An Editorial own stated policy. test. the big operators in the essential logging industry pursuing a policy calculated to achieve one narrow end, destruction of the International Woodworkers of America, regardless of the ef- fect of that policy upon the war effort. Over that long period they have watched the loggers’ patient efforts to obtain a signed union agreement through the utilization of every medium short of strike action. witnessed the tragic spectacle—tragic because of what it has meant in terms of lost production —of a government appealing for men to work in the woods while refusing to recognize the justice of the men’s demands and enforce its And they have The Issue In The QCl Strike Wy CHONs people in this province, who find their desire to give their utmost to the war effort obstructed at every turn by the King government's hostility towards labor. for two years now have been forced to witness a shock- ing development in a democratic country at war. They have seen, and not without repeated pro- the the war. Gps Queen Charlotte Islands dispute, which is symtomatie of the situation throughout the whole industry, is a challenge to the trade union movement. been forced to strike in order to preserve their union are conducting the struggle of all unions to participate fully in the war effort on the basis of recognition of their right to organize and bargain collectively. they must have the unqualiifed support of all organized labor and all Canadians desirous of speeding the victory. The operators’ attitude and the government's refusal to intervene to satisfy the loggers’ just demands constitutes a war effort. those demands organized labor can rally all patriotic Canadians to force the King govern- ment to bring down a positive labor policy that will enable these obstructions to be demolished wherever reactionary employers erect them and thus clear the home front for the task of winning The loggers who have now It is on this ground that serious obstruction of Around the struggle to win Hart Balances Budget But Negleects Roads Al Parkin, associaic sive Party, is now on a tour of the Interior. branches in West Kootenay federal constituency, Halfway between Trail and the little Interior Coach Lines’ buses, it suddenly why Premier John Hart is abl lurches around a hairpin curve in for fifty feet in a style reminiscent 0 center. Roads throughout a greater part of the interior country are mot roads at all. They're cow trails—eravelied. rocky, spine- wrenching travestes on the good name of a highway. The cars, trucks and buses that travel them e to-balance his budget. go to pieces in a matter of months. Thousands of people who need a car badly go without The upkeep is too great. The road from Trail to Salmo is a main artery to Nelson, tray- celled by buses on regular sched- Hearings Concluded In West Coast Dispute “The eight shipyard unions concerned in the dispute with West Coast Shipbuilders and Hamilton Bridge are standing solidly together, awaiting the decision of the arbitration “board,” said Bill Stewart, president of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local 1, when the Board concluded its sessions this week. “The board listened attentively to the evidence presented by both parties, and while we can not for- see its decision, we hope it will be a favorable one so that ship- building in Vancouver will bene- fit. Eighty percent of Vancouver's shipbuilding industry now oper- ates under closed shop agree- ments, a plan which has proved beneficial to all concerned,’ he stated. As the hearing closed with pres- entation of evidence by Stewart, Judge J. O. Wilson announced that the decision of the board will be made as soon as possible. Some time would be required, however, to consider all the evi- dence submitted and to prepare a written report. Hearings were interrupted on Tuesday by two and half hours of “evidence” presented by Myron Kuzyieck, a North Vancouver wel- der who, after declaring that the closed shop was “jndemocratic and against the Canadian way of life.’ admitted that he had tried to disrupt a strike in North Van- eouver Ship Repairs, called by unions in protest when the com- pany failed to live up to its signed agreement. While declaring that he had opposed the strike because it was “ilegal,” the witness said he fig- ured that “a closed shop tends towards company unionism.” After evading many direct ques- tions by quoting Shakespeare and Poe, he declared that Bill Stew- art, Boilermakers president, was like “Chamberlain at Munich.” “Not from what I’ve seen of Stewart,” said the Board chair- man amid general laughter. Editor To Speak At Open Forum William Rigby, editor of the Fisherman and a provincial ex- ecutive member of the Labor- Progressive Party, will be the speaker at the next meeting of Burrard Open Forum, sponsored jointly by the Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant branches of the Labor-Progressive Party, on Oct. 17, 8 p.m., in Foresters Hall, Broadway and Kingsway. Rigby’s lecture, second in a series on “The Soviet Union — Our Ally,” will deal with Soviet economic policy. editor of The People and a provincial executive member of the Labor-Progres- This week be reported that he had organized six LPP including a branch at Trail. mining community of Salmo, riding on one of strikes you that here at least is one good reason The thought comes just as the bus the road and takes a sudden drive almost straight down f that roller coaster out at Hastings Park amusement ules. Yet that road climbs dizzy- ingly around the side of a moun- tain for miles, rocky, extremely dangerous, so narrow that to pass another car your bus has to swing out into the ditch. Below, elmost a thousand feet straight down, lies the Columbia River. If you are a stranger to the road, like myself, you involuntarily re- frain from looking down over the edge. You've had your Saturday night bath, and besides, you're pretty sure you’d have no need of another by the time you'd got down that far. Maybe something of what you’re thinking is on your face. Anyway, your seat mate grins and remarks: “Hell, man, this road’s in good shape now. Last spring on this trip we were in the ditch twice— had to get a farmer to pull us out. Why, there was a bus driver who used to disclocate his shoul-~ der regular every trip wheeling the coach around a sharp bend up here a ways. Finally had to shoot him.” So you grin back at him and resign yourself to the rattling and jolting. You might wonder what happens to all those road taxes the people of British Columbia pay. Still, Premier John Hart balances his budget. __ You find out something else. The bus stops at a one-room schoolhouse to pick up two lit- ile girls standing there waiting to go home. You think maybe they're just going down the road s-piece. But five miles go by, al- most ten miles, before the bus steps to let them off at their home. Then you notice, about 300 yards up the road, another school. But this one is deserted, its windows boarded, grass grow- ing in the small playground. School boards can’t find the money to pay rural teachers a living wage under the present set- up. So schools are closed, and kids in the country travel miles to another school district to get their education. But Premier John WHart bal- ances his budget. Senate Committee Urges 2nd By EVA LAPIN WASHINGTON, DC.—Full, speedy and efficient use” American shipping can enable the Allies to open a Seco front this year and deliver the decisive blow against the Ax And one way to open that second front is to adopt labo proposals for efficient operation of industry—as has been do: in the Pacific Coast longshore management to work together. Board is contained in the report which contrasts the “efficient utilization of longshore labor” on the West Coast with the sloppy [east Coast conditions. Coming in for their share of commendation are the merchant seamen “doing a magnificent job.” and “particularly the Na- tional Maritime Union,” which has “acquitted itself with honor.” The report points out the need for meeting NMU demands to sta- bilize wages in the maritime field to wipe out wage inequalities. ° es 2 The subcommittee’s dynamite- packed report on shipping re- sources declared emphatically: “As Allied armies smash into the heart of the continent for the first time in this global war we have the ships not only to sus- tain them, but to pour an over- whelming superiority of arms and men into a crushing offensive against Germany.” At the same time the commit tee hit out sharply against those who would divert shipping facili- ties from the main task of de- feating Hitler to the Pacific front “We must not be led astray by over-confidence or by the purvey- ors of divisive doctrines into spreading our ships too thin or relenting in our main fight against Hitler just as we and our allies are poised for the kill,” the senators declared. Those signing the report in- cluded Harley M. Kilgore, Ebert D. Thomas, Mon C. Waligren, James E. Murray and Rufus C. Holman. Pointing out that “to divert ships from the European theater now would choke off our greatest offensives in midstream,” the re- port revealed it requires three times as much shipping to trans- port and maintain the same num- ber of men in the far Pacific as in the European theater. “In short, concentrating ship- ping in the Atlantic is three times as effective as in the Pacific,” the senators maintained while pointing to the fact that today with our military shipping divid- ed almost evenly between the Pa- cific and the Atlantic we can conduct only “limited operations against the Japanese while mount- ing a major offensive in Europe.” The first statement was made directly, and the second by impli- cation, in the dramatic, hard-hit- Front industry—and for labor ting report in which the Senai Kilgore subcommittee on Wat mobilization here called for am immediate offensive action in Ei rope and declaring that the lies have enough shipping to d fhe job. The committee’s findings sub- stantiate the charges of im ciency and incorporate virtually the same suggestions for impr ment put forth by the four GIG: maritime unions back in Febru ary. An implied tribute to the excel- lent work the ILWU has done out on the West Coast in estab- lishing and working with the Pa § cific Coast Maritime Industry @ TURC To Open Campaign Office | The campaign to elect a city council with the best interests o! } labor at heart will be directer } from a central office, to be op { ened this week, officials, of thi | Trade Union Representation Committee have announced. A campaign manager will be appointed and headquarters @ the committee will be open ever} day and many evenings, it wa decided at an executive meetini held this week. = “The purpose of the committe: will be to endorse and suppsr candidates worthy of labor’s sup | port, regardless of their politics affiliations,” stated Secretary Bu Stewart, president of the Boiler makers Union “We believe the’ trade unions should be united i formulating a program for civ progress, and in supporting 4 candidates who agree with ou platform.” Labor Donates To China Aid More than $400, proceeds froi > the Labor Day program in Star ley Park, will be turned over t Chinese War Relief. This at nouncement was made at th final meeting of the Joint Labo Day Committee. Preparations fe next years Labor Day celebr | tions were placed in the hand of a continuations committee. CLASS IFIED A charge of 50 cents for each in- sertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. NOTICES Regular meetings of the Hast ings East Branch of the Labor- Progressive Party are held on the first and third Friday of each month, 11 a.m., at 2962 Ven- ables for swing shift workers, 8 p.m. at 2443 East Hastings for other members. The Labor Theater wants 20 girls and four men to learn dance routines for its Shipyard Revue. Experience not necessary. Appli- cations received at LYF Hall, 875 East Hastings, Sunday afternoons or at Labor Theater office, 119 Shelly Building, any afternoon or evening. Phone MAr. 7642. A dance in aid of The Peopl | Press Drive will be held by th Federation of Russian-Canadiant Saturday, October 16, 8 p.m, @ 533 Georgia East. There is still a place for yo in one of the skits in the Shif yard Revue. Apply now at Labo Theater office, 119 Shelly Builc ing. Phone MAr. 7642. Beginning October 16, a whit drive and modern and old-tir dance will be held every Satu’ day, 8 p.m., at Cambrian Hall, 2} East 17th Avenue, by Mou Pleasant Branch, Labor-Progre sive Party. Admission whist al dance, 40 cents. Admission wht only, 15 cents. Dance only, befol 9 p.m., 25 cents; after 9 p.m, > cents. Refreshments.