New Labor Relations Board meets

Here is the new B.C. Labor Relations Board in action for the first time.

The members also
function as the Industrial Relations Board. From left to right: H. J. Young, vice-chairman; Mrs. Rex
aton, ‘chairman; William Sands, Charles Murdock, and Allen Little. :

then Prolonging it.
it That is the’situation as I found
Up to Tuesday this week.
Vot = Sunday night; the strikers
ah to submit their dispute to
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Made ee acting on a suggestion

By JACK . PHILLIPS

Harrison on “Tuesday they found
that he demanded arbitration his

‘way, or not at.all. ‘The union pro-
itration’ board and return | posed’ that Labor Minister Lyle
| Wicks should
VY council two days earlier. | Inquity Comm1
— When the union met Mayor

set up an Industrial
ission, under Section

‘44 of the Labor Relations Act, and

'n House of

Th TORONTO
Judie, following. is taken from
1th Robinson’s column in the

T
ie elegram of June 23, deal-
aine With a civil defense question-

distitled from House of Com-
as debate on Welfare Minister
ws estimates.”
ov hat is. the thredawar?

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brought? has the thredawar been

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ries now?
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Evryefirt.
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discushns. :
“What are panl discushns? Well
worth hearn.
“What has been brought inta-
play? The John Labatt Civil De-
fense Disaster Convoy (advt.).
“What is it to help carry on. A
joint evacuashn.
ecewhere to? Don’t ask embar-
ssing questions.
me eThe discussion became too
clinical about there and its thread,
unlike the thredawar, was lost in
horror. These were grown men,
rising one after another in their
places in the Parliament of Can-
ada to talk about plans for picking
up and putting some place else
such charred iach Fama
i ts, and constituencies,
mapteciyh er hydrogen bombs

have been dropped on the lot of

us.
“And just as though it made

sense their talk went on and on.”
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Victoria council blamed
for prolonging strike

_ VICTORIA, B.C.

It’s getting so in Victoria that you can smell the strike. When the outside civic
Workers hit the bricks on June 17, all garbage collection came to a halt. But most
Ictorians agree that the worst smell comes fram the City Hall. They blame Mayor
laude Harrison and his dominant faction for causing the strike in the first place and

two to one ratio to approve action

voted 1740 to 782 in favor of the

+} settlement.

The agreement establishes a
miners’ rate of $1.85 an hour, a)

laborers’. rate of $1.50 and a

#|tradesmen’s rate of $1.95. Coupled

with this wage scale are improve-
ments in working conditions.

The company, determined not
to grant a pay hike this year,
causcd a long deadlock in nego-
tiations, which was only broken by
the solidarity of the union mem-
bers. | This solidarity was display-

ed when.a vote on a $5 assessment |'

was carried in both Kimberley and
Trail by big majorities.

The assessment will be main-
tained to assist workers at Blue-
bell who are now on strike.

Chairman of the bargaining com-|

mittee was Harvey Murhpy, and
members were C. Thompson, D.
Gold, G. Mitchell, J. Hunt and J.
Musgrave.

“The bargaining committee stay-
ed in session from June 10 to the
evening of June 13,” comments
the -Mine-Mill paper, Union News.
“For the first time in history bar-
gaining was carried on over the
whote weekend, under the chair-
manship of R. G. Clements, pro-
vincial conciliation officer.”

that both parties should abide by
the findings. The mayor proposed
arbitration under the Arbitration
Act, thus hoping to squeeze the
dispute into a judicial straitjacket.

The Victoria Colonist of June 29
showed its disfavor with the mayor
by the following headlines: “Ac-
tion by City Council Could End
Strike at Once,” and “Arbitration
Agreed but Mayor Hedges.”

In the same issue an angry citi-
zen wrote: “There is not much
point in paying out big salaries to
the mayor and manager unless
they can show that they are cap-
able of finding a solution to the
current impasse.”

Basic rate for Victoria’s outside
civic employees is now $1.31 per
hour, 18%2 cents lower than the
Vancouver rate. In 1947, the Vic-
toria rate was one cent above Van-
couver.

- Street railwaymen,
trades workers, lumber workers
and many other organized groups
in Victoria nave established parity
with Vancouver, but the civic em-
ployees have fallen behind.

When the strikers finally go back
to work, the city streets will soon
be cleaned up. Many Victorians
are hoping that organized labor
will then get together and do a
clean-up job where it is most need-
ed, in the City Hall.

The Victoria Daily Times of June
18 puts its finger on the root of
the question in a leading editorial:

“Victoria’s City Council, under
Mayor Harrison, has made history
—melancholy history in which no
citizen can take pride. The cloak
of secrecy at the City Hall has
been pulled aside to*reveal the
results of bumbling inefficiency
which has produced the first civic
strike in the capital’s memory.”

This is one strike where the
daily press has strongly criticized
the employer. No wonder! The
mayor and the council are obvious-
ly responsible for the big smell.
They are an embarrassment to
even their closest associates.

Coming so soon after the book-
burning hysteria, the strike has
completed the exposure of Mayor
Harrison and his council. They
stand exposed as possibly the most
inefficient administration in the
city’s. history. Few will mourn
their departure from public of-
fice when they are defeated at the
polls.

building

Woman seeks
council seat

NANAIMO, B.C.
Mrs. Beryl Wheelson said this

week that she will contest the}.

Nanaimo aldermanie seat left vac-
ant by the resignation of Lamont
Ross.

Others in the field are ex-alder-

man George Addison and Haig
Burns, a young businessman. Vot-
ing is set for Thursday, July 8.
' “A number of ratepayers have
asked me to run again,” said Mrs.
Wheeldon, “and I have accepted:
I feel that one should run on a
program rather than on ‘personali-
ty. ‘Nanaimo is a fine growing city,
but the taxpayers’ interests, par-
ticularly {hose of home owners,
must be protected if the city is to
progress. I am concerned to make
this a city in which working peo-
ple can still make their homes.

“Nanaimo owns enough property
now to take care of growing public
service needs, without further pur-
chases.

“I will. work for the placing of
the. cemetery in Beban park, and
of-the firehall on Lubbock Square.

“Fairer tax distribution must be
made. I will also work for better
employment opportunities for our
people, particularly for women.”

. ZENITH CAFE

105 E. Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C.

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PLUMBING & HEATING

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new agreement

in setting terms for a one-year con

TED HARRIS

Painters’ and Paperhangers’
Supplies
Sunworthy Wallpaper ,
reg. 45¢c — Now 19c a roll
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TRAIL, B.C.

Mine-Mill members of Locals 480 and. 651 voted. by more than a
of their joint bargaining committee
t tract with Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Company. Following membership meetings in Trail and
Kimberley a referendum vote was held and in a big turnout members

LABOR

BRIEFS |

Seven bakeries in Vancouver
and Nanaimo formulated plans
this week to take lockout action
against their employees.

The 400 workers, members of
Bakery and Confectionary Work-
ers Union, are seeking a 35-hour
work week and may apply for a
strike vote.

* * *

Strike of 6,000 salmon“fishermen
ended Friday last week after mem-
bers voted to accept a price settle-
ment worked out with the Fisher-
ies Association. —

Homer Stevens, secretary of the
United Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers Union, said returns from 35
locals showed a big majority in
favor of settlement.

Involved in the short strike be-
sides the UFAWU were Native
Brotherhood of B.C. and Fishing
Vessel Owners Association.

* * *

Nationai Employment Service fig-
ures show that 3,000 more Van-
couver -workers are jobless this
year than at the same time in 1953.

Unemployed total on June 17
was 14,827 while last year at the
same date 11,749 persons were job-
less.

Ste *

Vancouver Island District Labor
Council wil! make representations
to the Board of Industrial Rela-
tions on July 6 for a boost in ear-
penters’ minimum wage of 90 cents
an hour, which was set in 1940.
Since then wages have increased
more than 100 percent and the pre-

vailing rate now in Victoria is
$2.10;

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