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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

May 17, 1951

MOSHER RAPS
TRAIL BAN

The Canadian Congress of
Labor said recently that refusal
of the British Columbia Labor
Relations Board to allow a union

resentation vote at the Con-
solidated Mining and Smelting
Company, Trail, B.C., was a
denial of basic democratic rights.

The CCL statement, issued by
President A. R. Mosher, recalled
that for the past 15 months the
United Steelworkers of America,
an affiliate of the CCL and the
CIO, have been attempting to
win for the Trail smelter workers
the right to vote on whether they
are to be represented by the
United Steelworkers, or by the
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
a union which was expelled from
both the CCL and CIO because
its policies were subordinated to
those of the Communist party.

Despite st rong recommenda-
tions for a vote in a recent B.C.
Supreme Court judgment, the
B.C, Labor Relations Board has
flatly refused to allow such a
vote. “It is astounding that the
Board should refuse these
workers the right to make a free
choice,” President Mosher said.

KIRKLAND LAKE MINERS
REJECT MINE-MILL

The mine-mill union has been handed a knock-out blow in
the Canadian gold mining industry. The Kirkland Lake miners,
in a union representation vote, have elected the United Steel-
workers as their bargaining agency.

Prior to the election, District President J. S. Alsbury, IWA,

wired a message to the workers

KRUPP BACK
IN BUSINESS

It was admitted in the House
of Commons recently that repre-
sentatives of the Nazi war-crim-
inal munitions maker, Alfred
Krupp, have approached the Dept.
of Trade and Commerce to find
markets for the Krupp company.

Krupp and other German war
criminals were recently released
from jail in the U.S. zone of Ger-
many and given back their prop-
erty. =

The admission that Krupp’s
were trying to do business in
Canada came from Trade Minis-
ter Howe’s assistant in an answer
to H. W. Herridge of B.C.’s Koot-
enay West riding.

VOTE ON BCHIS

In accordance with the instructions of the IWA B.C. Dis-

trict Council, the record of the vote in the B.C. Legislature
dealing with the trade union Hospital Insurance petition, as it
mepese in the official Votes and Proceedings, is herewith pub-
lished.

“Mr. H. E. Winch moved that the Standing Orders be sus-
pended and the petition be referred to a Committee of the Whole
louse.

“The motion was negatived on the following division.”

Those who voted against the motion (34) were:

Finnerty (C., Simflkameen); Gould (C., Van.-Burrard). Hend-
riekw (C., Nelxon-Crenton); Lundell (C., Revelstoke); Steele (C,
Omineca); MacLean (C. Cariboo); Whisker (C., Cowichan-New-
cantle); Stevenson (C., Van.-Point Grey); Smith (C., Kamloops);
MeRue (C., Prince Rupert); Braden (C., Peace River); MacDougall
(C,, Van.-Point Grey); Welch (C., Comox); McDonell (C., Van.-
Centre); Hope (C,, Delta); King (C., Columbia);
Pearson (Cy Navaimo and The Inlandx); Bowman (C., Fort
George); Kenney (Cy Skeena); Anscomb (C. Oak Bay); Johngon
{Cy New Westminsier); Wixmer (C., Van.-Centre); Stralth (C.,
Victoria); Ritehie (C.
Morrow (C., N. Okanng
bernly Turnbull (C., Rosi
Byrex (GC, Chilliwack);
Dewdney).

Those who yoted for the motion (9) were:

Bennett (Ind., Okanagan); Nimsick (CCF, Cranbrook); Haggen

(CCF, Grand Fork-Greenwood); Calder (CCF, Atitn); Uphill

(Labor, Pernice); Harding (COP, Kaslo-Slocan); Winch, E. ©. (CCF,

Burnaby); Winch, H. B, (CCF, Van. Rant); ‘Turner’ (CCF, Van,
ant).

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won (C. Lillooet); MacDonald (C.

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at the Macassa Mine.

On behalf of the District Coun-
cil Brother Alsbury extended
fraternal greetings, and advised
the Ontario group to vote for the
Steel Union.

“IWA members who now form
the largest trade union in British
Columbia rejected in 1948 a sec-
cessionist plot of which Mine,
Mill and Smelterworkers Union
formed a part, and decided to
remain within the CIO and CCL.

“Since that time our Union has
grown in strength and prestige
and has steadily accomplished im-
provements in wages and working
conditions to an extent not pos-
ible before, when our Union’s ac-
tivities were manipulated for the
political purposes of the group
which caused’ the expulsion of
Mine, Mill from the CIO and
CCL.

“Our experience here prompts

‘Jus to urge that Macassa em-

ployees select the United Steel-
workers as their bargaining
agency, not only because we know
that the miners will gain greater
benefits by such selection, but
also because we will thus be able
to work together with our com-
bined strength in the Canadian
Congress of Labor and the CIO
to secure higher living standards
for all our fellow-workers, and do
it the democratic way.”

“Rich Man’s
Budget”.
Opposed

“These taxes hit hardest
upon those least able to bear
the blow,*asserted M. J. Cold-
well, MP, in the House of Com-
mons during the budget debate
when Opposition Leaders had
their say attacking the “rich
man’s budget” brought down
by the Liberal Government.

hardest at the new 25% sales
tax increase, pointing out that
not only had the Government tax

ness interests” in the absence of
price control have taken advan-
tage of this excuse to increase
their prices-and profits beyond the
actual amount of the tax.

Objectionable Levies

The CCF want - of - confidence
motion regretted “the failure of
the government to exempt from
the proposed 20 percent defence
surtax the incomes of single per-
sons up to $1,500 and the incomes
of married persons up to $3,000.”

The CCF supported the Con-
servative amendment which con-
demned government failure to
halt the rising cost of living.

“I do not agree that we have
to rely on conditions in the U.S.
or have to be governed by what
happens within the borders of
our great neighbor,” Mr. Cold-
well said in renewing the CCF
demand for “a comprehensive
national economic plan and the
immediate institution of price
controls and subsidies.”

“A most objectionable feature
of the tax proposals is the new
levy of 15 percent on domestic
refrigerators, washing machines
and stoves — except those de-
signed for the burning of coal
and wood . .. I wonder what per-
centage of the houses that have
been built in this city over the
past number of years have chim-
neys so situated that the pipes
of a coal or wood stove could be
connected to them? Those estab-
lishing new homes are given a
very severe knock indeed by the
minister’s budget.”

Turning to those whom Mr,
Abbott had'treated “tenderly” in
the budget, the corporations, Mr.
Coldwell said they are “enjoying
unprecedented prosperity and

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