h ip | hae t re pis ay ei a I" | 702-=IBEDS- and the people of Canada, couver Labor Council meet from being worked out, work by the American- Delegates at the VLC meet- ing voted to refer the resolu- tion to B.C. Federation of La- bor. The resolution suggest- ed the BCFL should petition Ottawa to take over the mine. This Coming week Mine- let i At a set FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958 ( =} Continued from page 1 * $50,000 and $75,000 a year,” said Jenkins. Also commenting on the ap- 14 i a pointment of former Justice 4 ‘ J. V. Clyne as chairman of ts the board of MacMillan and 14 Bloedel, delegate Tom Als- bury said: “Clyne says ‘do as | : IT say, not as I do.’ If. busi- | ness and Clyne were sincere, they should set an example— not with an inflated salary of $75,000 a year.” Some 73 per cent of Cana- dian workers earn less than $3,500 a year, pointed out Bill Pierce (IWA). a George Home, secretary of | the B.C. Federation of Labor, ; declared. that ‘employers were holding meetings all last ey: : summer, *clearing the decks . for action, and now they have : launched a country-wide at- tack on labor.” Using the B.C. Electric as an example of inflated prof- its, Home said that between 1947 and 1954 the BCE “in- creased general revenue 86 1 bie MN | } 10:10 p.m. Every Sun o DIAL 1070 a LABOR-PROGRESSIVE | POINT of VIEW by — NIGEL MORGAN BIG BUSINESS per cent, increased net earn- ings 240 per cent and in- creased net profit 207 per cent.” Reg Bullock (Marine Work- ers) termed the anti-labor at- tack ‘fa cold war on the part of employers in preparation for a hot war when they in- tend to lower the boom.” A delegate from Carpenters Union wryly noted that the Vancouver Sun, while asking labor to hold the line on wages, recently “increased the price of the Sun by 33 per cent, without negotiating any agreement with me, as a reader.” VLC president Lloyd Whalen said that “for the past 15 years. industry merely passed on the cost of wage increases to the consumer. They never took these in- creases out of soaring profits. Now there is a slight squeeze. and it has to come out of profits. So from. now on la- bor faces a tough fight. We must stand together, shoulder to shoulder, and end all petty bicketing within our own ranks.” The meeting unanimously endorsed Converters Local 433 resolution asking Vancouver Labor Council to contact B.C. Federation of Labor to discuss calling of a conference to plan a fight-back campaign against the attack on the trade union movement. LPP nominations TORONTO — The LPP has named Leslie Morris as_ its candidate in York South and Alf Dewhurst as its candidate in Hamilton East. Mill officials will appear be- fore the legislature’s standing committee on labor at Victor- ia to present the case for gov- ernment action to keep the mine open. Many single men have aq]- ready left Britannia, but a ma- jority of married men with families and homes are “stay- ing put” for the present and hoping that the mine will re- open. Some expect that rapid completion of the Squamish highway will enable them to take jobs in Vancouver and commute daily the 30 miles. The Howe Sound Company of Salt Lake City ordered the mine closed last December. On promise of a federal subsidy while copper prices remain low, the company reached an agreement with the federal and provincial governments to keep the mine operating. Last week a curt telegram from the USS. head office ordered an im- mediate shutdown. A demand that the federal government take over Britan- nia mine and operate it was made in a wire sent Friday last week to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker by LPP candi- dates Tom McEwen and Mau- rice Rush. McEwen is contest- ing Vancouver South, Rush is running in Vancouver Centre. Their wire to Diefenbaker re- minded him that Justice Min- ster Davie Fulton had assured the House on December 17 that the mine would be kept open at least six months. Balkan conference Rumania has agreed to take part in a scientific and techni- cal conference of Balkan countries to be held at Athens in June. Ottawa should take over to take over Britannia miné Britannia Mine and operate it in the interests of the mines said a resolution from Marine Workers Union introduced 4, ing Tuesday this week. Pointing out that the ,copper mine } the resolution suggested that a majority of the miners throws © ordered mine closure should remain at Britannia while labor pressure to bear on federal authorities to take action to keep the mine running. This is Britannia mine, closed down but far from worked 0 Continued from page 1 S ut ° prind ~ LOCKOUTS ployers’ line — a clear indi- cation -that from now on labor will have to fight with all its might to win every strike in this province.” Union and management held an all-night session before the strike was called. (“We were locked in one room and the bosses were in another,” said Lawson. “They obviously didn’t want a settlement.’’) Construction work employ- ing some 5,000 to 6,000 men will probably come to a dead halt before the week is out. An early settlement seems uh- likely. March 7, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE » Strike was caused by Y) ployers’ refusal to accept , conciliation award recor mending wage increases of J percent over two years. tne offered 18 percent, which men rejected. Ice half-mile thick eat! The South Pole lies be? a sheet of ice 7,000 feet t and even the mountains | either side of it are burs beneath ice 1,500 to 2,000 # thick, according to Dr. Vi, Fuchs, British Antarctic plorer.