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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

ist Issue, August :

Items of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

CORRECTION

The report appearing in the News Digest on Page 12 of the
‘second issue in July of the B.C. Lumber Worker, which an-
jounced plans of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store

"Union to organize Simpsons-Sears employees in Regina, was

incorrect.
Simpsons-Sears employees are being organized by members

| of the Department Store Organizing Committee, CCL, Local
| 1004. The B.C. Lumber Worker regrets this error.

. Wage Cuts No Answer
TORONTO — The Textile Workers Union of America (CIO-

CCL) stated that wage cuts were not the answer to the problems

of the full fashioned hosiery industry, in reply to a Holeproof
Hosiery Co. demand that its 250 plant workers at London, Ont.,
accept wage cuts of 25 to 60 cents‘an hour. The company’s atti-
tude, said TWUA, was one of negative and depression thinking
which would lead to decreased purchasing power.

“Down Payment’ Made
‘WASHINGTON—The United Steelworkers and the United Auto
Workers, the two largest CIO unions, gave a grant of $10,000
described as “merely a down payment” to the Textile Workers
(CIO) whose 15,000 New England members were striking in pro-
test at company*proposed wage cuts.

Court Upheld Board
REGINA—The Saskatchewan Court of Apeals upheld a pro-
vineial Labor Relations Board decision that a company was guilty
of unfair labor practices in refusing to bargain with a union on
the grounds that members of the bargaining unit were employed

by a rival firm.
Subsidies Urged

OTTAWA—Canada’s three labor congresses, the TLC, CCL and
CCCL, called for subsidies to Canada’s shipbuilding and repairing
industry and subsidization of operating costs of Canadian ships
when they appeared hefore the Royal Commission on Coastal Trade.
‘The labor bodies urged that coastal trade be.restricted to Canadian

and U.S. trade.

, GAW Benefits

DETROIT—The beneficial effects of the UAW-negotiated guar-
anteed annual wage were felt soon after the union signed its new
contract with the Ford Motor Co. Employees of the Lincoln divi-
sion of Ford did not get their traditional layoff notice at the time
of the 1955-56 model changeover but were, instead, switched to
work on the Mercury models or on the Lincoln conversion.

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Conroy Refused
NEW YORK—Pat Conroy, former Secretary-Treasurer of the
Canadian Congress of Labor and now Canadian Labor Attache in
Washington, was reported by AF'L President Meany to have turned
down an offer of the post of organization director for the 54,000,000
member International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

The New Name

WASHINGTON—The last major hurdle to the proposed amal-
gamation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress.
of Industrial Organizations was remoyed when the organizations
decided to name the new. body with a combination of the two
present names: AFL and CIO.

Unity Here

COCHRANE, Ont—Northern Ontario unionists formed what

is believed to be the first joint TLC-CCL district labor council in

anticipation of the forthcoming merger of Canada’s two largest
labor congresses. ‘The council, representing 19,000 unionists, will

study adoption of a constitution at its next meeting in September.

HonneeeeN
MORE AD AGENCIES
There were 91 advertising

agencies in Canada last year,
three more than in 1958 and 84
more than in 1946.

MORE CORN FLAKES

Canada’s prepared breakfast.
foods industry shipped 25,281,190
pounds of corn flakes last year
as compared with 24,841,208
pounds in 1953.

MORE PLASTICS

Output of Canada’s plastics
products industry was valued at
a record $39,010,545 in 1958 as
compared with $83,585,111. in
1952 and ONLY $12,716,010 in

Aussie
Official
Welcomed

Staff members of the
IWA and other CCL unions
in Vancouver recently enter-
tained at an informal lunch-
eon the General Secretary
of the Trades Union Con-
gress of Australia, Ron Al-
sop, and heard an informa-
tive summary of labor
conditions around the world.

The fraternal visitor, who is a
printer by trade, was on the last
leg of a six months world tour,
for the study of labor standards
made possible for him by the
award of a scholarship.

In a penerating analysis of
conditions in all of the Atlantic
Treaty nations, he declared that
organized labor in British Col-
umbia had won standards and
conditions which compared fav-
orably with those in most of the
countries visited by him. He com-
plimented the trade unions of
British Columbia on their effi-
cient administration. 3

‘The speaker stated that he was
not impressed with the results of
steps taken by the trade unions
in Europe with respect to “eo-
determination”. The program of
organized labor in West Germ-
any, was a notable case in point,
he contended, where the trade
unions had sacrificed their ef-
fectiveness for an illusory goal.

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