B.C. LUMBER WORKER 2nd Issue, May NEWS DIGEST Items Of Interest To Labor In Capsule Form Freight, Phone Increases Disallowed OTTAWA—The federal cabinet disallowed increases in freight rates and local and long distance telephone charges in Ontario and Quebec in the first such move in 25 years. The freight rates boost approved by the Board of Transport Commissioners some time ago was 3.6 per cent, and the telephone hikes would have amounted to three per cent. Union Seeks Labour Law Changes TORONTO—The Textile Workers Union of America in a brief to the Ontario government’s Select Committee on Labor Relations hhas asked for the correction of three “matters of great practical im- portance” in Ontario labor law—failure to provide succession (of con- tract) rights when a company is leased, sold or transferred; the re- quirement that a majority of all workers are required for certifica- tion, thus counting an abstention as a vote against the union; and the Labor Relations Board’s practice of accepting notices of objection to unions, which later turn out to be employer-inspired. CELE ‘ ; . Machinists Lodges Merge MALTON—Four Machinists lodges in this area have merged to form Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 717. Manitoba Election Called WINNIPEG—Provincial elections have been called for June 16 by premier Douglas Campbell. March Unemployment Sets Record _ OTTAWA—Unemployment in Canada reached a post-depression record in March 1958 with 883,660 registered for work at NES offices and 590,000 unemployed according to the DBS “sample survey.” Liberals Asked To Join CCF TORONTO—CCF Ontario leader Donald C. MacDonald called on all “small liberals” to join the CCF, since new Ontario Grit leader Wintermeyer is “the corporations’ most ardent champion.” G.M. Terminates U.A.W. Contract DETROIT—General Motors has terminated its contract with the UAW effective May 29 in the first such move since the union was recognized in the 1930s, but Auto Workers president Walter P. Reuther has pledged “no strike” now. CLC Executive Reaffirms Resolution WINNIPEG—The CLC executive after the Congress’ convention here reaffirmed the resolution passd by the convention supporting those affiliates asking for higher wages, since wage boosts will pump more money into the depressed economy. DOUBLE THE LIFE OF YOUR CHAIN SAW....... 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Fred Fleber Subscript Rates........_...$2. ee iC A. Spencer~ SA Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa Anthorizey G00 COFIBS PRINTED IN THIS 1SS085 9 Million Target Sought Local trades councils are be- ing urged to plan recruiting drives to bring trade union mem- bership in Britain up to nine million this year. In a report to the T nual conference of trades an- coun- cils the Trades Councils Joint Consultative Committee states: “We ought to have nine million members this year. If each holder of a trade union card was encour- aged to sce that his relatives and workmates also joined this figure would be far surpassed.” Recruiting Drive It is suggested that every year trades councils should survey their district to find out where a fac- tory, a shop or an office is not yet organized. This year, as a first step, they should call’ together their own executive committees and local branch officers to plan a recruiting drive, It is stressed that though re- cruitment is, of course, the par- ticular respon ty of individual unions, the pooling of resources by branches locally through trades councils is an effective way of building up the Moyement’s strength. 3-Year Truce Okayed OSLO (CPA) — A nation- al three-year wage agreement which would practically guaran- tee industrial peace here is ready for signing, as negotiators for the Norwegian Federation of Labor and the Norwegian Em- ployers Association have agreed on recommendations for a col- lective contract. Almost all exist- ing contracts expire this year. About 230,000 directly-involved union members will vote on the proposals before March 3. If ap- proved, the pact would indirectly set a pattern for plants not affili- ated to the Employers Association, as well as some 118,000 I ser- vants. Key provision of the proposed contract include: work-weck re- ductions from 48 to 45 hours week- ly effective March 1, 1959; con- current wage boosts of six and two-thirds per cent; and a supplé- mentary pension scheme. Seamen in domestic traffic are excluded from the proposed settlement. HEALTH CENTRE activities extend into the Camarena home as nursing auxiliary Ada Catron schools the children in the importance of brushing teeth, ICFTU Studies Labour Laws BRUSSELS (CPA) — Two missions of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions are studying labor leg- islation, conditions of work and other vital social problems in two widely separated parts of the globe. : One mission, appointed in ac- cordance with a resolution passed at the ICFTU’s Fifth World Con- gress in Tunis, is studying trade union legislation and its adminis- tration in Northern Rhodesia, Kenya and Tanganyka in Africa. Union Restrictions The mission will attempt: to learn to what extent labor laws and the administration of them, hamper the freedom of unions in those countries of restrictions of union activities in the territories. Two of the mission’s. three members, T. A. Kelly, president of the Jamaican National Work- ers’ Union, and Ivar Noren, in- ternational secretary of the Swedish Metalworkers’ Union, came to Brussels for consulta- tions before the mission left for Africa. George Thomas of the Sierre Leone Council of Labor will join them in Africa later, while Pieter de Jonge of the ICFTU Seeretariat is secretary to the mission, ICFTU Executive Board The members plan to include Uganda in their itinerary. Re- port of the six-week mission will be submitted to the Executive Board of the ICFTU, The second’ mission has arrived at Saigon, Viet-Nam. Set up at the request of trade unions there, it is sponsored jointly by the ICFTU, its Asian, Regional Or- ganization, and the Plantation Workers’ International Federa- tion. Aim of the three-member body is to study labor conditions in Viet-Nam, contact union leaders there, and recommend action to meet the needs of Viet-Namese unionism. Hyde Park Anti-Union MONTREAL (CPA) — The Union Label department of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (CLC) has asked that trade unionists refuse to buy clothes made by Hyde Park Clothes Limited and the Scott Clothing Company, both of Montreal. The union is engaged in an “all- out fight”, and must battle both the companies and the Duplessis government’s labor “services.” The clothing is sold under the following brand names: BOND (through Bond Clothes Shops) : MARBLE ARCH TOWNLY PRINCETON HYDE PARK NEWTON TOWN Yhe ACWA asks all unionists to look for the union label on all clothes. 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