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LABOR

BRIEFS

Thirteenth annual conven-
tion of B.C. District, Mine, Mill

and Smelter “Workers Union,
will open in. Pender Auditorium
this coming Monday, January
16.

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Canadian Congress of Labor
executive council has _ rejected
by two votes the appointment
of a U.S. labor man as inter-
national affairs director of the
CCL, and Jim Bury, former Van-
couver Labor Council secretary,
is now favored to fill the post.

If Bury gets the CCL job he
will likely be appointed to a
similar position in the merged
TLC-CCL following the first
joint convention April 23.

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CCL’s fifth and final provin-
cial staff seminar before the
labor merger will be held Feb-
ruary 13 at Parksville, Vancou-
ver Island. A sign of the times:
TLC members have been’ invited
to attend.

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' After considering demands of
Vancouver Civic Employees
Union, Outside Workers, for
more pay and better cohditions,
Vancouver City Council offered
a renewal of last year’s agree-
ment. When the union negotiat-
ing committee rejected this pro-
posal the city broke off talks
and asked for a conciliation of-
ficer: ‘

Last Friday a union member-
ship meeting endorsed the re-
port of their negotiating com-
mittee. When a conciliation of-
ficer is appointed the union
spokesmen will try to secure a
settlement acceptable to the
membership, but if none is forth-
coming, the next step will be a
conciliation board.

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Some 1,200 workers at Cana-
dian Canners plants in Vancou-
ver, Ashcroft, Kelowna, Pentic-
ton and Mission have won wage
boosts ranging from five to seven
cents an hour, in a one-year con-
tract signed between the com-
pany and CIO-CCL United Pack-
inghouse Workers of America.

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Minimum ‘salaries of $108
weekly for experienced report-
ers and deskmen feature the first
contract signed last month be-
tween the Newspaper Guild and
the Toronto Globe and Mail. The
minimum goes to $112 this year
and $117 in 1957.

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A four-man delegation from
Senior Citizens’ Association will
meet with Premier W. A.C.
Bennett and his cabinet in Vic-
toria January 20 to demand a
$2,500,000 low-cost housing pro-
gram for pensioners in B.C.

“The provincial government
has saved this amount since Ot-
tawa took over the full cost of
old-age pensions at 75,” said
George Edwards, president of
Senior Citizens’ Association, who
will head the delegation.

“Previously the province had
to pay 25 percent,” he continued.
“Since the federal government
took over the full cost in 1952,
the provincial government has
saved $2,500,000, and this money
should be used to launch a low-
cost housing program.”

LPP appointment

The national committee of
the Labor-Progressive party
announced last week that it has
appointed Harry Binder to its
national office staff. He will
be engaged in organizational
work, and also assume the
‘duties of national treasurer.
Binder was for many years the
Quebec provincial organizer of
the LPP. He will take over

his new post this week.

CCF MP to

speak

for disarmament

J. W. Noseworthy, CCF MP for South York, told a delegation
from the South York Peace Association that he would speak in
favor of disarmament during the debate on the Speech from the

Throne in the present session of
Noseworthy agreed with the

members of the delegation:
Stopping atomic tests in every
country in the world; absolute
prohibition of atomic weapons
combined with an effective sys-
tem of control; and stage-by-
stage reduction of conventional
weapons under international
agreement.

Ih some countries, he told the
delegation, the national economy
depends on the manufacture of
atomic weapons. He agreed that
these same countries could de-
velop atomic energy for peace-
ful purposes with no detrimental
effect on their economies, and
pointed to the Geneva Atoms-
for-Peace conference as showing
the way for such developments.

_He agreed that there was need
for more> pressure from public
opinion and governments on the
UN disarmament sub-commission,
urging them to continue negotia-
tions, build up trust and good-
will among nations, and thus

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parliament.
three proposals put forward by

reach an agreement on disarm-
ament. :

The delegation gave Nose-
worthy a statement made by Rev.
H. A. Boyd of Silverthorne Unit-

ed Church, to the effect that he
would endorse an end to the
testing of atomic weapons, pro-
hibition of their use, and a stage-
by-stage reduction of stocks of
atomic weapons. In the present
day, Boyd said in his statement,
we must learn to live together,
or else be destroyed together.

Noseworthy told the delegation
that more such statements from
prominent citizens in -his consti-
tuency would help him in his
stand in parliament. —

Outside Civic Workers

back labor

candidate

Vancouver Civic Empleyees Union, Outside Workers has
endorsed Vic Forster in the civic byelection February 1, and-
called for independent candidates to withdraw in favor of

the labor nominee.

The action was taken at a membership meeting of the

independent union held Friday
last week at Pender Auditorium.

Non-Partisan Association has

announced that it will not enter
a‘candidate. Forster stated. that
he is not seeking and -will not ac-
cept NPA endorsation.
- Halford Wilson, Archie Proc-
tor and Albert Dunn have filed
their papers, and Sydney Bow-
man has indicated that he may
run, All ran as independents in
December. 5

Mrs. Effie Jones, progressive
independent who has polled a
large vote for council in recent
years, said last week that she
would not run and urged a un-
ited vote behind Forster. This
week she circulated a letter to
trade unions, ratepayers associa-
tions and other groups, in which
she said:

“The February I byelection pro-
vides an excellent opportunity
to elect a representative of the
trade unions to the post of alder-
man.

“The seat -on city council left
vacant by Alderman Showler’s
death should rightly go to a
representative of organized
labor. The recent action of both
Vancouver central labor coun-
cils in naming Vic Forster as
their choice for the aldermanic
seat. should, in my opinion, be
welcomed by all progressive-
minded citizens.

“Unless the trade union move-
ment of Vancouver is given this
opportunity to elect one of their
spokesmen to council, this very
large and important body of citi-
zens will be left without a voice
in civic administration.

“In view of these facts I re-
cently announced that I would
not be a candidate in the by-
election. I join in backing For-
ster who is the choice of the
united trade union movement of
our city. I strongly urge other
would-be independent candidates
such as Halford Wilson, Archie

Proctor and Syd Bowman, to fol-
low my example and leave the
way clear for Vic Forster to rep-
resent the organized wage earn-
ers on city council.

“I strongly urge all labor and
progressive-minded ° citizens to
unite to give organized labor a
voice on council, and to press up-
on other would-be candidates to
leave the way clear for organ-
ized labor’s representative.”

Closing: date for nominations
is January 18. In previous civic
byelections less than 17° percent
of eligible voters have cast bal-
lots..

Labor Council
elects officers

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)
returned its top officers by ac-
clamation this week: Lloyd
Whalen for a third term as presi-
dent; Ed Sims for a fifth term
as vice-president and Vic For-
ster for a third term as secretary-
treasurer..

Other officers re-elected by
acclamation were committee
chairman Wyman Pierce (organ-
ization), Bill Pierce (credentials)
and Gordon Hall (education).

Elections of other committee
heads will take, place at the next
VLC meeting January 24.

A joint committee of the VLC
and TLC will map a campaign
for Vic Forster, labor’s alder-
manic candidate in the February .
1 byelection.

Pt. Arthur to fluoridate

PORT ARTHUR,

Port Arthur City Council by a

vote of 9-1 on Monday this week

voted to fluoridate the city’s

drinking water. The move had

been recommended by the board
of health.

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