B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Five By “High Rigger” @ 3 {Ese POLITICAL PAYOFF "TRADE unions in the United States have found this year that the CIO-PAC pelts pay- off in some States been bet- x than in Washington. é: the State of Washington a w disability compensation scheme was recently made law. In Oregon, accident-compensa- tion benefits were raised about 23%; unemployment benefits were upped from $20 to $25, and ay weeks extended from 20 to The Minnesota accident bene- fits were raised from $27 to $30, and death benefits from $7,500 to $10,000. Strikers were declared eligible unemployment benefits in lorado, at the same time that increase was granted, In Ohio and Idaho, similar gains were made, though pro sion for compensation for. sili- eosis in Ohio was vetoed by the Governor. As improved compensation @:: spread from state to state, inate insurance companies are de- mding a slice of the business. Both the ClO and the AFL are demanding in Massachusetts, that the compensation scheme be taken out of the hands of private com- panies and turned over to a State fund, The unions charge that forty cents ont of every insurance ‘dollar 80¢s into overhead. NFLD. JOBLESS INSURED "THIRTEEN hundred unem- ployed workers in Newfound- land reaped immediate advan- tages from union with Canada. They got their first unemploy- ment insurance cheques to the tune of $19,467. Never before had the Island’s Unemployed been paid while out of work. Under a special arrangement, the Dominion Government waived the Period of employment required un- der the Act before benefits could be daid, This meant that snemployed Persons could secure benefits right away, ipplications for assistance num- bered 2800 in the first month—1300 Bot it, So far, 24,000 employed work- ers have secured this protection on the Island. The strongest union in New- foundland, the Longshoremen’s Protective Union, secured a wage inerease of 8 cents an hour, bringing their basic rate up to $1.20 an hour, for waterfront labor. Longshoremen on fish wharves, however, only got a four-cent boost, giving them 81 cents an hour, VACATIONS WITH PAY ACCORDING to a recent sur-|- vey of Canadian industry by the Federal Department of Labor, ninety-eight per cent of the work- rs get annual vacations with pay, KYLE TAXI DUNCAN 165 STATION STREET Four, 5 and 7-pass. cars AMBULANCE - BUSES Q.C.A. Reservations and Ticket Office 2 Phones: 102 or 103 The most common form of vaca- tion is one week after one year's Services. Thirty per cent are eligible for two weeks after five years’; 20 ber cent for three weeks after 20 to 25 -years employment, Of the ten provinces, all but New- foundland, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick require paid vaca- tions by law. Alberta provides for another week after two years. Saskatche- wan has legislated for two weeks after the first year. The neglected industries are those of a seasonal character employing casual labor. THIRD ANNIVERSARY GATURDAY, June 5, marks the third anniversary of the picket line ‘round the Vancouver Daily Province. Ninety-five life-long ITU employees of that paper were dismissed early in the dis- pute for a closed shop. Since then employees have been imported from all over Canada to take the places of these men. During the dispute the Southam Company obtained one of the most sweep- ing injunctions ever issued in B.C. They dragged their former employees through a $250,000 da- mage suit. Now they hold over the heads of these former em- ployees a $10,000 judgment for damages and $6,000 in costs. The fact that their sales have dropped all over B.C. has not helped the workers, but it has made a dent in the huge profits of the Montreal owners of the Southam Vancouver Daily Province. The ITU is standing firm after three years, and organized labor, CCL and AFL collectively and individually is sup- porting them. Even business men find the South- am attitude hard to understand. Said one Vancouver store executive: “For sheer stupidity I give the Province a prize. How they hope to run a popular newspaper when or- ganized labor is dead against them, is something city businessmen can- not fathom.” Here’s hoping the next year will see a settlement which the ITU maintain could be reached in five minutes of sincere bargain- ing in an atmosphere of good faith, All the men ask is that the Province do business on the fair and honorable basis that has pre- vailed in the printing industry for 100 years. Lochin'’. Around No Strings on- UIC. Benefits for “Newfie” Jobless. Why? Federal Voting June 27th. OUR FUTURE The Vancouver Typo Bulletin, Local 226 ITU, quotes Dr. Brock Chisholm, executive secretary of the World Health Organization, as follows: “There is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are... We are the kind of people who got the world into the mess it is in now... . We have got to admit that these world problems are far more im- portant than our little troubles at home.” "We have got to get that new pattern of thought over to our chil- dren for on their attitude depends the fate o° civilization. We can start now and prolong our culture for succeeding generations, or we can ignore the challenge and condemn the human race to eternal oblivion within a few short, brutally short years.” CLOSED SHOP From the Typo Bulletin comes || a quotation from Tom D. Caverly, | a Montana columnist. Discussing the “closed shop”, Mr. Caverly |} said, “Farmers and ranchers are paying far more for every ser-|| vice and piece of equipment be-|| cause of the’“closed shop” of the lawyers, physicians, dentists and_|| .. . cartel manufacturers than they are because the laborers of the country have banded together to enforce decent living standards | and rates of pay, so they are able || to support their families and buy || the products of the farm.” To the Well-dressed Woodworkers of B, C.! —Many of our friends in the Lumber Industry of B.C. have established a reputation for choos- ing the high-grade, INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED Suit in preference to the mass-produced “Spe- cials”. To these, and to the fellow workers ie may. shortly follow their example, our name w! weirs be Tnked with the HIGHEST POSSIBLE TAILORING STANDARDS IN B.C. 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