B.C. UNIONS ORGANIZE TO FIGHT
EMPLOYERS’ CRIPPLING LEGISLATION

Convention Unanimously
Babee On Counter-attack

rade unions a ees ed by 370 delegates in at-
Feder:

Vol. XXV, No. 20

<EZPp** Ind ISSUE, OCT.,

1958 - VANCOUVER,

B.C.

tion
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Interior

Strike Votes

Gover nt - super
strike vote Biter the ee
Haus will is iets on Nov-

mber 7th,

velopment followed fhe
y IW,

Takes

d that to continue the employers’
(a wage policies could spay, swell
they

eri :
There is no ground for th
that low wages are esse: ate soe for
the ates pages. to hold its
he said. Th

bers in the So eect Teg hi

le:
¢ facts from the Union”
the deities urged.

The Southern Hees Tae ‘ors
have never been in a bett }osi-

a more Hea mute

+ workers
be wore off, both in re-
incre: costs of living
in comparison seh wood-
workers in competing a
pie teabeeevcrkers in oe
Southern Interior should not be
AMERire owered: stand.
Mibgetigiigba order

‘o| Fou six

s won ik sclanation

wate ‘At the ead ee veda
eri lumbe:

tion to grant a to swell | E. Stewart of the peeeaey Mori
wage increase, stated District their employers’ profits, he con-|¢Fs to retain his as Firs
President Joe Morris. He indicat- | tended. Vice-President,
Elected wer President, Bill
Black; First Vice-President, Joe} ”
e H Vice-President ie
nions Forced eee
al; Fourth Vice.
Oo
Into Politics Council members elected were:
Electei
The American trade union movement was forced it rles St ae Street

“as the battleground”

tion of ee Chemical Worl

on which to fight organized
AFL-CIO Pres, George ey told the 15th annual ote

le; pees ball

=

Federation
Re-elects
Officers

Delegates attending the 3rd
Annual Convention of the
BiCz He eee of Labour
of

who stood for re-election
f the top exécutives
Only

new faces wil ae on the ae:
1-118, Vi ‘cto ia, a

et Orr, United ivetwotkere
ouver.

Taresident Bill Black eid aoe
ary-Treasurer eorg Hor

won ee GRE to reek third
terms. Joe Morris won over W.

Charles
waymen’s Union (290); Bob Bel
dome, Beverage ene (289) ;
Sam Jenkins, Marine Worker:

se “’RE-ELECTS” Page 3

ual Convention of the

B.C.
e on the ae
would be met by a

be lau ee aeiecntne with

the full resources of the trade union movement.

Plans to safeguar
serene right Ss ok Ee
all phases of convention ase
from the moment that President
William Blacks - 1 bis Presidential
address declar

ry “Gimmick” Used

P severable to

tion on the subject, District ree
ident Jee ian clared, “The
facts kno every trade
union “Official aH ee had to d
ny negotiating during the past

coe

Conclusive Evidence

he employers have engaged
in a joint effort to oppose all
wage s and contract im-

cumstances of their employees.”

The employers’ tactics through-

out negotiations have been de-
signed to provoke industrial strife.
“The employers’

sources ade
union objectives and at the same
e to eal their profit-taking

sate:

The employer:

ducting a S aMUaneiaatl oral site
organized lobby to persuade both
Federal and Provincial govern-

ing

“The employers haye now con-

iced all political parties, except
one that they sui support re-
strictive legislati

Stop ve Increases

they will hay, ade tr: jons
powerless to demand wage
increases or Prove working
conditions. The efforts of the em-
ployers at this time is to destroy
our gaining nis ength and

sf
reap still greater Pets oe
restraint from the

“They know that they can do
this if they take pe Prot us
the ey ae to strike. The right

the only effective
means ie our disposal to offset
complete and -outright employer
dictatorship.

“The employers

have made
thets Proposals the

an issue in
xt provincial election. It is a
cillenge we can meet successful-

The discussion on the re: esolir-
tion entitled “labour’s crisis’ was
closely identified by the dele; pir
bite the resolution which

d direct political action.

Repeatedly, delegates declared
that the only way to chee gis

ampaign a its employer:
a engage ore effective ‘politi-
cal action wit the use of an or-
ganieation free from employer
dom
The resolution copied unani-
ae was as follov

“FIGHT” Page 3

The picket line used to ur
tater ” Meany observed.
He said. that when labor w

There are a Rice a Bees

could be doing. But
Pati that is
ae Sa

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