administration “has
developed an interesting com-
petition based on the bi-parti-
San principle of breeding hate
and war hysteria. This insane
Policy, if continued, will even-
tually cost the lives of millions
of Americans.”

@ With Wallace,

Wallace at Detroit

shown marching in the De-
Labor Day parade to

means unemploy-

“to out-redbait the red-

at left, is
R. J. Thomas, vice-president
of the United Auto Workers
(CIO).

UPWA rejects offer,

votes to remain out

Members of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers

Industrial Union

(CCL) joined striking steel, packing house and furniture workers on the picket
lines in Vancouver this week as 360 workers walked out of ithe Western
Bridge plant to back up their demands for a 12¥ cents an hour wage boost
—a demand which may now be increased to keep pace with price advances

caused by this week’s decontrol order.

stated that the union’s policy
committee, at a meeting last
Saturday, had decided to re-
commend a walkout on Tues-
day this week. Workers at
the plant, however, staged
their walkout on Monday,
ignoring the restrictive pro-
cedures required by Bill 39
as steel, packing house and
furniture workers had done
earlier.

Possibility of a walkout of
restaurant workers in the
city was also indicated this

week when members of the
Hotel and Restaurant , Em-
ployees Union (AFL) pack-
ed meetings on Tuesday af-
ternoon and evening to hear
their officers report on ne-
gotiations for a new contract
and rejected proposals made
by Vancouver restaurant
owners.

A vote taken among 350
members in 25 restaurants
recently showed that the
majority favored resort to
strike action unless  mini-

Boi‘ermakers President William White

mum demands were met,
May Laniczek, union busi-
ness agent, told the Pacific
Tribune this week.

The union’s original de-
mands were for a wage in-
crease of 20 cents an hour
and the 40-hour week, two
weeks’ vacation with pay
and statutory holiday com-
pensations, and the compul-
Sory irrevocable  checkoff.
Restaurant owners countered

Continued on page 8
See STRIKES