Ist Issue, December

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

From Page 1

“Walls”

ficers the following morning took
all necessary steps to ensure that
the interests of the injured men
and their families would be prop-
erly safeguarded,

District Executive Assistant
Jack Moore was assigned to tem-
porary duty in the Regional of-
fice, pending recovery of the Re-
gional Director. President ha
Welder, Local 1-423, was assigned
the duties of the Financial Secre-
tary during his hospitalization.

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“Home”

energy and ability he has devoted
to the work of the Federation, and
more especially to its political
education program,

George Home is a member of
the United Packinghouse Work-
ers of America. He was elected
President of the’ Vancouver La-
bour Council in 1948, and later
that year became Secretary of the
B.C, Federation of Labour of the
former Canadian Congress of La-
hour. With the merger of the two
Federations, following the merger
of the TLC and the CCL, he was
again elected Secretary-Treasurer
of the central provincial body,

At the 1958 convention he was
returned to this post by acclama-

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“CMA Proposals”

turers’ Association, which, we feel,
would seriously injure employer-
employee relations in Canada.”

Mahoney Blasts ‘Arrogance’

United Steelworkers’ Canadian
director, William Mahoney, in a
statement on the recent Canadian
Manufacturers Association brief
to the federal cabinet charged
that the CMA, “with typical arro-
gance”, confused “the economic
interests of a minority of employ-
ers with the ‘public ifiterest’.”

The brief, Mahoney said, is “an
open attempt to limit bargaining
power by legislation, useful only
to those employers who antici-
pate strikes and strikebreakers.”

Mahoney also condemned the
“importation of the discredited
U.S. concept of anti-union-security
legislation,”

The Steelworkers official charg-
ed that the recent Stelco “propa-
ganda line” of permitting price
increases while denying wage
boosts in the ‘public interest’ had
placed the company “in the posi-
tion where it could not bargain ef-
fectively,”

Shareholders, employees and
Canada all suffered from a “need-
less strike,” Mahoney continued;
“while other concerns were able
to bargain with their employees
in constructive fashion, unimpeded
by their public statements.”

“We hope that the Stelco-led
CMA statement . . . does not
mean the beginning of another
three-year propaganda war which
will find Stelco trapped in its own
propaganda and another inevitable
strike at the end of the present
agreement,” he concluded.

Profits Break Records

Factory Wages_Up
Unit Labor Costs_Stable

AVERAGE
HOURLY
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1955

4953 1954

WAGES ARE UP—BUT 1 AM
“Goats PER UNIT REMAIN ALHOST
‘THE SAME.

1956 1957

PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE WORKERS IN. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Source: U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.

IWA Retains Operation

Right of the IWA to repre-
sent the employees of the J.S,
& B. Lumber Co, Ltd. Cran-
brook has been maintained in
a representation vote recently,
when challenged by the Lum-
ber and Sawmill Workers Un-
ion.

The vote was decisively in favor
of the IWA; 30-19.

with the assistance of some of the
Company’s representatives. The
management left little doubt in ~
the minds of ‘the workers that it
would like to have the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers’ Union cer-
tified, and statements were made
which bordered on intimidation.
IWA officials are critical of the
rival union for engaging in raid-
ing tactics at a time when the

NEW YORK—“Profits of corporations in 1959 are likely to
break all records,” according to a special report of the Economic
Unit of the big business magazine U.S. News and World Report.
“Dividends, too, are headed for new highs,” the report declares.

. The expected record-shattering profit bonanza will be the
direct result of the ruthless policy of layoffs and speed up carried
out during the recession,

‘The business journal ‘Business Week’ states quite frankly that
“as the new economies installed during the recession begin to
pay off they are reflected in low costs in turning out units of
production . . . The present trend in business activity points to
record profits for American corporations in 1959 that will top
the previous record in 1956 and will be five times the amount of

IWA is waging a determined
fight for better wages and work-
ing conditions in the Interior.

Reports from the operation in-
dicate that the rival Union under-
took considerable campaigning

Price Index Up Again

OTTAWA (CPA) — Canada’s consumer price index rose
0.2 per cent to a record high of 126.3 from 126,0 between the
beginning of October and November, the Bureau of Statistics

announced, ;
At the beginning of November last year the index stood at

tion,

profit made in the boom year of 1929.”

123.3.

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