D9 2 aT a i ' 5 e vi o 4 1 ff? ie sis. 203 EE | es Vol. 6. _ No. 30 Vancouver, B.C., July 25, 1947 Five Cents

into

€velopments are:

= Prosecutions, as the re-

Of a suggestion at the pncouver Labor Council Uesday night by council

President William White.

Ace OPen defiance of the

by the International the wworkers of America in thes Southern Interior, stripe” the taking of a Ney vote without govern- al t Supervision, a move re threatened by the Van-

ver Boilermakers’ union. - Decision of CCL law- deci tO enter appeal to the far, ct of Mr. Justice Mac-

ane, this © Wednesday,

Which : ; : Proceegi Permits prosecution

Strikers in their picket line fi

co. Pledges from 16 key unions affiliated \ Ongress (AFL), to give full moral and financial support to the Nanaimo strikers, at an €tgency conference in Vancouver held last Tuesday. : : ® Telegrams by numerous CCL and TLC unions to Premier Hart, demanding that the Charges against the strikers and union be immediately dropped due to the undemo- *tatic procedure followed in the Victoria hearings of Acting Labor Minister Kenney. A possible one-day work stoppage by union members in protest against the Nanai-

Ings against the Na-

One-day strike h Kenney court ‘nonsense’-Wismer

naimo Laundry and Dry Cleaning Workers’ union (CCL).

@ -Demonstration of 1,250 Vancouver citizens in honor of Nanaimo . strikers, at which trade union, LPP and CCF leaders unitedly pledged their efforts to work for repeal of Bill 39 and de- feat of Anscomb-Hart coali- tion through united labor

political action. Se

At the conference of TLC and AFL trade unions called by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union (TLC) Tuesday night, 35

BREAD PRICES TO RISE

Gov't evasive on flour subsidy

Guard of honor

Arriving in Moscow for a conference with Marshal Stalin, a delegation from Czechoslovakia reviews a guard of honor at the Cen- . tral Airport. In the lead is Premier Klement Gottwald -of Czechoslovakia, followed by Soviet Foreign Minister Vya- cheslay MM. Molotov and other leaders of both the So- viet and Czechoslovakian del- egations. Czechoslovakia is one of the nine major Euro- pean nations which remained away from the Paris ‘Mar- shall Plan’ conference.

Because Czechoslovakia and others of the new European + democracies regarded the Paris conference as an in- strument of anti-Soviet hostil- ity, they have been branded as ‘Soviet satellites.’ Czecho- Slovakia of all nations has good reason to remember Munich.

The battle against British Columbia’s ‘slave labor act,’ Bill 39, swung high gear this week, with intensified action by the trade unions through- the province in gaining wide public backing for the Nanaimo laundry ght against the Act. Highlights of this week's

with the Trades. and Labor

delegates from 16 leading unions heard Violet Dew- hurst, one of the Nanaimo

‘strikers, and Alex McAus-

lane, CCL vice-president, ex- press their determination to carry on the strike until the dismissed workers are taken back. They also appealed to the union delegates to rally their membership to aid the Nanaimo strikers.

Two resolutions, pledging the full moral and financial support of the AFL unions and establishing a perman- ent AFL committee to carry on a campaign to fight the

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inted on Bill 39

Canadian consumers can expect further price rises on vital household items in November as the result of a statement last week from Ottawa, that the Dominion govern- ment intends to ftift all controls, with the excep- tion of rents at that time. Among the main items to hit household budgets sharply in Nov- ember are meats; all bakery products, includ- ing bread, flour, remain- ing canned goods; clothing and household textiles.

Lifting of the subsidy on flour and wheat used for home consumption, amount- ing to $25 million will pre- cede the announcement of price rises for bread and flour products. It will be re- called that when Finance Minister Abbott was asked by a visiting national house- wives delegation to Ottawa recently «whether he intend- ed lifting the subsidy or not, Abbott replied that he could

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LPP, CCF, union leaders address protest rally

The opening gun in B.C. labor's all-out cam- paign against the new ICA Act (Bill 39), was fired last Sunday night in Vancouver at a spirited pro- test rally in Exhibition Gardens, attended by 1,250 citizens. The meeting welcomed the 24 Nanaimo

Fare hike scored

The proposed 10-cent street- car fare of the BOElectric Company ran into strong op- position from organized labor this week as the Vancouver Labor Couneil unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for a protest to the provin- cial government of any at- tempt by the BCER to raise the present fares, and ask- ing that the matter be put to a plebiscite of city voters.

The resolution was submit- ted by the International Fur and Leather Workers’ Unior (CIO-CCL), Local 505, and forwarded this week to the Public Utilities Commission in Victoria.

laundry strikers facing sev- ere charges under Bill 39, who were platform guests, and heard leading spokes- men for the Canadian Con- gress of Labor, CCF and LPP unitedly condemn the provincial anti-labor legisla-

_tion, and pledge their parti-

cipation in a broad campaign to wipe it from the statutes, and elect united people’s candidates to the legislature in place of the existing Tory- Liberal combination.

Alex McAuslane, national vice-president of the CCL, described the conditions of the workers at the Imperial

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