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HE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

"ANNUAL BRIEF PRESENTED”

influences of the conciliation
board.”

To support its argument,
the Federation listed the
views of two labour experts,
Professor H. D. Woods and
Professor F. R. Anton, who
hold the belief that the super-
vised strike vote “is not only
useless and ineffectual, but
in fact detrimental to respon-
sible collective bargaining.”

The Federation was strong-
ly in favour, however, of the
present conciliation officers
and offices and recommended
that they be upgraded and
strengthened.

The brief took the govern-
ment to task for its slowness
in acting on major recommen-
dations contained in Mr. Jus-
tice Tysoe’s report on work-
men’s compensation.

It suggested that the fol-

lowing three proposals be
undertaken:
1. That the appeal board

have. ‘equal representation
from management and labour
rather than a doctor and a
lawyer as the Commission
recommended, with a mutu-
ally chosen chairman.

2. That the workman be al-
lowed to choose any specialist

from the register of the B.C.
College of Physicians and
Surgeons, and that the pro-
cedure for selection of a chair-
man include a provision that
he be independent of the
Workmen’s Compensation

Board.
3. That provision be made

for periodic increases in com-
pensation payments in recog-
nition of the probability of
wage increases through ad-
vancement which would have
been received by the injured
worker.

Annoyed at being forced to
present its submission to the
cabinet, the Federation re-
quested the right to appear
before the Select Committee

‘on’ Labour at the next session

of the legislature to outline
in detail its proposals for spe-
cific legislative amendments.

Other changes pressed for
included:

e A full-time labour min-
ister.

© An equal overtime policy
for public employees.

e A 40-hour work week.

The brief dealt extensively
with the problem of pollu-
tion and requested the gov-
ernment to convene a provin-

Canadian
Labour

and

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Clifford A. Scotton

NEW LABOUR BOOK

Available from the Political Edu-
cation Department, Canadian La-
bour Congress, 100 Argyle Avenue,
Ottawa 4. Price $1.00; five or more,

85 cents each. : :
This booklet is a concise re-

view of the participation of
the Canadian labor movement
in the political life of the na-
tion.

Starting with the close of
the 19th century, the author,
former editor of Canadian La-
bour, now federal secretary of
the New Democratic Party,
records the significant political
decisions taken at successive”
labor conventions, then traces

the development of labor in
politics from its first electoral
successes to the various at-
tempts to form a labor party.

The culmination of the story
is of course the participation
of the labor movement in Can-
ada in the formation and
building of the New Demo-
cratic Party.

This excellent historical out-
line, interesting in itself, will
be particularly useful for edu-
cational purposes, both inside
and outside of trade union

ranks,

cial pollution conference to
study the matter.

It stated: “It is our belief
that one of the greatest prob-
lems now facing the people of
North America is pollution.
Already certain cities are
facing the prospects of inade-
quate water supplies and ris-
ing death and illness rates
due to air contaminants while
agriculture areas are facing
contamination of farm prod-
ucts from weed, pest and
disease control agents, as
well as forest sprays and in-
dustrial wastes. This presents
a major threat to the quality
and quantity of usable na-
tural resources and ultimate-
ly to life itself.”

The brief scored the gov-
ernment’s decision to open
Strathcona Park to industrial
development, and called for
the reversal of the decision
to allow the dumping of mine
tailings and domestic sewage
into Buttle Lake and Myreau
Creek.

The brief also dealt slightly
with the question of bugging.
Mention was made of its sub-
mission on the subject two
years ago in it which legisla-
tion was demanded to outlaw

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TOM CLARKE

I W A officials are pre-_

dicting that the two jailed la-
bour leaders, Tom Clarke
and C. P. “Paddy” Neale, will
be released from prison in the
next few. days.

Clarke is the Ist vice-
president of Local 1-217 IWA
and Neale is the secretary-
treasurer of the Vancouver
Labour Council.

They were jailed for six

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PADDY NEALE C

months last October for par-
ticipating in the Lenkurt
Electric demonstrations.

The two men have the dis-
tinction of being the only per-
sons in B.C. to be given a
temporary release from pris-
on over Christmas and New
Year’s. Federal authorities
granted this concession when
organized labour pressed for
the men’s early release.

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any use of hidden listening
devices. The brief said this
year, “We are of the opinion
that privacy is a basic human
nie that must be protect-
ed,” :

Other major recommenda-
tions called for:

e A proper programme for
the protection of fish and
wildlife.

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and vocational training.

e Reduction of the voting
age to eighteen years.

e The _ establishment of

provincial housing corpora-

tions to work in conjunction
with the Central Mortgage

and Housing Corporation.