ELECT DELEGATE TO PEACE CONGRESS City high school students form peace league. Students from five high schools in the Greater Vancouver area at a meeting held here on Friday last week decided to form a Students’ High School Peace League and to elect a delegate to the National Peace Congress which will open in Toronto May > Inducements being ‘held out to students to get them to join the cadet movement were scored by the meeting after it was pointed out “that tips to cadet camps at Winnipeg elsewhere were among rewards offered for service in the cadets. and The meeting was also unani- mous in opposing manufacture of atomic weapons and demanding a ban on the A-bomb and H-bomb. Eddie Cinits, student from King Edward High, was elected as the new League’s delegate to the Na- tional Peace Congress. Yellowknife miners make gains in contract YELLOWKNIFE, NWT Workers at Giant Gold Mines in the Yellowknife district this week voted five to one to accepts terms for a 1950-51 contract, grant- ing wage increases and improvements in working conditions. Under terms of the new contract, the workers, members of the Internation Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, receive a three cents across-the-board pay hike; married men with homes in Yellow- knife get 40 cents a day cost of living bonus and two 45-gallon drums of fue] oil per month; vaca- tion pay after six months instead of one year; improved grievance procedure; and other concessions. Members of the bargaining com- mittee which negotiated the agree- ment were Ray Morris, Don McColl, Frank. Lockwood, Billy Gillis and Mine-Mill business agent Barney McGuire. : . ey ee Peace Action tea Women’s Committee for Peace Action is-having a tea this Friday Apri! 21, at 2 p.m. in Pender Au- ditorium canteen. 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GL. 2675-F We Call for and Deliver Phone Any Time Lochdale Credit Union Member Your Support Appreciated PACIFIC Jack Cooney, Mgr. * Two Electrical locals to take ‘strike ballot An attempt by electrical con- tractors Hume and Rumble and Peterson Electric to scuttle 30 years of precedent and pay wages lower than BCElectric rates re- sulted in locals 213 and 230, In- ternational Brotherhood of, Elec- trical Workers (AFL), deciding to take a strike vote next week. \ “Your best bet is a 100 percent strike vote,” th@ union leadership is advising the membership, in a leaflet outlining the situation. A majority report of a concilia- tion . board, recommending wages five cents an hour less than BCElectric rates, was unanimous- ly voted down by the union. The union representative on the board, Jack Rogs, submitted a minority report. “Why should the fact that BCER employees are _ full-time salaried employees’ with far more security than similar clas- sifications working for the con- tractors lead the board to the conclusion that contractors’ wages should be lower?”asks the union. ; “The very fact that Hume and Rumble and Peterson Electric em- ployees have less security than BCER employees, less steady em- ployment, less concessions, is the best argument in the world for higher wages. “Your own experience in. the past few months while some of you worked as little as one day a week proves this — and just across the border, in the State of Washington, contractors wag- @s are anywhere from 40 to 60 cents per hour above the utility companies... “Your strike vote is your per- ssona] endorsation of your union bargaining committee’s position. A 100 percent strike vote will make the contractors sit up and take notice. It strengthens the union’s bargaining position. The better the vote the quicker the settlement.” FERRY MEAT MARKET 119 EAST HASTINGS ? ' VANCOUVER, B.C. ' FREE DELIVERY Supplying Fishing Boats Our Specialty es 9588 ; Nite Calls GL. 1740L UNITY ers at Trail,warrants the condem- nation of every unionist. Such tac- tics tend only to weaken and dis- organize the trade union movement and aid and abet such a corporation as the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company in its attempts to smash the present organization.” Union members unanimously ad- opted a resolution against raiding which read, in part: “The atrade union movement to- day needs cooperation and unity to meet the growing attacks against wage standards and trade union rights, not division and disunity such as that created. by Steel’s raid in. Trail. ’ “The attempt by the top Steel union officials to win certification on the grounds of signed cards, without initiation or dues having been paid, constitutes a serious threat to organized labor, opening up the door to widespread attacks against all unions. “This conference of trade union officers, job stewards and union members of all affiliations goes on record strongly condemning the raid by Officers of the Steel union at Trail; and we also go on record as opposed to the Steel union’s at- ‘tempt to win certification on the basis of signed cards without pay- ment of dues or initiation.” Applause greeted Fred Horton, secretary of local 3302, United Steel. Workers, when he took the platform and blasted raiding tactics of his own brasshats. “It is not the mem- bers of our union who are raiding in Trail,” said Horton. “It is the top leaders. If our’ union could hold a referendum on the question, raiding would stop tomorrow.” Messages of support were read from John Cameron, president of United Mine Workers, Cumberland local, and Tom Uphill, veteran La- bor MLA-for Fernie. “Unless the Steel raiders are stopped cold at: Trail, they will attempt to extend their activities throughout the province,” warned Danny O’Brien, Fred Jackson, president of the district council. International Long- shoremen and Warehousemen’s Union, CIO-CCL, termed the Steel raid at Trail ‘cannibalism in the trade union movement.” Xf Jack Ross, international repre- sentative of the International Bro- therhood of TEleatrical ‘Workers, AFL, predicted a Mine-Mill victory at Trail and declared that “all or- ganized labor must give expression to their horror and disgust at the union busting tactics now being em- ployed by the Millards, Baskins and Gargrave politicians.” — Al King, president of Mine-Mill local 480 at Trail, minced no words: “Mine-Mill will stay in Trail as long ‘as there’s a smelter running.” Harvey Murphy, Mine-Mill region- |. al director, was equally emphatic: “Trail is holy ground for labor in B.C. For 40 years it was open shop territory. Mine-Mill organized Trail, and enabled workers to hold their heads up, talk back to the company, enjoy a measure of secur- ity. We’re going to win in Trail, and make raiding so unpopular that ,| it will cease in this province.” Speaking from the floor, Ed Simpson of the Electrical Work- ers exposed the fact that Steel raider Herbert Gargrave had -erossed picket lines to paint a ship during the Longshoremen’s strike in 1935. ; Charles Stewart (Street Railway- \}men), George Miller (Fishermen). George Kassian (Painters), Bill White (Boilermakers), and other union leaders took the floor to sup- port Mine-Mill and denounce the Steel raiders. Board rejection forces Mosher to call strike vote any OTTAWA Two federal conciliation boards struck a blow against Canadian living standards last week by arbitrarily rejecting the modest request of 17 railway unions for a 40-hour week without loss in take-home pay, plus a wage increase to meet the all-time high cost of living. The anti-labor bias of the two federal conciliation ‘boards wes revealed in the provocative language used to tum down the wage-hours request made on behalf of 116,500 workers in 15 international rail unions and another 35,000 members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Express Employees (CCId#. Approximately another 25,000 rail- way workers, members of the inde- pendent Railroad Brotherhoods, have not reached the conciliation board stage on the wages-hours de- mands but are currently negotiat- ing. The railway wages-hours move- ment is the largest in Canada af- fecting some 176,000 workers. The modest demands of the rail- roaders (who, because of lack of fighting leadership have failed to win gains equal to those made by other major unions over the past 10 years) were termed “unreas- onable,” “revolutionary” and a “radical social experiment” which would be costly to the companies. No mention*was made of increasing profits being wrung from the work- ers through speedup. Although the 44-hour week was recommended in place of the cur- rent 48 hours worked by the major- ity of railroaders, it was put for- ward as the basiS of a wage cut for thousands of workers. é Reflecting the temper of the rail- roaders and of labor generally is the ‘fact that A. R. Mosher, presi- dent of the CBRE, has been com- pelled ito state a strike vote will be held. Frank Hall, spokesman for the 15 international unions and union splitter in the labor move- ment, made no mention of strike action in a weak statement follow- ing the conciliation report. The feeling of major Canadian unions for wage increase and short- er hours lay behind solidarity state- ments made by C. H. Millard of the Steelworkers and George Burt of the Autoworkers. (Neither labor leader indicated that a halt would be called to the raiding which is presently dividing labor’s ranks.) Demands are not limited to Can- adian workers but include the okay- ing of a strike in the U.S. by 110,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers who want the companies to assign a third man to the multiple-unit diesel engines. Diéselization is an- other issue among Canadian rail- roaders. ’ Another U.S. railroad demand is for the five-day, 40-hour week with | pay increases, made by the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors. Strike against ‘Premier's firm’ holding solid — -VICTORIA, B.C. Ranks of the strikers at Evans, Coleman and Johnson are holding sOlid as the forced strike, spearhead of a general] attack on wages in the building trades, nears the end of its third week. Refusal of the Victoria Colonist to publish a paid advertisement calling on Premier “Boss” John- son to step in and settle the dis- put at “his own firm” has con- vinced workers that real purpose of the company’s adamant atti- tude is to pave the way for a .wage-slashing drive against all construction workers. The construction industry in the city remains tied up as employers keep building trades workers lock- ed out of all major jobs. Frésh at- tempts to break the rank-and-file unity of building trades workers and strikers are seen in the prom- ise of the Building Exchange to re- , open seme jobs “as soon as supplies are available.” Small quantities of cement are reaching Victoria from other parts of the island. The danger that this represents to the strike was pointed out in a leaflet issued by the LPP, “All cement is hot!” ‘said the leaflet. * UJPO Workshop presents play Sholom Aleichem’s brilliant play. “It's Hard to be a Jew,” will be presented in English this coming Sunday, April 23, in the York Theater by the United Jewish People’s Order Drama Workshop. Soli Jackson and Oscar Osipov are taking the part of the two stu- dents. Myer Goldberg takes the lead as David Shapiro. Gloria Stein- berg is cast as his wife; Kayla Cul- hane, their daughter. Others in the cast are Nate Wiseman, Dave Pel- lin, Sylvia Jackson, Ann Wiseman. Searle Freedman, Bernie Frohman, Harry Gofsky and Bernice Wurch. The play is under the direction of Gary Culhane. 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