Ed 4 f fe - a 4 = ~@ OE ES UE ME Re) eS Labor scores school board appointment NANAIMO, B.C. Delegates to Nanaimo and Dis-- trict Joint Labor Council at the last monthly meeting hit out at the appointment of H. R. Mac- Millen’s representative, D. B. Ran- kine, to the district school board. A motion to protest the appoint- ment, moved by “Dusty” Green- well (United Mine Workers) was tabled for one month when dele- gates from Nanaimo and Lady- smith Teachers’ Federation stated they could not vote until the mat- ter had been taken up with B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Rankine was appointed to the school board and local ratepayers’ associations. The government’s reason was that MacMillan’s new pulp mill would account for more than half the rural district tax assessment. “Rankine doesn’t represent a child, but just millions of dol- lars.” charged Greenwell. “Not one child lives at the pulp mill as there is no townsite there. The appointment overstepped all democratic rights of the people to elect their own _ representa- tives.” R. N. Strachan (Carpenters) condemned the appointment, and said that it was the policy of the government “to whittle down peo- ple’s democratic rights.” George Ganderton (Longshore- men) said he demanded his de- mocratic right to vote on his re- presentative, who should be res- ponsible to the people’ — not a corporation — for his actions. Legality of the appointment is being questioned. Section 125 of the School Act, dealing with in- dustrial appointments, states in part: “A company town .means any area without municipal orga- nization which includes. lands owned, occupied or controlled ei- ther directly or indirectly by the corporation, on which lands per- sons employed by the corporation live or sojourn.” United labor rally fights soaring prices. B.C, labor groups will hold a joint “price-rollback rally” in King Ed- ward auditorium February 16, as part of a nationwide campaign for price and rent controls which is being spearheaded by Canadian Congress of Labor, Trades -and Labor Congress of Canada and the railway brotherhoods. Postcards addressed to MP’s will be distributed at the meeting in a concerted mail lobby for federal action ‘on prices. Wage freeze, no strike © policies condemned by Federation of Labor Under pressure from thousands of members in CCI, unions who are feeling the economic pinch as a result of federal war spending and a consequent shrinking in the value of their purchasing dollar, the seventh Labor, held in the city last weekend, adopted fighting resolutions opposing “wage freeze” and “no strike” policies and calling for a mass drive to increase wages. ‘ annual Ont. Labor board decis By MEL COLBY TORONTO Delegates to the. annual con- vention of the Ontario Federa- tion of Labor (CCL) demanded last week that the federal gov- ernment set aside the edict of the Canada Labor Relations Board which revoked the certification of the Canadian Seamen’s’ Union with Branch Lines Ltd. The overwhelming vote was a_ repu- diation by the OFL-CCL delegates of the stand of A. A. Mosher, president of the Canadian Cong- ress of Labor. Mosher, a mem- ber of the Labor Relations Board, voted for the decision to revoke the CSU certification and attempt- ed» to defend his position. at a luncheon speech delivered before convention delegates. ‘ The substitute resolution syb- mitted by the resolutions commit- asks gov't set aside Federation ion on CSU tee was substantially the same as two others which came from Gen- eral Motors Local 222, United Auto Workers and by the Inter- national Fur and Leather Work- ers Union. Only two delegates, Larry Ben- nett of the Steelworkers and Rich- ard Geddes of the Oilworkers, opposed the vote saw an overwhelming major- ity of usual right-wing supporters unite with progressives on the issue. Corridor discussion overheard before and after the debate on the issue made it clear that the ma- jority of the ‘right-wing leader- ship of the OFL fear that the LRB decision on the CSU could be used by management and the! government as a. precedent to re- voke the certifications of unions led by admitted CCF’ers, Year's ja / A 14-year-old foster child Beer pa : | Aid Society ran, away from a viction of the woman running Doris Jean Brown, 40, of 311 East 38th, was sentenced to one year in jail last week for con- tributing to the: delinquency of her 16-year-old daughter. Testimony showed that Martin} Neilson, 30, a boarder, had been intimate with Mrs. Brown’s young daughter since Octover, 1949. The girl is now pregnant. Under cross-examination, Mrs. Brown admitted that she “knew what was going on” but claimed ‘that she was “afraid to tell pol- ice, because Neilson was vicious when drunk.” The young ward of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society gave police Vancouver protest executions Individual members of the Ca- nadian Society for the Advance- ment of Colored People added their protests from Vancouver to the world-wide demand for the release of seven Negroes of Martinsville, Virginia, sentenced _to death on a false charge of rape, but des- pite thousands of protest wires and letters denouncing the frame-up, the seven youths were electro- cuted over the weekend. The case’ of the “Martinsville Seven” attracted tremendous _in- ternational attention because of the barbarous manner in which the entire proceedings were con- ducted. Police used torture to extort “confessions” from them in jail, but in -court the seven young men repudiated these false con- fessions and exposed the methods used to obtain them. Although no “white” man con- citizens ,victed of rape had ever been | “sentenced to death in the entire! history of Virginia, an entirely non-Negro jury which included: members with obvious anti-Negro prejudites quickly passed a ver- Giet of guilty and the young men were sentenced to die. : This deliberate perversion of | justice aroused such a storm ‘of | protests in America and through- ' out the world that the date of /execution was twice postponed. : But on Friday — after President ‘Truman and Governor John Bat- jtle of Virginia had refused ‘to ‘graht a reprieve — four of the ;men were electrocuted, and the refaining three went to their death on Monday. When Vancouver citizens visit- ed the American consul here, he xteeted to know nothing about | the case. 8 \ il term © for foster parent from the Catholic Children’s home in which she had been placed, and when picked up by police as a missing person revealed unsavory facts which resulted in arrest and con- the “home.” the facts which opened an inves- tigation into the sordid situation. Mic Cant imagine a more loath- some case than this,’ commented Magistrate Matheson in Police Court, as he sentenced Mrs. Brown and Neilson to one yea in jail. “I can’t conceive of more de- grading sircumstances to which children could be exposed.” a NFLY holds parley in Toronto next May TORONTO The 2nd national convention of the National Federation of Labor Youth will be held in Toronto May 4, 5, 6, it was reported here this week. The national executive of the NFLY at the same time announced the launching of a recruiting cam- paign to win 250 new members and establish a number of new clubs. “The fight against all forms of militarization. of the youth, and particularly the need to defeat the conscription plot, calls for great strengthening of NFLY which is in the forefront of this big battle for the future of Canada’s young people,” the statement said. convention of resolution “and the B.C. Federation of Packinghouse workers ired by agreement NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. Rank-and-file members of United Packinghouse Workers here are not at all satisfied with the agree- ments their union recently signed with Royal City plants. “What we got was a 7.4 increase in wages, plus an additional one cent per hour for every 1.3 in- Delegates adopted a Marine Workers resolution instructing the conference to initiate a wage drive conference “in order that the coming wage negotiations of the various unions be coordinated in a mass drive to increase wages.” ‘|An IWA resolution upholding the power to strike as “the funda- mental weapon of labor” and con- demning “wage freeze’ and “no strike’ policies was passed unani- mously. _ Progressive militancy was shown by the 114 delegates again when they demanded that the Canada Labor Relations Board rescind its action in decertifying Canadian Seamen’s Union in Branch Lines (despite the fact that CCL president A. R. Mosher voted for the LRB ruling). Ac- tion of the board was branded as “opening new avenues for the smashing of trade unions.” But on international questions ionists as well as all Canadians, the ~convention echoed the! right- wing CCF views of the CCL leadership. | Despite a section in the officers’ report which plainly stated that “we must give cognizance to the international situation in order to study tHe effects that it will have On our members in concert with the rest of organized labor,” the convention ducked action .on a resolution advocating Canadian recognition of the Chinese Peo- ple’s government by referring the of Labor. A Fur and Leather Workers resolution protesting decision of the Atlantic Pact countries to re- arm Germany was defeated, but only after it had drawn consid- erable, discussion. Resolutions passed by the con- vention dealt with these questions: @ Request that the govern- ment re-impose the excess pro- fits tax. e Lifting of job restrictions against the “over 40” worker. e No job discrimination on the basis of race or creed. e@ Extension of the municipal franchise to those over 18. @ Free hospital care to citiz- than $1000. e Enactment of a federal low rental housing plan. e Minimum hourly wage of 85 cents for aii industries. .@ Increase in workmen’s com- pensation benefits. . -@ Unemployment insurance waiting period to be cut to three days. Rat e Victoria to take over rent controls if the federal. govern- ment steps out of the picture. @ Reinstitution of price con- trols by the federal government. Election of executive’ officers saw Dan Radford re-elected presi- dent over Bill White; J. Stewart Alsbury re-elected first vice-presi- dent over Bill Stewart; Hugh Allison, second vice-president; Joe Morris, third vice-president; and George Home, secretary-treasurer. Elected to the executive were Lawrence Vandale, Pat Tifrell, George Smythe, Herb Coombs, Robert Smegl, Gerry Emary and Mike Mihalech. STANTON & MUNRO Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 193 E. HASTINGS ST. (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 of vital importance to trade un-! Mmatter to the Canadian Congress | ens with yearly incomes of less ,erease in the cost of living, with the July standing as the floor and ;a further three-cent hourly in- crease in August,” said one worker _this week. | “In Canada Packers and Burns we got a 40-hour week, within 48; and in Swifts a 40-hour week, with- in 44, with time and a half after eight hours in any one day and 40 hours in any week. Which means, if you lose any time for any reason, you work for straight time on Saturdays. “For this we signed a two-year contract without any opening clause. Many of us believe this contract should be re-opened and that we should demand a 15cent hourly pay hike and a 40-hour week with the same take-home pay. “One of the reasons we organ- ized on a national scale was to bring. wages in the east up to | BC. levels, But what is really hap- ‘pening is that we are being dragged down to the eastern scale.” DUNN'S DRY CLEANING ‘ PHONE N.W. 179 WE CALL & DELIVER © Grandview Market 3726 Grandview Highway i FREE DELIVERY—DE. 1494-M Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Our Specialty MILO CAFE “We Specialize in Ukrainian Food” 242 E. Hastings St, PA: 3037 Vancouver a Hastings Steam Baths OPEN DAY and NIGHT Expert Masseurs in Attendance Vancouver, B.C, / HA. 0340 766 E. 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