B.C. LUMBER WORK

ER

British

BURY REPORTS ON
_MAHOGANY LOGGING
IN BR. HONDURAS

Wages and working conditions i in the lumber Tees
ith

of
those

workers, but without any success.
Mahogany

Logged —

in British Columbia due to lack of Pee ie Beiee Jim
Bury, ace WV sk had of ORIT, who recently toured the
Carribean interests of the U.
This lack % “ai union organ-
t to 1952, when| In one mill visited by Jim Bury,
strike in one of the largest mills | he found that a he iad pie was
he “scabs took f.b.m, crew of

. a it
BSeene shalt workers toil nine
=| hours in-the day, and 45 hours a

eek,

35c Base Rat
The wage et in this particu-
lar unit was: common labor, 35
cents per

conducted der over at y Leas
Bi

filer, $180.00. a m
yd

saw operator, 38

cents per
n |hour; sawyer, $45.00 a week; and

PI
ERD WOOD) LoGs ) waiting to be sawn | into lumber. in this path Honduren saw meill were floated down the
the

mont
Wages are paid in British Hon-

a
send ms
s by Jim Bury, Assistant Secretary of O.R.I.T.

country i

1st Issue, August

carried o1

duras dollars, with one American
dollar equal to $1.40 B.H, dollars.
hai sn) a Pamela umber processed in British
Tay th d loosely in the
interior of the country are toned sun for about e days when it i:
dy for reas The principal
As mahogany is mostly cut into} market is the United States, to
short lengths of from 3 to 5 feet} which country shipments from
for furniture manufacturing, the ME Honduras are nainly
logs seldom more than naciltin NES aAORER
feet in length. ers p
ower wages than the mill work-

ers, and their housing (pictured
‘emely primitive.

elsewhere) is extr

UB HUMOR

IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF

IN BRIEF

THE 37% HOUR WORK WE

has been won by the International Ladies
Garment Worker

K
three-year contract signed with the Cloak Manu-
citi real.
tatoo. “schoo ‘SCHOLARSHIPS described as the Harry Chappell

ansport Worker

s haye ee by the Conadian pBrotherhood of ae be
ther Tr

Saradian unionists

the s

Un

Baestional
dele;

fade
National
announced. Ove
%

will pay the poste ofat
eminar of vale Interna’

gates from

Canadian Unions Pledge
$1,200 Scholarships For
Banff joes Seminar

third of the
ional Condesa

labour cae
1 the si

by the ICFTU in co- Settle with the
ill gather at a Nor

followed by trips for #

jo
for study at selected labour school
ARBITRATION BOARD RULING in "Quebec hhas compelled company to

pay union dues on faa ete ee who refused to pay under a
Barer yfcbackath
AUTOMATION LAY-OFFS. he

ve “mainly a! ffected men around 50 to date
Fe oe A aden

r Brown, Director of copra Services, UAW, when
‘ing changing patterns of (em loyment it Ontai
eet Rinteson Aging.

to various centres where they
will live for three or four days
with a ie aciatl union member.

an
they wil eon gregate
Toronto, and then spend a day i
Mo

Cat

nadian unions hav
d by

BEES. eRCAL Beste th COR TITEE. has resumed hearings on
ree h

ccrued two top officers of the Textile Workers
of eae enrtorh ig ul iran

OvIET: EMBASSY OFFICIALS, Woshinaton D.C. were recently denounced
y a number of Inter: rien! Unions for employing ”
enaratienok raeabes

“scab” labour in: the
anc

y the CLC to ve fe
ciel assistance so tl

aes ps

ay gait THE nate for your sum~
es WEAR!
ir play at

@ FACTS OF LIFE"

“The d the labor movement

spol nse to date has been highly
encouraging, Swerdlow reported.
holarship Pledged

broad-| 4
e

seminar,
CLC. For the first
th American site
sat social and economic

of scholarships to. the

ur—five e:

1]
Unit Packinghiouse
International Ladies’
Workers, and Oil,

Chemical ad
tomic eacl

aes s, one each.
Riolershige ml provide
time lea
return and will pr

sentation front sone wl which veaald
not otherwise afford to participate.

facts of life in ow
to re- ean “he role of the Ses rater Sea

oth bvious

today, if i so previously, that, (aaa. or thirty years from

Bpaihere will be extremely few unions left composed entirely of
production workers.”

—James B. Carey, Secretary-Treasurer,

Industrial Union Department

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THURSDAYS BY.

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MONEY

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