‘ : run@.. LUMBER WORKER @ wi —— ACROSS CANADA — A ROUNDUP OF CANADIAN LABOR NEWS problems of loggers and sawmill workers of British Columbia to the special Ottawa hearing of the National War Labor Board inquiry into labor relations and other matters impairing war ‘production, was decided on at the regular meeting of the Ex- ecutive Board of the B.C. District Council last Wednesday. The brief will include represen- A BRIEF TO BE: PRESENTED IN OTTAWA VANCOUVER, B.C.—Presentation of a brief dealing with? tations urging: Nigel Morgan, International _ Board member, was elected to rep- resent the union before the Board of Inquiry, which is meeting in Ottawa under the chairmanship of Mr, Justice McTague. (1) The enactment of federal labor Jegislation in the form of a Canadian “Wagner Act.” (2) Adjustment of the present phoney cost-of-living index so that it will properly represent and compensate workers for the sharply increased Iving costs. (3) Stabilization of wages and the establishment of incentive pay to increase production. : (4) Appointment of a govern- ment coordinator to work for management and labor in the establishment of production com- mittees so that the goyernment’s urgent war needs will me met. (6) Proposals for a fairer, more equitable system of rationing. e ° e [ = wunmons eaoucron woex")] Boilermakers Negotiate iT D - DATA + WAR PRODUCTION BOARD ta Closed Shop At West Coast s00 A “fight to the finish for closed shop agreements as the only ‘MUNITIONS SHIPS, PLANES, means of preserving harmony in the shipyards,” went into the TANKS, GUNS, AMMUNITION second round late last week after a conference between a ne- 400 a ANGST | || gotiating committee from Boilermakers Union Local No. 1 and rg Officials of West Coast Shipbuild-¢- 00 ers Ltd., and Hamilton Bridge] closed shop” is won. Western Ltd, which ended in a| “AY company maintaining an deadlock, open shop can’t be sincere in its af From Boilermakers Union execu-|*ecosnition of a union when it Geet eet nae tive members came assurances|W0n't agree to make the closed (a that employees in the two com-| Shop legal and binding by its sig- hal panies would carry on the battle/"@ture,” sald Malcolm MacLeod, Sresasen leant sintse U3 until “the most important factor |¥ion business agent. “An open aeesest 1942 © | Jin trade union democracy, the} oP is an open invitation to dis- see harmony in the yard, and so con- Miners’ Union Wins Agreement At Granby PRINCETON, B.C.—Union recognition and the check-off system of dues payments were won last week by more than four hundred hardrock miners and millmen employed by the. Copper Mountain Mining operations of the Granby Consoli- dated near Princeton, B.C. The agreement, announced by Harvey Murphy, International Representative of the Union, is the first union agreement to be signed in the hardrock mining industry in Canada, A joint recommendation of union officials and management, provid- ing for one week's holiday with pay, to the Regional War Labor Board has been made, while the proposed union agreement, of which the local management and the union negotiating committee approves, is going before - the Boeing Workers Win Rest Period Dispute - Members of the Aeronautical Mechanics Union, Lodge 756, poard of directors and union mem- bership for formal ratification. Copper Mountain is the second largest operation of its kind in British Columbia and Mr. Murphy credits the success of the cam- paign partly to the passage of the new Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act amendments. this week won a smashing victory when representatives of the!" union reached an agreement with the Boeing management and the Canadian Pacific Airlines, which was later ratified by the membership, for two rest periods of ten minutes each on all shifts. The agreement between the union and the man- agement provided for smoking periods which will be observed inside all plants, with the excep-@— tion of certain departments where| Periods” is seen as a. face-saving of fire will make it neces-| £¢sture on the part of the govern- eas the workers to go outside,|™ent and the management since Decision to use the term “smoking | thé result.will be the same as or- iginally requested by the workers prior to the six-day lockout of two weeks’ ago, The agreement covers close to nine thousand workers at Vancouver and New Westminster, Hastings Steam Baths 964 EAST HASTINGS ST. - Government Registered Masseurs in Attendance J. WEPSALA, Prop. ORGANIZE B.C. wo Ne and hd IME Rtncricah Steamship Lines|____ LUMBER 100 % 6240 ALWAYS OPEN "Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” ers, Shij Workers, Lab- r re sents at the CAFE Ltd. All Union People Eat St. 301 West Hastings LYF Convention Here Urges Second Front . The first provincial convention of the Labor Youth Federa- tion held in the Géorgia Hotel in Vancouver urged, among other things, the opening of a second front in Europe, and pledged their wholehearted support to supply the necessary materials of war needed to carry out this offensive action. Claiming the morale of workers directly affects production, the conference called upon the government to make some ad- justments to wages, taxation and? things which they felt at present were hindering the war effort. Charging that the present system other of taxation is not scaled to encour- age increased work, the Confer- ence called for steps that would induce men to work longer hours It was stated that under the present sys- without being penalized. tem when a man works a day over- time he is often jumped into a higher taxation bracket with the result that he is working that ex- tra day for a dollar or sometimes less. 2 Inequality of wages for the same type of work, it was pointed out, tends to lower the morale of the workers and causes unnecessary moving from job to: job with a subsequent loss of many man-days per year, On the question of safety, the Conference urged the setting up of safety committees in every plant elected from the workers with pow- er to delegate any machine. or op- eration unsafe and with the pro- vision that no one. would have to work on a machine that had been so declared until it was fixed. ‘The conference also pressed for the establishment of recreational facilities for war workers and urged the LYF to fake steps wher- ever possible fo see that this was provided. ‘The conference also went on rec- ord urging all labor youth groups to set up study classes wherein the Problems of youth could thorough- ly and freely be discussed. It also recommended the setting up of a summer camp where education would be one of the feature at- tractions. At the evening session, Duncan (Russell was re-elected president; Mrs. Margaret Gardin- er, vice-president; and Mrs, Ruth Turner, secretary. It was interesting to note that of the 100-odd delegates who at- tended that almost 50 percent were young women workers from war industries. They led panel discus- sions and took part in heated con- troversies on involved labor ques- tions and were elected to two of the three executive offices. sequently the entire community is affected.” Every day last week union offi- cials speaking from a sound truck at both yards during lunch hours, explained the necessity for closed shop conditions, While future ne- gotiations are unsettled, the union will continue with the organizing drive in both yards where well over 50 percent of the men have joined up. The Boilermakers Union, which a few months ago, under faulty leadership, was one of the weakest unions in the yards, has become one of the best under the leader- ship of the new executive, “In the past month alone, 3,700 new members have joineod up,” Bill Stewart, union president, stat- ed this week,” and the member- ship is growing by leaps and bounds every day.” This week the Boilermakers printed the first issue of their union paper, The Main Deck. More than 13,000 copies will go out to members,’ according to Editor Vic Forster. Seamen’s Union Asking Wage Boost For Members Members of Deepsea and Inland Boatmen’s Union have asked the National War -Labor Board for an increase of $15 per month for seamen, and union officials state that unless action is taken by next Tuesday, the matter will be placed before the Vancouver Labor Council. “The seamen’s union sent @ brief@- to the Regional War Labor Board in November asking for an in- crease in wages for seamen. The amount asked was $15 per month as well as cost-of-living bonus and war bonus,” stated J. M. Smith, union secretary, © “The brief was sent from the lo- cal board to the National War Labor Board in Ottawa in Decem- ber. We received a letter from NWLB saying that the matter did not come under their jurisdiction because the seamen are now re~ cruited from the manning pool, and therefore come under the di- rector of merchant seamen. “We have written two letters to the NWLB asking who has juris- diction in the matter, and we in- tend to press for wage increases. The wages now paid are ridiculous as compared with those paid by U.S. shipping corporations.” Join Your Friends at COURTENAY HOTEL “The Loggers’ Headquarters” G. TATER — PROP. COURTENAY, V.1.