Workers “eigen
Inco strike vote

SUDBURY — A big mem-

rship meeting of more than
4000 Inco workers has given
the executive board of Mine-
Mill Local 598 authorization
to call a strike vote “as soon
as they feel it is necessary.”

A meeting of Inco shift
workers held on Monday this
week (following the ‘big Sun-
day mass rally), also endorsed
the call for a s rike vote if
necessary. So did a meeting
of Inco workers at Port Col-
borne.

._Inco werkers, who have lost
an average of $17.60 a week
in take-home pay because of
a cutback in hours from 40 to
32. are determinel to main-
tain their living standards.

They feel that a company
vhose ret profits from 1950
te 1957 totalled $563,255,414
(of which $365,713,743 was
paid out in dividends‘ can
well afford to make up the
$17.60 a week. plus an in-
erease to meet rising living
casts.

Inco pleads poverty but the
facts are that profits for the

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firs: half of 1958, while lower
than 1957, still totalled $21,-
000.000. The 40 hours pay
would cost $3,400,000.

Inco’s “hold the line” atti-
tude during recent concilia-
tion board hearings was blast-
ed at last Sunday’s meeting
here by Mine-Mill Canadian
president Nels Thibault. He
warned the mee ing that the
huge nickel monopoly was
playing a part in an over-all
big business attack on labor.

Mike Solski, president of
the 16,000-member Local 598,
told the meeting:

“Our demands: are highly
justified and whatever battle
we must put up in order to
realize them is well worth it.

“One of the most encourag-
ing aspects of this present sit-
uation is the fact that Cana-
dian workers are not sitting
back and taking everything
he companies are throwing at
then. There is more unity in
acticn in Canadian labor to-
day than there has been for
many, Many years.

“Today we find workers in
all unions standing up and re-
fusing to be intimidated by
the boss. They are not fright-
ened by the company propa-
ganda cf lower p‘o‘i's. They
are demanding their just
share. not only for this yeir
but for the years that have
gone by.

“We find 7,500 steel work-
ers in Hamilton out on strike.

“We find the auto workers
in Windsor, in Oshawa, turn-
ing down company offers of
i4 cents an hour for wo-year
agreements.

‘So, you see. we are not
alone. As a matter of fact. this
year we are not even in the
lead. We are no. setting the
pattern as we have done so
often in past years. We are
actually bringing up the rear
guard this year, and, brothers,
we don’t want to be left too
far behind.”

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Bennett should seize opportunity
to take over BCE transit system

Proposal that the provincial government take over the B.C, Electric transit system as #
publicly owned utility was made Wednesday in a letter to Premier W. A. C. Bennett by fie
Jones, president of Civic Reform Association. :

In her letter Mrs. Jones said:

“The best interests of the
people in the Lower Main-
land and Greater Victoria
areas would be served if the
provincial government were
to step into the picture to
acquire the transit system as
a publicly owned utility.

“We believe that the transit
system should be _ placed
under public ownership as the
first step toward ultimately
placing the entire operations
of. the B.C. Electric under
public ownership. :

“The fact that private capi-
tal interests see the possibility
of profitable investment in
the transit system should be
added encouragement for the
government to take over the
system without delay.

“Under public ownership
the transit system can be
operated more profitably be-
cause there would be no in-
come tax to pay, no large
dividends requiring a large
rate return, and also because
the borrowing powers of the
provincial government make
it possible to ge: money more
cheaply.”

Mrs. Jones urged Premier
Bennett to arrange a meeting
with the municipal councils
affected with a view to work-
ing cut a plan by which the
teansit system can be placed
under public ownership.

The Civic Reform Associa-
tion has also urged Vancou-
ver Ci y Council to press the
provincial government to step

into the picture to help ac-
quire the transit system.

Earlier in the week the PUC
came under sharp fire for sug-
gesting to municipalities that
they subsidize the _ transit
system by foregoing annual
franchise payments which in
Vancouver alone amounted to
more than $330,000 last year.

In a letter to PUC secretary
M. W. Mellish, Effie Jones
said: “It is incredible that the
PUC should take such action
on the eve of a public hear-
ing.”

She charged that the com-
mission, in effect, was saying
o the public that it will grant
the transit company an_ in-
crease unless the miunicipali-
ties agree in advance to pay
a subsidy.

The PUC announced re-
cently that the hearing on the
B.C. Electric application will
open in Vancouver Court
House, September 2, at 11 a.m.
tember 2, at 11 a.m.

Civic Reform Associa ion
has asked naVcorCivyt eu
has .asked Vancouver City
Council and the PUC +o ac-
cept the stand taken by Burn-
aby Municipal Council on
August 11 in asking that
the hearing be _ postponed
until ownership of the transit
company is firmly es ablished.

This demand arose out of
current negotiations by the
B.C. Electric and _ British-
financed interests for sale of
the BCE transit system. The

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Meet urges —
Canadian leat |

A resolution demandins ;
that the Canadian delegati® ;
to the UN introduce a resolu:
tion calling for wi hdrawé ;
U.S. and British troops i :
Lebanon and Jordan f
unanimously adopted at
meeting held in Pender AUS —
torium here Monday night A

The resolution also C#
for. setting up of a UN com |
mission -to undertake ect

nomic development of
Middle East. .
Chairman at the mee'iE Z

which was sponsored
committee of trade unio?

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ers were Cedric Cox
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Marine Workers.

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movement not to sit the sit
gle out but to make its vol
heard in influencing nation

policy.

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