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THE ADV

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October 6, 1939

US Union Victory Leads To Pay Increase

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Union Rights Guarantee

BRITANNIA, BC.—Employees of Howe Sou nd company’s mining operations here were given

a daily wage increase of 25 cents

which brings miners’ wages to

Early last month organized miners a
in a strike which increased wages of the

rangins from 11.5 to 12.99 cents a
pound stope miners’ wages have
been raised to $6.75 a shiit.

A sliding scale based on copper
prices gives employees a bonus of

25 cents a day when the metal
rises to more than 10 cents a
pound. In addition, the miners

gained time and one-half for worl:
done over the agreed 44 hours
worked in any one week. .

Im comparison, Britannia miners’
wages are $1.50 below those of the
company’s Chelan miners.

Britannia townsite is dominated
by the company which is bitterly
epposed to any semblance of un-
ionism, but there is a growing de-
sire on the part of miners for a
bona fide trade union-

Miners Want
Rights Guarded

YMIR, BC—Declaring that “de-
nisl of civil rights is the first ma-
jor function of Nazism,” Ymir
Wine and Millmen’s union, local 300
of International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers, in 2
resolution addressed to the federal
labor department, Hon. W. K. Es-
ling, MP for Kootenay West, and
Fon. Frank Putnam, MLA for Wel-
son-Greston, asks that these rights
be not restricted or suspended.

The resolution asks that the fol-
lowing principles be observed by
the povernment:

Labor's right to organize and
bargain collectively 45 at present
provided must not be restricted.

Gonscription of wealth, industry
and profits should precede con-
seription of man power.

Leave of absence in writing
should be granted all employees
enlisting or conscripted and legis-
lation should be enacted providing
adequate compensation to disabled
returned men and dependents of
those killed in service.

There must be control of living
eosts commensurate with current
minimum wage laws and strict
prohibition of profiteering.

The resolution also asks that
fair wage schedules be included in
all government war supply con-
tracts and an excess profits tax of
100 percent be levied on munitions
industries.

An immediate embargo on ail
war materials and a boycott of all
imports directed against neutral
ageressor nations, Italy and Japan,
is sought by the miners.

its first boxing meet this week
having proven popular, Interna-
tional Sports Club plans to hold
Similar meets every Tuesday at its
center, 341 Gore avenue.

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Monday. Some 1300 employees are affected by the increase
$5.25 a day.
t the company’s Chelan, Washington operations won out
lower brackets by 75 cents a shift. With copper prices

Toronto Alderman Says

Ideas Not Anti-British

TORONTO, Ont.—Replying to the undemocratic and vicious
demand for his resignation, Alderman Stewart Smith, in a let-
ter to the city clerk here last week, asked the council to re-
consider its stand “and leave to
should have, the prerogative of deciding who will represent

them in the city council.”

Avnswers Reaction

—
ALD. STEWART SMITH

Plan Extension
Of Cooperative

FORT FRASER, BC—Plans for
extension of the Cooperative Ex
change —a community store—and
to enter the producjion field with
local labor were contained in the
manager’s report last weekend.

Started four years ago as a priv-
ate concern, the project has since
been incorporated under the Co-
operative Act and has during its
three years of operation shown a
profit of $1300, which will be dis-
tributed among the 134 customers
in shares constituting 8:4 percent
of their purchases.

The original 11 local shareholders
are allowed three percent on their
agpregate investment of $1200 and
this percentage will be paid the

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the electors what they alone

‘The ideas expressed in that ad-
dress are not anti-British, but are
indeed, pro-British,” Smith
clared.

“Tt will be a sorry day for To-
ronto municipal government, when
the city council sets itself up as
the judge of what are ‘anti-British’
and what are pro-British ideas,’ he
continued. “During the time that
I have been a member of the city
council, I have heard a great many
ideas expounded by members of the

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council which are in violent con-
flict with the best British tradi-
tions.

It is my view that the general
line of policy of the present civic
administration is in conflict with
the best British traditions and
ideas. This general line of policy
imposes the main burden of taxa-
tion upon those of our citizens who
are least able to pay. It imposes
a state of the most appalling hard-
ship upon the many tens of thou-
sands of our citizens who through
no fault of their own are depen-
dent upon relief. It perpetuates the
deadly civic evils of the patronage
system. It hinders and obstructs
progress in every sphere of civic
life, contributing to continued na-
tional depression and crisis.

If the city council would look for
“anti-British ideas in the sphere
of civic government _... it would
find them in abundance underlying
the general policy of the present
administration and working great
injury to our civie life.”

Urging the council at such a
time of grave national crisis to
keep a sane outlook and not give
way to panic and hysteria,
Smith pointed out that “there are
always some who will seek to take
advantage of the situation to label
any and all ideas of their oppon-
ents as ‘anti-British” Such peo-
ple are usually those least quali-
fied to pass judgment as to what
is ‘anti-British’.”

Reminding the council that for
many years there have been two
schools of thought concerning
British and Ganadian foreign pol-
icy, the Communist alderman de-
clared:

“The collective security school of
thought on foreign policy has no
reason to change its views today.
On the contrary, its views have
been terribly confirmed by the
recent tragic developments.”

Referring to the treacherous
proposals for a national govern-
ment of reactionary concentration
put forward by two Toronto news-
papers, Smith stated:

“Now that we are at war with
Hitlerism abroad, the anger of the
people will turn not only against
Hitlerism abroad but also against
those who have obstructed and
blocked democracy at home. They
will rightly suspect that those who
in peace sought to undermine dem-
ocracy may in time of war seek
to stab it in the back. If reac-
tionary groups try to seize upon
the national crisis of war to carry
out their well-known plans to
abolish democratic rights, disguis-
ed as emergency war measures,
the people will recognize them as
traitors.”

Declaring that he would resign
without hesitation if the charge
of advocating “anti-British” ideas
were true, the popular Ward 5 al-
derman concluded:

“T say without fear of successful
contradiction that the Communists
have contributed more than any
other group to the security and
safeguarding of our city against
Nazi espionage and wrecking, and
the public may continue to depend
upon that most effective safeguard
for I can assure the public that
before we are finished every last
Wazi agent will be where he cannot
do us harm.”

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Decision Reserved In
Doukhobor Case

udgment was reserved Monday by Judge

cation of C. L. McAlpine, KC,
munity

Arrangements Act.

matter for the BC Board of Re-
view, which Mr. Justice D. A. Mac-
donald heads as chairman, to de
cide, whether the organization is
a farmer within terms of the act.
repre-
sented by D. N. Hossie, EC, which
obtained the injunction against the
op-

McAlpine argued that it was ~}

Wational Trust company,

organization and the board,
posed the motion-

Hiossie contended that the Broth-
erhood’s action to gain an adjust-
ment of its debts was taken to de-
feat a $160,000 mortgage foreclos-
ure suit pending before the su-
preme court since May, 1938, said
to be owing on a first mortgage

bond issue of $350,000.
Walter S. Owen,

Ostle Heads

of Universal Brotherhood to set aside an injunction
handed down September 16 by Judge Manson restraining the
organization from seeking penefits under the Farmers’ Creditors’

who had been
asked by Attorney-General Gordon
Wismer to appear for the review
toard, told Judge Fisher he had
received no instructions regarding
the injunction against the board.

Fisher on appli-
on behalf of the Christian Com-

21 on application of union repre—
sentatives in order to allow mem-—
bers who were then out on the
fishing grounds an opportunity to
give evidence against the traps.

Score Jobless
As Mine Closes

OLIVER, BC—With closing of
Fairview Amalgamated mine here
Saturday because funds to carry
on development work are lacking,
25 miners have been thrown out
of work.

Wages paid miners were $4.50 a
day, lowest in the province, hile
muckers were paid $4 a day.

Mountain Copper Mining com-
pany, which had been carrying on
development work under an op-
tion, has ceased operations on the
grounds that no funds are f£orth-

war situation.

coming from England due to the

Britannia’

Bureau

Will Aid

BC Labor

Organization Here
Offers Valuable
Services To Unions

Pacific Coast Labor Bureau,
acting as a general economic
counsel for trade unions, has
opened in the Shelly Building
at 119 West Pender street in
Vancouver.

Primary function of the bureau,
states a press release to the Advo-
eate from John Wigdor, director,
is to serve as technical adviser and
spokesman for unions in negotia-
tions or arbitrations of wages,
hours and working conditions.
Preparation and presentation of
arbitration cases, surveys of par-
ticular industries and detailed fin-
ancial reports on individual cor—
porations will be made available
for unions.

Wage increases from 56 to 83
cents an hour for employees of
Portland “Traction company, and
a survey of the Pacific Northwest
Pulp and Paper company material—
Ly: assisted some 5000 employees
fain wage increases amounting to
$1,000,000 annually are some of the
gains which the bureau in the
United States has rendered organ-
ized labor, states the release.

Vancouver bureau is associated
with the Pacific Coast Labor Bur-
eau with head offices in San Fran-
cisco and branch offices in ILos
Angeles, Portland and Seattle.

The bureau operates in a purely
advisory capacity supplying ex-
pert economic direction and work-
ing” in conjunction with officially
designated officers of the union
it serves.

: Auditing of union accounts and
installing of improved accounting
systems is another feature of the

service offered by the bureau,
which operates On a non-profit
basis.

it is anticipated that fees
for services rendered will pay costs
of operation.

Activities of the bureau, or its
representatives, are subject at all
times to control of unions and all
final decisions are made by the
membership of unions involved.

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Nanaimo UMWA

NANAIMO, BC—Thomas OQOstle,
former vice-president of local 7355,
United Mine Workers of America,
on Sunday was elected president
of the union local, to fill the post
rendered vacant by resignation of
Edward Webb.

Webb was re-elected president of
the UMW =A on June 25 at a general
election of officers, while Ostle
was named vice-president.

Nanaimo has been chosen as
meeting place for all Island locals
later this month, prior to opening
of the legislature.

Sooke Traps

Probe To Resume
NEW WESTMINSTER, BC
Hearings in the Sooke salmon
traps enquiry conducted by Chief
Justice Gordon McG. Sloan, sitting
as a royal commissioner, will be

resumed here next Tuesday, Oct
cber 10.
Gonducting arguments against

licensing and continued operation
of the traps as an unfair and de-
structive method of fishing will be
Pacific Coast Fishermen, Salmon
Purse Seiners and United Fisher—
men’s unions, North island Trol-
lers, Kuyoquot Trollers and Prince
Rupert Trollers cooperative associ-
ations.

Hearings were adjourned July

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