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Vol 7, No. 40 Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, October 1, 1948

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KING AT PARIS

War alliance real
‘moral’ of speech

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While British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and French
Prime Minister Robert Schuman made the open warlike
threats for the Western Powers as the UN General Assembly
met in bitter debate at Paris this week, to Prime Minister
Mackenzie King, as head of the Canadian delegation, was as-
signed the role of providing the “moral rearmament” for their
anti-Soviet diatribes formerly filled by Field Marshall Jan
Smuts.

Butte his mouldy bread with lavish references to free-
dom Set coups, which typically he failed to define, and
reason, the utter lack of which was shown throughout his
Speech, King’s appeal for security on a basis “less than uni-

Versal” was actually a call for a Western war alliance against

the Soviet Union.

What was represented as the ‘first moral call to the
world” by Canadian dailies, with their “made in the U.S.” war
mongering headlines and reports, was no more than. another
expression of the King government’s subservience in foreign
Policy to American dictates couched in terms that rank with
the late Neville Chamberlain’s estimation of Munich.

“Peace in our time,” said Chamberlain of the step that

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Perturbed by the International Woodworkers’ success in
winning a 13-15 cent wage increase in recent conciliation pro-
ceedings, despite all the anti-labor restrictions of the Coalition
government's notorious ICA Act, employers have now launched
a campaign to close to organized workers even the few means

the act affords them of making gains. The indication is
mobilizes to meet this new threat, the Coalition will introduce more drastic amendments

to the act at the next session

of the legislature.

that. unless labor

unites and

Justice H. I. Bird, chairman of the conciliation board in the IWA dispute led off the

attack this week.

In his individual finding, made public this week, he proposed:

1—That all personnel of conciliation boards be chosen by the Labor Relations Board instead
of having representatives. named by each side with an impartial chairman.

2—That the chairman of a board, rather than a majority

whether evidence is admissable. .
3—That the Act be amended so that no wage settlement can be made retroactive.

RIPS BIRD PROPOSALS

Murphy asks probe

While labor leaders unani-
mously condemned his recom-
mendations as “ridiculous,”
Labor Minister Gordon Wis-
mer in Victoria promised that
they would be given “the most
serious thought.”

Justice Bird’s reason for
urging that all personnel of
concilliation boards be ap-
pointed by the Labor: Relations
Board, that it would avoid
“tug-of-war methods in con-
RULE

Reports from 15 association

vote of the

members, decide

into labor

A call for a full-scale in-
vestigation by the Labor Re-
lations Board into anti-union
espionage by employers was

spying
Harvey Murphy, Mine-Mill
regional director and labor

representative on the IWA
conciliation board, this week

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ors, heartened by continued dis- | Mine-Mill regional director, Bird’s proposals as contained

ruption of the union by IWA In-
ternational President J. Fadling

’ and his “boss bloc,’ had boosted

the board bill 50 cents a day. This
virtually wipes out the wage in-
erease won in conciliation pro-
ceedings just concluded. TWA of-
ficials indicated that they would
discuss this latest blatant move
‘at the union’s district meeting
this Sunday.

NNR

ciliation disputes and allow all
members. of a board to judge
“impartially,” was obviously
an oblique tribute to the fight

’ conducted by Harvey Murphy,

IWA representative on the
board.

“What Justice Bird wants
is a labor court which would
dictate to the workers and
render their unions impot-
ent,’ Murphy. declared this
week.

He was equally outspoken

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SEE IWA

in handing down his individ-
ual finding as the labor rep-
resentative on the IWA con-
ciliation board.

Murphy based his demand
on evidence of employers
hiring stool pigeons to spy
on the employees and report
on union activities as submit-
ted to the conciliation board
—evidence which employers
first sought’ to exclude and
then to minimize, and which
Justice” H. “4. “aaird, “board
chairman, brushed aside in his
own individual finding.

The fact that the board had
reached a unanimous conclusion in
its 13-15-cent wage increase recom-
mendation was a real achievement,
Murphy stated, but he maintained
that the wage increase did not go
far enough to meet still rising
prices.

In opposition to Justice H. I.
Bird’s ‘contention that retroactive
wage increases should be abolished,
Murphy held that increases should
be dated back by law, as in Alberta,

in his individual finding as
chairman of the board.

“Although Justice Bird was
the chairman of a board that
unanimously settled a big dis-
pute, and although he signed
a unanimous report for 75-day
retroactive pay, he apparent-
ly wants to do away with
conciliation in labor disputes
and he wants to eliminate
retroactive pay increases,”
Murphy stated.

“According to Justice Bird,
wages should be settled by a
Board appointed by the Labor
Relations Board and the parties
concerned should not choose their
Own representatives. What he actu-
ally means is that he wants wages
to be set by a court. And if wages
are to be set by. courts, what is
the use of trade unions?

“Then he is opposed to retro- ~

active pay increases. It’s well
known that courts take a long time,
and if retroactive pay is abolished

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