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Vol. 6 No, 23

Vancouver, B.C., June 6, 1947 SS

Five Cents

SLAVE LABOR COND

Polish

Farmers’ tax
Strike grows

NANAIMO, BCA: dex:
Bend for a fair and equit-
edit System of taxation for

‘cation has swept through
corn) island and Interior
manunities during the past
beara’ with strong repre-
See being made to the
eit Neial government for

Stantial tax reductions to

Property owners.

Tn the Alberni area a rural
Payers’ association has
oa formed, which at its
ae Aiea decided to
.. tax notices to the
ment — unpaid—with
memoranda
: its position clear.
ae Point in many protest
ee 1s that while the
Ment’s interpretation
om Cameron Report re-
tendations has drastical-
Y hoisteg the school taxes of
home Owners, big cor-
aes in municipalities
‘unde fen allowed to get
t the wire,’

Continuea on Page 8
See TAX STRIKE

a A ee

.

US refuses to quit Greenlan

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State George .C. Marshall
revealed last week that Denmark has moved to modify or
terminate the wartime agreement under which the U.S. took
over defense of Greenland, :

Marshall disclosed that the Danish note on Greeland invok-
ed a Clause of the wartime agreement providing that the Am-
erican occupation could be terminated by either party on
one-year’s notice as soon as the then-present danger of a
German attack on Greenland had passed.

But he intimated that the U.S. intended to retain at
least a foothold on the vast ice-locked island.

“Greenland remains of the greatest importance as a
link in the defensive system of the United States and of
the western hemisphere,” he said.

Marshall refused to say whether the United States wants
to keep permanent bases in Greenland, but his references
to “legitimate United States and hemisphere requirements”
suggested that U.S. has some such plan in mind.

Veterans fo strike
against rent hoist

Veterans living at Old Vancouver Hotel! hostel, angered by their 10 per-
cent rent increase, staged a mass protest meeting last Sunday night and
decided to declare a ‘non-payment strike,’ in order to bring the rents back to
ee Memorial Center, over 300 veterans’ endorsed a
resolution moved by Pete Canavan, on behalf of the Hotel Tenants’ Commit-
tee, which called for:

Continued on Page 8—See VETERANS

‘Buy no clothing’

an The buyers’ strike against
Ho § initiated by the
USewives’ Consumers’ As-
canton is meeting with con-
% ao response from the
© in Vancouver, Victoria,
oer Cities, according .9
: Dorothy Richardson,
Secretary of the B.C. House-
Ake Consumers __Associa-
a." In an effort to offset
ia, Strike some Vancouver
Smad Stores staged spe-
Ric Sales this week, but Mrs.
mn reported that

he She visited the base-
ma of'one big department

which was holding a
8

oe clothing sale she
2 und few customers. The
10, will continue till Juné

© Highlight of the clothing
none in Vancouver was a
Tade of women wearing

overalls and slacks, as pic-
Ted re,

~ eae

*

girls scheme stirs scandal

All AFL unions in B.C.
were urged by Vancouver
Trades and Labor Council
this week to protest to the
King government. against
the importing of 100 polish
girls to work in the St.
George de Beauce textile
mills of millionaire Liberal
Ludger Dionne, M.P. for
Beauce, Quebec.

Meanwhile, from Ottawa,
John W. Buckley, Trades
and Labor Congress secre-
tary, condemned the meas-
ures adopted by the govern-
ment to enable Dionne to
bring the girls to Canada
and declared the Congress’
“absolute opposition to im-
migration into the country
through employers.”

Even stronger language
was used by Pat Conroy,
secretary of the Canadian
Congress of Labor.

“The only missing features
in the government-approved
policy are the galleys and
auction blocks which form-
ed part and parcel of the
Slave trade all civilized peo-
ple thought had disappeared
forever,” he stated.

The only comparable sit-
uation, he asserted, was “that

Continued on Page 8
See SLAVE LABOR

IWA taking ballot

@ Interior lumber operators
meeting with the IWA ne-
gotiating committee at
Prince George last week
made a wage offer of 10
cents an hour, half the
union’s demand, and reject-
ed the other IWA requests
for the 40-hour week, union
shop and health and wel-
fare fund. This week the
IWA negotiating committee
decided to distribute ballots
to its 5,000 members in In-
terior camps and sawmills,
asking them whether they
desire to reject the opera-
tors’ counter-proposals and
continue negotiations for
the union’s 1947 demands.
A second question on the
ballot asks members wheth-
er they will authorize the
district policy committee to
call a strike failing satis-
factory negotiations,