WOMEN

ing of their cultural center. “Du-
plessis is afraid of the mounting
unemployment movement,” she con-
tended, “As almost everyone
knows, he is tied up with the war
profiteers and wants to intimidate
the French-Canadian people’s de-
sire for peace. It is significant that
he chose the cultura] center of the
Jewish people as a scapegoat to
divert attention from the real is-
sues facing the people, the very day
that Father Duffy was to speak.
The Anti-Communist League has
become an anti-Semitic league,”
she warned.

A Timmins delegate, Mrs.
Kremyr, spoke of the recent DP
attacks in that city in which her
husband was brutally beaten up in
the fascist outbreak which police
virtually ignored.

The unconcern of the state for the
people it is pledged to serve was
also illustrated by_Ottawa delegate

Marion Frank. “I speak as a vet-|

eran, a veteran’s wife and a mother,
under notice of eviction from a
third floor room,” she began.

She related the experiences of
the tenants of Kildare Barracks,
who were put under pressure to
move from the “emergency shel-
ter” till only one lady was left, a
woman whose son had died in the
last war. Why was the shelter
needed? To provide housing for
single men of the Provost Corps
scattered throughout the city, it
was said. The elderly lady was per-
suaded to leave upon promise of a
job so she could maintain herself.
The job they got her was—scrub-
bing floors. Conference delegates
gasped in horror and indignation
as Mrs. Frank told how after only
a half day on the job, the old wo-
man died.”

“Women work because they
have to work to live, contrary to
the fallacy spread that they'd
rather work than stay at home,”
delegate Jean Leslie of the United
Electrical Workers’ Union of Tor-
onto asserted in outlining the
struggles of women in industry.
Women had to face the discrim-
ination used against all workers,
in addition to discrimination
against themselves as women.

She told of women employed to
do skilled work that men could not
do, as in the making of radio tubes,
and yet who were paid as unskilled
workers.

The great need for urgent action

for peace was brought home in the |

greetings from the Peace Council

delivered by Mrs. Mary Hecht. “We |

are on the eve of mankind’s great-
ness or his destruction,” she said
simply and dramatically.

Greetings to the conference came
from the Women’s International
Democratic Federation in Paris,
from Canadian cultural and nation-
al groups, trade unions and their
auxiliaries, :
organizations, co-ops, youth and in-
dustrial groups. :

Many resolutions were brought in
by the conference through panel
discussions covering every phase of
women’s and children’s welfare.

Other resolutions urged the set-
ting up in the Canadian govern-
ment of a Women’s Bureau similar
to that in the U.S., and for observ-
ance of International Children’s
Day on June 1, as established by
the WIDF at its last meeting.

Mrs. Lucock was

tional president and Mrs. Park
executive secretary. Also elected
were vice-presidents from each of
the provinces, with the exception
of the Maritimes and, Newfound-
lend, who are to elect their own
in provincial conferences. The
seven elected were: Miss Ethel
Nielson for Ontario, Mrs. Marie
Godfrey for B.C., Mrs. Rose Sar-
man for Alberta, Mrs. Berezow-
ski for Saskatchewan, Mrs. Cook
for Manitoba, and Mrs. Richard-
son and Mme. Lebrun for Que-
bec,

Girl for Mickleburghs »

—TORONTO

A daughter, Norma Beth, was
born here on Wednesday this week
to Brita and Bruce Mickleburgh.
The couple, who already have a
son, Roderick, are both well known
in Vancouver, where Bruce Mickel-
burgh was on the staff of the Pa-
cific Tribune. He is now on the
staff of the Canadian Tribune here.

Here Dr. Endicott is pictured with his wife as he waved to
well-wishers shortly before he left for Europe to join other mem-
bers of an international peace delegation in presenting the world
peace partisans’ appeal at Moscow. He will also attend the World
Peace Committee meeting at Stockholm. sae

iS

PEACE APPEAL PRESENTED

Dr. J. G. Endicott of Canada

Soviet assembly
hears Endicot

By RALPH PARKER

MOSCOW

was one of five members of an inter-

national peace delegation who addiessed a great assembly in the Kremlin
after delegation leader Yves Farge had handed the two-point appeal of
world peace partisans to Vassili-Kuznetsov and V. V. Parferov, chair-
men respectively of Council of Nationalities and Council of Union of
Supreme Soviet of USSR, highest | ;

legislative body of the land. This |Struggle to prevent war, maintain
appeal called for universal disarm: | Peace and strengthen the UN.
ament and outlawing of the atomic; “The Canadian delegation

re-

housewives and peace)

elected na- |

bomb. It has now been submitted
jto.the Supreme Soviet.

| Many distinguished Soviet citi-
zens were present to hear Dr. Endi-

cott speak. They included leading

| directors, composers, writers, Stak-
| hanovites. Among them were Shos-
| takovich, Pudovkim, Leonid Leonoy
|and Fadeyev, Georgian actor Kho-
' rova, master -turned Nikolai Rossis-
ki.

Dn. Endicott. spoke from under
;a brilliant cluster of lamps in the
|old hall whose walls are inscribed
| with names of regiments of Russi-
‘an armies decorated with the George
| Cross.

| “Canada and the Soviet Union
‘are really close neighbors on each
side of the North Pole. To fulfill
our function as neighbors we should
develop the most friendly:relations,”
‘Dr. Endicott stated. “We were al-
ilies in the struggle against fascism
‘and we should remain allies in
maintaining a lasting peace and in
building a peoples’ democracy in
;all the world.

“Canada like the Soviet Union
has been engaged ‘in pioneering
vast new-tracts of territory in the
sparsely populated section of the
country. Much of the hard pioneer-
ing labor of the past 50 years has
been done by those who came to
the new land from Eastern Europe
and especially from the Ukraine.
The largest minority group in Ca-
nada is the Ukrainian Canadians.

“These people as well as Cana-
dians from every walk of life, and
all shades of political conviction
and religious faith support the Ca-
nadian peace Congress and will

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| scientists, artists, theater and film |}

;quests a declaration from the So-
/viet government on these two peace
| Proposals for a special reason.

| “When the Canadian Peace Con-

| gress requested an interview with

| the Canadian Prime Minister Mr.

St. Laurent to present a nation-

wide petiticn, he not only refused:

to see the delegation but added

these words: ‘Many Canadians

will be rather surprised that the

message was not directed instead

to the government of: the Soviet

Union to urge them to agree to a

proper and effective system of

international control of atomic

energy which would make develop-

ment of this (hydrogen bomb)

unnecéssary and make possible

an era of peace .. .’

“During our stay in the Soviet
Union we have already met with
the Soviet Committee of Defenders
of Peace. We have heard the sin-
cere expressions of desire for peace.
We have seen the great achieve-
ments in construction, art and cul-
ture. We have found no warmon-
gering or militarism. Therefore we
believe that we shall be greatly
strengthened in our work for peace
by positive support for our propo-
sals which we receive in the Soviet
Union.

“On our part we pledge a vigor-
ous and unrelenting struggle so
that truth, justice and peace shall

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OPEN LETTER TO VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL

(Special.attention, Ald. R. K. Gervin, secretary, Vancouver and
District Trades and Labor Council, and Ald. Birt Showler, secretary,
Teamsters’ Joint Council, AFL.)

Your Worship and Members of Council:

You have presented an amendment to the Private Bills Committee
of the legislature, which, if passed, would permit you to negotiate with
Vancouver civic workers on the question of a union shop.

While we are in favor of the passage of such an amendment, we
say that it is unnecessary. We think you are simply passing the buck.

If you were bargaining in good faith with the 3,500 employees
of this city, you would stick to the labor laws of this province and deal’
with the question of the union shop under Clause 7 of the ICA Act,
ae says that a collective agreement may provide for union member-
ship.

~

Where do you find the gall to tell civic employees that every sec-
tion of the ICA Act EXCEPT Section 7 applies to collective bargain-
ing with them?

Alderman Gervin, the members of your union, Street Railwaymen’s
Union, Division 101, enjoy a union shop. Don’t you realize that if
civic workers are deprived of a union shop through legal trickery, your
union may be next to suffer? ‘

Alderman Showler, the members of your union enjoy closed shop
agreements and do contract work for the city of Vancouver. Don't
you, as a vice-president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada,
realize that if civic workers are prevented from having a union shop.
the axe might fall on your union, too? .

Alderman Gervin and Alderman Showler, why have you never
spoken out on this question in city council? How can you continue to
represent yourselves as being labor leaders and not raise your voices
against such injustice and legal trickery directed against the civic work- -
ers? I

Vancouver working people expect their civic representatives to give
civic employees the same rights as other workers. ‘

A retired civic worker came into the Pacific Tribune offices this
week and produced a copy of a letter written by G. E. McCrosson,
corporation counsel for the city of Vancouver from 1919 to 1934,
which clearly states that the city has the right to grant the union shop to
its employees. The letter, dated April 27, 1943, and addressed to
W. J. Scribbins, then secretary of the Vancouver Givic Federation.
embracing all civic erfiployees, was written “while McCrosson was in
private practice. He stated:

“Although there is no power in the city charter expressly dealing
with this particular subject matter, the council enjoys plenary managerial
powers over terms and conditions of matters of employment; and in view
of the trend of modern legislation, | would not consider that the prin-
ciple of collective bargaining would now be deemed an irrational or
illegal interference with any private right of the employee. Granting,
therefore, the validity of the principle of collective bargaining, the im-
plementing proposal embodied in your request would seem to be only a
question of degree, and one aimed at carrying the principle to the full
complement of its efficiency. I am of the opinion, therefore, that the
matter is within the powers of the council, and becomes merely a matter
of policy—whether the council deems it expedient to adopt.”

There you have it—merely a matter of policy! Why are you
so spineless that you can’t formulate a definite policy? Why are you,
Aldermen Gervin and Showler, so backward in defending the rights of
organized labor, in your capacities as aldermen?

We believe that you should, stop ducking, dodging, squirming and
running to Victoria, and negotiate under the ICA Act with your civic
employees.

Bluntly yours,
THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE.

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