THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

November 27, 1940

$20,000 Restitution Won By Midwestern
Wholesale Grocery and Fruit Company
Workers

A consent decree directing payment of
approximately $20,000 in illegally with-
held wages to some 750 employees of a
large wholesale grocery and fruit com-
pany has been signed in the U.S. District
Court at Minneapolis by Judge Robert C.
Bell, according to word received here to-
day by Colonel Philip B, Fleming, Ad-
ministrator of the Wage and Hour Div-
ision, U.S. Department of Labor.

Memphis Cotton Workers Win $4,000

MEMPHIS, Tennessee. — “Thirty-two
Negro workers, employed by the Dixie
Cotton Pickery Company, received a total
of nearly $4,000 in back pay and rein-
statement to their jobs,” stated Harry
Koger, District IV President of the
United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing
and Allied Workers of America.

“These workers were all threatened by
the company about two months ago be-
cause they would not sign a statement
releasing the company from any obliga-
tion to give them back pay, and most of
them were discharged by the company
because they refused to sign.

$8,000 Up
BALTIMORE.—An $8,000 annual pay
boost and wage rates 15 cents an hour
higher than any others paid locally were
won by Local 28 of the CIO Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers at the Hercules
Co, here.

United Shoe Workers’ Union Sign Con-
tract For 5 to 30 Per Cent Wage
Increase

TORONTO, — A contract providing
wage increases ranging from five to 30
per cent was signed last week on behalf
of more than 100 employees of 8. Kap-
lan Shoe Co, Ken Scott, organizer of
Local 157, United Shoe Workers’ Union,
reports, The agreement also provides
for the closed shop. The wage increases
amount to 74% for cutters, 10 to 30%
for top stitchers; 20% for lasters. Provi-
sion is also made for further negotiation
if the cost of living rises. A seniority re-
instatement clause for war service is also
included.

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So Labor Leaders
Are Fifth Columnists”

And so faithful, aggressive labor
Jeaders are “fifth columnists,” that is,
according to some of our contempor-
aries in the newspaper world and big
business interests!

Well, one thing can be said of the
laboring classes and their leaders; they
never made statements like these:

LORD ROTHERMERE: “Great num-
bers of people in England regard Herr
Hitler as an ogre, but I would like to
tell them how I have found him, He is
simple, unaffected, and obviously sin-
cere. He exudes good fellowship. He is
supremely intelligent. . . . Herr Hitler
has a great liking for the English peo-
ple. . . .’—Daily Mail, May, 1938.

SIR HENRY PAGE CROFT, MP.
"I recognize General Franco to be a gal-
lant Christian gentleman, and I believe
his word."—March 23, 1938.

WINSTON CHURCHILL: “I have al-
ways said that if Great Britain were de-
feated in war I hoped we should find a
Hitler to lead us back to our rightful
position among the nations.’—Nov. 11,

1938.

Goodyear Tire Gives $2 Weekly Bonus To
Discourage Union Activity

BOWMANVILLE. — Bonuses ranging
from $1.00 to $2.00 per week were granted
employees of Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Go. here last week following the organi-
zation of a local of the United Rubber
Workers’ Union, Joe MacKenzie, district
representative announced. Organizatioon
of the local has almost reached 100 per
cent and demand for a contract will be
pressed immediately,

Payment of the bonus was also
ordered for New Toronto employees of
Goodyear following the organization of
the Bowmanville local. Activity of the
New Toronto local is reported on the up-
grade since it was realized the bonus was
due to union organization, Company of-
ficials said the bonus could be cancelled
at any time. ‘

Conciliation Board Fixes 74% Wage In-
crease Retroactive To March

TRENTON, N.S.—Empltoyees of Tren-
ton steel plant, members of S.W.O.C.
Lodge 1231, will receive 2 7% per cent
wage increase retroactive to last March
if a supplementary conciliation report
hande@ down last week is accepted. The
employer claimed the increase should not
take effect until July. Drummond Wren,
general secretary of the W.E.A, repre-
sented the union.

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Attention, Loggers!

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personal management of the popu-
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EW CONTRACT

|AFTER YEAR OF PATIENT WORK

SAN FRANCISCO, Ca.—Agreement to
renew the Pacific Coast longshore con-|
tract covering some 11,000 members of
the International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Association, announced
here by Harry Bridges, LL.W.U. presi-,
dent, drew “hearty congratulations at
this splendid accomplishment” from’
President John L. Lewis, who wired his
appreciation to Bridges.

The agreement to renew the contract”
follows over a year of patient negotia-j
tions on the part of the CIO union, during
which the workers had to face constant
attempts to break down their standards.
Stubborn employer insistence on scrap-
ping basic guarantees against speed-up
and continued attempts to break down
union hiring caused the prolonged delay
in renewal. :

Bridges’ announcement of the agree-
ment credited the final victory to Lewis’
influence and aid. Lewis’ wire follows in
full:

“Hearty congratulations on the success-
ful conclusion of negotiations by yourself,
and Longshoremen’s executive commit-
tee, Your message was read at staff
meeting, CIO headquarters, this after-
noon and we are very happy at this splen-
did accomplishment.

“Our executives join me in expressing
our pleasure and fine satisfaction to you
and associate members of your commit-
tee for.such splendid constructive leader-
ship as you have demonstrated by this
accomplishment. We feel the members
of your great union will share this ap-
preciation. We are especially pleased by
your statement that our own influence ,
at this end was helpful.”

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