Ins. No. 991-128 Claim NoQO8—1=B1 334 Loca! Office at... North Vancouver, B.C. oy BO tOdOR a 19. SE as UNEMFLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION REQUEST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION , Bo Mr. John Cook 1337 Jones Avenue s North Vancouver, 4. . Sir RAG : Claimant on eee ge es cmt iememne ; I have ‘received information concerning the above-mentioned claim for unem— ployment insurance benefit which does not agree with that given by you to this office. Your previous statement, in effect, was 85 follows i-~ "Laid off - lack of work.” It has been reporled (Western Bridge & steel) "Lack of work in fitting department. He left rather than to work as ea helper in the shop.” - ; e, Before this clain is finally decided you are given this opportunity te make any comment you may wish in the space provided on the backs ae oo oN Yee) xe ats pede eaaiee essing Te A Aa AT ie ats rope donot hear from you, tamped, envelope is enc Se. Ree . the claim will be disposed of on the basis of the sinforgation now before us (OVER) Ure 464 (3485) | Firm’s report held up worker’s UIC benefits ing to work as a helper, was doing two things: @ He maintained that Western Bridge had no right to strip him of his status as a mechanic. ~ - John Cook, a qualified fitter, was Tecently laid off at Western Bridge Owing to slackness of work in his Classification. ~* bY Cook applied for unemployment insurance benefits in’ the usual _ Way, stating truthfully that he had been laid off due to lack of work. But the company’s representative, in reporting to the Unemployment pecan * ono, gro a started layoffs there has been a de- following words: He left rat Bu finite worsening of relations be- than work as a helper in the shop. | tween the company and the union, says the Ship and Shop article. “The company official who added the words quoted above could only have one thought in mind, to create complications with the UIC which possibly could disqualify Cook from receiving unemploy- ment benefits for a period of six weeks.” @ He was carrying out union policy, ‘that no mechanic revert to helper. while helpers are unem- ployed. 4 ‘ver since Western Bridge UIC held up Cook’s benefits be- Cause of the “difference between the two statements.” _ Ship and Shop, official organ of the Marine Workers and Boiler- Makers Union, points out in its current issue that Cook, in refus- DEAF? 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MArine 5712 $ 309 SEYMOUR STREET LABOR BRIEFS By a vote of 370 to 230, miners at the Crows Nest Pass Coal Com- pany at Michel decided Monday | this week to return to work on the Lnew shift times of 8 a.m., 4 p.m. and midnight. The old starting times were an hour earlier. Shut- down took place a week ago when the men claimed a “lockout” be- cause the company had failed to “|make the proposal of new shift times through regular union channels. x x x At Ottawa, the Unemployment Insurance Commission is trying to work out a new formula to cope with the threat of growing unem- ployment this coming winter. Chief change in existing regulations will likely provide for a longer mini- mum term of weekly benefits. : x * * Labor Minister Lyle Wicks’ as- sertion at the recent Social Credit convention that “B.C. labor now recognizes it has the best “labor act in Canada” has drawn fire from many union leaders. “We don’t approve of using the courts to settle problems,” said Ed Kennedy, Building ‘Trades Council secretary. “The labor minister seems to have overloooked the tangle in the six-day shopping week,” comment- ed Rod Miller, Bakery Salesmen’s Union secretary. - x x xk A three percent pay hike has been won by 750 miners, trades- men and laborers in contract ‘negotiations between Britannia Mining and Smelting Company and Mine-Mill local 663. Wage increase brings miners’ work rates up to $1.69 hourly, while tradesmen get a minimum of $1.84 and laborers receive $1.53. * * x Bakery workers in Victoria are seeking a 38-hour, five-day work week in current negotiations with three firms. * x * A company shutdown of Cana- dian Canners (Western) Ltd. plants in Penticton and Kelowna in the face of strike action has been labelled a “lockout” by United Packinghouse Workers Union (CIO-CCL) and the union is considering legal action. The 450 workers involved had voted 86 percent for strike action. A company spokesman admitted that the shutdown means _ that some 2,000 tons of apples, 1,000 tons of pears and hundreds of tons of pumpkins will not be processed. * * * ‘ ‘United Packinghouse Workers Union will seek a nine-cent hourly wage boost in negotia- tions which open this week with seven independent meat packing firms. x * * * Despite protests by Vancouver Civic Employees Union, Outside . revamped its garbage collection system, in a move that resulted in transfer of 23 truck swampers to sewer construction, and the de- motion of three truck drivers to swampers. Union secretary Jack Phillips told city council the move “may prove to be a serious violation” of the union agreement. He said the union will meet to discuss the mat- ter this coming week. ~CONSTANTINE Fine Custom Tailoring Ladies and Gentlemen QUALITY READY TO WEAR SUITS AND OVERCOATS from $55.00 Up Rm. 118, - 603 W. Hastings St. PA. 5810. Vancouver 2, B.C. Workers, city council this week| Morgan scores deal with Kaiser Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the Labor-Progressive party, in a CBC network broadcast on Monday this week challenged the Bennett government’s deal with Kaiser for diverting hydro develop- ment of the Columbia from the Canadian to the U.S. side despite objections of federal authorities. “It is unthinkable that the peo- ple of this province will permit them to go ahead with this give- away,” Morgan told the province- wide listening audience on the CBC’s weekly “Provincial Affairs” series. “All these explanations about the provincial government getting a million dollars a year in pro- vincial revenues for water rentals and taxes is nothing but bait to trap us into giving up irreplacable resources vital to British Colum- bia’s future development. _ “Premier Bennett says he _ in- tends to do it in spite of objections from Ottawa. And believe me, when the St. Laurent government, which gave away control over the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway and the iron ore devosits of Ungava, objects, it really must be some deal!” All three U.S. plans — Kaiser’s projected Arrow Lake dam, Puget Sound Utilities’ Mica Creek propo- sition, and the earlier proposal for Libby Dam which has just been renewed — are based upon* the building of storage dams on the Canadian side so as to increase power generated on the U.S. side. Utilization of the Canadian water system for storage, which would be released as required on the American side, would reduce the power potential on the B.C. reaches of the river and seriously interfere with its long range development in which hydro-electric and natural gas resources will be decisive. Morgan appealed for united pop- ular action to halt this sellout of British Columbia’s vital interests and compel adoption of a new policy to protect B.C. and Canada against these new encroachments by U.S. trusts. “We must insist on the most ad- vantageous use of our resources for the welfare of our province and our country,” he stated. “We must develop’ B.C. industry to meet the. growth of unemploy- ment and manufacture more of our raw materials at home.” “We must insist on Canadian power’ dams,. not U.S. storage dams! We must insist on the de- velopment in B.C. of all the power the stream will yield. We must insist that after the growing re- quirements of the Kootenays have been guaranteed, that first claim to any surpius shall go to the Okanagan, Edmonton, Calgary and other Canadian centres.” ; Morgan announcéd the launch- ing of an LPP. petition campaign for “A policy of developing British Columbia’s natural gas and water resources under Canadian control, and for use in the interests of our — people, and for the industrial growth of our province.” The recent B.C.-Yukon conven- tion of the LPP pledged to get 100,000 signatures on the petition addressed to the provincial gov- ernment by the time of the mid- January opening of the legisla- ture. ‘That means getting about 8,000 signatures a week between now and mid-January,” said Morgan. “Petition forms and materials are now available. It’s a big under- taking and I appeal for your sup- port and help in stopping this sell- out by the Bennett government.” Sharpe ahead in "Peg mayoralty WINNIPEG At midnight Wednesday this week the count for mayor in this city’s municipal elections read: George Sharpe, 24,322; Stephen Juba, 21,140;; Mayor Garnet Coul- ter, 12,996; Ernest Draffin, 6,417; William Kardash, 3,408; Percival Brown, 983. The transferable vote system is used in the mayoralty race, and final results could’ not be deter- — mined on voting day. In the aldermanic counts propor- tional representation is used. x TOBACCO: Players — Fine Cut % tb. Export: Black Cat Br. Consols Buckingham _Daily Mail Ogdens Old Chum Old Virginia Philip Morris Sweet Caporal Vogue Wills Zig-Zag Mallard CIGARETTES: Philip Morris Player’s Plain Player’s Cork Export State Express Vogue — Daily Mail. Black Cat Black Cat Cork Pall Mall Buckingham Sweet Caporal — (ol dt ett lea Ferry Meat Market Ltd. : VANCOUVER 4, B.C. SAVE ON CIGARETTES — TOBACCO Price Tax 5% Total $1.40 $ .07 $1.47 1] 1.40 .07 1.47 |} 1.36 .07 1.43 1.40 07 1.47 1.36 07 1.43 1.32 2.07 1.39. 1.40 07 1.47 |} 1.40 07 1.47 1.40 07 1.47 1.36 .07 1.43 1.36 © 07 1.43 4 1.32 07 2139; 1.36 .07 1.43 1:32 07 1.39 1.36 07 1.43 .29 01 29 01> 29° 01 29 01 29 01 .26 01 .26 01 29 01 .29 01 .29 01 .29 01 29 01 OA rd _ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 29, 1954 — PAGE 7 ¢