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Feas, are now seeking to boost trade with the sterling areas. Photo

shown India
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n, Seylonese, British and Canadian tea distributors signing

U.S. companies grab
big Ontario contracts

in pine Pipes being laid for the

TORONTO
natural gas pipeline from Niagara

oronto to pipe US gas to the metropolitan Toronto market, are

made in USA, though a Canadian plant is‘equipped to make them.
A United States gas company official has become the new gen-

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tal manager of Consumers Gas Company of Toronto.

© construction companies en-
“Me to lay the pipe over the 96-
sia eo for Consumers Gas
Yans-Canada Pipelines are

fh U.S. corporations, using U.S.
Canement and personnel. Trans-
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track 0, the group with the inside

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One of the best sub-getters in
the Lower Mainland area is L. E/
Stillwell of Cloverdale, who has
set himself a target of 50 subs for
the year and has already turned
in 23.

The “secret” of

this sub-getter’s
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his plugging
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in -new readers.
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subs in South
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opinion, a far bigger job t an
sellne 500 in New Westminster,
he writes. I don't dispute the
point — and I only hope that be-
fore the end of 1954 we'll have
500 subs in New Westminster.
“When I sell a sub to a progres-
aye worker, I ask him where I
might sell a paper to some friend
of his in the vicinity, and in this

manner I get new leads all the
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The Vancouver polling station
will be in the Fishermen’s Hall,
138 E. Cordova Street and will be
open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each
day.

The Steveston polling station
will be located at the union office,
1213 First Avenue, Steveston, and
will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
each day.

There will be a polling station
at the St. Mungo Cannery office in
South Westminster which will be
open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day. ;

Other polling stations are as fol-
lows: Victoria; Tofino; Quathiaski
Cove; Alert Bay; Boswell in Smiths
Inlet; Goose Bay; and Wadhams in
Rivers Inlet; Namu; Klemtu; Bella
Coola; Butedale; Port Edward on
the Skeena River; Prince Rupert;
Arrandale on the Naas River; and
Queen Charlotte City.

Polling times during each of the
eight days at these up-coast points
will be set by the government poll-
ing clerk in accordance with local
requirements.

The government strike vote will
climax five months of negotiation,
which included the appointment of
a conciliation board. In the latter
part of June, the union tendermen
voted by a majority of 82.6 per-
cent to reject the majority report
of the board. At the same time,
the union tendermen indicated
their determination to strike in
order to obtain a settlement closer
to their original demands. These
demands are: ;

*“@® Wage increase of $30 per
month.

@ Seniority system to be est-
ablished in the agreement.

@ Four percent vacation pay
for all tendermen, regardless of
length of service.

@ Elimination of.
month laundry charge.

@ Employer contribution of
$4 per month per tenderman in-
to a welfare plan covering life
insurance, weekly sickness and
accident benefits.

The majority report of the board
only. recommended (a) Elimination
of the $3 laundry charge; (b) A
reduction of one month’s service
in the qualifying time for four
percent vacation pay (i.e. four
months instead of five months);
and reduction of advance notice
prior to days off by two hours
(i.e. four hours notice instead of
six hours.) 2

The minority report of the union
nominee recommended: (a) The
wage increase of $30; (b) Seniority
for tendermen; (c) four. percent
vacation pay after two months’ em-
ployment; (d) Elimination of the
$3 laundry charge; (e) “Establish-
ment of a welfare plan.

The union tendermen’s Negotiat-
ing committee is recommending a
“Yes” vote on the strike question.

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Salmon tendermen take
strike vote at 18 ports

United . Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union and the Native Brotherhood of B.C. will be balloting in a government-super-
vised strike vote from Thursday, July 15, to Thursday, July 22. During the eight
day voting, period, the Department of Labor will have polling stations at 18 ports and
fishing stations along the coast.

Smelter Workerse

international officer here to “all
local unions in Anaconda, Ameri-
can Smelting and Refining, Kenne-
cott, Phelps-Dodge, the Coeur
d’Alenes, Miami (Arizona) area and
other plants or mines in basic non-
ferrous metals jurisdiction.”

Meantime, the union’s western
vice-president and bargaining co-
ordinator, Orville Larson urged
union leaders to “make full pre-
parations for strike, including est-
ablishment of committees, relief
preparations, fund raising, publici-
ty around demands, community re-
lations, strike headquarters, labor
unity steps, etc.”

Announcement of the pending
strike vote followed several weeks
of negotiations with the “Big Four”
of the non-ferrous industry—Ana-
conda, Kennecott,’ AS&R and
Phelps-Dodge. Only Kennecott has
made any offer to its workers so
far—a proposal for a four-cent gen-
eral wage increase plus two, cents
hourly toward a health and wel-

fare plan. The offer, made by
Kennecott’s Utah division, was
promptly rejected by the Utah

joint committee representing Mine-
Mill locals 392 and 485 as ‘“com-
pletely inadequate.”

The nationwide union bargain-
ing demands call for a 25-cent
hourly general wage increase, sev-
erance pay to laid-off workers,
health and welfare improvements,
increase in pension benefits to $3
a month of each year of service
exclusive of social security bene-
fits, premium pay of time and one

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gets set for strike

DENVER

Workers in the non-fertous metals industry will cast secret ballots
July 21 and 22 in a nationwide strike vote called by the national
wage policy committee of the International Union of Mine. Mill and

The call for the strike referendum went out from the union’s

half for Saturday work and double
time for Sunday, and inclusion of

\fair employment practice and safe-

ty clauses in all contracts.

Union group
visit USSR

MONTREAL

A delegation of Canadian trade
unionists left here July 6, for a
three-week tour of the Soviet
Union, in response to an invitation
from M. Shvernik, President of

Central Council of Soviet Trades
Unions.

William Stewart, secretary, Ma-
rine Workers and Boilermakers In-
dustrial Union (CCL) of Vancou-
ver, is a member of the delegation.

Others in the group are: Gordon
Wilson, UAW, Oshawa; Michael
Bosnick, UE, Welland; James
Brown, UE, Hamilton; J, Dordick,
Fur and Leather Workers, Toronto;
John Ascott, Fur and Leather
Workers, Montreal: and Scott Me-
Lean, Carpenters Union, Toronto.

The delegation will visit indus-
trial plants and factories to see
first hand the working methods of
Soviet trade unions. It will also
discuss the question of Canadian-
Soviet Trade. :

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