Montreal po — 1 tn lice seeking Sullivan By FRANK ARNOLD MONTREAL, Que.—Montreal police are looking for Pat Sullivan. Incensed at Sullivan’s charges that the union received $9,000 worth of “Moscow gold” to finance their 1943 strike, the Canadian Brotherhood of Montreal Policemen have told their lawyers to consider what legal action can be Shelves equal pay for women LONDON — The British government has decided against introducing equal pay for women in civil service jobs. The government decision repre- sents a severe setback for the Trades Union Congress, which has been fighting for years to abolish industry’s chief source of cheap labor by establishing the prin- ciple of equal pay for all jobs. The TUC finally got the gov- ernment to appoint a royal com- mission to study the issue. After ‘menths of deliberating, the com- mission presented a report arguing against equal pay in private in- dustry, but favoring its introduc- tion in civil service. If the government had accepted the principle for civil service jobs, it would have set a broad precedent because in the coming months a number of important industries are slated for national- ization. . Unionists believe the decision will cause women to turn a deaf ear to the government’s recent appeal for them to return to work because of the labor shortage. taken against the ex-CSU head. “Of course, we will have to find Sullivan first,” Roger Lavigueur, union we president, told the Tribune, “and it seems that, like many others, he has good protection.” Branding the charges a complete tissue of lies, Lavigueur said that Sullivan made his statement as.a_ result of| “pressure.” Sullivan’s recent “ex- pose” was linked by lLavigueur with new attempts by Premier! Duplessis to Smash the _ police- men’s union. “Duplessis wants to break our (left) are striking miners of Nova Scotia. public and uiion meetings on Vancouver Island and the lower mziniand, and have met with enthusiastic support af all points. To date B.C. unions have donated approximately $8,000.00 to aid John Ri MacDonald coal miners, who and the miners. The piight of the Michael Higgins, Cape Breton touring British Columbia in aid of the Both men have addresseqd many Nova Scotia miners and their families is a federal responsibility, which so far has been adroitly sidestepped by the King government. union apart,’ Lavigueur said, “he wants to use the police force for political purposes.” New legislation before the Que- bec legislature would forbid af- filiation of policemen from other Quebec towns and cities with the large Montreal union. Sullivan’s false charges only assist this anti- labor move, he said. Pointing out that Montreal cops have won a 48-hour week ‘and pay for constables up to $2300 a2 year and are now de- manding a $300 increase, Lavi- gueur declared that non-union police in Quebec were working as long as 72 hours each week for as low as $22 a week. “Is it because we are in Que- bec that we must live 100 years in the past?” Lavigueur asked. “We don’t want to go back to the days when police were used to break strikes,” Lavigueur said affirming the new working-class spirit that has entered the police force. While affirming the independ- ence of the _policemen’s union Lavigueur said, “we’re telling Duplessis he can’t get away with this, and we're going to line up with the rest of labor in this province in fighting at- tempts to smash the trade union movement.” Austrian nazi i network bared | VIENNA—After 14 months of boasting by U.S. occupa- , tion authorities and the Aus- trian government that this country was fully denazified, the ministry of interior has made known the existence of an undet- ground Nazi network with its cemter in the province of Salz burg (American zone). The disclosure, coming while the Big Four foreign ministers, 10 Moscow are discussing peace terms for Austria, coincided with the arrest of 57 leading ‘Nazis headed by a man named Raffels- berger, commissioner for private. industry in Nazi-occupied Austria. — { Aim of the Nazi network was ostensibly to fight “polshevism.” To this end, Raffelsberger instruc" ted his followers to join the Cath- olic Peoples’ party which dom- inates the present Austrian g0V- ernment. This party, Raffelsberger 56 quoted as saying, “offers the best long-term possibility for the re-entry into political life of Men and women of true 0a tional spirit. It also enjoys the support of American diplomacy which is the best safeguard against the spread of bolshe vism, Although based on Chris- tian Catholic principles, the party does not make it impos sible for its members to remain loyal to Greater Germar ideals. sets 1947 _ Behind the slogan “40 dollars for 40 hours”, the organ- ized woodworkers of B.C. will present lumber operators in the 1947 contract negotiations crease of 20 cents an hour “across the board”, an industry- wide 40-hour week, a health and welfare plan paid for by the industry on the basis of five percent of the payroll, and the union shop. These were the decisions of delegates to the Wages and Con- tracts Conference of the Interna- tional Woodworkers of America, B.C. District, who met in Van- couver last Saturday and Sunday to hammer out a 1947 program for the 27,000 IWA members in all parts of the province. To back up their demands, the 94 delegates unanimously voted to raise a special strike fund of $100,000 “to be used in the event a strike becomes necessary.” This amount will be in addition to the regular strike fund established by per capita dues payments, and will be raised by voluntary dona- tions of a day’s pay by the mem- bers. Delegates also elected an IWA District Policy Committe com- posed of representatives from each of the 14 local unions in B.C., and charged this committee with the conduct of negotiations leading toward a 1947-48 Master Agreement, and of acting as a district strike committee should a walkout become necessary. The conference affirmed that a general wage increase of 20 cents an hour was fully justified: on three points: @ The ‘continued rise in the cost of living. @ The excellent profit posi- tion of the industry, indicated by an increase in net profits of several leading companies of as much as 40 to 50 percent in 1946 over 1945. @ The increased produc tivity of the workers in the in- dustry. The proposed benefit fund to cover the IWA membership will be contributed by the industry from a levy of five percent of the total payroll of each company in the industry. The benefit plan will not cover any kind of superannu- ation or pension scheme, but will FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947 > I WA wage conference objective with demands for a wage in- cover the day-to-day health needs of the woodworkers and their families. The conference demanded there be no exceptions in applying the 40-hour week, and that it cover both the logging and sawmui sections of the industry, including cookhouse. and bunkhouse crews. Attached to the wage demands will be specific clauses covering wage rates for shingle mill work- ers and logging camp trainmen. A guaranteed day rate of wages for falling and bucksawing crews of $15 in the coast region and $12 in the interior section will also be sought. — All sections of the four-point program for 1947 were unanim- ously approved by the delegates. Present at the conference, in addition to delegates and B.C. district officers, were IWA presi- dent J. E. Fadling; vice-president Karly Larsen; secretary-treasurer Ed Laux, and research director Virgil Burtz, all of Portland, Ore., and Bert Marcuse and Emil Bjarnason of _ the Vancouver Trade Union Research Bureau. Giant Paris rally protests black — market, opposes US role in Greece ee PARIS—Hundreds of thousands of French union members, gathered to ‘demand 2 living minimum wage and effective government action against the black market, used thé occasion to denounce President Truman’s proposal to send financial and miltary help to the Greek and Turkish governments. The giant open-air rally, held March 25 at the call of the French Feneral Confederation of Labor (CGT), tieid up traffic for two hours in downtown Paris. Similar meetings were held in every French industrial town and city. _ Huge banners spelled out the workers’ economic demands and also called for an immediate settlement between the French government and the independence movement in the prewar French colony of Indo-China, Marching with the CGT parade was a con- tingent of Indo-Chinese workers carrying similar placards. When the workers converged under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower—their lines extending back as far as the eye could see—they ‘made. known their views on Tru- man’s plan in a resolution at- tacking U.S. policy as “interven- tionist.” The resolution also pledged the solidarity of French workers with the Greek people “in their great struggle for independence” from British and American interfer- ence. y Truman seeks CP ban NEW YORK—The prospect ‘that the American Com- munist party will be outlawed appeared dim as hearings got underway before the House unAmerican activities com- mittee; Varied opposition to came from numerous anti-com- munist soruces, ranging from big business spokesmen to AFL presi- dent William Green. Most of the anti-communists argued that such a ban would make “martyrs” out of the com- munists. President Truman issued a sweeping executive order for a witch-hunt among 2,200,000 gov- the outlawing of the party ernment workers. He ordered the U.S. attorney genral to list all organizations he considers totali- tarian, subversive, communist or fascist. Any government worker found to have any connection — even a “sympathetic association” —with any organization listed will be subject to discharge for dis- loyalty. By MARCEL DUBOIS } Gen, Sec, Eugene Henaff of the CGT’s Paris district coun- cil charged: ‘“Truman’s inten- tion, while it is supposedly to. give financial aid, is actually to uphold the fascist government in Greece. He is being ap- plauded by the fascists in Franco Spain.” The worldwide significance of tors, the demonstration was underlined by the presence of foreign diplo- mats among the sidewalk spect@ The CGT, with well over six million members, has becomé recognized as a decisive group i? French economic and political life — and the March 25 rally was con- sidered a display of its unity and strength. nen NS miners’ delegation outlines strike issues By RICHARD B. WILSON — CUMBERLAND, B.C.—An ex-soldier of World War ! and veteran miner of Cape Breton, John R. McDonald out- lined the conditions under which his fellow workers aré laboring to extract that basic commodity (coal) which takes the lives of five men for every million tons of coal mined i” Nova Scotia from 1909 down to the present tie-up. The drop in production during the war years which the opera- tors have played up with the help of the Hon. C. D. Howe and Humphrey Mitchell and the con- trolled press from coast to coast were fully explained in the many meetings he has addressed at Vancouver Island points and in Cumberland on March 22. ‘ The armed forces got every able-bodied miner who could en- list he reiterated, leaving only old men and the youth of the mining area to produce coal; nat- urally, the output per man-day dropped below normal. | u A comparison in the cost of living showed that the Maritime coal miners have a lower pur- chasing power with their dollar than the miner on this coast. Twenty-five percent of the pop- ulation of Nova Scotia are depen- dent on the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO), and the ee standard of living, even with the present day demands of the miD- ers added, would still leave Dis: — trict 26 miners with a standard of living far below that of th@ western miner. Coming from the largest coal ; mining town in Canada, John Be McDonald gave a detailed des 1 cription of the lack of modefB = day facilities in this mining coM= ‘ munity of 30,000 people and stated that his children are playing 1) back alleys and muddy roadway® under conditions similar to tha! eee under which he played as a miD- Pie er’s son fifty years ago. ee Michael Higgins, another Nov@ = Scotia miner’s delegate who { touring B.C. with John R. Mc : Donald, has addressed a numbet — of meetings in Vancouver and th® Mainland. Both delegates will tour all mining centers in B.™ ; and Alberta on their return east : PACIFIC TRIBUNE— Page 3