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FOUR MORE CENTRES have merged. their rival labor councils—
Oshawa, Ont., Peterborough, Ont., Joliette, Que, and Guelph, Ont.
In each instance the name given was simply Labour Council, as for
instance, the Oshawa Labour Council, CLC.

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THE IWA has won bargaining rights at Greenhill Wood Industries
Ltd., Toronto, without a vote being necessary, Earlier the company
fired 110 employees for union acti: ‘ity, but was compelled to reinstate
them with $6,000 retroactive pay.

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VICTORIA EMPLOYER was recently fined $25 for failing to sub-
mit a grievance to arbitration. Evans, Coleman and Johnson claimed
that the worker concerned could not claim protection from the agree-
ment, but were ordered otherwise by the court.

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FINAL DAY in the House of Commons pipeline debate heard the
Canadian Labour Congress declare its belief that the pipeline should
be located entirely in Canada, and under the control of Canadians.
The government was criticized for its failure to accept majority
opinion in Canada.

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PRESIDENT CLAUDE JODOIN, CLC and Secretary Donald Mac-
Donald will be abroad until July 16. The president attended the ILO
in Geneva, then joined the secretary at sessions of the ICFTU. Both
of them are attending the conference on international migration in
Nervi, Italy.

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UAW WORKERS IN CANADA, it is said, will not benefit from the
GAW provisions in their contracts as 6,600 of them are laid off. Un-
employment in the auto industry has reached 159,000, because of a
backlog of 900,000 unsold cars.

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FARMERS received only 46 cents out of each consumer dollar, ac-
cording to a recent DBS food expenditure suryey. This represents
a drop from 50 cents, the farmers’ share in 1949.

B.C. WOODWORKERS voted recently by a decisive majority to
abandon their independent charter under the CLC and join an inter-
national union. Next vote will require a choice between the IWA
and the Carpenters and Joiners Brotherhood.

THE NO-MERGER policy of the UMW has caused a strange situa-
tion in Noya Scotia, where the United Mine Workers form the larg-
est union. In the Same province the Steelworkers must, as matter
of common sense self-interest, work closely with the UMW. Result
is likely to be an unofficial merger on a provincial level, as many
UMW members are reported to be unhappy with the policy advocated
by John L, Lewis.

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Hundreds of members, wives
and children attended the suc-
cesful picnic sponsored by the
Ladies’ Auxiliary of Local 1-80,
IWA, in co-operation with the
Local Union, June 24, at Ivy’s
Green Park, Ladysmith.

In spite of the uncertain Wwea-
ther, members from Caycuse
Beach, Youbou, Honeymoon Bay,
Gordon River, Lake Cowichan,
Duncan, Chemainus, Nanaimo,
Ludysmith and other points
gathered to enjoy the fine enter-
tainment provided by the very
able joint committee selected to
handle the arrangements.

Group Races

Races for every group, from
the youngest children to adults,
provided keen competition to the
participants and the prizes were
worth competing for.

Many attending the picnic
grouped together at tables with
old friends while others were

Local 1-80 Picnic
Was Huge Success

kept busy dispensing ice cream
and pop for the small fry.
Safety Program

The IWA safety program was
not forgotten either. A tent had
been set up, complete with cot
and safety equipment, and in’ ad-
dition two lifeguards, Miss Judy
Robertson and Miss Marilyn Hob-
son of Youbou, stood by all day
watching that the youngsters
stayed out of trouble while swim-
ming in the water.
The following are the names of
the committee responsible for the
picnic success: ¢ hairman, Mr.
Axel Anderson; secretary, Mrs.
Isabel Peterson; Mr. and, Mrs.
George Smythe; Mrs. Karin An-
derson; Mrs. James Milmore;
Mrs. Fisk; Mrs, Elsie Samuelson;
Mr. Joe Downey; Mr. Stan Pat-
terson, and Mr. F. Wilson.
Mr. Peter Conti, well known
IWA member provided some ex-

cellent accordion music to con-
clude an enjoyable occasion,

$64 Question
Now Answered

Where calks came from, and when, has been a topic of

bunkhouse discussion since men can remember. No matter
that many a logger calls them corks, they are the short,
sharp pieces of steel inserted in boots to prevent slipping.
One readily recalls fights in which calks played a part in
marking a downed antagonist with the “loggers’ small-
pox”. One still sees signs in rooming houses: “No Calks

Allowed”.

The origin of calked boots has
long been lost in the imperfect
history of the woods and its men,
Henry Thoreau noted calks on
his trip to Eastern Main in 1946.
Now we learn, from the Forest
History Foundation, St. Paul,
Minnesota, that .a much earlier
reference has turned up.

Canadian Custom

In 1805, says the foundation,
citing the British Naval Chron-
icle, there is mention of a Cana-
dian custom of “wearing on the
feet a sort of pattern called
caulks.” These must have’ been
the authentic article.

The men who drove logs down
rivers were quick to adopt the
idea. The early calks were doubt-
less custom-made by tinkers and
blacksmiths, but their use spread
so quickly that manufacturers
became interested. An innovator
named Cyrus Baker soon im-

proved the article by adding a
washer to prevent the calk from
working up through the sole; and
later dropped the washer in fa-
vor of a flange. Now he had it
right.

60,000 Daily

Knowing a good thing, Cyrus
Baker organized the Lumber
Driver’s Calk Company and, at
tiny Moscow, on Austin stream
in Maine, put up a modest, fac-
tory, installed machinery of his
own design, and set 20 men to
work, turning out, at the height
of the season, more than 60,000
calks daily.

This was the product that shod
the feet of river drivers all the
way from the Penobscot to Min-
nesota’s St. Croix; and Baker be-
came the unquestioned King of
Calks. He at last sold his busi-

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ness to a new concern making
calks of cold-rolled steel, and re-
tired.
Joseph ‘Peavey

Cyrus Baker was an inventor
in the Neat Maine tradition. He
belongs in the class with Joseph
Peavey, who devised the “improv-
ed cantdog” that took his name
and became, like calks, another
piece of equipment without which
no log drive is complete. All
praise to the Forest History
Foundation. May they do as much
for-the double-bitted axe. (From
The Oregonian, Portland).

Barnett
Protest
Succeeds

OTTAWA (CPA) — The
United States Air Force has
lifted a ban on Canadian em-
ployes at its Newfoundland
bases from taking part in Can-
adian political activities.

‘A protest against the ban was
raised in Parliament by Tom
Barnett (CCF Comox-Alberni)
‘who described the measure as “an
improper interference with the
rights of Canadian citizens by a
foreign power” and: asked under
what authority the ban was im-
posed.

Attacked Ban

TOM BARNETT, M.P.

Secretary of State Roch Pin-
ard described the action by the
U.S. North East Air Command
as “inaappropriate” but ‘“well-
intentioned” and announced that
the order banning political par-
ticipation had now been re-
scinded. He said that the U.S. Air
Force had issued instructions, on
its own initiative, last May stat-
ing that regulations applying to
Canadian civil servants regarding
participation in federal and pro-
vineial elections would apply to
all Canadian civilian employees
of the N.E. Air Command.

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