New Battle At CCL Meet Over Affiliation With the CCF
At the Canadian Congress of Labor convention in Toronto a new fight broke out over affiliating with the CCF. Debate featured A R Mosher backing affiliation and labor ballot strategy, while Harold Pritchett urged democratic representation and possible LW A affiliation.
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TORONTO
C.P
Congress of Labor
C.C.F
congress
C.C.S
C.CF
A. R. Mosher
Harold Pritchett
Vancouver
International Woodworkers of America
Fig
British Columbia
LW.A
C.C.L
CCPF
CCF
Pritchett
Larry Sefton
United Steelworkers of America
Hamilton
Saskatchewan
Alex McAuslane
C.C
Communist party
Pick Partners for Supper by Toe Touchin Method
LIKESTON MO Oct 9. Toe touchin is a new game replacing box suppers in some areas. At Lincoln school girls prepared a meal, boys paid for the library fund. Girls hidden feet under sheets, the bare feet emerged for the boy to touch at the dimming table.
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LIKESTON
Lincoln school
Strike May Still Go On In British Columbia
Residents of Vancouver Victoria and two other cities faced the prospect of walking to work as seven labor disputes involve 53305 workers move toward settlement. A marine engineers leader accused the union executive of reaching a hasty deal with 36 coastal steamship operators in an emergency meeting, suggesting the strike could still continue.
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VANCOUVER
British Columbia
National Association of Marine Engineers
Strike Averted in British Columbia Marine Engineers
Denis Heard, national president of the Marine Engineers Association, says the coastwise engineers strike is definitely averted after a wage and hours settlement. Steamship operators offered seven and a half percent monthly increases for chief engineers and ten percent for other ranks with a forty four hour week. He notes members opposed the executive’s rejection of a 12 percent raise and a 40 hour week demand, despite the announced settlement. The noon strike deadline remained unresolved as of yesterday.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
British Columbia
Denis Heard
the
Marine Engineers Association
AFB
AAR
Silk Train Legend Shapes Canadian Silk Trade History
The article recalls the silk express known as the silk tram that carried raw Chinese silk to Europe, speeding across Canada with heavy bales and a fast, protected route. It notes high profits, minimal crew, and the rail network’s full rights of way aiding swift delivery before air travel emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
China
Brandon Sun
Vancouver
Atlantic
Montreal plants reopen amid wage talks and picket lines
Three Montreal meat plants, Canada Packers, Wilsil, and Modern Packers, reopened under police protection as workers trickle back amid union resistance to pay increases. Canada Packers cites Quebec law blocking conciliation. union leaders urge workers to stay off the job. Wages aim to raise the minimum to 92 cents per hour, with about 700 workers at Canada Packers and 500 at Wilsil. A related note says Charlottetown strikers were warned they cannot legally picket a government run plant.
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United Packinghouse Workers of America
C.S.O
Montreal
Canada Packers Limited
Wilsil Limited
Modern Packers Limited
Quebec
U.P.W
Swift Canadian
Canada Packers
Burns and Company
Wilsil
Quebec City
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Horace Wright
Final phase in Dugald rail crash inquest
Winnipeg Oct 9 Coroner's inquest into the Canadian National Railways Labor Day train wreck at Dugald Man prepared for its final session. Witnesses testified whether the westbound Minaki special should have taken the siding rather than proceed on the main line. The jury hears up to 15 more witnesses as it weighs whether the engineer of the second section acted within orders. The wreck blamed 31 lives and injured many.
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WINNIPEG
Canadian National Railways
Dugald
Man
here
Minaki
Edgar Cook
Mingki
CNR
Harratt
meet
A. G Smith
Arctic Missionary Paralyzed in Arctic Rescue Attempt
Ottawa reports Canon J H Turner, wounded by a self-inflicted bullet, is to be flown from Moffat Inlet to Arctic Bay and then Winnipeg for hospital care. A small boat will reach Moffat Inlet as supplies and a Dakota aircraft evacuation plan, termed Operation Canon Party, proceed despite harsh ice conditions.
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OTTAWA
morthland
Moffat Inlet
Arctic Circle
Church of England
Arctic Bay
Winni Pex
Canon J. H. Turner
F. E. Moore
Indian: affairs branch
mines and resources department
Moore
Canon Turner
Winnipeg
CORAL HARBOR
NWT
Ross Willoughby
Guy D'Artois
John H Turner
army
RCAF
Dakota
Moffat
Bob Race
Gardiner's Son Is Nominated Liberal Candidate
Gardiner's son James Wilfrid Gardiner, 23, son of Agriculture Minister J. G. Gardiner, is the youngest Liberal candidate nominated for Last Mountain province in Duval Saskatchewan. In Jerusalem a military court sentenced three Jewish men linked to the underground Irgun to seven years for printing leaflets. a fourth defendant, the two brothers’ father, was acquitted.
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JERUSALEM
Irgun Zvai Leum
Stirling to resign after 23 years in Yale seat
Kelowna BC Oct 5 Ren Grote Stirling long serving Yale MP retires due to ill health after a career spanning 23 years in the House of Commons He canceled a Summerland hospital opening and will inform the Yale Progressive Conservative association president and the federal Speaker Political observers note a by election and shifting coalition leadership may follow Stirling was a civil engineer fruit grower irrigation figure and former defence minister in Bennett’s cabinet.
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KELOWNA
Ren. Grote Stirling
Yale
house of commons
Stirling
HB. C. Wendell
Yale Progressive Conservative association
Ottawa
Summerland
Wendell
Progressive Conservative
Alberta
defence
Bennett
Canadians Top Buyers Of Life Insurance In 1946
Canadians purchased 1.393 billion dollars in new reinsurance during 1946, while U.S. residents bought over 21.9 billion dollars. Dwight Clarke, president of the American Life convention, reported that 1946 purchases lifted total Canadian life insurance to nearly 11 billion dollars.
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CHICAGO
United States
Dwight Clarke
Amerian Life convention
Howling dog lone witness in Winnipeg shooting
Winnipeg October report details a dog as a possible sole witness to the September 1946 shooting of 13-year-old George Robert Smith. At a preliminary hearing, Michael Angels Vescto of Port Arthur faces murder charges in Smiths death and another 13-year-old, Roy McGregor, in a separate slaying. The proceedings recount shots heard at night, a dog barking, and the discovered body with gunshot injuries and skull fracture.
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WINNIPEG
George Robert Smith
Michael Angels Vescto
Port Arthur
Smith
Vescto
Roy McGregor
Winniper
Gier Thorgierson
Thorgierson
Arlington
Home streem
Four Die In Central Patricia Mine Blast Near Sioux Lookout
An explosion during shaft sinking at the Central Patricia Mine left four miners dead and one seriously injured. Three were rescued unharmed. four bodies were recovered after a rock slide. Names of the deceased and rescued workers were released by company officials in Toronto amid delayed details from the mine site. The accident occurred on the 3200 foot level, with rescuers from Pickle Crow Mine joining efforts overnight.
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SIOUX LOOKOUT
Ont
central Patricia
Toronto
Jack Campbell
Patricia
James McDonald Timmins
David Mackie
Winnipeg
Bastinen
Central
V Brageau
F McGrath
J Fedick
Pickle Crow
Red Lake
Ontario
Kenora
at & point
marth
Dutch Forces Launch Six Point Thrusts in Java
Batavia dispatch reports a Netherlands army communique claiming Dutch forces jumped off at six points in clearing sweeps against Indonesian units in central and west Java. A Republican spokesman in Jakarta said tanks and motorized infantry were used in thrusts into territory previously under Indonesian control.
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BATAVIA
west Java
Jogjakarta
Coffee price war ends with free cup and nickel doughnut
In Los Angeles the coffee price war slashed costs from seven cents to one cent and then to free with doughnuts at one chain. Another chain matches with free coffee and a nickel doughnut while night clubs still charge a quarter or more for coffee.
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LOS ANGELES
Bacon Ration Cuts Hit Britons As Canadian Strike Drags On
Britain halves weekly bacon allowance from two ounces to one ounce starting Oct. 19 due to a six week Canadian strike cutting shipments. If the strike lasts, even one ounce a week cannot be sustained. recovery depends on stock rebuilding and settlement. Canada supplied 82,000 tons of Britain's 168,000 tons of bacon from January to September. Other sources: home 41, Denmark 32, South Africa 2, and other British origins 1 thousand tons.
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LONDON
Reuters
Britain
ministry of food
Canada
Denmark
South Africa
Tokyo police plan 130000 man rural force under MacArthur
Gen. Macy Arthur authorized a 130000 man national rural police force in Japan to fill the gap left by prohibition on armed forces under the new constitution. He also ordered decentralization of Tokyo law enforcement to prevent a police state resurrection.
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TOKYO
Macy Arthur
Japan
MacArthur
Montreal salesman killer is hanged in Jan
Marcel Marcotte, 40, convicted of murdering fellow salesman Marcel Boileau, was sentenced to be hanged January 23. The defendant fainted when the verdict was read. Other brief items note Russia declining UN Balkan watchdog role, Canada Labor Party split vote, Australia wheat bumper crop, diphtheria outbreak among Hutterites, Saskatchewan strike conciliation, and Alberta jail cattle slaughter plans.
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MONTREAL
C.P
Marcel Marcotte
Marcel Boileau
RUSSIA
LAKE SUCCESS
United Nations
TORONTO
Canadian Congress of Labor
C.U.L
USC.F
AUSTRALIA
Australian information office
Australa
EDMONTON
A. Somerville
Alberta
Rosebud Creek
Calgary
SASK
WILMIN
REGINA
provincia
Jack
Saskatchewan
T. C. Douglas
Fort Sackatchewan
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SOVIET UNION
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Communist international
pebisck
Austria
Czechio
Slovakia
Yugoslavia
Information Bureau
Belgrade
Andre! A. Zhdanov
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Gardiner
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B.C
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