B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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Session Urgent
most eee ee issue for trade unions in B. C.

the eget: ais oe
would coheatnts another long delay in consideration of
labor legislation. a
a

Renter "of

of the day. Thee ai on oH enka ies a
the Te eee is held first.
if he demands an elec-

ers have been sworn and their names entered on the
men who were elected at the last mone election

position by transacting the
wae ae a at in the Tevilatuve: ‘betiie Bee to the
elect

The Prospect

ANOTHER sign post is just ahead for the Canadi
Labor movement. Labor Day, 1952, will be Sslebrated
‘with its” traditional parades and pi icnies.

wal mse ee sox pce from marching on the let

i

“We WAGES @ WORKING

DEL s
Face tcneas
7

Si

eA

s, for Labor Day.
f CCL member have ie forced on the picket lines to
ah ane is thei
mada’s feds si ial peace has been ruffled in the yea
of 1952, In British Columbia
Ww

o

a wage cut rather
than increases niet ute We seeks.
In Montreal, Sim Co. has shown a heart
in strange contrast ie tte Ter eottners of its products
and CCL members there have been engaged in a long and
bitter struggle.
ee Oil Workers’ International Union found it neces-

mee

mines an
on Gnecasneea
food
to e: ematur

LONDON (CPA)—“Fifteen hundred mi pe
f£ the world’s popula alla live in the eae “economically
’America, Africa and Asia.
di

for e meant e Sunstone, Tie live ve
pr

Threat

ople, two-thirds
unde er

e deat

fh ade by.
Bri bor Party declaravion
on a olicy for the world’s under-
iad

sal Copper Refineries Ltd
city, ‘

At Hamitlon, CCL members have been engaged in a
prolonged strike at parerd Stamp and Stencil Co. Also
at Hamilton, United Rubber Workers have been on s strike

in the

Gap Incr
“Every year pie gap See

areas, to be submitted | 2"
ts the aaiel ’s annual Conference | 146,
fi

tel
rich countries and poor countries |

rows wider,” the statement con-
ummary

aouly

at Firestone, spearheading t! their union’s drive for
pension plan in the industry; and Rubber Workers nm
office unit at Bowmanville have been picketing to merely
get a contract.

By the time Labor Day actually : rolls Broun some of |

lions and CON

l—or have reached

a climax. While this was peing wri itten, representatives

of a large group of railway w

table from mai nagement eoaean Gace in
c

Q
3
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8
o
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D
o

S.
mm 'S ago, ammposed after
he railway strike eae falling tae ahr rt of

eeded to catch
thee gone up still more.

A pattern remained to be set in basic steel, despite | t
prolonged Raeorianone by the United Steelworkers of
Ameri

thinking person

oe:
likes them. ae what has pat happening on the Ganasiay Bu

labor front points up Labor’s ngth.
esshed a point where they are ane fe
basis if necessary, to get dustiee i ue wor!)
Ta bor Day, 1952, with mor m on
workers organized, is a far cee ran “tHe eon anal of
4Q years ago. Then there were only 140,000 men and
‘women organized in the country. The Canadian Congress
of Labor has tripled its strength i in the 12 short seats of
its existence, and CCL w

the present fight.

5 this
in een
workers. —Canadian Labor.

ok the Faly ne
itchell is. guile, evidently

what they | it
up with soaring prices. Since then prices eit

ion:
Fight, on e national
ker: Ls

not the

he government
the Vaneouver-Burrard Seite
ry is oe
sae my pinion, ‘Mr. Mitchell
yee in using the B.

Yours trul
P. Clistendens
Local 1-85.

(Editor’s Note ae

‘ion
mions are away out in front in| th:
Cre

sign post is passed, Labor will go on to gain| 2"
and to do an even better job for Canadian | not b
would

CWA SCHOLARSHIP

A $250 scholarship in says: “The locals of the Com-
Canadian University is Batty munication Worker: meri-
financed by three Saskatche- oa are sponsoring this scholar-
wan locals of the Communi hip in order to further the
tion Workers of America, Local eiteatonal atanda aril of our
C-1, nd C-3. The scholai bers and their chil-
ship competition is open to stu- aa en?
de ith senic triculation ‘A is calling the attention
who have a member of ions. a Canada to the
a trade union and whose par- | further information is available

-now reside or former] from the Registrar, University
resided in Saskatchewan. The | of Saskatchewan, ‘toon,
scholarship is tenable the first | Sask., or from Communication
year etter o penior Se iculations Workers | of America, CIO-CCL,

Announcement of the plan ! P.O. Box 247, Regina, Sask.

tention of’ the Government—
George Mitchell,)

in the nde er-' caeral oped areas
threatens a progressive fall in
living standards

ine.
si hel underdeveloped
ee pune could, in the course of
re volution ots pe ace
the Geren lion: wo!
expand both. their output maa
heir pases ee

Abe iples
cracy aa ay rent eed Pa “take
ot in Africa, Asia, South Am:

lands m
shown by deeds as ‘Well as oni

a that the democratic nations

equi
ae pressure oF Fes population | jn:
static 01 inin

recognize their responsibility to
help remove oe
ie to Values
ae ree peoples of the
0 be true to the values
ust

Fa a otic isa but asa 7
of the an tance . «

ane
Bee pares evened
Ly neds investment

alth

aid to eee the ad-
techniques of their

oe investment in basi¢
ent vansport, power and

£0}
vi Neultaral extension
vocational training.
initia and tached aineaeam
i ad on pablig health, will earn no»

his type of investment

can be stimulated by. grants-in-
aid from the more advanced

rapid bat pears

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