‘One or more of the Federation of- ficers will be present at all times and will advise affiliates of im- Sortant questions coming before the house and the position taken py MLAs.

MASS RALLY

The full scale labor lobby, to work for implementation of the ‘ederation’s legislative program and to counteract a special high ee anti-labor lobby which

4as already been in action, will se elaborated at a delegate con- ference in Victoria on Mebruary

MacNeil For Director

* SYDNEY, N.S. — George MacNeil, president of Local 1064, the largest branch of the United Steelworkers in the Dominion, is seeking election as jJanadian director of the union n the latter’s referendum vote nm February 13.

The 42-year old -millwright yorking in the sprawling Sydney yorks of the Dominion Steel and 3oal Gorporation plant is the thoice of local unions in Canada ee oppose the partisan policies & the present national director, 5. H. Miliard, who is running for e-election. This is “the ‘first eferendum vote held by the un- on. Officers will be elected for wo-year terms.

mnployed in the steel ee or the past 25 years, George tacNeil is a veteran Sydney la- sr leader who has been associ- sed with every union organised a Cape Breton’s iron works.

Born in Sy@ney, MacNeil be- ‘an working in steel mills at Y years of age. His first union nembership was in the Amalga- nated Associatien of Iron, Steel md Tin Workers, the organisa- ion which was taken over and 1erged with the United Steel- rorkers of America.

He tock an active part in the wo strikes which were called by fe Amalgamated Association a the summer cf 1923.

In 3936 he took part in build- ag an: independent union in the Josco -plant which later became socal 1064 of the United Steel- yorkers of America. He has ‘een president of the local union Ince 1942.

_ MacNeil’s father and brothers me also steel workers, his dad tarimme in the Dosco plant in 907. By oceupation MacNeil is

coke coven millwright and a winer and welder. As such he t one time or another has work- Ga in- every department of the lant.

MacNeil is campaigning for non-partisan policy in the un- dM and the plannin® of a defin- fe wunion-management postwar Togram for the idustry. He be- eves the union must be consoli- ated by a planned drive and ‘irected by staf members who lave no political axe to grind but re interested in unionizing Can- Ga’s steel industry.

Union Officers: B.C. Opening Session

___. Officers of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL) were present at the opening of the prov incial legislature this week

to start the full watching brief which organized labor will maintain throughout the entire legislative session this year.

Attend

25. The Federation has issued a call to all CCL affiliates in the province to send delegates to the conference and to have mass rep- resentation at a mass rally being held at the same time.

The Federation as also urging all affiliates to contact MP’s and MLA’s in their locality on the brief which was submitted last month to the B.C. cabinet. Sim- ilar contacting has been done by the Federation executive with many replies received.

MAJOR DEMANDS

Major demands being pressed by the Federation are for legis- lative guarantee of union shop and check-off, amendments to the Workmen’s Compensation Act and support for a National Health Insurance Act. Other changes asked cover amendments to the eight-hour day law, overtime pay for all Sunday work and staSutory holidays, vacations with pay, de-

velopment of educational facili-|

ties and hydro-electric power, franchise for i18-year-olds and minority groups, particularly the East Indians.

Union School For Seamen

Canadian Seamen’s Union are holding the first sthool for sea- inen on the West Coast. It is be- ing arranged by the Workers’ Educational Assn., and will in- clude, The Ship’s Delegate, The Censtitution, Peclitical Action, Union Proceedure, History and Perspectives, and a study of seamen’s organizations in EKu- rope, North America and the So- viet Union. 5

Speakers will include Tom Par- kin, TAM No. 756; Harold Prit- ehett, President IWA; James Ormerod, CSU; D. Gatley-Phil- ipp, John Turner, Secretary Van- couver Labor Council; Bert Mar- cuse and Eric Bee, Pacific Coast Labor Bureau. Motion pictures will be used wherever. possible, also film slides. A Valentine so- cial and dance will be held on Wed, Feb. 14, to which the stu- dent seamen will be invited.

The aim of the school is to train ship stewards and other key personnel upon whom the future success of the union will depend. First session opens on Monday. Feb. 12, at 10:00 a.m., in 702 Holden building, with an address by Tom Parkin on “Ad- vantages and Responsibilities of Trade Union Membership.” This school will be the first of many to follow. Claude Donald, B.C. Director of the WEA is in charge.

A general call for auditions of all those interested in taking part in the famous trade union play, “Six Men of Dorset,” to be pre- sented this spring under the us- pices of the Labor Arts Guild, has been issued by Bob Orchard, director of the play, for Friday, Feb. 9, at 8:00 p.m., in John Goss’ Musie Studio, 641 Granville St.

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Saturday, February 10,

Support Urged For McClure

Tom McClure, President of the Hamilton Stelco Local of the United Steelworkers of America, “the oldest ClO local union in Canada,” is con-- testing the first referendum elec- tion for Director of District 6 of USA-CIO being held on Febru- ary 18. He is the choice of those Steel union locals opposed to the partisan policies of the present director, John Mitchell.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1900, of Irish descent, he left school at fifteen to become an in- dustrial worker. With the excep- tiom of a period in the armed forces he has been occupied in iron and steel since then. Tom start- ed work in the steel mill of the Steel Company of Canada in 1928 and is now a finisher on a jobbing mill with that company.

Marvied, with three children, Tom McClure comes.from a fam- ily of union men. His father was an active trade unionist, a picture of whom — along with other dele-

gates to the Hamilton District

Trades and Labor Council of 1900 —still adorns the Council Room wall in the Hamilton Labor Tem- ple. Qne of his brothers, an elec- trician by: trade and active union- ist, is now in the navy. Another brother, Douglas, is President of the local union in ‘the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Plant at Tor- ento; while a third brother, Charlie, is a member of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Northern Ontario, and until recently an International Representative of that organiza- tion.

Tom McClure joined the union in his first year of employment at Steleo and has been a mem- ber ever since. He was chairman of the strike-committee when the sheet mill went on strike in 19385 as well as a prominent member of the negotiating committee. As recording: secretary of his union, at that time unaffiliated, he wrote to Van. A. Bittner inviting the CIO to Canada and to take his

union into their fold. At present

he is leading negotiations, m what is hoped to be the final stages for a collective agreement with the largest steel plant in the British Commonwealth.

Tom McClure emphasizes the need for a non-partisan, unifying leadership to consolidate the membership in the steel unions. He sharply stresses the forward- looking, broad, win-the-war and win-the-peace policies of Philip Murray, President of the CIO and steel union, and advocates adopting such policies in Canada. McClure cautions, “We in steel must begin to steer a |course away from harmful, narrow po- litical partisanship. Our union should be in the forefront of the battle to win public opinion for labor = management - govern- ment cooperation now and in the postwar for full employment at fair wages and decent conditions for all steel workers. We must have a steel union in Canada in which all honest workers can ¢o- Gperate for the common good.”

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7 BRANCH MEETINGS

Britannia LPP Branch—

Meets every Sunday, except change of shift Sundays. Ad- dress communications to Box 176 Townsite.

Bérrard East—

LPP Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month, 8 p.m., at 1302 E. 12th.

East End—

LPP Club meets every second Wednesday, 8 p.m. and every fourth Sunday, 1:30 p.m., each month at 875 East Hastmegs.

South Hill—

LPP Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each

month, 8 p.m., in Horticultural Hall, 4ist Ave. and Fraser.

South Vancouyer—

LPP Club meets. every second and fourth Wednesday. of each month m- Norquay Hall, at

Kingsway. and -Slecan

Fairview— LPP Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 8 p.m:: 1-0.0.F. Hall, Sixth and Main.

Georgia— LPP Club meets every first and third Thursday of each month, 8 p.m., Croatian Hall.

Hastings East—

LPP Club meets every second and fourth Friday each month in Olympia Hall, 2303 East Hastings, at 8 p.m.

Kamloops—

LPP Branch meets each Sun- day, 8 p.m. LPP Hail, 145 Victoria Street, West.

Kitsilano—

\ LPP Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month, 8 p.m., in Pime Hall, Pine St., between 7th and 8th.

North YVancouver— LPP Club meets every second

and fourth Wednesday of each month, 8 p.m., corner Lonsdale and Highth St.

Swing Shift Meeting— All Vancouver LPP members are urged te attend the swing- shift meetings held on the second and fourth. Wednesdays, 1 p.m., at 531 Homer Street.

Victory Square—

Victory Square LPP Club meets every first and third

Thursday each month, 531 Homer Street. Everyone wel- come.

West End—

LPP Club meets every second and fourth Friday each month, 8 p.m., at 1332 Davie Street.

NOTICES

Canadian Aid to Russia Fund— Auxiliary No. 1, want sewers and workers. Send used cloth- ing of all kinds to 835 West Pender. MArine 2744.

Dance— Clinton Hali—

Danee every Saturday night, Modern and Old-Time, Vik- ine’s Orchestra. MHarry’s Mel- ody Men every Thursday night. Admission, ladies, 35c; gentlemen, 50c. Each a five- piece orchestra. Hall is at 2605 E. Pender which is avail- . able for rent. HAst. 3277.

Croatian Hal!l—

Available for Dances, Socials, Weddings, Banquets, Meetings. Reasonable rates. 600 Camp- bell Avenue. HAst. 0087.

O.K. Hair Restored!

From weakest fuzz or roots as soon as the causes of greyness er baldness established. Results guaran-" teed from the first free trial. Come and see the many testi- monials on file. U. Antonuck, 671 Smythe St.

Washing Machine and Radio Repairs

Also Electrical Appliances. Vick’s Service, 908 W. Pender, PAc. 1644. &

Plumbing and Heating

Supplies—

New and reconditioned hot water furnaces and radiators, complete line of plumbing sup- plies; special on new coal stoker. Max Goldberg Plumb- ing & Heating Supplies, 512 Main St; PA. 8627.

Oldtime Dancing To Al Carlson’s Orchestra Every Monday, Wednesday

and Saturday.

Hastings Auditorium $28 East Hastings _ Phone: HA 3248 Moderate rental rates for so- cials, weddings, meetings, ete.

Spring Cleaning— Have your floor sanded and finished by BERT SAMSON,

“Union Labor.” Telephone: New. West. 2876 M1; 101 Jar- dine Street.

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Refreshment social, Hall, February 10, 1945. mission, 50 cents.

Dance & Refreshments—

February 17th, .7 p.m. to 12 midnight, Croatian Wall; ad- mission, $1. Auspices East End Club LPP.

Hastings East LPP— Valentine Ball in Olympia Hall, Wed., Feb. 14, 8 p.m.

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