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UGLY DEGRADING BUSINESS

Bar Professional Strikebreakers
Carpenters Brief Demands

TORONTO (CPA) — Use
of professional strikebreakers
should be barred and employ-
ers should be required to re-
hire all striking employees
once a settlement is reached,
the Ontario Provincial Coun-
cil of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners de-
clared in a brief to the cabinet.

The union said that strike-
breaking was an ugly, degrad-
ing business which spawned
disorder and placed addition-
al tax burdens on the com-
munity.

“Special police details must
be stationed at strike sites,”
the Carpenters’ brief noted.
_“Citizen’s tax dollars are used
to provide a private police
force for unscrupulous em-
ployers who refuse to bargain
with their employees and use
this means to break legitimate

strikes.”

PROFESSIONALS
The union recalled that
professional _strikebreakers

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had been employed by Tor-
onto newspaper publishers to
combat the striking Interna-
tional Typographical Union.
Use of farmer-settlers as
strikebreakers in the walkout
of the Lumber and Sawmill
Workers Union in the North-
ern Ontario dispute with pulp
and paper firms had led to the
clash which claimed the lives
of three strikers at Reesor
Siding near Kapuskasing.

“If there were no lessons
learned at Reesor Siding — if
the Ontario government is to
be oblivious to situations like
the newspaper strike in Tor-
onto—then this attitude rep-
resents open invitation for a”
return to the law of the
jungle,” the brief declared.

The union noted that 10
U.S. states and 35 American
cities had adopted legislation
to outlaw the practice of pro-
fessional strikebreaking.
“REHIRE STRIKERS”

Whatever action was taken
against strikebreakers, the

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‘FLY B.C. AIR LINES’

brief suggested employers
should be required to rehire
all striking employees upon
conclusion of a walkout even
if it meant termination of em-
ployment for those hired dur-
ing the strike. “Unless this is
done, the right to strike, about
which politicians boast, be-
comes a hollow mockery,” the
union declared.

The brief called for amend-
ment of the Criminal Code to
permit pickets in a labor dis-
pute to seek to’ persuade
others to support their action
so long as the method used
was lawful and_ peaceful.
Amendment to the Judicare
Act was also urged in order
to qualify the sections per-
mitting issuance of ex parte
injunctions limiting or bar-
ring picketing.

A London businessman got
weary of going clothes-shop-
ping with his wife. One day
in a crowded lingerie depart-
ment she held up the briefest
of panties and asked if he
liked them. “I certainly do!”
he ‘said. “But I don’t think
your husband would approve
of them at all.”

She never took him clothes-
shopping again.

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SAVINGS

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

Flashing Lights Sought

For Logging Trucks

Public hearings on the Workmen's Compensation Board

Safety Regulations, concluded Thursday,

The fact that almost half the
accidents in logging camps
have been sustained by fallers
and buckers, has compelled
the Workmen’s Compensation
Board, the Logging Operators,
and the IWA to combine in an
all-out attack on this alarm-
ing situation.

An IWA amendment to the
Regulations, requiring all log-
ging operators in British Co-
lumbia to institute a correct
work procedure for falling
and bucking which would be
acceptable to the Board, re-
ceived favourable considera-
tion. Regional representative,
Bob Ross, agreed on behalf of
the Regional Council, to the
setting up of a Labour-Man-
agement Committee to devise
a safe work procedure which
would serve as a guide to
those logging operators who
have not the facilities or the
experience to embark on such
a program.

It is hoped that instruction
in safe working procedure and
increased supervision will re-

April 22, 1965.

duce the alarming toll of death
and injury in falling and
bucking.

It was proposed by the Re-
gional Council that flashing
amber lights of the type that
are now used on road graders,
be mounted on logging trucks,
and that these trucks also be
required to drive with their
headlights on during daylight
hours. Management repr e-
sentatives indicated that they
would favour either approach,
but not both.

E. Eades, Chairman of the
Board, in winding up the
hearings took the opportunity
to thank all who had attended
for their time and effort which
they had put into their pres-
entation to the Board. He in-
dicated that it would be sev-
eral months before the Board
is able to evaluate all of the
proposals and make the final
decisions which will appear
in a new General Accident
Prevention Regulation Book-
let.

ARTHUR FRANCIS

. worth recognized by Jabour and management

Francis Scholarship
Promotes Job Safety

To perpetuate the high
standard of interest in safety
shown by Arthur Francis
over the years, an accident
prevention scholarship is be-
ing offered jointly by labour
and management to B.C.
workers.

The scholarship will be
available on a term basis com-
mencing in 1966 and is known
as the Arthur Francis Com-
memoration Scholarship.

Eligible applicants must be
employed in an industry com-
ing within the scope of the
B.C. Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Act and whose financial
circumstances prevent them
from obtaining advanced safe-
ty training.

A scholarship committee

will be set up comprised of
Arthur Francis, Chairman,
and representatives from the
B.C. Federation of Labour;
the B.C. Safety Council and
the Executive Director of the
Council who will act as Sec-
retary.

The scholarship will be for
the Accident Prevention
Course conducted jointly by
the University of B.C. and
the B.C. Safety Council.

Application should be made
in writing to the Executive
Director of the B.C. Safety
Council, 1186 Nicola Street,
Vancouver, B.C., and not later
than forty days prior to the
commencement of the course.
Application forms may be ob-
tained at the above address.

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