Carpenters settle wage demands
for 43 cents over two years

An eleventh hour wage

contract settlement last

weekend between carpenters

and

building contractors headed off a strike which would have involved approximately 6,000 car-

penters in the province.

International Brotherhood of Carpenters had voted June 18 to take

Strike action if no satisfactory wage increase was forthcoming, but no strike deadline’ had

been. set.

The settlement affected
8ives the carpenters a 48-cent
an hour basic wage increase
Covering a two-year contract
A’ breakdown -shows the in.
Crease to be 19 cents ‘retro-
active to April of this year,
With an additional 7 cents pay-
able October 1. The final 17
Cents will apply April 1, 1958,

bringing the carpenters’
hourly rate to $2.68.

All local unions of the B.C.
Council of Carpenters and
Lower Mainland Locals are
affected by the increase.

wage demands
a 75-cent an Hour

Original
were for

Charge immigration dept
prompts strikebreaking

TORONTO

Immigrants who refuse’ to
act as strikebreakers at the
Struck “Lever Brothers plant
here are being threatened by
immigration officials, Charles
Buckman, United Chemical
Workers’ delegate charged at
Toronto Labor Council.

He said “an untold number

Came to the plant from the
Mmigration department look-
ng for jobs.” Along with let-
ters for the company’s person-

nel manager, he said, they car-
ried “a veiled threat that if
they/did not go to Lever Bro-
thers they weren’t to come
back to the immigartion de-
partment for help in finding
employment.”

The United Steelworkers’
Union charged that the depart-
ment was using immigrants
to try to break the strike at
Gaspe Copper at Murdochville,
Que.

Council called for an investi-
gation.

hike, but protracted - negotia-
tions and lack of unity be-
tween provincial and Lower
Mainland union leaders con-
vinced rank-and-file members
that the 43-cent offer was the
best that could be obtained
under the circumstances.

One union official told the
Pacific Tribune that “given a
militant and united leader.
ship, the carpenters could
have got a much better pack-
age deal, but we got the’ most
we could get with the leader-
ship we had. We have settled,

- but we are not too satisfied.”

The sole “fringe benefit
granted the carpenters is
unique in the history of organ-
ized labor. The new contract
stipulates that a carpenter is
not entitled to a coffee break,
but may take two swigs daily
from his thermos bottle in no
time flat. On no account how-
ever, must he permit ‘his work.
mate to join him in a swig
from the same bottle, since
that would use up time for
which the contractor cannot
affor@ to. pay.

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COMING EVENTS — CITY

JULY 13 A Saturday Night

Out at a BURN-
ABY GARDEN PARTY with
Ted hot coals turning qut big
arbecued ’burgers, etc. Games
&nd refreshments. 8 p.m., 3713
Chaffey St. Phone HE.- 1-0965,
Past Central Park (off Kings-

Way),
Gites ee
JULY 13°" KITSILANO
CLUB LAWN
PARTY. Whether you feel old
°r young, there will be a good
Mme for all with an open air
Movie, singing, dancing and
°P-notch refreshments, hot
and cold, WHERE? — at Polly
&nd Harry Weinstein’s at 3823
West 12th Ave. Saturday, July
from 8 p.m. till 2??? Never
Mind the weather. If it rains,
€ party will move inside!

JULY 13 — A sund-raising

CONCERT and

DANCE for the Finnish-Can-

dian Festival delegate ‘Ozzie’

ahti on Saturday, July 13, 9 -

ee P.m. Clinton Hall, ‘2605 East

€nder. Refreshments. Ad-
Mission 75¢,

JULY 14 ganic FILM
“Russian Ballet
and Folk Dances” to be shown
at the Russian People’s Home,
600 Campbell Ave., on Sunday,
July 14 at 8 p.m. Famous
artists. Everyone welcome.

JULY 91 KEEP THIS DATE

OPEN! Barbecue
and Supper. Watch next week’s
PT for time and place.

JULY y) — 5th ANNUAL

LABOR PICNIC
— Sunday, July. 21 from 1
p.m. onwards. Ukrainian Child-
ren’s Camp Grounds, 25th Ave.
South, Websters Corners.
Games, musical program, food.
Everyone invited. Sponsored
by ~Dewdney Constituency
Committee.

BUSINESS PERSONALS

BIG %7 USED FURNITURE
STORE — 1420 Commercial
Drive. Phone HA. 4058. (For-
merly % Transfer and Mov-
ing — N. Stoochnoy).

WASTINGS BAKERIES LTD.
—Scandinavian products a
specialty. 716 East Hastings
Street. Phone TA. 9719.

SMOKE
RECTOR CIGARS
Only Union made cigars in
Vancouver
Sold at Hotels and at
214 UNION ST.

(All hand rolled)

PATRONIZE POLITANO’S
BARBER SHOP — 204 Main
St., 2 blks. north of Hastings.

O.K. RADIO SERVICE —
Latest factory precision
equipment used. MARINE
SERVICE, 1420 Pender St.
West., TA. 1012.

REGENT TAILORS LID. —
Custom Tailors and Ready

to wear. For personal ser-
vice see Henry Rankin at
324 W. Hastings St. Van-
couver 3. PAcific 8456.

HALLS FOR RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S HOME
Available for meetings, wed-
dings, and banquets at rea-
sonable rates. 600 Campbell
Ave. TA. 9939. :

CLINTON HALL, 2605 East
Pender. Available for ban;
quets, Weddings, Meetings,
Etc. Phone HA. 3277.

WORK WANTED

WORK WANTED — Carpentry
and repairs, alterations and
cabinet. work. Call MU.
3-7089.

PENDER
AUDITORIUM

(Marine Workers)

339 West Pender
LARGE & SMALL HALLS
FOR RENTALS
Phone PA. 9481

Yuri Polyakov (left), coxwain for the Soviet Union’s

rowing squad, is seen pinning a fraternal badge on
Princeton University rowing coach Don Rose in Henley,
England. USSR sportsmen have participated in the Henley
Royal Regatta for the past three years.

Gert Whyte's

SPORTLIGHT

ARE CANADIAN soccer offi-

, clals justified in squaking
about the “poor refereeing” of
Mexican Officials in the two
games which resulted in Mex-
ico’s victory over Canada?

I don’t think so.

Main “beef” is that the Mex-
icans- didn’t appreciate the
Canucks’ rough style of play,
particularly body-charging.

But soccer is an international,
not a Canadian game, and in
World Cup play our style of
rough-house is always barred.

It seems to me, then, that
we should strive to conform
to the international style, if we
seek success in future tourna..
ments.

This may appear to be a
contradiction of what I have
written on previous occasions
about international hockey
tournaments, when I castigated
the Russians for objecting to
Canadian body-checking.

The difference is that hockey
is a Canadian game, and as the
birthplace of the sport (and its
main centre for many years)
this country has a right to set
the rules. Body-checking has
always been an integral part of
the ice sport.

In the past two years the
Russians have recognised this.
Their leading coaches have
publicly criticized Soviet play-
ers. for objecting to Canadian
“roughness” and have set about
to change their style of play
to conform, in defiance of the
European tradition. banning
bodily contact. The Swedes and

Czechs have begun to follow

suit.

In hockey we were right to
insist we should set the pat-
tern; -in soccer we have no
such right.

50 xt xt

Several of the “Horses to
Watch” we gave you in this
column a few weeks back have
hit the winning circle, at good

prices (Edwayne,, No Home,
National Valor, Moodyville.)

Here are a few more which
should click soon: Duncan,
Rosyth, Mabe Mike, Soul Talk,
Miss Colleen, T. Drive, Col-
wood Girl, Arden Hope,

x x xt

Many months ago we ran a
feature article on Althea Gib-
son, “The New: Gibson Girl.”
Now she has won the Wimble-
don tennis championship, the
first’ Negro girl in history to
take the big one.

Breaking the race barrier in
baseball was a big job (it’s
only 10 years ago that Jackie
Robinson went up to the
Dodgers from Montreal) but
cracking the snob tennis bar-
rier was even harder. Con-
gratulations to Althea Gibson,
who pioneered in this field.

A correspondent writes, “Do
the Russians allow horse
racing, and dg they allow bet-
ting?”

The answer is
SMies **

Russians have always been
mad about horse racing, and
attendance at Moscow’s Hippo-
drome racetrack is a habit that
extends far back into the time
of the Czars. Today you will
see many government officials,
ballet. conductors, workers,
writers and artists lining up
to bet every Saturday.

In the spring there are trot-
ting and pacing races, then on
June 2 the flat racing season
starts. The Hippodrome, which
opened in 1831, has three
tracks — two for trotting and
flat racing are a mile in
length, and the steeplechase
track about two _ furlongs
longer. All betting is by tote,
as in Canada,

Aside from Moscow, there
are main tracks in Odessa, Ros-
tov, Kharkov, Sverdlovsk,
Lvov and Pyatigorsk.

a double

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