Employers Provoke Spread
of South Interior Strike

VOL, XXVI NO.2

1959 -

VANCOUVER, B.C.

5c PER COPY

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Lock-out Notices Issued
InRemaining Operations

Pressure exerted by the employers has caused IWA
strike action to spread in that area, stated Diets
Erenigeny ce doe Morris in a recent statement directed t
I

“Not Enough”
Says Congress

EF

of the Executive Council
‘oy-

i i ith| Lloyd
inistér and members of the Cabinet this v.
a

veek to discuss labour’s legislative needs.

“The Minister had declared,
hat the circumstances did mal

attendanc
the Geaneil’s sessions, Jan-
uary 19-22.

Si: mplaints were
made by H. L. Ladd, Dis-
trict 2 President, with re-
gard to the present New-
Sean sgh es

o

Co:
eS to a
“inewrsiding

Con-

insisted
extremely ad:

the situation

is
and that it had
the

Unrepenta
In forthright nguage
Congre: si
railed unrepentant 2
belief that full emp!

an absolute necessity this

country and the ic fom Saal K

views
ad Counce al

See"Congress” P.3

Council
Re-elects
Whalen

her Executive Members el-

a were: Ed Sims, Brewery
Workers, Ist Vice-President;
George Johnston, Meatcutters
Union, 2nd Vice-President; Mel
emmis, ‘Bakery Workers, 3rd
Vice-President; Alderman Ted
Jamieson, Musicians Union, Sec-
retary-Treasurer; W

eer, IWA, Organizatio

man; Jack Henderson,
ineers, Legislation Ch

ue:
Chairman; _and John Brown, Mis-
cellaneous Workers, Credentials
Committee Ohairman.

“| other countries, stated IWA

(Solidarity Appredt late cody
ninatio

Jo soon corrected this error. | ditions te which you are on
St. Mary's Lumber Co. Ltd. | titled.”
Whalen was re-| Cranbrook, been the lat-
elected President of the] ect company to sign an agree- Then And Now
ncouver Labour Council| ment with the IWA. This “The a ployers are fries a
a as than a two-to- z for a 16 cents a the tacti
one vote he Council’s| beur across the board increase | in 1953-54, They will fail agai
roe tract period whic! You have right
meeting, January 20. expires 1960. well as e
is aR Eee ea eens Bete ErorciMcae 35,009, member organization. ot
- -|o8 cate by Re Bullock of ; - M i
e Marine Workers and Boiler- District President Morris Bs- jong struggle i
Bo ltption sured the strikers in his st ~| Were success:
% ment that the Union was mak-| decent s Gee
° een credentialled by ing the GAY nd e| then pained in arene ead was
was, vs for the strikers, s enabled to with
the Ofie Ensayo nterne-| settlement for “neh the eae stfength for contra ee improve
PaHEAL aH thee Gain fs being, fought nts in succeeding yea:

art; eta er, we can do ia

LO Advocates
New Standards

mclusions reached, and action inated at the

neva,
of immeasurable value to lumber
Di

Morris in port prepared for the Canadian Lab
Congress.

The IWA official was one of |gress and included in the six-
two worker delegates nominated

by the Canadian Labour Con- ee" ILO "P.2

's . atau too a Plas
persons,

Situation —.
The spokes:

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