14

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

U.A.W. Signs
3-Yr. Contract

INTO (CPA)—A three-year contract similar to

TOR aC
the one signed recently in

in the United States by the United |P'
uto Workers and Gene Motors was approved here
cently by rey preserELG ives of that union and company.

ance,” th

in Canada will get an annual boos
of six cents hourly per cent,
which ever is greater; improved

ich ever is greal
pension arrang\
‘ight-cent hourly premuim
for sl ee work ae
igreement may set the pat:

tern ae sects vith Ford and
Chr; pal

he are ce ee en
plants in EOsaws, Win:
don (Giese), Ss es Ge

ies) and Toronto

ional anc. waa Stam
in the cost-of- Ting

for each .6 rise in tha eamaate
price index. Th is
justed quarterly,

Canadian UAW director George

dir«
Burt noted that, for the first time
i ized in 1937,

Sh percenens et been won
trike,

nt
Nickel (osmosis at
70.

Congress

Extends
“| Support

OTTAWA (CPA) — A Cana-
a Labor Congress committee
ready to meet

¢ Sudbury and
Port Colborne, to discuss ways
hich the CLC might extend

Mine-Mill President ‘Nels Thibaalt
Min:

LC is prepared “

yf
pre resident 's

The letter assured
that the Congress kn
pene a

s

Mine- Bail j

significance

gle.”

aid from

ie Cong
“cteton center” ee
the states.

other

eae members designated
to meet with Mine-Mill officers
are executive vice-president Wil-
liam Dodge and general vice-pre-
Mahoney and

of our

ress has operated as a

VALERIO reaches out as sister Catalina pours his milk ration during the

sites svoulditice (6 help,” Jo-
aid. |

Union R

TORONTO (CP.
was scleeted here aby, the 60-mi

cone or influen:

The union has 1:

Mill ntar1io Hyd ro
former Canadian Congress of La- | recommended ete ctio
bor in 1949 on jurisdictional and
other charges. Its esti has Strike pees onpwee to site
en described as mmui enon see ershi expec!
t

De
4,500 members
the INCO picket ita ‘2 back f

Employees! Union AGNES
if

e|ployers pay 100 per cent
| plan costs aul le Hydro

health centres.

ejects

“Hydro Offer

A) — Eatcce offer by Ontario Hydro

mber policy comme of the
os ae
‘tlement is reac

OHEU. The union notes that 87

per cent a 207 large Ontario em-
of health

‘© pays only

ae Demand

reasonable ” the statement con-

' abe RSIN COD cols, hos 60 p
: mands for a

Bee lief have been pabliciced. in the |e

SSiGHEUES any Hels Laced daily pres. Local religious and| 4,., ee .: Bae

laid-off employees with tw welfare organizations are aiding ,,

pei eh epiceras a et Oe tie content or Teter Hey

along
Sujfional life insurance for every
worker.

ekly sickness and acci at

__ The appeal for some sort of aid
h

ie ago. Consideration was given

management to

jalf the Story

We
benefit pas ate increased b;
to

n if the price

om
mentary Benefits

the Congress’ executive commit-
tee.

‘We recognize the situation at
-| sudbury and Port
being extremely serious and we
avi

e the utmost sympathy for the
ho are

TI
Colborne as
wri

f this

Soe. vil amount
me for ie full feenct
ot ici “Formers, SUB was cut

ork in other company

qegele stated in his letter to Thi-
goe:

fee Company Position
“Ther been very little evi
dence

i
pons feuds its employees.

“In effort to provide assist-

. v
The whole vad, of the ee
c

tin

re three per cent cost-of-living
increase ee i April “com-
ates in

ry Aiea

Company
Threatens
Lay-offs

‘CPA)—The Bell

yed by Bel

pa ding contracts ‘rt i if the
federal cabinet lows an
average five per oat increase
warded the company here re-
cently by the Board of Tree
es Bia for Can:
es the ten provinces and

io and Quebee municipal-
ities a opposing the boost, sche-
duled for mber 1,

The iota ould involve the

wis.” the statement con-

company’s construction
The average = wage of $2.16 fig. ates i fee increase | program, Bell, “sail. E
in ‘a letter is probably | in the price level sane the period
correct ‘but tells. only half the|of the 1957 contract and there-| USS! spring; the eabinct. threw
story, the union statement notes. | fore has sae tp do with these on C enero “award led by
he OHEU bargains for techni-| contract discu at pumniesionere wa epee
cians, desig: ore , editorial] The union ree its wage’ de:|) 70 ceeimaeaiaae Ocoee
iters, etc, whose high wages|mand by three per cent during The rates increase, if allowed,
have the effect e artificially in-| bargaining in any case. would mean that long distance
flating the Cntes io Hydro average} Union demands are “fair and |°°az2¢ ee a and Que-
wage fig casonable” because power costs | P&¢ Woul yy four Der eae
Hydro says that 39 cents hourly |in Ontario are four per cent lower residential charges he oe a
s for overtime, compassionate than in 1940; members are “proud | Cmeased by six knee eta nusi-
leave, isol Mowance and f tele record of public service | cent ee barney
‘orkmen’s mpensation pay- the rs”; aad the erate
ments, but the union stresses that “hag the Bene to asl
overtime is “something over v and working conditions for its
the employer has complete con-| members commensurate with the| SUPPORT OUR
trol” and therefore cannot be] skill and knowledge bring to
counted as part of earnin; i Y

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