Minit Mijn hy ' iy li PERL UAT dc ee ee ne ‘ ger St ey Men Me! feiss Neral f yt enennley ve) ; Vancouver, British Co!umbia, June 16, 1950 Lumber strike averted Price Five Cents WA SCORES VICTORY N NEW WAGE CONTRACT A zero-hour settlement of the dispute between International Wood- workers of America and West Coast lumber operators averted a strike scheduled to start Thursday and gave 32,000 woodworkers a substantial wage boost of 12! cents an hour, plus other concessions. i (ell MATT TT IL ETE UCT TLIC ULL TIO ULL ICL IOL Usd ett bate tS ‘ By BERT WHYTE Are Stanley. Park. icecream cones and hot dogs the stingiest in town, or only the second stingi- est? A hot debate on this issue is taking place between Vancou- ver Sun editorial writers and Park Board chairman Everett Irwin. Backing up Irwin’s contention that it is “unfair” to expose profit- eering in the parks, Parks Super- intendent P. B. Stroyan entered the fray with the devastating ar- gument: “There are people who sell smaller cones than we do.” Where? In Lilliput? On the “man bites dog” contro- versy, Stroyan waxed eloquent. “It’s really quite a large hot dog,” he proclaimed, ‘‘one-twelfth of a pound compared to one-fourteenth of a pound elsewhere.” Three-quarters of Czechoslovak population sign peace petition ‘See world peace roundup - page 3 i Park Board unfair! What the park superintendent failed to mention was the amount of profit extracted from kiddies’ pockets on every hot dog+salmost* 200 percent, Dogs cost 5% cents, sell for 15 cents. Title of “meanest man in town” is hereby shifted from the fellow who robs a blind man to the profit- eer who robs‘a child. \ Pop, which sells for a nickel everywhere else, costs seven cents in Stanley Park. Ice-cream slabs are sold only in dime-size packets. Admission to the children’s zoo is ten cents for children, 25 cents for adults. Park Board officials make Jesse James look like a piker. Three years ago Vancouver youngsters organized a “candy bar” strike. Maybe a strike against profiteer-; ing in the park would prove equally effective today. IWA and Woodworkers Industrial Union members in camps and mills were prepared t6 tie up operations when word came, through that the .-IWA+~policy committee, «meeting with the province’s Labor Relations Board, had voted at 12.27 a.m. to accept a final offer made Tuesday by Forest Industrial Relations on behalf of 163 operators. In the separate dispute between [WA and Bloedel, Stewart and Welch on Vancouver Island; a ten- tative agreement on a similar basis had been reached as the Pacific Tribune went to press. Growing unity of the IWA, WIUC and unorganized woodworkers on the job enabled IWA leaders to maintain. a firm stand against the lumber bosses. Eleventh hour medi- ation initiated by LRB and prompted by the overwhelming strike author- ization given in last week’s govern- ment-conducted vote, saw the oper- ators through FIR up previous offers from 9 cents to 12% cents hourly wage. hike, back away on the 48- hour week proposition and grant the outright 40-hour week with time and a half for all Saturday and Sunday work. Third additional concession Was agreement to embody in the maintenance of membership clause the provision that all employers will that they join the TWA. With the WIUC solidly backing IWA demands on the lumber bosses. unity sentiments of lumber workers rose sharply. At Courtenay Tuesday -“ajoint meeting. of 45 loggers called by ten well-known members of the [WA and WIUC unanimously voted to send a delegation to interview the executive of the IWA and WIUC locals to press for unity of the two organizations. The meeting voted in the interests of unity to press for: (1) all strikers to report for picket duty; (2) as a basis for achieving 100 percent organization in the ‘Courtenay-Campbell River area, all WIUC members working in the in- dustry to transfer membership to the IWA, there to be accepted with full rights and privileges accorded within the IWA constitution. Meanwhile a leaflet entitled “Who’s Blocking 100 Percent Union in the Mill?” was issued in Youbou, following up the agreement reached by the TWA crew at the big saw- mill last week to accept without discrimination WIUC cards as trans- fers to the IWA and accord full union -rights to those transferring. The leaflet, pointing to the unoffi- cial opposition from certain local officers of the IWA, called on the membership to fight for and see the bargain made is carried into life. . Similar action was also reported recommend to all tlew members . under way at the South Forks oper- . ation of H. R. McMillan at Nanaimo. Arms won't bring “It is ridiculous to believe that the amassing of arms will bring about peace,” Rev. J. J. Harrison told 3000 Roman Catholics agsembled in Capilano Stadium for the annual feast of Corpus Christi Sunday. : “How we can have faith in the tools of war as harbingers of peace, I don’t know,” said Rev. Father Harrison. “The world is crying, screaming for peace. Let us peace, says priest return to the true spirit of Christian tol- erance and compassion.” Father Harrison termed the armaments race “dangerously short-sighted non- sense”. Pacific Tribune readers who agree with him should turn to page 6 and sign the peace petition, which is being circulated among people of all faiths and political beliefs in 52 countries. se ditibeines ee