Washington reveals plans for new round of Arctic maneuvers WASHINGTON—The United States and Canada will announce plans soon for joint Arctic maneuvers next winter to continue preparations for war in the polar regions, an informed U.S, .war department source said today. Byrd joins clamor : SPARTANBURG, S.C. — A | complete. knowledge of the Arc- tic wastelands will be invalu- able to hemispheric defense in ease of another war, particu- larly an atomic war, Admiral Richard E. Byrd said here this week. Byrd, veteran Anarctic ex- plorer, whose big expedition to the ice-locked continent last year was linked with current army and navy polar research, commended joint U.S. and Ca- madian plans for _ full-scale maneuvers in the Arctic regions this summer. “Such exploration,” Byrd said, “will be extremely valu- able to us because the Arctic lies between the United States and her enemies.” Byrd dic not explain his reference to ‘enemies’. ” / ' The announcement will be made by the Canadian-American Per- manent Joint Defense Board. Since the joint defense plan was begun the United States has sold the Canadians vast quantities of combat material at a nominal fee. For example, equipment that cost $22,695,490 originally, was turned over to’ Canadians for $1,022,519. This included B-29 Super For- tresses, tanks, artillery, transpor- tation and communications equip- ment and hospital supplies. The U.S. took part in Canada’s famous ‘Exercise Musk Ox’ below the Arctic Circle in April, 1946, and Canadian observers attenaed last winter’s U.S. army maneuvers in Alaska. In addition, the army air forces are cooperating with Canada in a series of cold weather tests of equipment, weather stations and navigational aids in the polar re- gions. AAF planes still are using Canadian bases although they have never advertised 1t. Other steps of cooperation in- clude: @ Exchange of experts to study the features of the defense of each country. @ Encouragement of common designs and standards of arms, equipment, organization, training and new developments. @® Mutual and reciprocal avail- ability of military, naval and air facilities in each country. @ A chain of air bases, land- line communications and a high- way liking the United States with Alaska, now under control of the Canadian army and air forces, but open to the United States. Outcome of IWA parley — to be known this week Negotiations between the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) and Coast lumber operators approached an end this week, with the union accusing operators of “con- ‘tinuing their policy of hedging and stalling on the main ' points under discussion.” With adjournment of the talks Wednesday afternoon, Harold Prit- chett, announced over the union’s . tradio broadcast ‘Green Gold’ that evening, that the “operators’ pres- ent attitude is making a mockery of negotiations.” Talks end Thurs- day of this week, when the new 1947 contract will either be sign- ed between the TWA and Stuart Research, operators’ representa- tives, or the union will decide to take “appropriate action to en- force its wage-hour demands.” A special. meeting will be held " ‘this week-end of the IWA district policy committee to decide on methods. of the latter course of action, should Thursday’s talks produce no settlement. Pritchett also announced a “growing desire and action on the part of the membership for the 40-hour week” in the lumbering . industry of B.C. It is reported the Coast loggers are continuing working the 40-hour week, and ‘have expressed their determina- tion to continue doing so. IWA Local 1-85, Port Alberni, at a membership meeting last week decided to continue on the 40-| . hour week, and instructed its : sub-locals in the sawmills to act accordingly, according to Mark Mosher, IWA - Local business agent. Duncan IWA Local 1-80, at its membership meeting last Sunday, decided to “take appropriate ac- tion if the operators do not agree to a satisfactory settlement.” Action committees are now set up at Port Alberni, Duncan, Van- couver, New Westminster and in Coast logging camps comprising IWA Local 1-71. Coupled with the action of the Island and Coast loggers, in work- ing the 40-hour week, with the expiration of the 1946 contract, Pritchett. also reports that “the sawmills are now beginning to take like action by settling the 40- hour week question on the job.” Dispute Settled Settlement of a lengthy dispute over a union agreement between Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd. and the Vancouver District Metal and Chemical Workers Union, Local 289 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and melter Workers (CIO), -has been settled by con- ciliation, Labor Minister Humphrey Mit- chell announced the agreement Wednesday at Ottawa. A contract has been signed, but details of the several points in dispute were not revealed. Meet launches Subs before Labor Day. Secure 700 new readers. the people’s desires.” 31 were received. Opening gun in the Pacific Tribune’s drive to add 1,500 new readers to its subscription lists was fired last Saturday at an enthusiastic meeting of PT supporters in Croatian Hall here which undertook to fill a Vancouver quota of 800 new Provincial points are being asked to Addressing the meeting, Editor Tom McEwen stressed the need for the paper reaching hundreds of new readers in the main industries “if it is to play its full role as a journal of Quotas set for Vancouver and district are: Industrial clubs, 200; Burnaby, 120; North Vancouver, 60; West End, 20; East End, 120; Hastings East, 60; South Hill, 60; Youth, 20; Pro- fessional, 20; Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Commercial Drive, 80; and Bill Bennett, 40 subs. ; This week 66 subs were received at the Tribune office. These consisted of 50 renewals and 16 new subscriptions. This is more than twice as many subs turned in last week, when John Matich of the Georgia Club, a veteran supporter of - the labor press pointed to regular door-to-door canvassing as _-important neighborhood work in obtaining and holding new sub campaign Nanaimo Victoria, demanding that the charges against the 27 laun- dry workers, and three CCL leaders, be dropped and: the company compelled: to rein- State the two workers who were fired without just cause. The meeting was addressed by Alex McAuslane, CCL first vice- president. Union defence counsel R. J. Mc- Master of Vancouver Charged at the trial that certain sections of Bill 39 were “contrary to natural justice.” McMaster pointed out that it was unfair to accuse those charged, on information laid b: an employee of the provincial la- bor department, Barry Goult, while the labor minister himself would “sit as judge over a large number of material facts” in the case. A plea of “not guilty” for all the accused was entered by McMaster. Magistrate Beevor- Potts adjourned the case until next Wednesday, July 10, when hearing on a writ of prohibition will be heard in Supreme Court in Vancouver. It is reported this week that scores of AFL and CCL unions throughout the province have sent protest wires to Premier Hart de- maning thdat the charges aginst the Nanaimo workers be dropped. Action. committees were set up this week by several local unions to win public support against Bill 39. Harold Pritchett, secretary- treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL), this week ap- pealed to all unions in B.C. to rally to the support of the Na- naimo strikers, and forward fin- ancial assistance to the Federa- tion’s ‘Fight Bill 39’ Committee. A sidelight on the government’s attitude in prosecuting a company charged with violation of pro- visions of the ICA Act was af- forded this week. Magistrate D. W. Rowlands of Kamlops recently refused to hear charges brought against B.C. In- terior Sawmills by the IWA. Mag- istrate Rowlands dismissed the charges against the firm without taking a plea or hearing evidence. Union counsel John Stanton told the Pacific Tribune he requested a Supreme Court order, to force the magistrate to act. Stanton declared “this firm flagrantly vio- lated provisions of the ICA Act, but the department of labor re- fused to prosecute.” ZENITH CAFE ‘accepted by an WILLIAM RIGBY “4 victory for the UFAWU” Pact averts fishing tie-up A threatened tieup of Coast salmon fishermen over price de- mands was averted last weekend as the fishing season opened, by conclusion of an agreement be- tween operators and the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union (TLC), and an estimated 1,500 fishing vessels were heading for the sockeye grounds this week. The operators’ price offer was overwhelming vote of the membership in ballot- ing last week from Nass River, near Alaska, down the coast to the Fraser River. The 1947 price agreement pro- vides for 15 cents a pound on sockeye in all areas, as asked by the UFAWU; 10-and-a-half cents for coho; and an average increase of one half cent of 16 percent on pinks and chums. The coho price this season is. one-and-a-half pounds higher than last year in all areas except the Queen Char- lotte Islands, where the _ boost amounts to two cents. William Rigby, UFAWU sec- retary-treasurer, commenting on the settlement, declared: “The signing of this agreement represents a victory for the UFAWU, which earlier in nego- tiations had informed the oper- ators that in accordance ‘ with union policy, fixed by the an- nual convention, there would be no fishing unless salmon~prices had been previously settled.” “Our stand was simply one of “No agreement—no fish,”, Rigby said, adding: “A last minute new offer by the fishing companies increasing fisn prices by one quarter to one half cent on the different varieties, led to a settlement of the price dis- pute that threatened to hold off salmon fishing at the start of the season.” Agreements had previously been signed for shoreworkers and oth- ers employed in salmon canning, Paris barrier erected by the Truman Doctrine which made agreement impossible. Taken at its face value, US. Secretary of State George Mar- shall’s plan was a laudable pro posal to use the United States great industrial resources, UD- touched by the war, to rebuild Europe’s economy, shattered in five years of total warfare. But Marshall, in couching his aD- nouncement, was mindful of thé growing opposition to the Tru- man Doctrine at home and the developing resistance to Ameri- can imperialism abroad. His lat- guage was different from that of President Truman in_ his speech last March, his purpose appeared to be different, but the basic aim remained unchanged. Examined in conjunetion with American foreign policy develop ments over past weeks, of which granting of the $200,000,000 loan to France through the Interna {tional Bank contingent upon oust- ing of the Communists from the government is a fair example, Marshall’s plan becomes evident as another device for creating # West European bloc organized by Britain and directed by the U5: through its economic control. By this same examination Bev in’s and Bidault’s position at the conference is also seen as # means of maintaining the Pre tense that it is the Soviet Union which refuses to cooperate, thus helping them to win public suP- port for a plan to divide Europe against the interest of Hurope® peoples and their own. Molotov exposed this with his blunt warning: “Under these conditions how would the small countries and it general the less powerful states be able to safeguard their 14 tional economics and their inde pendence? “The Soviet government cel tianly can not venture along this path and continue to support its proposals put forward at this conference on June 30. “The Soviet government while favoring the development of iM ternational collaboration on re basis of equal rights and mutu respect for the interests of er: contracting parties, cannot do at the expense of other countries of less strength or size. 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