‘LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY.

Vol. I. No. 41. Ces 5 Cents

Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, October 16, 1943

‘Stand Of Q

“Contrary to all statements of the operators, the
union did not repudiate the Currie form of memo-
randuc,” stated IWA President Harold Pritchett this
week, replying to statements widely circulated by op-
erators of logging camps in the Queen Charlotte
Islands, where 800 loggers remained on strike this
‘week in the two-year-old fight for union recognition
and signing of a union agreement.

, “The facts are these. The union accepted, as a
minimum, the proposed memorandum of the Labor
Department. The operators refused to do so.

“But some days later they brought in similar pro-
posals with very significant revisions.

government, and not an agreement with the union,
and the operators know this to be the truth.

“They have always refused—and continued to
refuse —to sign @ Union agreement with the IWA. We
wasted several weeks trying to negotiate with them
on the Currie proposals and all we got was a run-
around.

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Delegates of 38 trade
Unions, representing

all - union conference
called by Vancouver
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passed resolutions:

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they be met- immedi-
aiely.

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NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—The basis for joint labor action was laid in the
Royal City this week when delegates representing 18 unions of all affiliations met
in the IWA Hall, endorsed a statement declaring that “the object of this committee
is to promote unity around any issue that may be in the interests of the trade unions
within the district,” and struck off a committee to draft a set of bylaws for considera-

tion of the next meeting.

Among unions repre-
sented at the conference
were: Boilermakers and
iron Shipbuilders Union,
Local 5; International
Woodworkers of America,
Local 1-357; Packinghouse
Workers Organizing Com-
mittee; Aeronautical Me-
chanics Union, Lodge 149;
Civic Employees; Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers
Union.

Voting $50 from the
proceeds of the joint Labor
Day rally to the Queen
Charlotte Islands strike
fund, the conference aiso
endorsed proposals to hold
a rally in support of the
striking loggers.

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King Gov’t Urged

Held prisoner aboard his ship by U.S. authorities at a North
African port and informed he would be shot if he descended
the gangplank, President Joseph Curran of the National
Maritime Union (CIO)) tells a press conference in New
York that he is preparing a report to the government on
abuses against U.S. seamen in foreign ports.

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