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NEWS PRC >M NIEAI 2 AMID PAIR
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The back to work movement of the steel barons is reported to be s failure. In Ohio and Chicago several plants opened under protection of National Guards aid police, but few besides foremen and deputised and armed company police entered the gates.
Republic Steel, one of the most vicious anti-labor concerns affected is hardly producing an ounce of steel.
Workers of Inland Steel broke the employers' front by returning to work under an agreement that is a complete victory.
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LABOR ORGANISATIONS AFFILIATE TO WASHINGTON COI1.DNJEALTII FEDERATION
Since June 7th, the following organizations have affiliated tc the v«.C.F.:
Lumber and Sawmill .Vorkers' Union, Oriental Culinary Workers' Alliance, Workers' Alliance locals 57, 63 and 65, Salmon Purse Seiners' Union, Tacoma, Women's Council Against War, Tacama, Youngstown W.C.F. assembly, Seattle.
In B.C., A.11. Stephen, a leading member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was expelled from the C.C.F. for advocating the same form of organization, which he claims the C.C.F. was originally meant tc be, -;A brosd federation of labor, farmer and progressive people, each maintaining their own organization but fighting fo:.- one common program acceptable and to the interests of all.:;
* * * * >,i * JURISDICTIONAL FIGHT OVER CIRCULATION EMPLOYEES OF 'TEE SEATTLE STAR
Nineteen employees of the Seattle Star, members of the circulation department, organised themselves into the C.I.O. The Teamsters' Union, headed by Dave Beck declared the strike ILlegei end Mayor Dore; elected on a labor ticket, sent police tc break up the picket line. The men effected were organised into the Newspaper Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate embracing all newspaper employees.
Beck lays claim to the circulation men because they ride cround in automobiles. So do steelwo:ke:'s, end salesmen.
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SPJLgJ_FLYERS 00L1PLETE RECORD BLIGHT
Thursday, July 16th - After flying over the r-orth Pole, British Columbia end the West Coast of the U.S.A., three brave Soviet flyers landed at San Jacinto Calif, at 6:15 A.Li, today, completing a 6,700 mile non-stop flight in^62 hours, 17 minutes.
NAZIS RENEW ATTACKS ON CATHOLICS
The Nasi government and its controlled press ag:in attacked the Roman Catholic Church, its German priests, the Vatican end George Cardinal Mundelin
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WAR IN NORTH CHINA AGAIN
Highly mechanised units of the Japanese Kwantung army poured through the Great flail today end reached the gates of Pieping, within sound of machine gun fire at Yungting, 12 miles away. The Japanese encircled the city and moved southward to the Nanyuan barracks, central Chinese militrry post. Seven troop trains, carrying 2,500 Japanese regulars reached Tientsin, bringing the total number of Japanese troops in the area to 12,500.
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CANADIANS IN SPAIN GET BAPTISM OF FIRE IN BIG LOYALIST DRIVE
Canadian youths, many of them in their teens, received a bloody baptism of fire when they waded across the Gurdcrama River, west of Madrid, under a heavy' insurgent machine gun fire.
These youths are membors of the International Brigade. Alongside of these Canadians wore recruits from tho United States, England, Ireland and Spain.
They are attempting to cut off some thousands of insurgents and isolate them from their base.
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IN MEMORY OF TWO BRAVE CANADIANS WHO DIED IN SPAIN, FIGHTING AGAINST FASCISM AND FOR DEMOCRACY THEY LOVED SO
- WELL -Joe Armitcge, well known as a leader of the Project Workers and
Tommy Nelson, who worked hard and faithfully as the district secretary of the Canadian Labor Defense League, BC Section WE BOW OUR HEADS IN TRIBUTE
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