_ Civic Outside Workers score as LRB rejects union raiders Vancouver’s Outside Civic Em- Ployees are jubilant over the vic- tory they scored when the Labor Relations Board last week rejected 1¢ application of the Vancouver ity Maintenance Union, Local 487, and the International Associa- tion of Machinists, Lodge 692, for ; », men who come under the ee sdiction of the Outside Work- ; The appliéation was rejected be- sae, the unit applied for was not ipPtopriate for collective bargain- : 8 and because the applicants did Ot have the majority of the 360 €n concerned. : hese two unions, under the Aadership of Tom Alsbury, presi- sat. of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, and William Gauld, Trades Council organizer, have been raiding the Outside Workers’ Union since early in 1952. Their defeat establishes the independent Outside Workers’ Union as undisputed bargaining agency for the 1400 outside civic workers employed by the City, Parks Board and Exhibition Board. Jack Phillips, Outside Workers’ secretary, hailed the LRB decision as a “victory for democratic trade union principles everywhere in Canada.” “Members of TLC unions who want democratic trade unionism will rejoice in our victory,” he stated this week. “It will help them, to make the Trades and Morris confirmed as IWA president Thternational Woodworkers of \ America B.C. district council has ¢ : : Tmed: the election of Joe Morris as president for the next two Years a Nd dismissed the charge levelled by former IWA head Stewart Alsbury that there were “irregularities” in the election. Of thi Protest: “je Ortland, through regular union channels” the © district council met with 3 Fon tabulating committee atari election results, then imepuie that it had found no epg arities in the committee’s 3 ~~ and accepted it. the < Weekend meeting’s okay of election vt also made official the Presi nae of Bill Gray as first vice- on aah Stuart Hodgson as .sec- as thice president, Fred Fieber Mitchen” Vice-president, George Webh ..°S Secretary and Howard A 8S _ trustee. Singe a8 had headed the union ame ae but his leadership handy; Nder Strong fire for inept Bs of last year’s strike. Ween twit round of talks be- Coast | A negotiators and 160 Mber and logging oper- ato "Ss began Thursday this week. « s. % nan ae ary (“Ma”) Flanagan, vet- tho i ers fronds of progressive work- NE to m Cast to coast, is return- onth Ereato at the end of this "onths t ter a visit of several Friengs. the coast, are giving a farewell at Norquay Hall, lareton, on Satur- 8 p.m. “Everyone ch Come,” says the com- arge of the social. PENDER AUDITORIUM 339 ne Workers) LaRg. est Pender nly a few votes separated the two in their battle for leadership S Province’s largest union, and Alsbury has stated that he will tregularities” to IWA international president Al Hartung in New Westminster local of the IWA is going to protest to’ Hartung. Other happenings on the trade union front this week. included these: @ A 22-day picket line main- tained by members of AFL Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers converters Local 433 at Bonar and Bemis Company was withdrawn ofllowing settlement of the strike. The union has won a 34 percent wage incerase across the board, a number of pay adjustments and cut in work week from 42 to 40 hours in the textile division. @ Street railwaymen in Vancou- ver, New Westminster and Vic- toria have rejected a conciliation board majority award granting them a 6-cent hourly wage hike because the award was not based on “a fair and just consideration of the onerous job of a transit operator.” BCElectric had previ- ously announced acceptance of the award, but warned that the company would soon boost fares again. The SRU has scaled down its original 23-cent hourly wage increase demand and presented its new demand to the BCE this week. @ Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) and Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (TLC) have agreed to get together and discuss charges and counter charges of raiding each other’s membership. ' @ Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) has sent a protest to Im- migration Minister Harris against the banning from Canada of Dr. Monica Felton, British peace worker who is scheduled to ad- dress a series of meetings across Canada this month. “Everything in Flowers” FROM... EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA, $855 Vancouver, B.O, Vancouver $07 WeBrog dway GREETINGS J °urneymen and Apprentices of the MBING AND PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY Local 170 : FAirmont 9766 Labor Congress what it should be, a democratic parliament of labor.” “On our part, we know our union will be back in the con- gress eventually, but it will be a better congress then. It will be made better, more demo- cratic, by struggles like ours and by the fight for correct Policy by the membership in the TLC unions. “Let Alsbury and Gauld stop raiding us who work for labor and we will gladly give them our cooperation, just as we take up col- lections and give other help to strikers no matter what their af- filiation. But let them interfere in our business again and we will give them a worse drubbing. “It’s about time they organiz- ed the unorganized department store clerks in this city, instead of wasting their time and money on the outside civic employees who are already organized,” The union will celebrate at a Victory Ball to be held in Hast- ings Auditorium, Friday, May 22, 9 p.m. held in Auditorium here. unionists. Calf to the conference poses four questions, which it states are the most serious problems now confronting the people of B.C.: @ “How can we end the wars now raging in Asia?” ~@ “How can we end the war?” @ “How cam we banish the peace?” @ “How can we promote trade with all nations?” “There is an urgent need for the people of our province to find threat of world war and ensure Citizens’ peace parley to be June A Citizens’ Conference for Peace, open to all organizations and individuals in British Columbia, will take place June 20-21 in Pender Announcement of the conference was made this week by the sponsoring committee of 53 citizens , 27 of whom are prominent trade : Chairman is Lynn K. Sully, White Rock businessman; vice- chairman, Mrs. Velma T. Chen; secretary, Ray Gardner, journalist; and treasurer, Don Jones, trade unionist, all of Vancouver. their own solutions to these prob- lems,” the call states, adding, “We believe this can best‘ be done through full, democratic discus- sion.” Organizations of every type, as well as private citizens, are in- viiled to “come and speak your mind on peace.” Registration fee is $1. Further information may be obtained by writing the spons- oring committee at Box One, 339 West Pender, Vancouver, B.C. Endicott to speak in city with Dr. Felton on May 29 as fight to lift ban pressed Dr. James Endicott, who has just returned fro address a public peace rally at Exhibition Gardens h ings in Victoria, Nanaimo and New Westminster. _ B.C. Peace Council announced this week that Dr. Endicott will share the platform at all four meetings with Britain’s Dr. Monica Felton, whose éxclusion from Canada is still being fought by trade unions and other democrati¢ organizations. . “There is no doubt the ban . on Dr. Felton can be lifted, if Canadians, with minds of their own, make it known in Ottawa that they do not need cabinet ministers to make up their minds for them,” said Ray Gard- ner, peace council secretary. “We expect this to be one of the most successful peace! rallies to be held in Vancouver,” Gard- ner said of the Exhibition Gardens meeting. “Dr. Endicott will have a most interesting and inspiring report to make, having just re- turned from Vienna, Prague and Moscow where he experienced, first-hand, the flood of peace senti- ment sweeping Europe.” In Vienna Dr. Endicott took part in the important meeting of the Committee of Twenty-one, elected by the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, to press the world-wide campaign for a Pact of Peace. “The fact that Sir Winston Churchill now favors a_high- level meeting of the great pow- ers adds new significance to the report Dr. Endicott will have to make,” said Gardner. Dr. Endicott speaks at Newstead Hall, Victoria, May 25; Oddfellows Hall, Nanaimo, May 26; and Hol- lywood Bowl, New Westminster, May 27. Gardner also announced that two more unions — United Steel- workers, Local 3302; and Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 213 — have pro- tested the ban of Dr. Felton. DR. JAMES G. ENDICOTT First-hand report Far East trade means B.C. jobs “The only hope for prosperity here in Canada is in extending and developing our foreign trade,” says an article in the current issue of Ship and Shop, organ of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union. “There are approximately one billion people in the Far East, a natural market for Canada .. .” the article continues. “Se far as shipbuilding is con- cerned, the yards could be kept busy developing the new Canadian merchant fleet to carry our goods to those countries. Further, the servicing of those ships would keep hundreds of workers per- manently employed.” SUITE 515 POR e ERE EEE. We tt Tt Et tr * STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries FORD BUILDING (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MARINE 5748 198 E. HASTINGS SU ts be m an important world peace meeting in Vienna, will ere on Friday, May 29. He will also address meet- Munici pal strike looms in Saanich SAANICH, B.C. A strike of 160 civic workers may be called Wednesday next week if a meeting between the council and Saanich Municipal Em- Ployees Association on Tuesday fails to solve the Present dispute over wages and category increases. The men (inside and outside workers) have been negotiating with the council for several months. Laborers are asking a pay boost from $1.24% to $1.45 an hour plus category increases. The matter went to conciliation but only minor adjustments were granted, and the laborers’ Pay re- mained the same. A government strike vote was taken, the men voting 129-22 for strike action, with 20 not vot- ing. One day prior to the vote being taken, eight employees were laid off. They were refused the right to vote by a labor depart- ment official conducting the strike vote, and later told by a foreman that they “might be taken back to work after things settle down.” A meeting between the Muni- cipal Employees Association and council Tuesday will attempt to arrive at a settlement, but if the talks break down the men are making preparations for strike action the following day. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 15, 1953 — PAGE 7