} (ym, ¢ STSUINE omwe, Nac toa vcenesernesiatlll TaN in il | Minssssssttfftnsetl ernst iz | { IWA members of Ladysmith reject longer work week LADYSMITH, B.C. Hundreds of [WA members who jampacked Native Sons Hall there on Tuesday this week listened to their union president, Stewart Alsbury, explain that International Woodworkers of America officials were willing to cooperate with employers in introducing a longer work: week if workers on the job agreed, then voted overwhelmingly against any attempt to extend the 40- hour week in .this district. * Prior to Alsbury’s visit, which was made for the purpose of. sounding out opinion on the ex- ecutive board’s stand, hundreds of copies ‘of a leaflet issued by a rank-and-file committee of TWA members in the ‘Nanaimo area were distributed. The dodger called on woodworkers to defend the 40-hour week and scored IWA top brass for failing to oppose - the bosses’ propaganda aimed at scuttling it. an “Once again the bosses are at- tempting to break the 40-hour week,” the leaflet read. “As in 1950 they are using the bait of overtime pay for Saturday work. The lumber barons are: taking advantage of the hardships caus- ed by the long fire season. “Is overtime pay the answer to soaring living costs? Certainly not. The real answer is a wage increase. i “Northwest Bay and Nanaimo River camps have shown their’ solidarity in rejecting the exten- ‘sion of the 40-hour week. “Courtenay IWA local sent a resolution to the district council meeting in July demanding con- tract reopening for a $2 wage in- creaSe across the board. “Why have our local and dis- trict IWA officers refused to con-— sider this resolution? “Loggers and millworkers must stand together, protect the 40- hour week and demand immedi- ate contract reopening and wage increases.” 850 subs needed in less than four weeks A total of 142 subs (new sub- scriptions, renewals and bundles. of 25 papers counted as the equivalent of one sub) is the score up to Tuesday noon this week -in the Pacific Tribune’s September drive for 1,000 increased circula- tion. ThHAt still leaves 858 subs to collect in less than four weeks! Parley prepares — attle public 7 on prices issue A continuations committee charged with the task of translating resolutions against high Pp’ ian into action was struck. off at the prices conference held under the sponsorship of Congress of ‘Canaala® Wemen in Electrical Workers’ Centre here on Friday last week. Made up of representatives from organizations attending the conference, the contiquahons a mittee will map plans for bringing the fight-back campaign. against soaring prices before the public, ! order te win ever-widening popular support. ; Seven resolutions dealing with various aspe: BUT IT’S NOT NEWS TO YOU _ Living costs now at new record high Wage-earners know these things ahead of Ottawa—they feel the effects of a shrinking dollar every time they buy food for the: table ‘or necessary items of clothing and household ~goods—so it came as no great shock when the’ federal bureau of statistics announced this week that the cost-of-living index continued its upward climb in July, hitting an all-time peak of 188.9 (a 1.3 boost for the month). (In an address broadcast over CSC this week, Prime Minister St. Laurent stated that Ottawa remains opposed to the introduc- tion of price controls and urged citizens to “postpone buying things you can get along without.” ° He proposed that Canadian work- ers produce more: and consume less in order to “help hold down the cost of living.”’) , : Another jolt was handed long- suffering citizens with the news that production ofa host of household goods will be slashed after October 1 in order to divert more raw materials into the maw of the war production plants. The orders for this latest move came from Washington, where the “defense production” board announced that less raw mater- jals will be available for the mak- ing of cars, refrigerators, wash- ing machines, radios and many other types of civilian goods. Of- ficials of the Rriorities Branch of the Department of Defense Pro- duction in Canada chimed in with an announcement that the cut- backs would affect this country’ in a similar manner. This means that hard-working taxpayers, who have to shell-out the money fo finance Canada’s war program, will find their dol- lars reduced;in value from month to month at an even faster rate than heretofore, as the cost-of- living continues to soar. ‘ pa . ’ To-speak in B.C Dr. James G, Endicott, chair- man of the Canadian Peace Con- gress, who is well known to thousands in this city, will be in Vancouver to speak at a public meeting in Pender Auditorium on Wednesday, September 19, Van- couver Peace Assembly announces. Arrangements are also being made for Dr. Endicott to speak at Trail, Rossland, Kimberley, Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay, and. New Westminster. Peace petitioners plan to honor leading yong Vancouver peace workers will petition this Saturday in honor of Carole Kelley, their champion - peace petitioner. In every part of Europe /she has visited, Carole Kelley and Bill Endicott of Trail have been honored as two of the leading peace petitioners in the English- speaking world. In Paris, Carole was congratu; | lated by Jean LaFitte, the French writer and secretary of the World © Peace Council. In Germany a group of metal workers presented her with a watch. During the World Youth Peace Festival she was honored many times. Her CAROLE KELLEY canvass worker story was broadcast over Moscow radio. \ It is reported that Carole is now in the Soviet Union with an invit- ed delegation of 12 Canadian youth. The British Columbia campaign in support of the World Peace Pact Appeal concludes, in pro- vincial points, on Saturday, Sep- tember 15. In Vancouver it con- cludes on Saturday, September 22. ‘ The Council made a_ special appeal this week to all petitioners to begin sending in filled petition. forms as the official count of sig- natures has already begun. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 — PAGE ts of the prices campaign were unanimously passe — the guns and armaments are d& ers getting on in years are peins heap.” in retail beef prices, ices by nearly 150 servers. Opposing any increase i price of milk to consumers, first resolution called for increa> ed prices to dairy farmers, tO be covered by payment of a provit cial government subsidy to the farmers, ; \Subsidies were also advocated to be paid on other essentia foods by the federal government Demanding reintroduction of 4? Excess Profits Tax, a resolutio? pointed out that money for Pay ment of federal subsidies on °° sential foods “can be provided by the enactment of legislation oe place a tax on all profits ove? four percent.” A ae “Subsidies could be paid for out ; of the super-profits of war De duction,” said delegate Fred Col- lins. “But the people who make delegates and BP termined to drive down our stan@ © ard of living. They advocate the policies of the Nazi financier who argued that the less the Pe ple consume, the more money ©” be spent on arms for war.” ? Hitting at the phony “cost-of living index” compiled by Ottaw® another resolution called for full-scale public inquiry into the COL index “with a view to adopt ing an altogether new basis fF the index which would truly T flect the rising cost’ of living ye ce day as compared to 1939.” r “The government index assume? that a family of four people caf get by on five haircuts a yeat said Emil Bjarnason. “It 2° sumes that rents have increased only 25 percent in 12 years. “3 only vegetables covered in the COL index are potatoes, @ beans and cooking onions. Fru! mentioned are oranges and ca” ned peaches,” bd “We are ‘raising ja generatio? of undernourished children to ne come the workers of tomorrow: said Effie Jones, “and our work thrown on the industrial sora Exports of Canadian beef Rs the U.S. was sharply rapped . the conference in a’ resolutio? which also demanded a reductio? “Much of the horsemeat we're eating here is imported from sabi \United States, while we ship OW steers to the U.S,” said Hus? Clark. Rees “We're also receiving huge ship" ments of American comic book? which poison the minds of 0% children,” said Jack Phillip® — “Let’s tell the Yankees, we'll keeP our beef on this side of the DO der, and they can keep theif bull for themselves.’ f Other resolutions endorsed he delegates supported the wast drive of trade unions and ure® the federal government to resci®® thé 20 percent income surtax- ‘ie Mrs. Doris Hartley chaired th conference and Mrs. Nora b! Rodd brought greetings from national council of the Cong? of Canadian Women.