Probe unemployment
in Coast shipbuilding

Alarmed at the falling off of employment in West Coast ship-

building the Vancouver, New Westminster and District, Trades and
Labor Council (AFL) decided to set up an mvestigating committee

to probe into the situation and to place the

Uphill demands

Sales Tax repeal
=MICHEL,> Bie.

Mayor of Fermie and veteran
MLA Tom -Uphill took time off
to give Sam English, Michel min-
ers’ leader, a few angles on
how he feels about some _legis-
lative problems he hopes to grap-
ple with soon. “Unlike a lot of
MLA’s” says Sam, “You don’t have
to argue with Tom Uphill that he
should fight for the working peo-
ple. He has been doing it for a life-
time.” F

On the sales tax Mayor Uphill is
emphatic; it lowers the living
standards of the people. “Tax the
big shots to get the money for so-
cial security, hospitals, etc. They
can afford it. Abolish the sales tax
outright.”

As a, veteran miner, Tom Uphill
knows what a genuine labor code
shoudl look like. “Bill 39 and its
twin Bill 87,” says Fernie’s MLA
with an Irish gleam in his eye,
“wipe it off the books and put sane,
labor laws in its place.”

“Workmen’s Compensation, sure
it should be more.” That has been
Tom Uphill’s fight for many years
to improve it to the point where
the worker and his dependents will
get maximum compensation for
sickness, injury or death.

He summed it up this way as
he prepared for ‘another session in
Victoria: “The workers, not only
of Fernie, but of all B.C. can be
sure that Uphill will fight for the
important issues which will benefit
the people.”

Unemployment crisis
subject at meeting

Are thousands of jobless men
walking the streets of Vancou-
ver at the present time due to
become a permanent army Of un-
employed. Could prompt govern-
ment action at this time ease the
unemployed problem by opening
up long-promised industrial and
public works projects?

These questions and others re-
lating to the current unemploy-
ment crisis will be discussed by
speakers and audience at a pub-
lic meeting in the Pender Audi-
torium at 8 p.m., February LES.

_ Speakers. at the meeting will
be Harold Pritchett, president of
the WIUC; Bill Stewart, presi-
dent of the B.C. Federation of
Labor, and Minerva Miller, Fra-
ser Valley LPP organizer. Sid
Zlotnik will chair the meeting.

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facts before MP’s. The
proposal was sponsored by the Ma-
chinists’ Union. Alderman R. K.
Gervin, W. Watts and A. Dyer were
appointed as investigators.

Council endorsed a_ resolution
from the UFAWU, calling for repeal
of the sales tax at this session of
the legislathre, and replacing it by
a tax on wealth.

Ald. Gervin reported that a
brief had been presented to the
cabinet by the TLC, containing 28
points for an amended ICA Act, to-
gether’ with proposals for housing,
extension‘ of public works, etc.

Retail Meat Employees’ Union
has applied for a government-
supervised strike vote to step up
the wage rate from 91c to $1.14
per hour. The vote will cover 55
meat cutters in 18 Vancouver and
New Westminster Superior Food
Stores.

Civic workers’ union
seeks conciliation

Vancouver’s 1,600 Outside Work-
ers have moved into conciliation
by applying this week for a con-
ciliation officer. In the statement
of difficulties accompanying the ap-
plication, the union blamed the
city for refusing to discuss the
union’s main demand—an across
the board increase of twenty-five
cents an hour.

The application further states
that the city refused to bargain
because they wanted to study a
wage plan prepared by their per-)
sonnel department.

Questioned about the union’s posi-
tion on the wage survey, Don Guise,
union business agent, was non-
committal. “We are holding a big
membership meeting on Friday
night, and I expect 1,000 mémbers
to turn out. There is no doubt in
my mind as to what the members
will do. They will back their bar-
gaining committee 100 percent and
order us to go full steam ahead, to
press for the union’s wage and

general demands.”

Two of a kind

Former U.S. Air Force pilot
Martin J. Monti was sentenced
to 25 years in prison and fined

$10,000 for wartime treason.
Monti, who deserted to join
Hitler's air force and later

broadcast for the, Nazis, pleaded
that he wanted to “fight com-
munism”!

Treason trial of Mildred Gil-
lars, alias “Axis Sally” got un-
der way in Washington. Gillars,
born in Portland, Me., broadcast
Nazi propaganda to the Ameri-
can troops over the Berlin radio
‘during the war. “Axis Sally”
also pleads that she “wanted to
fight communism.” .

‘Guilt by association’
hits at Washington U

Three University of Washington: professors have been dismissed

from their posts on charges of “former Communist affiliation.”
|three long-time faculty members, Professors. Herbert J. Phillips, Joseph

—SEATTLE

Butterworth and Ralph Grundlach have characterized the action as

“a plow to civil liberties which
cannot be permitted to stand.”

Targets of the State “Un-Ameri-
can Activities’ Canwell commit-
tee, which follows the role of the
federal House Committee in smear
tactics and: character assassination,
the three men have been brought
under “investigation” and controv-

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ersy for the past several months.
Their dismissals were effective
February 1.

Professor Grundlach has charg-
ed the university’s board of re-
gents “have made a mistake that
will seriously affect the reputation
of the university.”

The board of regents decided
not to dismiss three other uni-
versity professors providing they
signed non-Communist affidav-
its and that they be placed “on
probation” for two years. Many
Washingtonians are up in arms
against this Hitelerite thought
control and “guilt by association”.

decree.

CSU takes

action to

defend wage levels

—MONTREAL

Important victories were scored last week by striking seamen on

two Canadian vessels and in two different continents.

Canadian crew

members on the SS Pont Aconi who refused to leave their vessel in
Wales, U.K., and sat down in defiance of an attempt by their ship-

owners to fire them and replace
them with non-Canadians at lower,
wages, wor an agreement from
their company granting them their

»| wages until they return to Canada
Jand an extra two months wages.

This in effect means three months’
extra wages as the seamen have

been on«a sit-down strike for a
month.

And in Baltimore, U.S.A., non-
Canadian seamen on the Canadian-
owned SS. Ivor Rita, hired on non-
Canadian wages in the United
Kingdom, won the payment of Can-
adian wages after being on the
picket line for over a week,

Over 20 Canadian vessels are

Pnow sailing with non-Canadians at

less wages, poorer ‘working condi-
tions, and lower living standards.
The seamen of the above two ves-
sels were the first to challenge this
attempt to scuttle Canadian wages
and Canadian ‘standards.

CSU officials in Montreal said
that they have informed all mari-
time unions in the world to be on
the lookout for what they call “hot
ships” and to immediately place
picket lines alongside them upon

arrival in union docks.

CRA welcomes franchise,

sends petition

“Action taken by city council

to PUC

to extend the franchise to married

women and to grant Chinese citizens a vote is heartily welcomed by the

Civic Reform Association,” says
in the recent civic elections.

“This action is the result of pub-
lic pressure on the franchise issue
and the more than 29,000 votes fav-
oring an extended franchise which
were cast on December 8.

“The Civic Reform Association
does not believe that the proposals
of city council go far enough. We
a vote for

The

favor every citizen in
Vancouver over 21.

“At the same time, we recognize
that even a limited extension of
the franchise is a _ progressive
step, and we endorse the action of
council on this issue.

“Now the problem is to put suf-
ficient pressure on members of
the legislature to ensure a major-
ity vote on the question when it
comes up in the legislature in Feb-
ruary.”

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Petitions asking lower transit
rates and signed by 11,279 Vancou-
ver citizens, were sent to the Pub-
lic Utilities Commission at Vic-
toria this week by Mrs. Effie Jones,

Civic Reform candidate in the re-
cent civie elections. '

“During the public hearings last
August to consider the application
of the British Columbia . Electric
Railway for higher fares, I ap-
peared on behalf of the CRA and
presented a brief showing that in-
creased fares were not justified,”
said Mrs. Jones in her letter to the
PUC.

“My main contention at that time
was that due to re-financing and
the lowering of interest rates on
indebtedness by approximately two
perceng the BCE was saving some
$2,000,000 yearly.

Effie Jones, mayoralty candidate

“This argument has never been
disproved.

“During the months of November
and December 11,279 citizens in
Vancouver expressed their desire
to have BCER transit rates re-
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to lower fares to their former level
and re-introduce weekly passes.

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