Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 juillet 1945, samedi 28 juillet 1945

ÇctlîUf %t JUttnd t isflr 30e Année SAMEDI, 28 JUILLET 1945 MONTREAL - SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945 Titre conféré à l'hoit» Antonio Barrette Nuns nous foisons un plaisir de publier in i.rtcnso l'escelh ni discours prononcé par l’hanorabU Antonio Illimité à l’Vmvrrsité Laval à l’occasion du doctoral d'honneur en sriclires sociales qui lui a clé décerné par l’Université Laval.Aucun substitut pour le journal Victoire travailliste Monseigneur le Recteur, Messieurs les Doyens.Madame* et Messieurs.L’honneur dont, je suis l'objet ee soir de la part de l’Université Laval me va droit au eoenr.damais au cours de ma carrière .je n’ai éprouvé un sentiment plus difficile à exprimer u m km proidinine session, afin «l'obtenir un bill «le «I i volve «l'.UVce soli épollX .7 f > Il II Itiirriiclough, comptable, «le 1m cité et • lu district «le Montréal, pour oausi» (l’.uilultéro et d'abandon.Daté fl Montréal, province «l«* Quél.1«» Mémo jour «le Juillet 1915 JOS.A RIJDYK.29-33 Procureur do la requérante C O TT K S P P E KIRTT U E Province «le Québec, * District de Montréal.IN 2.10222.DA M L K VA ROSS PATTERSON épouse commune «mi biens «b* Keith Allan IbMinett, de la cité «le Verdun, district «le Montréal, dément autorisée par oott«» honorabh* Pour aux fins des présentes, Dénia nderesse vs KEITH A I.T.A N BENNETT, époux «le la , d«» la cité do Verdun, «listrii-t «le Montréal, aux derniér«»s nouvelles au Service «le Sa Majesté dans les Fop-vs Canadiennes, mainte liant «le lieux inconnus, Défendeur Il est ordonné au «léfendeur «le corn-paraître dans le mois.Montréal, 10 Juillet 1019.MERCI.EK \ MERCILER Procureurs «1«* In Demanderesse T DEPAT IE, 29-no Dépu té-Protonota Ire A V IS I) ' A P P I.I C A T I O N P O IT R D I V O R C E Avis est par l«*s présentes donné nue REC INA LT» WESLEY T IT COM BE de la cité de Montréal, Comté «PIIoeliela-jra, dans la province «b* Qiiéb«»c.s’adressera au ParliMiient du Canada, é sa prochaine session, pour obtenir un bill «b* «livor«*e d'avec sa fiMiiuu* OLIVE.MA R Y COOPER, «!«• la cité de Montréal.compté «l'IIoclielnga, dans la province «le Québec, pour cause «l'a«Initiérc Daté ft Montréal, province «le Québec.«•«* 7 At our organization’s annual convention at New Orleans last November, racial and religious bigotry and discrimination were condemned by7 unanimous vote.The convention reaffirmed a declaration which had been made at previous conventions calling upon the American Federation of Labor to “carry on and expand the good work it has already done so that the principle of industrial equality of ali men will be established beyond question in every section of the country.” The task of carrying out that mandate now ’•ests with every7 union and with each and every worker who is a member of a union.We must not falter or fail.We must fight to maintain and preserve American principles and the American way of life.The faces of all working men and women must be turned everlastingly against racial and religious discrimination and in favor of freedom, liberty, equality and democracy.Prejudice and intolerance are crimes against democracy.— The A merican Feclnrationvit.Modernize Schools to Industrialize Quebec St.Hyacinthe.July 11.— Immediate modernization of Quebec’s public school system hi order to Improve its industrial development was demanded by Hon.T.D.Bouchard, member of the Canadian Senate and a former provincial Minister of Public Works, in an address here.1 Tile Senator also called for the abolition of bridge tolls in the province.These hinder business and the tourist traffic, he said.C.P.R.Earnings at Peak A new high record is shown in gross earnings of the Canadian Pacific Railway for the first half of 1945.The figure is $154,728,000— a.shade above earnings for the first six months of last year, which were $154,575,000, and had exceeded the first half ol 1943 by 13.6 per cent Similarly, June's gross of $28,073,000 set a new high level for that month in the history of the company.Showing the extent of the wartime expansion, June’s gross earnings compared with a mere $10,300,000 in June of 1939.Plan Postwar Future For L-M.Committees Plans to retain their labour-management committees after the war are being made by a large number of Canadian industrial establishments.This is revealed in a report on labour-management production committees in Canadian industry issued by the Industrial Production Co-operation Board through the Wartime Information Board.The report, issued as a 44-page illustrated booklet entitled “Partners in Production", consist mainly of accounts by leading concerns across Canada of their wartime experiences with committees.Increased production, greater efficiency, lowered costs, and above all, improved relations between management and labour are the committee achievements most frequently cited by management representatives in their statements.“Since we shall be confronted in the postwar period with the same essential problems which now face us," declares a typical statement from the president of a large Toronto firm, “it is our definite intention to keep our joint labour-management committee functioning as an aid to even greater and even more efficient production.” Clothing Collected For Relief in Allied Nations Ottawa.July 4.— A nation-wide clothing collection in Canada for the relief of distress in Allied countries is being started al once by the Canadian United Allied Relief Fund.The Canadian public will only be asked to contribute in this campaign such serviceable used clothing as can be spared from their wardrobes without replacement.United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which is closely cooperating in the campaign, will undertake the shipping and distribution of the contributions to the needy in Allied war devastated countries.The Canadian United Allied Relief Fund is sponsoring the collection on behalf of tile Belgian War Relief Fund; Canada-France Relations Committee; Canadian Aid to Russia Fund; Canadian Friends of Luxembourg; Chinese War Relief Fund; Czechoslovak War Charities Fund; Danish Relief Fund; Greek War Relief Fund; Netherlands Relief Fund; Norwegian Relief Fund; United Polish Relief Fund, and Yugoslav Relief Fund.A Joint Fight on Disemployment (Labor League for Human Rights) The American Federation of Labor has taken the initiative in establishing Social Security Committees within Central Labor Unions.These Committees are designed to offset the effects of unemployment.Community Chests and Councils, Inc., embracing hundreds of local Chests and Council of Social Agencies, has joined in this effort to combat joblessness.Its affiliated membership is urged to gather full information about unemployment compensation, old age and survivors’ insurance, public works, U.S.Employment Service, residence requirements for benefits, public assistance programs, aid to transients, and kindred subjects.Local Community Chests can be of real assistance to A.F.of L.Social Security Committees by furnishing this valuable information.Result of this combined action; Easing effects of unemployment for returned veterans and displaced war workers.This is only one of the many services offered to Labor by Chests and Social Councils.Here are a few other fields in which most of them operate: 1.Adjustment of veterans to civilian life.2.Hospital, clinics and healthrestoring services.3.Special educational opportunities for children.4.Recreation advan ages to all, including parks, play grounds, swimming pools and summer camps.5.Assistance in housing difficulties.6.Adjustment of family problems.Central Labor Unions can become better acquainted with these opportunities by taking full part in deliberations of the Chests and Social Agencies.The Labor League for Human Rights has already opened the door in this direction.C.L.U's should follow up by making the most of committee assignments al-loted to Labor.The stigma of “relief” surrounding the work of Chests and Social Agencies is rapidly fading away.Labor can permanently remove this atmosphere by extending its interest in the planning and work of community service organizations.Labor’s participation during the war years has helped greatly to bring about a new conception of the advantages they offer.An era of world-wide cooperation is beginning.Labor and the Social Services have made a good start in attempting to understand each other's problems.Let's enlarge this understanding.Both will benefit lm-measurably.Trade Onion: “Caretaker” By HERBERT TRACY of the British Tracies Union Congress The replacement in Britain until tlie General Election of the Coalition Government by an administration, still headed by Mr.Winston Churchill, but in which most of the major positions are held by Conservatives, does not mean that the advisory and consultative machinery which the Trades Union Congress has built up with the Government during the war years, will also be dissolved.On the contrary, the T.U.C.will keep the same vigilance in all matters of concent to the workers.through its established contacts with Government departments.While the "caretaker” Government holds office, it is very unlikely that the policy, on labour matters at least, will be altered to any material extent.Manpower Release In the revised Cabinet, Mr.Oliver Lyttelton still retains the Office of Minister of Production to which is added the Board of Trade.This ensures that the policy on the release of manpower for peacetime industries which he recently outlined in the House of Conunons is still valid.The main part of munitions production is, of course, represented by the engineering, chemical and shipbuilding industries.The peak of Britain’s mobilisation for these Industries was reached in late 1943, when about 4:,i million persons were working on orders for the Supply Departments.At that time it was decided that the maximum impact on Germany was to take place in 1944, and the munitions industries were combed again to increase the manpower for the Armed Forces.By the end of 1944 there were about 3:,i million persons left in munitions production.During 1945, it is estimated that this figure can be progressively reduced the ami of the Government being to ensure the return to essential civilian production as quickly as possible, consistent with the full performance of its obligations both to the Allies and to its own Armed Forces.Mr.Lyttelton said that he and the then Minister of Labour (Mr.Ernest Bevin) had worked out a system to secure that a priority in the supply of labour should be accorded to the products and services most urgently needed for World War n.When the approach of victory in Europe was apparent, they had made drastic revisions in the scheme and had limited the supply of labour for the munitions industry to those of a real strategic necessity, turning over to the industries the claims of highest priority.Tlie task of the Government, tire Trade Unions and the industrialists, is to try to organise over a few months, an absorption into peacetime industry the personnel of a munitions programme which took five or more years to build up, as well as absorbing large numbers of men and women from the Armed Forces who are returning to civil life at the same time.In this connection, therefore, the Trades Union Congress has been discussing with tlie Ministry of Labour for some time the revision of the Order relating to control of engagement, and almost the last act of Mr.Bevin, as Minister of Labour, was the completion of this Order.The T.U.C.have always recognised that between the period of the end of the war with Germany, and the termination of hostilities with Japan there was bound to be some measures of control over labour, but they insisted thnt the penal sections under the Defence Regulations dealing with the control of labour should be rescinded ; and Government Retaxation of Control The Order just issued represents a substantial step m tile relaxation of labour controls, and while the T.U.C.claims regarding the penal clauses has not been fully met because the appropriate Defence Regulation is being retained, it is the intention to dispense with the use of tlie power of direction to a great extent, and to use instead the more limited powers of the Control of Engagement Order.In the first place tile Order allows men over 50 and boys under 18 who have hitherto been "tied” to their jobs, to seek other employment, except those women holding managerial positions, such as those i'n charge of a department, works, contract, office, or a superintendent or head forewoman.The -age groups 18 to 40 In the case of women, and 18 to 50 in the case of men still come under the direction of tlie Minister of Labour, except where a woman lias a child under tlie age of 14 years living with her, and those persons working part-time which does not involve more than 30 hours service in any one week.Tlie effect of this Order is to ensure that men and women now released from their present war jobs, particularly the younger men and women, should go to work in wliicb their services are required in the national interest — which include munitions production for the Japanese war, vital reconstruction • work, and tlie manufacture of civilian goods which are urgently needed.The Order still makes it obligatory upon an employer to notify particulars of any vacancy to a Local Employment Exchange, or to an approved agency, which of course, includes a Trade Union, and workers may not accept employment other than by submission tlirough an Employment Exchange or approved agency.Timely Order It is recognised thnt some employment can be far more suitably obtained by individual effort, and under the Order, provision is made for the issue of permits to allow of this activity.The permit, which specifies the type of employment and the period for which it is valid, enables the holder to obtain employment without the further reference to one of the Ministry's local offices.The view of the T.U.C.is that this Order is timely, and will help in a large ‘measure towards the smooth organisation of the transfer of war workers into civilian industries, and the resettlement of persons returning to civil life from tlie Armed Forces.Education Films for Trade Unions Representatives of all the major central labour bodies in Winnipeg have formed a Labour Union Film Council in an attempt to bring to workers films especially designed to fill specific trade union needs.Films explaining the meaning of trade unionism and of such features as the closed shop and the check-off will be obtained through the National Film Society and shown on the trade union circuit to supplement the regular films provided by the National Film Board.13 of 38 Tlie government-owned Canadian National Steamships Services have lost 13 of the 38 vessels it owned or operated as a result of enemy action since the beginning of the war, it is revealed by R.B Teakle, company general manager { \ PAGE 8 SAMEDI.28 JUILLET 1945 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY.JULY 28, 1945 The British Election A People's Victory A Crushing Rebuke Not to Mr.Churchill Who Gave His Country and the World Such Splendid Leadership, But the Vested Interests That Still Thought in Terms of Human Exploitation.By BERNARD ROSE, K.C.The British election result caine religious intolerance and diabolically ns a complete surprise.Even tlie most optimistic labor leader hardly expected so overwhelming a victory.Labor which has borne the heat and burden of the day in peace and war is not only in office but in power.It, is in a jrosition to carry out a rational programme designed to benefit not a particular class but the whole people.While it may be difficult to analyze or determine the causes that led to this unprecedented victory, one of the chief was undoubtedly the indignation as well ns resentment on the part of the masses against the pre-Churchill governments.Had Baldwin or Chamberlain listened to the protest of organized labor; had one or the other appreciated the situation ns it was developing in Germany; had they been less afraid of the march of communism and prepared to rearm on a scale that would have demonstrated to Hitler et ni, that come what may.England stood where she did and would be prepared to fight, it is hardly likely that Ribbentrop would have been able to be so certain that Britain was too apathetic to fight and indifferent to the fate of her own and the other European democracies.The election is a decided and crushing rebuke to the fascists and fanatics in Great Britain as well as in the United States and the British Dominions.No labor government will tolerate a resurgence of fascism or any other ism that threatens the foundation of democracy and is built upon racial and fostered distrust of minorities and other nations.Those who admire W i n s to n Churchill for his magnificent leadership are undoubtedly sorry for him.No statesman ever led a nation with such courage and confidence as he did.The uprising was not against Mr.Churchill trer.sonally, but tlie party he led which, say what one may in its favor, was more devoted to the welfare of the interests than the masses.The victory trill make it possible for the new government to effectively cooperate with Russia and the United States, with a new born Prance, and the little nations that know and appreciate the sacrifices Great Britain made to free them.With the crushing of Japan which according to present prospects is imminent, the democratic nations can work out plans for not only national but world prosperity.Stilus populi suprema lex was never more strikingly exemplified than in the election which begins a new era for the people of Britain and the Empire.Our own Prime Minister, to whom we are so deeply indebted for the able leadership he has given, has on scores of occasions repeatedly declared his confidence in the good sense and judgment of the people In the election of June 11th, the majority of the electors declared themselves in favor of government policies that are constructive and designed to promote human wellbeing.Minesweepers Sent To Soviet Union Delivery of the first five of ten wooden minesweepers being supplied by Canada to the Soviet Union under Mutual Aid is to be made shortly in Toronto, it has been announced by the Department of Munitions and Supply.The ships will be tum-d over directly to Soviet sailors who are coming to Canada and who will sail them back to the U.S.S.R.The minesweepers will be used to clear Soviet waterways and harbours still strewn with mines sown during the war.The sailors will be followed later by another group of Soviet seamen who will take delivery of the other five ships as soon as they are ready.They will undergo specialized training in handling Canadian ships before they undertake the voyage home .While it has been common practice to deliver ships built for other governments of the British Commonwealth directly to crews sent to Canada for the purpose, this is believed to be the first time such deliveries are being made to any other allied nation.The Efficient Work of the A-T.League The Montreal Anti-Tuberculosis League Inc., from the beginning of January to July 1st.has X-Rayed 53,725 employees in 54 factories and (IB companies, in the metropolitan area.As a result of this mass survey.2.280 suspect and positive cases were discovered.1,093 of these were doubtful and 972 proved to be positive cases, active or inactive, divided as follows: 757 in the first stage of tuberculosis, 180 moderately advanced.and 35 far advanced The figures have shown an improvement in the percentage of suspects and tuberculous cases, that is 3.8'7 in the first six months of 1945.compared to 4.6'in 1944.The cause of this decrease may be attributed partly to the type of industries and commercial concerns visited — as it is a well known fact that in the factories where the work is much more strenuous, a great number of cases are discovered — and partly to the educational value of the practical work accomplished by the League.A great number of people would have been examined, in the same period of time, had it not been for the lack of films during several weeks.However, this time was not wasted as the doctors and nurse-technicians of the League visited the industries and commercial institutions in which mass X-Ray surveys had been carried out.to ascertain whether all the cases which had been reported for a diagnosis either to their family doctor or to one of the three clinics in the metropolis.New Departure The Montreal Anti-Tuberculosis League, Inc.in order to improve the work of detection being carried out.now has a 14x17 X-Ray taken of all suspect or tuberculous cases discovered by the firri X-Ray on 35 mm.film.This new method gives to the em ployee the advantage of a more precise and more rapid diagnosis: more precise because the 14 x 17 film gives the maximum which can be obtained by means of X-Rays, more rapid because the employee is now able tc have his report almost muro'di»' —and this free of charge.In addition.if it is necessary for the em ployee to visit his family doctor or one of the clinics for a more complete diagnosis, the film or the report of the film is sent to eitlie place by the League.All cases referred to the clinics by the League have no outlay to make and they obtain a free dia gnosis.This was made possible by tlie subscriptions given by the pub lie during the campaigns in favour of the Montreal Anti-Tuberculosis League, Inc.and by the donations of the League to the clinics.This new step taken by the Lea, gue will be helpful to the anti-tu berculosis clinics, such as Royal Ed ward Laurentian Hospital, l'lnsti tut Bruchési and l'Hôpital du Sa cré-Coeur.in that only when it is absolutely needed will cases be sent to these clinics, which are already overburdened.The 14 x 17 films of the suspect or positive cases will be sent to the clinic for those who pre, fer to go there rather than to visit their family doctor.The Montreal Anti-Tuberculosis League co-oper ates in the same manner with the family doctor of those who prefer to see him.This, in a few words, gives the guiding principle of this new depart lire of the League showing that the Administration is sparing nothing to give, through their detection work the maximum results.The Montreal Anti-Tuberculosis League Inc.hopes to receive, ver; shortly a third apparatus which will permit it to pursue more actively the work of detection, and the Lea gue is convinced that the public of Montreal trill support its efforts in the work undertaken.Black Market Found n Used Car Trade Ottawa.— War is being waged by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board against black market operators in the used car trade.Board officials state they believe this to be “the richest illegal market" in operation in Canada, with the black marketeers reaping enormous profits in the purchase and reselling of used automobiles and the disposition of vehicles of inferior mechanical condition to the general public." Officials said the black market operations centered chiefly around Montreal.Legitimate dealers have protested and are assisting the board to catch the racketeers.From time to time, this particular type of black market has cropped up since 1941, when the manufacture of new automobiles was stopped to turn out war suplies.Survey on "Recreation" in Canada From surveys made by the sub committee on "Recreation" of the Canadian Youth Commission, most young Canadians spend an average day's leisure in four major ways — il) reading. listening to the radio.(3) talking,