Nabisco had sugar, although
shortage claimed in layoffs

The National Biscuit Company had three tons of sugar
and two tons of partly processed sugar in its stocks when
it laid off some 80 workers on June 17, claiming a shortage
of sugar, after a prolonged dispute with the union. The sugar

controller was also prepared to
allow the company on the 165,-
000 pounds of sugar available to
it under quota after July 1.

Evidence to this effect was
given by Michael H. McGeough
of the provincial labor depart-
ment at the trial this week of
Harry Bradley, Nabisco plant
superintendent, on a charge of
attempting coercion to induce the
company’s night shift workers
not to join the Bakery and Con-
fectionery Workers’ International
Union (AFL).

‘A second charge of seeking
through dismissal of certain em-
ployees to induce remaining em-
ployees not to become members
of a trade union has also been
laid against the company.

McGeough said Bradley inform-
ed him that 60 employees were
laid off on June 17, another 15
on June 18, and others would be
laid off later because there was
a shortage of sugar, flour and
other materials.

When the trial
week, Walter S.
counsel for Bradley, suggested
that union “goon squads” had
threatened non-union workers
“with dire consequences if they
wouldn’t join the union, even
to the extent of visitation at home
late at night,” in questioning «4
former woman employee.

The witness retorted: “It is the
most ridiculous statement I have
ever heard.”

“Tf that condition existed, why
were arrests not made?” asked
Magistrate W. W. B. MaclInnes.

The trial will resume this Fri-
day afternoon.

opened last
Owen, K.C.,

Steel

have to be voted on by the work-
ers on the picket lines Thurs-
day.”

Two of the seven plants orig-
inally involved in the dispute,
whose representative in negotia-
tions has been J. H. Ruddock,
industrial relations officer for the
Canadian Manufacturers Associa-
tion, settled with the union Wed-
nesday. The other five—Dominion
Bridge, Vancouver Machinery
Depot, Vancouver Iron Works,
Vancouver Engineering and Ross
and Howard—refused to meet the
union’s demand for a 12% cent
an hour wage increase, despite
all-day negotiations Wednesday.

The dispute at Richards Engin-
eering and Opsal Steel, the other
two plants, was settled Wednes-
day by an increase of 10 cents
an hour across the board and

)15 cents for low category work-

ers.

Ignoring the compulsory govern-
ment-supervised strike vote call-
ed for under the new ICA Act
(Bill 39) the Steelworkers con-
ducted their own strike vote last
week after the companies had
refused to better their wage offer
of a six-cent an hour increase.

“We have concluded = agree-
ments with a number of plants,”
Baskin told the Pacific Tribune.

“The only conclusion we can draw
from the hold-out of these five
plants is that they want to pro-
voke strike action in an attempt
to break the union.”

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947

LONDON—Demands that there
shall be no lavish preparations
for Elizabeth’s wedding are be-
ing made by trade union
branches,

“We condemn the impending
waste o* food and taxpayers’
money occasioned. by the be-
trothal of Princess Elizabeth at
a time when we are fighting
a battle for economic survival,”
says a resolution from the Ab-
erdeen branch of the Scottish
Painters’ Society.

Building workers at Burnt
Oak, Middlesex, are protesting

Unions protest royal wedding waste

against the proposed conversion
of Sunninghill Park mansion for
the Princess and Lieut. Mount-
batten.

“There is ample accommoda-
tion in the _ existing palaces.
Housing for the workers should
have top priority,” says a reso-
lutior! from: the Burnt Oak
branch of the National Society
of Painters.

Last month squatters in the
Ascot district won a_ victory
when the Commissioners for
Gown Lands were forced by a
widely supported campaign to

agree that the empty huts sur-
rounding the future home of
Princess Elizabeth at Sunning-
hill Park would be turned into
temporary homes.

The scores of substantial RAF
huts standing at the foot of
the wooded lawn fronting the
mansion, could be turned into
a model village complete with
concert hall, well laid concrete
road and acres of playing groumd
for the children.

Yet it had been suggested they
should be destroyed to make
way for the royal couple.

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Dutch ship

seized from the Indonesians.

“As reported in an Ottawa dis-
patch to the Pacific Tribune on
August 8, Canada granted the
Netherlands credits totalling $125,-
000,000 under an agreement sign-
ed on February 5 last year. Of
this, $93,000,000 had been used
by June this year, including $10,-
800,000 spent on trucks and $5,-
000,000 on chemicals.

The revelation that the Dutch
equipped four divisions with
Canadian vehicles and arms for
service int Indonesia has aroused
widespread protest throughout
this country.

Canadian and American fliers,
as well as former. pilots in the
Australian and Indian air forces,
are among those who are reported
to have volunteered their services
to the Indonesian government —
but the republic has only a few
obsolete planes to pit against the
jet planes obtained from Britain
for the Dutch air force.

Building workers
hit Bevin’s policy

LONDON—By 21 votes to 19,
the recent conference of the Am-
algamated Union of Building
Trade Workers condemned For-
eign Minister Bevin’s policy. A
resolution was carried demanding

the immediate operation of a
socialist foreign policy.
Bevin’s policy was denounced

as the main cause of Britain’s
crisis. It misused manpower and
materials vitality necessary for
the production line, declared the
resolution.

Moving the resolution, G. Watt
(Aberdeen) strongly attacked the
link-up with America. The Mar-
shall plan, he stated, was an at-
tempt to inflict dollar imperialism
on Europe. There should be closer
ties with the Soviet Union and
the East European democracies.

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Party this week.

“Unknown to the people of Van-
couver, Dutch ships are cominy
into our port,” the statement de-
clared. “These are ships of an
imperialist country carrying on
aggressive action against the Re-
public of Indonesia.

“Vancouver citizens do not
want to be a party to attempts
of an aggressive power, which
was itself only liberated from
Nazi occupation largely by
Canadian arms, to destroy the
independence of other peoples.

* “Our port must not become a

base for aggression. By closing it
to Dutch ships we would be aid-

ing the long-oppressed Indones-
ians in their struggle for free-
dom.”

The statement concluded with
the demand that the King govern-

LPP urges closing of port
to all Netherlands ships

A statement calling on citizens to protest against all
Dutch ships entering the Port of Vancouver was issued by
the Vancouver City Committee of the Labor-Progressix€

ment take immediate steps to suP-
port proposals before the United
Nations to halt Dutch: aggressio®
and guarantee the independencé
of the Indonesian Republic.

AFL plans holiday
for 1948 election

WASHINGTON — Reflecting 97
ganized labor’s reaction to e
actment of the Taft-Hartley antic
labor bill, the American Fede!
ation of Labor is planning ®
nation-wide work holiday to s8@&
out the vote in the 1948 national
elections.

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