NOTICE

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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

The Boards of Review of the Workers’ Compensation

Board are now located at Ste. 400, 4946 Canada Way, Bur-
naby, near Deer Lake Centre.
The telephone No. 291-7511.

UNION LEADERS MEET
TO SCORE DICTATORS

Some 33 union leaders
representing 14 European and
Latin American countries as
well as Canada, met in Toronto
in early February and called
on the free trade union com-
’ munities of the world to exert
“all effective pressures” in
order to bring about the down-
fall of the dictatorship regimes
of Chile and Nicaragua.

The delegates are members
of the 56-million-member
International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions’ (ICFTU)
committee for the Defence of
Human and Trade Union
Rights in Latin America. The
committee was set up to deal
constructively with the
“serious problems facing the
many people in South America
who strive for the respect of
human rights in general and
trade union rights in parti-
cular.”

In full support of the frame-
work of a decision taken in
Lima, Peru, by the Executive
Board of the Inter-American
Regional Organization of
Workers: (ORIT), the regional
body of the ICFTU, in
November 1978, the members
of the committee indicated in
their resolution that these ‘‘ef-
fective pressures” could in-
clude a trade union boycott of
these two Latin American

countries.

It-is expected that this re-
commendation will be fully en-
dorsed by the Executive Board
of the ICFTU, since John Van-
derveken, the assistant secre-
tary-general of the organiza-
tion, told the committee that
the board adopted similar
resolutions at its last meeting
in Brussels.

Canadian Labour. Congress

FEWER
SERVANTS

Contrary to popular belief,
the percentage of public ser-
vants in the labour force has
probably declined in the 1970s,
says a study released by the
Institute for Research on
Public Policy.

The 188-page study Public
Employment and Compensa-
tion in Canada: Myths and
Realities was edited by David
Foot, an associate professor of
economics at the University of
Toronto.

Foot compared popular im-
pressions about the size,
growth and wages in the public
sector with the statistical evi-
dence and found things may
not be as bad as everyone
thought. He found the percen-
tage of public servants in the
labour force grew fastest in the
1950s, began to slow in the 1960s
and in the 1970s stopped or
even declined.

President Dennis McDermott,
host and chairman of the com-
mittee’s inaugural two-day
session expressed his satisfac-
tion at the way in which the
representatives of the various
countries forming this consul-
tative body responded to the
“alarming and sickening situ-
ation of individual and collec-
tive freedoms in this ‘chaotic
and oppressed region of our
hemisphere.”’

‘Despite the vast distances
and different realities which

MANDARINS
DOING WELL

While Prime Minister Tru-
deau is telling the private sec-
tor to hold wage increases to
six percent, plans are under-
way to give 2,000 senior civil
servants pay raises of up to
$100 a week — to a top range of
$78,700 a year.

This is a seven percent in-
crease which boosts the maxi-
mumi pay to deputy ministers
by about $100 a week to $1,500
weekly. Minimums at the low-
est executive level would in-
crease about $42 to about $650 a
week.

Prime Minister Trudeau this
year received a 6.4-percent pay
increase — as did all MPs —
bringing his salary to $76,700
annually. | Governor-General

Ed. Schreyer receives $48,000
while Opposition Leader Joe
Clark and cabinet ministers

get $62,500.

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“This resolution.can only en-
hance international solidarity
and further the cause of human
and trade union rights in Latin
America.”

In addition to Chile and
Nicaragua, the human. and
trade union rights situation in
other Latin American coun-
tries was discussed. Among
them were Brazil, Argentina,
Paraguay, Uruguay, El
Salvador and Guatemala.

- McDermott, an ICFTU vice-
president, expressed great
concern for the overall situa-
tion in Latin America. ‘The
human and trade union rights
situation in this part of the
world cannot be allowed to
deteriorate further,” he said.
“Chile and Nicaragua are at
the point of an international
political iceberg, which, al-
lowed to continue on its bloody
jaunt, could rapidly develop
into yet another cold-war
powder keg.

“Our action, therefore,
transcends the boundaries of
the trade union world and must
reach out to the international
community as a whole. In the
name of the principles of
freedom and human dignity,
we, as working Canadians,
hold so dear, I say we cannot
stand idly by any longer.”

COST UP

TORONTO — The cost to
workers taking out member-
ship in a union seeking certi-
fication under the federal la-
bour code will jump to $5 from
$2 beginning June 1, the
Canada Labour Relations
Board says.

The board, which adminis-
ters the code, said in a state-
ment that a $5 fee to unions re-
flects more accurately the cur-
rent level of wages.

However, the board said it
plans to allow the money to be
paid within six months of the
date on which a union files an
application for certification.

the Chilean and!
Nicaraguan peoples,” he said. | _

An industrial game plan for
Canada: New Democratic
Party leader Ed Broadbent
says it’s vital to economic
development and would benefit
people from coast to coast.

Just what is the NDP leader
talking about?

According to Broadbent,
Canada should use its natural
resources to create jobs for the
more than one million people
out of work. Instead of shipping
our resources — and our pro-
fits — to other countries, we
should use them to build better
manufacturing industries at
home.

“Sweden, Norway, Den-
mark, The Netherlands and
Japan all have less than half
the unemployment rate of
Canada,’ the NDP leader
says. Broadbent faults the
prime minister for that, saying
“his own government’s

“‘We have the resources, the
skilled labour, the money and
the expertise,’ he comments.
“All we lack is the will and
determination to put this
combination to work.”’

How to do that? The NDP
leader uses an approach that’s
been recognized as common
sense by a growing number of
economists: to process our
natural resources here instead
of exporting them; to-use the
profits they create to invest in
new machinery and plants.

Broadbent says he wants
“specific commitments” from
foreign owned companies that
they will “perform a certain
percentage of their research
and development in Canada
and export a certain percent-
age of their products from
Canada where they are making
the profits.”

The NDP leader believes
foreign ownership remains one
of our biggest economic

problems.

Lea

action has produced many
fewer jobs than it could have.

—aclekg

— LOGAN! LEAVE THE MONKEY ALONE!

MYTHS EXPOSED

‘‘Labour Canada figures for 1975 show that 31% of women
in the work force are single and need a job to support them-

selves.

They show that 9.4% of women in the work force are
widowed, divorced or separated and must work to support

themselves.

They show that 20.7% of women in the work force are
married to men earning less than $10,000 a year and must
work to support themselves and their families.

They also show that 47% of families where both husband
and wife work they earned incomes less than $15,000 in 1975,

below the medium income.

Thus we can plainly see that most women in our society
are like any other workers. They are working to support

themselves and their families, not to buy a second car. .

—John Rodriguez, NDP member for Nickel Belt,
in the course of his speech in the House of Commons
opposing amendments to the Unemployment

Insurance Act.

The Steelworkers’ union has
called on federal labour minis-
ter Martin O’Connell to solve a
federal-provincial jurisdiction
dispute that costs lives in the
view of the union.

Operations of Hudson Bay
Mining and Smelting at Flin
Flon and Creighton, Sask., are
under federal jurisdiction for
labour relations and occupa-
tional safety since the com-
pany’s smelter and mine
stradle the Saskatchewan-
Manitoba border.

At hearings before the Mani-
toba Mines Safety and Health
Review Committee the union
complained that since provin-
cial safety laws don’t apply
and since there are no federal
mining safety regulations the
union’s 1,400 members here
“are in limbo” without any
protection.

Fourteen mine workers have
been killed at HBM&S oper-
ations in the past eight years,
including six at the company’s
Snow Lake mines, 135 miles
from the border, in the past

two years. The Snow Lake
operation is also considered
federal jurisdiction.

The union says in its letter to
O’Connell that the issue has
been raised with the federal
and provincial governments
for seven years without re-
sults.

The chairman of the mining
safety probe, Claude Wright of
Winnipeg, supported the
union’s view during the hear-
ings, and the industry member
of the three-person committee,
ex-Inco executive Don Munn,
commented: “There just isn’t
any reason I can see why a
mine in Snow Lake should be in
the federal jurisdiction.”

LIGHTER SIDE

A foreman for a gang of lin
men sent in a report of an ac
dent with a note attached: —