two camps and at press tim WwW pickets are covering the camp already beat back an attempt back without discrimination. Both camps are under jurisdic- tion of Mission local 367 of the|ichan local 80. When fallers at WIUC. ' C pickets are patrolling Hick’s hiring agency ae. lockout over retroactive pay at the G and F camp in the Mission area. at Knowlton’s Ruby and all strikers are to be taken WIUC strike action enforces contract Hitting back at boss attempts to take advantage of IWA disruption to “get tough” in the lumber industry, the Woodworkers’ Industrial Union of Canada scored victories in e had picket lines out against a lockout in a third operation. on Carrall Street in view of a also. Strike action to withhold retroactive pay, « It is understood Creek camp had Second victory was won by Cow- Hillcrest camp came in because of GBS AGAIN Charge Saint Peter? By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Ayot Saint Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England. Nothing in the sham that now passes for democracy is more childishly foolish than legislation in the U.S.A., nor so conclusive as to the failure of its schools to teach history. , * In America today the number of citizens who have read the Communist Manifesto, books of Marx and Engels or of the Ham- monds and Upton Sinclair and have been converted to commun- ism by them hasn’t been counted; but it can hardly be less than one percent of the population of upwards of 130,000,000. Illiterate as the world still is, we estimate its Marxists at a To suppress communism, the American government has arrested 12 persons and charged them with ad- vocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence, which is exactly what Washington and Jefferson did, thereby creating the United States of America. ; The founder of Christianity was a Communist with 11 faith- ful Apostles, chief of whom struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing it. But American legislators, ostensibly Christians, don’t read the They would charge Saint Peter with sedition as well as murder if he were not beyond their reach. million and a quarter. Bible, much less Karl Marx, O’Brien quits chair of B.C. Federation Danny O’Brien, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL) for four years, tendered his resignation from that post because of ‘complete disagreement with the present policy of the so-called majecrity of the executive council of the Federation and the,avowed policy of the Canadian Con- gress of Labor” according to body November 6. _ His action came after the Fed- eration’s executive council by a vote of 6 to 5 decided to throw Federation resources behind IWA attempts to defeat. the WIUC in the woodworking industry. ATTENTION! MICHEL-NATAL FERNIE STANLEY RYERSON National Organizer LPP . Will Speak on “PEACE” _ Sunday, November 2i Miners Hall, Natal, 2 p.m. Legion Hall, Fernie, 7 p.m. a letter he submitted to that Vice-president Bill Stewart now moves up to take the president’s post. O’Brien’s letter declares that “the rank and file of all Canadian work- ers’ organizations should be free to choose their own leadership without dictatorial interference from the top, either at home or south of the border, and without regard to race, color or creed. “The present so-called white-bloc’ activities of the would-be saviours of the Canadian workers within the CCL resemble too closely for my liking the tactics of the late Adolf Hitler. “TI do not believe the delegates who elected me in convention would expect me to support such policies which have already caused serious splits and divisions within the ranks of the Congress.” Plenty of Work Clothes You'll find what you want in our stock of union-made work clothes. They're made to stand hard wear by such well-known makers as... Gwe WESTERN KING KITCHEN-PEABODY MONARCH All Mail Orders Promptly Filled and Postpaid AERO “LTD- 45 East Hastings Vancouver B.C. high winds-—traditional practice in the industry—they were fired, Al- though the management attempted to use IWA organizer Bradley to circumvent the crew, a camp meet- ing was held under leadership of the WIUC and a crew committee succeeded in effecting a settlement. All men are back at work without discrimination with new working arrangements established. The disputes at, Knowlton’s and G and F stemmed from failure of operators to make pay. increases in the 1948 wage scale retroactive to July 14 as provided for in the coast conciliation award won by the un- ion in September. This back pay ranges upwards from approximate- ly $50 for each worker. The attempted refusal is one of a series of operator moves to chisel on the contract. The WIUC is plac-' ing primary emphasis on job action to implement the award wherever it is threatened. WIUC national organizer Jack Higgins reports steady progress in signing up crews. At ERT camp 8, following a visit from Courtenay organizer Andy Hogarth, IWA shop stewards came over in a body to become WIUC shop stewards. 14-week strike wins 15.8 cents By MEL DOIG —ST. CATHERINES Twenty-six hundred McKinnon- GM workers here began returning to work last week having won a solid strike victory after 14 weeks on the picket lines. Unity of the strikers throughout the long siege was the factor that won the day. The decision to return to work resulted from a membership meet- ing where the UAW-CIO members voted 1,115 to 171 to accept the wage settlement. Terms of the set- tlement include a 13-cent-an-hour increase for 1,600 group bonus workers with a five percent in- crease added to the former base rate. For these workers the actual increase in hourly pay amounts to 15.8 cents. 5s The new agreement is in mark- ed contrast to UAW.GM wage agreements now in effect for 250,000 GM workers in the U.S. and the 4,800 at Oshawa, all of whom are tied to a two-year “wage freeze” contract plus the generally condemned _ escalator clause which binds wages to the cost-oi living index. The settle- ment at St. Catharines is for one year without any escalator clause. From the beginning to the end of the McKinnon-GM strike the unity of the strikers was an outstanding feature. LPPYbacks Quinn in by-election - --TRAIL, B.C. Meeting here under chairman- ship of Garf Belanger, West Koo- tenay LPP Regional Committee of the LPP decided to work for the election of James Quinn, CCF cantliidate in the Rossland-Trail by election. Quinn, head shop steward at the Trail Smelter, is facing Coalition candidate D. Turnbull, an admitted company spokesman, LPP national organ- izer Stanley Ryerson and pro- vincial organizer Maurice Rush will participate in the campaign. . Sub drive reaches quarter of quota By FEL ASHTON The concern, over the slowness of. our campaign for 2,000 readers expressed in these columns during the past two weeks is now being reflected in the work of our readers and supporters. but the number of subscriptions, new and renewals, has jumped from 859% last week to 502 this week (counting all six-months subs as half). This is a gain of 142% as compared to a gain of 68 last week. Our honor roll, too, is growing. This. week we've had to add 17 more names for a total of 50, but there’s always room for more, de- spite our limited space, As we've almost come to expect, Bill Ben- nett, with his partisans among the old timers throughout the province, is heading the list. Gordon Wood, a new name at the top of the list, writes us from Ross- land: “Anyone who tells you he can’t sell the Pacific Tribune is crazy. But you can’t do it by sitting at home thinking about it.” Gordon is as good as his word. He sent in 12 subs and added, “‘I’ll have more next week.” Another of our most enthusiastic supporters, Nancy Hamilton, is get- ting perturbed over the fact that her total of nine has not increased for the past two weeks. Nancy has covered her area pretty thoroughly on foot, but now she wants to go farther afield. “IT know I can ‘get at least 10 more subs,” she says. “But I need a car to get them.” The point is: Who'll lend her a car for the day? Just let us know at the PT office and we'll be glad to make the arrangements. In Nanaimo, our readers and supporters, under the leadership of Idd. Skeeles are planning a system- atic canvass and, judging by what they’ve done in the past, we’re sure it will bring encouraging results. One thing is certain, Wherever our supporters go out, either as individuals or as part of an organ- ized canvass, to sell the PT, they’re getting results. And we bet you'll find the same thing in your block or neighborhood. Why not take us up on that? Advance the cause of peace and progress by removing one of your neighbors from the poisonous in- fluence of the red-baiting daily press. Sell him, or her, a sub to the Pacific Tribune. Great movements are built of innumerable little things like that. ‘ Yank grab of PGE prepared Coalition Premier “Boss” John- son, who recently returned from Britain with the sorry confessjon that dollar domination has upset our British market for lumber, fish and apples, now has another con- fession to make. The CPR-CNR-Victoria-Ottawa deal to complete the PGE, for years dangled as a carrot to lure the citizens away from public comple- tion of the PGE, has collapsed. This was predicted May 7 by the Pacific Tribune which pointed out that “the CPR faces stiff competi- tion for the loot” represented by fabulous northern resources. “Other groups of American finance capitalists,’. this paper stated, “are now seeking to grab an estimated minimum $150,000,000 an- nual rakeoff for themselves,” with war hysteria used to gain Presi- dent Truman's backing for a pro- fitable “defense” railway through the heart of our province. The Johnson announcement’ brings such a development one sten closer, Public completion of the line under a different type of gov- ernment is seen as the only means of headin off the twin danger of a billion-dollar steal and nossible de- vastation following in the wake of such a “war” measure. We've still no great improvement to record, NANCY HAMILTON Honor roll Is your name on this list of Pacific Tribune sub-getters? VANCOUVER Bill Bennett 15 Percy Budd, Commercial Drive 11 Rita Whyte, Kitsilano ......... 10 Ethel Clark, Commercial Drive 9 Charles Stewart, Gas and Transport T. Antilla, Niilo Makela Frank Politano, Grandview .... A, Mackie, Gas and Transport. . W. Jacobs, Ship and Steel J. Lesire, Commercial Drive.... J. Lasota, East End No, 1 Dora Madley, Norquay Bob Smith, Capitol Hill Dulce Smith, Fairview Anne Chudleigh, Renfrew E. Suojanen, Forest Products. . Sid Dove, Capitol Hill Carl Lehman, Norquay Harry Seeland, Victory Square Myles Nugent, Victory Square. . Fel, Ashton, West End R. McKay, Sea and Shore A, Bingham, Vancouver Heights Frank Smith, Civic Workers ... Bert Carlson, Scandinavian Workers Club S. Seaholm, Scandinavian Workers Club 8 7 7 6 6 6 5 SS uR Sy 5 SS 5 ey eee 4 eee 4 4 PROVINCE Gordon Wood, Rossland George Teather, Kelowna Henry Codd, Notch Hill Nancy Hamilton, North Surrey 9 A. Johnson, Sointula J. Senkiw, Port Alberni C. F. Coleman, Salmon Arm ... Charles Johnson, Vernon L. Brady, South Surrey H. Lahti, Sointula P. Kulchyski, Notch Hill Connie Hudson, Victoria F. Heavenor, Westview J. Graham, New Westminster.. Les Bogie, Trail Francis Brkish, Lulu Island ... Cc. C. Wallace, Kamloops Wally Birnell, Fort Langley ..- Henry Lundgren, Youbou Sam English, Michel J. Mortenson, Nanaimo Ed Skeeles, Nanaimo Ernie Knott, Alberni Labor feature in November 26 issue The Pacific Tribune has cons tracted for top flight, on the spe coverage of this month’s AFL anc — CIO conventions. Stories and pictures from poth crucial labor gatherings will b® carried in our November 26 and De cember 8 editions. This service has been arranged inview of widespread interest 1? the national deliberations of American labor movement. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 12, 1948 — PAGE 2 ‘