Page 6 THE. WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Wednesday, October 28, 1959 Orvanized labor scapegoat for industrial unrest, CCF = leader claims in talk | As a result of a calculated . 7 campaign of the “vested interests,” organized labor is being made the scapegoat for current industrial unrest, accord- Presenting the case for labor, Mr. Strachan said that some 43 labor organization officials in the United States have been found guilty of some wrong doing, but considering there are some million trade union members in the U.S., he thought the percent- age was extremely small. New assistant ranger at the forest office in Wil- liams Lake is John Jaeger, who came here from Enderby to replace Tom Harvie who went to Green Timbers Ranger School. John started work here recently. Some mayors in Canada have been running into trouble, he said, and news stories from time to time tell us that some bankers abscond with funds entrusted to their care, yet we don’t indis- B R 0 W N | E § criminately condem mayors ot banke' Referring to surveys on var- CORNER Last week our meeting different from a regular one. had an opportunity to “Lend a Hand,” and spent the entire meeting time doing that to the best of our ability. Miss J. McEachern, one of the! bigh cost of automobiles the aver- age wage payment for the manu- facture of one car is $500. He said examination of costs on one |make of washing machine re- tailing at $299 showed that $8.27 went to labor. ious industries, Mr. Strachan was | Said that General Motors is oper- We/ating to eight per cent of the |firm’s production capacity but budgets for a 20 per cent return on investment. He said that al- Public Health Nurses, had phoned to ask if we could make swabs for the forthcoming polio clinic on November 6. Well, none of us had ever before made swabs “for the polio clinic or anything else’ either, but you never know what you can do until you try. The old theory that under a free enterprise system supply and So we made swabs. They areldemand are the factors that maybe a, little different from the| covern sale price is not. true, ones you might have seen before,| according to Mr. Strachan. He but after Miss McEachern saw them she thought they would do the job very well. Incidently we all “scrubbed” before “Operation Swabs” so they are quite clean, and just to make sure, they will be autoclaved or sterilized at the Health Centre before use. We made up a thousand of them that night and will try for another thousand later on. We don’t know how it happened but the names of two Tweenies were omitted from the list of new members to the Pack the other week, and so we should like to announce them now and to ap- says we are now under an admini- strative control economy. An ex- ample of this, he said, is the U.S. steel industry, which records a continuing series ‘of price creases in their product although the cost of sales is down and sales are falling. He attributed this to the fact that four com- panies control the production of steel. in- On the provincial labor front, Mr. Strachan accused the Social Credit government is aligning itself with big business, and cited the controversial Bill 43 an as | ing to CCF leader Bob Strachan, | — | |together labor is blamed for the| of them. In the first place, he said there was no mention made of the fact that unions were liable to obey| the law of the land betore Bill] 13 — and the new statute did not bring industrial peace. | ——— | Teacher supply looks brighter VICTORIA—British Columbia may reaching the end of what it can do in a crash pro- gram to obtain teachers in a hurry, according to P. J. Kitley, provincial co - ordinator of teacher recruitment be “Let's be clear,” annual convention of the B.C. School Trustees’ Association, the term co-ordinator implies no slackening of the efforts of your orgniztion nd others, but} n incresed effort with the most efficient pattern for all con- cerned.” He said the graphs of teacher supply in relation to number of | pupils was “ beginning to curve) in, the right direction.” | Teacher clubs in high schools | have more than proved their he told the value. Of 1,476 members last | year, 400 now were taking arts | programs in college with the| . i | intention of changing to ieacher training later. Mrs. W. E. Ricker of Nanaimo elected president of the association and A. M. Harvey of| Ocean Falls first vice-president. | Education minister Peterson | was elected honorary president] and Dr. W. EB. McKechnie of | Armstrong was chosen honorary was vice-president. He was the) association's first president in| 1904 | The convention urged the! ologize for the oversight. They are Bonnie Blair and Marie Clark! example of its anti-labor feeling. cj, He said the bill was sold to the «| people the premise that it would: prevent racketeering in| the trade union movement; make! trade unions responsible to the| 's\ i Salfi has been a Guide and will; be a great help to us. government to establish earlier | warnin of school zones in areas where the speed limit was icreased to 60 miles an hour. Other resolutions approved asked inclusion of provincial fire marshal regulations in the = law of the land, and settle the aa industrial unrest in the province.|S¢hool building manual and a request that the education Mr. Strachan said he would] qepartment establish a ditter- | NIQUIDET BROS. have been in favor of the bill if/ ential between transportation | it had, in effect, accomplished| grants for land and water travel | GARAGE AND |the three points, but it did none|to schools. | FREIGHT SERVICE |) = MITED rar -