7 Wartime Wages
> Order 1943 (P.-C. 9384) is
> harmtul to the morale of
| both employer and em-

‘| Vol. I. No. 10.

| Ho use
)Protests

1 Order

© der pressure of scores of

» Control Order, the legisla-

» motion introduced by Tom _
> Uphill (Labor, Fernie):

Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, March 11, 1944

VICTORIA, B.C. — Un-

| protest resolutions and in-

' fluenced by the broad pro-
test movement against the

| unpopular ‘Federal Wage

_ ture this week unanimous- ~
_ ly approved the following

“Whereas the Federal

Control

| ployee and is upsetting
\ war unity: :
“And whereas this or-

» der places unnecessary re-

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SHELL

400 Expected At

Postwar Parley |

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“In the past eighteen months organized labor in British Columbia has written=

some of the proudest chapters in Canadian trade union history and the provincial
conference on postwar reconstruction and rehabilitation being held this weekend is”
a further demonstration of the eagerness of the organized workers to meet around.
the conference table with citizens of every political shade to plan the future in line
with the great international historical developments.” This was the comment made

.. by Gary Culhane, secretary of the Shipyard and General
5 Cents When he outlined plans for the conference to The People this week.

Here Bill Bennett, People columnist, is seen handing a cheque for $735 to Mrs.
Ethel Evans, widow of Arthur Evans, while Mrs. Grace Greenwood, treasurer of
the fund contributed by readers of The People, looks on. Bill Bennett is chair-
man of the Arthur Eyans Memorial Fund which has as its objective the raising of
$1,200 to redeem the mortgage on the Evans ‘home.

LUTTE TTT TTT

Civic Committee Takes

i Severe objections to remarks made in the legisla-

ture by Mines Minister E. C. Carson that private in-
'terests were prepared to start an iron and steel in-

) dusiry on British Columbia’s coast “in a small way”

' were voiced this week by members of the semi-
| public civic committee which is examining plans for

erection of a steel industry on the Coast.

The committee, which. has been meeting regular-
| ly to devise ways and medns to encourage the steel
| industry to locate here in a big way, discovered ai its
last meeting that Carson’s private interests contem-
plated building a small rolling mill which, it consid-

® ers, is totally out of line with the possibilities and
| needs of the province.

The committee decided at a meeting late this week

i to invite Carson to come to Vancouver for a confer-

! ence’ at which the whole question would. be dis-
i cussed. “We are not satisfied with the minister's state-
= ment,” said E. E. Leary, president of Vancouver Labor

i Council, who is a member of the committee.

Issue With.
Proposal On
Steel Mill

Workers

Federation,

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Unionists
Continue
Struggle

By R. A. DAVIES

MOSCOW. (ALN). —
Dramatic details of the strug=
gle being carried on against
the Nazis by trade unionists
in Denmark, Norway, Hol-
land, France and other occu-
pied countries are given by
Nikolai Alexeyev, wellknown

Soviet writer in an article in

the trade union journal War -
and the Working Class.
“Workers* organizations in
these countries are the back-
bone of the great movement
of national liberation of Nazi-
eccupied Kurope,” he says.

‘The strikes in Denmark in
August, 1943, marked the be-
ginning of a mass resistance
campaign by Danish patri-
ots,’ Alexeyey writes.
“Strikes at Orhus, Esberg,
Odensee, Olborg and Copen=
hagen demonstrated the true
mood of the Danish workers. —
The Nazi occupationists suc-
ceeded in drowning these
strikes in blood. Meading
trade unionists were arrested
while many others were sent
to concentration camps or
transported to Germany. But
these repressions, far from
ecowing the workers of Den-
mark, have inspired them
With new faith.”

The Danish trade unions—
which, along with the throne,
parliament and the Social
Democratic Party, were left
intact by the Nazis in an ef-
fort ‘to appear not to have
encroached on the sovereign-
ty of the country’—numbered
570,000 members as of Janu-
ary 1, 1943, Alexeyev states,
quoting data furnished by
Eyler Jensen, chairman of
the National Federation of
Danish Trade Unions. “‘Reac-
tionary leaders of the Danish
unions chose the road of com-
promise and connivance with

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