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‘Strike of 60, 000
U.S. metal miners

gets B.C.

support

All locals of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in B.C.
have pledged full support to the strike of 60,000 Mine-Mill members
in the United States, union regional director Harvey Murphy said

here this week.

If the nation-wide strike of non-ferrous metal workers continues

for any length of time, some 4,000
B.C. copper, gold and lead miners

may be affected. ' Two copper

mines, Britannia and Granby
Consolidated, ship concentrates
to Tacoma.

Refusal of American mine op-
erators over a period of nearly
five months of continuous nego-
tiations to make an adequate
counter-offer to Mine-Mill’s wage
and contract demands precipitat-
ed the strike.

The ‘U.S. Wage Stabilization
Board has “taken over” the strike
at President Truman’s request
and has asked strikers to return
to work while it “holds hearings
on the dispute.”

The union points out the em-
ployers are easily able to make
very large concessions in the
form of wages. Profits are at

an all-time high and still rising,
while labor productivity has gone
up fabulously. At the same time,
job-accidents are increasing at an
alarming rate.

LABOR DAY
GREETINGS
from
- LABOR-
PROGRESSIVE

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LABOR

union bureaucrats who try to tie
the workers to the chariot of big
business.

“Labor peace action, for nego-
tiations instead of war, for trade
instead of embargoes, for produc-
tion for peace-time goods instead
of murderous weapons of war,
for lower prices and higher wages
instead of super war profits and
inflation—this is the real program
jof labor on Labor Day.

“Labor has_ the potential
strength to change the course
from war to peace, from econo-
mic stagnation to _ stability

through world trade which will

include the mighty and growing
socialist half of the world. Unity,
rank and file unity, clarity on is-
sues and boldness of action, for
peace and job security—this is
the call of the Labor-Progressive
party to Canadian labor.

“A&A peace can be won, but only
in one way—by a pact of peace
between the five great powers, as
proposed by President Shvernik
of the USSR, and as advocated
by the 450,000,000 in all countries
who have signed an appeal for
such a pact.

“Let labor speak out—for a
Korean armistice based on thé
38th parallel, for world peace, and
world trade through the defeat
of the warmongers and the vic-
tory of the common people.”

Canadians ge!
invite fo world
economic meet

TORONTO

Interest has been shown by a
number of Canadians interviewed
as prospective delegates to the
World Economic Conference to be
held in Moscow before the end
of the year. With Decémber as
the probable date, the conference
is open to businessmen, unionists,
farmers, technicians, economists,
cooperators, statisticians and
similar categories vitally con-
cerned with economic questions.
The Canadian delegation will
be able to join in discussing a
solution with delegates from most
other countries in the world. An
international Initiating Com-
mittee is being established which
will outline a detailed agenda:
based on the following two prin-
ciple points:

@® Possibilities of improving
the 20th century standard of
living on condition that peace be
preserved.

@ Possibilities of improving
economic relations between all
countries.

The conference is being held
in Moscow on the invitation of
the Soviet Peace Committee.

wide attention in that city.

The new poster, era? by Toronto Peace Council: . has attracted

3,000 NAMES LAST WEEKEND

Only three weeks left
to complete petition
lists for peace pact

A three-week campaign to gather more signatures to the World
Peace Pact petition and to win public recognition for the idea of a
five-power meeting for peace has been announced by the B.C. Peace

Council.

In Vancouver collection of signatures to the appeal will continue

until Saturday, September 22.
Elsewhere in British Columbia
_ 4
the campaign will conclude a
week earlier, on September 15.

“The different deadlines are to
allow for the gathering. up - of
petition forms,” explained ‘Ray
Gardner, council secretary.

“A national peace lobby will go
to Ottawa on Octobér 1 and 2 to
present the petitioning results to
the Dominion government.

“In the meantime, we intend to
interview every MP in British
‘Columbia and to ask for his opin-
ion of the petition, of the idea of
a meeting of the great powers to
negotiate peace as the only alter-
native to atomic war.”

Throughout the month of Sep-
tember the council will make a
special effort to have the petition
endorsed by trade unions, by men
and women in public life.

Close to three thousand signa-

tures were gathered in Vancouver
last Saturday.

45 West Hastings

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‘number of advertisements.

EXTENDS

LABOR DAY GREETINGS
To Their Many Friends and Patrons

LABOR DAY 1951

UNION ati MEN’S WEAR

COBB BT yiescotvaiisitasvauiaveualteyseiyaire

Sound reasons for —
patronizing merchants
who advertise in PT

In contrast to most issues, the
PT this issue carries a large
One
way our readers can sup port

‘their paper, and so help to lessen —

the annual financial deficit, is to
deal with the merchants whose
advertisements appear in these
pages. Where price and quality
of merchandise or services are
egual, there is every reason -for
patronizing merchants who ad-
vertise in the PT for what they
believe to be a sound business
reason—that they will get more
customers. They will only con-

tinue to advertise provided you, ©

our readers, deal with them and
tell them that you are doing so
because they do advertise.

SU SSS Sr

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Vancouver, B.C.

- said one mother.

Butter before
guns issue al
prices parley

“Butter on our kitchen tables,
not guns in your back yards,” WI
be one cf the demands voice
Vancouver citizens at the
ference for Action Against Hig
Prices to be held this coming 2
day, August 31, in the Electric@
Workers Centre, 111 Dunsmutt.
The big prices rally is being spon
sored eS the Congress of Cal
adian Women. :

“There is too much squandering
of the people’s money on non”
productive objects such as eth
a housewife told the Pacific
bune= this week. ‘“‘If the ane
was spent to benefit the people it
could supply many of our Te@

n-

_.needs—more food, schools, hos-

pitals, housing.”
Working class families in Brit

ish Columbia are feeling the pine

brought on by Ottawa’s war bue-
get. And the first place it his
is the family table.

eased

“If milk prices are incr ff
again, it means my children vie
not get enough of this basic fo
“As it 15, one
of us are getting enough meat 1°
eat—and I have no intention °
being reduced to a_horsemeé
diet.” |

Calls to the conference hay’
been sent,to all trade ‘unions, h
men’s organizations, chure
groups, pensioners, cultural organ
izations, ratepayers and 14
groups. The response has been
good. Individuals may also al
tend as observers, and any gt0UP
of five citizens can elect a dele-
gate to represent them. 4

Discussion at the parley W?
centre around producer sub bsidies
such as milk; a 100 percent he
cess Profits Tax: revision of ™°
basis of the cost-of-living indeX’
removal of the 20 percent Income
Surtax; and an embargo on Pe”
to the United States until domes
tic needs are met.

Senna

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