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A ROUNDUP OF CANADIAN LABOR NEWS

TORONTO, Ont—Collective bargaining in Ontario is man-

datory by an Act passed by the Legislature and signed by the
Lieutenant-Governor this week. The united forces of labor
won what they have been seeking for at least a decade. Pas-
sage of the bill represented a defeat for reactionary forces who
launched a last-minute campaign of newspaper advertising and

misrepresentation.
Company unions are outlawed in

the legislation, which will operate
as soon as a judge of the Supreme
court of Ontario is named to head
a labor court provided in the Act.
Excluded as bargaining agencies
are “any such union or associa-
tion the administration manage-
ment or policy of which is domi-
nated, coerced or improperly in-
fluenced by the employer in any
manner whether by way of finan-
cial aid or otherwise.’

‘The Act will be administered by
the Labor Court and unions de-

siring negotiations must apply to
the court for certification, The
court is empowered to arrange for
elections by secret ballot, and to
order reinstatement of workers
with back pay for unlawful dis-
charge, to levy penalties against
employers and otherwise to re-
strain violations of the Act.

Although labor urged substitu-
tion of the one-man labor court
by a three-man labor board, it was
generally agreed that an outstand-
ing victory had been won in the
passage of the bill.

Seven More Fatalities
Bring Death Toll To 25

‘The death toll in B.C, lumber in-
dustry this week rose to 25 with

seven more

killed,
Two rigging

men, Bob Col- | woodworken
lins of Cumbot- | rave been
land and Cress- | jallea in B.0’s
well of Dand-}  jumber in-
wich, were in- | Qustry since
stantly killed at | gan, 1, 1948

Comox Logging
Camp last Tuesday, May 4, 1948.
Collins and Cresswell, who were
sitting on the brow log with B. Orr
and R, Carwithen, who were also
injured and narrowly escaped
death, were hit by a sapling when
a log slid out of the pile as a trip
of logs was being brought in and
struck a capling lying on the
ground causing it to whip around
and hit the men. Carwithen was
thrown clear across the track by.
the impact, Cresswell, who was
getting on. in years, leaves several
grandchildren, while Collins leaves
a wife and one child,

John Voikin of the Blk River
Logging Company Limited was in-
stantly killed on April 17, when he
was crushed by a log at the Island
camp.

Mike Herkle, 20-year-old boom
tender for the Frank Beban Lum:
ber Company, is believed to have
drowned when he fell from a boom
of logs at Brechin, two miles north
of Nanaimo on May 4. He was last
seen alive at 2 p.m, when he was
litending to his duties on the
boom, At 4 p.m. when William Wil~

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gress, logging truck driver, arrived
with a load of logs, Herkle had
disappeaered. His peavey was also
missing. The hat of the missing
man found floating in the water.

Raymond Legault, 25-year-old
member of IWA Local 1-80, lost
his life at Camp 6, Youbou, on May
11, 1943, Legault went to the boom-
ing grounds and was rolling a
log to the amusement of the boys
there. He lost his footing and fell
into the water, Evey attempt was
made to revive him after he was
rescued from the water, but to
no avail. He leaves his parents, a
brother and sister to mourn his
passing.

Joesph Lezeto, 27-year-old em-
ployee of the Jones Creek Log-
ging Company, was crushed to
death by rolling logs on May 14.
A coroner's jury declared his
death accidental. Lezeto, a native
of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, had
been employed by the Jones Creek
Company a month,

John McInnis, 32-year-old logger
of Spuzzum, also lost his life in

a fatal logging accident
month,

John Inglis
|Empire’s Largest
WINDSOR, Ont. — The CIO
News last week was glad to add
the fact that the United Steelwork-
ers of America victory of the pre-
ceeding week at the John Inglis
Ordnance plant was won at the
largest factory in Canada.
Although the actual vote was
smaller than that at the Ford plant
in Canada, as it was a purely vol-
untary poll, the Inglis firm is the
largest industrial plant in Can-
ada and the largest small arms
producer in the United Nations,

at

First LYF Provincial

Convention Here May 23

The first provincial convention of the Labor Youth Fed-

from each

vonmin
etn edted oe

at some food
group...every day!

eration will be held on May 22

Poratons AND ornan
‘Vaonrastes AND FRUITS

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U.S. GOVERNMENT CHART

/N ADDITION 70 THE BASIC 7...
EAT ANY OTHER FOODS YOU WANT

Courtenay Ration Board
Requests Extra Allowance

The following letter was dis-
patched to the Ration Admini-
stration recently by the Courte-
nay Ration Board, signed,
amongst others, by His Worship
Mayor Ingster of Courtenay.

Ration Administration
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Montreal, Que.

Dear Sir—Your recent letter ad-
vising us that no additional allow-
ances would be granted to the
Loggers and Miners, has been
brought .to the attention of the
members of the local Ration Board
here, with the result that once
again we appeal to your board to

thisreconsider their decision on this

matter.

We appreciate your position in
endeavoring to operate one set of
regulations that could be fair to
all, but we submit this cannot
be done as there is no common
denominator that will fit’the hard
manual worker and the city dwel-
ler.

For example many of our work-
ers here are away from home for
twelve hours a day in order to do
an eight-hour day's work. This
means that a workman has to have
at least one extra meal and when
we add to this the most gruelling
exposures to snow and sleet all
through the winter, and again a
semi-tropical sun in summer it

will be easily seen that the heavy
worker is getting the hard end
with a vegeance,

In order that the available sup-
ply should not be disturbed it was
felt that a slight reduction could
well be arranged to fit the white
collared or non-manual worker,
and transfer to the logger-miner
and other industrial workers who
are bearing the burden.

In emphasizing our point it must
be borne in mind that the workers
who live in the city can and do
augment their butter by purchas-
ing meals at a cafeteria or res-
taurant, and later on will be able
to do the same thing when meat
is rationed, such conveniences are
not in operation either in the mines
or the woods.

The ration as set put is excel-
lent in theory but woefully inade-
quate in practice, the person who
sits at a desk all day, cannot in
fairness be in the same category
as a miner or logger and certainly
should not require the same sus-
tenance as one who has to use
his muscular effort*for a living.

The difficulties of apportioning
any change in rationing are ap-
preciated, but they are not insur-
mountable. That special considera-
tion for some occupations is real-
ized to be a necessity, The Ration
Board has made an extra allow-

ance of tea for the soft coal min-

and 23 at the Hotel Georgia in

%Vancouver. Delegates from

labor groups, farm organiza-

tions and student clubs as well
as Labor Youth Federation Clubs

from various parts of the province
will be in attendance. Preceding
the convention on Saturday, May
22, a dance will be held in the
Aztec Ballroom where a drawing
will be held for a $50.00 Victory
Bond. The convention which will
convene on Sunday morning at
10 o'clock is dedicated to the de~
feat of the greatest enemy of free
people, Fascism. The official slo-
gan adopted by the Federation is
“Fight for your Freedom Now.”
Following the former opening, dis-
cussions will centre around the
three main phases of the work
conducted by the Federation,
namely, education, labor and war
work.

Jessie Storie, co-editor of the
Canadian Youth Magazine, “New
Advance,” will be in Vancouver
to address the convention. Miss
Stofrie is at present on a coast-to-
coast meet-the-people tour and
what she has to say should be in-
teresting to all who attend.

In a press release issued this
week the LYF states: “Today,
youth must realize that the out-
come of the war against Hitler will
decide the future of the world.
Because of our belief in the fu-
ture we will fight to death to
wipe out the menace of Fascism,”
All interested youth are invited to
attend the convention proceedings
and -dance.

ers, something of the same setup
should be arranged for butter and
also for meat when that commod-
ity is rationed.

In conclusion, it is only fair to
point out that this idea was
brought forward by an office
worker and not by an industrial
worker, It was unanimously ap-
proved by all members present at
our meeting, therefore, in submit-
ting this suggestion to you we
sincerely trust that you will en-
deavor to carry it through to com-
pletion.

Yours very truly,
COURTENAY RATION
BOARD.

ORGANIZE B.C.
LUMBER 100%

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