THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

October 23, 1940

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WAGE INCREASES RANGING UP
TO 50% WON BY RETAIL
EMPLOYEES’ UNION,

TORONTO, Ont—Signing of an
egreement with Bassin’s Food Markets
providing for wage increases ranging up
to 50 percent, and one week’s holidays
with pay for 60 employees, members of
the Canadian Retail Employees Union,
was announced this week by Tom Mac-
Lachlan, representative of the Canadian
Congress of Labor. The new agreement
provides seniority, a closed shop and the
check-off and similar hours to those pre-
vailing in the Dominion Stores contract
signed by the union,

MINERS’ BASIC PAY INCREASED
%5e DAILY AFTER NEGOTIATIONS.
JOGGINS, N.S.—Coal miners employed
by the Standard Coal Co. here have
been given an increase of 75¢ per day in
their basic rate of pay, Silby Barrett,
International Board member, UMW, an-
nounced. The rate was increased from
$4.25 to $5.00 daily, following consulta-
tions with mine operators, Barrett said.

GM. WORKERS GIVEN
#OBS BACK.

ST. CATHERINES.—With the appint-
ment of a conciliation board promised
at an early date by the federal depart-
ment of labor, nearly 60 employees of
McKinnon Industries, 2 GM subsidiary,
returned to work last week, Interna-
tional Representative Robert Stacey,
UAW, announced. The men returned to
work on the same basis as when they
were locked out by the company, Stacey
sald. Jos. Bench, local lawyer, has been
named by Local 199, UAW, to represent
the men, The men asked payment r
overtime similar to that paid other em-
ployees.

IWA COLLECTS $12,000
¥OR MEMBERS.

PORTLAND, Ore—Good news for
Local 9-102 men was announced this
week by their atorney, Ben Anderson.
Cheeks for the unemployment compen-
sation awarded them in a recent court
decision will be in his office for dis-
tribution about October 21, he has in-
formed the Timber Worker.

The checks will total approximately
$12,000 and about 85 men will receive
them. The compensation wis awarded
for the 16 weeks period following date
of the last lock-out at the Portland
Plylock plant, June 25, 1939.

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Our Pay a Buck a Day

=/[WA GAINS IN
CANADA NOTED

ABERDEEN, Wash.—Declaring that
"the lessons we can learn from our
brothers and sisters in Canada are
many, International Vice-President O.
M. Orton said.

IWA gains in British Columbia were
enumerated by Orton in his report. The
establishment of an industrial ~ union
council and the role played by the IWA
in forming the powerful Canadian Labor
Congress, an amalgamation of the CIO
and the All Canadian Congress of Labor,
were instances to which he referred.
Orton stressed the fact that these ac-
complishments took on an added im-
portance since they were made by a
labor movement whose government is
at war and has as a consequence im-
posed stringent regulations which have
curtailed the rights of the Canadian peo-

BULLCOOK SAYS:

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And so the chatter rattles on

As forth and back the sounds are waft.
J. P. is pro, Guy B. is con.

The rank and file think both are daft.

Oh, would some fairy, elf or gnome

Come down—or up and “move” their
Imell

When passed and blackjack rapped on }
dome;

Amendment pass “do cast to hell.”

The session now a smooth affair
With each entitled to remark.

No more would we tear out our hair;
Just like a stroll in Stanley Park.

Arrangements are under way to hold
cur inaugural convention about the
date of the 5th Annual Loggers’ Ball
(Dec, 27th). All eligible persons apply
to this column. (This column has noth-
ing to do with the 5th. This is the 1st.)
“Until the bullcooks hold the destiny
of the nation and the world in general
in the hollow of their hand.” (Confu-
cius.)
“The economic power wielded by the
pulleooks of this continent and particu-
larly on the west coast is a factor to be
feared by Wall and several other
streets.” (N. ¥, Times.)
So “chins up.”
“There'll always be a bullcook.” (My-
self.)

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PRITCHETT SPEAKS
TO SMELTERMEN

At the invitation of Trail Local 480 of
the International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers, President Harold
Pritchett of the IWA addressed a meet-
ing of smeltermen Oct. 18 at Trail.

Before speaking to the mass meeting
which was held in the Oddfellows Hall,
Bro. Pritchett sat in at the business
meet of the Local. He expressed amaze-
ment at the enthusiasm shown in the
Local and spoke of the healthy type of
organization that exists in Trail, being
a credit to those at the helm. Such a
union will inevitably rise to become one
of the very important chains in the
organizing of the province. He also re-
marked on the general feeling of dis-
repute that exists towards the com-
pany’s stooges in this company town.

In addressing the Trail workers, Prit-
chett reminded them “most of those in-
dustrial barons who thought that they
could stand against the CIO and re-
fused to bargain have been brought into
line, and today in almost all of the
large industries the workers have con-
tracts that have raised their wages and
improved their conditions. Henry Ford

overlord who still has refused to recog-
nze that the CIO is here to stay and
that the wishes of the workers have to
be considered to allow that degree of
democracy in Industry that many em-
ployers try to remain aloof from.”

OTTAWA.—Due to the heavy burden
imposed by the war, income taxes have
been in many instances up by three and
four times, Taxes are being paid now
by over one million people who never
paid a direct tax before to the Federal
treasury.

Complaints are pouring
sides about the new tax on cigarette
paper. Everyone wants to know who Is
getting that extra two cents on each
package, which is unaccounted for, but
is not due to the official tax.

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