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IWA Names

Stewart
On Board

“In the dispute between IWA-

Local 1-217 and Sitka Spruce
Company at Vancouver, William
Stewart, president of the Boil-
ermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
Union, has been appointed as
the wunion’s ‘arbitrator. Arbitra-
tor for the company is Allan M.
Russell. Hearings of the arbitra-
tion board will get under way
as soon as a chairman is chosen.

Jack Greenall, who will be

assisted by DWA attorney John
Stanton, will present the union’s
case. :
The union is requesting, that
the management be compelled to
negotiate an agreement, accord-
ing to the regulations of the fed-
eral labor code. :

The TWA has been certified at
Sitka Spruce, but the company
qmaintains that a plebiscite was
held repudiating the union. lLat-
er at an official vote, presided
over by Labor Conciliator James
Thomson, workers voted 86-14 to
Set aside the plebiscite. ©

Continued ; ee

Sitdown

the yard and allegedly urged
the management to discharge
members of the industrial union.

Utilizing possession of the
original agreement covering the
shipwrights in. the yards Bruce
and a handful of supporters have
commenced a series of provoca-
five actions against members of
the new union, which is an af-
filiate of the CCl, including the
demand for dismissal of those

who do not belong to the Amalga-

mated union. :

"The agreement held by Bruce
was concluded between the
Amalgamated local and the man-
agement in 1942 for the duration
and the newly-formed union
which does not possess an agree—
ment of its own recently applied
for certification in order to nego-

_tiate with the “management of

the yards. |

When the labor department
eonducted a recent investigation
for certification it was found that
under the consi ao of the
Amalgamated, providing for re-
penton of ceobere on the books

for several months after dues

payments stop; technically the
Amalgamated union had as many
members as the newly-formed in-
dustrial union. It was then that
the industrial union pressed the
Jabor department for a new vote
to. be taken in the yards. The
application was granted and the
vote will be held next week.

When the dispute flared up in
the yards Thursday, Shipyard
union leaders Charles Saunders,
Charles Caron and Gary Culhane
requested James Thomson of the

Jabor department to visit the yard

and help settle the grievance.
Meeting with the shop stewards
and’ later addressing the men 1n

the yards Thomson assured them-

that the vote to decide the bar-
eaining agents between the two
unions would take place next week
and that Bruce while technically
jn possession of the agreement

covering the shipwrights classifi-
cation, would not be permitted in
the yards but must take up all
questions with the office of the
yards. - :

On receiving this assurance the
tnen resumed work.

“unions,

- contemplating:

BERT MELSNESS

JACK GREENALi
At a special meeting ‘of the

IWA executive board this
week, Bert Melsness, fer the
past two years district secre-
tary and managing editor of
The B.C. Lumber Worker, was
granted leave of absence for
the duration, following his
acceptance iito the army, and
Jack Greenall, former inter-
national representative in New
Westminster, was appointed
acting district secretary sub-
_ject to confirmation of the

© district council.
\

City Insurance
Men Organize

Insurance men in Viancouver
and yicinity have formed a
local union, the first of its kind
in Ganada, to be known as the
Ganadian Life Insurance Agents
Association, Local 173. The
union is affiliated with United
Office and Professional Workers
of America, CIO. :

Immediate objective of the new
organization will be to cooperate
with all other unions whose aims
and purposes are consistent with
the principles of the labor move-
ment in- general, declares Mar-
shall A. Johnson, president.

Considerable assistance has al-
ready been given by other
says Johnson, who
recommends that all union men
purchase of in-
surance ask insurance agents to
show their union buttons before
taking. out a policy.

At the present time 30 agents
belong to the union.

“The formation of this union

‘illustrates quite clearly that we

have groups of men and women
in the ‘white collar field who
realize the benefits of union
organizations,” Johnson stated.

Continued

_- France

many, saw members of their
families or friends suffer
these cruelties. “heir hate is
directed against the German oc-
cupationists, but perhaps even
more so against those Prench-
men who betrayed their country
by selling the people to the in-
vader.

The National Resistance Coun-
il, which elects 49 delegates to
the Provisional Consultative As-
sembly in Algiers, is“ the center
of the French underground..

Formed in May, 1943, to co-
ordinate resistance, the council
embraces the Francs-Tireurs et
Partisans, Libration, Ceux de la
Resistance and Ceux de la Lib-

eration (active in northern.
Franec) and the Francs-Tir-
eurs, liberation and Combat

(active in the south.)

Also represented are the Gen-
eral Confederation of MLabor
(GGT) and the Christian Confed-
eration of Labor (CGC), and
the Socialist, Communist, Radi-
eal-Socialist, Popular Dem o-
eratic, Republican Federation
and Democratic Alliance parties.

The underground is divided
roughly into two sections, which
might be distinguished by the
terms “civilian” and “partisan.”

The “civilian” underground
includes those who continue te
hold jobs under the Vichy re-
gime, but slew output by dam-
aging machines and strising-
The partisans are those who
have escaped to the mountains
or Other hiding places and from
there cotiduct operations against
the Nazis. E

Frequently, however, these
overlap as in the case of the
Many peasants who by day go
about their regular duties — to
meet in their hiding places at
night to plan and execute at-
tacks against the enemy.

Among the partisans — who
are generally identified by the
names Francs-Tireurs or Maquis
—are many young: men who es-
caped conscription for work in
Germany.

In addition, there are hun-
dreds of thousands who, al-
though not affiliated to any un-
derground organization demon-
strate their hostility to the Ger-
Man invaders by feeding, cloth-
ing and hiding those being
sought by the Gestapo and by
defying the instructions of the
Vichy government in their daily
lives.

The flame of. French resist-
ance is maintained and spread
by. an underground press oper-
ating under incredible difficul-
ties. x
Among the papers withthe
widest circulation are the parti-
san organs Combat, Liberation,
la Frane-Tireur, Valmy and
Liberte, the Communist party
organ L’Humanite and the So-
eialist party’s Le Populaire.

Liberation prints two editions,
one weekly in northern France
and one bi-monthly in the Vichy
zone, and has an estimated circu-
lation of 180,000 per ©month.
I’Humanite which appears daily
has a circulation of about 100,000
for each edition.

- Trail Workers Hail - :

Certification Victory .
TRAIL, B.C.—With a record attendance of over 1
citizens of Trail the International Union of Mine, Mil]

Smelter. Workers, Local 480,

celebrated its certificatio

bargaining agent for the two local plants of the Consol

here addressed by Harvey Mur-
phy, union organizer, and H. W.
Herridge, MLA for Rossland-
Trail constituency-

Herridse congratulated the

-union on its yictory and urged

those workers who were not as:
yet members, to join up and
strengthen the ranks of labor. |
Giving a short report on the
recent Dominion convention of |
the Canadian Legion im Vancou-!-
ver, he stated that the Legion’ ’
intended to meet with the lead-!
ers of both national trade union’
centers and was desirous of ¢co-
operating with the labor move-
ment in the postwar period.
Murphy urged his listeners to
continue strengthening, the union
and complete negotiations for an
agreement with the Consoli-

dated Mining and Smelting, Gom-—

pany. He hailed the certification
@s a great victory and pointed,
out that the trade union move-'
ment had come a long way ‘Since
the days of the Combination
Acts in England which forbade
workers to join together in their
own interests to demand in+
¢reases in wages. Peeetaee
“We have broken Bilaylock’s
local Combination Act,” he said,
“snd now we must go forware
to see that he agrees to better

conditions and adequate wages
for his employees.” :
Murphy concluded his re-

marks by stressing the benefits
of proper trade union agree-
ments involving better working

conditions, stabilization of our
wages, proper grievance pre-
cedure, safety regulations and

Seniority rights which handled

by union committees

make the smelters and mines
organized strengholds for pro-
gress.

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