jarvesting For Victory jorkers won't be able to eat unless they help to harvest the |ps in the opinion of these members of Canadian Locals #) and 200, United Auto Workers (CIO).) They are shown ving by truck to harvest corn. Part of the proceeds of feir work will go to the union’s soldiers’ smokes fund. irong Support for LPP »om McEwen Returns trom Island Tour )mox-Alberni constituencies.” os Ver. ) Back in Vancouver this week after a month’s tour of Vancouver sand points, Tom McEwen, provincial organizer of the Tabor- >» ogressive Party, reported that he had found “strong support for = new party wherever I went, particularly in the Victoria and | McEwen addressed public meetings at Victoria, Duncan, Lady- euth, Extension, Bevan, Nanaimo, Cowichan Lake, Courtenay, Cum- riland and Campbell River, in addition to holding a number of tall informal house meetings at various points. He reported that he had organized new branches of the Labor- fOsressive Party at Ladysmith, Extension, Nanaimo and Campbell ‘The response fo my appeal for new members was very hearten- = =, he said. “For instance, at one small meeting I held, 20 of the people who attended joined the new party.” livie Employees iefuse Compromise Efforts of the city council to force civic employees to a npremise agreement in the dispute over the Civic Em- yees Federation for a closed shop still met with failure the face of complete solidarity on the part of all civic ployees this week. City Hall employees, outside civic rkers, firemen, and finally more than 100 members of iter and Sewer Board Employees Union have pledged sit “not one civic employee represented by the Federation 1 have anything to do with &: deal proposed by aldermen.” (While the workers are ready take their dispute to arbitra- in, aldermen use the excuses Sit arbitration is costly, that + slogan, “No union card, no =)? might antagonize nurses and ictors employed by the city who Suld want exemptions. ‘dowever, the basic cause for falling” on the part of the coun- is the reluctance of alder- HOME of SUNION MADE | CLOTHING 1 FRIENDLY SERVICE | Established Over 40 Years (5 East Hasting — Vancouver men to sign a closed shop agree- ment, union members point out. Certain factions within the coun- cil are even considering submit- ting an offer of a closed shop for outside workers and firemen, leaving the city hall group with the present open shop agree- ment. This is seen as a direct attempt to split the Federation and workers believe aldermen will not publicize the suggestion. A meeting of both parties will be called within a few days, stated James Thomson, provin- cial conciliator who heard repre- sentatives of the council and Federation last week. Federation members fear that an arbitration board will be nec- essary, not only because of the council’s attitude towards the closed shop principle, but also because of factionalism within the council itself. SHIPYARD WORKERS! Eat at the SUGAR BOWL CAFE NORTH VAN = ‘Affiliation Proposals Rejected “The CCF will have to de- mocratize their party before British Columbia trade unions will support them,” Stated Harold Pritchett, TWA president, this week at a meeting of International Woodworkers of America Dis- trict Council No. 1, in which the union unanimously rejected terms for affiliation offered by the CCF. In a letter from its provincial executive the CCF proposed that: ®@ Dues of affiliating unions should be five cents per member Per month, @ Delegates from each affili- ated body to CCF conventions should be limited to ten in num- er. ® Union delegates to CCF con- ventions should be CCF members in good standing for at least three months. @ The affiliating body should accept the principles and policies of the CCF and agree to abide by its constitution and bylaws. “If the CCF is conscious of needing a labor base,” said Prit- chett, “it should get busy and democratize its terms so that it can become a real labor-farmer federation that weuld Sweep all reaction aside.’ The executive passed unanim- ously a resolution clarifying its policy on affiliation. “The proposals set forth by the €CF provincial executive are absolutely undemocratic and a complete departure~ from the usual trade union procedure of taxation with full representation, providing a handsome source of revenue for the CCF and at the Same time proposing to leave the final selection of this inade- quate representation to the juds- ment of the provincial executive of the CCF,” states the resolu- tion. “It is essential now that unity be established between all labor organizations,. regardless of af- filiation, and that such unity be extended into the political field in the interests or the working people of this province. There- fore, the GCF provincial execu- tive should provide the means of trade union affiliation on a sound democratic basis in the interests of the working people and farm- labor unity, so necessary to de- feat the forces of reaction at home and abroad.” The council unanimously en- dorsed Nigel Morgan as candi- date in the federal riding of Co- mox-Alberni. Smith, Freed Civie Nominees TORONTO, Ont—Aid. Stewart Smith has been nominated as candidate for Board of Control in the forthcoming Toronto Civic elections. Other progressives who will seek election are Norman Freed for the Ward Four alder- manic seat and William Kashtan for Board of Education in the same ward. The aldermanic seat in Ward Four has for years past been held by J. B. Salsberg, who now relinquishes it as he steps into his seat in the Ontario legislature. 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THE BEST OF FOOD Your Host—GEORGE DRICOS 212 Carrall Street Essential to War Effort Buck Urges United Support Of Loan Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, who is now touring western Canada, this week urged all Canadians to join in putting the Fifth Victory Loan campaign “over the top.” “The Fifth Vietory Loan Campaign is an essential part of Canada’s panonal effort in the war for the destruction of Hitlerism,” he de- clared. “Its slogan, “Speed the Victory!’ voices the determination of our people to hasten the victorious conclusion of the war by vigorous offensive action now in concert with our Soviet allies, against the main forces of the enemy. “I urge all Canadians, of every class and creed and nationality, to join in a united drive to achieve the $1,200,000,000 objective that is required for the weapons to destroy the Axis. The Labor-Pro- gressive Party pledges its fullest co-operation in the work of the campaign. “The successful achievement of the Victory Loan Campaign is inseparable from the general struggle for the democratic strengthening of our war effort. Nothing must be permitted to stand in the way of united action to put the Loan Campaign victoriously ‘over the top’.” Two Nominating Meets Planned Within the next ten days the British Columbia Section of the Labor-Progressive Party will name two candidates to contest the next federal election at nominating conventions to be held in Vancouver Center and Vancouver North con- stituencies. . First nominating convention in Vancouver Center will be held this Sunday, October 17, 7.30 p.m., at the Beacon Theater, with John Goss as convention chairman. A week later, on Sunday, Oc- tober 24, 8 p.m., a second nomin- ating convention will be held at the party’s North Vancouver club- rooms, 1320 North Lonsdale, to select a candidate for Vancouver North Ed. Simpson, business agent for the Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local 1, and chairman of the North Vancouver Branch of the Labor- Progressive Party, will be con- vention chairman. Under the signature of Shelly Rogers, chairman of the YVan- couver Center Constituency Com- mnittee, a call endorsed by 47 leaders of the labor and progres- Sive movement in this province has been widely distributed in the riding. it states: “The Gallup Poll has revealed the tact that 72 percent of the Canadian people are dissatisfied with the King government. Be- cause we believe that you are one of the people who oppose the anti-labor policies of the old-line parties, and are determined that we shall have a genuine people’s victory and democratic progress in the post-war years, we are ask- ing you to join with other friends and supporters of the Labor- Progressive Party in the nomin- ation of a lLabor-Progressive candidate for Vancouver Center. “The Labor-Progressive Party is dedicated to the achievement of socialism. It fights for advanc- ed labor policies and social Jegis- — You'll Enjoy Ouzr HOME COOKING at the Shelly Coffee Shop 121 West Pender letion. It stands for a strong and unified labor-farmer movement capable of wielding mighty in- fluence in the conduct of the people’s war and providing the Surest guarantee that the peace will be written in the interests of the common people. “Confident of the quality of Canada’s fighting men and their desire for speedy victory, the Labor-Progressive Party stands for a full-scale invasion of the continent of Europe. “The lIabor-Progressive Party. is the party of every man and Wweman who is genuinely deter-~ mined that the Canadian people shall not return to the poverty and insecurity of the past. We invite you to join us in the of ficial opening of our federal elec- tion Campaign at our Vancouver Center nominating convention.” 766 E. pa Hastings Steam Baths Vancouver, B.C. ij Always Open. Expert SEBSSTES | | in Attendance 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.—40c and 50c| = a 3) | HAst. 0340 l | STEAM BATHS 40 Lorne Street NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. 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