1-357 MEETING ELECTS
CONVENTION DELEGATES

The general membership
meeting of Local 1-357 held
on August 28 in the Red Gar-
ter Room at the Royal Towers
Hotel in New Westminster
elected the following 19 dele-
gates to the next Regional
Convention: L. McLeod, J.
Hachey, E. Flannery, N.
Kelly, J. Chandler, P. Rebey-
ka, M. Walls, N. Sauve, Sister
N. Parson, D. McBride, A.
Anderson, L. Miller, J. Mc-
Michael, J. George, Sister P.
Ewles, A. Toner, C. Spooner,
T. Morey and H. Switzer.

T. W. Trineer and A. Archi-
bald are automatic delegates
by virtue of their respective
positions as International
Board Member and Regional
Executive Board Member.

Alternate convention dele-
gates are: Sister M, Storm, G.
Lumb, F. Whitehead, M. Bow-
man and R. Williams.

The following six members
were elected to the next An-

nual Regional Delegated
Safety Conference: Sister N.
Parson, J. George, G. Muf-
ford, R. Williams, C. Spooner
and F. Whitehead.

M. Major is an automatic

delegate by virtue of his posi-_ |

tion as Local Union Safety
Director.

Alternate safety delegates
are: G. Ealy, G. Lumb and E.
Lucente.

The membership meeting
also dealt with a committee
report on salary revisions for
paid officials and overwhelm-
ingly approved the following
wage structure retroactive
from June 15, 1966: President
— $182.00 per week, Finan-
cial Secretary — $172.00 per
week and Business Agent —
$160.20 per week.

Clayton Walls, the Assistant
International Director of Or-
ganization for Region No. 1,
was a fraternal visitor to this
well-attended meeting.

RAND TO INVESTIGATE
ABUSE OF INJUNCTIONS |

An octogenarian retiree
from the Supreme Court of
Canada has been named by
Ontario’s Premier John Ro-
barts to investigate and report
on the use and abuse of court
injunctions in labour disputes.

Former Justice Ivan C.
Rand, whose name is linked
with the Rand formula of un-
ion security, was appointed to
fulfill a promise to a union

delegation, headed by the On-’
tario Federation of Labour

that some action would be
taken on the issue of court in-
junctions. The issue was
brought to a head by the sen-
tencing of 25 trade unionists
to terms from two weeks to
two months.

The Rand formula of union
security makes it mandatory
for all plant workers to pay
dues to the recognized bar-
gaining agent even when they
refuse to join. It was part of
the settlement of a 99-day
strike by the UAW at the
Ford plant, Windsor, in 1946.

The terms of the investiga-
tion stated by Premier Ro-

Serer Sa

barts include “a complete ex-
amination of the use of the in-
junction in labour disputes and
of the: varying legal proce-
dures employed in obtaining
injunctions from the courts.”

The labour movement has
protested the abuse of’ injunc-
tions over a period of many
years, particularly the issu-
ance of ex parte (one-sided)
injunctions by judges on
flimsy and_ unsubstantiated
company evidence.

This abuse has been labeled
by various independent ob-
servers as a device to contra-
vert the intent of labour leg-
islation and bring down the
force of law totally on the
side of the company.

A legislative committee of
the Ontario legislature studied
the matter of court injunctions
in labour disputes and recom-
mended that they be elimi-
nated. They were ruled out in
the U.S. by the Norris-
Laguardia legislation of 1932.

The OFL as well as various
unions will be submitting
briefs to the one-man Rand
commission.

AMERICANS HAVE ANSWER

Why is it we don’t hear any fuss about the use of court
injunctions in labour disputes in the United States? It’s simple:
they are very rarely issued in that country.

That’s because of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, passed back
in 1932. This act restricts injunctions to cases where unlawful

conduct is

involved, where no suitable remedy for damages

is available, and where local police are unable to protect the

employer

or his property. In addition, the employer must

post a bond, which he forfeits if a full hearing shows that the

union has

been damaged by an unnecessary injunction.

is law corrects the abuse of injunctions by employers
Sage se the courts free to protect those employers who

can prove a legitimate need for protection.

—Canadian Transport

A WELL-ATTENDED general membership meeting of Local 1-357 held on August 28
elected delegates to the next Regional Convention and Regional Safety Conference,
The meeting also dealt with a special committee’s recommendation on officials’ salaries

and overwhelmingly approved the recommended upward revision.

LOCALS BOOST OFFICERS WAGES

Locals 1-71, 1-80, 1-217 and 1-357 report that their individual membership ap-
proved upward salary revisions for their paid officials which resulted in the following
weekly wage structure:

Local
1-217

$182.20
$172.20
$160.20 ©

Local
1-357

$182.00
$172.00 3
$160.20

Local Local
1-71 1-80

President __________ $168.00 $172.25
Financial Secretary__.____»_»_E $158.00 $162.25
Business Agent. $148.00 $152.25

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