14 B.C. LUMBER WORKER 2nd Issue, September Items of Interest To Labor In Capsule Form WINDSOR—An official of the United Auto Workers (CIO-CCL) stated that experience of his union in recent Ontario contract negotia- tions had proved that conciliation boards were “useless”. Charles MeDonald, President of UAW Local 200, stated that the Local’s executive board agreed that the boards were a waste of time and often delayed negotiations for several months. LONDON—Internal party organization and staffing and domes- tie issues are likely to be in the forefront of discussion at the British Labor Party’s 1955 conference, Kenneth Rathbone reported. Foreign policy questions would be pushed to the background, he noted. DETROIT—A six-hour strike of autoworkers in six states ended with the signing of a contract granting 140,000 members of the United Auto Workers (CIO) employed by the Chrysler Corp. a 26- week wage guarantee and other contract demands. The Chrysler contract signing completed the pattern of contracts signed earlier by Ford and General Motors—the ‘Big Three’ manufacturers producing 95% of U.S. autos. : WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower approved a bill estab- lishing the U.S. legal minimum wage at $1 an hour. Labor had been pressing for a minimum of $1.25 but considered the $1 figure a defi- nite victory in view of Administration pressure for a 90-cent minimum. 3 OTTAWA—An increase in freight rates on grain moving from the Prairies to other parts of Canada was tentatively authorized by the Board of Transport Commissioners. No order implementing the rate increase was made by the Board and hearings to be held in Noyember—to discuss three proposals, each of which will increase the present rate by about 10%—will decide whether or not the boost is to be implemented. ec OTTAWA Ontario's first radio strike—at Station CKOY here— Started when the board of directors, headed by National Liberal President Duncan MacTavish, refused to implement a‘unanimous conciliation board report recommending pay increases and other benefits. Present CKOY wages range from $25 to $55 a week. ‘Twenty-five employees, members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (CIO-CCL), walked off the job causing a temporary break in transmission. ‘Scabs’ from Toronto Station CKEY (owned by financier Jack Kent Cooke who manages CKOY) put the station back on the air as the strikers manned the picket line. LONDON—A young British Labor MP-has threatened to defy ® government ban on commenting during radio and TV programs on any subject to be brought before Parliament within two weeks. Austen Albu (Labor, Edmonton) says he will ignore order-in-council, replacing a former ‘gentleman’s agreement’, passed by the Eden government on the eve of the parliamentary recess. MONTREAL—The annual convention of the Quebec section of the CCF voted to change its name to the Social Democratic Party of Quebec. The change, which leaves the section’s affiliation with the national CCF unaltered, was due to translation difficulties of the former title and its inadequate description of the functions and nature of the movement. WASHINGTON—The members of the Executive Board of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, representing 54,000,000 unionists throughout the world, have been invited to attend the historic merger convention of the AFL and CIO in New York City on December 5. The invitation was contained in a joint eable to ICFTU General Secretary Oldenbroeck in Brussels from AFL President Meany and CIO President Reuther. PITTSBURGH—Uniited Steelworkers’ (CIO) President David J. MeDonald announced that his union would seek a full 52-week wage guarantee from the basic steel industry when contract negotiations covering 650,000 steelworkers open next June. McDonald made the Statement following signing of contracts with two can companies employing 35,000 U.S.A. members. The can contracts provided a 52-week wage guarantee and other benefits. . . OTTAWA—Despite a lower seeded acreage, the total wheat crop this year may be half as large again as 1954’s, DBS estimated. A wheat crop of 500,600,000 bushels is expected which, if it materializes, i! will be 13% above the ten year (1945-54) average and the fourth crop in five years to exceed half a billion bushels. TORONTO — A minimum salary of $115 a week for reporters, photographers, artists and circulation representatives was one of the principal features of a new three year contract negotiated by the American Newspaper Guild (CIO-CCL) and the Toronto Star. Union Shop Arrives WASHINGTON. (CPA) ” Nearly two-thirds of all labor- management contracts in the United States contain provision for a union shop, a survey con- ducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates. The survey covered more than 1,700 major agreements governing employ- ment conditions for nearly 7,500,000 workers. The researchers found that four out of every five workers are under contracts which pro- vide some requirement for union membership while the union shop —all workers union members and newly-hired personnel to join the union within a specified time— was the most common provision. Some 14% of the agreements surveyed included maintenance of membership clauses — requiring workers joining the union to maintain membership during the life of the contract. ‘HIS FACE WAS RED’ TORONTO (CPA) — One of Canada’s top labor leaders crossed a picket line and didn’t know anything about it until he had to re-cross it. William Jenoves, Vice-Presi- dent of the Trades and Labor Con- gress and President of the To- ronto District Trades and Labor Council, had made arrangements with radio station CKEY to broadcast a Labor Day message from AFL President George Meany. Jenoves went into the station, owned by millionaire Jack Kent Cooke, to complete arrange- ments and record an introduction to the broadcast. Picket Line When he walked out, he was faced by a picket line set up by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Techni- cians (CIO-CCL) protesting the activities of CKEY employees who were acting as strikebreakers at Ottawa radio station CKOY. (CKOY employees are on strike seeking implementation of a una- nimous conciliation board report. Cooke, who manages CKOY for a group of Ottawa businessmen headed by National Liberal Fed- eration President Duncan Mc- Tavish, has been trying to smash the union). The red-faced TLC official, ex- plaining it was the first time in his 50 years in the labor move- ment that he had crossed a picket line, hastily made arrangements to cancel the Meany broadcast. WHY PAY MORE? NEW 73 MOST POWERFUL 1-MAN HAIN SAW Here's the saw for high production. Best of ‘The new McCulloch 73 P is tops for horsepower, Teeth and (®) and weighs only Material 31 pounds. Get your Dental Plotes from a Re- 220 WEST Ist AVENUE “QLD DOC” Phone EMerald 2155 Come in for demonstration today or tomorrow. McCULLOCH COMPANY OF CANADA LTD. VANCOUVER 10, B.C. ad FIRST GAW CLAIMED HAMILTON (CPA) — The principle of the guaranteed an- nual wage was _ established “probably for the first time in Canada” in a contract covering hosiery workers at the Eaton Knitting Co.’s plant here, ac- cording to the head of Canada’s largest textile union. J. Harold Daoust, Canadian director of the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO-CCL) told delegates to the second TWUA Canadian conference that the Eaton Knitting Co., almost exclusively on a single contract with Eaton’s stores, had included the guaranteed wage in contract settlement terms. Mr. Daoust said that the agree- ment, covering full fashioned hosiery workers only, established the first guaranteed annual wage in the textile industry. It was based on the average hourly earn- ings in the last quarter of 1954, The textile union leader com- mented that “no one was very happy about this (Eaton) settle- ment and the-only virtue in it” is the GAW proposal. FACTS RUIN STORY NEW YORK (CPA) — Big business worries about the power of labor as a result of the AFL-CIO merger are cer- tainly groundless from the financial point of view, accord- ing to American Newspaper Guild member A. H. Raskin of the New York Times. bined value of all stock of U.S. corporations totalled $268 billion while the basic treasury totals of 145 AFL and CIO international unions amounted to one fifth of one percent of that figure. Even including the treasuries of all local unions, Raskin noted, total union funds would still amount to less than $1 billion. Raskin found that the com- aw) SS by << We ee AGES Ege Gepee? Ses ALS oe SE HAS FREE HOME DELIVERY these days, seems to have things~to do and not enough time in which to do them. Simply call TAtlow 1121 and have your supply of delightful, mellow LUCKY LAGER delivered promptly to your door. 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