Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 septembre 1944, samedi 16 septembre 1944

/r\ +4* b c* /.X ;o> L- SAMEDI, IG SEPTEMBRE 1944 MONTREAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1G, 1944 29th Year No.38 3C J o 3 O J OC 03 Ul Z - =3 O b tr 5 La septième conférence annuelle de la Fédération provinciale du Travail de Québec s'est réunie les 8, 9 et 10 septembre courant en la ville de Shawinigan Falls.Cent vingt-six délégués ! y assistaient et l'on remarquait parmi ceux-ci une vingtaine de) femmes signe évident du grand intérêt que prennent mainte liant les ouvrières au développement du Travail Organisé M Jean Jodoin, représentant des travailleurs de l'aluminium ouvrit la convention.Il remercia les invités et les délégués de leur presence et les en félicita.Il présenta aux délégués, le maire de Shawinigan Falls, M.J.-A.Bilodeau.M.Bilodeau remercia le secrétaire de la Fédération de-i avoir invite a venir saluer les délégués et leur souhaiter la bienvenue dans la ville de Shawinigan Falls."Je souhaite" dit-il, que vos délibérations aient beaucoup de succès pour continuer a relever, a aider et à participer à ce que le sort ce 1 ouvrier s amélioré, soit juste et raisonnable"."Je veux" i ajoute-t-il, "que les citoyens de ma province aient le même! f,?)aire P°,UI es memes efforts rendus que partout ailleurs " L ouvrier , dit-il en terminant, "a droit de gagner assez pour vivre et connaître un peu d'aisance.Je crois que le but de votre organisation est pour cela." M.Jodoin présenta ensuite le con-I Environ trente résolutions furent , lc c,llstave Pranc •v than U ley were 20 years ago, beei case adv ances i n strip- mining tc chnicjue ; permit mini:.i coal beds so thin that tl :iey were formerly not consi idered e< ommerei- ally valua ble.• o • The ice 1 cream i ndustry may aid American farmers by using 25,000 tons of corn sweeteners lo replace some of the imported cane sugar, is !lie belief of New York State agriculturists who are experimenting along this line.• • • A new chemical to neutralize the corrosive effects of brine that drips off refrigerators cars onto tracks and equipment may save raironds $2.000,000 a year.In 1931-1934 the United States I averaged production of only $30,! 000.000 worth of machine tools a year; today's production is to exceed 3650,000,000.• 99 Introdution of electric lip Ins into homes after 1390.says a historian, caused yellow to become a fashionable color for evening dress.« • e The University Musueum in Philadelphia is assembling scientific and educational motion picture films to be made available to schools and allied institutions.• • • British engineers report that rubber fenders for automobiles and trucks resist denting, are waterproof and rustles — and save metal.people.In the ease of the machine of course the steam shovel itself is property and steam shovels just do not happen.They are made by workers, not.only in the steam shovel factories, but in the mines ar.d forests, on railways, in offices and banks.They themselves have j to be paid for out- of the savings of J someone, who could otherwise spend • this money on himself, and the labour of someone else.The lath- ; and other machines which make them come out of the savings of someone.That Is, a steam shove! has no rights, but it stands for the I rights of thousands of individuals.These are honest rights, earned or bought.If we give all the output of steam j shovels to those who operate them, and tile people who make and own the steam shovels get nothing, there will be no steam shovels.Then tin men who get pood wages for operating steam shovels will get no steam : hovels at all.Sir: The railway workers of Canada are a very serious body of citizens, and to criticize them for asking an increase in wages seems to forget that they are almost alone among Canadian workers, in not getting an increase during the War.except for the' cost of living bonus.In applying for an increase in wages, the railway workers said that it was not their business to demand an increase in freight rates, but f.is certainly to their interest to keep in mind that such an increase may be necessary.After all.the workers in any enterprise are just as interested in its prosperity as are the owners.Before we get too excited about how wicked it would be to have ar.increase in freight rates, we might remember that these are about the only prices which are today at least as low as they were in 1939, and that freight rates in Canada are the lowest in the world.Take mu ie o that HI HO iTin MAiai: • mils’ i i:nsi:.\ KOI iNIN'i, "I flu* • ity "1 Sl.1.,] inhori.disl tri.-t oi Mont- real.1 • i I*(*vliu •o 1 .I Oi|e| ha n a da.will apply 1 O III! 1’.i rl i:i tin •nt ol hanada a! the pro SOllI or I llO lie •XI session for a Kill of 1 »ivop i ¦ from 1 .IKI TUNA NT ,i • » i: k \ i : 11.i: i : ¦ 1 KOI LVING, K.h.N.K .Of I ho Towi l O 1 Ko*.•in.- ro.hoiintv ol Torrolo.lino.hi* triof .f Moni real.Pro- viin-o o f Rm •hoc , ha na da tor adiiliorv.Mont t oal.: s.-pi loiuhor 11th.1!MI.(.1 : l : a ii * \| A UNION h :>s?- Solicitor.s Y U i: i: 1 O K or 1! 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[‘boo.1 dstrict of : Montreal.ham i : m.A I : I \ MA in I Nil K.wife oomiiuui as ti • nro| •erf v ot Waller 1 a ' k.f i ho • Ml v illl • 1 histriet of M u i ro ¦ i.Plaintiff, WAI.ti:i: IK IV Kll 1 • reliant of tie- • it v a ml Hi «•f ri ot of Montroal 1 »otoiula nt N o||i • R An a el loti in Sopa r at i< • n as lo pro- port y h ns lo •oil insf it illod in this cause.NI.nrt •Oil 1.1* Q .A MUM ISl lu, PHI.i:/.k.A 1.1 a I II M AN 3*5.30 Attorney for Plaintiff.NOTH']: III' AITI.HWTKIN KO It UlVOKfE Notice i* hereby iriveli that Kllll Ihry! < ; w * * i m I .will '.ill mi tin* Parliament of ' i t i :i « I :«.ut il* present or ils future Session lo oil! ;| i || ; i I.i 11 of 4 ivnree from her hu*b.iml.I « : i.I \ 1 i're«| j min.foreman, of Montreal.Quebec, f ;r adultery MBKGLHK .V MKKGI.KK.Attorneys for I’lnintiff, Suite non.Waterman I'milding.•Jill Sr .lames SIr*• *¦ t West, Montreal, Que.r ™!rrjr sskhss BB mm Y*/ V- r.• .YOU can’t have one without the other .you can’t share in the Victory unless you arc ready and willing to take your place with the hoys who are earning it.The light is overseas — in the face of the enemy — and you must he an overseas soldier to gel into it.So get that GS badge on your arm right away.There’s still time — and there’s a place for you in the Canadian Army — for all the young men who want lo be fighting soldiers.And when you come home again, you’ll he one of the hoys to lead the f ictory Parade! Join up now.and go GS.WEAR IT ON YOUR ARM Of tn>7J CANADIAN JOIN ARMY il.TS SAMEDI, 13 SEPTEMBRE 1344 MONTREAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1944 PAGE 7 PALACE __THEATRE The Adventures of Mark Twain sturrincj FREDRIC MARCH ALEXIS SMITH with DONALD CRISP ALAN HALE CAPITOL THEATRE CHARLES LAUGHTON ROBERT YOUNG in “ THE CANTER Y ILLE GHOST” Added Feature ‘Three Men in White’ PRINCESS THEATRE JACK CARSON * IRENE MANNING in “MAKE YOUR OWN BED” Added Feature ‘CRIME BY NIGHT’ LOEW'S T H E A T R E 2nd WEEK ! BI NG CROSBY in GOING MY WAY with Barry FITZGERALD and Risë STEVENS Contralto of the Metropolitan MONARCH GAS RANGES Made by Canadians for Canadian Homes Tel.LAncaster 3858 Salon de Fleurs St-Denis 1590, rue SAINT-DENIS (Edifice du Théâtre Saint-DenisI Spécialités : Bouquets de .Voces, Tributs floraux Escompte de 10' 1 aux membres des unions ouvrières.Mme ROVIRA — Rés.MA.8488 VIENNA GRILL CAFE INCORPORATED 1964 rue Ste-Catlierine Est Montréal Democracy’s Entente Cordiale Britain’s Trade Union Leaders Will Aid French Colleagues To Re-establish Central Organization.Workers’ Part In Civil Government.From HERBERT TRACEY of the British Trades Union Congress As the war nears it.s end Britain’s Trade Unions are concentrating more attention upon the strengthening of their own organizations to meet the tasks and problems of the post-war years.The General Council of the Trades Unions Congress has appointed a delegation of six influential members to visit France, and contact leaders of French Trade Unions.Discussions will then open upon measures whereby Britain’s Trades Union Congress can help French colleagues to re-establish the central organization of the French Trade Unions.Reconstruction of French industry and the share that the French Trade Unions will have in tlie re-establishment of civil government and social order in France, .vi 11 also be considered.Tlie importance which the Trades Union Congress General Council attaches to this mission is attested by its personnel.Tlie delegation includes John Bernstead, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen; John Tanner.President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union i who was in his earlier days actually employed as an engineer in France) ; Arthur Deakin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Henry L.Bullock, one of the national officers of the Union of General and Municipal Workers; George H.Bagnall.an experienced officer of the textile workers and general secretary of the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers; and George Gibson, a former president of the Trades Union Congress, and a much travelled representative of British Trade Unionism, who is general secretary of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers, but whose experience covers a much wider field of trade union activity.It is possible that Sir Walter Citrine, as general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, will accompany tlie delegation, if other commitments permit.One Union Ol Mineworkers Important discussions are also proceeding on the structural and functional changes that will have to [be made in Britain’s Trade Union Movement to enable it to meet tomorrow's tasks and responsibilities.A report on the general problem of structure and function lias been prepared for submission to this year's annual Trades Union Congress in mid-October, and the Trades Union Congress General Council is holding a special session shortly to put the finishing touches to this report.Meanwhile individual Unions in affiliation to the British Trades Union Congress have been dealing with their own domestic problems of organization.The last step but one towards the creation of a single National Union of Mineworkers, in place of the Mineworkers’ Federation which has been tlie historical form of national Trade Union organization in Britain’s coal-mining industry for three generations, has now been taken.A Special Delegate Conference of representatives from the coalfields has approved the constitution and rules of tlie proposed National Union of Mineworkers and lias authorized reference of tlie scheme to a ballot of the coalfields.At tlie presbnt time, and for many years past, the national Federation of Mineworkers has comprised 41 separate and largely autonomous associations of mineworkers and craftsmen.Some of these Associations are themselves federations of autonomous units, such as the National Union of Scottish Mitiework-ers, embracing miners' Union in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and other Scottish coalfields the South Wales Miners’ Federation, despite its name, have functioned as single Unions rather than as federations.In the National Mine-workers’ Federation too, have been Unions of colliery mechanics, colliery winders, engineers and firemen.enginemen, boilenneri and brakesmen, motormen and electricians.and some general workers, whose membership overlaps that of such an organization as the Transport and General Workers’ Union.To Be Decided By Ballot Ii is now proposed under the Constitution presently to be .submitted lo a coalfields ballot to establish a National organization open to all employed in or connected with t lie; coalmining industry, who are at present members of any of these separate associations.In effect the acceptance of the scheme will fuse these separate associated Trade Unions into one National Union with authority to carry on their activities under the control of a National Executive Committee in which the several coalfields will be represented.The Constitution provides for the appointment of three National Officers — President, Vice-President and General Secretary — who will be ex-officio members of the National Executive Committee.Representative members will be elected to tire National Executive Committee from eacli area, covering the whole of the British coalfields.Basis of representation for each area is I lie strength of the the organization in the area — that is, one member for the first 7.500 members, and an additional representative for the next 40,000 members; provision being made for representation for an area to rise or fall automatically according to the increase or decrease of members, but so that no area will have more than three representatives on the National Executive Committee.The supreme governing authority of the New National Union will be the annual delegate conference.Representation in this assembly is related to the strength of the organization in each area.Rules provide that i:o person over the age of 60 shall be eligible for election, as either national or area officials, and a retiring age of 65 is stipulated.Tlie President and Secretary are to be chosen by ballot vote of tire mem-I its.and the Vice-President will be appointed by tlie annual conference, to hold office for two years, and be eligible for re-election.Tlie President and Secretary after election will continue in office during the pleasure of the Union, but will have to retire from office if they enter Parliament or become paid officials of tlie Government.An important provision in this constitution stipulates that a national strike shall not be entered upon without a ballot vote of the members and a two-thirds majority of those voting in the ballot must be registered before a strike can take place.It is noteworthy too that among tlie objects of the Union it is provided that it shall act as an association, organization or intermediary for the purposes of any conciliation scheme in the mining industry.When morals fall, nations fall."The thing that saps tlie spirit of the soldier,” said an orientation of' ficer.“is the gruesome suspicion that lie may be risking everything for somebody else's self-interest.” In Normandy and Brittany it had to be a fight from house to house to clear out the snipers.For total victory back here there will have to be a fight from home to home to clear and others like 1 up the snags.Our Common Interests By RUTH TAYLOR War has brought about the kinship of common suffering.But when the war clouds have been swept aside and peace once more reigns on earth, will there be unity - the same unity as in time of trouble ?Common suffering has welded together people of different nationalities as though they were members of the same family.Common aims have bound together people of different faiths.Common ambitions have coordinated the actions of people of different backgrounds.Will we now let rival ambitions separate us ?Common ambition is working together toward the same goal a prize which will be shared.Rival ambition is striving for a goal which must be seized for the benefit of one and the detriment ot the other.After all, what does common mean ?According to the dictionary it is usual, average, regular, and pertaining to or participated in by all.There must be no division either in war cr in peace in a democracy.As Victor Olander said, "The foundation of unity is the equality of status of the citizens." In short, if law is to be effective it must be applied always, everywhere and to all.We have learned from bitter experience that to be truly free, men must have the assurance of all alike of an opportunity to work as free men in the company of tree men.No man can be confident in perpetuity of his own safety unless and until every man, woman and child is equally safe.It we are to fulfil our duty as Americans in the trying days ahead, we must, without setting aside any of our individual rights, work together in our community or communal life, to carry out the ideals of democracy, to see to it that there are opportunities for each man to advance according to his talents and abilities, to extend a friendly hand to those who need help, to keep the laws which we ourselves have made.Only faith behind democracy can foster the common virtues which are necessary for self government and for the preservation of our unity.Centuries ago Euripides stated it thus ; Look to the things of God.Know you are bound to help all who are wronged, Bound to constrain all who destroy the law, What else holds state to state save this alone, That each one honors the great laws ol right.We have done this in war.We must do it in peace.Government Interference in Business "The idea that everyone should have freedom in earning his living is deeply set in American thinking.but tlie ‘American way' lias never been one of complete freedom in economic matters," declares Maxwell S.Stewart, author of the pamphlets.Tlie American Way — Business Freedom or Government Control?.published by the Public Affairs Committee, 30 Rockefeller Piazza.New York City.The pamphlets points out that even in tlie earliest days of tlie American colonies there was some measure of Government “interference” in business.New York City, Albany, Philadelphia, and other centers sold tlie “freedom of the city.” without which no one cotdd go into business.Trade with the Indians was a monopoly, and so were most ferrying, docking, and turnpike rights.From this beginning the Government has gradually taken on a great many different kinds of economic activities on it own and has “in-torferred” in economic affairs on behalf of virtually all groups in the country.Business Has Asked Controls There has been the kind of interference desired by business itself; rules for the preservation of “fair” competition, anti-trust acts to “restore” competition, and protective tariffs.The consumer has obtained protection against misleading advertising and misbranded products.The worker has obtained protection against job risks in dangerous industries, and regulation of hours of work and minimum wages.In addition to these specific restrictions.business looks to the Government for an aggressive monetary policy to support general economic activity.“It is obvious from a review of our history,” Soewart points out, “that there has been a growing amount of Government 'interference' in business affairs.Yet it has not brought disaster.Our national wealth and well-being have increased at an unprecedented rate Effective Leadership Not Provided “A conflict, however, undoubtedly has arisen.Tlie idea that everyone should have complete freedom in earning his living lias come sharply against another idea — the desire of individuals and organized groups for greater security than is possible under unfettered competition." But the current debate over tlie relative merits of "free enterprise” or "Government control” lias created a paralyzing deadlock.We find that the Government lias been prevented time and time again by business pressures from adopting a vigourous policy to provide jobs and stimulate business.If the Government is vigorous it is accused of trying to set up a dictatorship; if it yields to pressure and does nothing it is said to be dominated by impractical bureaucrats.Tlie result has been that, except during the war.neither private business nor the Government lias provided effective leadership in recent years.New York State Horticulturists experimenting with semi - dwarf apple trees, which would take less orchard space and be more convenient for pruning, spraying and harvesting.• » e In the isolation of the ancient world, it took the invention of wheeled vehicles about 2.000 miles ,to reach Egypt from western Asia.see Manzanita and wild lilac, growing on the West, Coast, are among domestic sources of burls offering substitutes for French brier for pipewood.• • • Had the population of the United States continued growing as it did up to 1900.there would be 150.000,000 people now instead of about 131.000,000. 7/.V7J HHg vmmm Wtmm ymm OCCASIONS DE SEPTEMBRE V *