4 : B.C. LUMBER WORKER

_ The Prospect

‘THE facts placed ni the Interior Wages an
Contra Ae Confer by Research Dison
nney Ae Ab a betes prospect for ne
come ag of negotiations than on a
‘ormer

nhs basis of ee facts that the con-
emands were shaped. By no stretch of the

‘clear that it is the responsi-
elie year to place the Interior

1S.

eae erto, it has been a struggle on the part of

nion to fend off the worst in dealing with
uf

otabediy
: As hee employers. extract their Taree profits
from the natural resources of the Interior, they
msibility toward the gener ral’ well-
mmunities in the Interior. The lar;

st demand i is for a wage increase of 19
auhSii across the board. This will qaike the
ae ate to $1.59 an hour as at the Coast. On
basis of a Aheie week, whi

the Interior has lon; ded

The Uni fh atse fi ight Scene for this i in-
crease for’ two very sod ant reasons. Th

vide Interior lumber

S and _ their families (With decent living

nde. wage

ee the workers throughout the entire

e must continue to p' ee shen in

duction of benefits as oat statu yoke
ays, liberal vacation plans, medical benefit plans,

pects very fact that and unio: di

act t

ae inion shop conditions should be

ues at stake in the negotiations which
open in the first week as ame are ate 1 to the
whole union. effo ust be ex-
erted to, win a salisfactory peilement, cena if it
yequites drastic action.
ie Union’s negotiators meet the

plovers  eeniexentatiyes at the bar, pouine table,
the wo represented must, at the e time,

he job. quit: eonitice

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yu
mands are in wi and reasonable,

to eo0

exceptionally favorable -

ae an as good a footing as the Coast _

ean Yeates
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is SecA ba ep Bete
rt las narstabtistil

Mi Rt ee ee ae ceases

dei
and that they can and should b

“The Good
Ol Days”

eorenty: sent becisteck and
$15 suits are

attending the consti-
tutional peetrenticn of the Ca-
coe Labor

in look back
with regretting anything
but th

CONFUSION ENDED

WASHINGTON (C. BA) When AFL-CIO and the UAW-ARL-
the AFL and the CLO mer; AFL-CIO. When ‘the merger of
O the Canadian labor

little thought to the problems
that the merger was going to|CIO-CLC was ae too much,
bring to the unions in the auto-

the Executive Council of
ine ‘AFL cae “in ae jae a 2
ending confu: appr

ni a Auto pete)
W-AFL-
Wi

tween them, some labor officials

will
designated them the UAW-CIO-

retain its original n

know iat the good old ty
are right n

An hour's labor today earns

Canadian nearly two and
cuechafiinestas n veh goods
as an hour of labor did in
1913,

r that salttary, fact, the

take much of the credit. The
have just ce six times as
many mem now as all

Canadian mee held in.1913,
Organized labor can also

take credit for the fact that
e hour week

but for the majority of em-

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