LABOR AROUND THE PROVINCE

Civic Workers demand 35 cents,
one more holiday with pay

Vancouver’s 1,500 Outside
Civic Workers will seek a wage
hike of 35 cents an hour in
1957, plus one extra statutory
holiday with pay. Present rates
range from $1.56% to $2.12
per hour. City Hall Employ-
ees, Firemen, Police, Electri-
cal Workers and Foremen are
expected to put in for substan-
tial demands within the next
few weeks.

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Alberta and B.C. coal min-
ers have voted five-to-one to
accept a wage increase of $1.20
a day, Five thousand mem-
bers of the United Mine Work-
ers are involved. Previously,
the miners threatened to strike
after a conciliation board re-
commended only 50 cents a
day.

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Fourteen office workers
employed at the Canadian In-
dustries’ explosives plant on
James Island are considering
strike action to break a five-
month deadlock in negotia-
tions.

They voted unanimously to
take strike action rather than
accept a conciliation award of
$12.50 a month. The group was
recently organized by the Of-
fice Employees’ International
Union, Local 15.

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Fifteen hundred B.C. oil
workers will shoot for a wage
increase of 27 cents an hour
in 1957. In addition, they will
go after a bigger shift differ-
ential and Sunday premium
pay. They belong to the Van-
couver, Kamloops and Daw-
son Creek locals of Oil, Chemi-
eal and Atomic Workers’ In-
ternational Union. Average
wage is 47 cents.an hour less
than the US. rate.

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Loggers’ Local 1-717 IWA
will hold its annual convention
in Vancouver December 21 and
22. More than 100 delegates
are expected to attend and
deal with some 200 resolutions.
Resolutions on wage increases
range from 15 to 40 cents an
hour. Demands to be debated

Continued

VOTE

42,141; John Henderson (NPA)
38,716; Ernest Broome (NPA),
36,374; Lorne Aggett (NPA),
34,786; Margaret Jack (NPA),
31,051; Jessie Hollis (Ind.),
29,406; Harry Rankin (Ind.),
26,675.

PARK BOARD (first four
elected): Arnold Webster
(Ind.), 38,868; Robert Mait-
land (NPA), 33,699; William
Bowering (NPA), 30,029; Iris
Hardwick (NPA), 25,930; Fred
Taylor (Ind.), 25,631; Adam
Sutherland (NPA), 19,580;
Charles Stephens (Ind.), 1%,-
295; Garnett Lott (Ind. 14,-

192.

include a guaranteed annual
wage, fare allowance, medical

insurance, free board and
union hiring.
it it $02

Negotiations between. Mine-
Mill Union and Britannia and
Copper Mountain Mines have
ended in a stalemate. Both lo-
cals involved have requested

the Department of Labor to
appoint a government concili-
ation officer.
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The 11-member local of the
Office and Professional Work-
ers’ Organization, formerly a
CIO union, has merged with
the Office Employees’ Inter-
national Union, Local 15.

VICTORIA, B.C.
British Columbia municipal-
ities must have more financial
help from the senior govern-
ments, but not at the expense
of local autonomy. This’ was
the theme of the brief present-
ed to the cabinet last week by
the Union of British Columbia
municipalities.

Proposals contained in the
submission were based on res-

Mine-Mill wins certification
at big Ontario uranium mine

TORONTO

Mine-Mill has become the

only union certified in the ur-
anium mines of Ontario as the
outcome of a vote ordered by
the Canadian Labor Relations
Board at Conolidated Denison
one of the “big three” of the
Blind River area. The vote, 77
for and 48 against, establishes
Mine-Mill Local 1001 as the
bargaining agent for what is
claimed as “the world’s larg-
est single uranium-producing
operation,” with a capacity of
5,700 tons a day.

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Although the Steelworkers’
union was not on the ballot, it
worked with the company to
defeat Mine-Mill by calling
for a “no” vote.

When Mine-Mill made its
application for certification on
September 20 this year it had
50 paid up members out of an
eligible employment list of 73.

At the hearing on Novem-
ber 8 the company stated that
its employment list was 73,
but when the list was receiv-

ed on December 1 it totalled
135.

Between the date set for the
vote and the actual ballotting
the company added employees
of Perrini Construction, most
of them Portuguese, to its
payroll,

The Steelworkers had been

informed in advance that Per-
rini Construction employees
would be intluded and had
most of them signed up. But
when these workers, many of
whom could not speak English
were shown how the company
and the Steelworkers were
using them, they. upset the
scheme by voting in a ma-
jority for Mine-Mill.

UBCM asks review :
of education costs

o'utions adopted at the UBCMS
annual convention held #
Penticton last October. Chief
among them was one ¢@
for a provincial review of
ing education costs.

The UBCM which spealé
for all municipalities m %
province, made the following
requests in its submission:

ris-

@ Right to municipal ©
trol of the location of trans-
mission lines and pipel.
passing through municip4
ties, f sy

® Regular provincial mun
cipal conferences on W@, a
improving the financial PO”
tion of munieipal governmeh™

@ More provincial guaran
tees on municipal borro .

© Establishment of a W2'¢
commission along the lines
the B.C. Power Commis.
to assist in provision of 2°”
quate water supplies.

@ Revision of the Seity

"for determining respons

for social service cost. pal
@ Right to levy munich a
taxes on Pacific Great Bast”
Railway property. ee
@ Removal of the 10
per diem hospital payme? i
@ A provincial gover od
review of rising cost Of ©

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