Reporter - fingerman on IWA © A statement by Mike Freylinger, acting president of Mission Local 1-367 of the IWA, has exposed the role of Sun reporter Jack Webster as a fingerman. for the lumber bosses and their “white bloc” allies in the camp of labor. Webster had authored a front-page story claim- ing the Sun had been given a state- “Ment at the Mission union office Showing a $6,000 discrepancy in dues payments to the international and district offices. Freylinger charged Webster, “ob- tained a copy of the local’s audit- ed financial statement by under- _ handed means from the local union ' Office in Mission during my absence -Mterior boards after On union business.” International President Jas. E. Fadling again led the anti-union chorus with a public radio broad- aw using the Mission situation to prctte the woodworkers to over hrow their leadership in, the midst of this year’s contract struggle, . cots on developments at Mis- Sas were outlined by District resident Ernie Dalskog: “The for- mer business agent Shelly Rogers pronetully withheld per capita Tom the International and Dist- ace holding it in the local. There no suggestion of any shortage. pacce this came to the attention st Ocal officers and the district, re were taken to clear the mat- 2 r up. Now the international] offi- ee are again trying to stir up an moe not for purposes of clarifica- ‘aaa but to further, their own dit- Y politics. The membership has fen made fully aware of the situ- ation, They will deal with it and don’t need Fadling.” Mr. Justice H. S. Bird has been Named chairman of the conciliation Oard for the coast contract dis- Pute. The union has appointed, un- der protest, representatives to three contending only one board should be appointed. IWA local 1-80 at its annual meet- he in Duncan named full slates of delegates to attend the conventions of the B.C. Federation of Labor, panadian Congress of Labor, and WA. This local was recently suc- essful in pressing charges of un- aa labor practices against Cobble i Sawmills, Ltd. B.C. artist killed In BWI accident (Progressive arts groups in Van- Tae with which he was closely tine learned with a shock this Ja of the death at Kingston, cag of George Goutiere, con- eeiny one of Western Canada’s tst promising young artists. According to reports, Goutiere at yeitillea in an autobus accident seri neston in which his wife was usly injured, Goutiere, who was born in India, Sa self-educated painter and pace coming to this city in 1938 his yVO" Considerable acclaim for ing yerpalt work, He had been liv- rety N Mexico since the war years, visite wos to the city recently to tent ot in the left-wing move- Bruce Mickleburgh on Town Meeting oroue topic will be diseussed on 10 p S “Town Meeting” from 9 to bur. . Saturday by Bruce Mickle- orig of the Pacific Tribune’s edit- Promje partment; Grant McNeil, hi) went CCF’er; Russell Under- », Public relations counsel”, and Oodward, writer. ‘Our way of life’ The cupboard is bare, and so are the children’s feet in the home of CIO transport worker Henry Poynter of Louisville, Kentucky. Like most Americans and Canadians, Poynter’s budget can no longer provide for all necessities at inflated prices. seamen urged Vancouver Trades dian Seamen’s Union. Thompson, pointing out there were 200 seamen in jail and no funds for pail, warned delegates that “the outcome of the Lakes’ strike will determine the future of trade un- ionism in our country.” The council’s executive will con- sider an issue involving the Bakers’ Union and the White Lunch as the outcome of a report made by Mel Kemmis that organization of the White Lunch’s bakery department by his union conflicted with a com- pany agreement covering all em- ployees which had never been cer- tified. Kemmis said the Labor Relations Board had asked the union to rec- ognize the company union agree- ment until its expiry in January on the plea that the White Lunch would otherwise take the case to court. and Labor on affiliated locals to consider:raising voluntary contributions of 25 cents per week per member to aid the striking Cana- Voluntary assessment for by council Council this week called r ° 1 The decision was made after CSU vice-president Jimmy AUIUVNUUNUIUULNRUUGLEUESUULAUIGUAAULNRURUELERARUUAUUEUUG TTA Labor law violated —TIMMINS. Violation of Canadian labor laws was charged against Hollin- ger Gold Mines Ltd. here by Rob- ert H. Carlin, District Eight rep- resentative of the CLO Mine, Mill. and Smelter Workers. Carlin’s charge came after the Hollinger management served notice that they would no longer recognize Mine-Mill Local 241 on _ the grounds that it did not represent a majority of employees, Another Mine-Mill official, Wil- liam Kennedy, said that Local 241 was the legally certified bargain- ing agency and would continue to operate on that basis. Hollinger workers, he said, would answer the management “in no uncert- ain terms.” 8 BOUNDARY RESIDENTS ORGANIZE BCER may Having been denied Utilities Commission as an ‘The proposal to establish a meeting of the residents’ School Thursday the main speaker and E. chairman. roperty owners’ hacer line conducted _ Representatives of and Vancouver Labor associati eeting, posed picket line. face picket the right to appear before the Public “interested party”, residents of Boun- Road may resort to picketing to prevent the BCElectric from ON acting its overhead power line along their boulevard. a picket line was to be placed before committee to be held in Franklin night with Councillor F. Beamish of Burnaby as E. Winch, CCF MLA for Burnaby, as Main business before the meeting was to be the formation of association to until now by a committee of residents of ntinue the fight against the both Vancouver Trades and Labor Council Council and all community and ratepayers’ ons in Vancouver and Burnaby were being invited to the with a request that they support and respect the pro- movement Despite inclement and to urge upon leading men and women in labor, church, and other public bodies, the need for con- vening a great peace conference of the people. Recounting the high hopes of the world’s’ people’s, implicit in the Potsdam declaration of three years ago, MacLeod declared, “The world has since moved from these great principles of a lasting peace, and stands on the brink of catastrophe.” “It is my opinion,” continued the |speaker, “that the struggle today is, between that section of the world which needs peace to suc- ceed, and that section which needs war to survive.” The LPP leader pointed out that US Secretary of War Forrestal’s recent visit to Ottawa was not to discuss problems common to Can- ada and the USA, problems affect- ing the lack of housing, health fac- ilities, social welfare, or the alarm- ing rise of mental illness in both countries, resultant upon insecur- ity and war psychosis, “The US} secretary of war, also a leading banker of Dillon, Read and Co., is here to discuss the standardization of guns—to swing Canada right in behind the warmongers of Wall Street.” The speaker emphasized the main essentials of the Truman-Marshall plan, now known as ERP, which primarily aims at “making Europe safe for free enterprise.”” He quoted M. J. Coldwell, CCF leader as char- acterizing the Marshall plan as “a generous act of a generous people.” “But,” continued the speaker, “Wal- ter Lippmann puts it more bluntly. ‘We (the U.S.) have not selected Turkey or Greece because they are shining examples of democracy or the four freedoms, but because strategically they are close to the Black Sea and the heart of Rus- sia’. “In the intervening years be- tween the two world wars there were no legs than 75 smaller wars fomented in various parts of the world by imperialist powers. Russia was not responsible for any of these, nor was she responsible for the two world wars, although she paid the highest price in men and ftresources in both. These wars are weather turned out Wednesday evening inthe Pender Auditorium to hear A. A. McLeod, MLA, and leader of the Ontario Labor- Progressive Party, warn of the danger of a third world war, MacLeod urges peace in B.C. over 1,000 Vancouverites fomented and sought by men who profit from war,” said the speaker. MacLeod stressed the dangerous impasse to which these warmonger- ing policies have brought the world’s people, and declared that “we here in Canada, as elsewhere, must quickly find means to organ- ize ourselves into such a powerful movement for peace that the St. Laurent government -will find it im- possible to hurl Canada into war against a nation that only seeks peace.” Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the LPP, and Maurice Rush, pro- vincial organizer, also addressed this initial peace rally held under. LPP auspices. Tuesday A, A. MacLeod attended a banquet in the Olympic Cafe ten- dered him by some 50 prominent trade union leaders and profession- al people. During his Vancouver visit the LPP leader also addressed a women’s tea in the John Goss Studios. Pioneer woman leader passes The labor movement in Vancou- ver has lost a devoted worker who played a prominent part in its strug- gles of the ‘thirties by the death on August 12 of Mrs. Hannah Ross. One of the founders of the now defunct Mothers’ Council here, Mrs. Ross was active in the move- ment to assist the unemployed in the campgain leading up to the Vancouver Post Office “sitdown” in 1938, and earlier she helped to or- ganize the On-to-Ottawa trek. She served for two years as president of the old Housewives’ — League until sickness compelled her to curtail many of her activi- | ties. Funeral services here were at- ‘tended by many of her former co- workers, among them Mrs. Doris Hartley, Mrs. Effie Jones, Mrs. E. Wilson, Mrs. B. Davis and Mrs. . Florence Renshaw. est 25 Months On the Picket Line In tke past two years picket miles than any this record. We Remind You: is in Montreal. ee In Vancouver the Sun Typographical Union No. 226 have walked more pray you will never be called upon to break That the head office of the Southam Company That the Vancouver Daily Province is owned by the Southam Company. the only daily newspapers produced with In-_ ternational Typographical Union printers. There is no law to compel you to buy a news- paper that is produced behind a picket line. t members of Vancouver one in Canada and we and News-Herald are Vancouver Typographical Union No. 226 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 20, 1948—PAGE a