What better gift than one year's subscription to the Pacific Tribune? Circulation Manager, Pacific Tribune, Room 6 - 426 Main St., Vancouver, B.C. PLEASE SEND THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE Six Months $2.25 One Year $4.00 CL] ie satine announcing your gift will be sent baa the person for whom you subscribe. ''an employee leaves the indus- | tiny errors in spelling or in exchanges Continued from page 1 operate the plan for a per capita fee of 30 cents and 3 cents per month, respectively. Ballard assumed office as a trustee shortly after the lift- ing of the international admin- istration of Local 168, and im- mediately ordered: an investi- gation of the plan and. fund. The investigation has revealed the following facts: : 1. Although the membership in the plan has» remained fair- ly constant for the last year, the fees of the administrator and ‘consultant have climbed steadily from month to month —the administrator’s fee, for example, amounting to $2,- 457.37 in October, 1958 and $4,181.10 in September 1959. This last figure amounts to’ 30 cents per month for each of 13,937. cards, although. during that month there were only 3,688 contributing members. This pyramiding of fees re- sults from the fact that there is a high turnover of labor in the industry. Apparently when try, Hembling rétains his card in the live file and continues to collect his monthly fee. The report cites as an example one man who contributed 28 cents to the fund in August 1958, then quit the industry. In September 1959, Hembling was still counting this man as a member -for -the- purpose of calculating his monthly fee. At the rate reached in Sep- tember, the annual remunera- tion of Hembling and. Cornell amounts to over $55,000. The service performed for this fee is to maintain, from lists sup- plied by the employers, a card record of the working hours of about 3,500 men, 2. The investigation also re- vealed that the card file con- tained thousands of duplica- tions.- Workers who. had work- ed for more than one employ- er during the year had any- where from two to six cards in the file, each card giving rise to an additional fee for the ad- ministrator. ’ Normally, the card - sorting: machine would automatically eliminate -duplicated cards. In this file; however, the machine was foiled by a multitude of the recording of unemploy- ment: insurance. numbers. The report .notes that the same errors reappear month after Ask union MOSCOW — “We.hope that our delegation’s .visit to the USSR. will serve as a. begin- ning to many exchange visits among the members of. various |. trade unions,” Louis Goldblatt, head of the ILWU group. tour- a ‘ing ports here, said last week. morith with, apparently, no effort on the part of the ad- ministrator to correct them. The failure to correct these errors has a twofold effect— it perpetuates the padding of the administrator’s fee, and -it tends to disqualify members for benefit, since their qualify- ing hours are distributed over several cards. No one has as yet denied the abuses set out in the Tunnel and Rock Workers report. In- stead, the reaction of the trus- tees and the administrator have followed ‘these lines: First, the administrator, ac- knowledging that some dupli- cations had occurred, offered to return over $2,900 of the approximately $68,000 he has received so far. Second, an attempt was made to defend the plan by discredit- ing its accusers. The Province published anonymous allega- ‘tions that the charges were an Tunnel and Rock Workers “intricate plot” by communists _ to seize control of the fund. This McCarthyist concept — - that any kind of skulduggery is legitimate provided its authors are certifiably anti- communist — is worthy of the notorious. un-American _ actiy- ities committee. Third, the trustees, with Bal. lard dissenting, voted to have an. investigation by Price, Waterhouse and Company. Bal- lard has objected to this pro- cedure on the grounds that Price Waterhouse are already the auditors of the fund, and have not in the past reported the abuses that have now come to light. If they are now to conduct the investigation, ob- viously they must either white- wash the administration or- repudiate their own audit. The Tunnel and Rock Work. érs and Iron Workers have called upon Attorney General Robert Bonner to investigate, How Vancouver voted ALDERMANIC (Five, for two-year terms) Ald. Reg. Atherton, NPA-CVA x __-. 38,228 Bent. -Mmewy. NP Weve spceee cok eine en wee te eck ja oe 382,442 William Street, PRES ee i Se es ne a 23,559 John St. C. Moffitt, PASS BS) 8 22,789 Frank: Fredrickson > CVA x 22+ Weak oe tS 19,726 Phillip J. Lipp, Wer S60 te. dyl ci oe 19,207 Charles Balkett- CVA =. 22 520 se 18,960 Theresa Galloway, GVA -2222 3 ooo ote 18,932