B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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B.C.
Mr. Larry Ketch, Youbou, B.C.

. Dick Joe, Duncan, B.C.
Me Balbir Singh, Honeymoon Bay,

i Se
ae <r, George Duce, Richards ‘Trail,
‘ Dunean, B.C.
: Mr. Young Quon Lain, Mesachie
Lake, B.C.
4 Mrs, “Gurbaghan, Mesachie Lake,
'B.

| Mrs. Shirley Vance, Lake Cowichan,

4 Ce
y wee william Harvey, Mesachie
‘Lake, B.C. 3
: Miss Arlene Peacock, Mesachie Lake,
" B.C.

Mrs.

Mrs'B in Lowe, Youbou, B..C

Mrs. Morris Wilson, Cobble Hill, B.C.

Mrs, Frank Davis, Westview Road,
Dunean, B.C.

Mrs, J. W. Watson, Mesachie Lake,

Mrs; Andrew Anderson, Lake Cow-
ichan, B.C. x

Mrs, Paul Eugene, Lake Cowichan,
B.C,

ry Storoschuk, Shawnigan
B.C.

Mrs, Lawrence Leakey, Youbou, B.C.
Mrs. David Woods, Herd Road, Dun-

1,-B.C. -
Mrs, Jackie Crabbe, Menzies Road,

unean, B.C.
Mrey Alphonse Gaboury, Lake Cow-

ichan, B.C.
Mrs. Surgit Singh, Honeymoon Bay,

B.C.
Mrs. Lila Jefferies, Lake Cowichan,

B.C.
St. Paul's

Ladies Auxiliary of Local 1-217,
IWA, visited the following patients
in the St. Paul's Hospital distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of the
B.C. Iamber Worker.

Gerry Gyld, Powell River—Leg in-
juries.

P, Moseia, Yukon Lumber—Hand ini-
jury.

Birstesy Yukon Lumber—Hip injury.

Jim Santrock, Western Plywood.

N. Kibbe, Thompson Lumber.

North Van. General
Sister P. J. McKibbon of the LA
Local 1-217, IWA, visited the follow-
ing patients in the North Vancouver
General Hospital from January 1 to

81, distributing candy, cigarettes
and copies of the B.C. Lumber
Worker.
Richard Snyder, Harrison Lake—Leg
injury.
Jack Service, King’s Mill —Heart
attack,

mittee by UAW Secretary-Treasw

intent upon a smear campaign wit

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UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE

Royal Columbian

Sisters Rosen and Rebeyka of
the L.A., Local 1-357, WA, visited
the following patients in the Royal
Columbian Hospital, March 11° to
18, distributing candy, cigarettes
and copies of the B.C. Lumber
Worker:

Violn Bartsof, P.V,, Local 1-357—

Gone home.

Reldford, P.V., Local 1-357—Gone
home.

Phillip Paige, Sereta River, Local
1-85—Torn ‘cartilage.

Daniel MeBride, P.V., Local 1-357

—Not too ill.

Wrik Andersen, P.V., Local 1-357—

Operation, Better.

Jobn Dzurix, Timberland, Local 1-
357—Observation.

i. Norman, Flavelle Cedar, Local
1-357—Gone home.

Jarvis Inlet, Local
infection.
Patrick, Jr., P.V., Local 1-
Improving.

wwaker, Alaska Pine, Local
Heeling fine.

Ryan, Fraser Mills, Local 1-
improving.

3
Thompson, Jr., Fraser Mills, Local
1-357—Hine,
Sisters Pearl Smith and Esther
Spooner of the L.A., Local 1-357,

IWA, visited the following
tients inthe Royal Columb:
Hospital, March 6 and 11, distrib-
uting candy, cigarettes and copies
of the B.C, Lumber Worker:

John Blanchard, Pacific
Ocean Falls.
Peter Matti, Fraser Mills.
ide, Pacific Veneer.
Recksiedler, B.C. Mfg.
Hoover, Fraser Mills.
A ner, Pacific Pine,
Violn Bartxom, Pacific Veneer.
Lucien Bouthot, Fraser Mills.
R. Blake, Pitt Lake Logging.
John Ryan, Fraser Mills.
Dayid King, Fraser Milis.
Bill Gonxnker, Alaska Pine.
Mins Reldford, Pacific Vene
Sisters Pearl Smith and
Spooner of the L.A., Local 1-3
LWA, visited the following
tients in the Royal Columbian
Hospital, February 13, distributing
candy, cigarett copies of the
B.C, Lumber W

Mills,

57,
pa-

Mills,

Pacific Mills,

R, Benedik, I:
W, Donhanic,
W. Mitchell, Fr
John Ryan, Pr:
Bill Gonsker, Alaska Pine.

d King, Fraser Mills.

BCFP, Hammond.
Haney.

P, Hammond.

BINDING ARBITRATION proposed before the Senate Com-

rer, Emil Mazey, to end the Kohler

four-year strike was rejected out of hand by the company officials

ith the aid of three Senators, mem-

bers of the McClellan Senate Committee.

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UNITED STATES hit the highest

, leyel in 16 years, when it reached a total of 5,173,000 last month.

AFL-CIO officials predicted that
=

tants of the City of Philadelphi

cently. The committee was instruc

unwise to wait” as the situation

have been led to believe.”

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ADEQUATE LOW-COST LI

in three years, according to a

to bodily health and well-being
chases.

NEW BAKERY UNION, th

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by discredited James G. Cross.

the peak is still to come.
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“HOW MANY is 5 million unemployed? Said President Meany,
“There are twice as many unemployed workers as there are inhabi-

ia or the total population of the

States of Wyoming, Vermont, Utah, S. Dakota, Rhode Island, North
Dakota, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Nevada.”

8

AFL-CIO DRIVE to “Put America Back to Work” was carried
by an eight-man committee directly to President Eisenhower re-

icted by a conference of 1000 trade

union leaders. The President was told that “it’s unnecessary and

“will be worse rather than better,

and far worse and far more dangerous than the American people

VING by a self-supporting family

of four costs $86.76 a week as of last October, an increase of 6.8%

survey made by the Community

Council of Greater New York. Only those items absolutely essential

were included in the family pur-

ie AFL-CIO American Bakery and

Confectionery Workers’ Union, has won a series of victories in rep-
resentation elections held recently despite deals and threats made

Wages Lower In January

Average weekly wages and hours of work in manufacturing in
Canada were both lower at January 1, 1958, than a month earlier,

according to the IWA Research Department. Following are the

average hours and earnings of hourly-rated wage-earners for speci-

fied industries.

AVERAGE HOURLY

AVERAGE WEEKLY

AVERAGE HOURS EARNINGS—Cents WAGES—Dollars

; Ldand dan. Dees Jan. 1 dan/1 Dee. Jan.
957 1958 1957 1957 1958 1957 1957 1958

} 37.3 158.0 163.5 165.7 59.88 66.38 61.81
37.6 169.3 177-3 178.0 64.50 72:52 66.93

37.0 145.4 1488 1525 54.82 6012 56.34

40.3 181.6 193.7 194.0 73:91 8252 78.18

42.4 156.6 161.2 163.7 66.0 971.41 69.41

33.8 170.1 1781 117.5 58:51 73.38 60.00

38.6 926 958 96.4 36.21 38.13 37.21

ILGWU
Wins
Strike

One week after 105,000 mem-
bers of the International La-
dies’ Garment Workers Union
(AFL-CIO) walked off the job
in New York to support de-
mands for higher pay, contract
enforcement and other benefits,
the strike was over with vic-
tory going to the union on
all points. :

A new three-year agreement
provides for a 33.5 percent pack-
age including eight percent an-
nually in wage increases, a new
severance pay fund, paid holidays
for piece workers after one year,
and paid overtime after seven
hours for piece workers.

ILGWU president David Du-
binsky said the estimated addi-
tional $78 million annual value
of the increases will help restore
purchasing power and help off-
set the current recession.

In Montreal

Members of the International
Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
(AFL-CIO-CLC) in Montreal
drew welfare benefits amounting
to more than a million dollars
last year, reported Bernard
Shane, ILG WU vice-president
last month,

The benefits, paid for by em-
ployers in the dress, cloak and
suit and embroidery industries,
went to ILGWU members in the
form of. sickness and hospital
benefits, health centre services,
paid vacations and retirement
checks, The union’s 10,000 mem-
bers in the Montreal. area .re-
ceived benefits totalling $1,040,-
131.44.

Industries with which the
union has contracts in Montreal
contributed $1,529,222.09 to wel-
fare funds. Additional medical
services were also added last
year to the Union Health Centre,
administered jointly by the IL-
GWU and the Montreal Fashion
Industries, the only center of its
kind in Canada.

Operation of the Union Health
Center, located on the third floor
of the ILGWU building on Pla-
teau St., cost a total of $95,755.32
last year, representing service to
4,704 union members. A staff of
20 doctors, under the direction
of Dr. Charles-Emile Grignon,
chief of medicine at Notre Dame
Hospital, operates the center
with two dieticians, two nurses
and a number of technicians.

Services ranging from general
medicine to dermatology are av-
ailable at the ILGWU health
center, In 1957 there were 6,675
cases of general medicine; 1,799
X-rays; 1,546 cases in the endo-
nutrition category; 1,212 in the
eye department; and 1,010 ear,
nose and throat cases. Other ser-
vices included gynecology, car-
diology, laboratory, EGG, EMR
and dietetics.

ILGWU members received vac-
ation pay amounting to $703,-
749.78, paid for by their em-
ployers but distributed by the
union, Retirement benefits
amounting to $50 a month were
paid to 164 members of the union
now retired. Sickness and hos-
pital benefits paid to union mem-
bers totalled $118,898.81.

ATTEND

YOUR UNION
MEETINGS /

Treasurer William Botkin,

A list of the unions entering
into such agreements follows, as
well as the stipulations made in
each instance.

UNITED CEMENT, LIME &
GYPSUM WORKS, International
Union, AFL-CIO:

This union agrees to accept
transfers or withdrawal cards
with the IWA on a reciprocal
basis, in accordance with their
Constitution. Their Constitution
provides such transfer or with-
drawal be deposited with the
Local Union within five days
after obtaining employment.
UNITED FURNITURE
WORKERS OF AMERICA,
AFL-CIO:

This Union agrees to accept
transfer cards from the IWA
without payment of initiation
fees, providing the IWA agrees
to accept theirs. Upon instruc-
tions from the International Ex-
ecutive Board I have so agreed.
SASKATCHEWAN CIVIL
SERVICE ASSOCIATION:

This Union agrees to accept
withdrawal or transfer cards
from the IWA on a reciprocal
basis.

THE UNITED BRICK & CLAY
WORKERS OF AMERICA,
AFL-CIO:

INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY
WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO:

This union agrees to accept
withdrawal or transfer cards
from the IWA on a reciprocal
basis.

Ten Unions
Accept Plan

Response to the invitation issued in the name of the
|IWA International Executive Board to other unions for
reciprocal agreements enabling acceptance of withdrawal
cards or transfers without payment of initiation fees has
been limited to date, reports International Secretary-

OFFICE EMPLOYEES
INTERNATIONAL UNION,
AFL-CIO:

This union agrees to accept
transfers on a reciprocal basis.
PULP, SULPHITE & PAPER
MILL WORKERS, AFL-CIO:

This union will accept IWA
withdrawals or transfers upon
the payment of a $1.00 initiation
fee plus the current months dues.
They expect the IWA to charge
the same. .

RAILROAD SIGNALMEN
OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO:

They agree to accept with-
drawal cards on a reciprocal
basis.

UNITED TEXTILE WORKERS
OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO:

They agree to accept with-
drawal cards on a reciprocal
basis.

INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL
WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO:

They agree to accept with-
drawal cards on a_ reciprocal
basis.

Prior to the merger of the
former AFL Paper Makers and
the former CIO Paperworkers,
the IWA had an agreement with
each one on accepting each others
withdrawal card. The Paper
Makers would accept IWA cards
upon payment of one-half the in-
itiation fee plus current month
dues. The Paperworkers would
accept IWA cards without any in-
itiation fee.

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