Items of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

Government Hints Strike Curtailment

OTTAWA — Prime Minister St. Laurént hinted that the gov-
ernment would curtail the right to strike of 145,000 non-operating
rail employees now pressing the rail companies demands for contract
improvements. In reply to CCL President A. R. Mosher’s request for
a statement of the goyernment’s attitude in the matter, the Prime
Minister said: Canada “could not allow one group to disrupt to ex-
haustion the necessary services”.

Attlee ‘Commonwealth Fund” Established

LONDON — The British Labor Party announced the establish-
ment of a ‘Commonwealth Fund’ to honor the work of former Prime
Minister Clement Attlee. The fund will help finance the exchange
of students between Britain and the Commonwealth and was
launched following Attlee’s relinquishment of Labor leadership after
20 years. &

New CCL Headquarters Opened
OTTAWA — The new headquarters of the CCL was officially
opened here. Secretary-Treasurer Donald MacDonald announced that
the $230,000 building, ten blocks south of the Parliament Buildings,
would be the home of the Canadian Labor Congress following the
CCL-TLC merger in, April.

Councils Sponsor Transport Boycott
MONTREAL — The Montreal councils of the TLC, CCL and
CCCL sponsored a boycott’ of public transport in Montreal to protest
the recent fare increase announced by the Montreal Transportation
Commission. Leaders of the CBRE, representing 4,500 MTC workers
called for subsidies: to keep fares low, provide decent wages and
improve services.

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SURVEY PLANNED

LAST MINUTE DISCUSSION is held by IWA Associate Director of Research and Education, Joe

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Miyazawa and A. Graedel, General Secretary of the International Metal Workers Federation, Swit-
zerland, during the AFL-CIO Convention, in New York, on Joe’s trip to Japan to do a workers’

survey for the Metal Workers’ Federation.

Publication date of the next issue of the B.C. LUMBER WORKER
is Jonuary 26th, Deadline for ad copy is January 19th and for
news copy January 20th.

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TIFFIN
PASSES

LONDON (CPA) — A. E.
“Jock” Tiffin, General Secre-
tary of Britain’s largest union
died here in hospital at the age
of 59. He had succeeded the
late Arthur Deakin as head of
the 1,300,000-member Trans-
port and General Workers’
Union only last June.

Tiffin was a former London
bus driver and had been assistant
to Deakin for many years before
his election to the TGWU Secre-
taryship.

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BETRAYAL CHARGED

WINDSOR (CPA)—Despite
a guarantee by President Rhys
M. Sale that the jobs of Ford
of Canada workers hired before
1950 would be protected when
the company’s main assembly
plant was moved to Oakville,
some 3,000 Ford workers are
now on lay-off. Of these, some
2,000 were assured that their
jobs would be absolutely safe
and unaffected by the move, a
United Auto Workers’ official

has charged.

Charles MacDonald, President

of UAW Local 200, has described
a layoff move by the company as
a “further betrayal of Ford
workers”. The number laid off
since mid-November is now 400,
he stated.

The union leader said that
there are now no workers em-
ployed by Ford in Windsor whose
seniority dates from later than
September, 1944.

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