LMM MM ALA MMSW Success Seen In Trail TRAIL, B.C.——As officials of the provincial department of labor this week com- pleted their examination of the books of Local 480, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, union leaders here voiced their confidence that.the local would be confirmed in its application to be certified as the collective bargaining agency for Trail smelter workers. Result of the examination is expected to be announced this weekend or early SITET ePWareNeTEYSTNYRATESYSNET CUI EERS ANH ANE Vines ' LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY 5 Cents i ol. IIE. No. 22. = Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, June_3, 1944 = —Continued on Page 2 MMMM MMMM Buck oS. at. Support For Tito “The primary objective of the national conference of Yugoslavian organizations which meets in Toronto this week, is to obtain national recognition of Marshal ‘TKito’s government,” said N. T. Ne- metz, lawyer and chairman of Vancouver Committee for Free Yugoslavia. ue | lo Press i: TORONTO. — “Several Pewspapers and radio com- j entators are interpreting — (ar proposal for election of | government representing ‘ coalition of liberal-labor- This map indicates some of the moves Nazi sources Say are expected in south and south- east Europe. As the Allied drive on Italy (1) continues successfully the enemy is re- ported withdrawing beyond Rome and the Po River. Berlin reports a gigantic ship con- centration at Corsica and Sardinia (2). Barbed wire indicates Balkan area, with Russia (3) ready to continue Rumanian drive and Tito growing more active in Yugoslivia (4). amer forces in the forth- |oming Dominion election 3 a bid for -a Liberal-1.PP - valition,” Tim Buck, LEP ational leader, declared (a press statement. “This » mcorrect as reference to /ar public Statement . OWS.” Buck was referring to ‘© policy statement issued 7 the national executive , the Wabor-Progressive “rty at the conclusion of conference with provin- il party leaders here last sekend. The press ntinued: “I emphasized that point tite deliberately in my eech concluding the dis- ‘sSion in the following ords: i“ “Our proposal is for a statement falition of all the forces dich favor national poli- Ss based upon the pros- Nets indicated in the joint atement issued by Roose- pit, Churchill and Stalin, \mouncing their historic mteement at Teheran. It ‘clear, therefore, that our "oposal is not simply for ‘Liberal-Labor-Progres- ve Party coalition. Indeed, = assume that, in the ‘ginning, the coalition Wl develop as a coinci- ‘ace of immediate objec- ves rather than as a for- val agreement between laxties ” /“We propose a coalition vernment because, as a Continued on Page 8 TOLUCA AIO Survey ToR Workers’ Hopes For Postwar Questionnaires designed to give a complete picture of the postwar hopes of workers are being circulated this week among the more than 25,000 war workers in the Greater Vancouver area by the Industrial Recon- struction and Social Development Council (IRSDC), the organization set up at the recent provincial Postwar Rehabilitation Conference. The IRSDCG, which is composed of 144 union, political and fraternal organizations representing 150,000 citi- zens of British Columbia, is undertaking this survey with a view to placing before the government a com- prehensive picture of the postwar needs of war workers. —Continued on Page 8 eveal Record Meet Held by LPP In Whitehorse WHITEHORSE, Y.T. —Something of a rec- ord for political meet- ing in this pioneer Yu- kon city was set last week when Tom Mc- Ewen, B.C. provincial organizer for the Labor- Progressive Party, ad- dressed a capacity aud- ience in Legion Hall. From this, the first LPP public meeting and the biggest political meet- ing ever held here, the local LPP branch ob- tained a score of new members. Sponsored by the LPP, a petition propos- ing a program of hard- surfaced streets, modern sewage system and wat- er system for White-- horse is being presented to the federal govern- ment. From the conference a del- egation will be elected to go to Ottawa and confer with - Prime Minister Mackenzie King. “We wish to register under the United Allied Re- lief Fund,” said Nemetz, “and in that way will obtain au- thorization to collect funds to aid Tito and the people of - Yugoslavia.” : The Canadian committee for Free Yugoslavia is united with similar organizations in Mexico and the United States, said Nemetz, who explained that the first Free Yugo- slavian committee was Start- - ed by Louis Adamic in New York. Last week over 600 mem- bers of the Yugoslavian com- munity gathered in Croatian Hall, and joined with Ameri- can and Mexican Slav sroups to form a North Am- erican Bloc to press for rec- ognition of Marshal Tito. A _ total of $27,913 was pledged to Tito, which will be col- lected when the government gives permission. “Tito’s army was the first in Hurope to establish the Second Front,” Howard Cos- tigan of the Washington State Commonwealth Federation told the meeting, stating that this army now numbers nearly 300,000 men. : “We have been shocked to hear that 20 million dollars has been wasted fruitlessly ‘by King Peter and his gov- ernment in exile since 1941, money which came from Yugoslavian funds here in America,” he said. AAA AAA TTT SC AAT