LABOR ROUNDUP

Electrical Workers

maintain wage stand

Date of strike action by the
Electrical Workers Union “has
still to be decided” but there
will be no “blitz” action,
Local 213 business manager
John Waplington said _ this
week. Meanwhile strike com-
mittees have been set up in
Vancouver, the Fraser Valley
and Victoria, and a referen-
dum has been sent to. ali
members asking them _ to
authorize a strike fund assess-
ment.

“We are ready to talk
wages with the B.C. Electric
at any time,” said Wapling-

ton. “We are determined to

maintain our economic pos-
ition within the trade union
movement, and we do not
agree with the contention of
the BCE that it is unable to
meet our wage demands.”

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The Ironworkers Union was
scheduled to strike Thursday
this week against Hollycraft
Building Products Ltd. unless
the company signed a zero-

Municipal aid
is inadequate

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—In-
adequate aid given to mun-
icipalities for social services,
education and hospitalization
was protested last week by
Powell River municipality in
letters to Premier W: A. C.
Bennett and Minister of
Municipal Affairs Wesley D.
Black.

The motion was put before
municipal council by Coun-
cillor Ken Gibson, who said,
“that the present provincial
government budget in regard
to municipalities, although it
provides slight increases in
education and some assistance,
five percent, to social ser-

vices, is nevertheless inade-
quate.”
Councillors were unani-

mous. The motion was passed
without discussion.

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Duroid, Tar and Gravel
Gutters and Downpipes

Reasonable

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hour agreement to pay wages
cn a par with other aluminum
sash plants.

Present rates change from
$1.30 to $2:25 an hour, and the
union is demanding from $1.78
to $2.32. Contract talks have
been dragging on for ten
months. :

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Teamsters Union has sent
strike notices to 16 heavy con-
struction companies in B.C,
and may “pull the pin” on
some jobs next week.

A recent conciliation award
recommended a 25-cent hour-
ly increase retroactive to July,
and another 25 cents as from
next July. The companies’
final offer was 18 percent over
two years.

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Direct negotiations between
Vancouver Civic Employees
Union, Outside Workers and
the Board of Administration
nave broken off, and a con-
ciliation officer has been ap-
plied for.

On February 21 a meeting
of 700 union members un-
animously rejected _ the
board’s offer of a five percent
wage hike, plus very small
adjustments for tradesmen
and equipment operators.

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More than 50 percent of the
financial control of Canadian
manufacturing lies in the U.S.
The breakdown is: mining, 44
percent Canadian, 54 percent
American; pulp and paper, 44
percent Canadian, 45 percent
American; chemicals, 25 per-
cent Canadian, 51 percent
American; electrical appli-
ances, 30 percent Canadian, 62
percent American; automo-
biles, 5 percent Canadian, 95
percent Américan; rubber, 7
percent Canadian, 84 percent
American.

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United Fishermen and Al-
lied Workers Union has placed
six questions of concern to its

members before B.C. candi-
dates of all parties in the
March 31 federal election and
plans to publish their replies
in a pre-election issue of The
Fisherman.

Here are the union’s ques-
tions:

Combines probe: Are you
willing to defend the rights
of ffishermen of Canada to
form trade unions; to bargain
collectively with the fishing
companies for a minimum
price for fish caught and de-
livered ta the companies; to
strike and conduct ‘peaceful
picketing while on strike for
minimum prices acceptable to
the majority?

OffsMore fishing: Are you
in favor of emergency action
by the government of Canada
to obtain an interim agree-
ment with Japan which will
prevent the Japanese mother-
ship fleet from continuing its

exploitation of North Ameri-

. can salmon in the North -Pa-

cific?

Dams and salmon: Are you
in favor of damming salmon
bearing rivers and streams
where the engineers and bio-
logists ofthe department of
fisheries state such dams will
seriously deplete the salmon
runs? iS

Are you in favor of an im-

Unemployment to be

labor forum. topic

UFAWU organizer Mike
Canic, LPP city secretary
Maurice Rush and Vancouver
Civic Employees organizer
Don Guise will be guest
speakers at a Labor Forum. in
Clinton Hall, Tuesday, March

4

4, at 8 p.m., on the subject,

“Unemployment — Ot tawa
Must Act.”
Thousands of workers in

predominantly working class

Vancouver East are jobless
and the forum is arousing

considerable interest.

mediate start on the 0
tion of a dam at Mes 4
on the Columbia unde? A
ownership? Are you eo
of a similar public
ment of the Peace aay
River systems in one j
ness power where it ‘e
injurethe salmon Tes? ;

Jobless crisis: What 4
propose be done about
ing unemployment P¥*
Canada? ae

Royal Commission: og
in favor of a Royal He
sion to investigate the ® sth
ics of the B.C. fishing af
try with a view to ™@ ff
commendations coBee
limitation of commercl#
ing licenses? . aa

Summit Meeting: :
Im favor. of. sam im of
meeting of the Great
in order to reduce i .
slow down the an if
reach agreement on : f
ning of all nuclear RP? oy
and to end the threat
lear warfare?

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PARTY for Har-
ry Mackiewich and Family to
be held Saturday, March Ist
at the Russian People’s Home
600 Campbell Ave. Supper
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FILM ‘DAY’S
AND NIGHTS’ will be shown
at the Russian People’s Home
600 Campbell Avenue, Sun-
day March 2 at 8 p.m. Eng-
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UNEMPLOYMENT
OTTAWA MUST ACT
VANCOUVER EAST
LABOR FORUM
TUESDAY, MARCH 4
8 P.M.
CLINTON HALL —
2605 E. PENDER
MIKE CANIC
Organizer Fishermen’s
Union
MAURICE RUSH
City Secretary L.P.p.
DON GUISE
Civic Employees - Union
Labor Forum Committee,

Labor-Progressive Party
Vancouver East

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MARCH 8 — 36th ANNI-

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TEA. Sunday, March 9 at 2
p.m. To be held at the Swe-

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gram -. international home-
cooking booth. Everyone wel-
come,

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