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Vol. 6. No.'32

Vancouver, B.C., August 8, 1947

Five Cents

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NANAIMO STRIKE WIN

The elaborate legal
Structure to hamstring or-
9anized labor created by
the Coalition govern-
ment’s Bill 39 was top-

Pling this week as a result
Of the nominal one dollar fines
‘1posed by Magistrate Lionel

€evor-Potts on striking Na-
ia laundry workers in the
a court test of the new

Added to the government’s
tusion created by Magis-
ate Beevor-Potts’ blast at
the act’s “cumbersome and
®ng drawn out” procedures
ha the new opposition prom-
by an aroused labor
soment this week as the
vernment revealed its me-

Od for taking a supervised
Sttike vote. E ‘

iors Spring when the Coali-
ne Majority in the legisla-
Git at the insistence of the

Nadian Manufacturers As-

(Continued om Page 8)
See BILL 39

Aggression scored

In Vancouver this week

waterfront and other work-
ers were reported to be con-
sidering action to prevent
Dutch ships calling at this port
from loading supplies which
might be used against the
struggling Indonesian republic.
Resentment here against the
braze: Dutch aggression is
grimly underscored by the fact
that Canadian troops played a
major part in freeing Holland
from Nazi occupation — and
among longshore and other
workers are many who fought
in the Netherlands. In other
Pacific ports, American and
Australian dock workers are
refusing to load Dutch vessels.

At right are shown Seattle

longshoremen who find the
job of loading war supplies for
Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist
armies in China no less dis-
tasteful than loading munitions
destined for Dutch-held Indo-

REVERSE FOR BILL 3

Court ruling vindicates labor stand —

NANAIMO, B.C. — Settle-
ment of the. seven weeks old
laundry strike here is seen as
a further blow to Bill 39. Set-
tlement was effected Wednes-
day by Dan Radford, CCL or-
ganizer, who signed an inter-
im agreement with Imperial
Laundry management to be
voted on by the union Thurs-
day.

Terms of settlement pro-
vide for all laundry workers
to return to work will full
seniority rights, including the
two whose arbitrary dismis-
sal precipitated the walkout.
The company prolonged the
dispute by its insistence on
discriminating against the dis-
missed workers.

Mayor George Muir of Na-

rresian ports.

Fascists incite riots

e@ Before the war, this un-

identified man, one of
thousands of Londoners who
demonstrated against Sir Os-
wald Mosley, British fascist
leader, was arrested for his
action. But, in London and
other cities this week, events
proved him right and justified
the popular protest wher the
government released Mosley
from war-time internment. Be-
hind anti-Jewish riots could be
discerned the hand of Mosley’s
reconstituted fascists, seizing on
the violence in Palestine to in-
flame public opinion. Those ar-
rested by police this week
were properly described as
‘hoodlum elementts’—but it was
from such elements that Hit-
ler built his Nazi blackshirts.
Out of war-created difficulties
and the violence provoked by
the Attlee government’s for-
eign policy Mosley’s fascists are
attempting to produce in Bri-
tain the very system the war
was fought to destroy, using
the fascist weapons of anti-
Semitism and anti-Communism.
Jewish stores were wrecked in
several centers and a Com-
munist headquarters smashed.

naimo intervened to bring the
the two parties together.

Dutch use Canadian
supplies in Indonesia

OTTAWA. — Canadian forces played a big
part in liberating the Netherlands from Nazi rule.
Workers in war plants across the Dominion set new
production records to supply them with tanks,
trucks, guns and munitions. Now Canadian-pro-

duced war suppiles, turned over to the Netherlands
government after V-E Day, are being used by Dutch troops
in their latest aggressive drive to re-establish Dutch im-
perialist rule over Indonesia in repudiation of all UN
principles,

This is the picture revealed here by a report on the
operations of the Exports Credits Insurance Act tabled in

the House of Commons on July 14 by Finance Minister
Douglas Abbott,

On May 1, 1945, the Netherlands government signed an
agreement with the Canadian government giving it a credit

(Continued on Page 8—See NETHERLANDS)