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LUMBER WORKER

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

oor ke Sompedays Successrul
OROUGH—A successful labor aign to persuade

$ ingused as a eee The
union has been on strike since Test pee after 18 months’ nego-
tiations for a new cont ee
a s Deficit Increases
orraWA Cara's | tating defiicit with the Us. during the
bet eee? a ae rt

raise rautaetlone Was s greater than the overall deficit for the
illio

period of $373.6 mi
Pri ae Albert Pulp Mill
PRINCE ALBERT—A Vancouver roup has sponsored a $60
million pulpmill fo be Jocated 10 miles northeast of here. The mill,
10 have of ons of pulp a day, may eventually
expanded to a $100 million mu julp

xe i ry
—The ¢ Canadian Labor

~OTTA ‘si
Congress, ie at BOnT t of the Trades and
Labor C s and the eee neeres of Labor, indicates that

ongress
105 national and international unions are affiliated to the 1,018,000-
member
ngus Macinnis pRetines
OTTAWA—Angus MacInnis, Labor and CCF M.P. for Vancou-
yer puinee 1930, ann

nounced that he would ee: seek re- eet in the
eneral election. He indicated that ie ill-health. may cause him to
Bee from Parliament before next yea

Eisenhower De Wicates ‘Labor Bull ding

WASHINGTON—President ly dedicated the
new $4,000,000 headquarters of t S ATSCIO e on ets Street here.
The eight-storey ,white stone eee will house the headquarters
staffs of the AFL-CIO departments.

COMMITTEE
ee eee

ou noe cep. A) —

imp)
heir rights. in ab the: “Tro

countris
Labor Commies to Re-
Tease “prs med Trade Unionists
and Democratic Sociali

e

t
ie

has the support rominent
figures ..in ..the labor ..socialist
movements, of 29 countries in
Burope, Africa and_ the
Americ a as ledged support
and co-o m to action by the

Socialist Tnternational and demo-
cratic fos ist parties Cae
out, the free the
oned dem

ocrats.
fe adian members of the com-
mittee include: CCF National
’s | Leader M. J. Coldwell and CCF
Nation: al Se erelary Lome Ingles

Gordon

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oe Rares Ra M. J. COLDWELL,

merger conyention which formally established new Canadian
own here (left) wih Canadian Steelworkers’ Director C. H. Millers vice-presi ident of
Federation of Labor, (CPA).

solutions at
He is shi
auc and David Archer, executive

secretary, Ontario

, M.P., was deeply interested in outcome of political

Labor connie

Relief C

OTTAWA (CP.
bill providing for sharing of
tween the

provinces and the federal governm
approved by “Panlament eee The e me:

osts

To Be Shared

'A)—The first reading of a government | la
unemployment relief costs be-

ent wa:
asure Annaler

lief paid out by the province and
aT
_ On the bi

e eleral payments o:

oppetcen ty of

f costs of

joble:

a certain proportion of oe eee OnUlae

Treasurer Donald MacDonald;
Fred Dowling, Canadian Directo
Workers,

Og

ost-Sharing Plan
Agreements for the cost-shar-

with six provinces, although the

prop. | gov: major Tata areas of Ontario
un-|and Qu ene te inclu nee
employed, hen unei Wea rises

abovi
.45 percent of fhe population of
a province, the federal govern:
ment will share the | cos ne of re

that one province was on
verge of signing the agreement
ae “possibly” two others will

45 AST GRGHINNGS

ae aed

of Railway Employees.

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ne 29th,

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President .. a Morris
Ast Vice-President “wee William N, Gray
2nd Vice-President uart M, Hodgsoi

ard Vice-President wonnercneome Eted Fieber
Secretary-Treasui George! H._Mitshell
Internation: falter F, Allen

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