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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

| NEWS DIGEST |
Items of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

rmanent Farm-Labor Body
Usb of 1,000,000 etaiiees workers and
t here and pledged mune Une LY in

n
CCL and the farm unions of the western province:
ceshed apiece allen: HEUTLG-COM taarzer Convention in Aa
to establish a permane nt Farmlabor body. with a formal eonsiftio
and an operating budge
hor iwe: Ik Week Los:
VICTORIA — ae and Social Credit ee of t

Legislature joined to vote down a CCF proposal for a ee

the legal work-week in B.C. from 44 to 40 hours.
int Labor Brie

di
e B.C. t

Yields Millions

The green hue smothering the Ford Motor Ca

executive eS oneeat is merely a reflection Ney the mow

of greenbacks (paper money, that is) which has pi

op executives as a result of the recent Ford stock issue

‘0 John Q. Public.

Henry Ford I told the public

at one stage that they shouldn’t

Cant ta Davie Ford ace asa
‘or

$43.50 a share at the current

out ae mind wading
ug! green, perhaps
can ie wi ane a few of ae

tt ahead and| Gate
r y lis
| dirctors mat on pee be stock

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abbreviats

cutives

vr S. Hades picked up

‘ Gon coca " "
Ford Stock Issue sear ee

rd Oil ste

C:
ne ThA. "i Saat ‘Ot, and 50
sections of ao ‘oll-Frotenac.

OCA
mee increa:

Ace a py:
tall,
ft cctv “toe — ott “nde
public rate! ploy
ie neat affect. the

[-) Kes ey , Exe ive: Paes
WA—The TLC-CCL joint brief to the Gordon Economic| Certain key executives, for ex-
Com n meeting here urged that Can: ile be preseryed as a free, Sans were permitted in 1955 to 2500 sch eae ie pond) sich down
independent nation “even at some economic cost”. The 55,000-word Hy ioe eae ns eee ponent
brief esa the dangers of the loss of rCanedian identity through The ahaa cost the public $64.50 ee an} ft tl
ii a Cea Gane se
increasing U.S. control of Canada’s resources and productive f: at] eeeean ner
ties. als ae Hen nry’s warning, 166,- Me Pariicns Me cr
Indictment Against UAW Dismissed as ater and 28 2) sack. He meet a ie pocket |,
ROIT—An indictment of the United Auto Workers Be Nooo, that. $7,272,750 figure |™oney one bs
spending funds illegally on a political broadcast was dism| isn’t quit Ne Theodove pee panne
Tide Picard hake Iisa eat ici io uaa vas Gating He Yntoms, one ob ther dies mail
pa Linto/creesepeeett fouled it up by selling’ 15,000 6f (ct this _maltphieaton plan. ‘The
Bae r Plans Organizing Drive his $21 shares feak up ite (om | ah to the public came
MIAMI BEACH—The AFL-CIO || pany at $60.16% a are That m ie aed Foundation and
S le but earn US. ati down the profit total to $7,

“organizal

10,000 “
workers at a nine-day session here. The AFL-CIO Organizational
aioe John W. eae has called a meeting of the labor
’s 23 regional directors to discuss prospects of organization
activity in their areas.
RWDS' nadian Director Dies
RONTO—Tom MacLachlan, Canadian Director of the
ain Wholesale and Denaremeng Store Union (C Ao coe) died in
had n RV e

Daa bene ge iad been WDSU Director sinc Bannon shows. Mr. Yntema, then, before the aplit to Dai nent

Govt. Rejects Unemploy nt ean es FENCE |ean use the money he made| In dollars, the fly ipa oe

OTTAWA—Prime Minister St. pee t rejected a CCF sug-| ($39.16% a share) selling hi milion in equity, on the basis of

gestion that a labor-management-government conference be, called shares, back to the Company at September 30, 1955, iene and,

to cheek rising unemployment. ‘The suggestion s made by Stanley | $60.16% a share to buy more| if dividends remain in 1956 what

Fi toerieadcali ving ivelease’ GU goveriinicat! Azures: showing 484.600 |charésjat ¢2iewhren someon ey they were in 1955, it means an
makes him another profit of| extra $3 million.

Canadians were looking for roke in mid January—the third highest
postwar total.

teel Works Seek Increases

HAMILTO! peries arated Siselorbets asked oor steel price

lists sand steel pr ig © in sil $ 6 contract de-

Steel “Co. of Canada.
Mie, union is cone a substantia wage increase and other benefits
for its 7,100 members employ

hiss
ve in mel

Unia abe Dri U
NTREA ation-wide organizing
a

Foundation. But, in connection
with aoe ale, the stock was split.
The old voting stock, all held by
the family, was split 21-for-one;

rest, 15-for-one

ae a aa the family’s equity
from 104

177,750.
other Pr

Hold ie a minute! These offi-

cialgcan vpurehasel dapsone

total of 388,500 shares at $21
ach during 1956, 1957, and

1958, a special report from UAW

Ford Department Director Ken

Unions Face
New Tactics

Fee crete

MO; An riv clothing ee 5
shops in Canada, accompanied by a union ene ampaign, was an TEN TO (CPA) coins sloee relationsiaD ee haat tep
nounced by Jacob Clayman, new Organization and Union Label Diree- | Major companies in the huge oil industry extends to their) 4. a first step to get the na-
tor for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. wage negotiations whether they are dealing with com- tonal pret ite drive “Soe
sae independent or bona fide unions. AFL-CIO Organization Director,
: 5 i Livingston, has called a
CORNIEST QUESTION OF EUSA AIL PHILOSOPHY egotiations with the Oil, Fi mee i
2 ee accomplish envtige Chemical and Atomic Workers’ Companies’ Strategy meeting of the 23 regional direc-
IONTH zu have patience. You can Union in the U.S., the Magnolia The strategy of the U.S. oil] tors of the AFL-CIO in Washing-
A certain girl likes to put per- water in a sieve, if | Petroleum Co. (Socony-Mobil sub- frat to company make ‘the offer |ton., Thee ee
fume on her letters. One day he- | you wait until it fre sidiary) offered a 6% wage none in an efort 49 give them |ganization in their. respective
fore mailing a postcard to her package which would average 17 i
Oe ea SNORE, ne asad ee tees the cit for a settlement. It is BREE Ca ee cal Rae the basis
ein pe vals mak on it. | what thera fret omners wis While the AW Bargaining | Standard Oil of New Jersey and Ua RR
uestion: Does this make it a|dom is what you teach yoursel Policy Come nee taking a| Standard Oil of India ang two an
3 ana, p-| _ The 26,000,000 workers who are
‘o-scent postcard ou. need both to live safely and |itelegram pooll o offer, other | posedly competing panies, | the main organizing target are
fy : companies were _ sree imilar | made identical wage offers half | in industries a coma or
ee settlements. It is expected that| way across the ent on nioi in
He wrecked his ear, he lost his| ooo73 aa aga A women sr virtually all oil contracts | sal me hour of the same day. non-union “pockets” "of indaabeal
BY Ca a the Oilworkers’ | that are otherwise well organized.

than into a tight parking space

And yet throughout his life

ma Trafi
He blamed them on his wife! know Hel ie them.

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