British wage freeze
assailed by unions

—LONDON.

The British government’s wage-freeze policy, will face

severe criticism at the 80th annual Trades Union Conference.

in Margate, September 6-10.

Ten unions plan to introduce resolutions attacking the}.

economic program that has kept
wages at low levels while permit-
ting prices and profits’ to zoom.
Several unions, including the pow-
erful National Union of Mine-

workers, will demand extension of.

the nationalization program to the
steel industry and a greater meas-
ure of worker control in nation-
alized industries.

As the conference gets under
way some four million , workers
are already demanding wage
boosts. The Amalgamated Engin-
eering Union is appearing before
a government court seeking a
$2.60 weekly raise for its three
million members. Arguments that
higher production and profits by
industry justify this are expected
to be echoed repeatedly at other
union negotiations.

Typical of the resolution slated
to come up is one by the Elec-
trical Trades Union which assails
government wage-price-profit pol-

icy.

Calling for price controls and
- profit- limitations, the statement
says: “The present level. of
wages is insufficient to maintain
a reasonable or an adequate
standard of living The
TUC, therefore, cannot support
a policy designed to stabilize or
freeze wages at current levels.”

The question of continued sup-
port for the World Federation of
Trade Unions will come up in a
resolution submitted by the Bak-
ers’ Union, urging the TUC “to

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resist attempts to destroy unity

within the WFTU.”

Three unions, including the
huge Transport and General
Workers Union, plan to fight for
passage of a strong resolution
demanding government action to
stop persecution of workers and
execution of progressives in
Greece,

LABOR DAY

Local 452, Vancouver, B.C.

Financial Sec’y: J. G. Smith

UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS
‘  & JOINERS

President: R,

Recording Sec’y: H. P. Hamilton
Business Agents: J. Stevenson, H. Lyons

Room 310 - 529 Beatty Street

GREETINGS

Organized in 1891
E. Guthrie

Phone PAcific 6557

Box 458

LABOR DAY GREETINGS

To Our Members & All Readers .
FOR

‘ Progress & Security in 1948
& Lasting Peace
IWA-CIO LOCAL 1-363

Courtenay, B.C.

IWA-CIO 2 C. DISTRICT COUNCIL

Malayans
ask labor
support

In a bitterly-worded statement,
the

government policy in Malaya and
called upon the British Trades
Uplgn Congress for support.

Its 300,000-strong organization
was banned on June 13, 1948, the
very day the British began their
full-scale war against the people’s
movement, the federation said.

“Slaughter, imprisonment,  ar-
son and other fascist barbarities
are being perpetrated in the name

of a labor movement which voted :
the government into power,” it!

charged.
Before the PMFTU was banned,

it represented 91 percent of the |
country’s organized workers. The)

remaining 9 percent belonged to
a government-. sponsored company
union group. It was after British
authorities saw that Malayan
workers refused to join their pup-
pet body that the federation was
declared illegal.

The federation declared that the
fight of the Malayan people
against colonial rule is part of
the broad battle of organized la-
bor to retain its fundamental
rights the world over.

In London, the British Com-
munist Party called on British
workers to refuse “to handle
munitions or transport troops”
to Malaya. The statement as-
serted that “it was shameful fore
planes which workers construct-
ed for war against fascism
should be used to murder fellow
unionists.”

ew
SUCCESS TO ORGANIZED LABOR

LABOR DAY GREETINGS 1948

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GREETINGS. :

to the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

Labor Day 1948

Ee THE

| MARINE WORKERS and BOILERMAKERS
INDUSTRIAL UNION

LOCAL NUMBER 1

—SINGAPORE. |

Pan-Malayan Federation of j
Trade Unions has attacked British |

WHITE EXPOUNDED CREED

Roosevelt aide’s death
charged to ‘spy’ grilling

—WASHINGTON.
Harry: Dexter White, former associate of President Roosevelt

.and leading U.S. government economist, who was recently called

before the un-American committee in its latest smear campaign
against former New Dealers, had nwo way of knowing that at
least one portion of his testimony would prove so tragically
prophetic so soon.

The day after his defense of his principles before the un-
American committee, the for-
mer Treasury official suffered a
heart ..attack, ..caused, his
friends (including Henry Wal-
lace) and family say, by the
grilling about alleged “espion-
age” to which he was subjected
at the hearing.

The creed for which he died,
as he expounded it before his
inquisitors, follows:

“My creed is the American ©
creed.

“I believe in freedom of reli-
gion, freedom of speech, free-
dom of thought, freedom of
press, freedom of criticism and
freedom of movement.

“T believe in the goal of the
equality of opportunity in the
right of each individual to fol-
low the calling of his or her
own choice; in the right of
every individual to an oppor-
tunity to develop his or her
capacity to the fullest.

“I believe in the right and
duty of every citizen to work
for, to expect and to obtain an

passa increasing measure of political,
* economic aoe emotional saat
HARRY D. WHITE ity for all.

“I am opposed to discrimination in any form, whether on
grounds of race, color, religion, political belief or economic
status,

“J believe in the freedom of choice of one’s representatives
in government, untrammeled by machine guns, secret police or
the pressure of a police state.

“I am opposed to an arbitrary or unwarranted use of power
or authority from whatever source or against any individual
Tow
f on believe ink a government of law, not of men, where law
is above any man, not any man above the law.

“I consider these principles sacred. I regard them as the ,
basic fabric of our American way of life. And I believe in them
as living realities, not as mere words on paper.

“That is my creed.

“These are the principles I have worked for. Together they
“are the principles I have been prepard to fight for in th past,
and am prepared to defend at any time—witl: my life if need be.

“That is all, I am ready for your questions.”

—
—

LABOR DAY GREETINGS

FROM THE

B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE

1.U.M.M.&5S. W.

LABOR DAY GREETINGS

FROM

1.W.A, Huiie Hall

’ . “UNION HIRING MEANS JOB SECURITY’ ‘

LABOR DAY GREETINGS
FROM
LW. A. Local 1-71
ON 7 GREATER VICTORIES!
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“LABOR UNITED FOR WORLD PEACE”

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