| Accident United States figures show that sickness and ac- eidents are mainly respon- sible for loss of man hours in war industries and the consequent effect on pro- duction, according to Wil- liam Stewart, delegate to Vancouver Labor Council from the Boilermakers’ and Tronshipbuilders, Local 1. “ Shop stewards on the ) graveyard shift are asking » to have a doctor and nurse dents. If those mjured in facilitated. selves as safety educators. } an urgent need on the night | Stewart Urges in constant attendance at each yard, he said, convinced that this will help to reduce the -number of man hours lost through acci- / were given a doctor’s attention on the spot, recovery in many cases would be greatly Shop stewards have designated them- | educating the men on safety precautions, | they will themselves check on and report unsafe staging and scaffolding, and take 4 responsibility for warning the men about »unsate conditions and having them removed. Stewart stated that adequate lighting is shifts to enable Drive To Cut In Shipyards the men to see overhanging obstacles and to avoid falls. A large proportion of accidents lately are eye injuries, he said. Goggles are difficult _to obtain because of priorities, and one com- pany has an order which has not yet been filled. ei There is an alarming increase in the ac- cident rate in local shipyards, according to Stewart, who believes that a campaign to cut down the number of accidents must be launched immediately. Vancouver Labor Council, in his opinion, could well initiate such a campaign, appealing to the labor. department on the basis of the loss of man hours involved, the Canadian Medical As- sociation, to learn the number of nurses and doctors available for this work, and War- time Merchant Shipping, in order to keep production at its height. Accidents can be prevented, Stewart stressed. There will always be accidents in such work as shipbuilding, but the accident rate can be cut down considerably, and must be, if the welfare of the men and the produc- tion rates of the yards is not to be still further affected. In the interests of the war effort, he said, every possible effort must be made to curb the steadily rising accident rate. Rate Wim. Stewart yard accidents In addition to im Justice Coady’s ruling that [on recognition is a proper point be decided by an arbitration rd, Appeal Court Judges Sloan, flalloran and Wisher overruled ef Justice D. A. McDonald and 3 tice McQuarrie, who would have mwed the company an injunction. )loedel, Stewart and Welch had - viously applied for an injunction pinst the board of arbitration, laring that since the only point fier dispute was union recogni- |, this could not be dealt with }2 board within the meaning of Industrial Conciliation and Ar- pation Act. { want an injunction to restrain board from saying whether or I must sign a union agree- it,” asked Clau@e L. McAlpine, ', appearing for the company. - R. McDougall, who was ap- ated by Labor Minister George son to represent the arbitra- 1 board, declared that “the in- sion of the legislature is clear ¢ union recognition may be an nent of a dispute.’ onsisting of Justice Robertson, irman, R. V. Stuart, company resentative, and Werbert Car- ve, CCF MLA, representing the dloyees, the arbitration board resume hearings on Monday, 7. 30. fajority of employees of Bound- Road shingle mill, are members international Woodworkers of erica, Local 1-217, and a com- tee; consisting of union mem- 5 and officials was elected to Present them in dealing with the aasement. Main point before the Court Dismisses Company Appeal © The dispute involving union recognition between Interna- mal Woodworkers of America and Bloedel, Stewart & Welch *d Band Shingle Company must proceed in the regular man- fr before a government appointed arbitration board, appeal furt judges ruled this week by a majority of three to two. jismissing the company’s appeal© Agreement Concluded Tentative agreement on basic rates has been reached between plant operators and reduction plant W. Gateman, general secretary of the Cannery and Fish Reduction Plant Workers’ Union. = After meeting the approval of the Regional War Labor Board, the agreements will be signed between all operators and the Union. Copies of thie tentative agreement are being mailed to all plants in outly- ing districts. A meeting of union members has ben called for this Thursday, Nov. 26, at which a vote will be taken on the new agreement. An attempt is being made to establish thie new increased rates on a retroactive basis dating back to Noy. 1. Certain catergories have still to be adjusted. The agreement will be in effect until March 15, 1943, with a 30-day clause. “In our opinion, it is a fair wage adjustment,’ Gateman said this | week. “It is the first time we have had such an agreement, and we feel that it is definitely a step for- ward in establishing a uniform scale of wages in the fish canning industry.” Ban Lifted On Sunday Worker OTTAWA, Ont. The Sunday Worker, published in New York, is included in a list issued here of publications formerly banned from Canada which will now be allowed in this country. Other publications on the list include Earl Browder’s “Unity for Peace and Democracy” and “The Meaning of the Soviet- German Non-Aggression Pact” by V. M. Molotov. arbitration board is whether this union committee will be recognized by the company as the bargaininse agency for employees of that mill. Council Will Adjust Pay - Adjustment of basic wage rates for outside civic workers was prem- ised by Mayor Cornett, with as- sent of an aldermanic majority, at @ meeting of the Civie Conciliation Board, to bring wages into line with those paid in Victoria and New Westminster, where, it was stated by Walter Scribbens, busi- ness agent for the Civic Employees’ Federation, 20 to 25 cents per day , more was being paid for the same work. Charges were made by some alder- men that the workers were “putting them on the spot” before an elec- tion, and Ald. John Bennett com- plained, “It is most unfair on the eve of an election to try to intimi- date or stampede aldermen offer- ing themselves for office.” Mayor Cornett assured reprsen- tatives of the employees that the council would take prompt action on the question. : Decision of the board came after a threatened strike of 500 outside civic employees for a higher cost- of-living bonus. Seribbens de- elared that the average outside worker gets only $92 net a month, including a $12 bonus, and asserted that these workers were “being forced to the wall” by higher living (7 DR. W. 8. DENTIST 207 West Hastings Street John Stanton Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Tel. PAc. 1526 16 E. Hastings St. MAr. 5746 costs. CURRY | | 503 Holden Bldg. | t ZF) and cannery workers, according to | Toledano Appeals To French Workers LA PAZ, Bolivia—(ALN).—An appeal to “shake off the Nazi yoke” was radioed by shortwave last weelz to the workers of France and North Africa by Lombardo Toledano, president of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL), who is well known to French workers through his attendance at pre-war European labor conferences as a Mexican delegate. is Ss Branceis our, POND 89 Fy pasa las de Bolivia, and other declared. “Supported by all demo- jeaders of the CSTB, visited the eratic peoples, you must begin fo |minister of the interior, who de- fight now for the reconquest of|¢lared that the government wel- France. Long live Hree France!” |comed Toledano’s visit. He offered : to provide Toledano with police At the same time, Toledano sent = . |}a circular telegram to the thirteen protection against the fascist at- . ey = tacks. This proved unnecessary, Fe OnaG, eee ick ee Since a delegation of workers met and support the Anglo-American in- ee ae een Bis Aus ete vasion of North Africa as the be- 2. ae 38 erie ae wae ginning of a new phase in the fight BUPEVES Eig ONS, to the death against Nazi-fascism.” Aspart of the fight against the Axis, |Toledano said, “Latin American workers must hasten national unity in every country and continental unity against the native fascists.’ Toledano’s visit to Bolivia has been bitterly opposed by two native | fascist groups: Bolivian Falange, headed by Senor B. Puente, and Movement of National Revolution, leaders of which are Professor Vic- tor Paz Estenssoro and CGarlos Montenegro, a lawyer. La Calle, daily newspaper of the MNR, is active in propagating anti- semitism, and has attacked Toleda- no because of his denunciation of all forms of racial discrimination. When fascist groups circulated rumors in la Paz that Toledano would be barred from SBolivia, Aurelio Alcobe, general secretary of the Confederacion Sindical de Suggest Women For Streetears Suggestion that women be em- ployed on city streetcars was made at the last meeting. of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council as an al- ternative to one-man cars proposed by the BCElectric. The company’s claim that it can- not get more two-man /cars was refuted by T. K. Gervin, business agent for the Street Railywaymen’s Union, who said that the same cars now being operated as one-man cars may be converted without dif- ficulty into two-man cars. Delegates suggested that the Street Railwaymen’s Union should be represented on the civic transit committee. Our 1200 Members Extend Greetinigs and Support to The People Shipwrights - Shipjoiners Boatbuilders - Caulkers Roem 30 — iG3 West Hastings Street PAcific 4837 VANCOUVER