B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Ist Issue, July

NEWS DIGEST:
Items Of Interest To

Labor In Capsule Form

MONTREAL—A CCCL union, the National Federation of Ser-
vice Employees, at its recent convention here urged a four-point in-
quiry into Quebec hospitals to investigate costs for treatment and
surgery, employment stability, nature of care provided patients, and
the gap between hospital care, costs and wages paid employees.

Coldwell Joints News Guild
OTTAWA—CCF National Leader M. J. Coldwell has joined the
American Newspaper Guild (CLC). Mr. Coldwell is writing a syndi-
cated newspaper column on current affairs.

1.U.E. Plans Canadian Organization Drive
TORONTO—The International Union of Electrical Workers is
planning to expand its organizing drive in Canada as soon as economic
conditions permit, according to I.U.E. Canadian Director George
Hutchens. Plans are already under way for putting more organizers

jn the field and developing a new action program, he said.

Billionaire Defends Labour
OTTAWA—Billionaire oilman Jean Paul Getty in a magazine
interview has strongly defended unions and the labor movement.
Getty described free, honest’ unions as “our greatest guarantees of
continuing prosperity and our strongest bulwark against social and
economic totalitarianism” in the June issue of True magazine.

Starr Calls Unemployment Meeting
OTTAWA—Federal Labor minister Michael Starr has invited
leaders in the trade union movement and industry along with repre-
sentatives of provincial governments here July 14 and 15 to discuss
methods of reducing seasonal unemployment in Canada.

__U.A.W. To Take Strike Vote

DETROIT—The United Auto Workers will take a strike author-
jzation vote of its 500,000 members who are employed by the “big
three” auto companies, according to U.A.W. headquarters, The
U.A.W. emphasized that the strike authorization would give added
strength to negotiations now in progress, but the union was holding
fast to its “no-strike” policy. Contracts with the firms, Ford, General
Motors and Chrysler, have expired.

C.L.C. Backs Hyde Park Employees
OTTAWA—The C.L.C. is asking its affiliated unions to support
a campaign against the purchase of Hyde Park Clothes, according to
secretary-treasurer Donald MacDonald. Hyde Park locked out its
employees, members of the A.C.W.A., some time ago.

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Fred Fleber

“STAFF CONFERENCE was called by IWA District Neg oti
plain terms of the majority report of the Conciliation Board. Here the Committee's spokesman, Joe Morris, is
seen briefing staff members on the recommendations for the membership.

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fee, when it became necessary to ex-

District President Joe Morris
is expected to attend the Con-
ference on Winter Work, called
by Labour Minister Michael
Starr, to be held July 14-15, in
Ottawa.

About 90 delegates representing
25 national organizations and pro-
vincial governments are expected
to attend.

Principal Objective

Mr. Starr's invitation recog-
nized that the principal objective
of government and industry must
continue to be the expansion of
employment on a_ year-round
basis. The basic purpose of the
conference, however, is to increase
the effectiveness of the National
Winter Work Campaigns of re-
cent years, he said.

Labor, management and

gov-

Winter Work
Under Review

ernment should now get together

at a national level to develop fur-

ther practical proposals which
could lead to increased action at
all levels, he continued.

Three main items listed on
the agenda contained in Mr.
Starr’s invitation are:

—extent and causes of the an-
nual employment slump;

—action already taken to in-
crease winter employment op-
portunities;

—practical proposals for further
action by all interested groups
on local, provincial and na-
tional levels.

The Canadian Labor Congress
and the Canadian and Catholic
Confederation of Labor are
among the organizations invited.

The IUD’s research section
has sent to all affiliated unions
an “Analysis of Holiday Pay
Provisions in Key Manufactur-
ing Agreements.”

Accerding to the study — of
contracts on file at the Bureau of
Labor Statistics covering 5,000 or
more workers — there is “unmis-
takable evidence of steady and
substantial improvement in holi-
day pay clauses in union agree-
ments.”

The anal includes 137 con-
tracts covering 2.7 million employ-
ees and deals with the number of
holidays provided under the col-
lective bargaining agreements and
the rates of pay for holidays
worked,

Holiday Pay
Surveyed

Somewhat similar surveys were
conducted by the BLS in 1950 and
1952-53, but these covered both
large and small companies and —
consequently — many more con-
tracts.

Indicating a definite trend in
holiday improvements are the fol-
lowing statistics revealed in the
IUD study:

© The 1950 BLS report
showed 77 per cent of the con-
tracts studied had paid holiday
provisions, the 1952-53 report
showed 93 per cent of the agree-
ments had such provisions,
while all of the contracts ana-
lyzed by the IUD included paid
holiday clauses.

© The 1950 study showed

that only six per cent of these
contracts recognizing holidays
provided seven or more such
days, the 1952-53 analysis indi-
cated that 31 per cent of the
contracts provided seven or
more holidays. and represented
25 per cent of the workers cov-
ered by all of the agreements,
and the IUD statistics show
that 75 per cent of the contracts
—covering 65 per cent of the
workers — stipulate seven or
more holidays.

The Department study found
that some 57 per cent of the
agreements provided either one
and one-half or double time pay
for hours actually worked on a
holiday, in addition to full straight
time pay for the holiday.

The research section report
pointed out that prior to World
War II, few union agreements
contained clauses providing for
paid holidays to production work-
ers. During the war, unions bar-
gained for these provisions to off-
set in part the wage controls im-
posed by the War Labor Board.

After the war, paid holidays
were negotiated in the auto, rub-
ber and meat-packing industries,
The Steelworkers won six paid
holidays from basic steel as a
part of their economic gains fol-
lowing their 1952 strike.

GNP Levels

OTTAWA (CPA) — Canada’s
Gross National Product — total
output of goods and services —
had a value of $31,676 million in
the first quarter of 1958, little
changed from the level of the pre-
ceding quarter, according to the
Dominion Bureau of Statsitics.

The level of non-farm produc
tion was virtually the same as in
the last three months of 1957. The
rise in personal income in the first
quarter exceeded the rise in the
national income.

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