B.C. LUMBER WORKER

2nd Issue, May

iNEWS DIGEST

q Items of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

TLC-CCL Merger Progresses
J OTTAWA — The TLC-CCL unity committee made sufficient
progress at its last meeting to place merger proposals before the
TLC annual convention in Windsor at the end of May. The merger
of the two labor congresses is expected to take place in late 1955 or
early 1956.

UAW Kohler Strike
SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—The strike of 3,000 United Auto Workers
memibers at the Kohler bathroom fixture plant went into its second
year with the union holding firm and boss Henry Kohler refusing to
submit the points in dispute to impartial arbitration.

Unemployment Recruiting Station
OTTAWA—A report from Seven Islands, P.Q., indicated that
army officers were studying the possibility of opening a recruiting
station in the town at the railhead leading to the Iron Ore Com-
pany’s Labrador-Ungava iron ore deposits. A total of 448 job seek-
ers were reported to be looking for work in the small town; the
Iron Ore Co. has jobs for only 50 men.

Pickersgill’s Canadian Babies

OTTAWA—Immigration Minister Pickersgill’s unfavorable com-
parison between immigrant and Canadian babies was raised in Par-
liament by Conservative Leader Drew who asked whether the sharp
drop in immigration within the past few months was a result of the
“new immigration policy”. The Minister stated that he felt that his
comparison, based on the fact that both the immigrant and baby
were equally good people, was true since an immigrant had to learn
how to be a Canadian while a Canadian baby was one already.

Insurance Workers Merging
WASHINGTON — A merger of the AFL and CIO insurance
workers’ unions is progressing with leaders now studying a merger
agreement, constitution and rules for the first convention of the
combined organization. Unions involved are Insurance Agents Inter-
national Union (AFL) and the Insurance Workers of America (CIO).

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UB HUMOR

Deakin Mourned

LONDON (CPA)—The Rt.
Hon. Arthur Deakin, secretary
of the largest union in the
world, died at the age of 64
while addressing a May Day
rally at Leicester. He was a
former president of the 8,000,-
000-member British Trades
Union Congress.

Mr. Deakin succeeded the late
Ernest Bevin as secretary of the
1,200,000-member Transport and
General Workers Union in 1946.
Previously he had been tempor-
ary head of the T@WU when Mr.
Bevin had entered the wartime
coalition Cabinet as Minister of
Labor.

W.F.T.U. President

At the age of 13 Mr. Deakin
started work in a Welsh steel
plant and rose to the top posts
in the British and international
trade union world. He was presi-
dent of the World Federation of
Trade Unions until he felt that
communists were gaining control
of that body and then led the
TUC out of the organization.
Other powerful union groups in
the western world followed his
example and the International
Confederation of Free Trade
Unions was formed.

In 1949 he was awarded the
Companion of Honor and in 1954
he was made a member of the
Privy Council. Mr. Deakin was
to have retired as TGWU head
next November,

Political Trade Unionists
BRUSSELS—The ICFTU announced that 42 of the 467 mem-
bers of the recently elected House of Representatives were trade
Forty-one were Socialist members and one a Labor-

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Coupon Clippers’ Benefits
OTTAWA—CCF Leader Coldwell charged that the 1955 budget
gives “layish” benefits to coupon clippers. He told the House of
Commons that’ a married person with no children receiving his in-
come from Canadian corporation dividends could make $11,133.33
a year without paying one cent of tax while a person earning that
amount would be liable for $1,877.33 in taxes.

Dominion-Provincial Conference

OTTAWA—The Dominion-Provincial conference will be, held in
Ottawa starting October 3, federal and provincial representatives
decided following an agenda meeting here. 'The agenda will include:
federal-proyincial fiscal relations; public investment and natural re-
sources development; establishment of a federal-provincial continu-
ing committee; health and welfare services; and the timing and
scope of any other special conferences.

Union Contract Negotiations
-OTTAWA—Peaceful negotiation of union contracts was the
rule rather than the exception, Labor Minister Gregg declared in
connection with the publication of a Labor Department study on
collective agreements in 1953. The study showed 1,538,323 workers
under agreement—39.7% of the non-agricultural labor force in 1953—
compared with 31.8% in.1939.

UAW Raise Dues
WINDSOR—Dues of the United Auto Workers will be tripled
to a total of $7.50 a month beginning in May. The dues increase,
which is expected to last for three months, was approved by the
UAW convention in order to build up a $25 million strike fund to
back union collective bargaining demands.

Blind Pensions Bill
OTTAWA—A bill to lower the age for receipt of blind pensions
of $40 a month from 20 to 18 years and to raise the permissible
income of pension recipients by $10 a month was introduced in
Parliament.

Publication date of the next issue of the B.C, LUMBER WORKER
is June 9, Deadline for ad copy is June 2nd and for news copy

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International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL)
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MONTREAL (CPA) — A
union president who crossed a

picket line has been dismissed
ere pees agers ae NM Workers of B.C. from office and barred from
PUBLISHAND LHTRD THURSDATS BE | his union for life. Emile Duch-

arme, former president of the
National Syndicate of Linotype
Operators (CCCL), was dis-
missed following, a meeting. of
the syndicate.

In addition to Ducharme’s dis-
missal he was barred from mem-
bership of the syndicate for life
while four other syndicate mem-
bers were fined $500 and refused
membership for five years for

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632,913 Unemployed Canadians

OTTAWA—Unemployment in Canada reached a new post war
high—and only 13,000 below that recorded in the depths of the
depression of the 1930’s—at March 17. NES offices reported a total
of 632,913 Canadians looking for work—63,000 more than a year
earlier. CCL Secretary-Treasurer Donald MacDonald described the
records of unemployment as tragic and called on the federal govern-
ment to institute measures to expand job opportunities.

CCL Summer School
OTTAWA—The CCL summer school will be held at Port Huron,
Mich., between June 26 and July 9 this year. CCL and UAW Edu-
cation Directors Howard Conquergood and William MacDonald will
jointly direct the school.

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