B.C. LUMBER WORKER

August 6, 1953

_ Appeal has been made by the
United Packinghouse Workers
of America, CIO-CCL, to trade
unionists in British Columbia
for support of strike action
taken against Savage Shoe Co.,
Preston, Ont.

Attention is directed by the
UPWA to the fact that the Sav-
age Shoe Co. is one of the largest
manufacturers in Canada of
. children’s shoes. This employer

has successfully followed the

policy of eliminating competitors,
and is now in the top bracket of

Canada’s millionaires. His pro-

duct may be identified by the

trade mark “By Savage”.
Negotiations Rejected
The UPWA has been egotiat-
ing for an agreement with this
firm for two years. A Concilia-
tion Board brought down an
award proposing a wage increase
of five cents, 8 statutory holidays,
and compulsory check-off. The

‘AGE SHOES
RIKE-BOUND

Company has refused to nego-
tiate with the Union.

Strike action was taken on May
26th, involving 400 employees.
Police-supported action, with the
cooperation of an unfriendly City
Council, has attempted to break
the picket line during the past
12 weeks. Almost three times a
day, the police have moved in on
the pickets.

The present wages in the plant
are as low as 55 cents for females
and 70 cents per hour for males.

The UPWA has established
picket lines against the com-
pany’s products around retail
stores in Toronto, Hamilton,
Brantford, Winnipeg and Saska-
toon.

The appeal to trade unionists
is that they should inform local
shoe retailers of the situation and
ask for cooperation in sending
protests to the Savage Shoe
Company.

CIO Condemns
McCarthyism

BRANTFORD (CPA)— U.S.
Senator Joseph McCarthy has
set himself to destroy the very
freedoms that made him pos-
sible, according to Brendan
Sexton, UAW-CIO Education
Director, who spoke recently at
a banquet sesslon of the sec-
ond annual Fair Employment
Practices Conference of the
Ontario Federation of Labor
(CCL).

Deseribing the junior senator
from Wisconsin as “either crim-
inally insane or traitorously
treacherous,” Mr. Sexton viewed
McCarthy as a major threat to
the unity of all countries outside
the Iron Curtain.

The speaker warned, however,
against jumping to the conclusion
that McCarthy represented the
majority opinion in the United
States, Gallup polls, he said, had
reyealed that less than 50 per-
cent of Americans had any opin-
ion whatever about the contro-
versial senator.

If free citizens of other coun-
tries turn against the U.S. be-

cause of McCarthy, he will be
able to back up his argument
that the United States owes
nothing to other countries and
can “go it alone in the world”,
Mr. Sexton explained.

Labor's Part

Gordon Milling, conference di-
rector and executive secretary of
thie Toronto Joint Labor Commit-
tee to Combat Racial Intolerance,
spoke during the final sessions
on “the first responsibility of the
unions” in bringing instances of
discrimination to the attention of
the proper authorities.

Pointing out that legislation
does not automatically eliminate
discrimination, Mr. Milling men-
tioned cases that indicated that
discrimination at the hiring gate
and on the job was still practised
by some firms. “The Ontario
Fair Employment Practices Act
is not worth the paper it was
printed on,” he asserted, “unless
those who know about this dis-
crimination report it under the
procedure laid down in the Act.”

CO-OPS HAVE
HALF BILLION

NEW DELHI — The co-op-
erative movement in India has
a membership nearly as great
as the population of Canada.
Its working capital totals
nearly half a billion dollars.

Started in 1904, the co-ops
are mostly consumer societies
although they also include
some producer groups: The
producer co-ops handle such
things as handicrafts, the pro-
duets of the village industries,
fertilizer and seed.

TAKE TIME
TO VOTE

OTTAWA (CPA)—All Can-
ada’s workers will be entitled
to three hours’ time off from
their employment to cast their
ballot in the general election
on August 10,

Under the Canada Elections

| Act, every employee is entitled
to three consecutive hours off
while the polls are open with-
out any reduction in pay.
Hours of voting on August
10 are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
| standard time (9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Students of 25 years ago would
not be able to pass the require-
ments of today’s schools.

CCL MEET
SEPT. 14-18

OTTAWA (CPA) — The
Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal,
will be the site of the 13th
convention of the Canadian
Congress of Labor from Sep-
tember 14-18.

CCL officials are expecting
an all-time high number of
delegates which will probably
top the 1,000 mark and set a
new record for a Canadian la-
bor convention.

Walter Reuther, President of
the Congress of Industrial Or-
ganizations and the United
Automobile Workers, will be
one of the main convention
speakers.

LABOR
FORCE
GROWS

OTTAWA (CPA) —The large
influx of students and the expan-
sion in seasonal jobs boosted the
total labor force to 5,387,000 in
the week ended June 20, com-
pared with the total of 5,321,000
a month earlier.

Despite the large number of
summer jobs, however, the De-
partment of Labor reports that
applications on hand for employ-
ment as June 18 stood at 179,281.
This represents a decrease of
62,700 in the number of applica-
tions on file at May 14.

All regions shared in the fall
of applicants during the month
with the Quebec region showing
the greatest drop. Quebec still
had the largest number of appli-
cants for work with a total of
68,051. The Ontario region had
48,150 applications on file, the
Atlantic region, 25,877, the Pa-
cific region 23,139 and the Prairie
region 19,064,

REVERSION

Mrs. Gabfest was complaining
to her neighbor: “My husband is
such a flirt, I just can’t trust him
anywhere.”

“Never mind, my dear,” her
friend consoled her, “he’s prob-
ably just reverting to type.”

“You're wrong,” said Mrs. G.,

grimly, “he’s reverting to
typists.”

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UP COFFEE SALES

OTTAWA — Although there
has been a considerable in-
crease in the price of coffee,
Canadians today drink nearly.
twice as much coffee now as
they did before World War Il,
according to “Foreign Trade”,
a publication of the Depart-
ment of Trade and Commerce.

The average yearly consump-
tion of coffee today is about seven
pounds per person compared with
8% pounds each before the war.
Nevertheless we are still way
behind our neighbors in the U.S.
in our coffee drinking. In 1945-
1949 when Canadians averaged
a consumption of 5.6 pounds per
person, south of the border it
was being used at the rate of
19.4 pounds per person. Yet in
the first half of this century im-
ports of coffee have increased
25-fold. In 1900, Canada import-
ed 3.8 million pounds of raw cof-
fee at a cost of $405,443, In

1952, imports reached nearly 98 -

million pounds for a value of
$50.1 million.

Import Changes

The pattern of imports of the
green coffee beans (most of it is
roasted and blended here) has
changed considerably since the
days before World War II. In
1952 more than 71 million pounds
of the total imports of 98 million
pounds came from Brazil and
Colombia, yet in 1938 British
West Africa supplied Canada
with more coffee than both the
other countries combined.

Wartime difficulties of supply
were mainly the cause of the
swing away from Commonwealth
markets to the Latin American
market, but the Trade and Com-
merce Department notes that the
British are working to regain
some part of their former mar-
ket.

“Trade, Not Aid”

WASHINGTON— Memories
of the Anglo-U.S. dispute on
the “trade not aid” question
were revived in Washington
this week when revised bids
for the installation of four
generators for the Chief Joseph
Dam, near Seattle, Wash., were
received.

There had been considerable
trans-Atlantic discord when the
U.S. government ‘had re-opened
the bids for the contract after a
British company, English Elec-
trie Co., had made a tender $932,~
000 below the nearest U.S. price
quoted even though customs
ties had to be paid on British
machinery and equipment. The
lowest U.S, contractor bid $7,-
170,000 against the British bid
of $5,556,000.

Slashed Estimate

Westinghouse Corporation of
Pittsburgh has now slashed its
first estimate to $4,300,000
against the British company's
bid of nearly $4,400,000, and
seems likely to be awarded the
contract.

Labor, newspaper of the U.S.
railroad brotherhoods, comment-
ing on the trend of events, poses
the question of whether Westing-
house and other companies have
been regularly submitting exorbi-
tant bids and getting away with
it. The paper notes that “only
the prod of British competition”
has made them quote a more
reasonable price.

“Has that florist any chil-
dxen?”,

“Two. A girl who is a budding
genius and a son who is a bloom-
ing idiot.”

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Went walking one day with his
sister,
‘A cow at one poke
Tossed her into an oak
Before the old genteman missed
her.
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“Does this package belong to
you? The name is obliterated.”

“Can’t be mine. My name is
Smith.”

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