Board awards $9,000 damages
against Uk: for stoppage,

stirs Toronto labor protest

By MARK FRANK

% ‘ ;

TORONTO

R Award of $9,208 damages, payable with in 90 days to Canadian General Electric by United
lectrical Workers (UE) Local ,507 at the Toronto Davenport plant for a work stoppage three years
480 has set off a storm of protest here among wide circles*®of trade unionists.

_A majority report of an arbitration board

under the Ontario Labor-Relations Act and chaired

by Prof. Bora Laskin held that the union was “responsible.” A UE press release termed the ruling

E. Winnerlow
collapses,
dies on job

. Organized labor on Vancouver’s
aterfront lost one of its most

_. Tespected leaders this week by the

Sudden death of Peter Edward
a _Winnerlow, who collapsed
- died of a heart attack while
rking at Terminal Dock on July
5 1g cbularly known to hundreds
Ongshoremen and seamen, Bd
aunerlow was vice-president of
es 501, International Long-
Temen and Warehousemen’s
; ae and a former ILWU inter-
‘onal representative,

Born in Sweden 53 years ago,
191 WV nerlow came to Canada in
a and found employment as a
eo on the Coast. An active

On man, he helped to organize
mm. Woodworkers on Vancouver
fe nd and at one time was an in-

"ational representative of the
Mternational Woodworkers of
“Nerica,

«mong the various occupations
Veaitd followed during his 33
Bir 's in this country was that of

et railwayman and, during the

*cond’ World War, shipyard
Worker: . orld ar, - shipya

Brier the war, he went to the
4terfront, was appointed ILWU

In
ternational representative, a

Dosit; ,
Sition he held for two years,’

an
a last year he won election as
“President of ILWU Local 501.

ees socialist for many
i » Ed Winnerlow was a mem-
> an the old Communist Party

amada and was a foundation

Me
Mber of the Labor-Progressive
Party,

leaves a wife, Ruth, in Bur-
a Y. and his niother and two
8 in Sweden.

ppuneral services will be held
July pinton Hall this Saturday,
bem? 2t ll a.m. Speakers will
Pacigi, McEwen, editor of the
ative ¢ Tribune, and a represent-
Shor,.-t the International Long-

} ent.”

an interpretation of the most cur-
rent form of no strike clause in
union tagreements that ‘runs
counter to virtually all precedents
on this North American contin-

It declared that ‘‘an arbitra-
tion board, has no powers to award
damages against a union.” The
judgment based on responsibility,
the release added, was “totally at

variance with both the intent of}

such a clause and contrary to both
the company’s original grievance
case and the facts surrounding
the allegation.”’

Sharply critical of Ian McRae,
CGE vice-president, who declared
the award contributed an import-
ant principle to the field of in-
dustrial relations, UE charged his
views were ‘‘the height of hypo-
crisy.”’

While he was general manager |
of CGE Peterboro Works, McRae
was party to the refusal of CGE
to carry out an arbitration award

LPP candidate

Ben Swankey (above),
berta LPP leader, has been
nominated to contest Edmonton
constituency in the Alberta elec-

“tion August 5. ‘The two key
issues in this election are peace
and the development of our
natural resources for the bene-
fit of the people, not for the
profit of a few foreign corpo-

Al-

7 . :
Unig e™ and Warehousemen’s| rations,” Swankey said at his
; Ee ‘| nominating convention.

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won by UE against the company:
Between .$30,000 and $40,000
was ordered in back pay to a
number of workers whom the
company had underpaid in terms
of the union contract. UE charged
“other refusals of CGE to imple-
ment arbitration awards won by
the union on behalf of workers at
Peterboro Works.’’

Welcoming expressions of
support from other unions, UE
expressed appreciation of the
fact that many union leaders
have recognized the danger in
“this unprecedented and unwar-
ranted arbitration decision” and
welcomed the necessary unity
on the part of labor against this
new phase of the employer of-
fensive against all labor.

The alleged stoppage took place |,

at the Davenport Works in Tor-
onto during September, 1949, over
suspension of a union steward by
the company.

Fred Dowling, Canadian direc-
tor of United Packinghouse Work-
ers of America (CIO-CCL), said
unions might have to consider a
new approach to no-strike clauses
as a result of the ruling. ‘“Certain-
ly no one, not even on manage-
ments side had ever dreamed of
such a thing as damages when the
no-strike clauses were originated.
No one ever contemplated com-
pensation.’’.

William Mahoney, assistant
Canadian director of United
Steel Workers. of America (CIO-
CCL), said a rash of such cases
would develep with companies
provoking work stoppages to
win damages. Mahoney ques-
tioned whether a board could
levy damages against the union,
because of a walkout it did not
initiate. He described the re-
Port as ‘‘dynamite.”

“Tt certainly places in the hands
of the employers: an opportunity
to provoke trouble as a means of
assessing costly damages to the
union. I am amazed that the
board saw fit to say that the
union is responsible for money
damages, although the union did
not call the strike. In my opinion
such an award is far beyond the
scope of an arbitration board.’ |

A.-R. Mosher, president of the
Canadian Congress of Labor,
agreed with the board’s views on
the award. “The board was
right,’ he said, declaring that the
union had ‘“‘to do its utmost to
halt the walkout” if strike action
took place.

Silby Barrett, director of Un-
ited Mine Workers District -50,
whose union, headed by John L.
Lewis, was fined $1 million by
U.S. judges, said the ruling was
“drastic.” “It’s too bad to see
something like that happen here.
The action of the UE during the
walkout of workers might have
been quite legitimate.”

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Peace leader in Peking

“The people of Canada want, to see the war in Korea ended,”
Miss Mary Jennison (above) told the preparatory conference for
the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions which met

in Peking recently.

Miss Jennison, secretary of the Canadian .

Peace Congress, played a prominent role at the preparatory con-
ference, being a member of the presidium and chairing the sec-

ond session.

Bill H-8, held over
in Senate, could
‘exterminate unions’

TORONTO —

Expressing labor’s alarm over the powers the federal government
seeks to obtain through Bill H8 —- an omnibus bill of amendments to
the Criminal Code — L. H. Rosen. secretary of Toronto Trades and

Labor Council’s legislative committee, warned a recent council meet-’

ing, ‘‘The potentialities of this bill are immense in that it can be used

by the enemies of labor to stifle and exterminate the trade union:

movement.” ‘

The bill. which has already
passed second reading in the
House of Commons, is now before
the Senate. Labor sentiment
against certain sections, however,
is believed to have influenced the
Senate committee’s decision to
carry its deliberations over to the
next parilamentary session.

Like Bill 305, investing the
government with arbitrary pow-
ers governing immigration and

citizenship. which was _ rushed
through the House last week, Bill
HS has. aroused considerable

alarm and protest because of its
vague and ambiguous wording.

Commenting on the significance
of the Senate’s decision, Thomas
C. Roberts. executive secretary of
the.League for Democratic Rights,
stated:

“This means that’ the pressure
to have Bill HS postponed has
had results. It now gives more
time for the Canadian. people to
be informed. as to what the bill

Three new cases of
polio cause alarm

Three more cases of polio were
reported this week in Vancouver,
bringing the city’s total for 1952
to 13.

The provincial health depart-
ment at Victoria has expressed
“considerable concern” over Brit-
ish Columbia’s rising number of
polio cases, for the number is now
greater than in 1947, the prov-
ince’s worst year for polio.

contains. Organizations and in-
dividuals who want certain sec-
tions rejected now have time to
take their case to the people.”
The bill has come under fire
from a number of other sources.
William Jenoves, president of
Toronto District Trades and Labor.
Council. warned. ‘The -bil]l could
be interpreted to mean. anything.
It could affect everyone.”
President C. S. Jackson ‘of the
United Electrical Workers. said,

“The Garson Amendments which -

form the base for many of the
currently proposed revisions of
the Criminal Code, were rushed
thorugh the House last session on
instructions from Washington.
These. amendments virtually
wiped out the rights of labor to
strike. And by permitting arrest
and search without warrant, by
putting the RCMP on the same
footing as the armed forces, and
by new definitions of treason, they

established thought control on the -

statute books.”

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