June 4, 1953

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

UNION’S NOMINEE

“ciliation Board,

| British Columbia was recalled by

“ROBERT SMEAL, CBRE official named by the [WA as member on Con-

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to Local 1-357 IWA in appreciation

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ident J. Stewart Alsbury on behalf of the Women’s Auxiliary

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is service to the Union. (Left) Mrs. Rae Eddie, Mrs. Margaret Nash-
nik, Rae Eddie, Mrs. Stewart Alsbury, J. Stewart Alsbury, Andy Smith, Mrs. Andy Smith.

An. amusing incident in the
history of trade unionism in

H. W. Herridge (CCF Kootenay
West) in the House of Commons
recently, ¢

Around the turn of the ceh-
tury there was considerable la- |
bor-management strife in the
| mining industry of’ British Co-
| lumbia which had ied to frequent
strikes.

During one strike, Herridge
said, the Union Hall at Silverton, |
B.C., and the office of manage-
ment were on the same party

Foreign Language
“So that the management
would not know what the miners |
were intending to do from to |

IT WAS TERRIFYING

day, they got two Scotsmen from
Cape Breton who spoke Gaelic,
one on one end of the phone and
one on the other; and for a period
of over a month all conversations
were carried on in Gaelic, much
to the consternation of the mine-
owners and the management.
Troops Requested

“In fact the management was
under the impression that for-
eigners had taken control of the
camp and as a result they asked
the government of British Co:
lumbia to send in thé troops.”

Only as a result of the efforts
of the late Senator Green, at that

-}-time MLA-for the Slocan district,

was the government restrained

| from sending in troops to break

up the strike, Herridge com-
mented.

| ‘MENACE’ DEBUNKED

It looks as though there is 2
split in management ranks over| some prominent figures in the|
a storm in a cup of coffee. Sev-| construction industry, have bold-

jin British Columbia, including’ |

eral weeks ago the Canadian |
Construction Association pointed
a stern finger at cups of coffee
and said the practice of a coffee
break was “a menace to in-

dustry.”
Now some management people |

ly declared themselves in favor
of the coffee break. They say it

results in workers going back to
work with new vim and vigor;
which is just the argument labor

has always presented.,

"WHAT — HE TRIED T0 SELL
YOU, A SULT THAT. DIDN'T FIT.

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YOURS WITH EASY CREDIT”

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