LABOR AROUND THE PROVINCE ~ q Vancouver Labor Council ) Voted Tuesday this week to | investigate the “extremely | alarming” flood situation on 7 the North Shore and: to make recommendations to local au- 7 thorities. ' Provincial and federal gov- 7 ernments will be approached 7) by the VLC to get together ' and settle their dispute over the building of another Sec- Ond Narrows Bridge. The + council is demanding a toll- free bridge. : at % % More than 1,000 Vancouver Machinists have won 35 cents an hour spread over two years. Their union, International As- 7) Sociation of Machinists, signed ) ¢d with 20 shops, for 20 cents 7 °n January 1 and 15 cents the - following year. xt es 5 es 7 _ At Vancouver Iron Works, 200 members of the United _ Steelworkers settled for 18 ' ents as of August this year and 12 cents as of November a; 1957. bes at Xt _ The strike of nine workers at Goodyear Tire, Vancouver, over. They settled for 35 ents an hour spread over ree years. The Teamsters’ Warehouse union negotiated the agreement. This was the first authorized strike of Van- ‘©Ouver teamsters in 20 years. bes xt * Four hundred workers at ancouver Rolling Mills, Van- Best Wishes for a jolly Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2 e i b ¥ NORTH BURNABY LPP CLUB : RANT AIT AIA AEE Sincere Wishes for a Merry Xmas ‘and a bs Happy New Year -VICTORIA LPP CLUB Peace On Earth i VI, ALF & JOEY : DEWHURST x 4 i = ~°mpliments of the Season To All ESR ER YAR PI Vancouver Labor Council to probe ‘flood situation on North Shore iy couver Steel and Pacific Bolt have settled for 15 cents an hour in a one-year agreement. This brings the basic wage to $1.88 an hour. yt os xt Local golfers may find a picket line between them and their favorite golf course. Thirty greenkeepers at Shaughnessy, Point Grey and Marine Drive golf clubs are not satisfied with their pres- ent rate of $1.40 an hour. They want a wage increase of 30 cents. Lowest rate for labor- ers employed at the city-own- ed Fraserview golf club is $1.564% an hour. Greenkeepers are members of the Building Service Employees. Interest in the mooted merg- er between the International Woodworkers of America and Pulp and Sulphite Workers in- creased this week with the re- port that Joe Morris, IWA dis- trict president, was in Wash- ington to discuss merger terms. © , xt tt xt The City of Vancouver will make no purchases of non- union made goods amounting to over $1,000 without express permission from city council. This decision resulted from protests over the purchase of non-union bread for the city lockup. Coal miners win by strong wage stand CALGARY Following a long period of wage negotiations between United Mine Workers of America, District 18, and the coal operators cf Western Canada, a wage agreement providing an overall increase of $1.38 a day for the miners has finally been concluded. Twice since last June the coal miners by an overwhelm- ing vote have rejected the wage proposals of the coal op- erators and the recommenda-_ tions of an arbitration board. A government - supervised strike vote also carried by a large majority in favor of strike action to secure a de- cent wage increase. This vote indicated that the coal miners of B.C. and Alberta were in no mood to accept handouts. The miners set a strike deadline for a satisfactory wage agreement at December its Before the date set for the strike deadline, work stop- pages took place in East Cou- lee and Drumheller. The min- ers of the Crow’s Nest threat- ened to follow suit if no satis- factory offers were forthcom- ing from the coal operators. UMW district officials, who had been tailing along with the operators’ earlier wage proposals, were unable to dis- regard rank-and-file demands for something better and were compelled to reopen negotia- tions with the operators, re- sulting in the now accepted wage agreement. Terms of the new two-year Best Wishes For A Jolly Christmas And A Peaceful New Year from SAM and IONE ENGLISH, BRENDA, KENNY, SANDY and RUSTY agreement provide for a 50- cent per day wage increase, retroactive to July and oper- ative until November 1956. From then until July 1958 the wage hoist for the miners is set at $1.20 per eight-hour day. In addition to these direct wage increases, the coal op- erators will pay into the min- ers Welfare and Retirement Fund a stipulated amount of 22 and 23 cents per ton of coal sold or used by the operators. An additional paid holiday (Christmas) has also been won by the miners. The new wage agreement also provides for inclusion of other specified mine person- nel under its provisions. By their solid rejection of earlier wage offers by the op- erators and the arbitration board’s “award,” the members of District 18 have upped their net gains by a third or more. Libya seeking to cance! bases ; TRIPOLI Libya, protesting against Anglo-French intervention in Egypt, is pressing for a speedy review of the treaty under which Britain maintains bases in the country. Britain has bases in Libya under an alliance signed in July 1953. The U.S. has the use of bases there under a 1954 agreement, and France maintains a small garrison in the southern province of Fez- zan. Premier Ben Halim reported recently France had begun withdrawing her troops re- maining in Fezzan, WOMEN TOP POLLS BCA gains Burnaby © Vancouver was not the onl light this year. The same situation prevailed in nearly every city, district and village in the province. When slightly more than 31 percent of the voters turned out in Victoria, this was regarded as a heavy vote compared to other municipalities. In Burn- aby, only 15 percent of the voters turned out. In Port Alberni George G. Folkhard and W. Cole were elected to the school board. George McKnight, prominent IWA member, missed .election by 205 votes. In Victoria, Austin Curtis, Arthur Dowell, Hugh Ram- say, Elmer McEwen and Don- ald Smith were elected to the council. Elgin Neish, a fisher- man and war veteran, polled 796 votes. In Hope, veteran railroader and former CCF candidate, A. H. MclIsaac proved a strong contender for commissioner, falling only 43 votes short of election. Lake Cowichan voters elect- ed Archie Greenwell as com- missioner. Greenwell had pre- viously served on the school board, as trustee and chair- man. In. Burnaby, the Burnaby Citizens’ Association, organiz- ed by ratepayers and other groups last year to offer an alternative to the Non-Parti- sans, elected one councillor out of three, took both park board seats and two out of three seats on the school board. / The new BCA alderman is Emmett Cafferky, Liberal can- didate in the last provincial election. Camille Mather, wife of pop- ular newspaper columnist Barry Mather, topped the poll for parks board in her first bid for public office. A sec- ond BCA candidate, Andrew Blair, held the park board seat he won last year. In the school board contest, two BCA candidates, Eileen Dailly, who topped the poll, and James Mason, won seats. At Kitimat, three candidates for council put up by the Steel- workers and -backed by the local labor council, made a good showing, but failed to win election. M. J. Alton polled 248 votes, R. I. Hoover 227, and C. M. Crowther 203. Lowest vote polled by success- ful candidates was 459. In Maple Ridge, a progres- sive, Elmer Walske, polled 312 DECEMBER 21, 1956 — EILEEN DAILLY Tops Burnaby school board poll CAMILLE MATHER Tops Burnaby parks board poll Carl -Hii- land, running for school board, votes for council. received 343 votes. Ivan Birchard, well known community worker in North Vancouver District, polled 735 votes when he contested a one- year term for council. Birch- ard’s vote was more than 50 percent of the top vote. John Woods, running for school board, polled 359 votes. In Powell River, where trade unionist Robert Bryce was elected to council by acclama- tion, John Stigins was elected to school board. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 9 y place where voting was *g