B.C. LUMBER WORKER

2nd Issue, November

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people and the CCL suggested
this could be attsined by higher
‘wages, reduced working hours
with maintained take-home pay,
increased unemployment insur-
ance benefits, increased old age
pensions and family allowances,
tax revisions, extended public
works, promotion of more ex-
ports, increased farm purchasing
power, additional and to other
countries, and special measures
to help depressed industries and
areas. .

Any forthcoming tax reduc-
tions should not be limited to
business, as had been suggested
in a recent Ottawa report. “Such
cuts would go mainly to people
who save and invest,” the brief
said. “That means they would
go to add more plant and equip-
ment to the $22,000,000,000 worth
we have put up since the war.

We are having difficulties find-
ing markets for what our exist-
ing plant can produce, Some of
it is already idle. What we need
is not more plant. That will only
make matters worse. What we
need is more markets for what

WILLIAM MAHONEY, tistas
workers, is now in Geneva at the

convention.

the existing plant can produce,
The simple and obvious way to
provide more internal markets is
to cut sales and excise taxes and
raise income tax exemptions.”
The CCL proposed that basic
income tax exemptions be in-
ereased from $1,000 to $1,500 for
single persons and from $2,000
to $3,000 for married persons. It
also proposed drastic reduction
of the sales tax and elimination
of the sales and excise taxes on
necessities, with exemption on all
medical servi nd a removal of
the $60 limitation on the 2 per

of the ILO. He is shown here (right) with George Home, secretary-
treasurer of the B.C.. Federation of Labor, on. platform at CCL

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cent Old Age Security Fund tax.
Compulsory Arbitration
Scored -
The brief had strong criticism
for the government in its action
in imposing compulsory arbitra-
tion on Canadian railway work-
ers.

The CCL said: “The Con-
gress, in common with all or-
ganized Labour in Canada, has.
been watching, with interest
and misgiving, the develop-
ments that have been: taking
place in connection with the
efforts of the non-operating
unions of the railways to nego-
tiate revisions in their collec-
tive agreements during the
past year, culminating in the
action of the Government—for
the second time in four years
—in interfering with and pre-
yenting the railway workers
from exercising their right to
go on strike—a ‘right which
they have for many years held
in common with other Cana-
dian workers. This dangerous
interference with ithe tradi-

tional freedom of industrial

t ever Director of the Steel-
Tron and Steel Committee meeting

workers has grave implications
and potentialities not only for
railway employees, but for all
other Canadian workers who
are seeking to improve or
maintain standards of wages
and working conditions.
International Aid
Considerable attention was de-
voted to international affairs
with the CCL commending the
government for its initiative at
the present session of the United
Nations on disarmament. On the
other hand, the Canadian record
of contributions to other coun-

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tries in the form of economic as-
sistance was described as “wholly
inadequate”. The CCL asked that
the practice of consultation with
various organizations on interna-
tional affairs, now followed-in the
United States, be adopted in this
country, and that the labour at-
tache service be extended. The
memorandum also urged the de
facto recognition of the Govern-
ment of China and Canadian
pressure for its admission to the
United Nations.

“We believe the United Na-
tions must act as a forum to re-
concile world differences,” the
labour group said. “It cannot do
so if major nations are excluded
from membership.”

While the Congress supported
the general principle of Govern-
ment immigration policy, that the
number and types of immigrants
should be governed: by the coun-
try’s capacity to absorb them, it
cautioned that this was a time
for “utmost prudence” in. im-
migration, Concern was express-
ed at sections of the Immigration
Act which gave “sweeping and

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other sections which left the way
open for racial discrimination.
Unemployment Insurance
Ten specific changes were pro-
posed in unemployment insurance
to extend the coverage to persons
now excluded and to increase
benefits. A request was made for
adequate consultation with vari-
ous interested bodies before pro-
posed amendments are made.
Collective Bargaining
The establishment of ‘industrial

councils to bring together repre-
sentatives of labour, manage-
ment, and the government, to
study the problems of particular
industries, was proposed, and the
memorandum renewed a request
for a national labour code to
overcome the variations now ex-
isting in provincial legislation.
Such a code should include pro-
vision for the voluntary check-
off of union dues, as had been
recommended by two parliament-
ary committees,

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