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CPR hires

Hot

and there is still no sign of
York, biggest in the British

Issues in the strike are:
wages, with the union asking
a 15e increase Spread over
three years and the C.P.R. of-
fering a hike of 2c; hours,
Where the company . proposes
waiters and bellmen should in-
Crease their work week. from.
40. to 48 hours; ‘shape up’ sys-
tem. of hiring where. the. em-
ployees would be required to
report to work every morning

scah labor

to operate Royal York

Eleven hundred and fifty employees, members of the
el and Restaurant Workers Union, were provoked into
a strike against the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, on April 24

settlement today. The Royal
Empire, is the largest of a

chain of C.P.R. hotels operated across Canada.

uled. for July 27 in Toronto. of
all unions whose members. ‘af-
fect the operations of the ho-
tel.” Plans were that this meet-
ing would discuss the question
of a total. blockade of the
hotel. This, if carried out
would: cut off the hotel’s steam,
air. conditioning and stop. de-
liveries of food and supplies,

to be. hired for the day or sent
home as the hotel decided.

Negotiations were. still in

“Everything in Flowers”
FROM

Jobless total up

over last ear ment presiding when the ho-
tel placed ads in daily papers

E A R L $ ¥ K E S Y ; fren coast to coast for work-

56 E. Hastings MU 1-3855 Unemployment in Canada

Vancouver, B.C.

from mid-May to: mid-June has
taken another seasonal drop.

SS or
ed

We. Have an Excellen

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Vancouver I, B.C.

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But it remains higher than for
last year at the same time.

Official government figures
released on July.18 show:

@ 370,000. unemployed in
Canada at mid-June;

® 87,000 fewer unemployed
than at mid-May;

@ 55,000 more. unemployed
than, a year ago;

@ 5.6 percent of the total
labor force unemployed at mid-
June compared with 4.9 per-
cent a year ago.

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-| Progress between the union and
the hotel management with the
Ontario conciliation depart-

members of the union.

lines set up by the Hotel and
Restaraunt. Union. Labor has
boycotted the hotel and many
organizations have altered con-
vention plans scheduled for the
Royal York rather than cross
a picket line,

The successful conclusion of
the Toronto building trades
Strike has given the struggle
a shot in the arm and it ‘was
announced last week that the
Hamilton and District Labor
Council have decided to stage
a token picket in front. of the
C.P.R. offices in that city.

Such action, accOmpanied by
unity demonstrations such as
that of the Hamilton Labor
Council i¢ carried out. aeross
the country, including Vancou-
ver, could bring a quick. vic-
tory for the Royal York -work-
ers and at the same time help
set. back. the bosses ‘hold-the-
line? and union busting cam-

ers to fill the jobs held by. -paign,

The hotel has. since operated.
with. scab. labor behing picket

A special meeting was sched-|

The total cost of the work-
ers ‘Wage demands at the Royal
York would be in the neigh-
borhood: of $1 million for

fires burning

“Reddy Kilowat” &
advertized symbol ¥
ectric service bi
“ready for one-
family who lived 4
a half in B.C. Ele
darkness: before ee fou!
Unemployed Council?”
about the case 4
heir rescue. © :
The B.C.E. aie
switch on the bee
of- 1663: Adanac, —
who had fallen in
theix light pill be nous
employment in the *)
In: spite of: the 22
of the Schwab (1
fers. from a res
lem that requires §
ments, which were
without power ins m
hold; no. action to: ™
service was taken 4
Unemployed Counc
‘ed. to picket the pee
juice. wasn’t turned ge

S|

: ee
the CPR Hotel, 18
stated to the Pact”
“perhaps some unl
this end in a ae
would be helpful 1, 4
workers in the Royal g
Something to put the i
Crumpis. strikebreal—

| three: years. This is one third
,0£ the price that “Buck”
Crump, President of the C.P.R.

-ghnessy Park, Mr. Crump, who
As. vitally coneerned about in-
flation, and holding the line
when it comes to paying wage
increases to his. underpaid}

inflating the tax burden. of
Vancouver ratepayers with
‘blown up prices for land that
was. pirated from the people
by. the C.P.R, in the first place.

Meantime. staff workers at

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