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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1956

This was the dockside scene at Odessa as some 1,000 Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles re-

turning from Argentina to the lands of their birth were reunited with relatives and

friends. More than 3,000 have returned from Argentina, Paraguay

months.

and Brazil in. recent

Fishermen endorse
new wage contract

Voting in

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wage contract has been com

he United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union on the new 1956-57
pleted, with an eighty-eight percent acceptance vote by

shore and cannery workers and an eight-five percent acceptance by tendermen. It is

expected that the
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itract will be formerly concluded this wegk.

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In both these classifications substantial wage increases have been won and union

Downtown museum
best, says planner

Gerald Sutton Brown, Van-
couver city planning director,
believes that the proper place
for a main museum is in the
downtown civic centre where
it would be most accessible to
school children and students
and could best serve all resi-
dents of the metropolitan area.

Speaking last week before
a special committee now
studying a plan to build a
museum in Kitsilano which
would bring together under
one roof the famous Arctic
schooner St. Roch and the col-
lections now in the city
museum and city archives,
Slitton Brown observed that
it was unusual to group every-
thing in one building.

The emphasis, he felt, should
be on museums devoted to
specific purposes, and he sug-
gested that the project under
consideration should not serve
as more than a museum for
maritime and related exhibits.

In any event, he continued,
the proposed building should
not be expected to fill the
city’s needs for more than a
decade.

The committee decided to
recommend to council that a
grent of $300,000 be made to-
ward the proposed museum,
provided ‘Post No. 2, Native
Sons of B.C., which is pro-
moting it as a centennial pro-
ject, can complete the financ-
ing, ‘estimated at between
$1,000,000 and $1,500,000.

Thrill rn ee

officials state the membership
“are pretty well pleased with

the outcome,” which, they
add, “could not have been
won were it not for the

splendid unity maintained by
all sections of the UFAWU
during the protracted negoti-
ations, which were not made
any easier by the fedéral gov-
ernment’s Combines Act. at-
tack on the union during
negotiations.”

Winning of the union dues
checkoff for cannery work-
ers in the new wage contract,
a demand cannery operators
have opposed long and bitterly
will add greatly to the con-
solidation of that section of
the UFAWU in an §industry
where the seasonal labor
turnover is excessively high.

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Formal application was made this week
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Congress.

This decision by the powerful ‘rail unioa

300 Island
loggers idle

COWICHAN LAKE, B.C.
Close to 300 loggers are idle
at the Gordon River camps of
the Western Forest Industries
in the Cowichan Lake area
over a dispute on working
shifts. ;

Countering the company’s
“early” curtailed shifts on a
“fire hazard” excuse, logging
crews’ decided to withhold
their labor unless an eight-
hour shift was guaranteed.

Company spokesmen are re-
presenting the dispute as a
“wildcat” strike and have
threatened wholesale firing
unless the loggers submit to
company work demands,

While Duncan IWA. Local
1-80 is standing solid behind
Gordon River loggers in their
dispute with Western Forest
Industries, the company has
added to its provocations by
ordering 20 logger families to
vacate their company-owned
“homes” by the end of the
month,

At press time there was no
indication that a settlement
was near.

Vancouver 4, B. C.

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