B.C. LUMBER WORKER and Issue, March

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Items of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

NO ACTION FOR JOBLESS
OTTAWA — With 524,000 Canadians looking for jobs at mid-|

January, opposition speakers attacked the government for its lack |
of action. A Conservative motion called for a committee of enquiry
to study and report on the situation was defeated by 129-68

CHECK-OFF BARRED

OTTAWA — The voluntary revocable check-off for employees
under federal labor jurisdiction was demanded when CCFer Stanley

- Knowles once more introduced a private member’s bill. Knowles |
said employers checked-off bonds, income tax and donations already. |
Opposition Leader George Drew talked the measure out. }

NEW-STYLE LOBBYING a ore

OTTAWA — New style lobbying was seen here when 120 UAW
members came to present their plan for full employment to Parlia- |
ment. The unionists split up into groups of two and tagged indi. i
vidual MPs while UAW leaders met with Cabinet Ministers. The plan ;
called for a public works program, a full employment conference ,

and other measures. |
i7’S NO CRIME

OTTAWA — Opposition MPs protested a section of the Criminal
Code under revision dealing with vagrancy. It would allow prosecu- |
tion of a2 man whose sole ‘crime’ was unemployment, they said.
‘The section will be rewritten.

TOO HIGH, SAYS LABOR |

OTTAWA — Representatives of Canada’s three labor congresses

criticized proposed housing legislation as inadequate when they

. apeared before the Commons Banking and Commerce committee. |
‘The TLC, CCL and CCCL all criticized high interest rates on mort. |

gages and decision of CMHC to vacate the lending field. |

GENUINE
‘DRY-BAK’

ASK FOR IT BY NAME
AT YOUR COMMISSARY
OR LEADING STORES ~

The treatment by which canvas is made
water repellent to produce ‘DRY-BAK’’
is a development and exclusive process of
Jones Tent & Awning Ltd., and is entirely
processed in our own plant. You should,
therefore, look for the name ‘“‘DRY-BAK”’
on every garment as your guarantee of .
obtaining the finest water repellent can-

vas clothing obtainable. Ask for it with

- or without interlining.

HUB HUMOR

! ONE IN TEN JOBLESS

OTTAWA — Labor Department announced that 523,600 applica-
tions for employment were filed at National Employment Service
Offices on January 21. This amounted to nearly one in every ten
members of the total labor force.

ONLY FOUR DEMOCRATIC

OTTAWA — CCL International Affairs Director Levinson, return-
ing from the ICETU Inter-American Region meeting, stated only
four of 21 Latin American practice democratic methods. He
stressed difficulties of the ICFTU affiliate in organizing the workers.
In some countries it is outlawed while there is also opposition from
Peron’s puppet union organization ATLAS and the Communist-
dominated CTAL, he said.

OTTAWA—In 1945 the Lib-
eral government issued a white
paper outlining plans for post
war employment, housing, pub-
lic works and other develop-
ments, Recently, Finance Min-
ister Abbott’s parliamentary
assistant, Jean Lesage, told a

Quebec that the government
had similar plans ready now.

meeting of the Reform Club in |

IT NEVER EXISTED

|nipeg North Centre) anxious to
| see these plans, asked the Prime
Minister if the white paper, or
other document, containing such
plans would be tabled in the
| Commons. This would have made
|the document available to the
| public.

Prime Minister St, Laurent re-
plied: “There is no such white

Stanley Knowles (CCF, Win-! paper.”
EQUAL PAY CHECKED
TORONTO — One hundred and four complaints of discrimination
under Ontario’s Equal Pay Act were filed between Jan. 1, 1952 and
Feb. 16, 1954, Premier Frost told CCFer T. D. Thomas. Sixty-six
cases were dealt with, 38 were under investigation and 52 with-
drawn, said Frost.

DEWAR GETS JOB
OTTAWA — Agriculture Minister Gardiner told the Commons
that Austin E. Dewar,.former Liberal member for Qu’Appelle, Sask.
was now a federal employee at a salary of $3,300 a year. Dewar
resigned his seat in April, 1953 following alleged cheque ‘kiting’
deals with contractor Harvey Lunam.

EQUAL PAY BILL
OTTAWA — Education rather than legislation was the most
effective way to introduce the principle of equal pay for women,
Labor Minister Gregg said in Parliament. Ellen Fairclough (C.
Hamilton West) introduced an ‘Equal Pay’ bill.

NO PENSION BOOST
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Abbott refused to consider a boost
in federal pensions fo civil servants and CNR ex-employees some
of whom are drawing under $20 a month. The pensioners should
haye made some private provision when they were in employment,
the Minister told Stanley Knowles (CCF Winnipeg North Center)
who raised the matter.

- POPULATION UP

OTTAWA — Stanley Knowles told Parliament that the rate of
handling divorce cases from Quebec and the Maritimes during the
present session had been one every 1% sconds. Two hundred and
fifty-three diyorce bills had been dealt with by the Commons in six
minutes, he said.

“PUT DOWN THAT CHAIR, CACTUS!”

Our FREE CREDIT PLAN is like
Cactus here, it’s a powerful
lever when you want to buy
things and are short of ready
cosh, You pay nothing extra
for credit ot THE HUB — it’s
elways FREE.

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Money Orders!

When you want to send money by mail,
use Canadian Bank of Commerce money
orders: You can buy them at any Com-

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can be mailed safely — can be casked
readily. Be safe when mailing mony.
Use Canadian Bank of Commerce Morey
Orders.

LUMBER
PAYROLL
DROPS

OTTAWA (CPA) — Can:
labor income passed the bil
dollar level for the first time in
September, increasing by $19,-
000,000 to an estimated $1,202,-
000,000 the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics reports. This was $81,-
000,000 or nine percent above last
year’s September estimate,

Total for the first three quar-
ters of 1953 was $8,6000,000,000, a
gain of $757,000,000 or more than
nine percent over the same nine
months of 1952.

Only the primary industries
group showed a drop in total
payroll in the first nine months
of 1953 as compared with last
year, the three percent decline
resulting from lower activity in
forestry.

Publication date of the next issue of the B.C, LUMBER WORKER
is April Ist. Deadline for dd copy is March 25th and for news copy
March 26th.

BC Luwser'

Representing the Organised Loggers axed Mull Workers of B.C.
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