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Wo 6. No. 26 Vancouver, B.C., June 27, 1947 —>* Five Cents

GOV'T CHALLENGE IS MET

CCF, LPP heads in Nanaimo picket

Housewives in Ottawa
demand price roll-back

@ This chart at left depicts

the case made out by a
delegation of housewives’
and labor representatives
in a brief presented to
Finance Minister Douglas
Abbott this week. It is
the story of the growing
gap between wages and
prices as a result of the
King government’s decon-
trol and taxation. The
housewives want prices
rolled back, and_ below,
Mrs. Helen Claus of Tor-
onto poses with some of
the items boycotted in
recent buyers’ strikes.

See story on page 7.

Promptly accepting the challenge of the Ans-
comb-Hart Coalition in initiating prosecution of
the striking laundry workers in Nanaimo last week
under the new ICA Act (Bill 39), trade unions

throughout the province, and progressive groups,

have launched a mass campaign to win public sup-
port for the Nanaimo workers, and press for the repeal of
the act.

On Thursday this week CCF MLA’s Harold Winch,
Herbert Gargrave and Sam Guthrie, and Nigel Morgan,
LPP provincial leader, joined the picket line in Nanaimo.

An emergency meeting of the 17-man standing com-
mittee of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL) here last
Saturday, decided upon these moves:

@ Establishment of ‘Fight Bill 39’ committees by all .
CCL trade unions throughout the province, with the pur-
pose of staging public meetings in their communities to
inform the public of the true meaning of the Nanaimo
prosecutions.

@ Circulation of 60,000 cards to all CCL members,
which endorse the action of the Nanaimo workers .in taking
strike action, these cards to be mailed to Premier Hart in
Victoria, Special ‘Fight Bill 39’ buttons are to be issued.

@ Every CCL member will be asked to contribute one
dollar to a ‘fighting fund’ to aid those attacked under the act.

Continued on page 8—See NANAIMO STRIKE

Strike vote backs
IWA negotiations

Strike committees were being set up in Coast locals of the International

Woodworkers of America this week, in preparation for a possible shutdown

of British Columbia’s lumbering industry if a satisfactory contract offer is
not forthcoming from Stuart Research, operators’ representative in current ne-

gotiations. Results of the secret referendum vote of eight IWA Coast locals

announced Monday showed an overwhelming majority of the union member-
: Continued on page 8—See IWA

ment’s Bill 39, no
in the. House of Commons by Labor Minister
in this province are urging their locals and members to adopt resolutions demanding a
genuine federal labor code and to protest to their M.P.’s against the proposed bill’s
anti-labor provisions. :

Union heads rally protest
against federal labor bill

Alarmed by the similarity in the restrictive pattern of the Anscomb-Hart govern-

w law as the ICA Act, and the King government’s Bill 338, introduced

Humphrey Mitchell, trade union leaders

“Members elected from B.C. constituencies, no matter what their party, cannot afford

to ignore the big labor vote in their ridings,” 1
eration of Labor declared this week. “Now is the time to let them know how labor feels

about the bill and to demand that they take a stand against its anti-labor proposals.” -

Harold Pritchett, secretary of the B.C. Fed-

This week Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) unanimously voted to send a protest

wire to Labor Minister Mitchell. &