THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

2nd Issue
June, 1966

1-367

THEY ALSO
BACKED REPORT

FOUR HUNDRED MEMBERS of Local 1-367 at the meet-
ing held in Mission June 25 to discuss the Local’s recom-
mendations on the Nemetz’ report. The Local’s executive
was the only executive among the eight Coast Local

Unions to reject the report.

DEMONSTRATORS JAILED

Twenty-five trade unionists
charged with defying a court
injunction at the Tilco Plas-
tics plant in Peterborough,
Ontario, were given jail sen-
tences June 27 by Chief Jus-
tice G. A. Gale of the Ontario
Supreme Court.

Five of the men — union
leaders — were sentenced to
two months in jail while the
other twenty were given 15
days each.

The 25 unionists were con-
victed of contempt for their
role in a two-day mass dem-
onstration outside the Tilco
plant last February which the
Textile Workers Union of
America was striking. They
were charged with violating
a court order limiting Tilco
pickets to 12. Counsel for the
unionists maintained they
were simply exercising their
right of public protest against
the unfair use of injunctions.

Claude Jodoin, president of
the Canadian Labor Congress,
said that if Mr. Justice Gale
was right in interpreting the
law, then the law must be
changed.

“Atter all, workers are citi-
zens of Canada and they have
the right to peacefully demon-
strate so the public can know
their point of view.”

Jodoin said the congress
and its provincial and local
affiliates would continue the
struggle to put an end to the

use of injunctions in labor dis- -

putes.

David Archer, president of
the Ontario Federation of La-
bor, charged that labor was
being legally hamstrung by
the readiness of the courts to
grant injunctions in strikes
while consistently ignoring
the failure of hardline em-
ployers to bargain in good
faith.

Civil liberties of union
members were being under-
mined, Archer declared, when
their right to demonstrate in
support of those on a legal
strike was denied. The judic-
iary, he said, had an extreme-
ly narrow view of a picket
line as merely a method of
disseminating information
rather than an integral part
of a crucial trial of strength.

The OFL in its brief to the
provincial government earlier
this year coupled its demand
for an abolition of injunctions
in labor disputes with a sug-
gestion that the government
consider legislation to outlaw
the hiring of outside strike-
breakers during a legal strike.

The OFL and the CLC are
discussing plans for a new
conference to review strategy
in the battle against injunc-
tions. The parley is expected
to deal with other current is-
sues such as compulsory ar-
bitration and the implications
of the Freedman report on
collective bargaining.

WRONG

Note found under a wind-
shield wiper: “I have just
smashed into your car. The
people who saw the accident
are watching me. They think
I am writing down my name
and address. They are wrong.”

The Working Man's
3 Best Friends:

LOCAL 1-367 PRESIDENT Glenn Haddrell is shown pre-
senting the Executive’s views of the report. On the plat-
form with Haddrell are other Local officers and. Interna-
tional 2nd Vice-President Ron Roley (second from left)
and Regional President Jack Moore (third from right).

(1) A cool head

(2) Steady hands
and

(3) Well-shod feet
(DAYTON'S of course)

NO BETTER BOOT
AT ANY PRICE

THE MEMBERS voted on the report at the end of the
meeting but the results were not released until all opera-
tions in the Local had balloted.

ese eee ooo

FOR MARRIED WOMEN

“First there should be an
inerease in the amount which

housekeeper, a babysitter or
whatever other household

% a married woman is allowed
- to earn before her husband’s

income tax exemptions are af-

help is necessary.

“In the third place, the
salary paid to a wife who is
employed by her husband, or
is in a partnership, should be
treated as separate income in
her own hands.”

i oir ale Mag Stamomacer:
ngsway) in House Com-
mons, June 7, 1966.

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