12

B.C. LUMBER WORKE

NEWS DIGEST ||
Items of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

New. Unemployment High

The Only
GENUINE

WA—A
the ansiouncement of 169,182 job-seckers registered a
was up 206,900 over the Dec.
january 21, 1954 lotal. CCL

Seen totals Saat seach a reveal high ‘of well over 600,000
by March,
Motion “Talked Out”

tance Act
talked ‘out in the Commons by Agri
Campbell (CCF The Battlefords) inieoeed the motion and ieee

day farm costs
Technicians Awarded Increase
OTTAWA—Radio technicians at two Quebec City stations,
CHRC ant ORGY, were awarded 10% wage increases retroactive to
October 1, last. The 42 employees, members of NABET, also re
h 1

Angus MacInnis Leet

VANCOUVER: ngus MacInnis (CCF
Vancouver-Kingsway received the 1955 Garnet a Sedgewick Award
of the University of British Columbia branch of the candid Civil

i work in the field of civil liberties. MacInnis’

fight: for easly of Orientals in B.C, and the repeal of Section 98 of
1 Code

ie treatment by whi

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anadian Sickness Surve:
or Canadians suffer fro:
permanent rt ably, with, 423,000 cases classified as Beevers
r total, the Canadia Survey revealed.
i = Denied Agency
OTTAWATAn en ting to help find em-
ployment on the St.
email for
organi

” practices, Labor Minister Gregg an-

“improve
tional Recruiting Agency, charges

, Internat
AW. Strike Averted
minute settlement of the contract. dispute
and the UAW called off a threatened
ic wag
number of other
Predicted Soon

up pensions; and a
Merge
MONTRAEL—President Claude Jod

loin of the TLC predicted of a

a merger of the two major labor congresses, the TLC and the CCL, | union in cases where it is estab-
ian Club here. | lished that union leaders adhere

a communist party or move-

Family Allowance Mot
OTTAWA—A proposal that the purchasing power of the family
alue when first

‘CCF

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TO CANCEL |:

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vides for

EFUSED

D.B.S. Notes

Trayel: Canadian travellers for only 32% of all families.
‘Spent a record $365,000, WD = Milk sales rose 4% to 1,603,
million en 000 quarts jaa year, cae

IONTRE. ‘AL (CPA)—A pe-

e de-

in other peas last year, Bie wale to slightly ny the half a
more than the all-time peak of| pint per ca] peared Gani

$302,000, yo spent by foreign vis-
itors in Cana

day

with
Families: 1, 139, 000 or Bae haat Tinea at

er
cation received under Tae
ince’s Bill
he Bill,
eislature edtlier
deserts

ie Quebec
is ee pro-

ment,

Union

alae n Argue (|
ey Argue said that the value of the $5 allowance had fallen
by $1.78 between 1945 and 1954. Health Minister Martin, o; opposing
the motion, said Canada had the me st alloy owranices in the world and

upon the ae

sufficient burden x
tio

The Petition was made to the
‘lumbing and H Heating Con-

ipefitters (AFL-TLC). It was

Payroll Deduction Approve di
YORK—AFL Millinery Workers have agreed to a scheme
for a 21, payroll deduction to be used for a publicity ‘eampatea to
rath i the Hat,

Cap and Millinery announced.
picnics Charges

tt the unemploy-

A) x Gregg denie fed. tha
following publica-

ars
OTTAW. ir Mini
ment situation wad eterforated eer a year eal
wing Jani

earlier, he said, this

r
wep joolcants totalling 569,000. Al- Ga
ar

the end of the seven-week strike
involving 4,000 Montreal plumb-
rs wh re seeking a 25-cent
¢ Corporation
c men involved
were attempting. to prolong the
strike
med in the Corporation’s
petition were Sam Bailey, Alex
th Louis Rodrigue and Li

t

was due to the larger labor ae A Groce was answering sharp

opposition’ attacks on the failure of the Government to take cifective
against rising unemployment.

rats rejecting the des certification
ti

Publication date of the next issue of the B.C. LUMBER WORKER
is ae Tth. Deadline for ad copy is March 31st and for news copy,
April Ist.

fea SHEE a Ronn as ling:
an p inquiry into the alleged com-

BC Lome

tt the MBE lis
PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY ON ‘Time FIRST
BS Intewnatlonal Woodworkers of chee a CCL)

international Woodworkers of America
aa G. District Gaal SS
DISTRICT OFFI

rexiden Toe Mori
Tot Vie ne Gray

2nd Vice-President

fey

tM on

Fred Pieber
‘George H. Mitchell
. Walter F, Allen

3rd Vice-President
. Secretary-Treasui
International Boar«
nia a eeaens ions

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