B.C. LUMBER WORKER Impressions eS OF Negotiations By IWA ROVING REPORTER W: fatching ag Union's Negotiat what a tough ing Committee in action 250 peo} The Canadian Pacific Rail tion a mammoth electronic computer and laid off almost ple. This mo ener ous machine will lway has just put into opera- Automation Introduced In Canadian Operations By MORDEN LAZARUS STEEL MILL ye not only everything ast number i AUTOMATES this year made me realize job ey had. In| the human staff was doing but a v: of things ault Ste. Marie (CPA) — future, before Tstart | ‘Il first count ten, | that, in any reasonable time timit they could not begin he. ‘Algoma Steel Corporation pe spec Eee how much better I could have one! “had I been | to as as announced the ordering of the same spot. The ter ated in $3 million automatic steel One thing must be said. i 1 Montreal Ys Windsor Ree Cost- | prehensive, ' up-to-the-minute mill from the Cana est- had work, T's hard Sets ten eee ae pace ing about favo milion Qollars, i Tormation it will supply them is| inghouse Company of Hamil- who are constantly faced with re-| union in the province, and that |! at the start work only an|more important ae the savings| ton. pndrs Baeaie vag of otters he now realizes that his Labour | i&ht-hour dollars and cents. The mill will be the first card- ecomies not so good Be better in} Relations Act is full o: ee 8 am. But in this ae time it] White-collar oe had bet-| programmed plant of its type in aie to the success of their Th nee fasts iets pe puree management nach ter take a very serious look ai t | Canada, pu is one e largest er eicaevoull be the last information abou : a electrical pe gmaba cus Bree tents ns hwie saul that We acted: trom round: the-clock SEES of the it can mean to their livelihoods. | ever laced by a Canadian steel entice me ,| pro-labour motives. He was most |°mpany than was long hours in|anxious that nothing should upset | ?°° cemed with the growing race be- Single ms arguing with the] the apple eve (on which he has Railway Report REO Jenin ingenuity and hu- Ageedine 16: ea House a professionals it’s like ing the sign “B.C. in every day Ean ee a ie eee nd are|gineers, the automatic controls h writ . vav i ving al 5] . being put through a wringer cele i roe ar nell looking for colton to prob- | Will “enable one mill operator to Tensions Galore 5 Sa ne gay eon I lems which must be solved if| initiate a complete steel rolling the middle of the ring, his poll lo hedule b le but- Time i cally on aii side of aguetion: was at sta, % he working men are is yetain mas- | Schedule by pressing a single ec build- u BE aly the ten- aves man brain- ammer ou otherwise iu presi wat ove uffered Rectiesr ened tke 16 make, The em nplo layers! 70, 000 of the 30, 000 “CP. 12 engl loy- ees almost as a sideline. It vill do this > in hours. It used to ect responsibility for in the lumber industry. Their pro- ieinbrfle scr the working force | sinc r0- | pa “Biggest cuneer in ea roan ly on the amount of money ie 1 pop aeeion for whe “ata has bee if a or | tery over working machines. ton on a control panel”, Post Office Sorts =| Electronically now engaged in sorting. “It will take some ,time to introduce these machines,” i result of the purchase of these sorter: ae ‘When asked to comment on’the Agere denial caste Ga employment and on po: gage a Sue no! edgi ip! ment * situa es, ie Pos! Office authorities haye told us that no one will lose their job, and e believe that they’re sincere,” the. Ercan of the Negotiating} can save their clients at the stored in its ory” in one Committee this yeai wall esas eneerorenvorkers, eeyenteene millionth re the Union’s praise. They stuck to When this time, some of the , Z their guns under heavy They|{eading corporation chiefs ap- ing Stoc The Canadian Post Office ed Premier when he| peared on the scene, their minds| Making * the payroll is e Department is testing “laid the wood on” at Victoria. seemed to work quite differently. |S™all operation compared rid’s_ first electronic tee were thinking several Peco gaitthe “tajekes” the machine can a sorting system, with w to dof the e yers’ of keeping} With the railway’s rolling stock.| comparison with the eens eats, and that takes con- asonably | Every morning it will turn out a| cal ‘‘Transorma” sorter. Should Pile doing. Experience has nals, es-| detailed report on the pat of | the tests prove favorable to th 1 a great teacher, give the| the CPR’s own and foreign ea electronic method, la a ry ileal for those at a dis- uldn’t care} give the location of the in system will be introduced into ealize how ae ways le: well-being of the}any series, pick out any Vancouve: id other citie: the enisloyere can find to say “no” iguring how to|¢ar by its serial number, biowie The cleceonte sorter n “read” the ist alanis Bargai the panes and locat: addi ae techniques are not casy % uture, the “big station : ad tell master, but it is now possible to whee" tin iste atti take a wets each car is loaded or claim that the labor men can|more direct inter in the ex- orma match the best on management's changes ears ie Sbargaicing | Te Peiifeencl ne Sntosioation 0 side, fable, district offices and stations as post é Experience Counts eee the oe I could tell|well as to top management. In|; My personal observations lead] would simply add proof to the| fact, it will spot errors in freight | he ion’: of | statement already antes that the | marshalling yards even The nic es requires isontaittee’s. members were ju: U erators who print | tas tough, and just as able, as the| All this and more it will do in| code versions of addresses on let- -|men put up to defeat them, just an eight-hour day. But in|ters as they enter the post office. e time oe is going to be put to work he letters are hes ae into the ane MPR ie ciek th s 24 hours a day lectronic “brain” s interesting to watch the 3 "a neni Sem aiie aa ti ae He aes na paths be- TWUA Gains ORiasbatealitd Fit ad-| The Transorma at Peterborough jas itions or subtractions, 1350 mul-| requires five postal sorters who “a ind ae ARS TWA was 40 eri Me Ir Silas orie ana BRDO divisione-ou| sit: Belore- five deeymenrde meaeene entrenched and so determined. WOODBRIDGE, Ont. (Cc make eo 400 logical decisions per | letter’ mail into 300 receptacles at NURMNTKG 295: ciatlor cs | sec the speed of 300 letters per man el ‘5 employees at the ue o big it takes up 3,000|hour. Each operator reads the Robinson Manufacturing Com- ete, pany Ltd. h re voted recent square oe ey floor space. It’s|address of the let 2, aon = te merge denendent really a battery of 29 machines ally placed before him in the ae union with end Workers hooked up as one working unit.|ing position. By ssing the miniad Ameren (C “LC they |1¢ has 12,400 vacuum tubes, 143 pas combination of perl ae mpellednrotenorel tha ae the [motors and about 36,600 diodes. |{etter is deposited into miinibenso£ aes ees gain. | It takes two 30-ton air-condition- receptac le. d by the TWUA in Canada |¢TS to keep the temperature and Peterborough machine is : humidity of the room constant, |the world’s first production model luring a three-month driv. af ite tied fl The Independent Woodbridge | With aaathts machine in reserve. | Of its type. It requires floor e “a = of approximately 50 by 20 feet, Cotton Workers’ Union in an White-collar Worker and stands about 20 feet high overwhelming secret ballot vote R ae a rental of $400, 00H sa auirarcagh themetrect ahenantos only two dis: ig votes were | to $500,000 a year for its ze but rnatic *sorting meri i he s Glens oil Us cast), became the fourth inde-|will save at least that much| 5° “omployment, Can: pendent union. to join TWUA | working only part-time. But S8Y| Office public istation * cites ranks in recent | railway’s executives, the com- Maurice Desrochers ted that ice Meat Plants Ahead ‘CPA)—Working ‘acturing as a whole, aa? ing to the Department of La- jour. study conducted by the des Berio ‘ost supported District Credit IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & ‘estminst: rat CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY edit Unions and other by IWA Local Unions in it Union, 209 Argyle ia ace to lay off any workers Credit Unions B.C. Street, Port Ape Quebec Streets, Vancouvs ver 1 IWA ae Credit vy Inion, Room 21, 774 Columbia an “18, , WA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria Union, ae ae Chemainus 952, ican & District Credit ieee aot ae Descad ince George & District, 1046 - 4th Avenue, Prince George “Alex B. Macdonald Barrister & Solicitor Notary Public 204 Holden Bldg. 16 East Hastings St. . VANCOUVER 4, B.C. TAtlow 6641 - ‘1 4621 - 4939 -d: ks vacation a 5 ‘weeks after 6 & aac PAS. proximat 15 pi ered by cae vabace a abn 95. percent were covered by group life insurance, Rest periods ser shown to be periods oer day, aloes 31 percent in erta al are ou b perce i eae Columbia SOLICITOR TO THE 1. W. A. selad