LUMBER WORKER

“and Issue, April

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break a construction workers’ strike near Baie Comeat 00

miles northeast of Quebec, according to ipsiahatyabieceral Jean

Marchand of the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labour.
Picard to Step

MONTREAL—Gerard Picard, president of the 100,000-member

‘Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labour, has announced that

he plans to resign fro
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way official admitted before the hare Commission meee on the
CPR-BLFE diesel dispute.

Patronage. <helrees: = id
WASHINGTON—At least seven cont 0 1956 cla

headed

entertains
Mondee Pacis oye 9:00 i ing
ings-on of the oe steel Local plus a general view of matters
that interest unions. The TY show, carried by CJI IC-TV, is
planned by chairman-

ship of Representative | Paul ohoibleaene th Steelworkers" ‘s’ first

VIC FORSTER, Business Agent, Local 1

eminetion)

Webster upon hi:

as CCF Federal Candidate in Bene urrard. (From left) Vic ee Arnold Webster, Mrs.

NEW YORK (CPA)—Mem-
bers of the International Asso-
‘ion of

DBS Wage Index
Takes $3 Jump

Domi
airy ides Eccl peileric stood at $63.63,

we anuary L com-
pared with $60.54, January 1, 1956,

an inerease of 5.1%.

iene alone in

a Teen it was $65.57, compared with $62.47—|7 70° eos
and

CO-OP
STORE
EADS

' SYDNEY vanes N.S. (CNS)
of the soli

February, 1957,

ompared. Pe $60.69 a year
ealier, up 6,

%. onan eee ot $220,000,000
March Labor Gazette carried a

7% oO

rofits after taxes: $1,830,000,- | cent!

Co-operative Society here ccle-
sae its golden jubilee.

announced. that durin;
zeae .S.—to be made |Study of 545 collective agree- NLA. ave pide the Test 50 youre ita membership
mbia University | ments Seu between Octo-] Central Mortgage and Housin

School, ae ‘public Health and |ber 1, 1955, and October 1, 1956.) says the average person who dred-fold (from 88 to 4,300) since
aeiatire Medicine under | Wage increases were provided in|bought a home under the Na-| the society was established on
an agreemen mith the Fi Found. |87%. More than half these were| tional Housing Act last year had| May 6, 1906. ‘The total retail
ion jee Health, | contracts for more than one yt a $5,312 income and his home| trade of BC ince it started
Medical Care! ana Welfare, Inc. |Most of the two-year agree cost a total of $14,163. He put| business amounted te $68,968,576
i tepor he “Machinist”, | provided increases of 6 to 9.9/down $3,811 and shouldered an|and savings returns te members
“Ym afraid he'linevermokeitas | the official ane auileeson: says |cents an hour each year. mortgage for $10,352 on| throughout the years have to-

a child actor!” survey, through personal in- rices Still Up whieh will pay §81 a month| talled to $5,085,167.
The cost-of-living ‘Hs for | for ears comes principal, baatrackedi unseosieaers
UNION MADE MEN'S WEAR | employers, examination of medi-| March stood taxes lown pay- pressive “tests akeen aeaupteS
prices everyone {cal records and existing group|of 3%% Maoh |1956| ment might have been red luced by | gat age eats aralistis
insurance and service plans, is | (116. a No" iatiye from Febru-|a cena mortgage which would trends. ae eret Canadian
expected to red ay oe ary, 1 then: increase his monthly pay- co-op to establish a self-service
info: rmation about the kin id ra oa the first to ope: a milk
Watch,This Word |pasteurizing plant in Cape
by union members and their fam- | yy: int the cane nee es enacine In the States sty are talking Breton, it led the way with its

ilies, nary look at 1956 profits: about workers bi
before taxes: $3,240,-| ed”. It’s a nice ay of dessin

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