loving peoples,
replaced by headlines and stories
imaginations of their authors.

Because of this the

sons of these developments.

nounced the developments

meets July 21.

five consecutive eight-hour shifts
to be worked between midnight
Sunday and 8 a.m. Saturday. (This
would retain the 40-hour week in
place of Stuart attempts to impose
a work week of 44 hours or more.)
IWA further proposed that train-
men gain an addition to the over-
all wage boost, supplementary in-
ereaSes ranging from 11%. to 31
cents an hour, that fallers, biuckers
and shingle sawyers get a guaran-
tee of $15 a day plus the overall in-
-erease, that shingle sawyers’get a
guarantee of $11 a day plus the
overall increase, and that the in-
erense for contract workers be add-
ed to the present 27% cent hourly
rate and paid on an hourly basis.
i addition, the IWA demanded

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Yugoslav story coming

Release of a statement on the Yugoslav Communist Party
the Communist Infermation Bureau has been greeted with an orgy
of wild distortions and lies on the part of the daily press.
text of the statement, aimed at strengthening the front of peace-
has been suppressed by the dailies.

Pacific Tribune has made arrangements te
present in subsequent issues full and accurate coverage of the events
that lie behind the furore in the headlines, so as to counter malicious
and dangerous speculation and enable progressives to study the ies-

According to the BBC, the Communist daily in Belgrade has an-
are not an irreconcilable rift but a family
quarrel. The Yugoskiy Communist Party’s national

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largely drawn from the feverish

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that employers’ bonding proposais
be dropped, that all other matters
in the original union proosal, in-
cluding union shop and welfare
fund, be further negotiated, and
that agreement and increases -be
retroactive to June 20.

Conditional upon acceptance of
these conditions, the union stated
it was willing to make a wage Pro-
posal to be applicable to all work-
ers covered by the agreement, and
to recommend acceptance of its
proposal to the membership.

Operators, through Stuart, gave a
flat “no” to these proposals. Tues-
day, June 29, and the union prompt-
ly recessed negotiations so that a
district policy meeting can chart

German students demonstrate

bad living conditions.

Students of Heidelburg University,
in the street outside U.S. Military Government headquarters

in the

U.S. zone of Germany,

stage a sitdown demonstration
to. protest meager food rations and

carrying to the women 0
housewives won solid support
downtown streets carrying

further action.

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representative,
to quelch
at underhand attempts of R.

The union had agreed to the
‘Aeeping of a stenographic record of
negotiations for reference of both
parties. Stuart for weeks distorted
and misrepresented this transcript
to present alleged reports on pro-
gress of negotiations through his
vadio mouthpiece, Bob Morrison,
and employer-distributed leaflets.
 “¥ou've got no right to take your

ease to the woodworkers over the
heads of the union, Harold Prit-
chett, district vice-president, told
him flatly. “Your job is to repre-
‘sent your employers. You don’t
speak for the TWA members and
we're not going to permit you to
use the stenographic recurd to con-
fuse the issue.” ©
‘The union laid down an ulti-
_ matum that Stuart drop the record.

“Ig Stuart Research continues to

the pretext the public must be in-

formed,” then “we invite represen-

tatives of the public press to sit in

: negotiations.” ‘ '
The union further

“that we invite representative of-

So that the public, if it must be
informed, will have the entire
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—tiators to divide the union with a stream of fa

yelease matters of importance on|

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violations of every principle of collective bargaining. Their stand was a blow
behind the backs of the chosen union nego-

Ilse information.

to falsify negotiations record ;

IWA officials have thrown the book at Stuart Agency,
in negotiations for the 1948-49 contracts wi

Coast operators bargaining

th a stinging counter-oftensive

truth and complete facts of the
negotiations conferences.”
William Fraser, conciliation com-
missioner in 1947, last year ruledi
that matters under consideration in
the conference room must under no
éircumstances be made public until
the agreement was complete.

ences are proceeding, camp and
mill crews throughout the coast are
backing up their 95 percent rejec-
tion of Stuart’s 10-cent or 8 per-
cent offer by going over the top
in operation after operation with
the strike fund the union may

While negotiations and confer-'

have to use in its fight for 35
cents, union security and a wel-
fare fund. :

There is no indication that Bill
87, piled by the Coalition on top of
Bill 39, has shaken the determina-
tion of the membership to. win
from fabulous operator profits the
wage boosts needed to meet living
costs, or the job and social security
wrapped up in the union shop and
welfare fund demands.

Interior operations are balloting
on their employers’ 5-cent offer
with overwhelming rejection cer-

“Unless you have small babies 1
This is the labor-backed appeal that
£ British Col

bottle-placards calling on t

“wyémen are spreading the milk

tain.

n your home, don't
umbia in retaliation at the

from Saturday shoppin

Mondays” boycott, protest beef
prices, and take the roof off at Ot-
tawa and Victoria for controls and
subsidies to slash living costs.

protest plan of the HCA on the
telephone, across the pack fence, in
the shopping centers, and with
leaflets given out on busy corners ‘
or during neighborhood strolls,
wheeling the baby bugsy from door
to door.

. “There are time when the sim-
plest action achieves the greatest
results,’ the HCA says. “And we
would like to suggest a simple but
effective means of protesting the
criminal action of B.C.’s milk dic-
tator, E. C. Carr. It’s this:

“Next Monday, and every Mon-
day in July, don’t put out your
milk bottle, unless, of course, you
have small babies in your home.
Such a step ‘can’t hurt you oF
your children. But it wil) hurt
all are behind the recent two
the big dairy interests, who after

the fighting Housewives ’

ousewives get big support
in downtown prices protest

put out your milk bottle on Monday.”

Consumer Association is

latest milk price boost. Hehe

g crowds when they paraded throug
he people to back

their “milkless

cent increase. When their milk
trucks start coming back to the
plants with most of their load
unsold, they’ll start thinking. If
their sales are cut sharply, they'll
soon issue new orders to Carr at
Victoria.”

After five months of probing
while prices soared, the House. of
Commons has adopted the report
of its prices committee without ac-
tion. Main point made by the com-
mittee was that “increased produc-
tion” is the only fundamental] cure
to rising prices. Yet Canada’s gross
national product will be valued at
$15,000,000,000 this year, com-
pared with $5,300,000,000 in 1939.

Government members insisted
“the interests of the consumers
would not be safeguarded by return
to overall price control” but CCF
members won the concession that
“consideration should be given to
some temporary controls and sub-
sidies where there might be hard-
ship.” Only determined pressure
can secure enactment of even this
measure of price rollback. That
pressure is urgently needed now.

U.S. immigratio

The U.S. immigration depart-
ment has again interfered with in-
ternal business of B.C. unions, bar-
ring IWA district secretary Jack
Forbes from crossing the border
to attend an IWA international ex-
ecutive board meeting June 28 in
Portland.

Forbes was appointed by the dis-
trict board a3 its representative to
the international board when in-
ternational board member Bert
Melsness was barred earlier,

U.S. Immigration now blocks the
following from entry into the Un-
ited States to take part in business
of their international union, which
has a quarter of its membership in
B.C.: Ernie Dalskog, district presi-
dent; Harold Pritchett, first vice-
| president; Hjalmar Bergren, second
vice-president; Mark Mosher, trus-
tee; Bert Melsness, international
board member; and Jack Forbes,
district secretary.

The international board, which

has attempted to upset the pro-}
gressive policy and leadership of
B.C’s district 1, proposed to the
district board that it allow Ray Ed-
die to act as spokesman for the
district at the parley. Eddie crosses
the border without hindrance

Every member of the B.C. dist-
rict board personally signed the

tional president James Fadling:
“Eddie does not represent the ma-
jority decisions and progressive
aims of the membership of District
One. Your recommendation can
only be interpreted by reactionary
U.S. government officials as capit-
ulation to their reactionary immi-
gration policy. Ray Eddie was un-
constitutionally appointed’ to the
position of international trustee by
you and upheld by the majority of
the international board to fill the
vacaney created by your unconsti-

tutional suspension of internation-
el trustee Greenall which was vig-

following wired reply to interna- ;

n intervenes again in IWA affairs

orously opposed by District One.
Therefore in view of the foregoing
we unanimously reject your re-
quest.” — :

Meanwhile in eastern Canada
U.S.-born Rudy Hanson has been
seized, arrested and deported to
make the third victim in the Can-—
adian government’s persecution of
officers of the Mine-Mill union who
are in Canada in connection with
that union’s wage dVive.

In New York one of the men who
pull the strings gave the game
away. Walter C. Bennett, president
of Phelps Dodge Refining Corpol-
ation, told the negotiating commit-
tee of Local 541: ‘We deported Rob-
inson from Canada and we're 80
ing to deport Hanson.” Bennett is
a director of several Canadian min-
ing companies and his boast proves
Mine-Mill’s contention that “the
Canadian immigration service, like
that of the United States, is acting
as the direct, open and shameless
lagent of union-hating employers.”