FREEZE WHO? Carl A. Pollock, president of Dominion Electrohome Industries, recently suggested to a Toronto Kiwanis Club that a voluntary wage and salary freeze was the answer to Canada’s economic problems. He made no mention of a profit freeze. MORE JOBLESS ? A recent Gallup Poll showed six in ten Canadian people expecting that unemployment get worse in the next six months. A BIG FIRST On January 15, six provincial organizations comprising more than two million people joined forces in a brief submitted to the government of the Province of Quebec. The submission, dealing with unemployment, was pre- sented by an industrial association, a farmers’ organization, a provincial Chamber of Commerce, a co-operative council, and two labour groups. 20-HOUR WEEK C. Knowlton Nash, Washington correspondent, says that the demands of the Transport Workers’ Union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers may become the signal in Canada for new drives to trim the 40- hour week to 32 or even a 20-hour week. EDUCATION PAYS Recent statistics show that it pays to stay in school as long as possible. The following table gives the average income of people of different age groups according to their degree of education: One or More One or More Age Primary Only Yrs. High School Yrs. University $2,770 $3,495 4,647 6,658 §,212 6,810 4,756 7,705 4,104 7,705 NOT MUCH - BUT DBS’ Consumer Price Index has shown a 0.1% decline between the be- ginning of December 1961 and January 1, 1962 — from 129.8 to 129.7.:In- creases in the food, housing, recreation and reading indexes were more than™ offset by decreases in the clothing and transportation components. DARK PROSPECTS UAW head Walter Reuther says it is imperative to adopt new thinking, new policies and new compromises to plan jobs for the 28 million US. workers who will be knocked out of their jobs by technological progress and automation in the next 10 years. IWA REGIONAL Research Director, Joe Miyazawa, left, and International Research Director, Elwood Taub, give their report on the statistics of the B.C. lumber industry to the delegates attending the |WA Wages & Contract Conference March 3, at Woodworkers’ House, Vancouver. Medical Plan "MILL-RITE” Starts July 1 The Saskatchewan Medical Care i plan will start July 1 this year, ae Jy ag Health Minister William Davies has r announced. The plan, covering every resident of the prairie province, will be the first of its kind in North America. Earlier, April 1st was suggested as the starting date of the plan, but the government felt the later date would give both government and doctors a greater chance to work out their differences. The Reasons Mr. Davies gave three main rea- sons for the dater date: —the special session of the legis- lature was lengthened because of “the obstruction of opposition mem- bers” —the creation of the new Medical Care commission, as required by the Act, took longer than expected; —the “entrenched resistance” the commission had encountered from the Council of the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons. Knotty Questions Mr. Davies said the commission was an “excellent and hard-working group” which had been forced to consider a number of knotty and in- volved questions in the midst of opposition from the heads of the doctors’ organization, y The weight of many decisions in the fields of personnel, administra- tion, equipment and overall structure of the medical program, made an April start impossible, he said. CLARKE’S FLOWERS FRESHER... LOVELIER...FOR ALL OCCASIONS WATSON'S No. 108 Lumber Glove | Tough as a mule and made from Pearl Mule Split leather. This glove is specially made with double sewn thumb strap and wrist patch for lumber handling. Union Made in B.C. By JOHN WATSON LIMITED 127 EAST 2nd AVE., Vancouver, B.C. 100% UNION SHOP 3418 Cambie Street, Vancouver 9, B.C. Free Delivery TRinity 4-9416 “THE ATOMIC AGE—BLESSING or CURSE” was the topic discussed tute on Race Relations February 25, in Vancouver, sponsored joint Rabbi Bert A. Woythaler, Congregation Beth Israel. by this panel during the Twelfth Annual Labour Insti- 3 ly by the Vancouver and District Labour Council and the B.C. Federation of Labour. Panel members are left, Jack Moore, IWA Regional Ist Vice-President; Dr. Kathleen Langston, Provincial President, Voice of Women; John Wood, Supervisor of Extension, U.B.C.; Mamie Moloney, Columnist, Vancouver Sum; Ontario Appeal Court Upholds Canadian Workers’ Rights The Canadian worker’s right to strike has been reinforced by a ruling of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the dispute over mass firing of employees by the CPR-owned Royal York Hotel. The three-member appeal court directed a conviction against the hotel management on two charges and ordered that appropriate pen- alties be imposed in magistrate’s court. Violating Act The Royal York had been charged with violating the province’s Labour Relations Act by threatening to dis- miss and subsequently firing 700 striking employees last July. Senior Magistrate Thomas Elmore dismissed the charges on the grounds that the labour act contained no specific right to strike. Employees would have to terminate individual contracts by notice, he maintained. But Ontario Chief Justice J. C. McRuer found that the CPR-owned hotel was wrong in discharging the strikers. There was a common law right to strike and the labour act merely limited that right, Chief Jus- tice McRuer said. Mr. Justice McRuer referred the case back to the magistrate. The appeal court in upholding his de- cision went one step further and ordered a _ conviction recorded against the CPR. The CPR is ex- pected to appeal again, this time to the Supreme Court of Canada. Under Pressure Meantime, the hotel, largest in the British Commonwealth, contin- ues to function with the aid of workers drawn from the long list of Metro Toronto unemployed and strikers who returned to the job under Royal York pressure. Appeal Court Judges Wilfred D. Roach, J. B. Aylesworth and F. G. MacKay ruled that the hotel em- ployees were engaged in a lawful strike under the act. Apart from the provisions of the act, Mr. Justice Roach added, it would have been legal for the employees to strike be- cause their intent was to bring about improvements in working conditions and monetary benefits, not to injure their employer. Mr. Justice Roach said the labour act not only recognized the lawful- ness of a strike under conditions ex- isting in the Royal York case, but expressly preserved the status of the striking employees, Surrender-or-Else The Royal York management, which has on four separate occa- sions tried to force the striking union to accept surrender-or-else insurance rate. Lines. FLY B.C. AIR LINES . ~ THE LARGEST AIRLINE OPERATING ENTIRELY IN B.C. It’s no accident that B.C. Air Lines enjoys the lowest possible air line Operating with unionized crews, B.C.A. flies over 50,000 revenue flights annually. Be sure of safety, service and satis- faction . . . next time fly B.C. Air terms, rebuffed a new attempt at negotiating a settlement by Toronto Controller Herbert Orliffe. Con- troller Orliffe said he would pursue the matter with CPR President N. R. Crump. The New Democratic Party an- nounced it will introduce an amend- ment to the Assessment Act in the coming session of the provincial legislature to abolition exemption from municipal business taxes now granted to railway hotels. MALLARDS ° NORSEMAN ° BEAVERS ° CESSNAS CHARTER FLIGHT OR SCHEDULED SERVICE “IT COSTS NO MORE TO FLY THE BEST” BC AIR LINES... HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT © CR b-84ss Store your valuables in a... SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX This way you know where your important papers are. Why not call in and arrange for one... now! CANADIAN MORE THAN 1260 BRANCHES TO SERVE YOU at IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE