B.C. LUMBER WORKER

LOGGER GETS BOOST
UNDER WAGE ORDER

An unusual claim under the
new Wagé Order dealing with
call time of the Board of In-
dustrial Relations was recently
won by Local 1-71 TWA.

An employee of Northern
Pulpwood Ltd., Kokish Camp,
was employed as a fire warden.
His duties required him to make
a trip into the woods every Sat-
urday and Sunday to take a
humidity reading. For this, he

was being paid two hours call
time.

When the matter was ex-
amined by the Local Union’s
officials, it was decided that he
should apply for the additional
two hours as provided in the
order, ©

Management agreed that the
claim was well-founded, and it
was allowed with retroactive
adjustment to June 16, the date
of the amended Wage Order.

Union Expresses
Nation’s Amends

PORTLAND, ORE. — The
Ambassador of the Republic of
India, Gaganvihari L, Mehta,
was officially notified recently of
action taken by the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of Amer-
ica, CIO-CCL, at their conven-
tion in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
where 357 delegates unanim-
ously adopted a resolution con-
demning the “ignorant and
bigoted” treatment of India’s
chief envoy, at a Texas res-
taurant.

In a telegram to the Ambass-
ador, over the signature of all
four International Officers, Mehta
was informed that “we are, with
the overwhelming majority of
thinking Americans, shocked and
appalled at this incident.”

The IWA telegram referred to
the refusal of the Houston, Texas
airport restaurant to serve the
Ambassador and his Secretary,
in the same room with white
patrons. The management of the
restaurant required the Ambass-

ador and his Secretary to eat in
a small room off the main dining
room.

Bigoted Action

The IWA Officers’ telegram
informed the Indian Envoy that
“Our International Union is pri-
vileged to have many thousands
of Canadians in the ranks of our
membership, who are membe:
of the British Commonwealth of
Nations. Neither our Canadian or
American membership,” the [WA
Officers declared, “condones this
bigoted and ignorant action on
the part of the Houston Airport
restaurant.”

The IWA telegram asked the
Ambassador to “convey to the
people of India our hope, that
they will judge America by what
we of the International Wood-
workers of America, CIO-CCL
stand for and do. We sincerely
hope that the people of India will
not judge America by what this
ignorant, bigoted and pernicious
minority in Texas has done.”

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tion, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

FROM “WAY DOWN SOUTH”

in the

a case of double statistics.

Number without jobs and
Seeking Work
157,000

Every month the Department
of Labor and The Dominion Bur-
eau of Statistics at Ottawa pub-
lishes a document giving details
of the labor force in Canada, In
dealing with unemployment, it
lists the number of Canadians
who were seeking work at the
middle of the previous month and
also — in the same document —
lists the number of Canadians
who registered for jobs at Na-
tional Employment Service of-
fices across the country. These
two totals invariably differ
widely.

Thus, when a debate on unem-
ployment takes place in Parlia-
ment of the number of jobless
the government supporters use
one set of figures (naturally, the
smaller total), while opposition
members use another set (na-
turally, the larger total). Much
wrangling has ensued over the
correctness or otherwise of each
set of figures.

The matter came to a head
during a debate in the Commons
last March when Labor Minister
Gregg announced that each set
was used for “a special purpose”.
He did not define these purposes
but added that “it should be
borne in mind that the statistics
which come to us every month
from the United States are com-
parable with figures issued by
our Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics.”

Gregg’s Puzzle

Mr. Gregg’s statement will
probably puzzle the Director of
Education and Research for the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions, Stanley Ruttenberg, as
much as it puzzled Canadian
unionists. Ruttenberg recently
penned a strong letter to U.S.
Census Bureau Chief R. M. Bur-
gess, asking him to explain the
“marked differences” between the
Bureau’s figures on on-agricul-
tural employment and those pub-
lished by the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics.

The CIO Research Director
stated that he had been “troubled
by the unexplained variations”
and requested, “if possible, an
analytical explanation” of the
differences.

It seems that statistical afflic-
tions have border-hopping pow-

ers,

Census Bureau
56.3 million
3 million

FIGURES START
DOUBLE-TALK

WA (CPA)—It seems that trade union officials
ited States are being affected by what, until
recently, was thought to be a purely Canadian affliction—

NON-AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT

Registrations for Jobs
at NES
251,900
49.5 million
49.5 million

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Cussing
Upheld

HARTFORD, Conn, (CPA)
A worker puts his job on the
line when he cusses out his
foreman, but if the cussing is
instinctive and without pre-
meditation he can probably col-
lect unemployment compensa-
tion benefits.

A Connecticut Unemployment
Compensation Commissioner rul-
ed that a 45-year-old Hartford
worker who did it was not guilty
of “willful misconduct” and is
eligible for state jobless pay
benefits.

The worker swore at his fore-
man and called him a liar after
a dispute about a fan that aggra-
vated the avorker’s arthritis. The
foreman fired him on the spot,
The commissioner commented:
“What this claimant said was
undoubtedly harsh, But it was
said instinctively and without
premeditation, It did not offend
the foreman, nor cause him to
blink.”

The IWA is giving full
support to Labour's Fifth
Annual Educational Institute
to be held in the Normal

School, Vancouver, at 12th

‘jand Cambie, and the insti-

tutes to be held in Nanaimo
and Victoria on the same
days, Saturday and Sunday,
October 29th and 30th it was

-jannounced this week by Dis-
-| trict President Joe Morris.

The subjects on the curriculum

‘} include: Duties of Shop Stewards,

DELEGATES from Local 4-378, IWA, Oakdale, Louisiana, hard at
work during the IWA 18th and 19th Annual Constitutional Conven-

History of Trade Unions, and
Economics for Workers. Each
of these subjects, will, this year,
be delt with in two sections, in-
troductory and advanced.

Local Unions are requested to
send as many students as possible
and to register them early with
the Education Committee of the
various Labour Councils sponsor-
ing the Institutes. The course in
Vancouver this year will end with
a banquet at Ming’s Restaurant,
to which the wives of the students
will also be invited. Banquets
have been arranged for the other
institutes. Details will be an-
nounced later.

1-206 IWA

WINS TWO
CONTRACTS

Latest gains report in the IWA
District I drive to boost wage
rates for Alberta lumber workers
are the two new contracts, cover-
ing the logging and sawmill op-
erations of Burmis Logging Co.
Ltd., certified to Local 1-206,
Blairmore,

In addition to a number of im-
portant benefits in working con-
ditions, now incorporated in the
new agreement, the wage rates
have been increased by an average
of 30 cents an hour,

Alex B. Macdonald

Barrister & Solicitor
Notary Public

751 Granville Street
VANCOUVER, B.C,

Telephone TAtlow 6641

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