Yarrows feature,” Malcolm MacLeod, presi- dent of the Shipyard General Workers Federation, declared this week. MacLeod’s statement Sized these points: @ The strike is not a ‘juris- dictional dispute’, as repre- sented by the dailies, but a Struggle to prevent workers at Yarrows, members of the CCL employed in departments where the AFL does not have one member, from being forced to accept sub-standard wage scales. Scales accepted by the AFL in Yatrows are lower than prevailing rates for the same categories in the com- pany’s Burrard shipyard here, which is covered by CCL agree- ments. @ The AFL union is collab- orating with the company in what is actually an effort to » break down uniform wages and conditions established in the industry over the past few years. When the AFL union was formed by a group which broke away from the Shipyard General Workers Union last year it was given blanket cer- tification in Yarrows, including entire departments where only Skeleton crews were working and where it had no members —in the steel checkers and rackers department, center of the dispute, only one man, a CCL member, was working. As these skeleton crews were built up new employees joined the CCL union, a fact the AFL tacitly recognized when it sign- Style Value Quality Always. at the Home of UNION MADE CLOTHING — and Friendly Service empha- Established For Over 40 Years tHE - Hus Phone PAc. 3645 45 E. Hastings — Vancouver ed a union shop contract omit- ing all mention of steel check- ers and rackers. @ The CCL union’s applica- tion of its members was refused by the provincial labor de- partment, the company refused to arbitrate and the labor de- partment refused to order ar- bitration. In the meantime, the eight steel checkers and rack- “ers originally involved were locked out and other CCL workers refused to work with materials handled by strike- breakers who accepted jobs of locked-out men at the urging of a group of AFL officials, including George ~ Wilkinson, ‘secretary of Victoria Trades and Labor Council, Fred Bevis and James McMillan, IAM in- ternational representative, who, according to MacLeod, have no direct connection with the dis- pute. When picket lines were established CCL men and some AFL men refused to cross them. @® The CCL union has, offer- ed to arbitrate the dispute, provided all strikers are allow- ed to return to work. Company officials will agree to arbitra- tion on the condition, unac- ceptable to the union, that they be allowed to reinstate only the men they want, and the dispute was still deadlocked as the Pacific Tribune went to press. By ROBERT METZGER VICTORIA, B.C.—More than 700 people in this city turned out last Friday to a meeting spon- sored by the Church-Labor Com- mittee to hear CCL and AFL spokesmen in the Yarrows ship- yard strike state their case. The meeting was presided over by Rev. Canon Coleman, assisted by Dean Spencer Elliot, and was ad- dressed by Gary Culhane and William Stewart for the Shipyard General Workers Federation, George Wilkinson, secretary of Victoria Trades and Labor Coun- cil (AFL), and Fred Bevis, CCF candidate in the last provincial election. W.E.A. — presents — Film Preview “NATIVE LAND” with Paul Robeson A FILM ON LABOR SPIES and Enemies of Freedom and Democracy Pender Auditorium Wednesday, April 30 .6:30 and 8:15 p.m, TICKETS, 75 CENTS } ‘JOHNSON 63 West Cordova Street - - HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS HAND- ; ‘S$ BOOTS MADE Phone MArine 7612 We Sell Army and Navy FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1947 . ingly be undersold. We will meet any competitor’s price at any time, not only ceiling price but floor price, and we will gladly refund any differ- ence. Army and Navy prices are guaranteed to be the lowest in Van- couver at all times. Army & Navy DEPARTMENT STORES Vancouver and New Westminster For Less. will never know- Prices speakers who addressed the meet- ing. Other speakers were Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd of South West- minster CCF and H. B. Cover- dale, president of the Old Age Pensioners’ Vancouver branch. William White, president of Van- couver Labor Council, was chair- man, All speakers scored the “fla- grant profiteering” of companies holding back such commodities as butter in expectation of price in- creases. Noting that Tom Reid, Liberal M.P. for New Westminster, had stated that penalties would be im- posed on those hoarding butter on which the subsidy had been paid, speakers held that only reten- tion of price control on butter and reimposition of controls on other essential. commodities would protect the people from ruinous prices. It was pointed out that no pen- alties had been applied against chocolate manufacturers who had benefited from the cocoa bean subsidy, although it was gener- ally known that stocks of the chocolate bars now suddenly plen- tiful in the stores had been held until the price was increased to |: eight cents. This coming Wednesday, April 29, at 12:30 p.m., the Women’s Price Control Committee is hold- ing a luncheon conference at Piccadilly Cafe to discuss for- mation of a Housewives Con- sumers Association. The confer- - ence, to which all interested or- ganizations are being asked to send represeratives, will be ad- dressed by Mrs. Marjorie Croy and Mrs. Mona Morgan. The Labor-Progressive Party last week took the lead in the fight against rent increases when Maurice Rush, LPP. provincial or- ganizer, spoke at a public meet- ing organized by the LPP West End Council. Charging that “the big real estate interests are behind the rent increases,’ Rush called on tenants to organize themselves and refuse to pay higher rents. The 10 percent boost, he assert- ed, would cut deep into the earn- ings of the people who could least afford it, working people who could not afford to buy their own homes. At the conclusion of the meeting 50 tenants signed a petition calling on the King government to re-establish con- trols at their former level. ELITE CAFE Where You’re Always sure of 3 GOOD FOOD, GOOD SERVICE 950 Granville St. MA. 9522 GREETINGS to Pacific Tribune = ie ATOM). DR. W. J. CURRY an WM. GREEN and C. E. LOUIE Est. 1904 © Real Estate, Insurance, Notary Income Tax Forms Prepared 525 MAIN STREET ‘TAtlow 1036 WAND STUDIO “Anything With a Camera” . 8 E- Hastings St. — PAc, 7644 Vancouver, B.C. HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. EST. 1905 719 Robson St. — MAr. 2622 JOHN STANTON Barrister - Solicitor Notary Publie 502 Holden Bldg. — MAr. 5746 Night: ALma 2177-M ‘ injunction? Well! -, . and don’t you understand that an injunction is an Yugoslavs return home Among the 28 Vancouver men aboard the Yugoslav government-owned freighter Radnik when she sailed from this port, were 18 members of the United Fishermen an Allied Workers Union returning to Yugoslavia to help it the reconstruction of the land Departure of the contingent for Yugoslavia was revealed last week by The Fisherman, UFAWU organ, in a story stating: “Members of the UFAWU leav- ing were Marijan Ruljanovic, Anton Milovic, Milo Brncic, Bare Tomasic, Ivan Lulic, Marko Don- jerkovic, Ivan Vidas, Vladimir Vidas, Petar Stefanic, Anton Po- lonio, Jura Ivancic, Ivan Car, Ivan Anzulovic, Ivan Turina, Jo- sip Mihalic, Anton Zic, Anton Val- kovic and Anton Krpan. of their birth. . “These men,and the Vancouver community in general, have sub- scribed a great deal of money rebuild the Adriatic fishing indus try and furnish the necessary boats and gear. — \ “The union will miss such solid supporters as Marijan Ruljanovic and Anton Milovic. Ruljanovic, # one-time president of the Salmo? Purse Seiners: Union, has worke® _ tirelessly in support of thé UFAWU since it’s inception.” | ae) 1p HUNT “pensioners. pensioners who will pension. | PROVINCE Is / LNA TQ .1.U. Benefi The International Typographical nalon hag had a pension fund in operation for 39 years. It now pays $12 per week to 7009 In Vancouver there are 34 gate $21,216 this year. Each union printer . is assessed %ths of 2 percent to pay for this ae REMEMBER- THE SOUTHAM WITH IMPORTED STRIKEBREAKERS receive in the aggre- ’ PRODUCED Vancouver Typographical Union, No.226 il 0c PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 8 e.