Flectricians will stand firm |Federal mediator

in demand for 35-hour week

We want the 35-hour week now.

This was the unanimous sentiment of a capacity meeting

of inside wiremen of Local 213, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, here this

week. Brushing aside the threat of contractors to institute a lockout,
solid approval to a proposal from its steering committee to

organization behind the fight for a 35-hour week.”

In presenting its proposal
for the 35-hour the
IBEW committee pointed out
that over 25 percent of the
wiremen been
ployed for a considerable time
and there is no
prospect of the situation im-
proving. With labor produc-

week,

have unem-

immediate

tivity increasing at a tremen-
dous pace, wiremen are con-
vinced that the only solution
through which all tradesmen
can find jobs is by adoption
of a shorter working week.

General tenoz of the meet-
ing indicated there were few
illusions among the wiremen
that the fight for a shorter
working week was going to
be easy. The fight for the 40-
be easy. As one member
placed it, “The fight for the
40-hour week was only won
after a long struggle and at
@reat sacrifice to many
workers.

“We're not afraid of a fight
if that is what the employ-
ers want. We are going to re-
duce our work week and pro-
vide work for our members.”

Placing all emphasis on the
35-hour week, the IBEW wire-
men decided to reduce their
original demand for a wage
increase of 60 cents an hour
to 35 cents.

On a 35-hour week this
would mean an actual cut in
take-home pay of $2.25 a
week, and bring the present
hourly rate of $2.99 up to
$3.35 an hour.

The IBEW reiterated its

position as being ready to
negotiate in good faith at any
time, and produced letters at
the meeting which demon-
strated a complete lack of res-
ponsibility on the part of the
contractors in current negoti-
ations.

R. K. “Roly” Gervin, ex-
secretary of the Vancouver
Trades and Labor Council

and now key negotiator for
the employers, has stood di-
rectly in the way of direet

U.S. team named

WASHINGTON — _ Three
top-ranking U.S. nuclear scien-
tists have been selected to
meet with a similar Soviet
team to begin preliminary
talks on how best to reach
agreement on a nuclear wea-
pons test ban. The American
team consists of Dr. Ernest D.
Lawrence, Dr. James Brown
Fisk and Dr. Robert F. Backer.
The talks are scheduled to
begin in Geneva in a few
weeks.

negotiations between
union and the contractors.
Union members claim Ger-
vin’s attitude is one of com-
plete arrogance and _ refusal
to participate in the most ele-
mentary forms of collective
bargaining.

John Waplington, business
manager of IBEW Local 213,
told the wiremen’s meeting;
“The responsibility for any

the

the IBEW meeting gave

“throw the entire weight of the

public inconvenience that may
shutdown of
electrical construction in this
area rests squarely on the
shoulders of the contractors.”

result from a

While expressing the union’s
readiness to negotiate all mat-
ter in dispute, Waplington
made it clear that this’ does
not mean retreating from the
35-hour week demand.

Cole says Britain should
sever NATO alliances

REGINA — Prof.-G. D. H.
Cole, British Socialist writer
and speaking at a
public meeting sponsored by
the CCF here, took a position
on international politics far
to the left of the official CCF
He
that he spoke for himself, not
the British Labor party.

lecturer,

leadership. emphasized

Among his points were:

@ Britain should sever her
U.S. and NATO alliances and
work with a neutral bloc, and
he implied Canada should do
likewise.

® Coexistence is inevitable
if war is to be avoided.

© Coexistence implies a

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change in Communist coun-
tries, but calls for an even
bigger change in the United
States.

® If the Communists are
responsible for problems in
the Middle East and East, the
U.S. is much more responsible.

® In international politics
you cannot ignore ‘the fact
that. the Communist parties
are the biggest ones in France
and Italy.

® The H-bomb should be
outlawed, and never used.

-groups,

named in strike

In an attempt to win pub-
lic opinion in the strike - of
the Seafarers International
Union on CPR coastal steam-
ships, the CPR is running a
series of daily press adver-
tisements, gist. of which is
that even befdre the strike,
the B.C. Coast Steamship
Service was “operating. at a
loss.” Any increased payroll
costs from an “investment
earning no money” would be
ruinous, the CPR claims.

The CPR ads conclude on a
familiar note, that “any in-
crease in costs must entail in-
creased fares, reduced serv-
ice, or both and that the CPR
as in the case of its scheme
to eliminate diesel firemen on
the railroad, “is ready to sub-
mit the dispute to binding
arbitration.”

Under pressures from Main-
land and Island Chambers of
Commerce and other business
the federal govern-
ment has stepped in and ap-
pointed a mediator, Eric G.
Taylor of Toronto, to attempt
to ‘settle the two-week old
strike which has tied up all
CPR coastal ships. This was
announced Tuesday by Labor
Minister Michael Starr.

While Marine Engineers and
SIU are reported to have an
overwhelming majority in
favor of strike action on

the
Black Ball Ferries in Uo
event wage negotiation if
a deadlock, it is report
no strike action will be at
on Black Ball ships wall
CPR dispute is settled: =

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