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Vol. 6. No. 28 Vancouver, B.C., July 11, 1947 SS Five Cents

UNION RIGHTS AT ISSUE

Supreme Court to rule on ICA Act

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dollar which you don’t get is

" history. But the consumers’
cents in June.

A dollar ain’t a dollar any more

v0 If you had a dollar in 1930 it was worth a dollar. Today
enn dollar isn’t worth much—53 cents to be exact. The dollar
ama to shrink as soon as the war started, but in Decem-

T, 1941, when Canada instituted price controls and curbed
€Xcess profits, the trend was halted. On V-E Day, 1945, the

dollar began to lose its worth. The other half of the
Corporations. Profits for 1946-7

was 63 cents at the first of the year, 58 cents in April,

disappearing into the coffers
have been the highest
dollar is rapidly contracting—

ee holds up
hew federal labor bill

bef,

OTTAWA—In what is undoubted'y a retreat
Ore the sharp protests of Canadian labor, Prime

inister Mackenzie King has announced’ that
Passage of Bill 338, the proposed new federal labor
©, will be held over until the next session. Con-
"Mnation of the code has come from the Canadian

are Stes. of Labor to which
CT affiliated the country’s
bode ORs, and many AFL

. oes explanation that
in qo! should be held up
ing © light of what is tak-

ie Place in the field of la-

+. siSlation in other coun-
ligu 18 seen here as an ob-
reference to the wave
Protes, @ tian and American
Harge Over the U.S. Taft-
€y ‘slave bill’ and the
Pariy Statements made com-

Hat new U.S. law

to many points contained in
Bill 338.

Union leaders were quick
to point out, however, that
if the cabinet hoped to short-
circuit labor oposition to the
proposed bill by mere post-
ponement, it would find this
‘wishful _ thinking.’ The
unions, they pointed out,
would welcome
ment as an opportunity to
rally their forces for a
more complete fight against
the objectionable features of
Bill 338.

IWA wins 40 hours,
12:¢ in Coast pact

Thirty thousand workers in Coast logging camps and sawmills are already
putting into effect the 40-hour work week provision they won in their new con-
tract last week. The 40-hour week, established in the new agreement reached
after prolonged negotiations with operators, marks the first such settlement ne-
gotiated in any of the Dominion‘s basic industries. The 1214-cent wage in-
crease agreed upon will enlarge a large section of B.C.’s workers to main
tain their living standards in face of steep price increases resulting from removal of price
controls, The new settlement will cost the lumber operators an estimated $9,000,000, which
will come from the highest profits pocketed by the operators in the history of the indus-
try. The fact that a large proportion of these profits results from the increased productivity

Continued on Page 8 — See IWA AGREEMENT

No taxes till demand met,
Island taxpayers tell Hart

VICTORIA, B.C.—Premier John Hart was besieged Thursday of last
week by an aroused group of Vancouver Island ratepayers who demanded “‘a
satisfactory adjustment of this present year’s taxes’ and an ‘‘easing of school
revenue requirements . . .“” The delegates, representing Vancouver Island

postpone-.

Ratepayers’ Association, pre-
sented a hard-hitting brief to
the premier which epitom-
ized the “terrific roar of pro-
test” from rural areas, and
bluntly told Hart “you may
expect no tax payments”

until demands are met.

The rural residents have
been on a tax ‘strike’ for the
past six weeks, forcing the
government to make con-
cessions, labelled as “the
time-honored political dodge.”

The delegation’s brief was
presented by association
president A. D. Clelland, who
charged that rural areas are
saddled with over 50 per-
cent of the tax burden in

their local school districts.

Nanaimo lives up to a proud tradition - - See page 9