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Committees Boost
War Production

WASHINGTON. — Since opening of the drive to establish

labor-management committees

in United States war plants,

huge increases in output have resulted, it is announced by
War Production Drive Headquarters here. More than 3,200,-
000 workers are giving their brain-power to job of “boosting
production through 1,650 such committees.

Unions have led in calling for establishment of these com-
mittees as well as participating in salvage drives; elimination
of waste; speeding up of operations; improvement of produc-
tion; substitution of available materials for scarce items, and
reduction of absenteeism, the report said.

Steelworkers Want
Labor Legislation

The King government was

urged to introduce legislation

establishing labor’s right to collective bargaining and to an-
nounce a definite manpower policy in order to insure maximum
production, by United Steelworkers of America, Local 2821
(American Can), at a meeting of the recently formed Sub
District Committee, comprising units from American Can, Do-

minion Bridge, Pacific Bolt, and

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Teachers Seeking
Salary Increase

North Vancouver city and dis-
trict teachers are asking salary ad-
justments to bring their wages into
line with those paid in other cities
before a three-man commission in
Vancouver.

Contention of A. G. Creelman of
North Vancouver teachers’ salary
committee is that salaries now paid
are below pre-depression levels, and
that there is also considerable dis-

crepancy.
Amounts paid yary according to
the length of time on the staff,

he said, appearing before Judge A.
M. Harper, chairman of the Arbi-
tration Board, Harry Charlesworth,
secretary of B.C. Teachers’ Federa-
tion, and George H. Morden, repre-
senting Worth Vancouver city and
district.

A schedule with automatic in-
crements is being asked by the
teachers, basic minimum rate for
elementary teachers being $1,000
for those with first class certifi-
cates, with a yearly increment of
$75 up to a maximum of $1,750
for first class and $1,850 for B.A.
and special degrees.

For junior high they ask a mini-
mum of $1,200 with a yearly in-
crement to a maximum of $2,600
for men and $2,400 for women, and
for senior high school teachers
$1,300 with an annual increment of
$100 to a maximum of $2,900 for
men and $2,700 for women.

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Burrard Rivet and Forge.

Dissatisfaction was expressed
with administration of National
Selective Service in Vancouver, and
the meeting called for the resigna-
tion of Humphrey Mitchell as min-
ister of labor, with the suggestion
that he be replaced by Elliott M.
Little, former Selective Service head.

Officers elected for the Sub-
District Committee included Mike
Lucas, secretary of Local 2821 as
chairman, and Hugh Douglas of
Local 2655 (Dominion Bridge) as
Secretary.

Representatives of Local 2765 re-
ported one hundred per cent or-
ganization of Burrard Rivet and
Forge and Pacific Bolt, and stated
that an agreement had been signed
between the local and operators.
It was also reported that negodtia-
tions were being conducted between
Western Steel Products, whose em-
ployees are organized into Local
2765, and the union.

Centinued

Shipyards

dated September 10, 1942, shall
be granted to each employee
who has completed one year’s
continuous service with his pres-
ent employer commencing from
or after Ist July, 1942, that is
a Minimum of 300 days of ac-
tual work, the vacation to be
allowed for and during the fol-
lowing twelve months’ service.
For the period from ist July,
1942, to 3ist December, 1942,
inclusive, each employee shall
be considered to have worked
25 days in each full month he
was in the employ of the com-
pany provided that from the
10th to 3ist December there
shall not be more than one day
unauthorized absence.

2. Only the six national holidays,
according to PC 8682, shall be taken
as holidays for which double time
will be paid, if worked, unless other-
wise agreed to by the unions in-
volved.

This agreement shall remain in
force for the duration of the war
or until «the termination of any
existing agreement between the par-
ties whichever shall be the later
date.

Continued

Spruce

around December 10 for one month.

“Two-thirds of the crew wants

to stay on the job and considers

a shutdown entirely unnecessary,”
Madsen wires Nigel Morgan in
Vancouver. “In view of the urg-
ent need for timber, especially

spruce, it is suggested that the
camp stay open or that the men
be transferred so that production
will not drop.”

Should the company
closing the camp down,
added, the crew demanded
bonus and fares’ be paid.

Morgan's wire to Madsen stated

insist on
Madsen
that

|\that the TWA district council “una-

nimously endorses your position and
congratulates you on your efforts
to prevent unnecessary interrup-
tion of production.”

All-Union Committee
To Settle Jurisdiction

Suggestion of Vancouver Labor Council that in the interests
of cooperation between AFL, CCL, and ABWC unions, any
jurisdictional disputes arising be referred to a committee com-
prising representatives of all three bodies was enthusiastically

received at the last meeting
Council.

Frank Carlyle, (Plumbers and
Steamfitters) instanced recent mea-
sures of co-operation between all
unions at West Coast shipyards as
a contributing factor in the fight
for closed shop agreements.
Delegates voted unanimously in
favor of a motion that the president

of the council, with vice-president
and secretary, meet with a like com-
mittee from Vancouver Labor Coun-
cil to study the matter.

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Arbitration
To Proceed

Appeal of SBloedel, Stewart &
Welch Ltd. against Justice Coady’s
refusal to grant an injunction re-
straining arbitration proceedings
will not cause deferment of arbitra-
tion proceedings and hearing of
evidence in the dispute between
the company and its Red Band shin-
gle mill employees.

Despite the company’s appeal to
Ottawa fer a Supreme Court rul-
ing on validity of the arbitration
proceedings, the hearings will pro-
ceed this week.

The company contends that the
dispute is not within the meaning
of the Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Act because arbitration
proceedings were instituted by
Local 1 - 217, International Wood-
workers of America, maintaining
that the Act covers only disputes
between employers and employees.
Its claim has been dismissed by
Justice Coady, and the decision up-
held by the Court of Appeal, giving

leave to appeal to the Supreme
Court of Canada.

Candidate

Again standing for reelection
in Ward One which he had
represented on Surrey muni-
cipal council for the past five

years is Tom Binnie. First
elected in 1938, he was re-
elected in 1939, accorded an
acclamation in 1940 and re-
turned again last year. This
year he is again expected to
be elected by acclamation.

Known throughout the
municipality as a business-
man and for his many war
campaign activities, Binnie is
an ARP warden, chairman of
the Soviet medical aid com-
mittee and is taking a lead-
ing part in the Red Cross
campaign for blood donors.
Efficient organization of Sur-
reys ARP is largely due to
the work he has done both in
and outside the council.

Mohawk Dispute
To Be Arbitrated

NEW WESTMINSTER, B:C.
With employees and management
unable to reach agreement on out-
Standing points in discussions pre-
sided over by James Thompson,
conciliation commissioner appointed
by the provincial labor department,
the dispute between Mohawk Lum-
ber Company here and its em-
ployees, organized in the TWA, will
go to arbitration.

Stating that while a majority of
clauses had been negotiated and
accepted by the men, negotiations
on union recognition, overtime pay
and vacations with pay had broken
down, Harold Pritchett, for the
IWA, said this week that applica-
tion for an arbitration board would
be made immediately.

Absentees |
Must Forfe

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Winnings —
PORT ALBERNI, B.C—_
effective way of combatting |

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senteeism has been devised.
the production committee
up in the Alberni Pacific E
ber Company’s plant here, *

Every month the commi
offers ten priceseof $10 eac
be drawn for by employ |
but if any of the prize-winj-
have poor attendance req
the prizes are forfeited, |

posted on the bulletin boar

“We feel that in doing it
way the man forfeiting |
prize money will feel wi!
than if it went to another wi .
er with a good record of atte;
ance for the month,” is they:
the production committee
presses it.

Committee Electe|
At Fraser Mills

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C-
a meeting of Fraser Mills emplo
in Edison Theatre here last }
day a bargaining committee ten
with Canadian Western Luz
Company was elected by secret
lot

Elected to the committee w
Harold Pritchett, Percy Sz
George Mitchell, Jack Greenall, —
ney Stephens and Miss Eva G
lim. :

A committee elected at an
meeting of employees some Wi
ago was challenged by the ¢
pany, which contended that it ©
not truly representative of —
ployees, nearly all of whom
members of International Wt
workers’ Local 1-217. The w
agreed to call a second mee
to elect a committee by secret”
lot, with official observers in
tendance, to demonstrate tha
has support of the overwheln

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majority of Fraser Mills work

MeKean, Rigby
Banquet Guests

Guests at a dinner given in},
honor by the Scandinavian Wer
Club at Empire Cafe last Fr
were Fergus McKean, now §&
tary of the Communist-Labor 7 |
War Committee here, and
Rigby, now editor of The Fis
man, both of whom were rele
from internment at Hull jail &
weeks ago.

Chairman at the dinner
Henry Mattson and speakers
the Scandinavian Club were

bert Rosenguist and Sid Seak

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