ek TALKS BEGIN ie DK RKER Vol. XXIII, No. 11 ** Ist ISSUE, JUNE 1956 - VANCOUVER, B.C. Ss 5c PER COPY Interior Needs Coast Terms 1956 Demands A wage increase Sea the board of 19c¢ a hour. This will rane the Interior base ‘o the same ee at the Coast. additional iat attr holiday a gee he re aa dierent, from 4%c to 6c an hour. them es preourormlty Rev! its = Be etamedty to the A . Two 10-minute rest periods 7 Union a condition in place of the ittcent maintenance ory rates r In the eputhes Tatarloe iis following additional demands are made: 9. Reyision of the seniority clauses to provide for depart- cs abe and mee atone and job-posting. Chan; in the hours as work clauses to ensure the 40- saa i. Roudune in the leave of pirates clause, 12, Travel time. Loggers Expose Contract “Hoax” of contract devised by the Northern Pulpwood Co. eh for pulp pe in BS Bella Coola Valley is under c , IWA, the ground that it is de- labor i. IWA WINS CASE Determined effort made by IWA rep: By esentatives in NEN recently won from the Board of eae Rela- tions in tha a de- cision to % KH eK H RX H IWA Spokesmen Open 1956 Contract Battle mx or x KM x Exchange of proposals and counter-proposals between the IWA a Negouating commie and the employer Sroups peed orthern and South ment ae progress has bi bargaining. Spokesmen for the Union . G ern Interior _comm the get made in the ynitial stages of In a report to the Union on the ident Joe Morris, Jacob Holst, I and Tn ntemational Gold radio program, Dis- trict Secretary-Treasurer George Mitchell said, “At this stage it is IWA line-up eel Nhe Souths rior Negotiations at Pen- the course of these negotiations. Some fur- ther time will be required to ex: Jude To ris, District Secretary- Treasurer, paaaes Mitchell, a seared ae or E, W. Kem Elm Atwood (Boca 1+ 408), wm. iy mson (Local 1-417), and hom: Wm. Muir (Local 1-423). Pp unter propos: “Our ani ion is proceeding on the eeRotiilow that he demand ' the part of the cnn Dis trict ae tion for all the eee: opera- tions of the Northwestern ulp eas Power Co. Ltd. in the vic bay of Eonton, Alta. rd in simi- ence of the Ontario Boa: lar cireumstances. Application Opposed ‘he IWA application was op- posed by the employer, first, on Hie contractprs Water! the applica: tion was objected to, because of VICTORIA ENGINEERS VOTE FOR 1-118 IWA of the Operating Engi rew at Moore- Whittington Lumber Co. ictoria, was reoearitly defeated when a peeve vote eeeted Local 1-118, IWA, as t rtifi had_been the engine room Ltd., 's Union to ¢ the bargaining agenc: Certification gained by the Op erating Engineers I ternational Union in 1952, during the IWA strike. Subsequently, the Local Union protested the de- cision of the ard lowed a Rinichithecrigie to bargain TOE minority of the workers in a in the one certification. attracted oe he hearings wide- spread interest, er atband demanded ble, See _ajority have een cranes an industrial unio! In the een vote; 8 were eligi- voted for r the TWA, 1 for pany and Union representative The IWA was Zeuresente ed by torney Alex Dubinskey, Distriet “2. WINS” P. fhe in reine, ome ined. Restoration of the ranean to the IWA, which is expected at an early he wll end a long- anding INDEX RISES OTTAWA (CPA) — nada’s consumer price ask her ea change during no ut was up slightly at ie Betinsng of May, com- with The Dominion Bursauot Stax tisties ann uneed a e veral x during the eithpetcdl ae 116.6 (1949 price equals 100)—up 0.2 from the May, 1955, figure. This contract, descr ibed as one mM the Bipeen i is ane in tl e pene tract as fate m ae to 4 in length, and fr a ” in top diam- bucked in fee velily 6 = a Be with a minimum top diam of 10”. rovisions of the eee ships. Objection: alte tie cited by the Local Unio The y be termin- ated iment son eer st nm notice the pany. a sentra must supply necessary machinery, See “HOAX” Poge 3 BOR U Labour atte front rew), Vice-President T Other officers installed were: Dave Wade, Jack Hende: the civic level wi dw! Rana) were eemlies installed i in of R. Lenfesty. Absent: Wm. Robertson and Dick Henham. , W. Trine it Percy Bengough, Canadi hen ad seat accel officers of the merged Vancouver, Lower Mainland Trades and ¢ by Honorary President ‘om Alsbury, Breit Lloyd Whalen, Secretary-Treasurer Ted Jamieson, pastaiant Secretary Vic Forster. rson, er, 3rd Vice-President Geo. Johnston: lian Labour Congress. (From left, , 2nd Vice-President Ed Sims, Green Gold—CJOR 7.00 p.m. 4 CJ AV - 6:30 p.m. Thursday Thursday § CKPG = Ist and 3rd Thursday - 6 p.m.