AT VANCOUVER LABOR COUNCIL

Floorlayers set strike deadline;
Teamsters put heat on Coca-Cola

Floorlayers Union (Carpen-
ters) Local 1541 has set a strike
deadline for 8 a.m. this coming
Monday, August 12, and will
Place picket lines around city
Shops, school jobs and housing
Projects unless a satisfactory

Settlement is offered by em-
Ployers over the weekend,

Reporting to Vancouver

abor Council on Tuesday this
Week, a delegate for the Floor-
layers said that floorlayers,
handymen and_ finishers had
‘Voted 94 percent in favor of
Strike action last Saturday
4nd gave strike notice after a
last-minute effort to settle the
dispute broke down Tuesday,

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Vancouver Labor Counci!’s
Tequest to Canadian. Labor
Ongress to circulate all affili-
&ted councils asking that Sim-
mons’ bedding products be
Placed on the “unfair” list
brought a CLC reply to the
effect that a Simmons’ plant
at Cornwall has had good labor
Yelations for many years and
Cannot be classed as unfair.”

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We are very much con-
ferned Over this reply,” report-
€c secretary E A. Jamieson.

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“We have written again asking
what union has a contract in
Cornwall Our information is
that there is no union there.”

Employees at Simmons Bed-
ding, 3585 Grandview, have
been on strike since March 27
for higher wages. The labor
movement in Vancouver has
given them full support and
urged the public not to buy
Simmons products until a con-
tract is signed. Among trade
names manufactured by_Sim-
mons are Beautyrest, Deep-
sleep, Slumber King, Eatonia,
Invincible, Liberty and Oster-
moor.

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A small firm at Courtenay
(Totem Pole and Piling Com-
pany) which refused to accept
settlement terms reached by
IWA and major lumber com-
panies, soon changed its mind
this week when 30 loggers
struck, IWA delegate Stuart
Hodgson reported at the, VLC
meeting

The strike lasted a bare five
minutes when the company

capitulated and signed the
agreement.
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Correspondence dealing with
Canadian Labor Congress at-
tempts to have immigration
placed under the federal de-
partment of labor drew a sharp
comment from Painters’ dele-
gate John Hines,

“The problem of immigra-
tion js tied up with other prob-

lems, such as the need for gov-
ernment action on a housing
program,” said Hines. ‘‘Thou-
sands of immigrants have come
into B.C. and where and how
they are living is a mystery.
The federal government should
be forced to take action not
only on immigration, but on
its election campaign prom-
ises, in order to provide more
jobs.”

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Teamsters intend to “turn
more heat’ on the Cocoa-Cola
plant which uses pressure to
prevent its drivers from
organizing, John Brown
(Teamsters) told VLC ~dele-
gates.

Brown recalled that as far
back as 1941 Coca-Cola work-
ers had signed union cards. A
mass dismissal of 25 workers
followed, and intimidated other
workers, who withdrew their
applications.

“A couple of times since then

a majority of workers have

signed up, but each time com-
pany pressure was used to pre-
vent unionization,” said Brown.

Coca-Cola is on labor’s “We
Do Not Patonise” list, Pepsi-
Cola is under contract, and an-
other soft-drink firm is expect-
ed to sign up in the near future.
Meanwhile, plans are under-
way to “put more heat” on
Coca-Cola.

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Vancouver Labor Council’s
educational committee report-
ed that the Annual Labor In-
stitute will be held this year
around the middle of October.

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AUG 9 — Don’t forget to
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come to the
KINGSWAY SOCIAL at May’s
— OUTDOORS — at 3231 East

43rd Ave. You are cordially
Invited,

AUG. 10 — Have a eeod

time at
HOUSE SOCIAL in support
Of the Strathcona Queen, Sat-
Urday, August 10 at 8:30 p.m.
suffet style supper and real
ive’ music. At 3316 Garden
Drive, ;

AUG. T= “ORIGIN OF

LIFE” — Soviet
Color film with English com-
Mentary. An educational film
bout how life began on earth.
Po be shown at the’ Russian
fople’s Home, 600 Campbell
ne? Sunday evening, August

at 8 p.m. Everyone wel-
Come,

BUSINESS PERSONALS

REGENT TAILORS LTD. —
Custom Tailors and Ready
to wear. For personal ser-
vice see Henry Rankin at
324 W. Hastings St., Van-
couver 3. PAcific 8456.

BIG 7 USED FURNITURE
STORE — 1420 Commercial
Drive. Phone HA. 4058. (For-
merly 3%4 Transfer and: Mov-
ing — N. Stoochnov).

SMOKE
RECTOR CIGARS
Only Union made cigars in

Vancouver :
Sold at Hotels and at
214 UNION ST.
(All hand rolled)

WASTINGS BAKERIES LTD.
—Scandinavian , products a
specialty. 716 East Hastings
Street. Phone TA. 9719.

0.K. RADIO SERVICE —
Latest factory. precision
equipment used. MARINE
SERVICE, 1420 Pender St.
West., TA. 1012.;

PATRONIZE POLITANO’S
BARBER SHOP — 204 Main
St., 2 blks. north of Hastings.

HALLS FOR. RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME
Available for meetings, wed-
dings, and banquets at rea-
sonable rates. 600 Campbell
Ave. TA. 9939.

CLINTON HALL, 2605 East
Pender. Available for ban-
quets, Weddings, Meetings,
Etc..Phone HA. 3277.

WORK WANTED

WORK WANTED —Carpentry
and-repairs, alterations and
cabinet work. Call MU,
3-7089.

PENDER
AUDITORIUM

(Marine Workers)

339 West Pender
LARGE & SMALL HALLS
FOR RENTALS
Phone PA. 9481

Doug Hepburn, shown straightening a horseshoe, will
perform other feats of strength at the: Annual Labor Picnic in
Confederation Park, Burnaby, this coming Sunday, August 11.
One of his stunts will be to drive a spike through a board wit

his bare hand.

Bort Whgte's

SPORTLIGHT

RYE BODY is getting into
the act. Over in London
perennially optimistic boxing
promoter Jack Solomons is
planning to stage a heavy-
weight championship bout, if
these “ifs” materialize:
If the winner of the British
title fight between Joe Erskine

and Henry Cooper looks im-

pressive.

If Solomons can then per-
suade Eddie Machen to go to
London for a battle with the
British champ,

If Floyd Patterson agrees to
take an overseas trip and meet
the winner of that elimiation
match...

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Every year the Lions look
better, but so do the other
teams in the WIFU. Rough-
riders and Esks appear to be
the best teams in the league,
and Lions seem ‘fated to battle
it out with Stampeders for the
bottom slot. Discouraging, ain’t
it?

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What are the world’s most

popular sports?
Soccer has no contenders

‘when it comes to world popu-

larity, but in the U.S. and
Canada it still ranks among
the minor sports. :

On this continent baseball
is perhaps the favorite spec-
tator sport, although south of
the border more people pay to
see basketball.

Joe Miller, sport$ writer for
the AFL-CIO News, lists his
favorite 10 spectator sports as
follows:

Baseball, football, boxing,
basketball, hockey, rodeo rid-
ing, hydroplane racing, track
and field, bullfighting and
golf.

Miller puts baseball on top
“because it is the most unpre-
dictable, skillful and diversi-
fied of all sports. Anything can
happen at any time on the
diamond and that’s why your
interest never lags.”

Some of Miller’s other com-
ments: '
’ Football: “No other sport
has quite the Roman carnival
aspect of the grid game. And
what can compare, in terms of
sustained excitement, with a
fourth quarter drive for a win-
ning touchdown?”

Boxing: “There is probably
no single more'exciting event
than a heavyweight champipn-
ship fight, especially when an
exciting battler like Dempsey,
Louis or Marciano is in there
under the blazing lights.”

Basketball: ‘This is the most
beautiful of all sports because
of its cleverness, speed - and
grace” :

Hockey: “Probably the fast-
est of all sports. It contains
also the element of brutal: body
contact and exploding tempers
to keep the spectator constant-
ly on edge.”

Rodeo riding: “There are
some who contend that rodeo
is a spectacle and not a sport,
but don’t tell it to the ’pokes
‘who ride the wild brones and
steers. The spectacle of man
vs. beast is real drama in the
raw.”

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