War veterans urge government
to play lead role in UN peace aims

-Vancouver’s returned men of the second Worl
against the militaristic actions. of the United States in Gre
King government to “take the lead in re-affirming its sup

nited Nations as the only means of internati

by the New ‘Veterans’ Branch 168
Of the Canadian Legion, at a
Meeting of the Housing and Re-

pabilitation committees of the
Tanch last week. This resolution,
and several others ‘relating to

working conditions and housing
will be’ presented to the member-
auR this week for approval and

en forwarded to the provincial
Convention of the Legion, which
will be held in Vernon on May 10.

The New Veterans’ resolution
Cn world peace also urged the
ee government to “work to
Strengthen world unity by oppos-
he Military agreements and al-
tee outside the framework of
ies United Nations which tend to
qapipne wartime unity with a sys-
€m of power blocs.”

oat the field of employment and
orking conditions, the following
resolution was adopted:

“Whereas the Candian Legion
ecognizes that the problem of
Providing employment for veter-
ans is linked with the overall em-
Ployment picture

“Therefore ‘be it resolved that
ial convention favors the pass-
ee of provincial legislation to
ee about the 40-hour week and
Sue weeks vacation with pay for
es workers and employees, in
ti €r to improve working condi-

ons and to provide more jobs.”
am another resolution, the vet-

ans called upon the Federal
S0vernment to “immediately em-
Saha upon a bold program of

Cusing’ construction that will

Provide’ more jobs.”

In another resolution, the vet-

frans called upon the Federal
S0vernment. to: “immediately em-
a upon. a bold program of
iene construction that will
tna every Canadian citizen
= h decent housing at prices

thin the reach of all.”

d War raised their voices last week
ece and Turkey, and urged the
port of the principles of the
onal cooperation.” This action was taken

Bert Marcuse, vice-president 0
the New Veterans’
participate on ‘The Town Meet-
ing of the Air’, this week, which
will discuss whether Canada

Unproductive labor

Arrests and shootings

f;should retain wartime economic
Branch will | controls.

last July to February of this

here this week, forwarded a reso-

lution to the federal government

continue
troops — 20,000 strong—swartm throughout the Holy Land
in an effort to crush Jewish resistance to their presence. Above British troops: patrol
railway tracks looking for land mines, while at home Attlee wails for ‘more production’.

in Palestine’ as British

Lumber workers seek
strict price control

PORT ARTHUR, Ont.—Basing their demands upon a
cost of living survey showing drastic price increases since

year, the wage: conference of

Local 2786, Lumber and. Sawmill Workers (AFL), held

demanding the reimposition and
strict maintenance of wartime
price controls.

Proposals for an overall 25 per-
cent increase to the basic wage

of Ontario lumber -workers were

unanimously adopted, and will
serve as a basis for working out

wage scale proposals. for. the
whole industry, including pulp-
wood, logging and _ millwork.
Other proposed changes for a

new wage and working agree-
ment define an §8-hour day as
basic in the industry, with over-
time pay for all time in excess
of eight hours.

The union conference also en-
dorsed a full program of health

protection measures, .which  in-
cludes the installation of single
beds in bunkhouses, improved

camp construction, and general
safety measures protecting the
health of workers. These are to
be combined in a legislative brief
for submission to the provincial
government during the present
session.

IWA unionizes
casket workers

Local citizens will now feel re-
lieved that they can be buried
in union-made caskets. Thirty
workers, comprising the staff at
the Vancouver Casket Company
here have joined Local 217, Inter-
national Woodworkers of Amer-
ica (CIO), and have applied for
certification with the provincial
labor department, despite threats
of intimidation from the man-
agement. The firm is the largest
manufacturer of caskets in Van-
couver.

Marine workers launch
campaign to defeat bill

Warning that the anti-labor provisions contained in Bill
39 ‘is the beginning of a drive against all social legislation,
the basic, democratic rights of the people, and the living
Standards of all wage earners,’ the Vancouver local of the

Hitler forgery
tn Quebec press

TORONTO—The Canadian
“aitoeds Congress voiced its
Ndignation ‘at the local
Dench language fortnightly “Vers
Uderattion publishing the anti-
Sthe le" forgery,‘ the Protocols of
ae, Elders, of. Zion in serial form.

aye kesman..for the Canadian
anon Congress .said, “The Jew-
“Bthag a nty.. of Canada finds it
Rakin that after the sufferings
aegre last horrible decade, after
cies e. War and within'a year of

Ory attained at great cost,

Saint Should. again appear in cir-
vie ion :a palpable «and ridicu-
Ae forgery which was in part
ae ee for those horrors. The
‘Water: is fantastic and clearly
os ous and has been exposed by
urchmen and laymen who Have
ea Occasion to examine it.
AG Swiss’ judge before whom
ao forgery :was brought was
ae that anyone who is
“ihe and reasonable could
he any thought to the authen-
ana of the: so-called Protocols
that Said that for all the harm
sae they have already caused
nothi May ‘yet cause they are

“ang but ridiculous nonsense.
h It is‘an insult to anyone who
a had a share in victory as
pal as an attack upon the
Cinee of this country to give

ulation to this forgery.”

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947

‘

Marine Workers and Boilermak-
ers (CCL) at its regular meeting
this week, passed a resolution to

initiate an immediate campaign
against the Bill.

“Organized labor cannot view
this legislation as anything less
than a punitive legislative attack
against free trade unionism and
the hard won traditional rights
of the working class,” the reso-
lution declared.

Charging that Bill 39 aims to
substitute the legitimate’ trade
unions with “a labor front of
‘government dominated .organiz-
ations subject to strict regu-
lation and. control, similar to
the German Fascist and Labor
Front created by Hitler and
Dr. Ley,” the union resolvéq to
call a joint conference of all
those connected with the ship-
yard industry in Vancouver for
the purpose of initiating a vig-
orous campaign to defeat the
anti-labor Bill 39.

Workers in Vancouver wood-
working factories. comprising the
IWA Local 217, in shop meetings
this week have expressed definite
opposition to the anti-labor pro-
visions of Bill 39 and have sent
telegrams to the _ provincial cab-
inet expressing their position and
calling for removal of the objec-
tionable sections of the Bill.

‘Wismer and all

erate co ees eee oe mememaes TO TTT TT

Turner exposes subterfuges of
Wismer on BCER franchise issue

“In order to try to get the B.C. Electric franchise bill through the legislature, At-
torney-General Wismer has resorted to a series of what can only be regarded as deliber-
ate misrepresentations, in moving second reading of the BCER 20-year franchise bill in the
legislature,” John Turner, secretary of the Vancouver Labor Council charged this week.

Turner’s statement continues:
“Misrepresentation number one
was the statement attributed to
Mr. Wismer in the press that the
Gilman Report was against pub-
lic ownership of the system. Any-
body who has even glanced
through the Gilman Report, and
certainly Mr. Wismer, knows that
the whole feasible plan for
achieving. public ownership . of
our utility system without a cent’s
cost to the taxpayers. It was
precisely on the basis of this

authoritative report that we bas- |:

ed our demand in our interview
with ‘the ‘government that the
whole power and transit system
be taken over and- publicly-oper-
atedinici«. % 7 a
- “Secondly,, Mr. Wismer, like
every other government and civic
representative to whom we have
directed our demands, talks as if
we were simply proposing muni-
cipal ownership of transit. Mr.
the others sat
through and read our representa-
tions. and knows as well as we
do that we were proposing over-
all public ownership—a different
thing entirely, and . something
which all these gentlemen say
they favor. These are deliberate
confusionist tactics. :
“Thirdly, Mr. Wismer ignores
the fact the new franchise is ex-
actly a new franchise, ang not
simply a modification of the old
franchise. It gives the B.C, Elec-
trict motor coach and trolley bus
rights. The city has no authority
to do this under the charter. Hence,
his reported statement that the

original franchises, which are
perpetual in their nature, were in
effect before the charter was
passed’ in 1921’ is a calculated
misrepresentation designed solely

House and the public.
“As to Mr. Wismer’s statement
that the public was behind the

who supported it, including Ma-
yor McGeer, were elected in the

to deceive the members of the

franchise because the candidates

December election, we would re-
mind Mr. Wismer that Mayor Mc-
Geer- said not one word about
the franehise in the election, .and
secondly that. a number of sup-
porters of the B.C. Blectric were
elected in Burnaby, Victoria, Oak
Bay and Saanich, but the B.C.
Electric franchise in those muni-
cipalities were overwhelmingly
voted down.

expressed _ this
- Vancouver: Local. of, the -Marine
Workers .
Union. (CCL).. : 2

The protest from the CCL _af-
filiate: came in the form of a
resolution at the union’s regu-
jar meeting this Monday. .The
meeting resolved to “censure
President Mosher for issuing
public statements in connection
with Sullivan’s defamatory
charges, unbecoming a respon-
sible leader of organized labor.”

The text of the _ resolution
reads in part:

“Whereas A. R. Mosher is: re-

ported as having welcomed Sul-

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_ Mosher congrats ‘unbecoming’

Open dissatisfaction over the statement by A. R.
Mosher; president of the Canadian Congress of Labor, wel-
coming the resignation of J. A. Sullivan from the Trades
and Labor Congress’ and Canadian’ Seamen’s Union, was
week* by © the }-—

a. nid. Boilermakers’ .

livan’s statement, in spite of the
fact that Percy Bengough, pres-
ident of the Trades and Labor
Congress, and _ Sullivan’s co-
worker charged that the state-
ment had not beén issued by
Sullivan and that it was a union
busting move. :

“Therefore be it resolved that
this meeting of the Marine
Workers and Boilermakers In-
dustrial Union, censure Presi-
dent Mosher for issuing public
statements, in connection with
Sullivan’s' defamatory charges,
unbecoming a responsible leader
of organized labor.”

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