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B.C. LUMBER WORKER -

ist Issue, July

- OTTAWA (CPA) — One of
Canada’s top trade union posts
will likely go to a young
‘French-Canadian when the
and Labor Congress
selects a new President at its
Regina convention in August.
‘The general concensus of opin-
ion among labor observers here
is that 41-year-old Claude Jo-
doin of Montreal will succeed
Perey Bengough as head of the
580,000-member TLC.
Bengough, the 71-year-old
present TLC President, has an-
nounced that he will not seek re-
election at this year’s convention.
He first took over the duties of
Presidency of the Congress in
1942, during an illness of ex-
President, the late Tom Moore,
and has been re-elected to the
post at every convention since
1943.
Geryin a Contender

At present, Jodoin is the only
likely contender who has made

DOR CHANCE

though it is considered probable
that several other candidates
may seek nomination for the in-
fiuential labor post. Chief among
these is R. K. Gervin of Vancou-
ver, a street railway union offi-
cial who was elected TLC Vice-
President at last year’s Ottawa
convention. Gervin is Secretary
of the British Columbia Federa-
tion of Labor and the Vancouver
district. council of the TLC.

When the smoke clears the
contest, will probably bé narrow-
ed down to a choice between
Jodoin and Gervin. Jodoin has
been a Congress Vice-President
for the past five years. He is a
Montreal City Councillor, Presi-
dent of the Montreal Council «
the TLC and an organizer for
the International Ladies’ Gar-
ment Workers’ Union. At one
time he was a Liberal member
of the Quebec Legislature but
broke with the party. He later
ran on a Labor ticket, but was

his intentions clearly known al-

defeated.

Insurance

Frauds

Investigated

OTTAWA (CPA)—U.S. La- |

bor Department officials have
asked Congress for funds to
carry out an investigation of
unemployment compensation
frauds which may have
amounted to more than $20
million, according to the Ca-
nadian Labor Gazette.

Inquiries that have covered
only a few of the 48 States, have
so far uncovered 145,732 cases
of excessive payments for one
reason or another, that involve
$6,682,149. It is estimated that
the total involves for the whole
country, because of adminis-
trative errors or fraudulent
claims, may be as high as $22,-
700,000.

Officials of the US Labor De-

partment report that in 5 States

nearly 40,000 unemployment
compensation claimants obtained
by fraud an average of $75.06
each last year, and a further
106,259 received an average of
$35 in over-payments because of
administrative errors,

Of all unemployment payments
in these states, the officials
state, 4.4% indicated the pres-
ence of fraud while 6.8% showed
laxity in administration and
bookkeeping.

The US unemployment com-

pensation program is based on
federal-State joint contributions,
which are administrated by the
individual States.

Today is Safety Day.

Safety Work Promotes
Team Work.

False Picture
Given Prospects

OTTAWA (CPA) — CCF
Leader M. J. Coldwell warned
in Parliament that every care
should be taken to ensure that
prospective immigrants were
given an accurate impression
of life in Canada. Speaking
during the discussion of the

id that there was
no need to give a false picture
of conditions in this country

world that offered greater op-
portunities,
‘Mr. Coldwell, himself an im-
vant from Devon, England,
| years ago, protested against
th » type of lecture given by an
tion official to an audi-
Croydon, England, re-
“The subject matter of the
‘deceptive and

community in which he lives in
Canada, he will be perfectly all
right.”

There was “no country in the
world” which offered greater op-
portunities to young men or
young women than did Canada,
he added.

Millard ©

name—Saskatchewan Wood En-
terprises—has just been adopted

by the northern crown corpora-
| tion division known formerly as

A i
| the Saskatchewan Rox Factory.

TORONTO (CPA) — Charles; The name of the plant, a divi-
H. Millard, Canadian Director of | sion of Saskatchewan Forest

the United Steelworkers, was| Products, was changed in view|

named CCF candidate for the To-| of the increasing diversity of

ronto riding of York West in the | production by the expanding

next Ontario provincial election, | plant in recent years.

at a nominating convention here.| Originally a producer primar-

The seat is held by Conservative | ily of boxes, Saskatchewan Wood

William EB. Brandon, a barrister, | Enterprises, has over the years
turned out an increasing variety

Mr. Millard, 57, has twice rep-

BOX FACTORY
DIVERSIFIES

PRINCE ALBERT — A new}

of wood products made from
spruce, jack pine and poplar lum-
ber. These have included gran-
aries and other items for farm
use, building materials, and wood
specialties.

The operations of the plant
have expanded to a point where
today it saws and processes into
manufactured goods approxim-
ately 5,000,000 board feet of
lumber annually, Over 70 men
are employed directly by the divi-
sion, while timber producers,
truckers and others benefit in-
directly.

resented the riding in the On-
tario Legislature. He was first
elected from York West at the
general election of 1943 but was
defeated in 1945. At the 1948

Compensation Now

general election he was return-. le
ed to the Legislature but was | Ad ¢ d ] re) t
defeated in 1951. The Steel- jus e fn nt.

workers’ Director contested the |
federal constituency of York!

TORONTO (CPA) —The On-|}

The change was made after

West unsuccessfully during the tario Disabled Persons’ Allow- | consultation with the Federal

August, 1953, general election. | ances Act has been amended in
Bruce Evans, a 31-year-old | order that people also receiving
stationery salesman, has been | allowances under the Workmen’s
nominated by the CCF to contest | Compensation Act will not have
the federal seat of York West | their pensions reduced, Public
which was left vacant by the | Welfare Minister W. A. Goodfel-
death of Conservative Rodney | low stated recently.
Adamson who was killed in an As a result of the amendment,
air crash over Moose Jaw, Sas- | disabled persons will continue to
katchewan, No date has yet been | get the full pension of $40 a
announced for the by-election, | month and anything they receive
but it is believed that it will be | as compensation will be consider-
held some time early in the fall. | ed as income,

Government which recently intro-
duced a Disabled Persons’ Allow-
ances Act incorporating most of
the Ontario Act’s provisions.
Mr. Goodfellow said the On-
tario Government was still hop-
ing Federal authorities will go
all the way in adopting the On-
tario Act. The chief difference
is that the province exempts in-
come up to $1,440 a year while
the Federal regulations allow

| only $1,200.

Garment Workers
Plan Housing

NEW YORK (CPA) —The
first stage in the $20 million
co-operative housing project
planned for New York’s East
River has been completed with
the demolition of 13 acres of
slums. The low-rental home
plan is sponsored by the Inter-
national Ladies’ Garment
Workers’ Union.

Some of the old buildings
which were demolished were 75
years old and the operation in-
volyed relocating 877 residential

| and 154 commercial tenants. As
| soon as demolition was complet-
ed, workmen started to excavate
|for the foundations of the new
buildings.

The new homes are specially
| designed for wage and salary
earners and will not be confined
|to ILGWU members. It is ex-
| pected that at least 100 families,
whose homes were demolished to
| make way for the new buildings,
| will be accommodated in the
| same area upon completion of the
| project.

Convictions for breaches of
traffic regulations have increased
steadily since 1944. In 1952 there
were roughly 1,300,000, nearly
five times as many as eight years
earlier, and they represented 83
versus 63% of all summary: con-
victions. The number per hundred
thousand population was four
times as great as in 1944 at 8,965
versus 2,255.

LAY_OFFS ALARM

TORONTO (CPA) — Lay-offs
at the Massey-Harris implement
works here will likely effect 1000
workers during July, according
to Philip Kearns, President of
The United Auto Workers local.
Indefinite layoffs from July 16
involve 500 employees and the
union president said it is under-
stood that a further 500 would

be laid off towards the end of
July.

Company officials state that
the July 16 layoffs reflected nor-
mal summertime decline in pro-
duction and no decision has been
made about further layoffs. Such
a decision would depend upon
weather conditions and the ex-
tent of wheat rust disease in the

West.

Powers Act Dropped

OTTAWA — The contentious Emergency Powers Act, which
gave the Cabinet sweeping powers in control of the life of Canada
without the need of consulting Parliament first, was dropped when

it expired on May 31.

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Fund Now
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OTTAWA (CPA) —Can-
ada’s unemployment insur-
ance fund stood at $881,278,-
689 at March 31 this year,
Labor Minister Gregg an-
nounced during discussion of
his departmental estimates.
‘This amount was $29,693,525
greater than the total re-
corded one year earlier.

During the fiscal year
1953-1954, a total of $186,-
850,766 was paid out in ben-
efit to some 950,000 claim-
ants.

Total contributions to the
fund during the year were
$190,409,070 of: which the
*government share was $31,-
735,794,

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OTTAWA—There should be some institution, cnet “ prises a PRINTERS AND
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