4 B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page 9 President Fadling said applica- tion for the wage raise is being prepared for presentation to the Wage Stabilization Board at the earliest opportunity. “We have no doubt that the wage increase will be approved,” he said, “as it falls within the 10 percent limit ‘on such increases.” He pointed out that the Union had negotiated a health and wel- fare program and three paid holidays in its 1950 negotiations which will not count against the 10 percent allowable increase. When approved, the new scale nges from $1.55 to $1.62%4 inimum wage, according to areas, plus six holidays, vaca- tions with pay and the health and welfare program amounting to 7% cents for between 55,000 and 60,000 woodworkers of the IWA-Clo, The rival AFL organization in the Northwest teeming lumber industry accepted a wage in- crease in 1950 instead of the health and welfare program and paid holidays, Early this year they again ac- cepted a 7% cents wage raise, but are now faced with the prob- lem of obtaining approval of this increase which totals consider- ably more than the allowable 10 percent, ee THE 340 GROUPS that filed reports for 1950 (in the United States) spent a record-breaking $10,803,204 on lobbying in 1950. The business groups outspent labor by more than 8 to 1. Big- gest spender, as last year, was the American Medical Associa- tion, with $1,326,078, almost all for fighting national health in- surance. Next came the anti- 12% ¢ Cent Wage Boost Loggers, plywood and millworkers in the Pacific Ni three more paid holidays—making six in the agreement industry-wide negotiations just concluded by the Internati Union’s president, J. E. Fadling, announced this week. orthwest will receive a 12¥,-cent wage boost, it, and improved vacation clause, as a result of ional Woodworkers of America, CIO, the labor Committee for Constitu- tional Government with $921,540. Business groups in all spent $4,331,603 and labor unions spent $518,413, as 4 RULING on the IWA Health and Welfare program as to whether it was within the federal laws and the Washington State statutes was handed down by Judge John E. Murray on April 27, 1951. It was immediately hailed as a great victory for the Union. The Timber Operators Association sought a declaratory judgment and an injunction to prevent payments of 7%4 cents per hour by employees to be de- ducted from his pay and paid into the John Hancock Life In- surance Company as payment for group insurance, The Timber Operators Associa- tion turned to the courts in an attempt to nullify the health and welfare clause of the agreement signed by that Association on May 13, 1960. ets UNITED LABOR POLICY Committee after a long confer- ence with President Truman, re- cently decided to join a top-level defense advisory board. The hope has been expressed that this action will lead to a settlement of differences with the various government mobiliza- tion agencies. The ULPC withdrew its repre- sentatives from these groups earlier, complaining that the in- terests of labor were ignored. Statement of the Committee was: “The United Labor Policy Committee has agreed unani- mously to serve on the Presi- dent’s National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy. “We understand the Board is to serve in an advisory capacity to the President. We are hope- ful that this will be the first.step toward resolving the differences between labor and the mobiliza- tion agencies. “In responding to the Presi- dent’s invitation, we were moved by a desire to render the greatest possible service to the defense program, “By our service on the Board, we hopt to achieve the equality of sacrifice which the present emergency requires from all Americans.” ar “BUSINESS WEEK” admits in its April 14 issue that union shop provisions of the Taft- Hartley Act have backfired. It says the high vote for union shops has given union negotiators a club, but that writers of the act conceived the provisions as a move against union security. +e MARCH COST-OF-LIVING in- dex in the U.S. rose at its slowest pace in months. At 184.5, it was only a half-point above February, but it was 10 points above last September, a movement which brought a nine-cent hourly in- crease to 75,000 General Electric Co. workers. ee CIO PRESIDENT Philip Mur- yay congratulated President Tru- man for firing Gen. MacArthur, The President was lauded by ADA, AVC, Amvets and many liberal leaders. MacArthur was fired from four Far Eastern posts for making foreign policy state- ments after being ordered not to and for advocating moves dis- approved by the U.S. and UN. The latter hope to confine the Korean conflict and force a local victory. They think MacArthur’s ideas would mean immediate all- out world war. Coast to coast, one of Canada’s finest LondonDry Gins at a popular price. SILVER FIZZ Jody SN advertisement is not published or by the Liquor Control Board or ° it of British Colum MAY DAY ICETU CALLS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION Call to all workers in the Western democracies to mobilize in a IN SHINGLE number of other categories. STANDBY TIME for all piece- workers is also a major demand and when a reasonable settle- ment has been reached on this question we will have overcome one of the most long-standing grievances existing in the indus- try. Strange as it may seem the shingle business has suddenly taken a turn for thé worse or at least that is the story from the operators. For 25 years that I can remember shingle operators have been losing money on every square of shingles produced. Maybe its the high turnover and low overhead that has kept them in business, ee ® ATTENDED the Quarterly Council Meetings and noted the expeditious manner in which Council business was handled. This, no doubt, is a reflection of the preparatory work done by our new District Officers. The delegation of specific re- sponsibilities to sub-committees of the District Board is achiev- ing real results in dealing with the many district problems that arise, * oe * HAVE BEEN BUSY with the proposed plywood revision and in company with Stu Hodgson have visited all the plywood operations in the District, met with Plant Committees and have had a couple of rather abortive meet- ings with FIR. This has involved a tremen- dous amount of paper work and gathering of statistics and if projected meetings with FIR next week do not produce more tan- gible results, could be that we In Seranton, Pa., a coal miner got the support of 90 of his brother union members and forced the company to pay for the cost of a new set of false teeth which were stolen from his coat pocket by a mine-rat while he was at work, - GLARING. INEQUALITIES INDUSTRY By TOM MacKENZIE Category revisions are the order of the day throughout the District. Particular attention is being given at this time to certain - glaring inequalities that. exist in the shingle industry. Demands are being made both on a District and Local level for the establishment of an entirely new wage pattern covering deck crews and sawing and packing. A limited revision has also been asked for covering a will have to explore other ways and means “of skinning the cat”. te - WAS PRESENT at the Van- couver Labor Council meeting last Tuesday and heard a report from the steering committee set up to further our protest on the BCHIS steal. Plans are in hand for another meeting to be held in the AFL Labor Temple early in June, and for the printing and distribution of posters setting out the voting record of Provincial M.L.A.’s. 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In Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas our regional organizations —already established or in process of formation—are working cease- lessly to translate our economic and social demands into action, backed up by the whole weight of our powerful world-wide movement. ‘Each for all, and all for each'—that time-honored trade union principle is now being applied on a really international scale. "Workers of all lands, workers in field and factory, in mine and office, in trade and transport! Join us in our mighty movement to abolish poverty and hunger, ignorance and disease, privilege and ex- ploitation. PEACE — FREEDOM — SOCIAL JUSTICE "These are our goals. Yet astride the road that leads to each stands the ugly spectre of dictatorship. Defeat Aggression "Trade unionists of the world! You have the power to maintain peace and to defeat the aggressors. Stand four-square by the United Nations, Away with the shameless fraud of the Stockholm Appeal and other cominform manoeuvres, which seek to paralyze the defen- sive will of the democracies in face of the aggressive plans of Soviet Imperialism. “Back up our demands for the early conclusion of peace treaties with Austria, Germany and Japan; for the immediate release of all prisoners of war still detained by Soviet Russia and the satellites in defiance of written pledges and elementary human rights. Secure Peace "We declare, however, that peace will never finally be secured until the peoples condemned to silence in the dictatorship countries regain control over their own destinies, “Workers of all lands! Support us in our fight for democracy and the right of self-determination for all the peoples of the world. 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