B.C. LUMBER WORKER Ist Issue, November Win Long Strike HAMILTON (CPA) — The United Steelworkers of America emerged the victors in the 83-day strike of over eight thousand of the union’s members at the big Steel Company of Canada works here. The men, who had originally asked a 33%4-cent package in a two year contract won a 27.8 cent package over a 40-month contract expiring July 31, 1961. Company Offers Nothing ‘The company had originally of- fered nothing. On the eve of the strike, they offered a nickel, Settlement came after 10 days of intensive negotiations in which Ontario Labor Minister Daley and Chief Conciliation Officer Louis Fine took part. The agreement brings the base rate to $1.95%4 hourly after the last boost is applied, if rates follow the pattern established earlier at Algoma Steel, where the union won a 24 cent package. Pickets’ Conduct Exemplary The strike was well-ordered and quiet, completely without violence, ‘The courts threw out a company bid to get an anti-picketing in- junction, and termed pickets’ conduct “exemplary.” Union negotiating team was headed by District 6 Director Larry Sefton, Local 1005 Presi- dent John Lisson, and his brother William, a Steel staffer, as well as Eamon Park, assistant to Na- tional Director William Mahoney. Mahoney had to leave the nego- tiations when his brother died in Sault Ste, Marie. Local Ratifies Agreement The agreement itself was rati- fied by a big majority at the local. Strike welfare costs were about $1,000,000. Meanwhile, National Director Mahoney in a special statement assured the public that the settle- ment was “non-inflationary.” ‘The inerease, he said, does not equal the increase in annual pro- duction within Canada’s basic steel industry, Price Increase Unjust “... any attempt by the steel corporations to now increase prices using these wage increases as an excuse will be completely unjustified,” he said. According to Stelco figures, the average annual cost per employee hour was $2.56, Mahoney noted. The new package provides for an average improvement of nine cents hourly for three years, less than 3.4 per cent increase in the average cost per employee hour. According to government fig- ures productivity for all Canadian manufacturing has increased by approximately 3.5 per cent per year over the last ten years. Government Figures “Government figures show that productivity in our basic iron and DENTAL steel industry has increased by better than eight per cent over the past ten years. “In other words”, Mahoney said, “the increases in wages in- volved in the Algoma and Stelco packages are less than the in- crease in productivity experienced for all manufacturing over the last ten years and less than half of the increase in productivity in basic iron and steel over the last ten years. “Under these circumstances a price increase is completely un- justified. “Instead, the industry should consider price cuts as a further method of increasing consumer purchasing power in Canada.” Secret Price Policies Mahoney noted that prior to the Stelco strike the Steelworkers had asked for a federal government inquiry into the “secret price policies of the Canadian basic steel industry. At Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s request we agreed to postpone any such meetings until after the adjournment of Parliament. “However, now that Parliament is adjourned and tthe strike situa- tion is over, we are immediately writing Ottawa suggesting that meetings on the matter of a price inquiry be started as quickly as possible.” Truck Firm Fined BRAMPTON (CPA) — A Hamilton trucking company was fined $250 and costs here for permitting its drivers to work up to 120 hours weekly in con- travention of Ontario’s Hours of Work Act. The charges were believed to be the first laid in an Ontario Court. The firm, Manders Limited, pleaded guilty. The law limits hours of work to 48 weekly and eight daily, although a permit from the Labor Department may be obtained for 12 hours’ over- time per week. ‘ No Records Kept The company did not keep records of hours worked, as re- quired by law, and had not ap- plied for overtime permits. The action was initiatd when a Brampton magistrate urged the Ontario Transport department to investigate. A Manders driver had been involved in an accident after having been on the road 50 hours without sleep. Company defence counsel in pleading guilty said that drivers had not been compelled to work long hours, but had wanted to earn overtime pay. Asian Relations Studied GENEVA (CPA) — First labor - management relations study-tour sponsored by the In- ternational Labor Organization began recently as employers and workers from six Asian countries met here. The 12 participants in the study tour will spend six weeks in the United Kingdom and three weeks in West Germany, where they ‘will study the systems of indus- trial relations in the two coun- tries. Countries Represented Countries represented are: Bur- ma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Ja- pan and Pakistan. Each sent an employer and worker delegate. First phase of the tour ended here with a reception by ILO director - general David Morse. The members of the tour spent five days in Geneva discussing in- dustrial relations with ILO of- ficials. Opening address was by deputy director-general Jef Rens. In the U.K. and West Germany the tour will meet respective min- isters of Labor, and will visit employers’ federations and trade unions. Tour members will make an on- the-spot examination of labor- management relations methods in leading industries. David Morse Meanwhile, director - general David Morse has begun a two- month official visit to the United States and Canada. He will con- sult with government leaders, and officers of employers’ organiza- tions and trade unions. Morse will attend the U.N. General Assembly and other meetings, and will confer with U.N. secretary-general Dag Ham- marskjold. The ILO director-general will be in Ottawa October 4 and 5. Strike Losses Pooled WASHINGTON (CPA) — The six largest airlines in the United States have signed a one year agreement calling for res- toration of revenues to any air- line idled by a strike. Partici- pating in the scheme are Ameri- can, Capital, Eastern, Pan Am- erican World Airways, Trans World Airways and United Air- lines, They invited others to join. The agreement was signed as a strike by the International As- sociation of Machinists against Capital moved into its third week. Labour Shutdown The arrangement calls for the return to the struck airline of the net extra passenger and freight revenues diverted to other airlines by a labor shutdown. A strike by the I.A.M. against Eastern Airlines scheduled for the same day the pact was announced, was postponed. The airlines’ agreement was made retroactive to October 20, four days after the I.A.M., strike began at Capital. SSG ih AS fi LOGGERS’ AND LUMBERMEN’S CHOICE ' For Over 35 Years Watson's Leather JOHN WATSON LTD. >) Gloves Union Made by VANCOUVER, B.C. Union-Busting Explained Here TORONTO (CPA) — Someone got hold of a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Kitchener-Waterloo House Builders Association and it proved to make very interest- ing reading for trade unions as well as for the contractors, What does a builders’ associa- tion tall about? How to go about urion-busting. Who tells them how to go about it? A lawyer who apaprently makes a speciality of it. Who is the lawyer? Steven O. Casey of the firm of Winter- meyer, Askin, Casey and Smith. Who’s Wintermeyer? Purely in- cidentally he’s leader of the Liber- al party in Ontario, What Casey Advises What did lawyer Casey advise? “Fire anybody who has signed union cards. It takes only one or two.” This is of course intimidaiton and intimidation is illegal under the Ontaro Labor Relations Act. What Casey is advising his clients to do is to break the law. Nothing less. How It’s Done Let’s listen to Casey speak. “You ask: How do you keep unions out? This is easy to ex- plain, but hard ito do. To keep the unions out, I think each em- ployer must bear in mind that every employee has two things which he strives to obtain. Wages ard security. If you pay your men wages comparable to industry and the men are happy, they are secure. If you treat your men fairly, you will not have too much trouble keeping the union out. However, even if they get a few to sign, you are in trouble. Fire Card Packers “Keep them out. Tall to your. men and explain this to them. Fire anybody who has signed any union cards. It only takes one or two.” The minutes of the Kitchener- Waterloo Builders’ Association then go on to record that “He (Mr. Casey) went on to explain how to go about bargaining, and other aspects of how the union works, and said in closing that he felt it would be a good thing to form a committee to combat un- ions, and how important it was to stick together. “If one of you signs an agree- ment or enters into a contract with the union, you jeopardize the whole building trade of the County of Waterloo.” Ignore The Act When questioned by the press, Mr. Casey said, “You cannot con- - travene the Act, but as long as you stay within the Act, well, if you want to keep them out, fire them.” Well, Mr. Casey, how can you fire them for signing union cards without contravening the Act? Or do you really mean “To Hell with the Act”? Labour Vindicated For more than a decade the best brains in the labor move- ment have argued that a free economy can’t stand still — if it doesn’t grow bigger it has to fall back, because population keeps increasing. For more than a decade hardly anyone has listened. Even union members haye said, in effect, “The dream used to be 60 million jobs; well, we've got more than that.” Now, at long last, the most respected management maga- zine, Business Week, has swallowed labor’s line. At the peak of the boom in 1957, it notes, the gross national product was $440 billion in mid-1959 (the best hope of Eisenhower’s experts) would leave six or seven million workers unemployed. As we were saying... 17 Million Mark Now OTTAWA (CPA) — The population of Canada at June 1 this year was estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to be 17,048,000, a rise of 459 thousand or 2.8 per cent over last year’s total of 16,589,000. The 17-million mark was passed some time around mid-April, DBS says. The year’s increase was below the record gain of 508,000 or 3.2 per cent for the twelve months from June 1, 1956 to June 1, 1957. This year’s smaller increase was a result in decreased immigration and an estimated rise in emigration outweighing the estimated natural increase of about 24 thousand. What Next? An American Expert on scientific executive selection has received a stunned reaction in England. Robert McMurray told British management representatives that an executive’s wife and sometimes even his mother-in-law should be looked over before the man is hired. He added that some American firms use psy- chological tests, others resort to reading bumps on a candidate's head and one firm selects a man by astrology. The use of tests, according to McMurray, seems scientific and absolves the em- ployer from making a decision. Work Week Stabilized OSLO (CPA)—The largest tobacco factory in Norway re- cently introduced a 45-hour work week for employees under the terms of an agreement signed some time ago between th Nor- wegian Federation of Labor and the Norwegian Employers’ Asociation. The pact provides that from March 1 1959, working hours will be reduced to 45. Tobacco employees had been alter- nating between 4734 and 42% hours since last April, with every second Saturday off. The workers will not lose either weekly wages or piece work earnings provided output is maintained - at the former level,