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Labor Council

the city aldermen have simply
washed their hands of the ques-
tion,” Robson asserted, “yet they

must be brought into the picture |

if we are to gét any action.”

Robson referred to the “speed
and alacrity” with which the
mayor and council were moving
on the question of disqualifying
war workers from receiving city
relief, comparing that with their
obstructive tactics on housing.
They could move fast enough
when it suited their purpose, he
remarked, urging all council af-
filiates to immediately set up
special housing committees and
get into this important fight.

A charge that some big coni-
tractors were buying up all suit-
able home -sites for speculative
building was levelled by Law-

rence Anderson, Shipwrights,
Joiners and Calkers Industrial
Union.

“Big business is exploiting the
misery of our citizens in order
to squeeze the utmost in profits
from the situation,” he said. “But
they would be unable to get away
with their schemes if the city
council did its duty. We undoubt-
edly have the stodgiest and most
Tory-minded. city government in
the whole of the Dominion, and
its time labor got together and
put this bunch out of office.”

PROTEST UNION BUSTING
The obvious attempt by an anti-

union group to disrupt the Boil-

ermakers Union through expen-

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sive court actions was condemned
in a resolution presented by the
Shipwrights, Joiners and Calkers
Union, which askéd the Labor
Council, the B.C. Federation of
Labor and all CCL local unions
to protest to Attorney-General
Maitland.

“The basis question here is
the right of a trade union to
administer its own affairs and
te discipline a member who
violates a union constitution or
bylaws,” said Delegate Charles
Caron, Boilermakers Union.
“The experience of cur union
is that the whole labor move-
ment must put its foot down
and declare that unions must
have that right without inter-
ference from the courts.”

The resolution was unanimous-
ly endorsed and referred to the
B.C. Federation for further ac-
tion.

SELECTIVE SERVICE ~

Discussion on the proposed
changeover from National Selec-
tive Service to a national em-
ployment service brought an
cGpinion. from delegates that
while there was need for an effi-
cient employment service, the
main question right now was jobs
te keep such employment offices
busy.

“There are some 160,000 serv-
icemen due to receive their dis-

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HAROLD PRITCHETT
Pres. IWA District Council

IWA Protest

Contract Changes

Harold

Pritchett, District
Woodworkers of America, will
leave for Ottawa on July 8 to
protest the decision of the Nation-
al War Labor Board changing
points with reference to holidays
in the Master Agreement recent-
ly concluded, covering the entire
provincial lumber industry.

The points altered by the
Board’s decision cover ‘the sec-
tion dealing with the granting of

charge in B.C., twice as many as
enlisted here,” said Daniel
O’Brien, regional CCL director.
“What we want to hear is a gov-
ernment plan, not only to employ
these men but to keep war work-
ers on employment rolls.”

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The meeting also heard a brief
address by Alex McCauslane,
vice-president of the Canadian
Congress of Labor, who reported

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on the position of the CCL na-
tionally.

Expressing the opinion that
the coming CCL convention
would see the membership pass
the 300,000 mark (the last con-
vention recorded. 250,000) Me-«
Causlane warned that the em-
ployers were beginning to “tough-
en .up” in their attitude toward
the unions right across the
country.

“One speaker here tonight—
Mr. Fergus McKean of the LPP
—has already. voiced that opin-
ion,” McCauslane stated. “I want
to second his remarks and point
cut that in the coming period we
are going to need labor unity
in greater- measure than at any
time in the past,” he concluded
amid applause. ;

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holidays after a year’s employ-
ment, which the Board has chang-
ed in such a manner that it is
subject to interpretation as a
three hundred day qualifying pe-
riod; and the clause granting
cooks and bunk-house employees
two weeks’ holiday or one week
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days. The Board has ruled that
the words “for and during the
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The union contends that the
sense of the clause is altered so
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ene weks’ pay in lieu of holidays
as it is their feeling that this
constitutes a raise in wages, con-
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Harold Pritchett will be ac-
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Native Indian and

fishing industry, moved closer to
settlement as fishermen and
eanners referred their grievances
to the Minister of Fisheries.

The threat of the tie up affect-
ing gill-net and seine fishing be-
came more evident as the union
prepared to declare this type of
fishing unfair if agreement is
not reached by July 1.

A wire sent last week to all
locals informed them of the bal-
lot which called on fishermen to
prepare to stay in harbor. Fail-
ure to negotiate prices by the
beginning of the season resulted
in a tie-up of the industry which
has persisted to the present.

The fishermen have since ac-
cepted prices on sockeye and
cohoe and have rejected prices on
Pink and chum, and have decided
not to fish until the whole dis-
pute is settled. The negotiating
committee has sent a wire to
locals proposing fishing for pinks
and chums for canning purposes
only.

Proposed price list calls for
three cents in the Fraser and
Johnston Strait, two and three-
quarters cents for Skeena and
Northern, and two and one-half
cents for the Queen Charlottes.
The canners’ acceptance of the
proposed price list is contingent
upon approval by. the govern-
ment,

A further decision has been
reached that spring salmon ‘will
be stopped after July 1, and it
has also been announced that gill
net and seine salmon will be
Geclared unfair after July 1 if
no agreement. is reached.

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