B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Ist Issue, September

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Ban H-Bomb Tests

Urges Congress

Report made by Regional
Vice-President Joe Morris on
decisions made at the recent
meeting of the Executive
Council of the Canadian Lab-
or Congress stated a firm
position had been taken in
support of the proposed ban
on thermo-nuclear tests.

The Congress statement follows:

“The Canadian Labour Congress
welcomes the reported agreement
reached on August 19th by the
international conference of scienti-
fic experts on methods of verifying
compliance with an international
ban on testing nuclear weapons.

“This agreement resulting from
seven weeks of technical, non-
political negotiations in Geneva,
on the part of scientists appointed
by the governments of the United
States, U.S.S.R., Great Britain,

Canada and a number of other
countries, marks one of the most
positive steps towards a possible
agreement on disarmament,

“This means that the Soviet bloc
and the western nations have
agreed on methods of detecting
atomic tests and have laid the
technical basis for an international
agreement to suspend atomic tests.

Agreement Sought

“In keeping with the Statement
on International Affairs, adopted
by our Winnipeg Convention, the
Canadian Labour Congress, there-
fore, calls on the Canadian govern-
ment immediately to take the in-
itiative for the conclusion of an
International Agreement among
the nuclear powers, banning
thermo-nuclear tests, based on the
technical agreement reached by
their scientific representatives and
experts in Geneva.

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ICFTU
Joins
Campaign

Trade union efforts to com-
bat a rising tide of unemploy-
ment have been expanded to
world-wide dimensions it was
indicated in the report of
ICFTU representatives at the
recent session of the Execu-
tive Council of the Canadian
Labour Congress.

In his comment on this develop-
ment, District President Joe Mor-
ris said:

“Canadian trade unionists will
be gratified that the ICFTU has
acted with vigor in protesting
world-wide inaction on unemploy-
ment. Deep disappointment was
expressed in a recent statement:
‘at the failure of the industrial
countries to fulfill their obligations
under the United Nations’ charter
to take action to promote full
employment and economic pro-
press.’

“The ICFTU called upon all
government, to treat as a matter
of urgency the question of inter-
national action to stabilize the
prices of and markets for primary
commodities entering into world
trade.

“This latter recommendation
should be of special interest to
lumber workers in view of the dis-
cussions during negotiations relat-
ing to export markets for B.C.
lumber,

“It was also urged by the
ICFTU that further aid be given
tothe under-developed countries,
and that steps be taken to ensure
sufficient purchasing power for

the mass of consumers.” ,

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‘ALFONSO SANCHEZ MADARIAGA,
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1-80 Meets Sept. 21

Membership meeting of Local 1-80, IWA, will be held Sun-
day, September 21, in the IWA Hall, Duncan, commencing at
10:30 a.m. Business will include the election of delegates to rep-
resent the Local Union at the Third Annual Convention of the
B.C, Federation of Labour, convening in Vancouver, in October.

Victor Nelson Passes Away

Long time member of Local 1-85, IWA, Port Alberni, Victor
H. Nelson, passed away suddenly August 9th. Mr. Nelson was
very active in the Union and was for many years Job Steward
at the Somass Division of MacMillan & Bloedel Limited, where
he was employed from 1940, until his retirement in 1954,

Prior to his employment with MacMillan & Bloedel, Mr.
Nelson had worked for nearly forty years in various logging
camps and sawmills on the Coast,

ILGWU Plans Drive

TORONTO (CPA) — ILGWU representatives from all
across Canada will meet here October 4-5 to plan a nationwide
drive to put the union label on more than three million articles
of women’s clothing produced in Canada annually. -

The drive is part of a million-dollar campaign planned for

the United States and Canada.

Plans to enforce union label

clauses in ILGWU contracts will be discussed.

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Social Legislation
Reforms Advocated

OTTAWA (CPA)—Broad changes in Canada’s social
legislation have been advocated by the recent Canadian La-
bor Congress Executive Council meeting here. The recom-
mendations were based on a number of resolutions referred
to the Council by the Congress’ Second Convention, held in

Winnipeg last April.

A new contributory old age
security plan, financed by employ-
er and employee contributions and
supplemented by tax revenues,
headed the list. Self-employed
persons would be included in the
plan, under which employees
would retain pension rights even
though they changed jobs.

Old Age Security Plan

Benefits under the new con-
tributory scheme proposed by the
Congress would be tied in with the
highest earnings during a reason-
able period prior to retirement,
and there would be a built-in
feature protecting the pensioner
from a loss in purchasing power
through inflation.

A similar proposal was adopted
as CCF party policy at that party’s
National Council meeting last
January.

The CLC is also proposing an
immediate reduction in the eligible
age for old age security from 70
to 65 years, and an increase in
monthly benefits to $75 from the
present $55,

UIC Reforms

Revisions in unemployment
insurance legislation were also
called for by the Executive
Council. Improvements out-
lined included: extension of
coverage to all wage and salary
earners; establishment of bene-
fit rates at not less than two-
thirds of former earnings; crea-
tion of two new insurance cate-
gories to cover higher paid
workers; substantial increase in
the present $4,800 income ceil

ing for participation; restoration
of a 52-week maximum period
and elimination of the waiting
period; and provision for the
payment of benefits to persons
insured under the Act who are
unemployed because of illness.
The Executive Council .reiter-
ated a policy favoring free educa-

-| tion with full provincial autonomy

in the educational field. A com-
prehensive resolution adopted by
the Council calls for a federal-
provincial education conference to
implement a program providing
greatly increased scholarships; es-
tablishment of advanced technical
schools in all major industrial
centres; extended teacher-training
with- salary schedules to attract
high-calibre teachers, and federal
financial assistance toward addi-
tional school construction.
Adult Education

The CLC will extend its own
adult education program as rap-

idly as possible, and will investi-
gate the possibility of setting up
a labor college.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker
will be pressed to fulfill. his prom-
ise of labor representation on the
Canada Council.

The Council, which renewed
its request for a Bill of Rights,
also proposed that a survey be
initiated by the federal Labor
department to determine the

extent of racial and religious
discrimination in Canada.

The Council also asked that
NES efforts to halt job referral
discrimination be intensified;

urged appointment of a Citizens’
Advisory Committee to help en-
force the Canada Fair Employ-
ment Practices Act; and called
for an amendment to the Na-
tional Housing Act prohibiting
the use of public money “to
underwrite the activities of
builders who practice racial or
religious discrimination in the
sale or rental of NHA-financed
homes.” 5

IVOE

Face
Ouster

WASHINGTON (CPA) —
The International Union of Op-
erating Engineers, expelled last
April from the Canadian Labor
Congress on raiding charges,
has been ordered by the Execu-
tive Council of the AFL-CIO to
clean up or face expulsion from
the American central labor
body.

The 285,000 member union has
made some progress, the Execu-
tive Council said, but must still
correct conditions in Long Island,
Newark, Philadelphia and Chic-
ago.

Corruption Charges

The union must also bring cor-
ruption charges against former
president William E. Maloney, and
must adopt democratic procedures

and strict audit controls over
union funds,

_ Maloney was accused by Senate
investigators of spending union
money to maintain himself in lux-
ury, The former president, now
critically ill, resigned last winter.

_Joseph Delaney, described as a
life-long friend of AFL-CIO pres-

ident George Meany, now heads
the union,