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pending an impartial study
competent commission.
Embodied in a message

worker, vacations with pay, elim-
ination of piece work, union shop
and union hiring . . . consistent with
concessions granted other large
sections of the lumber industry.”
The proposal came at the end of
a week punctuated by the follow-
ing developments:
.—In special meetings, every striking
Jocal in the Twin-Districts over-
whelmingly approved the action of

the. May-26 Olympia - Conference} ~~

unanimously rejecting the mediation
Proposal that the strike end on the|
employers’ terms,

2.—The Lumbermen’s Industrial Rela-
tions Committee ducked an invitation
from the International to resume ne-
gotiations for a settlement of the
strike.

%3.—The Mediation Board Iaunched a bar-
rage of back-to-work wires, playing
upon war hysterla to stampede the
membership into breaking their

en strike, The woodworkers held fast.

4.—As the mediation board called union
representatives to Washington for
another meeting Tuesday, June 3, the
IWA made its proposal that em-
Ployers grant the workers’ demands
as a basis for settlement of the strike,
pending an impartial study by a com-
petent commission.

Im response to the Board's call for the

June 3 meeting, the Twin-District Nego-

tlating Committee delegated Interna-

tional President Orton and Karly Larsen
to fly to Washington. They took the

Saturday night plane east from Seattle.

‘ The week was marked by splendid

; N solidarity on the part of the member-

‘ship in fighting off the intense strike-

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Five-To-Two

of the entire question by a

sent by International Presi-

dent O. M. Orton to Chairman Clarence A. Dykstra of the
Mediation Board, the IWA offered a settlement upon the
conditions that: ‘. . . the employers shall grant an hourly
increase of 7} cents on the current base rate for every

IWA-CIO President Orton
Sent To Washington, D.C.

——

FIND WAR PROFITABLE

OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada’s family of
millionaires increased by 26 last year, a
report filed in the House of Commons
recently showed. THE INFORMATION
REVEALED THAT THE NUMBER OF
PERSONS WITH ANNUAL INCOMES
of $50,000 OR MORE HAD INCREASED
FROM 457 TO 483, On this basis there
was a millionaire for every 24,000 per
capital in Canada compared to one for
every 13,000 in the United States.

Because the report just submitted con-
cerned incomes received in 1939 and re-
ported in 1940, the hot-house blooming of
individuals who entered the charmed
circle last year as a direct or indirect re-
sult of “all out” war production will not
emerge in concrete figures until very
late this year,

Further evidence that a greater part
of the national income is reaching the
hands of a small group of capitalists was
indicated in other income-tax returns.
Thé number of persons receiving from
$10,000 to $25,000 yearly jumped in 1940
returns from 7,278 to 9,901. The number
of $25,000 to $50,000 incomes climbed
from 1,395 to 1,433,

Fined Under Forest Act

DUNCAN.—F, Crucil was fined $25
and costs for failure to provide the
necessary fire-fighting equipment on his
logging operation when he appeared be-
fore Magistrate G. Tisdall here recently.

CIO Wins $500 Million Raises
In 1941; $50 Million From G:M.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Wage increases
of nearly $500,000,000 annually have been
won by the CIO so far this year, accord-
ing to unofficial estimates this week.

The current issue of Economic Out-
look, monthly publication of the economic
division of the Congress of Industrial Or-
ganizations, estimated the wage increases
won by the CIO at $380,000,000 for the
first four mohths of this year,

This estimate was made before Gen-
eral Motors granted a 10-cent hourly,
$50,000,000 increase to the United Auto
Workers’ Union. Other raises since then
included one by Ford on the eve of an
NLRB. election in his giant Detroit
plants.

Profits continued to show large in-
creases over 1940, the Outlook explained.
The increase was estimated at 17.5 per
cent over the similar period last year,

Profit increases, computed in terms
of profits per dollar of shipment, “greatly
outstripped the increases in payroll per
dollar of shipment,” and “during the
periods compared the payroll figures
dropped in all but one case, and that
was durable goods whose increase was
a reflection of heavy armament manu-

facture,” the Outlook reported,

“In addition, wage increases are al-
ready threatened by encroachments on
several fronts,” the Outlook pointed out.
“Pwo of the most important ones are
the rising cost of living and increased
consumer taxation.”

Prize Winners. For
I.L.C. Dance Announced

Winning tickets for the Tombolo
Prizes at the recent Island Labor Coun-
cil dance, held in Victoria, Nanaimo,
Lake Cowichan, and other Vancouver
Island centres, were:

First, 1851; second, 2522; third, 984;
fourth, 2812; fifth, 3016; sixth, 888.

Strike Off at Steel Plant;
Arbitration Commenced

‘The strike in the plant of the Canadian
John Wood Ltd, ended after twenty-four
hours, when the 70 employees returned
to work pending a hearing before a pro-
vineial arbitration board,

KE LOG VOTES ‘STRIKE’ FOR DEMANDS

Nashington I!WA-CIO Standing Firm
ginal Fir-Belt Proposals

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__ SEATTLE, Wash.— (Censored by Dailies).—The In-|26 NEW MILLIONAIRES
ternational Woodworkers of America on Saturday pro-
_ posed to the National Defense Mediation Board an im-
mediate resumption of work on the basis of the fir-belt

demands in the Twin-Districts of Western Washington,

Committee
Reports

Co. Stalling

ROUNDS, B.C.—Negotiations for a
new agreement between International
Woodworkers of America, Local 1-80,
and the Lake Logging Co, Ltd. and the
Crofton Export Co, commenced last
week, Another wage increase of ap-
proximately 50 cents per day and seven
clauses of last year’s agreement were
conceded, but. on the four major de-
mands of the union, which include a
union agreement, seniority rights, leave
of absence rights and the closed shop,
the companies’ representatives re-
mained adamant.

On Thursday after hearing a report
from the Negotiating Committee:

(2) The company notified of desire to
reconvene negotiations, The following
action was taken:

(2) A resolution authorizing strike ac-
tion was ordered for secret referendum
ballot of the membership.

(3) A Ballotting Committee established
to take charge of the vote.

(4) “A Policy" Committee of five mem-
bers from the main camp at Rounds and
one from each other section of the opera-
tion, together with the Local and Dis-
trict officers, established to devise ways
and means for enforcement of demands.

(5) A Camp Bulletin established to
keep the membership informed on de-
velopments and to rally the support, fin-
ancial and moral, of other camps.

The resolution voted on by the mem-
bership read as follows:

WHEREAS the management are
stalling on all four major demands of
their employees;

AND WHEREAS these demands are
basic revisions which have been granted
by many other employers in this prov-
ince, and we are determined to achieve
the same degree of recognition;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
that we request our Negotiating Com-
mittee to contact the company’s rep-
resentative, with a view to immedi-
ately reopening negotiations to explore
fully every possible avenue of arriving
at an amicable and just settlement;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that in the event no further progress

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Over 100,000 Unionists
Demand Repeal Of
Wage-Pegging Order

TORONTO, Ont.—Toronto Dis-
trict Trades and Labor Council,
AFL, is the latest union body to
condemn Order-in-Council 7440,
approved by the National Labor
Supply Council, which freezes
wages to sub-standard levels.
Representatives of unions and
labor bodies comprising more
than 100,000 Canadian unionists
have now demanded that the leg-
islation be repealed.